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Trog's banner is already "Win without a god," but you could also swap that to WJC and give Trog a new banner?

So, it makes me sad that WJC still doesn't have a banner. What can we put in that slot? Here are my first thoughts: Something weapon-based. What about "Reach X skill level in 3 different (melee) weapon skills by lair, first rune, win as a non-gnoll?" Killing difficult enemies with only wea...

To answer the OP, Mummies are the most difficult species to me. Part of the reason is that I've been on a quest to get greatplayer, greaterplayer, and polytheist, and mummy is one of two unwon species, so I haven't concentrated on it quite so much. That said, I've played twice as many mummy games as...

If the results are equivalent, isn't investing in the shield much better, because you get a big chunk of extra XP to play with, the possibility of enchanting your empty slot, and the possibility of finding a branded shield later? That is - if you're sitting at "Never caring about a two-handed w...

I disagree with the premise that "high AC, low damage characters are better than ones that invest in melee abilities." And further, since you're uninterested in discussing that premise, I feel like it's inappropriate to be discussing in the game design forum - we have enough "I'm righ...

Their fragility doesn't really matter. Most monsters can only attack one thing at a time, and one casting of Simulacrum makes "a bunch" of simulacra. If each one does half of a monster's health in damage, and you make 5 of them, then a turn goes something like "The monster attacks one...

I assume gameguard means stacking decks like stacking wands - when you get a new deck, you add a bunch of cards to your corresponding deck, rather than it being a new item in your inventory, rather than the typical "stacking a deck" meaning of the word.

I have access to both Lightning Spire and Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, as well as the spell slots for them. However, I can't train Earth or Summonings Skill and I have 0 air magic. Should I train some skill points to either? You can only train skills that you have access to something that use them -...

The "default" order looks something like this: Lair -> D:12 -> Orc -> D:15 -> S:3 -> maybe other S:3 -> maybe Elf:1-2 -> get one S rune -> Vaults:4 -> get second S rune -> maybe Crypt -> Depths:5 -> get three runes -> Zot ("S" means Shoals/Snake/Spider/Swamp) (I tend to do D:12 -...

It's not really that much of a nerf - wandering monsters generated awake, too. Stealth and stabbing was never a reliable plan as your only way to kill stuff. That said, stealth gets a bad rap. Even if you never stab anything, it's very, very useful. It can turn pillar dancing into a free escape when...

Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with a little Abyss scumming, as long as you're TRYING to keep yourself alive. It is almost definitely optimal to leave abyss turn 1, if you're maximizing for "not dying." But if you don't care about streaks or win percentages or whatever, there's not...

Easy lessons: Never underestimate Nikola. He's a bastard. And mephitic cloud checks HD, which makes it unreliable to use against things as the game goes on. (Not to say it isn't useful - when it procs it almost always means a free kill/escape, but you can't rely on it any more once you get that far....

I don't necessarily hate the idea, but I'm curious as to what your ideal gamestate would look like, with this as a step in the right direction? Is the problem "The game is too easy, and killholes are part of the problem," and this monster is intended to fix that? If so, this seems fine, th...

It's going to get harder and harder to kill stuff with "Only Necromancy." If the backup plan is "Kill stuff with a weapon," then you should start training that weapon (and defenses) once "Only Necromancy kills everything." Of course, Kiku helps with that plan to the poi...

It's almost never worth switching weapon types once you've invested into one, to the point where you probably shouldn't be equipping new weapons/wasting ID scrolls on weapon classes that aren't the one you've picked. So... if you've picked a weapon type, throw the hand axe away and never look back. ...

Oh, sorry, I might have been unclear - enhancers are always useful if you're casting the spell that matches. But it takes 5 auts to switch weapons, so if you switch from casting spells to hitting things with a weapon, you should switch weapons. A pain branded weapon also scales with your necromancy ...

Pick a weapon, and train it. It kind of doesn't matter what you pick, if I'm being totally honest, you just need to pick something soon, if that's the plan. Staff of death is a garbage weapon, especially considering that you'll get a free pain weapon later. (Now, if there's a lajatang lying around, ...

That's not new. You need 4/15/25 skill to eliminate evasion, melee speed, and casting penalties for bucklers/shields/large shields for normal races, 5.6/21/- for kobolds and halflings, 7.2/-/- for spriggans, 2.4/9/15 for nagas, centaurs, and formicids, -/9/15 for trolls and ogres. Your size dictates...

Wouldn't BVC still be quite good if it did no damage? I can't help but come to the same conclusion that it's largely way too good, pretty much any time I've been given the opportunity and it was even remotely convenient, I've memorized it, and it's very, very effective.

In addition to the advice of "Post your character dump if you want real advice," just so you know, there are two types of artifacts in this game: Random and fixed. Some artifacts like the Lajatang of Order are fixed: They always have the same stats, period. Most artifacts, however, are ran...

1) Most people consider Snake easier than Shoals. I tend to agree, just take it slowly and remember you can run from nagas. Do that a lot and you'll probably be fine. 2) You're wearing +8 plate armor with MR+ and invocable invis. Why would you want troll leather? It's much worse. That said, you shou...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-565-gfc6459a (webtiles) character file. Stonar the Thaumaturge (Mummy Wizard) Turns: 17378, Time: 00:36:43 Health: 81/81 AC: 9 Str: 11 XL: 11 Next: 10% Magic: 23/23 EV: 10 Int: 26 God: Sif Muna [**....] Gold: 525 SH: 0 Dex: 8 Spells: 15/26 levels left rFire ...

Have you really still had no sources of MR? Are there any unidentified armors/rings lying around in your game? Because at where you are, this is just going to keep happening - you don't always get a turn to turn on Trog's Hand. Even just an MR ring over the rF ring would go a long way. But hey, look...

Hmm. According to your morgue, you didn't lose any mutations when you drank that potion. Regardless, with the recent mutation potion changes, the strategy is mostly "Will one of my mutations get me killed?" If so, quaff mutation, otherwise don't. So leave your muts as they lie.

As someone who plays almost exclusively online, something like this would be very useful for me. I use that monster list all the time to the point where I can't really play offline. I'd love the full list to be implemented, but I get why that might not be feasible. To the point about clutter, I agre...

If you've never won, you should win. Losing a game in Hell or whatever really stings when you could've just gone for the win. Level 9 spells are fine. I think when people talk about that kind of thing, they're usually talking about the fact that level 9 spells aren't really necessary to win a 3-rune...

Of course you try to get out - you're level 19, you can handle some abyss. Being on A:3 is a bit crap, but the strategy is "Pick a direction, and run in it, read a teleportation scroll when you see anything dangerous." Optionally, you can kill stuff that you can manage to look for an exit,...

So, it's almost definitely too late for this advice, (and you're PROBABLY fine with storm up,) but you can just... walk away from those orcs. The sorcerer poses some threat, but the rest can't catch you if you just walk away, and serpent's lash will let you run the last little bit so they can't even...

Small nitpick, but monster LRD gets to destroy walls now, but mine can't. Is there a good reason why the monster LRD behavior was preserved?

And, correlated - you can search for items with cntl-F. So say you find the spellbook with Shatter, Ignition, Glaciate in it, on D:2 - drop it, and if you decide you want one of those spells later, you can just search for it, and fast travel there.

Why not just require every amulet that has a strictly positive effect to "attune to a full HP character" before it does its main effect? Leave artifact necklaces alone, so you still get your stats and resists, but you don't get the reflection piece or the regen piece until you hit max HP?

But say you do hybridize - isn't the optimal behavior still to summon, let your summons beat the dangerous thing, order them to back off, then kill the thing? Isn't that still weirdly tedious? If the problem with summons is that they make you invincible, shouldn't that be solved, rather than some we...

duvessa wrote:Commit frequency is lower now than it was a few years ago, but commit frequency is a very crude measure of the amount of development activity.

Seriously - judging development by number of commits? What are you, my shitty manager from my first job out of college?

But that feels like a good reason for its removal, in and of itself - If the argument is "This mechanic doesn't matter," why not remove it, if for no reason other than cleaner code and easier mechanics explanations?

It's interesting, while some things, like mouse movement, would only help the online client, I personally much prefer the online client's interface. Whenever I play offline, I find myself missing big threats due to lacking the threat tracker, while keeping track of my inventory and spells is largely...

How different is this from other gods' low-level powers? At what point does Vehumet gift useful spells compared to, say, Kiku's first book or Sif's book gifts? Sif's not totally analogous, but I've never felt like low-piety Veh was that much worse than low-piety Kiku.

Eveningstars are the highest-damage one-handed weapon in the game, for the record. And they're quite rare. Protection's not the greatest brand, to be sure, but all you need is a brand weapon scroll to deal with that. You should be happy with it - it could be much worse. Note that poison immunity is ...

A couple of things I notice here: First, you're wearing a cursed ring of teleportation on the morgue. While I suppose that has some potential fringe benefit in abyss, surely the slot could be better used for something else. You're not currently holding anything else that could go in that slot, but s...

To be clear - I think BOTH things are useful. If "It's impossible to determine how much damage a spell does in the current interface" and "Some spells have wacky damage numbers for largely no reason" are both true and both bad for the game (which I personally think they are,) the...

That's cool!

I'd swap out the Wu Jian glyph to something that doesn't reference a real-life religion, just because of the vague attempts to make that happen in general in DCSS.

Sorry - I was specifically talking about direct damage. OOD and maybe Tornado are the only spells that don't scale damage linearly. (Or are unscaled.) And if there are further exceptions, could you please point them out explicitly? I'd like to understand this issue further if it's more complicated t...

...if the relationship between power and damage is linear, which for e.g. IOOD it is not. I mean... sure, but OOD (and maybe Tornado?) is the only spell that doesn't scale linearly, right? Everything else is Xd(Y + power/Z), or a close enough approximation to that that the difference is insignifica...

I would agree that this race fits the description of "demigod" far better than the current one. In fact, I'd much rather the current one be called Forsaken or Revenants or some other "You can't worship gods because you're cut off from them" fluff. I think if we were designing fro...

The idea of making temporary walls is potentially interesting, though the numbers need serious tweaking.

My issue with it is "Spells as god abilities" are pretty boring, I'd rather not have "LRD, but invo"

Why not something that affects packs of like enemies, rather than summons? It could do <insert effect here> to groups of yaks, or orcs, or blink frogs, or summons, since summons are usually alike in some way (demons, mushrooms, etc.) The issue I have is that "A (mostly-)passive CC effect that d...

"Bad items" says the character with 5 slaying, fully enchanted aux gear, and a staff of their best spell school before Vaults. :P Absolutely enchant the flaming battleaxe. Waiting for a vampiric weapon to materialize is a sucker's game - that battleaxe is an end-game weapon and you should ...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Well, it is offline game. I can easily create a dozen of such screenshots with the same character in any branch you choose

I choose the Enchanted Forest!

I find I have a problem accumulating sufficient poison resistance but decided that would have to do Tasonir mentioned this, but just to make sure to hammer the point home - one source of poison resistance is the most you can typically get. Two rings of poison resistance don't stack, for example. Th...

This is very helpful. Might I ask about wizardry, as well? How many "Effective spell levels" does wizardry equate to? That is - how many levels do I have to train before a spell with X% failure will have that failure chance, removing wizardry?

Seems like this just makes Formacid less cool (well, and ogres worse,) for little reason. Small race weapon restrictions are already weird in an unintuitive way, I don't like adding more of that.

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