Search • The Tavern

Moving Freezing Aura to pure Ice (already the strongest elemental school, IMO) wouldn't make Ice Magic any better. Freezing Aura is maybe used by one character archetype or is fixed to a weapon and then tossed away. Deflect Missiles still requires a good amount of Air Magic unless you want to get Ch...

See, I'm fine with it as long as it's unified under something like Bows & Crossbows. I guess. Ehhhh. Yeah.

Bows and crossbows are two different animals entirely. Pulling a bow relies a lot on strength. A hand crank helps a lot with winding a crossbow. A crossbow, by all means, shouldn't be a repeating weapon but it is because otherwise gameplay would be insanely tedious. I'm not shooting the idea immedia...

I honestly don't believe there are any weak schools anymore. I used to believe that Earth was, but then it was buffed in many ways to the point of contesting with Fire for the best blast-crap-it-dies school. I thought Poison Magic was, then I realized Poisonous Cloud is overpowered and Poison Arrow ...

Zot traps will appear all over the place, not just in Zot. Blade Traps can be a pain in the butt if you don't have decent EV. T&D is fine as is. If it's extended we're talking about, you're going to want maybe even just a few levels for Tartarus. Bugger Ereshkigal and her hide and seek!

If you don't want to cast (which is perfectly reasonable!), find a Shield/Large Shield and strap it on, turn off Dodging, take Okawaru and start punching in face. For the whole game. Find Dragon Armour when you can (any will do to start getting Armour), then later on blow your Enchant Armour scrolls...

Easy: Halfing/Kobold Berserker, Deep Dwarf Necromancer [Makhleb], Spriggan Enchanter [0.7> Okawaru], Troll Gladiator [0.8<, Okawaru]. Streakability: Centaur Healer [0.7>, -> Okawaru], Deep Dwarf Necromancer [Makhleb], Deep Dwarf Chaos Knight [0.7>, Makhleb]. "Strongest": Depends on what yo...

Conforming spells to your playstyle is not a good idea. Three MP is plenty if you're willing to kite, play carefully, and not try to kill off four monsters at once by just standing there and tossing magic dart at them. I never intentionally get Throwing on my casters and never regret not doing so. Y...

This is a bad idea. T&D, while not a skill that you'd actively attempt to get a ton of levels in, is useful and doesn't seem to need changing at all. It helps detect Zot Traps, which is useful enough to begin with. Evocations is a whole different ballpark. Don't lump the two together when they b...

To further expound what minmay is saying: Generally level 5 and below can be considered "low-level" later on. Yes, it won't be early on. Yes, it's semantics. Whatever you want to call it, Charms has the best low level spells period. Swiftness, Flight, Control Teleport, Repel Missiles, Rege...

Currently Str is required (3x the EV penalty!) to use heavy armours and may be more important than Armour skill itself. Of course the bonus to carry value is nice. Although it's not as important as Int, Str does apparently increase damage by 1.28% per point.

The main use of polymorph other, to me, is to turn a jelly into a (relatively) harmless gnoll. That, and to piss players off. <.<; Sometimes literally.

Starting with a Shield is a good idea. I believe I started TrGl just to spawn with one, because they're resilient enough (and you turn off Dodging, thus having more experience to throw around) to survive and get their UC steadily. After you get Okawaru (don't forget I was playing 0.8), Heroism just ...

Stealth should not increase EV. They already removed +EV from randarts in 0.8 to prevent defensive stat inflation where people were running around with 40+ EV like it was nothing.

"Offhand attack", I assume, means your offhand punch. Let's go through this logically: the offhand attack (punch) is, I believe, only six damage (as shown by elliptic's source diving?). While six damage is fine and all, the offhand attack does not apply slaying bonuses. Furthermore, consid...

Kobold may be better; it starts with higher Str (in return for less Dex) than a Halfling and thus can wear heavier armours with impunity.

This is simply untrue. Unless you wish to avoid the penalties of using a shield for your caster early on, I actually highly recommend finding a shield as soon as possible. Trolls will lose all the penalties of of a regular shield at 10 skill and lose all the penalties of a large shield at 15, due to...

The thing is, the races that cannot wear leather armour generally will not want it or do not have a problem training it with a dragon armour later. Or rather, lack of a problem, in my eyes. Ogres generally stick to robes for their standard hybrid role or pick a dragon armour for their berserker role...

While I agree that Animal Skins may be a good thing to take a look at, leather armour is already commonly available and easy to begin gaining Armour skill with. Not discounting the idea entirely, just saying that an alternative (or rather, a primary to which Animal Skins would be an alternative) alr...

Firstly, I'm saying that I don't care about the aesthetics of the selection screen because I am familiar enough with it now to pick what I want without getting "overwhelmed" by a multitude of choices. I agree with casmith in that the classes are distinct enough now (especially with the rem...

The evidence supports all accusations and further ones of being lame and a know-nothing. Your political stances do you no credit, minobro. >:[

That's exactly why I think this change is unnecessary. I look at the selection screen for all of ten seconds, pick my combination, and then go play. If the classes need to be rearranged so all the proper things are next to each other (weren't they already?) then that's fine. Putting silly category t...

The two Lair runes (two of three spawn; Swamp, Snake, Shoals) and then the Silver Rune in Vaults:8. Those are the standard 3-runer runes. After that, the Golden Rune in the Tomb is common in 4-runer games (skewed by the fact that 99% of people who do this are worshiping Kiku).

Better than BATTLEMAGES. Yes, the term hybrid is more commonly used but may not be thematic enough. To be honest, I just suggest reverting the selection screen. I don't see a reason to change it. Rearrange it to fit the specifics? Sure, why not? Categorization seems silly.

Rename the Battlemages title because it looks ridiculous. A dozen ideas were thrown around IRC. Spellblade, for starters? Battlemages sounds like the title of a cheesy tabletop game.

I don't mind and I admit the point of my first post was to be as bloody rude as possible and I take only a small amount of shame in it. As I've outlined in several of my points, this race is mostly useless (particularly in comparison to Spriggans, and even races like Kobolds/etc that are 100% superi...

It still looks ridiculous. Hey. Hey guys.

BATTLEMAGES.

Just one step short of Witches, I'd swear.

Just accept that your opinion is inferior, casmith, and enlightenment will come from your betters soon enough.

If you want truthfully written criticism instead of idle nastiness brought on by a few minutes of discussing this on IRC, here it is: -They're like Spriggans only Spriggans are good at everything and don't have more racial abilities than anything ever. -Orbs of Fixation were removed by MarvinPA. -Ne...

Were that this proposal on paper so that I could light it on fire.

where are da thundercats when we need em??

elliptic did some source-diving one day and discovered (read: confirmed) that short blades are not magically more accurate than other weapon classes.

Crawl already uses a central scoring/log-in system, I thought? Well, for two different servers.

The tournament from August had achievements of a sort!

An inexperienced player, without some stroke of luck, is dead in the Abyss anyways. Having more exits (with some of them guarded by nasty critters!) is an awesome idea, I think. Opens up plenty of room for something, like the uniques you've banished guarding varying exits. Though, that makes you won...

Needles of Paralysis make a heavily Throwing-based check to paralyze (as do Needles of Sleeping, Needles of Confusion, and Needles of Frenzy, all useful tools). It is a HD check; not an MR check. I think giving Darts a separate skill is a bad idea and Throwing is just fine the way it is. Over the co...

Heroism > Might for UC characters. 'nuff said.

I disagree with you on several fronts, one of those being the role of the needlestabber. Simply put, a needlestabber is generally a Halfling or Kobold that attempts to get to 27 Throwing as quickly as possible (easy enough) while worshiping Trog, resulting in plentiful gifts of Needles of Paralysis,...

But... but... power gamers. ;_; Morally superior Casual Gamers forever, down with scummy power gamers!!

How would that interact with the Sage card, then? Focusing a skill seems like a bad idea. Personally, I would do something like always set Fighting as my focus skill until it reached an acceptable amount and then switch over to Spellcasting. If that maxed out, I would either work towards Tornado or ...

Okawaru is better than Yredelemnul for a MfCr, I think. Nemelex Xobeh (if you want melee with summon support) is better than Fedhas or Yred in that regard. I don't like Yred at all.

Hate him, as a matter of fact.

Stone Arrow and Iron Shot (later on) were my staple spells, really. I tried to keep my use of Shatter low, even with Staff of Energy, to reduce risk from the noise and draining of MP.

Wait, you know you can macro, right? o.O

Darts, for the most part, are bad. However, Trog will often grant you +3 or higher Steel Darts, which can be rather effective against things that like to run away after you've bashed them a bit. They're one of the best ways to get Throwing to 27 ASAP for needlestabbing as well. Darts of Dispersal ar...

I think he should stay as a starting god. I like him there. D: It puts him in the environment where he shines instead of leaving him as a bad option for play later that nobody will ever touch.

To be fair, Yred does significantly drop off in value later on. His piety comes in less frequently, he uses it up very quickly on panic buttons/danger buttons like Drain Life and Pain Mirror, Enslave Soul uses up a ton of it if you want a neat unique/powerful ally, and zombies become less and less u...

I made my point and I stand by it. Or them, rather. Yes, Freeze holds up to Mephitic Cloud in the early game. Why? Because it's a one mana spell that is reliably cast at Excellent before you even touch a god and that can never miss while dealing large amounts of damage that is rarely resisted at tha...

That, I'd agree with. Wizards are a fantastic class for utility and the ability to soften the blow of a mistake.

Nope. In some languages "he" is gender neutral, in English it's always masculine. "It" is gender-neutral but is usually only used to refer to inanimate objects; "they" is technically incorrect but is frequently used. This is not true. "He" is a traditional wa...

Search found 67 matches