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I'm not exaggerating, it's just my opinion. I find it useful for me and I'm not talking about confusion, I'm talking about when you have enough dex and stabbing skills to often stab monsters who didn't notice you, but not enough for getting the maximum bonus. It may be a thin line, but it still has...

Really I think of walking up the staircase as this swirly magic whirl-windy kind of process where, while you ascend, creatures adjacent to you kind of get caught up in a magic vortex-y thing and swirl around you and whack on you for a bit, then you both kinda pop out at the top of the staircase. Thi...

The statistics are vaguely interesting, but I'm not sure it means anything particularly (For example I am proportionally am thanked a lot, but my thanks are in many cases, because I code delve and post formulas for people who ask, and do a lot of math and turning code into english for people, that d...

It was a ring of poison resistance, still no fire-resist-ring love. an update: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2825-g2f028f1 (console) character file. Tasper the Gelid (Demonspawn Ice Elementalist) Turns: 65039, Time: 09:09:29 HP 123/123 AC 19 Str 14 XL: 18 Next: 80% MP 47/47 EV 22 Int 24 G...

Let me also second that Spectral Weapon is nuts with polearms; you can just park it behind you and get something like 2x damage with brand and not even suffer the drawbacks of taking damage from your weapon getting hit or having to recast it. Once I have it castable and ~7-9 mana, I cast one before...

Well, and +0 FDA isn't as much better than +2 robe of the archmagi AC-wise as I thought (I go from 18 to 22 AC, with OA I'm at 27 AC with the robes, so FDA is actually worse right now for AC specifically) Also my primary attack is throw icicle which is already at max spellpower with one enhancer, th...

Oh, I just wear the sust ring when I'm travelling, it's not my normal "combat" wear (Actually though all the jewelery in the game so far is in my inventory or in one shop)

So here's where I'm at: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2825-g2f028f1 (console) character file. Tasper the Gelid (Demonspawn Ice Elementalist) Turns: 44331, Time: 05:46:31 HP 106/106 AC 18 Str 14 XL: 16 Next: 73% MP 35/35 EV 20 Int 23 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 795 SH 13 Dex 22 Spells: 10 m...

Have you tried both console and tiles?

Well, yes, but the vast majority of the people who wouldn't want to have the inscription there are the more experienced players who would be more likely to fiddle with their options. Inexperienced players who are more likely to make that sort of mistake (and be put off by it) are also more likely to...

Why not simply add:

autoinscribe += rod:!a!D

to the default init.txt, that way people who don't want it, can simply remove it and they won't get the prompt any more.

Corona is a beam (Actually all hexes are beams) they'll hit the first thing they encounter.

There are very very few spells which can target something on the other side of a monster.

Airstrike is weak-ish for it's level, but it does have a long way it can be raised spell-power wise. It's main advantage though is definitely the smite targeting, killing that boggart or orc priest behind a pack of stuff is very helpful (It's going to take a bunch of hits at high spell power if you ...

An orc priest can smite you at range in 4 ish smites (3 presuming absolute max damage on each roll, 4-5 with decent rolls, more with poor rolls) You can probably kill said orc priest in 2-5 hits with your bow. Given that he's not going to smite every turn, and you won't hit every time with your bow,...

Volteccer_Jack wrote:Inner Flame has very similar problems.

Inner flame has no such problems, Inner flame isn't unpredictably dangerous. CBL is always unpredictably dangerous, Inner flame is always predictable, and dangerous only if used incorrectly (Which admittedly is easy to do if you're unfamiliar with it).

I think he meant "A step away from the spot where the player needs to be to ascend the stairs" (i.e. adjacent to the staircase) at least that's how I interpreted it the second time I read it.

Sandman25 wrote:Potion of beneficial mutation can remove bad mutation. Not sure if it can remove good mutation, I hope not.

Any time you would get a new mutation, there is a chance of removing an old one instead. (Bad or good)

Freezing adds 50% damage on average, to compensate it with additive brand you would need to have about 50% higher stabbing skill (I think, the formula are not that straightforward). This is incorrect, Stabbing bonuses are tiered, and for shortblades both additive and multiplicative. 50% more skill ...

Electrocution is bad for stabbers because of additive damage and noise. I usually go for Freezing. Undead can be confused/silenced while Demons cannot. Electrocution doesn't add noise. (It's supposed to, but it doesn't due to a bug) Successful stabbing never makes *any* noise regardless. I didn't k...

Sandman25 wrote:Electrocution is bad for stabbers because of additive damage and noise. I usually go for Freezing. Undead can be confused/silenced while Demons cannot.

Electrocution doesn't add noise. (It's supposed to, but it doesn't due to a bug) Successful stabbing never makes *any* noise regardless.

There's no semi reliable way to get elec brand permanently affixed to a quick blade (Xom and a blade card are the only ways I know of, both of which are very very random) However permanent distortion branding (via lucy) works just about as well damage wise (Although there's some weird randomness wit...

minmay wrote:Another option is to get rid of holy/distortion/pain blessing. Vehumet giving everyone access to poison arrow was considered unacceptable; Lugonu currently gives everyone access to distortion...

To be fair, I feel like pArrow is more powerful than distortion branding, personally.

Why not simply have rods auto-inscribed with !D by default, with an option not do so available in the init.txt, that way everybody gets to have things the way they'd like it, and inexperienced users are protected from accidental destruction of a valuable item, and experienced players can just turn i...

BlackSheep wrote:Currently reading: The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Just finished: Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

If you like Douglas Adams' work, I highly recommend Last Chance to See.

Seconded; Last chance to see is amazing, fantastic and well worth reading.

sanka wrote:I'm not sure if stabbing (high stealth skill) affects damage in melee at all. (I was not invisible.)

Not usually, sometimes creatures can become "distracted" (i.e. attacking something else) even when you are visible, which gives you the opportunity to stab them.

Here's a reason to end all reasons: Not even Nethack makes that mistake! There, the vorpal blade instantly kills exactly one monster, the Jabberwock -- true to the source, as you expect from Nethack. Eh, it has the 5 % chance of instantly killing any creature with heads (including the PC). Also the...

I think an orc with a vorpal axe should have a chance of one-shotting you if, and only if, you are polymorphed into a jabberwock.

Yes, nobody cares if you stash. What's annoying is people constantly complaining that stashing is hard or annoying. Imagine if lots of people insisted on never using any weapon with a base delay over 11, and every couple of weeks we got a Tavern thread demanding we buff short swords or implement mo...

It's a level 1 spell that is useless at level 1 (unless you picked DE or one of the couple other races with similarly huge mp). That sounds like pretty much the opposite of working if you ask me. It works as well or better at level 1 than most level 1 spells work. 3 MP for an extra 2d4 damage with ...

The nice thing about stashes is that you can stand over your huge pile of books and the memorize command will show you all available spells. Much nicer than using "Ctrl-F book" and looking at each book individually. I'd like to see the temple have gates scattered through D just like Hell ...

I'm sure his later books are better but I found Snow Crash to be overlong, amateurish and poorly thought out. It was hyped as the next Neuromancer, but compared to that book it's a joke. Actually his later books are longer and drier although by in large a little more internally consistent, I though...

I think I want to try a FeMo now, because I like risky frail characters. I don't like the multiple lives thing though... If it's a magical cat then let it wear a hat and a cloak like in Sailor Moon or something :D (I actually don't remember if cat's there had cloaks and hats but that's the image I ...

When I get to lair:1 I drop anything I don't need in the short term there, I do lair, and stop by again on the way out to exchange items on my way to orc, usually I stop by again after doing orc, and then again once I've done D->20 and vaults->4 (because typically that's when I come back to do lair...

When I get to lair:1 I drop anything I don't need in the short term there, I do lair, and stop by again on the way out to exchange items on my way to orc, usually I stop by again after doing orc, and then again once I've done D->20 and vaults->4 (because typically that's when I come back to do lair ...

As I indicated in my previous post, when we set up the branch roulette, threat diversification seemed most relevant, and I still think it is: we want one poison-based subbranch, and a aquatic one. I would rather think how about to even out loot than swap branches. Well, if Shoals and Snake are the ...

That sounds horrible, I will pass, thanks

It does not do more damage than the katana with my current skills and equipment.

I have clarity, so no confusion, banishment isn't a threat (I've been through the abyss twice, it's just not that hard) and for cases where I'm worried about it I have trog's hand to give me MR++

Normally I don't post many of my characters here, but I wanted to share: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2825-g2f028f1 (console) character file. Igrit the Peltast (Djinni Berserker) Turns: 66790, Time: 06:14:46 HP 167/167 (138) AC 34 Str 21 XL: 22 Next: 51% MP 0/0 EV 23 Int 15 God: Trog [**...

I've recently been on a Julian May and John Scalzi kick, both quite satisfactory.

Indeed and I am well aware that 'percentage increase' is really only a useful abstract as long as you have "somewhat appropriate" EV and AC numbers, the more your EV and AC are distant from what they probably "should" be to be effective the less accurate that model is, however if...

Well, for me at least, I stop casting infusion at some point, i think it's problem stems from the facts that: Always a benefit, it never stops being the same d4 damage it starts as (This could be solved by applying AC to it, early game it'd be great, as things started having AC, it'd do no damage, ...

Yes, it's also reduced by armour. For comparison IMB does 2d(6+(Power/6)) damage and stone arrow does 3d(5+(Power/8)) damage However it also only takes conjurations to make IMB more powerful whereas it takes both to make stone arrow more powerful. Stone arrow also misses more, and as you've noted do...

Whoops I didn't look at that paste quite well enough, I read the 'Dispel missiles' line's 1% and somehow thought it was for ice storm, yeah, brilliance, wizardry, lighter armour, some combination of these things would put it in your casting range, but don't cast it at 34% unless you like pain.

Song of shielding's problem seems to stem from guardian spirit problem, maybe better to fix underlying mechanic, but since this thread is focused on skalds a few quick ideas: 1.) Just a straight-up buff to song of shielding, i.e., 1dX or even a percentage of damage (or either, take higher of the tw...

The problem with daggers is less "for a caster" and more "daggers suck unless you're stabbing" any way you slice it, a dagger does less damage than anything else (even a club). Daggers of speed themselves have several problems: 1. They get hit with a rounding problem (when you're...

Actually it'd kinda be nice if you could see in the skill's description, what effect is Has/is having Something like: Fighting Fighting skill increases your accuracy and damage in hand-to-hand combat, and also increases your maximum hit points. Current effects: +5 Max points +12.4% hand-to hand dama...

40 AC and 20 EV is better than 50 AC and 10 EV, imo This is true, but not because EV is better than AC, it's because going from 10->20 is a much larger difference than going from 40->50 (this is true for EV and AC, and even SH) To put the reverse perspective on it, it'd still be true if you said 20...

rN+ is a nearly useless intrinsic to have on armour, in the long long long term it might help just a tiny bit, in the short term you can just pretend it's not there. Generally, if you are a "whack it with a heavy thing" sort of player (melee user) you should select the equipment that gives...

you can usually find one with a good brand & enchantments that allow it to surpass GSC's power as well. For comparison at 22 fighting and 27 m&F a +4 +4 GSC of crushing beats a +9 +9 Great mace of flaming handily and a +4 +4 giant club of crushing beats it slightly, for the same level of sk...

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