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Any time you make a macro, it is clunky.

Any time you have to edit the rcfile, it is clunky^4.

Duvessa, please stop trolling. Altar colors are a far less pressing problem than monster glyphs. It's not like you just run over to an altar and press > , Y, Y without reading. Unless you're playing drunk, which I do encourage but also recognize the risks.

I sort of agree that it should be redone, but as someone who undertook a similar (but much smaller/simpler) task with spell fail rates recently, I can tell you that it's really, really hard to do this kind of project well. Factors that make it hard: (i) you have to to some degree understand what th...

I believe there is a Charms spellbook in the works that includes it and several other newly brainstormed spells.

I believe the root of the problem is a matter of balance between casters and melee. If you don't limit casters in some way, they're inherently more powerful than melee characters. The actual problem is, in my opinion, that the current limitation of the mana pool is too harsh and it achieves the opp...

Sprucery wrote:Maybe the attunement should be based on experience gained instead of time. But how to balance it then between early game and late game (very long time in early game vs. immediately attuned in late game)...

There are already too many things that are experience-gated.

Nobody in this thread likes 'Dynamic Monsters' except for the two devs. I went back and checked every post.

N O - B O D Y

Let it die.

On a semi-related note, why did this commit makes Monks into Adventurers instead of Zealots? The bonus piety is their defining feature

There are a lot of monsters with essentially unique mechanics. Would be nice if some of them could be spread around more.

I'd also like an answer to this

Stair dancing is not a problem.

Or they could lose some other aux armor slot. I thought this could kinda be an april fool post, but as it seems not, I wonder why you're suggesting as solution for a non-existant problem one of the most annoying and bad features ever - aka inbuild elemental weakness. Duvessa's gimmick is posting so...

Nobody liked it the first time it was tried. Just let it die

All the suggestions here would be worth trying out. Spell slots can be a big problem for some people, and I definitely miss being able to destroy extra books to get rid of low level spells.

I think there's a feel that encompass/floor vaults appear less because they're weighted to mostly appear in Depths?

Or am I wrong about that?

Matt, the problem with amnesia scrolls is they are nearly always irrelevant. Most characters never cast, or have a small number of utility spells that don't come close to the slot limit, or have a straightforward spell build that never requires forgetting spells , or are with Sif Muna. They are ess...

and GC with -1 apt is almost exactly the same as GSC with +3 apt Sorry what? 3 is a lot more than -1. GC with -1 apt and GSC with +3 apt get to 0.7 delay with virtually identical XP investment, and the difference is only 9-10% base damage and 6 levels of weapon skill without impact on delay. If you...

Fuck praying to the RNG on valuable consumables. Just have all three activate at once.

Yeah, which is why we shouldn't take it away. The game is hard enough as it is.

How about we stop making the game harder by nerfing player options and instead focus on better monsters?

Halflings Rmut (or the Rmut mutation in general) is very accurately categorized as a bad mutation. I'm not entirely certain why a race needed this shit and frail 1 inherently. My main issue with Malmut comes from OOF's and random as fuck sniper neq's in the 3 rune game since it's pretty fucking har...

How about no.

I've heard, but not had a chance to confirm, that worshiping a Good God prevents Shadow Creatures from summoning evil monsters. Which would then makes it pretty strong in Pan for spamming Angels.

Like archaeo said, the deeper levels of Abyss exist to increase difficulty already.

I believe it's already set so you can never re-enter at a shallower level than where you've been?

For example, using your first recommended stopping point of 17, I would see bringing all skills to 15.9 to avoid triggering any flags in the code (say, first skill that breaks 16 is identified to be going to 17), thus getting a higher overall skill level for all of my skills and avoiding the pyrami...

I'm pretty sure offhand attacks don't benefit from unarmed combat skill.

That being said, why not both?
You'll do more raw damage with the UC (at high skill). But since the Demon Blade is already probably at mindelay, then keep it around for the antimagic effect and to lean on while you train UC.

Agreed about silence & Zot being huge boons. Also, re: beckoning, it's up there with Spectral Weapon & Regeneration as a top-tier support spell. I'd rather just give the froggies good (+1-ish) ranged Apts so they can fight from afar. Edit: also, I assume that you'd rather get feedback on how...

I think a tongue grab would be too strong.

Just give them closer to normal stats.

Steel Neuron wrote:Agree with the general feeling that Hop should be more precise (I think 3x3 is completely fair). Also, it feels like it's on an excessive cooldown, I would put it at the same timer as breath attacks.

I think getting the more accurate jump at xl15 would be fair. That's a nice midgame power buff.

Got a Trog Frog through Lair with no difficulty today. Slowness feels alright (I'm a Chei lover, tho), though the low stats feel tougher. Maybe a +1 to another apt or two? Hopping felt alright, though a more accurate jump would be ~nice~. Maybe at higher XLs? Not sure what determines the cooldown, e...

Curse Skulls & Curse Toes are high on my danger list. Always drop your big bombs on them

If you can get even a couple of hits in before they reach melee, there's a pretty good chance you'll just strait-up outdamage them by ripping & tearing. Particularly with Heroism+Finesse.

Works better with smaller head-counts, tbf

Chei, of course. Always Chei for hybrids

Scroll of screams is a fine idea, nothing essentially wrong about it. The real question is whether we need to make escaping from a fight that's gone against you any harder than it already is.

I say we don't, but there are a lot of people who are into punishing the player for not being optimal

I like your idea for Screams, but +Exp is a very rare effect that's mostly reserved as a reward for the most dangerous portals. Adding a downside to it seems counter-intuitive.

AK exists because otherwise it's very unlikely to see the relevant altar. Should Jelly Knight exist? Making Slime Knights just seems like a pointless compromise. If there's a gameplay reason for early Jiyva altars to be rare, then it's also probably a reason for Slime Knights not to exist. If there...

Your 'average' melee damage really doesn't mean much. The real problem is that the damage calculation for melee is much, much swingier than that for spells. You can kill a high-threat black mamba or cyclops in three hits or twelve with the same character, pretty much discounting misses AND variation...

When I hear the words Passive Freeze, I think aura, not retaliation. If that gives anyone any ideas.

I'd be fine with a "Customize Sprite? Y/N"

Chei & Qaz are both really strong.

AK exists because otherwise it's very unlikely to see the relevant altar. Should Jelly Knight exist?

Just make all the scrolls and books written in braille (IE blurry vision 3 level slowness) and focus on the nightstalker aspect

We could also modify current berserkitis to give a bite attack & fur while berserking. No new mechanics regarding ?Remove Curse instead of !Cure Mut

Re-using the Beogh code to do lycanthropy as a 'curse' would be pretty interesting, and possibly the best version. Make the "Wolfman" an orc-priest tier threat so they show up around d:5-d:10, with a Depths "Lycan" version if you feel like it's a god people might swap into. - Sha...

I'm glad this change make Og and Tr more distinct rather than adding another overlapping race. However, what about changing the +str every 3 level with +int\+str on coinflip? That would increase their definition as race more geared towards casting. (a very personal concern that is very secondary is...

Ogres should have +1 M&F apt anyway, I expect this to be fixed within a month.

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I use the number row at the top of my laptop keyboard, + arrow keys. Very inconvenient. Someone on SA had his setup like this, to be WASD-like http://i.imgur.com/39H9wiM.png Reminder that the only reason vi keys are included is because Linley's keyboard had little arrows already drawn on the physica...

Afaik, the Returning effect occurs based on throwing skill, so it doesn't really apply to early-game ammo concerns. I've never really sucessfully used dispersal 'hawks, but mostly because I forget I have them. Feel like a keeper to me, maybe they ought to be more common? Orc packs messing with your ...

Disarm seems very OP

Alternatively, merge potions of Mutation, Cure Mutation, and Beneficial Mutation into a single "Potion of Mutability." Adds 1-5 random mutations (at least 1 good), removes 3-7 existing mutations. (Or whatever numbers seem appropriate). I buffed the "remove" side over the "a...

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