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galehar wrote:On the other hand, reading magic mapping on a fully explored level not only waste the scroll, but does not identify it.

It does, actually ("You feel momentarily disoriented.")

You need more than half your available armour slots to be cursed. For a spriggan, that means 3 out of 4 (robe, cloak, cap, shield).

I don't think it's a very worthwhile feature. You do, in fact, still fumble while over shallow water (although that's a bug ), and it's not really distinct from Levitation/Flight in any interesting way other than some slight restrictions as to where you can use it. I'd rather it just be a monster th...

It's a new spell in trunk that creates an area of liquefied ground around you, irresistibly slowing anything that's standing on it, letting you fire more attack spells at them as they take longer to approach you (less useful for melee because you fumble like in shallow water while it's active). From...

It was probably from a Wrath or Wild Magic card, both of which can create permanent hostile 1s.

Fast transformations don't anger Chei, they just keep the ponderousness from their melded armour.

If you can get Leda's Liquefaction up and running that might work nicely as a reverse Haste while you spam conjurations at things.

I agree that square LOS would be the ideal solution to the issue, but if that doesn't go through, I'd rather live with the current inconsistencies than play a grid-based game where diagonal movement costs more than orthogonal. Btw, is the test verion with square LOS still available somewhere? The b...

Considering that Nightstalker and Demonic Guardian are the only facets that actually have an unavoidable effect on your game (and both are Tier 2 so you'll probably see at least one level of them fairly early), I'm not sure I agree that there are all these racial mutations that'll cripple your plays...

One thing though, it sounds like the Trance was something you'd use in a tough situation to increase your power, but it'd hinder your escaping possibilities. i.e. it would be a gamble, and in Crawl making sure you can escape if the situation gets hairy is always better. It sounds like it'd give you...

Squarelos was the best.

KoboldLord wrote:What does Vehumet offer if you are Attuned to Shadows?

Full LOS crystal spears. Also shift-firing out of your LOS.

Demonic Guardian with gods that give penance for allies dying is pretty silly though, yeah.

Death by taking a swim in lava isn't really a good example of the abyss getting harder. :P New monsters have been creeping into the abyss (hellephants, deep qwarf bands) but I don't think much has changed other than that. If anything the deep qwarves make it easier by providing you with stacks of he...

minmay wrote:Ugh, that needs to change. Reminds me of > working on Hell exits but not <, and < counting as your action even though it did nothing.

That's long since fixed in trunk, actually. Trying to climb stairs while overloaded costing a turn sounds like a bug too.

Damage enchantment isn't the same as base damage, but sure. That demon whip, on the other hand, is unbelievably good.

That sounds horribly overpowered (I don't really like the brand as it is, there's one hilarious vault where some kobolds give you about 80 dispersal darts which means you can irresistibly blink away every melee threat you run into for the rest of the game). Compare to the actual spell Dispersal, whi...

Normal move delay is 10, which is speed 10. Felids have the "Speed 1" mutation which is move delay 8 which is speed 12.5. Centaurs have "Speed 2" which is move delay 7 which is speed 14.29. Spriggans have "Speed 3" which is move delay 6 which is speed 16.67. Boots of ru...

Adding another Fear-causing spell when the existing Hex is already weak and underused doesn't seem like a great idea. Maybe AM deserve to at least get Portal Projectile, though.

Pain is best on fast weapons, and you can't get slower than a scythe (they also have bad base damage). Nice resists at least.

The split was made such that Crusaders would have a book full of Charms, and Enchanters would get Hexes. Unfortunately nobody loves AM so I think they were just overlooked. :P If the book doesn't get changed to have a single choice of Charm/Hex, they should just start with some Hex skill on top of t...

I'd love to see this, both as a way to make rarely-seen MR effects more meaningful on players (effects like Slow, Confuse etc could be more likely to work on the player but have duration mitigated by MR) and as a way to buff the many unloved Hexes (make them more likely to work on high MR monsters b...

I got plenty of use out of Conjure/Sticky Flame on my HuHe, in the same way that monky explained. It's not at all marginal and fits the reaver style nicely.

If you die there, you can do !lg . x=map in IRC. But yeah, otherwise you have to check the des files.

I'm mainly posting this just to give some feedback on recent changes that affected my game. This was also my first Xom game to get anywhere decent, and it was great fun. http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/MarvinPA/morgue-MarvinPA-20110114-043622.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-4521-...

By randarts I assume you mean unrandarts.

It's useless and has basically zero chance of ever charming anything good.

The actual check is some horrifically ugly XL vs monster HD roll, but it'll never charm anything higher than HD 14 (or something like that).

Shuffle cards are rarer than everything else in decks of Wonders.

They recover one point at a time instead of all at once in 0.8. With level 1 of deterioration they'll recover (on average) as fast as they deteriorate so you'll probably always have a bit below full stats, but it's unlikely to cause stat death. With level 2 or 3 you'll lose them faster than they rec...

Stepdown starts being a factor as soon as you hit 50 power - learnDB says: "spell power[1/5]: (Spellcasting/2 + 2*avg school skill) * INT divided by 10 * (1.5 ^ enhancer count). Now halve the part over 50, halve the part over 100, halve the part over 150, and plain cap at 200." To actually...

Iron Shot isn't necessary unless you plan on doing extended endgame - Poison Arrow will wreck everything in Zot just fine (except electric golems and orbs of fire, but you should probably just run away from those anyway).

Nemelex doesn't gift decks with Elixir in them, so that probably wouldn't work.

I find that physically picking up the runes and carrying them with you on the orb run is a nice bit of flavour, and pretty minor. If you somehow can't handle the loss of a few inventory slots, you can put them on the D:1 upstairs. Stashing your runes and coming back to them later can be done in just...

Mennas can't heal himself while silenced (except in Sprint perhaps, where he does have the !sil flag I think), although he's plenty nasty anyway.

Like you said, use it before you get into trouble, not as a way to get out of trouble. It's not meant to be a panic button (although if you do spawn a hostile greater demon on yourself and have decent-ish invocations, trying to spawn more friendly ones in the hope that they'll take each other out is...

There's way too much food generally anyway, I just eat everything that's not a ration, honeycomb or jelly as soon as I find it to save the clutter.

The best brands for a quick blade are the additive brands, since it has low base damage. Pain is awesome if you have high necromancy (get Kiku to brand it), distortion is awesome if you just want stuff out of the way (get Lugonu to brand it), elec is cool but only available in the cloud mage wizlab....

Balrugs have demon whips, not tridents. Red devils and hell knights are where it's at. It's not that uncommon at all in my experience to find a demon trident before you go to Hells, though. Margery's band, and other hell knight bands give you a good chance of getting one. They're also one of the few...

As of recent trunk builds, monsters get an AI boost (better pathfinding, knowing where you are when invisible, never forgetting about you). I don't think anything decreases the penance yet either so that'll just happen forever, until proper wrath is implemented.

Don't wear Archmagi unless you're playing trunk, where the XP penalty is removed. As SpEn I'd just look for some ego robe (try on every glowing/runed robe, fun times) or maybe the troll leather, although it does increase your metabolism. I've never bothered with dragon armour on a Spriggan (you'd wa...

I like starting with Vehumet (-2 conj apt is perfectly fine) since it means easier and faster bolt of cold/freezing cloud, and I like blasting things with spells. Also Ice Storm. Once you're happy that you can survive his wrath you can go TSO, do Crypt, bless a demon trident, and abandon TSO for Mak...

DG is demigod, DE is deep elf (De isn't anything).

Nicely done, though. Was this with range 1 sticky flame?

Clarity prevents unintentional berserk. Stasis prevents all berserk. Chei worship prevents the haste part of berserk.

Anti-magic is currently broken in that it works on stuff like orbs of fire and electric golems so I would definitely keep it around. The katana's base damage is probably sufficient that it'd be pretty great.

Ignite Poison is a real man's way of curing poison.

Gelatinous body gives up to +2 AC and EV. Covered in eyeballs gives you up to +7 Acc, SInv and can also confuse monsters that attack you in melee. Translucent skin increases your stealth. Pseudopods give you unfitting armour but also an extra aux attack. Spawn jellies when eating does exactly that. ...

Also bear in mind that Freezing Aura will slow cold-blooded creatures (like snakes!).

Strong, individual summons are pretty lacking at the moment (Greater Demon, Malign Gateway, ???) so these sound pretty cool. I'm not sure that summoning a single dragon (even golden/quicksilver/holy) is particularly comparable to Fire/Ice storm, Tornado and Shatter, though. Then again, summoning spe...

I'd still go dodging + buckler on a halfling since they're small and get so much dex.

They both increase the spell power (which is related to damage) of anything using the relevant spell school, but the staff of fire also gives you rF+ and can be an awesome melee weapon (inflicting large amounts of extra fire damage) if you have high evocation skills. If you mainly use fire spells, u...

The enemies in Elf carry loads of bucklers, and it can often be worthwhile to dip in and kill a few enemies on the first floor to try and get one. But as an unarmed character you don't usually want a buckler/shield unless you find a good artefact, as it prevents you from using your offhand attack.

You might be able to achieve something helpful with autoinscriptions. What you can't do is use them to permanently identify an item (for example, if you inscribe a scroll that you know is enchant armour with "ea" and drop it, the next enchant armour scroll you find will won't have that ins...

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