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We could just remove the stealth bonus from nightstalker and give DS a new mut if we're making kobolds the nightstalker race.

My suggestion was to give it strength scaling from Int as well, because Knowledge is Power, or otherwise give it a brand that does increased damage the more INT you have. The sword of power currently is lame for sure, and encourages having a swap weapon whenever you get below x HP.

You don't have to train long blades to 26 to use the sword of power.

The only thing I really need to see goldified is chunks (and possibly rations). I don't mind shuffling stuff around for space but I hate playing the game of "what did autopickup grab in my chunks slot this time"

The main problem with dragonform is that statue form offers adequate offenses but also offers a godly AC total and doesn't nuke your EV, or screw with your resistances. Rare is it that the enemy will die fast-er enough with dragonform that you will end up taking less damage than with statue form. Al...

Airwolf wrote:Abyss:1 is also a great place to grind away late-game god wrath...

Not when you're a caster with weakish melee capabilities having your MP drained to zero repeatedly

I'm personally a fan of Gozag, you can use just about any awesome loot that shows up in shops and is a generically good god. Won a 15 runer Gnoll Wizard recently with Gozag, and cleared a Zig with it.

Adding randomness seems counter to the point of the species; if adding randomness really is the best solution then this species is almost useless

Spriggans and small races too IIRC are 7.2 for buckler and 20 for shield (small only for shield)

le_nerd wrote:No. Shop cost has the fixed rule of first shop always costs 800$, 2nd shop is 1000$ etc. Item quality is affected by character level however.

Each shop costs a different amount. It's just that each one costs no more than the maximum cost needed to activate the ability.

Everybody knows you can get the ultra ending by grabbing the disco ball and running out of the dungeon with it instead of the orb of zot!

When in meatsprint (ok this is cheating I know but bear with me), I'm pretty sure it's possible to get 2 skills up from 0 to 27 with a single kill, as monsters there are so stacked on HP and you already have an extreme multiplier for sprint mode.

I thought while asleep your EV was suppressed to 2 + your size bonus

It is very cool but I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to be introducing. It seems very similar to the pain brand but affecting demons, but at that point in the game you probably don't want MR- and a staff would probably serve you better. As far as stabbing goes, I'm pretty sure the extra damag...

It's an average of +10 HP, but against enemies that hit hard (early game example being ogres) it will often do nothing. In its current form it blocks all the damage with (10/(10+damage)) probability and falls apart if that check fails (and it only checks this 2/3rds of the time). This means that the...

The fact that you get it on D:1 is the reason that it's annoying: you get access to it almost immediately anyway, it's just bizarre that it you aren't allowed to use it on that first floor. I can't think of any reason why having it from the get-go would be problematic. It could be argued that waitin...

Vampires have been quite the topic of discussion recently, including their complete removal. However, I have a simpler request: Give them access to batform at level 1. It's not like Draconians where they get access to it at level 7, a decent chunk into the dungeon. It gets unlocked on D:1. And not h...

See, if you die all your piety, wands, scrolls, and potions go away. And (and this is the important part) if you win, they all also go away. Additionally, piety recharges very quickly.

They could just break walls one square away from themselves...

I agree. Tm is fine but people suck at playing them. Form spells are really, really strong.

They also have a much higher base damage for piercing AC and a higher skill cap for going super late game.

Chaosforge is quite bad, I recommend you make use of the great learndb instead (crawl.develz.org/info)

Malmutate is such a massive detriment to play against that I am incredibly against this idea. I like how it is now where 4 monsters have malmutate: it can be a threat in the late game for people who durdle too long, but it isn't an omnipresent threat.

Then choose a bulkier monster for your tier to slug against.

Vaults and Royal Jelly require your character to have a fairly high power level to do safely. Abyss can almost always be done with careful play, even if your power level is low, because the average number of tele scrolls you'll have to burn is about half as much as the number that generate in Abyss...

Vaults and Royal Jelly require your character to have a fairly high power level to do safely. Abyss can almost always be done with careful play, even if your power level is low, because the average number of tele scrolls you'll have to burn is about half as much as the number that generate in Abyss.

Mummies can theoretically haste by casting shadow creatures and getting things that can cast haste other.

And also things can kind of move around on the ground even if they're built for water. You fall into water that's too deep and don't know how to swim? You're going to sink like a rock.

Draconians can't bulk up in armour and have to resort to EV.

Merfolk like to be EV based and polearms are meh without allies.

Clutch is gone in trunk

Jiyva is a very unreliable god in the early game anyway, to the point of being a trap. When they eat those items, jiyva gives you free passive healing, so I wouldn't call that a trap. Early Jiyva is pretty strong and the item loss isn't a big deal, but I agree that it's so rare to be able to do it ...

Alphaeus wrote:D:4. On a melee build.

Anything is a melee build after finding that

The main concern I have right now is spell selection: I was originally planning to use necromancy and summons for allies but I had to sacrifice love (because part of my personal commitment when I go Ru is to never sacrifice nothing). Ru so far has saved my ass multiple times. It turns out that when ...

The better explanation for that is Mantis registration keeps getting disabled for periods of time (at least, it was the last time I glanced at ##crawl-dev). This is because it is getting hammered by bots and anti-bot mechanisms are failing to keep them out. I think many potential new registrees hit...

Many people have voiced their concerns recently that the game is losing popularity. I propose that this may be because of the removal of a decent amount of the game's content. Every patch, there are 2 main things that change: the game's options for characters, and the game's content. While the game ...

Draba wrote:Crawl players are a few orders of magnitude kinder than the average dota/pubg ones, you are more likely to get some advice if anyone drops by.

All the super salty players just quit after their first 20 games or earlier and just call the game impossible and a waste of time.

prozacelf wrote:I feel like a more important question is why on earth you would want to make Abyss your third rune?

Vaults is really tough.

Royal Jelly is tough.

Abyss is actually quite easy albeit somewhat slow.

Jiyva is a very unreliable god in the early game anyway, to the point of being a trap. The loss of items is a huge cost if you don't already have endgame gear, and a lot of the powers are much more relevant later (like creating the Death Ooze Fireballs). Honestly, if you want a Jiyva game transition...

Maybe it could be toggled like Sif's Divine Energy P.S. Just to point it out, it makes no sense to turn Divine Energy off, ever, since you can just not cast a spell if you don't want -Cast. You can also always just turn divine energy on again. The ability to turn it off is for people who forget the...

Pretty sure the vaults are made with unbreakable stone and can't be opened. I might be remembering wrong and they're only normal stone, in which case the options are LRD or Shatter.

Ended up winning with 5 runes, did tomb for the first time, was scary even as an undead. Your reply came slow enough that I had already gone "screw it, I'm gonna do it, it's not every day you get to play with wyrmbane." It turns out that it does indeed slay dragons really hard, otherwise I...

This is on the list of things that the Dev's have said will never happen.

I just wish that Jiyva could be chosen consistently. One of my favorite builds was a Troll of Jiyva but it was super inconsistent because you had to dive lair for Jiyva and pray you didn't die.

I had a Ghoul Monk of Oka doing fairly well, at 25 UC skill. In spider, Oka gifted me Wyrmbane. Ok, cool, I guess I'll level it up so I don't have to go through the tedium of leveling it up later if I'm Zigraiding or something. Then in depths, I found a manual of polearms. Did it suddenly become wor...

Demigods aren't redundant though, they gain stats much slower than Chei and can do various speed related activities like haste and berserking.

And don't even get me started on invocations.

Tasonir would be ashamed of you.

crawlnoob wrote:Pretty sure that if you sac an arm as an octopode, you cant use 2handers even though you have seven arms.

Because reasons.

Because octopodes need 2 arms to wield a 1-handed weapon or shield, or 4 arms to wield a 2-handed weapon. Tentacles don't have opposable thumbs.

If catoblepodes stay, they should at least petrify you immediately instead of requiring you to stay in the cloud for an extra turn. I have been complaining about this since they were reduced; if you can just avoid it by moving out of the cloud, the monster is a complete joke. I suspect they will st...

The scourge is also affected more by AC because damage reduction is calculated before brands.

Wait, they capped them again? WTF

Today, a few people on Aerial's chat figured out that the theoretical stat cap for int was 451. So now I want to see someone create a character and post a morgue that gets to 451 int. Apparently it is capped at 125, but no one has gotten there either (best score is 114) so let's see someone try.

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