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Randart MR can be three times more than regular cloak MR and he'll have a lot of AC anyway and the ++ indicates it's a very large amount of MR even if it isn't exactly three times more. He can cast the spells he wants in plate anyway, and I think plate of a relevant ego for this LOFi in particular i...

Sabres kill people just fine no matter their brand, quickblades do too. Recent changes to ?vorp let you even work on those brands further as you get deeper and your main way of killing dudes is still that +0 dagger you found on the ground in D: 2 so you can enchant the weapon you're using to kill aw...

Stabbers already instakill everything and if they fail their stealth checks have plenty of ways to put the target back in instakilling mode.
Besides short blades kill people just fine even if they're aware of your presence.

You in all likelihood want to wear the rC plate, IDA is nice for LO but really plate can work just fine and it has the advantage of existing in your game right now and serving you better than other options. In fact I would probably just enchant it now if I had the scrolls. Also having lots of AC can...

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MoogleDan wrote:I figured rRot would be implied by the non-living holiness. The aim was to yoink all the unusual defense boosts gargoyles get . . .

We already have Statue Form.

the point is this spell would be not rubbish.

I just realized this should probably give rRot and unlike torment res it'd make a bit more sense.

I'm not sure I follow, this form wouldn't impede spellcasting and all that poison magic training would make parrow pretty strong, about as any conjurer's who kills things with spells. Basically the "drawback" I can think of would be having to sink all that exp into poison magic and tmut to...

Acid-branded UC would be ridiculously strong and UC with just fists is ridiculously strong to begin with already. I assume twisted body means it wouldn't meld armor? So it wouldn't screw with your resistances and defenses much, it'd greatly improve your melee damage against almost everything in the ...

Consumable destruction is almost completely avoidable and perfectly possible to minimize to the point of meaninglessness by carrying the right amounts of things -and- LO have intrinsic cons for scrolls already -and- current trunk has made AC have an effect on chance of destruction. Faith on the othe...

You should train dex instead of str when you get the choice and wear that faith amulet you just dropped instead of cons, since faith is generally one of the best amulets by far. Seems like you're being a bit stingy with hero usage which you shouldn't be since hero is really really cheap and very goo...

This might be late but GDA is terrible and you likely have any source of rC+ you can just swap on in case of need so resistances are definitely not a problem, so get and enchant the PDA.

If you have enough skill, your failure rate doesn't go up. Looking at the shield should tell you "Becoming more skilled with this shield can help you cast spells and dodge attacks better" or "Becoming more skilled with this shield will not help you cast spells and dodge attacks."...

But you can already tell how much your shield screws up your casting because you wear it and your failure rates go up.

Chei -is- the worst god in game by far and teaches newbies all sorts of bad stuff if they start out with him though. I know because when I started playing nagas had op constriction from xl 1 and I saw this "synergy" between a slow race and the god of slow but later down the road I realized...

Man that's a big mess.
Also needing to keep an eye on turncount to avoid instant death doesn't sound very good.

reaver wrote:Oh really? What about Berserking?

If you want to be obtuse then have fun but movespeed penalties are still the worst thing in the game.

Just thought I'd mention I don't think these monsters are very fun to fight, burst movement has bothered me for a while but it wasn't important when it was sixfirhy only because sixfirhies are so incredibly rare until they can be just ignored. I don't like it used on monsters players are likely to m...

Literally nothing in crawl is worth any sort of movespeed malus.

This artifact would be great for Chei wosrhipers who can still use divine abilities to escape if needed but have troubles with fleeing monsters (I used Slouch to kill fleeing Shadow Dragons, it is not very piety efficient). I think we need more god-related artifacts, so far only Chei has one (Hat o...

That'd be a quite good amulet.
Mon fleeing is awful and should die though.

Man this place sure is something ain't it.

the problem with the shroud boots is after a bit you notice it's a good idea to take five steps away from the enemy when your shroud breaks for it to get back up and running then and you start doing it, and that doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun to me give the amount of crap you fight in crawl. ...

mikee wrote:when they see a dangerous spellcaster, they hit it with the antimagic weapon, remove the weapon, abandon trog, and lcs it. After the fight they wield the weapon again and rejoin trog to remove the wrath.

how trivialising

You can also keep hitting the monster with antimagic instead which is probably working just fine if you're considering silly stuff like switching to a staff of earth to chuck a LCS his way. Thing is, you can only reasonably expect AM if you're with Trog and Trog fortunately disables this tedious &qu...

Arrhythmia wrote:Every character should cast spells, because spells can do a lot of very good things in this game.

but this is true

Oka is fine, and what oka needs is to remove the need of hitting aa three hundred times every game. What he doesn't need is to have the only actual solid benefit he offers nerfed into oblivion. Kiku is overall a -much- stronger god, giving you access to a brand that turns any shitty orc whip into a ...

There is this god who gives you all the spells in the game and prevents miscasts and gives you a free mp button but you don't see people complaining about it. There is this other god who gives you lots of necro spells and prevents necro miscasts then improves your melee vastly, but people don't comp...

new ?vorp needs a change of course but itemdest is for the largest part completely avoidable and heavily encourages a very annoying play style.
Corrosion is stupid as well, especially from early Js.

Parrow is already much more direct damage than poison magic deserves. Meph is terrible and the devil because it keeps killing new players unaware of the godawful ruckus it makes and who don't quite get there might be a better course of action than waking up the whole neighborhood for the off chance ...

let's not ask for even more god damn itemdest alright, especially ridiculous types like that

Isn't pan long enough?

It's about as silly and spoilery as walking around without your weapon wielded when you worshiped xom used to be.

Another good day for mummies.

And as a result you give sling users the ability to paralyze anything remotely dangerous for free and effectively remove throwing because why are you gonna throw anything to deal damage when you've got a sling? Throwing is really slow and only haste and finesse can speed it up and that's what makes ...

If your only way to deal with huge damage bags wasn't using a spell as loud as fireball that can and will telegraph your position to half of the level you probably wouldn't have had those problems and could've just explored normally without getting in more dangerous situations because you're "r...

Entering a deeper level to get food is a ridiculous and dangerous idea and almost never even remotely necessary.
Trolls don't use D for food when they're going for hell runes, at least not trolls piloted by someone sensible.
So both.

Grab a whip or dagger or anything fast with a good brand and hit people with it. Sticky flame is the best spell in your starting book and it doesn't need spellpower so once sticky flame has low enough failure rate it's a good idea to get dodging and learning to fight in melee. This may sound like no...

But you can already kill things with sblades and pain, dist, chaos, elec or draining are all very good on fast weapons, why buffing them further?

Tiktacy wrote:The thing I don't really understand why Skalds don't have haste in their spellbook. Its a spellbook based on charms, thats like having FE's start without fireball, or EE's starting without LRD.

haste on a starting spellbook holy fuck what are you even on?

Just make it consistent and make all dragon leave hides, here's the wiki article on the subject . If any are over powered, then they get toned down. Everyone would want the QDA suggested there because it's overpowered MDA which is already the best armor in the game. Yes, sure numbers can be adjuste...

I don't like one bit the intended strategy then and I don't think the idea interests me enough to keep up a discussion either.

I think this waters down the impact of ghosts for very little gain. Ghosts are good because they're a sudden and unexpected threat which you have to look at and deal with, not common enough to be completely annoying, but yes common enough that you can't just expect to never run into one. Respect sys...

Oh, I'm cool with that being the case. Whatever way the dev team wanted to incorporate it, I'd be fine with it, and that actually does sound pretty fun and possibly enough to make my polearm characters not use a Blessed Trishula / Shield combo for once. Cleaving does 75% damage and scythes have 14 ...

Igxfl wrote:Actually, this would make it the only weapon capable of hitting two monsters at once in a corridor, which is really pretty cool.

According to the OP they'd have either one effect or another, so no.

But why are people going to train polearms to bardiche at min delay level and then use a very rare (in the actual dungeon anyway) weapon that hits barely any harder than a halberd? Cleave isn't really that useful and this would basically just make the scythe of curses better in some situations and k...

What does that have to do with not screwing up a functional species for everyone who doesn't want to play a weird religious minigame?

If some self-worshipping piety minigame is added to demigods I'd like it to be easy to circumvent because while maybe cool, I can't see it staying interesting enough for it to be something every character of one species has to do every game.

I think something should be done about forest because water zones are infested by elemental wellsprings that never stop summoning elementals, there's a walking tree that summons killer god damn bees by the time you're doing vaults (berserk by a queen or not they're still killer bees and the rare was...

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