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stickyfingers wrote:They are, 50% of the time.

That's pretty poor protection.

1. +9 broad axe of holy wrath and +8 large shield of resistance is the most comfortable set of gears for Mi/HO TSO 15 rune run. You don't need exec' axe, because cleansing flame is already so freaking powerful in postend. (And your piety will almost never run out) Powering up your defense with large...

Lv5 Transloc spell
Move 3~7 (depends on spellpower) tiles immediately toward the selected direction (only the 'regular' 8 directions are selectable)
Can be blocked by obstacles/lava/deep water/enemies.
After the spell, it forces 13-25 turns of -Dash status to prevent repeated use.

Kill Dowan, butcher his corpse, wield the chunk and hit Duvessa with that.

Why Zin worshippers are not protected from mutation-causing Hell effects?

I think DDoor is similar to BR in that sense.

to 1 or 2 floors.

chequers wrote:How would the game treat "neutral" mutations differently?

Make potions of beneficial mutation not to give neutral mutations.
And the change can be possibly a buff to Jiyva/Xom.

I disagree. It is optimal to get some longbow or arbalest to min delay and shield interferes with that. Also it is not very rare to find some holy glaive or great mace and they crosstrain with axes. I've won two times of MiBe^Trog, worshipped throught the game with 15 runes. First win (0.19 trunk):...

MiBe 15 rune win is pretty easy. There are two choices. 1. Change your god to TSO/Zin after somewhere (noob-recommended). Don't visit crypt before vanquishing Vaults:5, Depth:5, Slime:5. After them, worship TSO and visit crypt, make piety 6* and brand holy to your axe. Put some exp to invocation, ch...

cause some 'good' mutations are not good and some 'bad' mutations are not bad.

Move body parts mutations and some situationally useful/harmful mutations to there.

e.g.) Wild Magic, Subdued Magic, MP-powered wand, Antennae, ...

Midn8 wrote:IIRC the trivial monsters are there to make [[Shadow Creatures]] not gamebreaking

Making monster set harder does not break the game, shadow creatures considered.

Gladiator - Throwing Nets + Blowgun with Curare = Assassin

Crawl has nonzero possibility of D:3 tengu reaver or D:3 deep elf annihilator for who spend 1050 turn in D:3.
Or you can have them in D:4 if you spend 933 turn in D:4.

I think hellcrawl is not different.

You probably should read http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Summoning#Duration Summon Hydra/Viper, Shadow Creatures, Dragon Call don't care about spell power so there is no point in training Summoning beyond 1% failure rate. Training a single skill to 27 is almost always a mistake unless you have multiple...

XP 1 is not directly converted to SP 1. Cost for raising skill level is affected from "skill factor level", which is a secret value in the game. The cumulative XP required for skill factor level N is (1.3) x (XP required for XL N for XP apt +1). e.g.) For Human with cumulative XP 700k, XL ...

Arrhythmia wrote:
n1000 wrote:what number is the closest element to infinity though?

there isn't in any number system i know of!

That depends on what metric function you use in your topological space.

The expectation value for mutagenic chunk is almost always negative.

Hell: Each branch depth 7 -> 1 (or 2 is okay). Increase rate of hell effect. Kick trvial monsters
(Geh 1~6, Tar 1~6, ... are totally meaningless now. )

Pan: Make each floor more flavoured and characteristic.
Increase density of monster and reduce the overall length

ok, minor correction.

riposte = 100% x 33% x dodging chance x (player atkdelay = 0.7 / mon atkdelay = 1.0 usually) = 8~20%

Riposte can never be compared to cleavning in terms of efficiency.

Cleaving: 75% damage
Riposte: 100% x 33% x dodging chance = 10~20% damage

to make game more fun

PleasingFungus wrote:i suggested it, but people felt like it'd overlap too much with formicids, thematically.

I think the difference comes from in-game ability, not themes in "reality".
I feel having mantis and ants is way cooler than having frogs and ants in the game.

The only reason of existence of Inner Flame effect is that we're fun with scrolls of immolation.

Frogs are waay tooo bland now.

Buff their hop ability:
Range: 4/5 -> 5/6
Precision radius: 2 -> 1

1. For Fire Storm/Glaciate casters, Slime Pit would be a lot more easier than V:5. Go there first for precious loots. 2. If you have 3+ ranks of MR, Crypts is just a free trove for you. (rN is better than none, but not that mandatory) 3. Once you have get Regeneration + Sublimation of Blood combo, m...

The key of caster V:5 is Regeneration + Sublimation of Blood combo. Learn them ASAP.
If you failed to found them yet, you're f-ed. Go Crypt, Slime Pits, Depths, or elsewhere before to find them.

Whoa, most of the changes seem really great.

Hellmonk, how about to remove max charge of wands and make them automatically merge on pick?

If veh give fire storm: Congrats. Now all you have to do to win this game is just raise splcast/conj/fire to 18/22/22. If veh don't give and you failed to find book of annihilations: Sorry, your RNG sucked. Here's the second option: Learn spellforged servitor and prepare OOD+LCS. Put some points to ...

I'd rather just cast fireball once more.

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. It's true. Specifically, Pan - angels, daevas, cherubs, golden eyes, toenail golems (cool, but... look ...

Mottled dragon->Acid dragon, Hill giant removal : good
Rod/Wand rework, HE removal : so-so
Noise no longer dispel mesm : bad
Ogre apt change, Barachians : wtf

O tab.

Merfolk, Tengu.

Seems never viable for 15 runes without Statue form Chei.. and seems not that 'fun'.

but i think that dex is in a good place vs the other stats right now - i don't think dex needs to be stronger I don't agree here, DEX's main boost is increasing EV but because of armour penalty, STR actually do better than DEX on enhancing EV for armours with some ER. (and by softening armour penal...

"what it should multiply" is too trivial to specify.
To-hit value after applying fighting+wpn skill and before applying slaying/enchant value/armour, shield penalty/etc.

and DEX doesn't affect attack delay

Also, shield's atk speed/ev/acc penalty is not that harsh.

In case when the penalties max out, like shield skill lv 0 and you're wielding a large shield,
it drags +0.17 turn for atk in average. = mean of distrib defined as minimum of two i.i.d U(0, 0.5)

Needless to say, the randart is better, because you are kinda warrior and need high SH, and Str+7 is crazy boost for Statue form UC.

Also, warlock's mirror is not reliable because it's unique reflect ability also checks SH, which must be small as the item is buckler-based.

What VM does need is a way to deal with black mambas/spiny frogs in lair, which are too common and too fast to fall into the "you don't need to fight this" category, and require you to pick up a weapon/alternative spells while nearly every other start can just keep on doing their thing we...

I guessed that OTR's poison dot damage was significantly weaker than PC's (not sure about this yet)...
Hmm, okay, sounds reasonable.

DDs have needed some nerfs.

Why devs remove it because of new weaker spell?

We have no problem to having Stone Arrow&Iron Shot&LCS, Throw Flame&BoF, Throw Frost&BoC, etc.

SpEn is not good for pure-damaging caster (like DrCj, DECj/FE, GrEE, ...). Its conjuration apt is terrible and can't eat meat.

SpEn is apt to play a ninja who use supportive spells.

Magipi wrote:
papilio wrote:A+: Fi

You really think that Fi is better than IE, FE, Ar, As? Or even Gl? What the fuck?

Sure, shields are most OP item in this game.

Oh, yes, if you play only DE or suchlike for every game then Fi would be worse than IE/FE.

My background ratings

S: Be

A+: Fi
A: Gl, Ar, FE, EE, Cj, En
A-: IE, As

B+: Hu, Ne, Wz
B: Sk, Wr, AE, Su, Tm
B-: Mo

C+: AM, AK, VM
C: Wn, CK

Shadow creatures: Vaults - awesome Zot - awesome Depth - good Pan, Hell, Abys, Tomb - meh Menagerie Harpy swarm is quite good, but actually this spell never worth Level 7 because you get lindwurms/manticores too often Haunt Awesome spell to take out single strong foe and protect yourself from it. Ma...

The reason of existence of id/curse system is to give risks to equipping/using un-ided items. In "standard" roguelikes such as Nethack, cursed items have serious penalty so equipping/using un-ided items has severe risks. However, in Crawl, the risks/penalties from cursed items are almost c...

Damage boost from STR is multiplicative.
Why not for accuracy boost from DEX?

Because it's ridiculously weak as it's additive now.

To compensate, I think it's good to raise up lategame enemies' EV.

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