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IMO tornado should no longer be able to move you over water/lava now the flying spell is gone.

TRJ is one of the best things to use it against, although because of the way the beams spread out you have to be standing next to it, meaning you will be surrounded by spawns.

I wouldn't use it against an OOF or iron dragon though.

Since this thread has become about entropy weavers as well as stormcallers, I'll just say this:

If they are to appear in Spider the should be webimmune, otherwise they get caught in webs.

Very good if you train a lot of evocations.

It's mostly good for doing a lot of damage to a single adjacent, low-AC target, as AC is counted against each shot separately. Works great against jellies etc.

Since evoking one elemental evoker makes all of that type inert, multiples of the same type are redundant (unless I'm misunderstanding something about how they work.) So why not treat them as artifacts, so only one of each type can be generated in a game? (Though probably with the same chance of one...

And the success rate of shadow form/shadow step; Shadow step only needs about 3 invo to have 0% fail, but shadow form needs a lot - 12 or more to be reliable.

Is Aliches casting ball lightning a new thing? I'm sure I've never encountered that.

When worshipping Dithmenos and my shadow copies a conjuration, how exactly does it work? Does the shadow spell have the same elemental properties as the original spell, so a shadow cold bolt would be affected by rC+ on the target, or does it bypass resistances? Is the damage of the shadow spell calc...

While the poison damage from high level blowgun "stabs" would still take a long time to kill most monsters, would it allow Ignite Poison to do huge damage instantly?

I used to use scale mail a lot - when it was elven scale mail and I was a HE or DE; elven armour + extra bonus for being an elf made quite a big difference to the encumbrance and spellcasting penalties and was IIRC better than a base ring mail.

RIP racial armour. :cry:

I think there is some kind of stepdown for stones only.

Outcubus: a bus that's openly gay. (would work better in nethack, but hey.)

Incubus: a bus that's kind of like a kraken and can shoot ink.

When I've got this mutation in the past I've always hated it; everyone says it's great, and sure, having less monsters in LOS is a good thing, but the reduced LOS also means you have less information about what other threats are just beyond what you can see, and so I find it harder to make decisions...

Just started a DsVm and on XL3 got "you start to blend in with the shadows." It's plenty early enough to adapt the character to this mutation, so what recommendations do you have re gods, skill training etc. A stabby build seems like it could be good, I guess Mephitic Cloud confusion kind ...

I had a dream that my friend had started playing a new game that was "pirate wars, but with Elvis vs the Freemasons."

SOMEBODY MAKE THIS GAME NOW!

Tree should worship Fedhas

Use Trog's Hand whenever you see something that might banish or paralyse you.

Controlled Blink will be nerfed or removed.

Could it give protection from all the effects of miasma, not just the poisoning?

If anything should get its noise reduced it's probably Glaciate; it's generally considered weaker than Fire Storm, so why not make it the low-noise high-level conjuration to buff it a bit?

AFAIK, friendly shadow imps casting animate dead was removed because it allowed the player to build up a permanent undead army without learning any necromancy. Now zombies are no longer permanent, is there any reason for shadow imps not to get the spell back?

The issue with animate skeleton and to a lesser extent animate dead is that they're so cheap to get and their effects don't scale with spellpower, but instead dungeon level -- they're basically a poor man's shadow creatures. Tying duration to spellpower might make sense. Better would be tying hitdi...

Is this all part of a conspiracy to make everyone play mummies?

OK, how about a radical (and probably quite silly) idea: Each buff spell can only be cast once per dungeon level - so if you use haste in the first fight, you won't have it for a later dangerous monster or vault. Also, if you use all your buffs while descending, you won't have them available on the ...

Why not make hydra form get healing from killing any monster that can leave an edible corpse? (You can bite pieces off the corpse without having to eat it whole.) Also, as sandman25 says, it's not completely clear what "size" refers to - is it your size in hydra form or your natural size? ...

xentronium wrote:How are those trees growing with no natural light source...

By the same unnatural light source that lets you see stuff in the dungeon?

What about:

*negative - removing this item causes draining

Merge DD with Gh, and have them only able to heal by eating corpses (assuming corpses still exist in the future…)

Edit: Exclude Kiku gifts or it would be even more silly.

Let big kobolds cast inner flame on kobolds.

Whenever I have 2 consumables that do essentially the same thing, I always wonder whether I should still carry both. (e.g. wand and potions of heal wounds, or wand and scrolls of teleport.) Of course there are differences - most forms can't use wands, confusion disables scrolls and effectively wands...

So, does the singularity count as an ally, rather than damage done by the player for the purposes of XP gain etc? It seems that when worshipping Makhleb, when a monster is killed by damage from the singularity I do not regain HP as I would if I killed the monster myself.

dynast wrote: IP is currently the "learn if you got snake/spider branch"

You always get either snake or spider, so you could call it the "always learn" spell. It's also fairly strong in Lair and Swamp.

Something that I've never been quite sure about: how is attack delay calculated for monsters? Is their "skill" for weapon speed determined by their HD, and do monsters that attack with bites etc use the same formula as unarmed players?

duvessa wrote:On average, it's the same accuracy penalty as a -10 weapon enchantment.

But how bad is that in terms of actually being able to hit things?

Just come across this new spell, and indications so far are that the damage is pretty minimal compared to other level 6 spells, but I guess translocations aren't really meant to be about dealing damage, and maybe it's meant to be more about moving monsters around. I'll keep using it to see how it tu...

Claws and aux attacks don't have very good synergy with transmutations because they often get suppressed by forms

Make ghouls not undead, or "undead but able to use forms" like satiated vampires.

What if hydra form just transformed your head into multiple, hydra-like necks/heads, melding headgear (& maybe amulets?) but leaving other armour and EV intact? Damage might have to be nerfed a bit (and the +50% HP bonus reduced or removed) to make it not strictly better than blade hands vs sing...

Just my two cents worth… I don't object to species that are obviously railroaded into one weapon or whatever. I think it is fun (as well as being easier) being able to advance very quickly in my chosen attack method in the early game. In fact, if Mf didn't exist I would probably never use pole arms ...

What, do you shoot the arrows harder? Honestly, probably. Have you tried to use a bow man? Shit is hard on the upper body. Yeah, medieval longbows were so hard to draw that professional archers often had deformed spines. (Maybe that should be a new mutation that gives + slaying with bows but -EV…)

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Just wanted to clarify whether Fighting skill has the same effect in increasing damage & accuracy for ranged weapons as it does for melee?

Also, do potions of might have any direct effect on ranged damage? (I guess increasing str has some effect indirectly..)

I - a potion of ambrosia. A strange substance, produced by ghost moths. Consuming it causes regeneration of health and magic, along with total befuddlement. The two effects are fundamentally linked - the regeneration ends the moment the confusion does. I take it this means that if you use a source ...

I don't think rod hunger has significant strategic relevance (i.e. reducing permafood stockpiles) for anyone except maybe spriggans, but have definitely found it to have tactical relevance, i.e. if I use a few level 6 rod charges at the start of the fight I can get to near starving almost immediatel...

One thing it's easy to forget about blade hands is that as well as preventing most ranged attacks (as do most other forms) it also greatly reduces your spell casting success rates. This means that if you suddenly find that the fight is not going your way and need to cast blink/cblink, or even just w...

Like dragon form, hydra form benefits a lot from Ozocubu's Armour. (and to a lesser extent, Condensation Shield.) You may be better off starting as an IE rather than a Tm to guarantee that you have access to them.

You need a rune to get into Vaults (branch) these days, so you can't go there unless you get to the end of Snake or Swamp. Depths is generally a lot harder than Snake or Swamp, even including the rune vaults. I think with Heroism you should be able to kill Aizul. Did you kill Saint Roka? If so, I wo...

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