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Op is a challenge species. Snake is doable without any resists even as pure melee (though it will take much real time to retreat and rest off poison), you had LRD and stone arrow.
I would train more Earth, less Charms and some Air.

My main problem with permanent allies is that I start playing "Save the allies" game instead of normal crawl: all those trips to stairs to tell them wait, waiting for allies to catch up, stupid opening of doors (cannot happen in trunk) etc. I even died once trying to save an Orc Warlord in...

dowan wrote:Can any enemies cast ice cloud anymore?

Wait, was Freezing Cloud removed in trunk?

Sandman25 wrote:Polls are limited to 10 options, I selected those based on my opinion, sorry.

I was talking about having fun, not power level. But yes, I don't have "MiBe" account but I do have "CheiMu"

Right, Archmagi becomes less useful late game due to spell power step down. Also you have partial Archmagi from Ash boost (10.6(14.9) Air Magic is almost Archmagi) and probably some of your spells are already beyond max spell power.

I remember a thread recently where a player went for Tornado as SpEn of Ash. I was arguing hard with the rest of players who insisted that Tornado was a bad idea. It was a good idea according to me ;) It is not necessary but it makes game much easier. Make sure to put points into Int if you go for T...

Fedhas is a far worse god than chei, and mummies are much better than every other species That's easy. If we have proved that mummies are the best species, then obviously Fedhas is worse than Chei because Fedhas does not accept mummies. And mummies are the best species because you will have more fu...

dowan wrote:Good point.
Fedhas is a far worse god than chei, and mummies are much better than every other species.

Enjoy your rollercoaster of learning. You're welcome.

It reminds me how we learn in school etc. from teachers. If people would learn everything on their own, we were still living in caves.

You cast the spell and get outgoing damage increased by (30 + spell power-dependant bonus) % (max 40%) and incoming damage increased by (20 - spell power dependent bonus)% (min 10%) and when the spell ends, you cannot cast it again for some time (Exh or -Phase Shift status).

Being "unfocused" is a benefit of Ash, you can have huge number of level 6+ spells without much cost if you have high Int. Id wands, you have 18 scrolls and you are with Ash who ids gear automatically for you. It takes 7 Shields to remove penalties for Sp. Everything else seems ok to me, m...

every character in extended MUST have them, basically training Necromancy only for those some image Well, not every character but I remember many characters who started training Necromancy just when I decided that I will go for 15 runes. As Arrhythmia wrote in another thread, training skills above ...

It felt very annoying to pause autoexplore as Felid and wait for ancestor to catch up but I think it can be a huge buff for some species. When you run away from something dangerous and meet another dangerous monster you will benefit a lot from having ancestor nearby, with current mechanic you will n...

give all gods the same wrath and use a long-term penalty (like XP) instead of trying to use summons, miscasts, direct damage, etc. XP is often irrelevant at this point. Not sure if spending consumables can be treated as long-term penalty but god wrath summons often force using scrolls of blinking/t...

I enjoyed Battlemage with my FeAE. It is cool to stay together and shoot Iron Shots etc. at monsters.

2) If you do wear-ID the amulet you aren't forced to take it off immediately. Think of distortion -- you could choose to unwield distortion every time you wield it by accident, and then some of your characters will die. Alternately, you can choose not to do that, and deal with the benefits and draw...

On the other side, saving time with ability_slot has no correlation with having {!q} inscriptions. It has. I have many scrolls/potions automatically assigned to some letters so I blindly press r<letter> or q<letter> instead of looking at my inventory first. But later game with full inventory it is ...

49 AC is excellent AC, it is much higher than most characters have after 5 runes.

The kobold zaps a wand. The bolt of lightning hits you! You die... Killed from afar by a kobold (25 damage) ... with a wand of lightning ... on level 8 of the Dungeon. Am I supposed to use my only scroll of blinking when I have a kobold in view who is not even adjacent to me? That was first zap of ...

Sprucery wrote:FR: randomly generated tiles for abominations

Only if it applies to console also

. It already takes more time to differentiate all those orcs and elves in tiles than in console (I believe).

Aboms have random speed etc., so it kinda makes sense for them to look differently. Why? Many monsters have several spell sets, all monsters have randomized HP, many intelligent monsters have different equipment (armour, weapon, jewelry, items, potions, scrolls), what is so special about speed? I i...

Can we have just a single tile for all large abominations?

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I checked latest code and expected item_slot to work with unidentified items from shop. Now I have just tested it in a game and it works indeed.

vergil wrote:That's like the most opposite things of fun I've ever heard.

Fun is subjective

I have fun feeling invincible with the latter and at unusual level of danger when the former expires.

But Necromancy is fun, lot's of unique spells like Death's Door and Necromutation

I hope devs are going to change HP bonus in the same way. I don't see how +74 HP at XL 27 is less of a problem than +20 MP. Late game Og/Tr in heavy armour feels unkillable in 3 rune game while extra MP is not that useful, you still don't die even if you have 0 MP because you can just attack with me...

I remember we had a similar proposal in GDD recently and it was refused by devs.

duvessa wrote:Fedhas, TSO, Kiku [...] have much more serious design problems

Could you elaborate regarding those gods?

nago wrote:Everything new except Ru

Sorry, I am not clear what you mean as new here, new in 0.18? That includes just Qazlal, right?

Polls are limited to 10 options, I selected those based on my opinion, sorry.

Which gods would you remove given a chance? You can select up to 3 gods if you like.

Sorry, bad idea

Summon spells still use random placement and depend on terrain so they are not 100% safe unlike swiftness. Many monsters often ignore summons and continue attacking player.

I suspect +4 ring of evasion can be better than robustness for the character.

Not sure why to enchant gloves, enchanting GDA seems better.

1. Being able to run away from combat upstairs is worse than the alternatives. And 2. Swiftness is the biggest offender in making it easier to run away. (or that it is the most tedious option, or that it is the most available etc.) What i see is that swiftness is one of the *least tedious* options ...

Can we please stop derailing the thread with rage, it is about swiftness? As I wrote above I don't see why we should keep bad things in the game with reason "other bad things are still in the game". FWIW I try to avoid using berserk when possible, even on stairs, because of monster generat...

Naga is not a great caster because of speed which is even more important than for melee characters due to MP limit.

Usually amulet of rage has much higher failure rate than swiftness, even with Evo 10+ you can easily waste several turns.
Also amulet of rage means you cannot wear another amulet like faith or dismissal. Swiftness does not prevent you from anything

That's intrinsic crawl problem: instead of statically displaying chance to hit and expected damage, players are expected to read messages with "You miss foo", "You closely miss foo", "You barely miss foo", "Plate armour prevents you from hitting foo", "Yo...

Amulet of berserk can kill you with slow effect if there are some new monsters upstairs. With swiftness you still can kill them normally.
About haste I only can mention that I suggested to nerf the spell too several years ago.

Training air to get utility spells like swiftness and repel missiles is fine. I dissagree on this one. I'd advise you to train charms instead. It is much more usefull when trying to get online haste\ozucubu's\regen\ddoor later on. RMsl with low spell power is not that good (expires too often) so it...

It is a good idea to train spellcasting for MP also.

PleasingFungus wrote:Fixed in https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/094b998292c5 .

I have mixed feelings about it. It might be a way to nerf berserkers who cannot use apportation (I was Be in that game). Though apporting all useful items you see would be really annoying even if it is optimal for melee dudes.

Not to contradict Duvessa too much; but stealth is extremely important on casters. It means if you make a fuckton of noise with your fireball, etc. the enemies that show up after to investigate are less likely to notice you. This can save your life if you have a hard encounter and run out of mana t...

Sprucery wrote:But there is no +30% MP. There's just two extra MP.

FR: +30% HP for Tr/Og changed to provide two extra HP.

Trust me, it is not stupid in my case, I misclick too often. Yes, I pause and read what I am trying to quaff/read, in almost every game I see "Wait, what haste, it was supposed to be a potion of heal wound". On bright side, I save much time by extensive use of item_slot, ability_slot and ...

Iscribing every potion and scroll with !r, !q is very stupid. Not only primary function (to prevent accidental drinking of wrong valuable potion) of such an inscription is lost, but you also make yourself to press extra key each time you drink or read (or evoke). I don't believe that you make delib...

I think it might make sense to make the new invisibility item you propose a fragile item with bad properties like negative slaying.

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HuCj starts with Magic Dart at 4% and 13 spell power, that's 1d5 non-missing damage at the edge of view. HuFi with flail vs goblin: AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpeed | AvEffDam Attacking: 5,4 | 13 | 42% | 2,3 | 138 | 0,72 | 1,7 Defending: 0,5 | 3 | 46% | 0,3 | 100 | 1,00 | 0,3 ...

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