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It's an unworkable concept to do right.

I guess its kept because people enjoy it as it is now as a gimmick.

I get that the theme is for the spell to be used in open spaces, but currently it feels very limited even in moderately sized openings. I have a pretty specific suggestion: Change the requirement of not touching any wall to not touching any wall orthogonally, it should give the spell some more space...

You forgot statue form as a lesser counter. But I completely agree. I forces specific builds way too hard. It's either having a suitable god or having necromutation. It is almost a no brainer meaning it is a boring choice. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing necromutation go and rebalance tormet to comp...

If this change were made, I think the poison cap would need to be removed as well, unless the goal is to have players use Radiance to cap poison stacks, then flee while waiting for those stacks to slowly chew through the hit points and regeneration of sturdier monsters, before repeating the process...

Bonus idea for if this spell is implemented that would increase its power:

Expand the ignited cloud 1 tile past the source cloud, giving a combustion feeling.

Ignite poison is an interesting spell because of the way it interacts with mephetic and poison clouds, this offers great situational and positional play that really add depth to Venom Mage play. There is however another side off ignite poison that I think is less interesting, it is in almost all cas...

When I think OP necromancy spells I think necromutation and regeneration....

Though I haven't seen the new spells yet.

I have played plenty of different characters and I have won plenty of 15 runers and cleared multiple ziggurats, but I am not going to artificially gimp myself. If that is necessary then it is a failure of the games design. Have you won Fo with 15 runes (getting last 12 runes during orb run) without...

I am not sure. I am terribly scared by extended with most characters (I don't play TSO/Zin/Ely). There are ziggurats if you need a challenge. It's weird to see people using the most powerful combos and at the same time complaining about game being too easy. You can always limit your options like do...

most players are too powerful for enemies aside from a few (cerebov firestorm, lom glaciate, asmo 3x brimstone fiend summon, and the occasional random panlord for instance) to be able to kill, unless they can do so in an unfair way like chaos melee -> paralyze. the higher your AC, EV, HP, and acces...

Siegurt wrote:
CPTANT wrote:Is there ANY reason for ignition to not hit the caster when adjacent to monsters affected?

So it isnt terrible and super annoying to use?

Hitting everything in LOS with a single click wasn't convenient enough?

Every other AOE spell effects the caster if they are in the area of effect.

Silent spectre is anything but a powerful monster......

Is there ANY reason for ignition to not hit the caster when adjacent to monsters affected?

Why aren't there powerful monsters that cast spells like firestorm and glaciate to attack the player? Why aren't there powerful monsters with debuffs like screen wide slows or silence? there are though... Either uniques or monsters with random spellsets like panlords. So all in pathetic quantities....

Delaying something like this because Trog has one ability twith minimal game impact that is affected by it is rather silly.

The change is something that is completely in line with Crawls design goals of eliminating tedium and should happen.

Trog can get some other fluff ability any time.

You left out another pro of firestorm, the high damage. Ignition does calc_dice(3, 10+pow/3) damage per explosion, or about 3d(3.3+pow/9). Fire Storm, on the other hand, does calc_dice(8, 5 + pow), or about 8d(0.63 + pow/8). At 100 power, that's over twice the damage from Fire Storm (56 vs 24). So ...

Ignition is hilariously OP in ziggurats. Outside of that is really meh. I think its kinda a shit spell and wouldn't mind it being removed. I feel it is trying to fill a niche of fire based AOE damage that firestorm is already filling. I also highly dislike that you are magically shielded from the ex...

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Yes because it breaks up the endless stairdancing and retreating.

You shouldn't disengage early because that out of depth monster is worth loads of juicy xp

Because the inventory management associated with dropping and retrieving wands to always carry the most charges is almost the definition of tedium.

NhorianScum wrote:It makes killing enemy scarabs with earth magic super convenient.

Personally I think it is stupid that flying reduces shatter damage in the first place.

Can you post a screenshot of the vault?

Just wanted to say I am highly opposed to explore to regen.

It will lead to tedious behaviour like keeping parts of the map deliberately unexplored so you can heal with them later.

in a place like Spider lair where most corpses are in edible this get to be rather tedious and annoying. I can't believe DCSS still has "poisonous corpses are inedible" feature. It's been, what, 2 years? I do believe that it's that way purely out of spite. inedible poisonous corpses only ...

If you make all monsters in Hell/Pan strong enough to threaten the typical XL 27 player, with increased damage for example, the melee-only monsters will still be completely useless(especially since most XL 27 characters will have some form of translocations/teleport scrolls). Therefore they'll like...

It just dozens of levels full of demons that all have the same way of handling them (with exceptions here and there, holy pan being one) It doesn't have one singular mechanic that is a problem. The problem is that those mechanics are repeated over and over again. The only threat there is is torment ...

I think the feature of having all buffs and transmutations being a toggle that reduce your max MP while active is the best solution.

It is implemented in some crawl forks.

I other humiliating news:

Someone died to a kobold on XL27
3 people still managed to die to orc priest on XL27
The latest someone died to a goblin is XL15

Funny to see that certain uniques are actually quite the killers on the XL that they are encountered. I really thought Saint Roka would have a higher bodycount than that... Do note that this is a single XL level. It might be that Roka is still encountered several XL's lower and kills way more peopl...

Funny to see that certain uniques are actually quite the killers on the XL that they are encountered.

And a more complete list/ XL:5 [22:35] <CPTANT> !lg * xl=5 s=killer [22:35] <Sequell> 493828 games for * (xl=5): 55675x an orc priest 47653x an orc wizard 38857x an ogre 34609x a gnoll 30142x an orc 24223x 18640x Grinder 13858x Sigmund 12363x a worker ant 12186x a centaur 9136x an adder 8965x an igu...

For those who are interested, this is xl 27: 22:16] <Sequell> 55673 games for * (xl=27): 38134x 1300x an orb of fire 967x a hellion 822x a Hell Sentinel 773x a Brimstone Fiend 709x an Orb Guardian 546x an ancient lich 498x an acid blob 459x a greater mummy 450x a reaper 362x Antaeus 343x an Executio...

CanOfWorms wrote:go to ##crawl on irc and type "/msg sequell !lg * xl=<desired xl> s=killer"

obviously replace <desired xl> with the actual xl you want to check

Hey that worked, thanks.

Anything but damnation What about "Hellfire"? Give this man a medal. But seriously, why wasn't it just added to the spells description that its not the same as regular fire? Also call me a genius, but I found it pretty damn obvious that the amount of damage I got from hellfire while havin...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:
ydeve wrote:Hydras are already dangerous without the head chopping.

They really aren't. Move delay 10 aut basically makes player characters almost invulnerable to speed 10 melee only monsters.

Good luck running from hydras in the swamp.

Damnation is a lame name, it barely fits the sentences. "the Hellion hurls damnation at you!" My first thought was why it wasn't just changed to "hell blast" or something. or something else entirely, soulrip or something. It sounds hellish, it sounds smite targeted and it sounds ...

I know there are lists for the total kill count of every monster, but I am rather curious as to what the real mid and late game killers turn out to be.

Is there a list of monster kills per xp level somewhere?

Hi guys! I am new to this forums, but I have been playing since 0.4 or something. Here is my latest 15 runer and first melee one: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.1 (tiles) character file. 10355308 CPTANT the Conqueror (level 27, 263/263 (276) HPs) Began as a Hill Orc Gladiator on June 14, 2013...

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Re: Deep Dwarf Mini-Rework Proposal

Please give Noxious bog some more space

Re: Torment - revisited

Re: Replace Ignite Poison with Ignite Clouds spell

Re: Replace Ignite Poison with Ignite Clouds spell

Replace Ignite Poison with Ignite Clouds spell

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Re: Extended is as boring as ever

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Re: Firestorm is kind of outcompeted by ignition?

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Re: Should Spell-books take up inventory slots still?

Re: Firestorm is kind of outcompeted by ignition?

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Re: Stack wands

Re: Does anyone enjoy the "you fall through 3 floors" thing?

Re: Give advice using the absolute worst reasoning possible

Stack wands

Re: Non-flying scarabs

Re: No Way Out?

Re: [proclick] new fork, hellcrawl

Re: dcss mechanics tier list

Re: Extended is as boring as ever

Extended is as boring as ever

Re: Proposal : make lichform permanent

Re: Most lethal monsters per xp level

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Re: Rename Damnation to Brimstone

Re: Hydra head chopping (was: Riposte)

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Most lethal monsters per xp level

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