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Jeez, what's wrong with you...

Just kidding. I'm just curious how long some of you have been playing without a win. It took me about 7 months playing without spoilers.

Slings work pretty well untrained. As a skald you can buff your sling too. Bullets work better than stones for non-jellies. That's what I'm working with now. Picked up some bullets for ammo, buffing the sling untrained until I find good gear. So far so good... just gotta learn to lay off the tab bu...

If you plan on using crossbows as an endgame weapon, is it worth investing points in slings to survive until you obtain a good crossbow? Or is it better to just pick up a stack of runed darts and develop something else like spellcasting/dodging/fighting/etc? I'm determined to get a demonspawn skald ...

I wouldn't mind seeing this after ascension:

Has anyone ever had any luck whatsoever running a demonspawn skald of Okawaru? I'd love to run a demonspawn hybrid but I can barely make it to the temple after countless tries. Perhaps I'm just getting bored and relying on tab too much... edit: actually, now that I think about it, is a hybrid even p...

Clawless Victory: I am afraid this goes very much in the opposite direction to how we (or at least I) see DS. The two randomised species (DS and Dr) are about adaptation, and they do that in different ways: DS with random mutations throughout the game; Dr with aptitude changes and fixed mutations a...

Maybe, you could install some lineage for Ds (I think monstruous is a good idea, even if I can't play it), defining some subsets we could instantly identify, and maybe allowing us to choose it (and leave the door open for a full random Ds) during char creation. This is an interesting idea. Perhaps ...

Be glad moose aren't in DCSS! :cry:

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As I'm writing this, I thought of a something that might be interesting. How about a 'shade realm' in which the walls of the dungeon consist of smoke or shadows that constantly shifts around, like a more unstable abyss, and creatures can emerge from the walls, possibly right in front of you within ...

I like em too, my favorite combo is probably a demonspawn abyssal knight and while I love the challenge the race presents, I still think they could benefit from a few tweaks to their skill aptitudes to make them a bit more viable. It just seems like there's too much of a luck factor involved with wh...

It seems to me that if you pick a race that forces you to deal with negative skill modifiers it's pure luck if you survive long enough to see the temple, let alone the Lair. Probably you need to learn to run away more. Ds aren't a bad race for streaking, though far from the best. You might also be ...

It seems to me that if you pick a race that forces you to deal with negative skill modifiers it's pure luck if you survive long enough to see the temple, let alone the Lair. With demonspawn, if you don't find a good weapon at the start, or you don't pick up a couple of really good mutations, you're ...

Has anyone thought of changing the descriptions of the various branches to planes of existence? For example, the shoals could easily be converted to the elemental plane of water, and instead of stairs going up and down, there could be watery portals you could enter, because really, does it make much...

This suggestion is surely way out of the question, but has anyone thought of maybe zooming in a bit on the playfield? Much of it seems to be wasted space, concealed by the 'fog of war'. By zooming in, more detailed tiles could be created.

Why Diablo 3 is a win: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2E1992AEAUA8Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2E1992AEAUA8Z I've not been following the D3 goings on - what's it referring to at Day 38? hahaha I love that review... Here's what happened on Day 38: For awhile, the best weapons were weapons branded with inc...

It wouldn't be easy at all. It would require new tiles for most armor-wearing monsters, or armor overlays adapted to the tiles of every armor-wearing monster. Also I don't think it's a good idea, because what monster a monster is is much more relevant than what armor it is wearing. Taking up a lot ...

I might add to this from time to time, and if this is a dumb thread or if whatever I mention has been discussed before please kill it. I played this game totally free of spoilers until I beat it last year and now I play it with minimal spoilers. For example, I look up information on monsters I have ...

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So which is more effective? Swinging an elven dagger with Excruciating Wounds or a Staff of Death w/ 1 Evocation / 18 necromancy?

BlackSheep wrote:Miasma always poisons, slows and rots. Slow is a strong effect, and I don't know that it's resistible from miasma.

Ah nice, didn't realize it does all three. Sounds very useful if something nasty is chasing you and you lure it over a corpse...

Also, are the status ailments different depending on the type of corpse?

Another unusual spell with seemingly limited applications. I've played around with it a bit with frankly dismal results. Maybe if the cost were a bit higher and the miasma popped up randomly within a 3x3 area around the corpses? I've tried luring monsters into a chokepoint with a corpse, but honestl...

Thanks, guys. So what would be the optimal weapon to use with Excruciating Wounds? I assume something fast, so you have a better chance of connecting with the spell?

MarvinPA wrote:Pain is a pretty good brand. Testing it out on zombies sounds not so great though since it only affects the living.

oh right, that's a no-brainer. Doesn't that make the spell even more useless?

I'm dabbling in necromancy. Right now, I'm trying to go for a pure caster necromancer, no minions. I bumped into this silly looking spell called "Excruciating Wounds" that I never bothered using before and I'm trying to think of an application for it. I suppose if later on, when I become a...

I'm of the opinion that I love monsters having the ability to pick up stuff and chuck it at me, or zap me with that wand of draining and ruin my day.

However, I also think having to store your stash in Lair 2 is tedious and cumbersome. I really have no idea if there's a possible middle ground.

Does my skill in evokation effect the damage done with my staff of death, or do I just need 1 level of evokation?

I watch this and I want to destroy everything in sight:

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I can't through the whole thing.

Just wanted to chime in and say excellent work! Sent you a PM...

Anyone else experience huge bouts of slow-down and lag in watery areas like the swamp, shoals or just anytime water is on the screen? Sorry if this has already been reported.

Having played D2 for a long time on Battle.net, I can see the advantages of eliminating picking your own stats and being locked into the skills you chose (I played way before they added respecs, which I think was added after D3 was announced). I totally screwed up four Barbarians before I finally m...

edlothiol wrote:There is a long list of things that I'd consider more important, so probably not anytime soon... Not to mention the fact that it would be a bit problematic because of the integration with the dgamelaunch user database.

Okay, thanks for the consideration anyways. Keep up the good work, man!

I think what's needed for the orb run is more variety, and more differentiation based on number of runes. Demons, demons, demons gets boring. Maybe we could use some code and monster lists from evilmike's Sprint VI? Have some random waves of monsters coming from the upstairs. Scale them with the nu...

Also, you're free to switch between skills at leisure, meaning there's no reason to ever create more than one of each class. What the hell were they thinking haha... Maybe they wanted to make the gameplay more flexible and allow the players to experiment easily? (Although that might not have worked...

NO! I die enough as it is, without getting my dreams crushed right at the finish line. :( Well, most games get harder as the game progresses to build tension, but DCSS actually gets easier as it goes on and the final bit, the ascension, is a stroll in the park. I think it would still be totally win...

I think it would be better if we just accepted that the game has to end at some point. Eventually, the crawl is over. It might as well be when you get the orb or very shortly after. However, what the heck: How about just giving the orb irresistible +MUT? That should make the run a little more inter...

Agreed. Shapeshifters are dungeon trash. Might be cool if they are in their true form when they first enter your LOS, and then immediately following that turn they morph into something that totally counters your character's skills? Might be too hard to program / not worth the trouble? Or, they could...

Any chance of getting a 'friends list' in Webtiles? Would be cool to keep up with people I bump into in games.

A simple improvement to the Orb Run would be to concentrate the demon spawns in the immediate vicinity of the stairwells, so you're forced to pass through some of them on the way up. Rather than getting met one at a time and cut down severally, generally without any risk to the player character, yo...

Another suggestion: What if each turn you hold the orb, your hp decreases by 1 for every rune you collected? Maybe not a good idea considering fast travel complications...

The orb run isn't supposed to be extremely dangerous or high-tension. I disagree, why else did they implement the final demon attack once you pick up the orb? As it is, it's a rather disappointing cake-walk and very anti-climactic. I play without spoilers, so the first time I picked up the orb, I i...

Perhaps the frequency/difficulty of orb effects should be scaled according to how many runes you have. Great idea. I was thinking about the impact it would make on more skilled players, also, I believe there are some achievements during the tournament that involve completing certain tasks after hav...

I've never died making the return run with the orb, and to be honest, it doesn't feel nearly as dangerous as it should. I was thinking, how about if once you pick up the orb, you can no longer cast spells? But then that wouldn't really be fair to caster classes. So how about as soon as you pick it u...

I'll bet it was a black cat...

ha what a waste of bandwidth... nobody has any idea what I'm talking about, nor cares :lol:

glorious thread!

I'd like to, but man everybody... EVERYBODY has a band or a project these days, and how in the hell would I possibly create something that stands out from everything else. I have a few ideas bouncing around in my head but they'll never come to fruition. And anyways, what's in my head has surely been...

Truly an under appreciated member of the dev team. Who is this mysterious cat? I would like to think he/she's mentioned in the credits somewhere?

Fuck I'm bored...

Just wanted to announce that I thoroughly enjoy this thread title.

Eh, the drop rates in Diablo games were always crap. Diablo 2 you just didn't notice if you played online since there were enough players getting good stuff you actually could see it. And sometimes get it for free with enough begging. Plus the games were always more fun with friends, always. Solo w...

Soon (we hope) Torchlight II will be out to help scratch that itch, and for much less $$ Anyhow, welcome back! Thanks! As for Torchlight II, I have no desire to play it. As censored and clean as Diablo 3 is compared to the former games in the series, Torchlight II looks absolutely sterile. Doesn't ...

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