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Wow, didn't know I was missing so much drama in GDD. Might start peeking in more often. (I'll just say that while duvessa can be a condecending asshole sometimes, I consider him/her to be one of the more intelligent posters on this forum and he usually seems to be right about most thing...

Searing Ray is also godly. Pretty much melts almost any early uniques you find, except maybe Grinder if he paralyzes you.

Well, I'm not so sure about that. Maybe one day in April.

I learn it to deal with early monster packs (gnoll, orc, kobold) and the occasional killer bee pack in D, and to trivialize most of orc mines. I usually just amnesia it after that.

But I'd expect FP to have some advantage over the direct-fire type weapons, since it requires guessing where the opponent will be (not generally too hard), and a 20 aut delay, instead of firing where the enemy is right now , and doing damage right now . Damage right now is worth more than possible ...

No, I enjoy it because it's basically a second resource other than mana that I have to manage. Even though I have hundreds of rations, it's not exactly good to be spending 3 or 5 turns (however long they take) eating food in the middle of combat, even if you have mana you can't just spam your big sp...

I never see anyone post this one

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Hey, welcome to the forums. In case you missed it, we have a seperate subforum for specific advice about characters-in-progress. That being said, I don't think there's much advice one can give about a wizmode character. I really suggest trying to play the game without wizmode, I'm sure you'll find t...

Spell and ability hunger is the only aspect of the hunger system that I actually find interesting.

I never said you would, what I'm saying is that I don't think it is nearly as bad as not ever being able to hit anything.

I mean, it only takes 5 auts to remove an amulet. Yeah, stasis doesn't really do anything in 99% of situations, but it's not very harmful either as long as you remember to take it off when you need to blink or something. Unless you find a stasis amulet that is cursed, I wouldn't exactly say that it'...

What was the reason that spider form lost its speed and wall clinging abilities? If it was too strong for a level 3 spell, you could have raised the level of it. Now the only similarity between spider form and actual spiders is the venom branded attack.

The change is definitely an improvement for the usability of the spell, but maybe it's too good now. I definitely believe that this spell is quite a bit too powerful, the damage needs to be taken down a couple notches. That being said, it is also tons of fun to use, so I hope some sort of useable m...

Usually by the time I get to Zot, I have a few left over. I just use them to map all of Zot. Makes it easier to just dive straight to Zot:5 and grab the orb, no need to wander around and fight random enemies looking for the downstairs. Otherwise, yea I pretty much just use them to find portals or ma...

Suddenly Formicids seem about 30% less terrible, because with this change haste is now inaccessible to every species.

In recent versions of the game, I regularly see Centaurs go out of their way to move to the side of the prism so they have an unobstructed firing path. You can place one directly in front of an orc warrior, and he'll just walk around it if there's room, pretty much 100% of the time. You can place on...

I remember it kind of being that way when the spell was first added, but playing in trunk they seem to just pretend like it doesn't even exist.

Yea, I mentioned that in the OP, it's pretty useful to be able to block spells or block corridors like that. One thing that I didn't mention (but I should have!) is that enemies treat the prism like plants; they only attack them if they absolutely have to in order to get to you, otherwise the comple...

Is that a player ghost or a randomly generated panlord? I didn't think any enemies in the game could cast fulminant prism. Nevermind, I'm like 99% sure it's a player ghost, I don't know why I thought it was something else...

Do troves even ever ask for wands that aren't hasting/heal wounds/other top-tier wands?

daggaz wrote:I've had 3 wands in a game, plus pots. At that point I would enter the trove after draining a wand of charges.

Treasure troves typically ask for fully charged wands, I don't think I've ever seen one just ask for a wand and not specify how much charges it needs.

I don't think there is ever any point in the game where I ever think that I have "enough" heal wounds.

Battle magic being tedious is subjective. Some people (ie myself) actually find melee very boring and prefer the positioning casters require. If you don't like casters then just don't play them instead of complaining that you don't like that play style. My problem with melee is that sometimes it's ...

Let's say you fall through a shaft or get teleported into a pack of dangerous, but sleeping enemies. You manage to successfully read a teleport scroll without waking them up, but now need to wait out the teleport timer. The obvious action in that situation would be to repeatedly swap weapons so they...

Good post. My main issues with it are that it is often difficult to affect multiple targets reliably, and there is a chance you could get hit (eg you can't move where you thought you could). Yea, unlike most straight-forward damage spells, the prism really does take a bit of practice to be able to ...

So I've noticed that most Cj I spectate never seem to learn Fulminant Prism, and even when they do they typically never bother to cast it. Usually when I ask them why, they tell me they tried it once and thought it sucked. Well, I'm here to (hopefully) set the record straight. Fulminant Prism is a l...

In my opinion you should be up to date on patchnotes before whingeing about game mechanics. Since 0.16 shafts suck flying players down them, they aren't a gear/race check. In a separate but recent thread, there were several players including a developer who were under the assumption that might gave...

I'm thinking that for a fire-oriented species, a system where you gain "charges" (for a lack of a better word) that you gain passively or for performing X action (killing an enemy, eating a chunk, or whatever seems most appropriate), that gives you passive bonuses to fire magic and resista...

What archaeo described is to implement shafts as either a spell that can be resisted, or an attack modifier. In either case the shafting wouldn't happen instantly at complete random, it would be a monster effect and the monster wouldn't just randomly disintegrate after shafting you. When you return ...

Laraso, would you have a problem if, say, some kind of enemy Formicid had an AF_SHAFT attack or MR-gated spell? e: note that this satisfies, I think, dpeg's request for a non-trap way to do shafting, as well as basically all the other traps. I would be 100% OK with that, in fact I would quite enjoy...

In many cases, preventing the player from screwing up and making mistakes has no effect whatsoever on the game's skill ceiling, all it does is increase the skill floor, which many would consider a bad thing. For example, warning you when you are about to anger your god. That has no effect on the sk...

n1000 wrote:[*]temporary status potions
my biggest gripe is that might's main effect (slaying) might not be obvious. ... Maybe !might and berserk should stack?

Couldn't we use the same status effect that the Song of Slaying gives you, showing you Slay(#x) for the duration of might?

It's not in the description, but the learndb says that it causes mesmerization. I used the axe a few versions back and can confirm that it did, at one point in time, forcibly mesmerize you when enemies are in view, but that may have changed since then, although I doubt it. The obsidian axe is an unr...

I encourage you to try playing Brogue. And seriously try to win it and play "optimally", don't just die on D:5 repeatedly and say "Wow, this game is so difficult and pretty and well-designed and...". If that dosen't make you think traps are bad I don't know what to tell you. Sug...

Personally, if that was me, I would hop out of the Zig and go win, especially if it's your first 15 rune win. Just curious, you're wearing a +0 cloak of rElec, despite already having rElec from other equipment. Is there no better cloak for you to wear? You're not really casting any spells, so the +4...

Personally, I'm a strong believer that any and every game should be built around optimal play. Good game design is when you focus around the highest level of play, not the lowest common denominator. I don't particularly like it when games go out of their way to make sure that the player can't screw ...

Would you care to elaborate on what I'm missing here? Because you don't seem to think traps are good design, so what makes them "bad design" other than what I already said? My argument against it is "it happens completely randomly and is entirely outside of the players control", ...

I believe that shafts really shouldn't exist in a game like this. Unlike banishment, it happens completely randomly and is entirely outside of the players control, and unlike teleport traps it puts you in completely unexplored + unfamiliar + unsafe territory with no sense of where you should retreat...

duvessa wrote:in probably 99% of cases, the same as the answer to "is your most damaging weapon one-handed?"

I would assume the other 1% is when you're playing a Formicid.

Iron dragons exist, and are also gray.

Being blinded displays an eye icon, not a ?.

He went down the stairs, back up, and walked to the upstairs without the ogre ever noticing?

Why does it say that one of the downstairs has already been used?

You could simply change all the wands to have different success rates, depending on their power, just like how hex spells work. It would actually make more sense that way.

What? I thought they removed the ability for enemies to pick up items off of the floor a few versions back... I figured they just started spawning enemies with better items. Well, I feel stupid now.

ololoev wrote:I would really remove fire clouds. On the point of game where I cast FS that "do u rly want to step into that flaming cloud" is annoying.

Ring of Flames is your friend

only usable if there's a torpor snail in view. because there are no characters that regularly experience slowing :roll: If you're a Draconian, you only get slowed from cold attacks, and if you're a berserker you only get slowed after berserk ends. If you're berserking correctly, you should never en...

What are the chances of this even happening

"Hey I think this wand is junk compared to other similar, but more useful wands. Let's nerf it" ??? It makes it irresistible so it's not explicitly a nerf. Still, I can't say that a wand that lets me slow opponents in a way that's useful only when I myself am slowed is not likely to spend...

New monster request: Hunger Fiend Spells: Symbol of Hunger Summon Terrible Hunger Hungfire Hunger's Call Hunger Form Let's not forget hungerstorm, deals irresistible hunger damage in a 5x5 smite targeted area, creates hunger-inducing clouds throughout the entire affected area and spawns numerous hu...

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