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Just bringing it up for consideration since I haven't seen anyone mention it yet - Qazlal's disaster area is probably the single most destructive action in the game for the purposes of megazigging. It unfortunately takes up the God slot which is often used for HP or MP Regen, but it was absolutely r...

There was a change from a few years back that changed most traps from hidden floor features to a random chance on exploration. If you have played for a while that may explain a qualitative change, although it appears the difference is quite modest. The thread Turukano linked has some numbers. Here i...

Robe of night due to the power of the darkness passive. +5 steam dragon armor is quite powerful as well with Ozo's.

Pin is useful early game to get a space between you and a monster (regardless of its speed). Whirlwind is also okay for giving weapons pseudo-cleaving. You should be using lunge against basically everything since 1) It has a damage bonus and 2) it front-loads a lot of damage if you get a double-hit,...

Just to add/correct based off the current WJC iteration: 3: You will be attacked at your new position after a wall jump. Think of it as moving to the new spot, doing the attacks and then waiting two turns (for a normal speed character) 4: Lunge is probably worth using against every monster, since yo...

MainiacJoe wrote:So this happened last night:

"You fall through two floors!"
Entrance to Temple in LOS.

Taking "Temple Diving" to extreme sport status

I thought this was a joke thread at first, but then I read a bunch of good arguments for removing Maurice and I'm not sure anymore.

IMO a lot of the changes to Vp have been steps in the right direction to making them not awful to play. This change would be another one.

Interestingly (and perhaps obviously) ghosts are bad design because they are not designed at all. Or at least are not designed in a way to provide a meaningful challenge since players are "designing" them.

Monster gargoyles break off a piece of themselves and throw it at players to end them rightly

There is potentially a clarity issue in that potions of resistance increase every '%' screen stat that uses the word resistance (abbreviated) except magic resistance.

The blessing effect is different from the orcs gaining experience, which is what creates this message. There is an invisible stat called hit dice (HD); this is what is actually increasing when monsters gain experience. When HD increases enough, orcs will grow up into their stronger types: orc to war...

Maybe just don't make the god whose whole purpose is to make you slower secretly make you faster with regard to scoring.

Nemelex has other "effective" escapes such as player banishment. Nemelex has had enough of an identity crisis as it is; the god doesn't need to be Xom in disguise.

bel wrote:Chei could probably be tweaked so that it halves the "effective auts" for scoring purposes

Why?

Wait you can cast Yara's on yourself?

Thankfully you don't have to use your opinion to determine if Tm is bad. It comes dead last for win rate among all currently playable classes (0.45%). Narrow that to players that have at least one win of every background (Sequell's greaterplayers) and it is still in last place (3.71%). It doesn't ge...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I think people have different things in mind when talking about Tm being easy or hard. Transformed UC allows to kill orb of fire in 2 attacks, for example.

So they mean that it's easy for about 1 out of every 100 characters?

You should write a novel and title it "Reddit Canon"

I have just come back after about 3/4 of a year not playing crawl very much and it is still a lot of fun. There is an incredible variety of ways you can play the game but it remains challenging. The UI is almost peerless in the roguelike arena. The tiles are fantastic. It is constantly evolving and ...

+6 scale mail for sure

Draining because 1) It's quiet! and 2) it is from the best magic school in the game

You guys are using really terrible examples for both charms and hexes since by the time you can cast DDoor or disco party you probably have enough experience to win the game any number of ways. A better comparison is do you want something like an En to be able to cast Rmsl and Ozo's for free while p...

Between terrible terrain, nets and mesmerisation, Shoals is almost always more likely to be more difficult (i.e. create a dangerous situation)

Did I mention the terrain is terrible?

probably something to do with hate crimes and the origin of golf

Shortening the slime pits is on the 0.20 development plan: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... :0.20_plan

always hitting things with giant clubs is so exciting

The chance to dazzle does not depend on spellpower, but the non-negligible damage does. It also has a great effect on Confuse. Not being able to stab things is less of an issue if you can make them stabbable. Besides, I feel that 4 #s is pretty low for a VpEn who gets hexes extremely easily.

I agree that dazzling spray would help this character. You probably want more spellpower for that and your hexes since it's currently pretty low. I don't think I would have trained Air Magic on this character (especially for just silence) but since you have it Airstrike might be a good pickup. You w...

At the risk of stating the obvious, simulacra are derived undead and are completely immune to cold.

I learn apportation on all my chars and then never cast it

It's not unreasonable to get level 1-2 spells even while wearing heavy armor. It will take very little experience for this point of the game and may be more valuable or efficient than, say, training more defenses.

You feel a little pissed off.

Nemelex deck power isn't very strong early, but that doesn't matter too much since the deck effects of at least the summons and destruction are generally stronger than anything else you can do at that point of the game. For example, an early Nemelex altar had me summoning polar bears and molten garg...

Playing DD of Pakellas is a huge mistake if you want to have fun playing the game.

"A person likes it" and "should be in the game" are not always the same thing, although it is probably easy to get confused on that point after reading most of the posts in GDD.

Just the other day I was thinking Punk would go good with iceblast (to become a sort of analog to Hellfire), but a jelly slingshot sounds even more fun!

The type of ghosts that you get are not dependent on power at all and use the following frequencies: return random_choose_weighted(1, MONS_PHANTOM, 1, MONS_HUNGRY_GHOST, 1, MONS_SHADOW_WRAITH, 5, MONS_WRAITH, 2, MONS_FREEZING_WRAITH, 2, MONS_PHANTASMAL_WARRIOR, 0); The only thing that changes with p...

No attack by anything summoned by haunt even checks rN. 3 of the monsters (all of the wraiths) have a slowing attack that affects everything including OoFs, hellpan lords, undead, etc. Phantasmal warriors have a strong hit and freezing wraiths have cold branded attacks. The spell can summon up to 6(...

Octopodes already have the strongest aux melee in the game (except for vine stalkers), with both constriction and the actual aux squeeze attack which gets talked about less but is much more important.

Well most of these are more like eat to gain a terrible item

Haunt is not weak against anything.

I'm confused by the argument that pre-digging is optimal -- as a limited consumable resource it shouldn't always be possible to pre-dig everything. I understand that in many practical situations there would be more than enough digging, but it seems to me that could be addressed by increasing the rar...

Lightning bolt's range actually scales with power, you should be pretty close to max range with those skills. Have you tried on all the ego robes in the game? Archmagi is very useful on this type of character. Failing that, the TLA would likely be your best bet since ozo's is really good. The demon ...

Whew, I had forgotten that you had to cast another spell to undo what OTR does to you! Thanks, I had almost convinced myself it was a bad spell!

It's like poison magic is designed to be awful. Cure poison is a waste of spell slots, mp, turns and whatever else you spend on it. Meph has a nice effect but makes fireball noise. Olgreb does low damage and also kills you. Venom bolt is okay but is all but a strictly worse version of bolt of draini...

I find it extremely surprising that tomb always comes up in these 3rd rune discussions. Does anyone actually do this?

I don't think anyone would say it is a good idea to give a species electrocution unarmed, so I'm not sure why anyone thinks an even stronger brand would be appropriate.

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