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If you have to ask if you should wear hat of pondering the answer is no you shouldn't. This. The hat of pondering can be good, but you have to know the disadvantages and advantages and how they interfere with combat very well to gain a net benefit from wearing it. So if you have to ask, don't use i...

There are only a small handful of truly debilitating bad mutations, the rest you can live with with little to no problem. This means that if you have a guaranteed way of removing the one or two really bad ones you'll get, you can scum !mutation and mut chunks quite easily.

What problem is this intended to solve? Convincing the remaining 2% of players that Chei is awful?

OP is channeling ee cummings, I think?

Where's ebarret's sig when you need it

There's a reason 2x2 grid targeted spells don't exist in the game.

It is refreshing to see someone asking The Right Questions for once. So frequently unwon players come in and ask which of these 3 sweet daggers to use, how they should be skilling, etc etc etc. And yet if they took all that effort and put it into improving their movement skills, they would win games...

To this day I'm still a little sour that they made weapon orbs drop at an absurdly low rate on the mana fortress.

I like the orb run. If crawl is a story, it is the denouement.

I prefer to just use double swords on KoBe. This is not a joke, the -2 long blades apt is meaningless on a berserker who has infinite surplus exp. Why take the -2 hit? Kobolds also do well just starting with short blades. The +3 to shortblades means it is trivial to ramp this up to 10 or 12, which ...

I prefer to just use double swords on KoBe. This is not a joke, the -2 long blades apt is meaningless on a berserker who has infinite surplus exp.

Stealth is fine.

It hurts me that you have 0 necromancy skill.

You present a persuasive argument for buffing banana throwing.

mumra wrote:even with rF+++ since they have Hellfire which is unresistable.

No, they do not.

Invisibility allows you to free kill 95% of the stuff in the game. You want your god to provide you a means of dealing with the other 5% of stuff. I guess for this character, vehumet kind of means that I'm stuck on a magic path, but for my future SpEn's, what god(s) would you recommend and why? Ash,...

regen is OP.. for getting a high score?

My issue with the "it's only good in the early game" argument is that the early game is where 99% of the difficulty in caster-background games is located. That argument doesn't make sense. That said, the spell is fine. I do like the move to hexes proposal, since the spell is a free pickup ...

When in doubt, grab shadow creatures, send hasted golden dragons and tentacled monstrosities at it.

Alarm, Gas, Pressure Plate, Shaft, Web, Teleportation, Zot

aka the reasons you always trained the skill for

It kind of depends on if A:1 is more/less dangerous than oldabyss, no? If less, then you've already got your wish.

BountyHunterSAx wrote:I would like to recommend that A:1 be a little easier to escape from, since we now have an A:2-5

How are those things related?

Dispersing contamination onto dudes sounds pretty fun. Or just the general idea of offloading negative buffs. From what I've read from devs and goodplayers when similar ideas have come up, giving players beneficial reasons to load up with negative buffs and status ailments (such as being able to in...

Dispersing contamination onto dudes sounds pretty fun. Or just the general idea of offloading negative buffs.

1. If I had have put the amulet of resist mutation after I got the glowing and contamination but before bursts happened, would it have helped? Yes, but there's no sure thing. When you get the "shudders with the violent release.." message, the game flips a coin to see if your rMut does any...

Scrolls being a limited resource is pretty meaningless. The most limited resource is exp- by turning on cblink, you make your dude weaker in other areas. That's far more interesting than "oh I only have 4 blink scrolls, guess I can only ninja one or two runes." I'd rather nothing give semi...

So everything is basically casting spells, why don't we do away with everything other than spellcasting

It's empty.

Preservation is generally a no-brainer because the other commonly available options in that slot are pretty situational. I'd be fine with seeing more reasonable options in that slot, even if it meant that preservation generated less frequently.

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"Teach me how to not suck" will not fit into a forum post. So: 1) go onto webtiles 2) check player's records on IRC by doing !gamesby player until you find someone with a good winrate 3) watch that player 4) ask them questions when you don't understand why that player is doing things If yo...

In terms of game design, it falls under "minor perks for the sake of variety." I can't think of a game in existence where passive damage return was a thing and I ever cared about it.

fire + ice = antipode

Teleportitis can be counteracted with teleport control, either inherent or on a ring, along with stasis. I've seen this said before, and it's just wrong. The places where you really don't want to be random teleporting are -cTele, so now you're forced to wear stasis - and being forced to wear stasis...

If you saw that you weren't going to make it to the stairs, you should have zapped yourself with the tele wand.

Just use that scroll of blinking and leave crypt for a while.

And clean out your wands, geez.

It doesn't seem too unreasonable to switch to him, go back and feed everything in the dungeon to slimes, clear all my bad mutations then switch to my endgame god. You're gonna get a whole lot more bad mutations from Jiyva wrath than you're going to cure by temp-switching to her. Plus, dual wrath is...

About the OP - I generally do not give my chars much of a thought before getting to Lair. If they die, "who cares" for me. That's some.. pretty lousy advice. Every death and every near-death is an opportunity to ask yourself "how could I have done that better?" And don't pick 20...

I thought getting more mp would be better... A rule of thumb I use is "don't train spellcasting unless you need the spell slots." It's an oversimplification, but pretty close to the reality. Consider: less mp to cast high-power spells is better than more mp to cast low-power spells. Killi...

It sounds like you're underutilizing IOOD.

16 spellcasting / 10 conjuration / 10 Fire magic (level 11 btw).

..and mistraining. That should look more like 8 / 16 / 14. Or so.

It's unfortunate that one of my favorite bugs is now fixed - inacc was secret tech vs. IOOD.

Note that if spell power is important at all, you cannot ignore the requisite schools. For example, having low-powered flight is fine, but casting low-powered fireballs is completely worthless.

Orbs of Fire should remain permanent I think. Since they are basically positioned at the "end" of the game, it's more interesting to give the player something to deal with for the rest of the game*, rather than just forcing them to go killdudes somewhere random for a while after clearing z...

As long as you don't care about getting a high score, hitting 5 all the time is fine.

When designing new things, come up with an interesting mechanic and then wrap some flavor around it. Rather than the other way around.

Acquirement will go right into the drink though. I imagine that's a learning moment. I don't particularly like this proposal, since I spend most of my time somewhere near the burdened limit - so half the stuff would go into my inventory, and half on the floor. That's worse than everything going on t...

Good flavor, bad mechanics. Unfortunately one is more important than the other.

(also newvaults are awesome, give .12 a whirl if you haven't yet)

Dealing with dynamic threats is fun and interesting. It's why shaft traps are awesome.

I do like this, I think the only issue is deciding on how to properly decrement the temporary counter. Exploration seems fine, as does decrementing on killdudes. Maybe both.

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