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I don't play trunk, so I don't know exactly how life hungry works, but how about rework the ability as giving a flat amount of Drain when equipped, which persists until the item is removed. This neither encourages or punishes swapping.

That says more about wands of hasting than it does about randarts.

PleasingFungus wrote:
Rast wrote:Snake and Spider should be refactored to be less poison-centric, and more interesting in general

This happened to Snake in, what, 0.14?

It was a step in the right direction. It's not enough.

Honestly, those branches should probably get Hive'd.

It's clunky -- now runes are divided into two types -- and unappealing.

Also, diving the second S-branch is fast and easy. The final floor is less easy, but that's a good thing.

You know, LOS increase on a fixedart would be kinda neat.

This is basically offtopic, but briefly: randart generation changes imho make randarts ever so slightly better. It isn't huge, but in games with high rng luck (so like 5-10% of games) you can notice a decent boost. This is subject to confirmation bias and all that, I may be wrong, etc, but that's h...

More than a little bit frightening...

Lure lure lure lure lure enemies back into a safe area before fighting. I can't stress this enough. This even applies to trivial enemies, since their noise could attract others, or others might be wandering nearby.

Is the goal to win or to have fun?

Flying isn't needed for the water branches any more. (it never really was).

Snake and Spider should be refactored to be less poison-centric, and more interesting in general

It's been suggested that lair drop down to one S-branch per game..

And then we can finally have an elven rune!

Some people have won dozens of ranged weapon users without knowing about that

Duvessa is a man?

I would favor having them flop back down as corpses, still available for reanimation.

Pollen_Golem wrote:good at ... unarmed

Well obviously.

The account with the most wins should be the canonical one.

I would suggest making it a flat percentage applied at the very end, after slaying.

Or remove slow healing 3 entirely...

I didn't care much for the abyss change that made it five floors deep. Yes, abyss needs to have easier and harder areas to make it more interesting, and banishment less immediately fatal, but the current implementation just feels wrong to me. Here's an alternate suggestion: - Abyss should be just a ...

Since when do summoned shadow imps not cast animate dead? Lame. EDIT: OK it makes sense from a game balance point of view, but it's still no fun. Suggestion: fix animate dead so that the HD of the resulting zombies is capped based on spell power, and then let shadow imps cast it again, just at reall...

Is unarmed really the way to go with vine stalkers? How does it compare to quick blade?

Be warned; they might just decrease xp for vanilla melee monsters instead.

Sar wrote:You could add Darkness, Death's Door/some kind of form compatible with ozo/stoneskin.

I'm kind of surprised you indulge into that considering it messes up statistics.

The people who don't buff before winning are the ones messing up statistics.

Casual mode Crawl: Infinite lives, like a felid, but apply a heavy drain status on each death.

Can you spam more it under Jiyva?

The four elemental evokables. Sack of spiders.

Decks are decent if they aren't Changes/Wonders. Wands. Box of beasts.

Cap the HD of the resulting undead based on spellpower. You can still get Gold Dragon skeletons with no skill investment, but they'll be 1 HD gold dragon skeletons.

Vamp bardiche is a non-brainer. Throw all the EW scrolls you find into it. Crank polearms only until you max.

The leather is the best armor you have, but keep looking for better.

Your evocations points aren't a waste; there are plenty of non-wielded evokables worth using.

But your spellpower is crap, right?

Cj seems like a bad choice -- less Int than Wz.

We don't want to make spellpower breakpoints where the usefulness of the spell dramatically increases.

Spellpower could determine how long the LOS reduction is a full 2. After that initial period, LOS would gradually (or quickly?) increase back to the normal radius, at which the spell would expire.

I think your methodology has too much focus on games by the very best players. I suggest looking only at games which would potentially be exactly the third in a streak. I think that's a good balance between games the player is definitely trying to streak vs games where the player is going full unfun...

To help further differentiate water and lava, let lava continue to instantly destroy items.

elmdor wrote:On the other hand, new players might expect enemy undead to rot and expire in the same way.

I'm OK with that.

What's the rationale for that? It made them useable?

Wahaha wrote:In my opinion the Abyss is very tactically interesting. I would like to see an easier Abyss 1 and 2 and
dowan wrote:Late game banishments sending you deeper solve the main issue with late game banishments

or alternatively banishment expires after X turns, an idea proposed by someone in some other thread.

Increase chance of exit being generated with more time spent in abyss.

FR: Zombies continue to rot after being reanimated, keeping the original rot timer. They would rot down to skeletons and then crumble back to dust.

FR: Choose sex at char creation, just like Nethack.

The ingame drawbacks and benefits should be the same as Nethack.

Oh yeah, the most notable thing about this game was that I had sacrifice evocations and earth magic, so in order to get the slimy rune I needed to drag a deep troll earth mage all the way from depths to slime 6. Stupid troll almost died on the slime walls too... FR: kiling TRJ should make the walls...

All this proves is that if you're already a strong player, and you're in a streak you care a lot about, you'll be willing to play in an ultra-careful, ultra-tedious way, and then the extra speed and lives of Felid trump all other considerations. Also, the way tournaments reward scoring encourages th...

Sandman25 wrote:+ MiBe does not need a weapon better than spear of freezing to win with 3 runes

That was during meleebug.

bcadren wrote:+1 Boots of Running
The Boots of the Assassin (I kept running anyways

....why?

Sar wrote:A far better list would be the one that provided a good race for a class and the least bad class for a race. Kind of like what char select screen does.

Best class for nearly every race is zerker.

Best race for near every class is Mi

Sandman25 wrote:
DrKe wrote:HEAM of Chei is not good for beginners though

It is harder than most Mu of Chei IMHO.

HEAM of NoGod probably isn't too bad. Play it like a HEHu.

bcadren wrote:Or...just remove levels I and II and skip straight to III.

And scale by XL (if it doesn't already)

If (2) is real, it should be fixed.

There are guides on the wiki that people have followed, assuming they had been written to help them and vetted by others collaboratively, and which instead caused them to waste hours of time IRL scumming off Nemelex piety with mummies and doing other silly stuff that new players should not be doing...

5) After the returning brand is removed, it will probably come back (heh) on a fixedart throwing weapon.

Just be patient.

The inventory might fill up and then you couldn't pick up other items later without wasting turns dropping stuff.

FR: Picking up and dropping items should no longer take time.

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