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I'm assuming that removing rMut would probably be followed up with a rebalance of some sort to the common mutators. Regardless, it feels cheesy to have an effectively (90%) absolute resistance on a swappable slot.

Hmmm... Perhaps I should value wands more. I just usually have scrolls of TP, and potions of haste and heal wounds available, so it's not a big deal. And I often get bad wands from wand acquirement. My go to is armour if I'm still missing an aux slot; it has a decent chance of generating a branded p...

PBD compares poorly to Makhleb healing because it's slow. A few HP per turn is not a big deal in combat, it's why we make fun of people who quaff curing for hp in hells or whatever. It is good for resting faster, which is good for piety decay etc. Compare it to the regeneration spell, it's barely a...

I don't think enchantments did, at least not in the version I played... (Actually it did I guess...) And training skills shouldn't affect resistances. Those systems are easier to balance and better kept separate, and combining them would inevitably result in new players over-valuing training th...

Cheers! And that's probably the highest score for a while...

Tweak1: I much prefer the optional form of this; DS are bad at all weapons. OTOH, it might make sense for monstrous to get an advantage there. I'm a little surprised they have a flat Tm skill. It would make sense for that to be at least 0. (Same logic as Merfolk) Wings: -1 move delay is huge. Probab...

In the Abyss thread, Lasty mentioned his intent to nerf powered by death. In another recent thread, there was a consensus that it fit better as a top-tier facet than current. While I personally agree it's a bit too strong, I want to urge caution; it's a facet that feels very fun and powerful, but in...

I think we should have another thread about pbd...

Right. There's a small subset of characters where Abyss scumming is safer than just winning. Off-hand, I'd say that's most spriggans around the time they finish depths, characters that haven't found any rF and have <4 pots of resistance, and the poorly built. I'm sure people can disagree till kingdo...

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Oh the life and death of a spriggan!

Edit: More seriously, you could have survived this. You had summoning; once you realize he's turned on you, read summoning, swap with one of them, then haste+TP+run.

The open cases have clear intended answers; the acquirement code is basically a pile of cases to try to make this random item actually useful. Probably. It shouldn't give you unusable items. Random effects and rod of clouds sound like the lazy solution to me? Could be wrong, and maybe there's a reas...

That's probably good for your survival rate...

Or King Daley...

Though that's due to proper corruption.

I was actually going to take a crack at that, but... the name 'Kennedy' popped into my mind.

Voting reform primarily changes p, because it fixes the situation where certain offices are arranged such that it's extremely unlikely for the match to be upset. It doesn't change B much; the net value of getting a more preferred candidate in can't be affected directly by voting reform (though it ca...

Ghost Moths are Zot-Tier that appear in spider. Come on dude, there are so many good ways to kill ghost moths. You can empty your wands at them, you can quaff invis, you can kite them away from everything else in the vaults where they live, etc. They're likely to be an unpleasant surprise the first...

Go for tornado. Its the best hybrid level 9.

Though I think it should be a 5-star ability not, 2-3. It's too good for that.

Big room already exists in depths. I remember I got that on a Lairless DrBe attempt... it was super rough.

Don't be scared to go 15-runes. Dith shadow form, plus darkness plus controlled blink will let you steal all of them fairly easily except tomb. For that one you need silence too.

Look, I'm actually reasonably likely to find an interesting challenge in the lair rune branch levels, and on the D levels. I find slime to have 7 identically annoying levels and then one cool level. I'm not thinking of any way to really make it more interesting... Maybe making a pile of vaults could...

I don't think this would be good gameplay if you can stair dance freely. The idea of a vertically connected branch is thematically cool, but gameplay-wise mostly trivial and dull. I can think of two solutions: 1. Monster abilities. You can't go upstairs when netted; perhaps some new type of ant has ...

Swamp dragon armour isn't bad endgame armour, but with that troll armour, there's no hurry. You can wait for heavier if you want.

Pretty sure noisy just tacks a malus onto your stealth. Equivalent to a ring of loudness I think.

Not a bad idea... though a delayed C'Blink sounds absurdly good.

duvessa wrote:No, it's still bad. The only reason it isn't unambiguously worse than every weapon class is that short blades are a weapon class.

Curious here; what makes it bad? I mean, theoretically it seems to have higher damage/aut than any other weapon class..

I also think you guys underestimate staff acquirement for non-magic users. For Troggers, you're guaranteed a rod. For non-troggers it's like 80%. And rods are really quite strong on average now.

Pan and Abyss are both easier and more rewarding than hells, FYI.

I second the 'hybrid' category. If you're running a hybrid build starting with a book background (say VM, FE, or IE) you can take Sif and get early piety, as you're still bringing your book online. Then Sif serves as a way to avoid those annoying out-of-mana deaths to the last killer bee, and will e...

Just take him and not abandon.

Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 2 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 4 . Week 2: VSFi (Vine Stalker Fighter) Tier I Bonus: Grab your first rune before exiting a branch aside from Temple Tier II Bonus: Grab all three lair runes before exiting Lair Week 2 Go...

But part of why it's obnoxious is the sheer monotony and boredom.

FR: Add Caustic shrikes to slime

Turns out the stack limit of 4 is practical, not theoretical. Any damage above 1 per turn is divided by 7 and you hit 1 per turn at 4 stacks

Edit I'm confused. Ignore me.

There's a max of 4 stacks of venom. Duration is random, and expected value is not impacted by anything but number of stacks I think.

I thought I was clear in the parts you didn't quote; my problem with Sif is that you get no power boost before the end of lair. And your first few books can also be shiity, so that you get no real boost before (say) the end of Orc. I can pillar dance things to death with qaz. I get defensive stats,...

It never occured to me you could... and that's with multiple Veh ascensions.

Chei characters will spam temporal distortion till it's adjacent to them.

Not really; I mean it's not going to affect your decisions much. If you have an umbra, you have a multiplicative boost to your stealth. Whether it's 1.5* or 2* isn't that big a deal.

And while we're at code diving dith, both yred and dith umbra stealth scales linearly with piety to doubling your stealth at max piety. This is compared to ring of shadows which increases you stealth by 1.5.

OK. The shadow mimic is a creature with HD=(Fighting + Weapon Skill)/2. He's wielding a non-branded +0 weapon of the same base type as you (with magical staves replaced by a quarterstaff.) He gets a single hit 50% of the time you do (can miss, etc.) For ranged, the monster is given a single projecti...

Great blast of cold isn't in the code currently. It's almost certainly Ice storm.

I'm really not sure about the great blast of cold... I'm assuming the great icy blast is glaciate, but those death messages are far too similar.

Somehow I never classified ghost moths or emperor scorpions as 'harmless'. I haven't actually died to either, but they've definitely made me burn consumables.

109 games for * (killer~~pandemonium place=D): 44x, 9x great icy blast, 8x great blast of fire, 7x burst of hellfire, 6x by Shatter, 6x great blast of cold, 3x by divine providence, 3x orb of destruction, 3x bolt of negative energy, 3x crystal spear, 2x chain lightning, 2x orb of electricity, 2x bo...

For the first part, it mimics your attack with a +0 unbranded weapon like yours. It can cast two conjurations, shadow bolt and shadow arrow, which is casts for bolt and arrow spells respectively (yes, shock gets the same mimiced damage as bolt of magma.) Hexes are directly imitated at your spellpowe...

I don't think it does...

IT's a few XP levels. 3 I think.

It doesn't change much: 13392/1235405 games for * (recent playable name!~~Sebi): 485/89018x Octopode [0.54%], 477/75839x Deep Elf [0.63%], 327/49386x High Elf [0.66%], 925/136508x Demonspawn [0.68%], 455/59501x Draconian [0.76%], 384/47690x Spriggan [0.81%], 270/31651x Tengu [0.85%], 372/41256x Mumm...

Ah. Well I don't demand help pre-lair, because most of the time I can get to lair. But I consider coming online after Lair to be rather too late for most characters...

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