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hehehehe I see you have forgotten that always-forgotten hex enhancer! <Sequell> spear of the botono[2/2]: <valrus> hex enhancer? <valrus> wtf <minqmay> wait acts as a hex enhancer <minqmay> what the fuck Good luck finding it during a part of the game that it is actually relevant, or finding it at a...

From my experience, the stat shuffing is accurate yet has some flaws(the main one being that people dont know how their god works), if you are training too much transmutations/spellcasting and not wearing armor you gonna end up with around 2 str, if you are using dragon form you gonna end up with ne...

so its completely random. Its like the single player russian roulette.

So i just noticed i have been stepping on a lot of shadow traps on my current run... can you guess why?

So, not only this is a major annoyance but i also noticed the trap detection is based of Dex, like pretty much anything else in this game.

Banshees: -When they move on your level, you and all your allies take damage unless they are in LOS of the Banshee. -They move very slowly, maybe once every 20 turns. -They move loudly, broadcasting their location. -They never sleep. This way, they can operate out of sight, and having them be out o...

XuaXua wrote:What if the trap still did the guardian serpent / Vault Guard summoner guy thing, but only worked one time? Granted, I'd consider it to be too close to an alarm trap in that sense.

I dont find it reasonable to step on a trap and get in touch with a ogre, a centaur and sigmund all at once...

dpeg wrote:I expect some change in the future that makes kill-holing harder or more risky or something.

If you have ideas, fire away!

Remove walls from the game and make it a single sprint floor.

duvessa wrote:"Used to be"? Mechanical traps still appear in several places.

Spear traps on d:1, that sort of "Used to be".

My main issue with this trap is that its a major threat at the first floors where it can end games at random but completely irrelevant by the time you hit lair. Its pretty much how the old traps used to be.

AFAIK the self-restoration is used to recover from hp rot, since you dont start with a heal wand.

I never mentioned hexes are fine but that all you arguments towards hexes are about stabbing instead, in fact, i raised up a few topics talking about how hexes could be improved. The topic is more about hex spellpower/fail rate/MR checking so i have to ask you to stick to it before we get into a met...

i think hexes are fine and the only really broken one is hibernation, because of stabbing You probrably think that because you play as a Spriggan, since you can just run or evade most of the time it fails, the spell is fine as it is. actually stabbing shouldn't even really be based on stealth... yo...

I think the trap is supposed to disappear, like teleport and alarm traps, since you cant disarm them. I also hope they bring back the spotting skill if they are gonna be serious about these traps.

That would make hexes more reliable early game but too strong later, i think.

why not something like "Static Form" or "Breeze Form" which gives a speed boost, EV, resistances, allows for passwall-style travel, and gives the player the ability to smite-target blink next to an enemy (like Dithmenos's Shadowstep)? Yeah, heres the problem, people mention a lv...

Here's an idea: What if sloth was a monster that spawned hiding in trees, sort of like an arboreal trapdoor spider. This would make it really neat for some of the forest vaults, since those enclosed spaces make its slowness less of an issue as you can easily be trapped. Thats a nice way to punish p...

Siegurt wrote:Or we get rid of necromutation and replace it with something less awful.

Are we being serious here? i consider necromutation a nice spell, besides, i really wanted to see at least one transmutation spell related with air since theres one for every other "element"...

most of the slow monsters on lair got removed because they can be defeated by hit and run strategies... and the sleep aspect of it is pretty much what the basilisk does except that you wake up once being hit and become immune to it afterwards... it would be hard to fit a new monster in lair consider...

Raiju form, or a devouring mouth form that cant move but spawn tentacles that grab enemies.

Lyrick wrote:No one suggested giving vampires an increased change of a vamp brand

I did.

that said I don't see why the idea in the OP would be implemented; what does adding this extra ability solve? it seems to me to make vp's complication problem (which is a thing the devs have made some changes to address recently) worse, and I don't see what it adds to the game; wouldn't it be bette...

Heal wounds gets less powerful as the game progresses Im done here. Heal wounds means quite a bit more when 23 HP is all the HP you have and means less by the time 23 HP is "less than half the damage that a lich/annihlator/ettin/golden-dragon/orb of fire can do in one turn". You activated...

Siegurt wrote: Heal wounds gets less powerful as the game progresses

Im done here.

It is false to say that "Vampires are designed to use vampiric weapons" Their Nutrition system allows them to equip/unequip vamp brand at any given point without any cost, while bloodless every attack from a vamp brand will drain lifeforce. If anything I'd say Deep Dwarves desire a vampir...

Sprucery wrote:I'm all for making kobold packs behave more intelligently while their leader is alive, but is someone going to code that...?

Just make big kobold buff other kobolds like the orc knight do?

I like the idea, but id rather just increase the chances(if not give the option) of getting vamp brand from scrolls, which would also make harder for vampires to get other brands from it. Vampires are designed to use vampiric weapons, i dont see why one should struggle to get his brand in some games...

Bad design: IP is currently the "learn if you got snake/spider branch" spell of transmuters and some fire elementalists, it is a level 5 spell that acts as the fire version of Ozocubu's Refrigeration, with the drawback it only affect "poisonous creatures" and thus becoming mostly...

This is getting offtopic so i ll put it simple: ignite poison is a spell that you usually learn when playing a transmuter background because its useful since 3 out of 4 of the possible rune branches for lair are poison themed. i could create a topic about changing the spell to ignite blood and elabo...

The god of speedrunning? OH YES!

SaidTheAlligatorKingToHisSon wrote:For the stone ego, how about as you level up earth magic it slows you down a bit? Like the proposed swiftness ego, just the other way. Chei worsippers rejoice.

Might as well remove the "statue form" spell while we are at it.

Fan of gales also causes collision damage which causes penance too. aiming projectiles at enemies with allies on the other end or just "tabbing" with a projectile weapon also doesnt give any warning.

duvessa wrote:i was actually trying to get ignite poison removed

You dare!? y-you DARE!?!?

Personally, id like to see a piercing AND returning tomahawk(hits twice), like Xena's chakram or something.

I played with nemelex since 0.12 and i have been trying him out on trunk recently and here is what i think: The nemelex playstyle makes the player want to carry lots of evokables with him(wands, rods, etc) so the inventory management is one of the biggest issues yes. So instead of having nemelex thr...

Let dragon form throw large rocks.

I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to. When you get ignite poison and you are doing a branch like spider nest or snake pit its more effective to grab poison chunks or arrows, place them on the ground or throw at the enemy feet, then cast ignite poison to set fire flames on the floor, having...

it becomes an optimal strategy to either carry around a bunch of random weapons to drop and use, or set up killing fields with tons of weapons already there. You mean like when people make poison arrow fields to use ignite poison on? I understand that, but remember it would cost around 5 mana to ra...

dynast: I just want to address the fact that you may feel demoralized, ganged up upon, and frustrated It was a little stressing, but im ok now, it was my first topic and i approached it the wrong way to start with. If people debunk my suggestions i ll be fine because at least my topic is not being ...

Bad Design: TD is currently a level 3 spell that can only be found on 2 books and falls behind in most aspects compared to enslavement, a level 4 spell thats is found on the starting book of the 2 hexing backgrounds, making it only a flavor spell. My suggestions to improve TD are: Make it able to ta...

Edit: that said, you probably didn't die due to lack of Dodging (even if technically, you did die to a dodgeable attack). Then why did you mention it? That said, I'm not sure that morgue supports "Hexes are bad" argument either. Where did i mention "hexes are bad" on my last rep...

- Level 2.1(7.1) Dodging I died surrounded by brimstome fiends hellfireblasting me so it makes total sense to blame it on dodging, right? Escaped with the Orb ... and 12 runes on Nov 23, 2014! The game lasted 17:56:56 (186247 turns). I could go nitpicking about your run too, starting with why it to...

Not that it has anything to do with the topic at hand, but do you realize that switching to Makhleb and surviving Okawaru's wrath would have been far, far easier than clearing a zig in the hope of a drop that's in no way guaranteed? Yes i do. In fact, i had to go through some oka's penance on the f...

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dynast wrote:tumika's dance disarming bow/xbow(they can just leave the owners hand and do nothing, thats enough to be useful)
this exists, its called "enslavement"

So you think they should remove tukima's dance?

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Dynast/morgue-Dynast-20141213-023418.txt Well, there goes another try, that was a good run though, i had some trouble by not finding a vampiric brand throughout the first 5 runes, or decent armor until i decided to enchant some dragon hides i left behind. I sealed m...

So in conclusion, no, I don't think hexes are too narrow; the game actually has a lot of support for using hexes without stabbing (not to mention hex-like effects via wands, needles, and nets, certain god abilities, etc., if you want). Certainly hexes as a school are much less narrow in their appli...

crate wrote:What is the actual problem with hexes that you think should be addressed? Your conclusion does not state this clearly.

Before i created this topic i thought hexes were more than just "stabbing opportunity creators", but i changed my mind.

hexes has a level 3 spell that has a decent chance of instant killing most things (dazzle, confuse), a level 2 spell that trivializes the early game, a level 4 thats better than instant kill and works consistently even in zot 1-4, and a level 6 that lets you avoid/instant kill about half the monste...

Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++------- Cast: Ensorcelled Hiber | 11 | 39 | 90 | 171 | 223 | 79 | 91 | 90 | 216 || 1010 Confuse | | 4 | 3 | 40 | 73...

You have a paralyze spell (as pointed out earlier), it's EH. It's balanced by not being repeatedly spammable and a low spellpower because have you ever tried stabbing a paralyzed/sleeping monster with high Stealth/Dex/Short Blades? It's pretty ridiculous. EH gets obsolete at lair, doesnt work on un...

Thats was a very dumb death, yes, i was a little pissed off because just before that i had wasted half of my resources while trying to charm something to help me kill a swamp dragon while being turned into a pig and running from alligators and harpies. everything was going south and when i tried to ...

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