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Hydras should very rarely actually kill you if your goal is to win, unless you are a naga or worship chei. Just don't get next to them.

EE is probably better than FE since you don't have the xp to cover elemental resistances very well (definitely start as a book background though). LRD is also single-school so you can get higher spellpower/easier casting (and you never have to worry about hitting yourself since you have lots of AC)....

If you have even one scroll of blinking I honestly recommend just not fighting anything in zot:5 unless you are a formicid or worshipping chei. It's just so easy to teleport + blink to the orb these days.

Hasted orc warrior would be terrifying, but they actually are not a monster that generates. That would be a monster that is much stronger than a killer bee, which is a monster that already causes lots of players problems (because they are dangerous). If you generated hasted orc warriors at the same ...

If you have like any offense at all you can use Pak to kill pretty much everything dangerous with wands, since as you point out you actually can't really run out of piety. This is even easier since you don't really need to train evo to do it because of device surge, so there's not even an xp cost. 5...

if people use vorpal over +9 AC/EV that is almost certainly wrong

Conjure flame is level 3 conj/fire and is ridiculously overpowered, so yeah, usable corpse rot would have to be increased in level since it's just better.

the real problem with confusion is that "potion of remove confusion" is not an item that should exist, but it does so confusion when you don't have "potion of remove confusion" isn't actually something that has been made to make sense

The weapon improving is not really noticeable (in fact enemies improve defensively much much faster than your ally improves offensively, unless things changed since I played on experimental). Monster damage doesn't scale with HD or anything, so even giving it a brand isn't actually much of an improv...

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If you have 3 runes your character is ready for zot.

if you're not using a G(S)C as an ogre you probably picked the wrong race like, I do think that G(S)C is actually very good, but that's also almost irrelevant, since if you're not using a G(S)C you're either a bad troll or a bad minotaur, and in those cases you should just pick troll or minotaur fro...

You can already mute any messages you like in your rcfile, as far as I know.

Ignoring monster AC is not very interesting except maybe for short blades (where it is out-of-place anyway since they have a gimmick that works fine); monsters do not actually have much AC and it doesn't vary a whole lot, so you get nearly the same result more simply by just increasing damage a litt...

But it also has Control Winds - what if sometimes it spawned with something that could make (relevant) clouds, or something that could summon cloud makers? I suggest just removing Control Winds spell since the reason it was created (to prevent the player from killing all the spriggans in Forest bra...

I think it'd be pretty rare for me to wear anything other than a robe on spen. AC just isn't that important for spen and robes have really good egos.

dont wear FDA on spen

You can just walk away, they're not faster than you.

What if it was like a rich uncle, and it just tried to give you something nice, weighted based on your race, skills, and god? It doesn't know you very well and doesn't usually give you The Item You Want, but it tries. It has a lot of connections and it really tries. No weighting for what you've see...

The problem with meleeing orb spiders is that you can't actually rest while inside spider nest so the branch takes like an hour. I really don't want to make it take any longer. I mean okay if you are a 40 ac minotaur of trog it's easy since you don't take damage, but it took my optm forever, to the ...

Amulet of the air actually is very good because rmsl is very good. If you are a player who actually dies to enemies meleeing you (I rarely do, but I guess other players might) maybe don't wear it though. If you have rmsl it's not good, but hopefully the devs will fix that by making having rmsl outsi...

unless it [Damnation unrand xbow] has been changed recently : the hellfire damage was pretty bad

The hellfire/damnation damage has always been very good (it ignores AC, so it's like elec except more damage). The main problem is you use eight times as much ammo.

AC<0 is the same as AC=0 for all purposes except raising it above 0.

I don't like entropy weavers much either. I would say mr of 60 is hexable enough that you can use hex wands, except orb spiders already used up all your charges so you're out of luck.

Veh wizardry is overrated. You don't need it unless: 1) You are wearing heavy armour (almost no one does this with veh, though it's actually a good reason to take veh) 2) You are talking exclusively about level 7-9 spells. 3) Your race is really bad at casting spells and you found early veh. 4) You ...

if by nerf you mean buff, yeah

I'm pretty sure drain brand is really good against anything where it works.

I think that conjurations gives you enough extra damage per turn and safety from range that that mitigates the drawback of being more long-distance-movement intensive and such. This might not be true for all players. Maybe I should stop arguing about this so conjurations get buffed and I can feel li...

You're not mp-constrained in mid-game unless you play naga, worship chei, or refuse to walk away when you need to. When you see a yak pack, instead of starting to throw spells at it right away you first have to separate the pack somehow. The few fast enemies you run into either don't come in packs (...

Another good argument: now Nemelex can actually use the god skill instead of having to use a not-god skill.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7be440f59e77

Ok so maybe it's a combination of gods and there being no good spellcasting races (except Dg, where the god thing is sort of irrelevant). I don't feel like human is an exceptionally good spellcasting race but if you claim it is then I guess I'm not going to argue. FWIW on human I think IE/FE/Cj are ...

The biggest problem with conjurations is that the conjurations gods are awful and the melee gods win the game for you.

Ice beast at level 4 is fine. It's stronger than icicle at the moment you start using level 4 spells, it's weaker than icicle later (icicle is really very good). Summon spells in general don't really seem overpowered to me (there are some scaling things but I'm not going to discuss that at the momen...

Wild magic is beneficial most of the time, and even if it isn't it is the single best mutation in the game (maybe worse than robust, I guess?) for characters where it is good.

Crawl doesn't have a category for that. It has only "bad" and "not-bad". I mean I guess someone here could possibly code it up and try to submit a patch to create a distinction.

If you interpret "Can potions of beneficial mutation be made to only give beneficial mutations please?" as asking for benemut to only give mutations that are on average beneficial, it indeed already does that. All the non-badmuts in crawl provide on average a benefit (for things like slotl...

get ~5 somewhere in lair-orc, probably, since it almost doubles wand power and the hex wands are both extremely good and common enough that you'll actually have some can get up to ~10 or so later, though possibly this is not worth it unless you have more than just hex wands? with how xp per skill le...

RIP tome of destruction

Removing monster gen and removing all sorts of clock is super bad because then you have the doomRL problem where the best way to play is to somehow wake up all the monsters, then you just stand in one place and let them enter your los while you wait in place for tens of thousands of turns. This ensu...

people actually defend turn-based scoring?

the only two reasons the devs havent implemented aut-based scoring are haste and that no one on the devteam cares

anyway I don't want my logs lying about how many turns my games took; this is far more important to me than my score

you use your extra strength to distract the monster by flexing, so then your crossbow bolt hits a weak spot for massive damage

just hit yourself with fire spells, clearly

I don't know, but what you said alone is not enough to say. Harpy group > sphinx > manticore/lindwurm in general, so if the sphinxes just replace manticores/lindwurms then higher spellpower is an obvious improvement. You also get more harpies when you do get harpies at higher power.

i recommend just walking away from the yaks

spen is only better than other --en because you are fast, you should take advantage of that

From your log:

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Have you actually tried it against enemies? Monsters are not players, and this has important effects on which monsters are good against monsters.

Harpies demolish pretty much everything.

Escape decks are extremely good, just don't draw from them blindly.

If Q and Chei are acceptable gods, then Uka is also an acceptable god from the standpoint of restricting learning. I'm not convinced that Uka is stronger than Ru; abilities being actually on-demand makes a big difference. Grand Finale is very not unprecedented, since two other gods (Ely, Jiyva) alre...

Pakellas is definitely infinite wand charges. You have to try really really hard to actually use up mp/piety faster than you gain them, to the point where you're even killing things like river rats with wands. Like, I literally made a character to test this once, and I'm not joking.

Well as I said the real solution is to remove transparent walls, not try to hack in a bunch of rules to make other things maybe work nicely with them. Letting the player tell summons to attack a thing behind a transparent wall wouldn't work, since the summons would not be able to actually attack it....

It allows you to hit anything you can see that isn't behind a transparent wall.

The devs don't want attacking monsters through walls to be a thing (for good reasons).

Evokables are fine, the problem there is that recharging scrolls probably shouldn't exist and wands of hasting and heal wounds are pretty questionable even without recharging scrolls (and indefensible with recharging).

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