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Following much the same logic by which the success chance of MR-checking attacks is now displayed, could we just display a % to hit chance for currently equipped weapon? Would that really be beyond the pale, at this point?

Just turn them into scrolls of random usefulness: make every scroll duplicate the effect of another scroll at random. Eh, if you imitated all scrolls, you'd just read them outside of LOS hoping for ?acquirement or ?enchant foo, if you limit only to tactical scrolls, then it would still be a scroll ...

Felids cannot use the staff of Dispater (or Asmodeus), unless that was changed really recently. (They can use the horn of Geryon, though, so maybe that's what you were thinking about.) ! is the logical (NOT) in programming so !Felid is Not Felid; so the set containing all races except felid. Oh, my...

Felids cannot use the staff of Dispater (or Asmodeus), unless that was changed really recently. (They can use the horn of Geryon, though, so maybe that's what you were thinking about.)

I'm glad you enjoy Vehumet, though I don't quite know what you mean by "from the outside" — it isn't like I haven't played numerous characters that worshiped Vehumet. Aside from our individual perceptions, it is a fact that Vehumet has been nerfed quite drastically over the years without r...

Vehumet has no active abilities. No action you take under Vehumet costs piety (except abandonment). Vehumet's gift system was changed to be somewhat more interactive, but these changes were a strict nerf to the god, which was combined with or followed by other nerfs (no summoning support, no summon ...

15 runes in under 4 hours? Spells just would've slowed you down.

I shaft maybe once or twice a game, but yeah it isn't your go-to escape. I use innate digging quite a bit though.

In my view, hard question about the amulet. How difficult is it to maintain high piety with a spriggan of chei? I've never played one. If you had no amulet equipped currently and were already at six stars, I'd go with brooch, but I'm not sure how badly you will be set back by the piety hit from taki...

idk I give serious style points for GrBe-->TSO that trains 24 spellcasting, gets int up to 14, and never learns a single damn spell.

Fortunately, Okawaru will not give you something that you cannot currently use. Unfortunately, Oka will gladly give you things that you would never actually want to use. So you aren't going to get body armor, boots, etc. but maybe you will eventually receive a hat that is worth wearing.

If you're the kind of caster who has lots of Evocations for channeling, hit her with box of beasts and sack of spiders summons. This might have worked, the character in question had 24 evo skill. But wouldn't ereshkigal's torment burn through them quickly? With 24 Evo, just fucking kill Dispater an...

Maybe ring of flames could give --Scroll (mirroring --Potion from ice spell Oz's refrigeration) and lose the cold vulnerability penalty

Anyway, as for OP topic, I agree with other posters that still wind would not be a good player spell.

Instead of picking up conjurations you don't really need at the moment, get Oz's armor and train some dodging.

Does tornado just move enemies around, or does it suck all of them into you? Apparently (according to learndb) it moves them in a counterclockwise direction, but in game it tends just to feel pretty random. It doesn't suck enemies toward you but they may land next to you as they are being tossed ar...

From learndb : shadow mimic Dithmenos' **** power (passive). Your shadow mimicks your attacks with a frequency depending on piety, 10% chance at **** and 50% at 200 piety. Melee and ranged weapons use an unbranded +0 weapon of your wielded type, and conjurations use "shadow shard" or "...

The real problem is overall length of the game I think, though the devs have been addressing this bit by bit, to the overall inprovement of the game. Zot and early game are pretty great in terms of balance, as it stands, though you could probably take Zot down to 3 levels. I think that the difficul...

The real problem is overall length of the game I think, though the devs have been addressing this bit by bit, to the overall inprovement of the game.

Zot and early game are pretty great in terms of balance, as it stands, though you could probably take Zot down to 3 levels.

No problem! You got this game under control. Don't get cocky, keep being careful, but this character is really well built and essentially you can do what you want as far as future skill choices. Tornado is the best bang for your investment by far (single school, +2 aptitude). You will get Tornado on...

Nice character.

You really want a wand of hasting — on future acquirements choose wand.

I'd just stick with Trog honestly. I'd also upgrade to a two-handed axe — has Trog gifted you an antimagic battleax or executioner's axe?

A lot of gods have been added over the years and (I think?) incidence of overflow altars was at some point(s) increased. So while the Temple might remain a kind of benchmark for new players as the first "branch" they try to get to reliably, its actual impact in the game has diminished in p...

Congrats! Going nicely. Here's what I would do: Swamp dragon armor (or some other dragon armor) could be worth switching to eventually if you find a bunch of ?enchant armor, but until then, ignore it. Switch to +2 AC ring (not rP) but leave slot uncursed, switch to +2 robe of resistance, train enoug...

I legit like the idea of unrand "song of slaying" way more than the spell, though. Just, not on -2 plate armor obviously.

We don't really agree, as we obviously have different judgments about the relative costs/benefits, but that is OK. True. You are optimist (everything will be ok if I berserk) and I am pessimist (a Vault Warden will come into view and will lock those stairs while I berserk) :) Hope springs eternal, ...

We don't really agree, as we obviously have different judgments about the relative costs/benefits, but that is OK. EDIT: I often think you can mitigate the risks even in late game, in fact you usually have the ability to do so better than in early game. The only thing I'd add re: the NaBe example is...

FTFY. Better options are 1) escape, get more XP and return back to kill it when you don't need to berserk Sure, you can do that, and sometimes that will be the correct response. There are also situations where killing an enemy as quickly as possible is the best, fastest, and safest way to get it ou...

Thanks for the notes, though I don't quite share your concerns. Passive LoS reduction is not strictly beneficial to all characters in all situations, but it really is good for any character that adapts to it. This seems ok for a passive god ability. The god fits very nicely for direct (rather than i...

Ok, I thought about it more and posted a different, more fleshed out (hopefully) god proposal in GDD:

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21337&p=288373#p288373

In ignorance lies strength Inspired by Shtopit's Boniface, God of Ignorance Strength of all active abilities scale up with piety. The god of forgetfulness does not want you training invocations... Piety gain: + Through willful ignorance. (Sacrifice of experience) + Piety does not decay. "Ibdin...

I'd acquire wand. You can swap on rF+ when needed, and the leather armor of rC that you are currently wearing has +1. So I'd enchant that up and curse it. I'd also enchant up that scimitar, curse it, and use it. You have +2 aptitude. Invest some skill in long swords, you already have 15 fighting. Pr...

Malevolent wrote:I'm still not sure if those gloves were trying to tell me something or not.

Well, they did have Regen+. Pretty apropos randart name, all things considered.

Malevolent's advice is good, just make sure to squeeze in like, training one or two levels of invocations skill early (for heroism) and then 8 or 9 at some point after finesse becomes available. I would definitely increase dexterity every three levels on this character. edit: ice form is imo the bes...

I could see temporary, stacking +slaying on enemy death possibly being the basis of a cool unrand, but not if it occurs on -2 plate armour. The rest, I just don't think are that exciting, quite apart from power level. Re: robe of mummy, I liked archaeo's idea (iirc) of removing necromutation and mak...

Strongly disagree with Rast. Enemies that blink can be risky to berserk against in general, even in early or mid-game. But Mara in particular tends to be a very bad enemy to go berserk against. That's when you should either avoid the fight, or else use !haste and call in brothers (and use anti-magic...

Here's my stab at a god with this theme: Upon joining: + “You struggle to remember spells.” Base time to cast a spell increased to 2.0 auts. + “You have trouble keeping up with small items.” Equipping/swapping jewelry takes as long as equipping armor. Base time to read scrolls, drink potions, and ev...

Issue: encasing tough monsters in stone. What would happen if you are near the map edge? As proposed the wall raised by the ability would be temporary, but I think dpeg is correct that this wouldn't be a very interesting ability. You already want to fight in corridors. A more interesting (and still...

I consumed 2 scrolls of tele and 4 potions of curing Did the teleports land you within LOS of the bees, twice? If so, then that is some really bad luck, yeah. If not, then you should have just gone on to the next level after teleporting away (travel manually to nearest descending staircase so as to...

Well, you could make *Rage trigger on taking damage, but that would be a really big nerf. I also don't think "killing weak enemies by not melee" is really that much of a problem. I mean, you can kite them to a safe place and melee and not care about rage anyway? I also don't think that a ...

Congrats! Almost there. Are you planning to stick with Xom the whole way as the CK?

ITT we find out minmay's never paid $2 for a single slice that's a quarter of a full pizza on the streets of new york, either the description of deep dish is pretty fuckin' spot-on tho The former might be covered by the "at the expense of hating yourself even more than you already do" cla...

Random slowness sounds like the most boringest thing ever. If it happened during autoexplore, yes it would mostly be boring. But I don't think *slow on the model of *confuse would be that. Do you agree that the "workarounds" to *rage are a problem? If so, how would you fix *rage without f...

Currently, *rage ("berserkeritis," "You lose your temper in combat") can be controlled in problematic ways. You can suppress it by maintaining sufficiently low satiation. Duration of berserk can be influenced based on the actions that you took while berserked. One can also avoid ...

Oh, I agree, it might be very hard to make ammo management fun, and I don't like ranged combat very much overall for reasons similar to yours. But if there is any niche in current design space that ranged combat occupies, then it is, "limited use based on ammo drops." If you take that away...

Broad axes are fine weapons.

The conventional advice for a novice player rolling up a HOBe would probably be to use the axe with the highest base damage. This has nothing to do with broad axes being terrible weapons or whatever (they aren't).

If one feels that switching weapons is tedious, then there would have to be rather more drastic changes to the game than anything we are talking about here. (As for my own view, I don't think it is "tedious" exactly but I do not like jewelry/weapon swapping and would actually prefer it if ...

Rough death. My condolences.

Infinite ammo eliminates any drawback to ranged combat. "Ammo always mulches" would also solve the ammo pickup issue. (Number of bolts/arrows/etc. generated can be tweaked alongside this change, obviously.)

Sounds like a fun game! Congrats on the first zigg clearing. Disaster area needs to be really strong, as it requires max piety with the noise god and substantial invocations investment. Qaz can make some specific areas of the game seem easier, but the constant loud noise is a very dangerous conduct ...

Yeah, I meant (roughly) same level of boost as Chei gives. (Edited post to clarify.)

In other news, Maxwell's patent armour is also pretty damn good for a lot of characters.

Unless it was very recently changed, you can "easily" suppress *Rage by "just" keeping your satiation at sufficiently low levels. (Yes this is terrible and should not be possible.) Or wear stasis. In any event, going berserk occasionally is much easier to swallow if your body arm...

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