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Every time you repeat this part of the cycle, the gnoll gets an extra hit in. While you do prevent the second gnoll from attacking, you are doubling the number of attacks the first gnoll makes This scenario assumes the gnolls don't have polearms. The entire discussion was based on the assumption th...

Every time you repeat this part of the cycle, the gnoll gets an extra hit in. While you do prevent the second gnoll from attacking, you are doubling the number of attacks the first gnoll makes This scenario assumes the gnolls don't have polearms. I do this pretty often to fight only 1 or at most 2 ...

This simply requires rotating through every skill over the course of each title range. Keeping all skills equal is a pretty hard challenge game in itself.

lessens wrote:If you want to see a game that is truly 100% about standing in a chokepoint, take a look at Sil.

But it's not, depending on the build. My first win I always fought in an open area, often against more than one enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0afo6Tnf0c

Teleportitis is not that bad and who cares if a mutation is slightly more dangerous, how often do you get teleportitis anyway.

Yeah so inscribing !d is possible but why are you picking up a bunch of junk in the first place? Pressing , opens a list of items under you and you select what you want to pick up, unless this isn't the default, in which case it's an option in the ini file.

There's nothing wrong with branches.

This is one of the reasons why I suggested a few times to have a tiny floor above D:1 that is empty and has 2 or 3 stairs down.

You have made a huge mistake of not learning iron shot while having LCS, and also not training earth and conj above 20. Anyway this is why I stopped playing with spells as main source of damage, takes too long.

It's supposed to be bound to pickup and not this spell thing. In any case what you can do is make a macro for , -> g. Press ~ for macros.

You can also try branchless (don't enter lair, orc, vaults).

It doesn't do anything when you can't see it. You should pretend it doesn't exist until you see it.

Nobody talks about the optimal way to play a weaponless spellcaster, despite the fact that many players want to play that way. Hell, it's rare you see people talk about how best to play a transmuter of chei, and at least a few people seem to enjoy that playstyle. Because no one asks "hello, ho...

By default optimal means best way to win. If there is context then optimal is related to that context. It's really not hard to understand this.

Make the ability create an altar at which you can pray to bless the weapon.

Cure poison is not super useful, but I don't think there's an excessive amount of poison spells you know, I don't think there's a good reason to remove it. Maybe it could be made more interesting like turn poison into heal. Ring of flames was good the one time I used it. Spell levels is indeed the p...

If caustic shrikes are a lot more dangerous than other monsters (that's an 'if', I never faced them) and they come in packs, then something is wrong. Doesn't mean they should be nerfed, maybe a few other monsters should be buffed.

The reason wasn't changed

Oh, I had regained a little faith but now it's lost again. "The crown is a bad item but it removes torment and that's just too strong because torment is one of the only dangers of extended and we wouldn't want players ignoring it, but it's still a bad item"

With a ring of invisibility that is certainly a viable direction to take.

... I am under the impression that the devs changed the reason from "it was a bad item for bad players" to "it was too good because it ignored torment and ignoring torment is wrong because it's the only threat in extended". At least the new reason makes sense. I have no problem ...

If these supposedly good spells were actually good, it would be worth getting hexes with non-stabbers. But it's not. Aside from spectral weapon, which is OP and only level 3.

Death Cobs are not pointless because they're speed 25. Maybe their damage can be increased to 25 instead of 20.

Maybe the hexes school should have good spells that don't improve stabbing then. And I mean good spells, the mediocre mass confusion and discord are not good enough. It will never be worth training hexes for non-stabbers even if darkness was level 5. Edit: this post and the rest were moved from anot...

I would use it on any character without rN+++ or torment immunity except maybe spriggan/felid. By the way maybe you should remove shield of the gong because it's only used by people who overvalue SH?

As long as it's an additional key that does not affect the current keys.

You're supposed to use EH when the monster is adjacent, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Spriggans can use it 1 tile away because of their low hp and being able to reset the fight if the monster wakes up. I never had a problem with magic dart damage. Sometimes you will spend all of your m...

Yes you're right, a character is not good if it is too likely to die at ANY point in the game. So there are no overall strong characters that are weak in the early game.

I don't agree with the premise that the midgame is easier than other parts of the game.

Jiyva stat shuffle was good when it was mostly controllable. I don't know how it works now but it sounds like it's much harder to control.

I didn't find firestarter explosions annoying. Armor chance to explode is in a way better than corrosion because the explosion is an instant effect and you can't do anything about it after it happens. Corrosion you can walk away, this is seen as a bad thing. So explosions are better than corrosion i...

bcadren wrote:They are gone in Trunk.

Why?

Sandman addressed this in his last post but I also want to say it: training magic skills above what is required for lvl 6 spells increases spellpower. Sandman has the damage numbers for bolt of fire, but note that it also increases accuracy. I haven't paid attention to bolt of fire spellpower in pra...

With a character like this I get a great mace and brand it with pain.

This is only a little bit harder than the normal game. XL, skill levels, rod enchantment should be hidden (unless I'm missing something about rod enchantment). Maybe mp could be hidden too.
In particular skill levels have to be hidden to make this somewhat challenging.

Then option 4 in this poll fits you perfectly.

Sandman25 wrote:Cowardly murderer who stabs, poisons and disables from shadows. Never fights fairly, it prefers to run away instead of fighting face to face. Using distortion/electro/pain is the most "fair" way you can see him fighting if he is cornered.

What option is this in your poll?

Poll.

If your goal is to win and you don't care about winning with Xom then you are definitely more likely to win if you convert to Jiyva. But I don't think your goal is entirely just to win if you picked Xom in the first place.

I was sure that was enough sarcasm.
Edit: unless you did get that I wasn't serious and are agreeing with me.

Can please one of those who voted for "well-rounded characters" provide an example? I still don't understand what type of character it is. You can see that the votes changed from "Light armor melee" to "well-rounded". That's your answer, those are still "light arm...

This should not have been moved to advice.
To keep this post on topic: It's better to make Lair branches equally difficult than to bother with this swap thing.

No, it's not the same. Before this commit skill boost was on 2* and scrying on 4*. Now you have to wait until 3* to get skill boost. Wow that makes Ash even worse. Scrying is practically unusable in the early game if it costs even 1 piety, because it delays the first useful ability. It's not going ...

With local play calculating 1000 turns should be very fast. Maybe not instant but pretty close, definitely playable. That much is obvious, but if you want an example, autoexplore and autotravel across multiple floors (hundreds of turns) with 0 delay is instant. % chance of dying for the turn and for...

If we for a second imagine that this is a succubus and not a bus and she has those huge stats and will beat up my character while I can't do anything about it, I think that's pretty hot. Support.

You don't need to do anything to adapt to it. But if you want to stab, this mutation will help you a little extra with that. the reduced LOS also means you have less information about what other threats are just beyond what you can see If anything, you have more information, because with nightstalke...

I think most characters have some way of killing orbs of fire without intentionally getting a way of killing them. Even if some characters don't I don't think it's really a problem. Maybe orbs of fire can be reflavored to use both fire and ice spells, and their spell damage slightly reduced, so that...

There's a skill training strategy that I encounter often. I sometimes train conjurations much higher than other spell schools that I have access to, to be able to pick and use any secondary school easily as soon as I find a good spell (only one secondary school, not many, this argument of being able...

Spriggans have armor and weapon restrictions. Not the same as no armor and no weapons, but I think if felids had no extra lives and more hp they would be too similar to Sp.

Why bother trying to unbreak something that's already functionally irrelevant Identifying potions and scrolls is not an easy process. If you identify scrolls and potions the same way in every game, you're playing suboptimally. Especially if you read scrolls as soon as you find them. Item identifica...

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