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Wouldn't free hits be useful for pretty much anybody? A feature doesn't have to be specifically designed for a single playstyle to be useful to that playstyle. Okay, I see what you mean. I just still don't understand why Seth would have that in contrast to any particular other god in Crawl. Also, I...

That's why I feel that Mikee's proposal of a god that is useful for stealth players (more so than many others), but isn't a 'stealth god' is much better. All of the abilities granted would be useful to most characters, but would certainly help stealth characters more than most (Shadowport for stabb...

I actually really like the concept of a stealth deity. It's true that most deities take a major "feature" of Crawl (physical combat, magical combat, overall magical mastery, decks, killing demons, etc.) and enhance it. I just ran a quick search to see why a stealth diety doesn't exist alre...

I also personally wouldn't mind a level 7 Haste, but I think it's arbitrary to make that alteration, just as I think that what you say about Haste could apply to any popular spell. Sure, Haste is one of the most popular spells and cite some of the 0.13 tournament statistics, but saying "this u...

Mumcon, I am not sure if you saw a table for 0.13 tournament in other thread but it proves that Haste is optimal too often. It is level 6 spell but it has 5th rank and was used more often (86 winners had it below 10%) than any level 4-5 spells (40 winners). Fighting OoF is not boring, casting Haste...

the point is not it being too powerfull. is that every non chei non trog character would benefit from that. does not matter if you are a melee nut in full plate or a pure blaster. you will benefit from haste, and it is normally optimal to train for it. I read respected players like Duvessa say more...

1- Unlimited sources of haste are problematic, to say the least. it is a very powerful effect, both for escaping or destroying your enemies, and it does not matter which build you are playing, it is normally worth the investment. the spell was nerfed several times, and did not stopped being a must ...

When I play Crawl as a spellcaster, I often balance a tight inventory (and different people balance them in different ways, I'm sure) by taking 1 or at most 2 offensive wands for zero-MP emergencies. I have to choose between lightning, draining, cold, or fire based on what type of enemies I think I ...

There is a minor problem with it: what to do when after creating a second stack, the total number of potions becomes again small enough that the extra inventory slot is no longer needed, but both stacks still have potions on them (5 potions in inventory, pick up a potion --> 5+1, use a potion from ...

Mumcon: It doesn't need a sage to tell you that players playtesting a branch/fork without item destruction would write glowing reports. I never suggested that, though. The explanation from elliptic that galehar posted is exactly the sort of info I would have hoped playtesting would have illuminated...

I think that with Crawl's philosophy, the possibility of catastrophic item destruction is not really the problem. In fact, having that happen up front would in some ways be preferable to the current mechanics which facilitate tedium and lack actual strategic merit. The reasons outlined by Bloax and ...

Lair runes seem like they'd be less of a death sentence to formicids, but I'd like to hope this will also succeed in making being poisoned something players really think about. I don't know why you're saying that, the changes I propose make poison more threatening and less tedious. Poison vulnerabi...

Well, personally I don't see any of that as a problem and this isn't the goal of the thread to address that. There have been countless discussions about the poison magic school and high level poison spells, I'd rather avoid derailing the thread with yet another one. I understand where you're coming...

So I suggest that poison duration is shorter but the average damage remains the same. Would be good to simplify it too, the current code is quite messy. Which is why this proposal doesn't contain actual formulas and numbers, I don't have time to source dive and make a complete proposal. Any help wi...

I agree with savageorange that the * is better than the >. The only pictograms that I personally don't consider bad are those that clearly contain the actual numbers. Something like this would seem more clear to me than a few of the other suggestions. @* [1] @-* [2] @--* [3] @-4-* @--5-* @--6--* @--...

Asking for explanations isn't backlash. I wonder how blacksheep counts though. That he needs to convert his count to a number is a bit intriguing. I don't see this as an issue of people having a strange inability to count. If you needed to know how many .'s there are here, would you prefer a count ...

I like this a fair amount. It's simple and people know what it does. It also clears what I see as several of the major issues with new poison spells: - It's thematically relevant (i.e. "about poison"). - It's not acid (since at the moment, acid is excluded from the definition of the poison...

Sorry to bump an old thread, but was this ever fixed? I'm playing on CSZO trunk an XL16.13 SpEn with 13.3 hexes and 22 int. The Invisibility spell's power is at 6/8 #'s. I may be an unusual case because I've cast Invisibility over 50 times already in my game, but in rare cases I've begun to glow wit...

My personal miscellaneous thoughts. - The core concept of trying to maintain low HP overtly encourages players to take more risks, reminding me of graze in bullet hell games. - Some of the abilities seem way too powerful (Wild Magic, Magic Disease, Swap Resistance, Steal Health, Swap Position) unles...

Apparently I wasn't being at all clear, because only minmay got what I was saying: designing high level poison kill spells that only affect targets w/o rPois is pointless because there are already two great level 6 kill spells that murder anything without rPois. The hypothetical KillDudes level 8 P...

mumra: You may be right about sickness not being that strong of an effect. I had thought that if it went on long enough and if the enemies had enough HP (especially if the sickness was able to negate regeneration) the benefit could materialize, but I don't know how it would work in practice. Also, I...

How about adding an interesting high level poison spell to crawl? To be a welcome addition, it needs to be sufficiently differentiated from existing spells. Also, spells which disable rP are a really bad idea in my opinion, so I would suggest to try something else. I just want to quote this to draw...

I went and looked for an older thread on this issue. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4697 is basically the same type of thread as this one, and was posted 1 year ago. Some good points were made in that thread (overall it's a lot more analytic than this one). The main reason t...

In my view, the only place poison magic could serve to be more useful is in Hell and Pan (which ironically the OP shouldn't have been to yet?). It's already excellent in the early and mid-game, and decent in the late game. My suggestion for a simple way to do that would be to make a level 8 conjurat...

Thanks for all the advice, wizzzargh. Okawaru gave me a lot of good randart armour. And I just realized that keeping Swiftness up will counteract ponderousness, so I'll just rely on that and take your advice on the barding. Using acquirement on wands sounds like a satisfactory decision. I'd been tem...

Here's my full dump: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Tenfire/Tenfire.txt The essential points, I think, are: 32 Str, 14 Int, 12 Dex EV: ~3-5, unless I equip a longbow of evasion AC: ~47 with +inv-branded good randart chain mail and excellent yet ponderous centaur barding; +~20 or -~10 based on whether I...

Holy Pan was the most fun I ever had in Crawl. All the resurrecting monsters, pearl dragons, the silver star, and the randart large shields made the level for me. I'd like to see more Holy Pan-like maps. In other words, very hard Pan floors that only spawn once. Their frequency, like Holy Pan, would...

To the OP, pubby: as far as I can tell, what people like about demigods are that they give you some useful bonuses if you want to play without a religion. That predisposes the player against religious professions, but with their well-rounded attributes, they still currently play many professions wel...

I guess that confirms my suspicion. Thank you for the insights, especially about the focus card change. If it has to be like that, then I imagine I'd want to allow my stats to shuffle/focus around constantly, and if I want to do a zig or leave Nemelex then I'd wait until I got a decent shuffle card....

I'm considering switching my super-powerful Pan-scumming character's religion from Sif Muna to Nemelex Xobeh. I'm a HEWz. My evocations is maxed. The reason would be to use the helix card and many potions of mutation to eventually accumulate dozens of positive mutations (i.e. turn the bad ones into ...

If you're playing a good felid background and you're playing well you won't die much, since you have move delay 0.8. I like "won't die much" when it's because you can usually kill or avoid things before they kill you (the case for most good combos), but with felids, it seems like you won'...

As just a casual Crawl player, I'm not too familiar with its design philosophy. And I don't know what kind of design adjustments for felids are favored by members of the dev team at this time. But I think it's all right for me to go ahead and state my thoughts while this thread is among the recently...

Well, my final verdict is that what I wanted is easily doable, proportional to the number of cure mutations / chunks of mutagenic flesh you can safely consume (and possibly also proportional to how good you are with decks, but they're too complicated for me to attempt). Jiyva removes just as much as...

This is some of what I've learned and observed. Each slurp has a maximum number of items it can consume, which is random and between 1 and 10. The slurp will go through each of the single items and piles of items on a particular square and try to eat as many items as it can until it reaches its maxi...

When exactly does Jiyva remove the walls of the Slime:6 vaults? I tend to bounce between piety level 6 and 5 a lot... do I need to stay at 6 for thousands of turns? EDIT: I didn't realize that I was expected to dig through them and that they'd turned to translucent rock... I did get the rune in a pr...

CommanderC: I've heard about how Jiyva takes off-level items, and some people mentioned that it wasn't that bad for their stash, so I suppose it varies. Depending on the character, it may also be possible to carry enough very important items that I'm not strictly relying on a stash. TehDruid: So the...

My inquiry does relate to a specific character, but I've already decided that I want to try Jiyva no matter how impractical what I'm trying to do turns out to be, so I think my questions could be considered a request for general advice/info. I'm playing in 0.9.0 (on CAO). I've never followed Jiyva b...

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