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Fair, you'll likely still do better than I will.

Is this happening again this time?

I believe yes?

I thought it meant that the shield penalty only went to 0 when you got to Shields 27; and, in return, it no longer applied to to-hit. What that means for equipment choices, I don't know either.

Could just make stones, arrows and bolts never mulch. Sling-bullet mulching is potentially interesting as petercordia said, and non-stone throwables are balanced around being scarce.

Well I think the idea behind Ignis is reverse piety, so I doubt the devs would go for normal piety gain. But I'd like there to be some way to get piety back; maybe picking up the Orb should revive him/er? Gameplay-wise, if you manage to stick with Ignis through Z:5, you get one free escape (via Risi...

I think it's been this way for a while at least; no idea about always.

Pretty sure the only time I'd ever leave the Temple still godless would be as a DD waiting for a Makhleb altar. Or a Dg of course.

I didn't mean you should be immune to their friendly fire; I meant they should be smart enough to not launch fireballs that will hit you.

I'd say not; or, if so, the risk should be communicated (this is the first I learned of it). But maybe it's for symmetry? After all, enemies hit each other with friendly fire all the time.

On a related note, examining body armour and shields should probably list the current penalties that would be applied while wearing them, and perhaps what those penalties would be reduced to upon reaching the current training target for the applicable skills. Some players don't even realize that yo...

Congrats!

I've always thought of felids as roughly the no-item species.

Congrats! Good to get another one finally!

First Hunter ever! Yeah it was a minotaur, but after a winless tournament I needed this. Swamp was scary, Abyss was scary, the Orb run was scary, the rest was pretty calm. Morgue: https://crawl.kelbi.org/crawl/morgue/andrew/morgue-andrew-20210831-053519.txt

I've had this happen too. I imagine you're not supposed to; that is, you're supposed to only shatter when the new equipment is better enough than the old that you're willing to wait a curse timeout with it uncursed in order to equip it. (Which means that you're fully cursed then currently-offered cu...

I could see that actually being a good idea, provided (a) the piety gained scaled with current piety (2--3 stars at 0 piety, nothing at *****.) and (b) taking it prevented you from ever abandoning Ru.

I like "Sacrifice Leadership". The description could still be as Majang suggested if that's needed for clarity.

There are two problems as I see it with the phrasings "Sacrifice Love" and "You are hated by all": (a) they're a bit deceptive as to what the sacrifice actually does. To me, it sounds as though it would have something to do with making shopkeepers unwilling to sell to you, or som...

I got Dissolution; three missing were Ignacio, Khufu and Serpent of Hell.

Yes thank you Moanerette!

Yes I had fun. And could bask in the glory of y'all's wins. I got a combo highscore at least for MfBe; and I wonder if I could have won it had I settled for 3 runes. But congrats to all my teammates!

And "magical" could be an actual non-flavor problem for newbies, since magic has an in-game meaning having nothing to do with double/triple swords.

And... V:5 did not go well. Everything was fine until I had to deal with 2 vault wardens at once; died before the teleport could kick in. I guess I should have read teleportation as soon as I saw there were two, without even trying to kill them.

You got farther than I've ever gotten with a Cj. And now I need to try not to kill off my Gr^TSO.

It's certainly gotten harder for me; only one win in the last few months (I generally play trunk) and only one run with runes so far in the tournament (and no wins). Glad I'm not imagining things, at least.

Yay sanka! Happy Djinning!

golden, apparently; at least, that's the one rune we're missing. (And the three uniques we're missing appear to be Ignacio, Khufu and the Serpent of Hell; with which I doubt I'll be of much use.)

Good luck. I just lost my MfBe trying for 4; three scrolls of summoning and berserk was enough to kill TRJ but not enough to survive the aftermath. Still got a combo highscore, which I don't always manage in tournaments. (On which topic, yay strat for getting many combo highscores.)

Yay floatboth! Demonspawn and Qazlal are both great fun.

Ah well indeed. But you're still the second of us to get a win; congrats!

Alas, my minotaur was banished by a distortion weapon. And I was greedy and waited too long before using Lugonu's Abyss-leaving power, by which point I could be one-shot back in Shoals. I don't know why I've been unable to win minotaurs lately, but I have. Morgue: https://crawl.kelbi.org/crawl/morgu...

Yay sanka again! Anyway by the time I'd trained m&f to the point of wanting to use a great mace at all I'd found another one anyway. Which I think I shall distort.

Am I the only one not going for Nemelex's Choices? Wow.

On a Mi^Lugonu, found an antimagic great mace (and no other great mace) --- would you keep it as such or distortionize?

Yes, go sanka! And Abyss with Qazlal is brutal (and I say this as someone who got my first win ever with Qazlal).

Starting with a DDMo^Makhleb. Now on L:2 with a flail of draining. The nerfing of Makh's heal-on-kills is very noticeable; so far I don't seem to be at risk of running out of MP but at three stars I still need to use the innate heal.

I'm guessing it's related to https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7 ... 94fd46d3b2. Which was partially reverted two hours ago; is it still a problem?

I'm sure it helped that you found dragon king armour in a shop before Orc; but congrats!

Capitalized? It was lower-case last time.

I'm in again, thanks for organizing!

Also, D:1 acquirements often aren't that good, as a lot of rather ordinary items are still unfound.

Could they just be listed as a separate category?

Pretty sure it's an intended feature, but agree that the menu should have a way to turn it off.

Pretty sure Ice Form doesn't cut off hydra heads (though Blade Hands does); and Armour skill does nothing to base AC, so it's useful on a Draconian only to increase the AC from aux armour (so practically almost useless).

Kind of a niche case, but --- playing a Palentonga, with Rolling Charge quivered, when mesmerized, autofire ignores the mesmerization; so it auto-targets whatever it would otherwise, and then gives an error message if that takes you farther from the mesmerizer. (Admittedly, fixing this might be a lo...

While getting shafted is unavoidable (except by going with Ashenzari), losing characters to it generally isn't; the point is that climbing back up is an interesting challenge; and I find it usually is. (YMMV, of course.) Yes, it's very occasionally "unfair", and I don't like the interactio...

Of course, if you're mostly fighting in Spider or Ice form then Dr's innate AC doesn't matter either, right?

Why did I think it went based on bloodiness?

How did you handle Spider? Doesn't Vampiric Draining not work there?

HP == maxHP with heal on kills was intended primarily to solve the "keep weak enemies alive" problem, and to get rid of the strong incentive to use Makhleb. I agree that you would still be strongly incentivized to avoid taking damage; but you'd also be strongly incentivized to kill things....

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