0012000: Shroud of Golubria's high max spellpower is misleading

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0012000

[DCSS] Bug Report

trivial

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2019-06-01 18:14

2019-06-13 01:44

Reporter

damerell

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public

Assigned To

Kate

Priority

normal

Resolution

done

Status

closed

Product Branch

0.23 ancient branch

Summary

0012000: Shroud of Golubria's high max spellpower is misleading

Description

Shroud of Golubria has a max spellpower of 200, unusual for a level 2 spell.

Spellpower in no way affects its damage-absorbing capabilities. It does affect the duration; the duration is increased by 7 + roll_dice(2, pow) turns... to a maximum of 50. This means that increases in spellpower increase the odds of getting the maximum duration of 50 turns - but not very much; at spellpower 100 the odds of not getting maximum duration are already under 9%.

While reducing the maximum spellpower would technically be a nerf to the spell, I submit that at the moment the user is badly misled by seeing a full-length spellpower bar. They might well naively suppose that high spellpower causes the spell to be considerably more effective than low spellpower.

I submit the maximum spellpower should be changed to 50.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-06-01 18:14	damerell	New Issue
2019-06-04 22:18	Kate	Status	new => resolved
2019-06-04 22:18	Kate	Fixed in Branch	=> 0.24 development branch
2019-06-04 22:18	Kate	Resolution	open => done
2019-06-04 22:18	Kate	Assigned To	=> Kate
2019-06-13 01:44	damerell	Status	resolved => closed

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