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My preferred solution to /digging issues is to change /digging to /destruction (or devastation or whatever): top-tier wand with extremely low charges (2?) that fires in a cone-shape, dealing heavy damage and digging out terrain at the same time. I already have a branch in progress for this, but refa...

One problem with Fulsome/Evap that isn't addressed by making them god powers is the incentive to evaporate all the corpses and scour the dungeon for garbage potions. There's scumming potential there. Piety from killing with {foo} is problematic because then you have to worry about last-hitting and w...

It does, but it still takes a turn or two to wear off. edit: or at least it did before the emergency flight changes -- I don't know if that's still true.

This is an area where change is happening gradually. It's not always an option or a good idea to change everything all at once. Weapon swapping isn't generally as bad as jewellery swapping; it's rarely needed aside from launchers, and i already have a solution in mind for that. There are big chunks ...

Swapping equipment isn't all that interesting, and so it's good to avoid incentivizing the player to do it a lot. Fast-swapping equipment is particularly bad because in many situations it means you're effectively wearing all of the swappable stuff at the same time, but at the cost of burning realtim...

Is it possible that one is a mimic?

Most of the issues caused by items in deep water will be resolved when ammo always mulches, and that day is coming.

Riposte does change two things about how you play: first, you get effectively mini-cleaving that scales with EV; second, you can deal damage while taking actions other than attacking. This applies most in situations where you're fleeing from fast monsters, repositioning within combat, using emergenc...

I mostly take Dith for the defensive bonuses. Decreased enemy accuracy, stealth, fog, and shadow form for extreme defense. The shadow mimic offensive bonus is nice, but to me secondary.

I do agree that Dith is not the best stabber god, but Dith is quite good for many other characters.

As various people have noted previously, getting paralyzed isn't that bad as long as you're in control of the circumstances. Getting paralyzed in a pack is very different from being paralyzed at edge of LOS by one monster. I can't control the examples I have to offer, as I haven't been playing with ...

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/Lasty/morgue-Lasty-20160508-164714.txt http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/Lasty/morgue-Lasty-20160505-232739.txt http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Lasty/morgue-Lasty-20160403-015226.txt That's just scanning my last 30 wins. If I allow ones that have a ring of MR+...

Yes. Literally all of the god's powers get more effective with higher Invo.

I agree w/ the OP. I think people substantially overrate MR, and that generally there are good ways to deal with MR-checking threats without it. I frequently do Vaults without any MR+ gear, even on species w/ bad natural MR. I probably have a lot of no-MR+-equipment wins because I don't particularly...

Sandman25 wrote:7.5 Fighting for XL 20 character is too low, even for VS.

Especially for VS. VS gets more out of fighting than most thanks to the bite aux.

Yeah, I probably like okawaru more than I should. I thought about adding Chei to the list, but I still think Chei is only good on chars that already survived the party of the game that challenges them.

Re: Okawaru, I like him on conjurer types because Oka saves me a decent chunk of XP and gets me somewhat better set of equipment than I'd normally get. Definitely not a first choice, but not bad. I should have left Oka off the list of "best" gods for conjurers. @Sandman25, it sounds like y...

Yeah, some of them were before Pak gifting got nerfed to max one rod, and one got no rods at all. All of them had a really easy time. Most of them didn't get a rod until mid-Lair, but still had an easy time. One of them was a deep elf wanderer and had an easy time. Like gammafunk said, if you make u...

In alphabetical order, Ash, Dith, Fedhas, Hep, Kiku, Makh, Oka, Ru, Yred. Possibly Zin, Gozag, Lucy, Jiyva.

Ah crap, Kiku gifts books! I forgot about that.

I'm really confused by a lot of the posts in this thread -- when we're talking about whether a god is strong, the only evidence that makes sense to consider is whether that god is strong when you're leaning into what that god offers in the most effective way. I've played 4 Pak games and won 3 of the...

Currently, every spell that creates a targeted cloud on top of a monster is a triple-school L6 spell, and all of them have worse cloud types than miasma. Y'all are dramatically underestimating how much XP these proposed revisions should cost.

All the gods that are best for conjurers don't gift spells. Ru may ask you to sacrifice some spell schools, but you don't have to take that sacrifice.

I used to have problems with the huge number of offensively named ghosts constantly flooding my games. The names were appalling: poorly-spelled, racist, sexist, disgusting names that made you question the basic decency of human beings.Then I switched from local to online and the problem went away. S...

That would be a pretty brutal sacrifice for the characters it affects.

I think that to balance this you'd want to base the piety value on some estimation of the quality of enchantable gear that exists in the dungeon, but that would be a lot of work.

The answer to the question is mostly no but slightly yes. The time before you teleport is measured in aut, and after each action you take that timer decrements by the length of your action and monsters get an amount of energy to use to act based on the length of your action. So bring slow won't chan...

The problem with the glancing move is how to handle move speed/attack speed disparity. If your attack speed is slower than your movespeed, can you attack faster by glancing, or do you have to avoid accidentally glancing to avoid moving slower than normal? If your move speed is slower than your attac...

andreas and Sar, for what it's worth, I don't personally feel but can understand the sentiment from some players that were attached to a certain mental image of specific uniques. However, it took over a hundred posts before someone said that in those words. In the meantime, we got many posts specifi...

Yang is associated with warmth and maleness, so clearly Xtahua should be male. Yin is associated with cold and femaleness. Therefore Fannar's gender makes no sense. Don't blame me, this is just science, people. On another topic, meta-analysis of studies of men and women shows that on almost every st...

GT is ok, it's fun watching other peoples ships get destroyed. Agreed, that is fun, but more often than not in my experience, the person with the best ship gets all the events and has no issues while the other players just sit and watch. If being in the lead was more deadly, that'd be more interest...

Oh Galaxy Trucker. The first stage of the game is so good, but the second stage is so bad. Someone needs to attach that first stage to a better game.

There was a thread about it (perhaps not the best named one) that got deleted without a trace. That's not very nice, in my opinion, though it's obviously up to the moderators and forum owners to decide. It's a bit disappointing, though. The thread in question was removed because there was 1) no con...

A little older than my teeth and as old as my tongue.

Thanks for the feedback, Tiktacy. I pushed out a few changes to the god last night that address some of your suggestions, but not others: I made the piety game a little more fault-tolerant to make missing less bad, I fixed a no-decay bug w/ pain bond, and I decreased line pass piety. I'm considering...

I'm pretty sure that the base rc currently sets Uskayaw power gain/loss messages to not interrupt anything, even run/rest. Is it possible that your rc has a stop set for god messages?

I proposed something quite similar to this a few days ago in ##crawl-dev, but I think the audience at the time was leaning more towards removing Pak.

I considered making them single-use, but I thought that making them unreliable and unpredictable was a better nerf for them considering how they're often used, while also being more in keeping with the flavor. I mean, I'd have to rename it "box of beast"! Edit: and the justification was bo...

Everyone is wrong. Sacrifice Eye was briefly equivalent to two amulets of inaccuracy. This was deemed far too irritating, and was quickly changed.

If we had cooking and crafting in crawl, there would definitely be people who would complain when we removed those, but that wouldn't mean that it was wrong to remove them.

Conjurations aren't the best way to turn MP or XP into damage, but they do tend to be among the best ways convert turns into damage, and unlike one of the main rivals (melee), they offer to do that from relative safety.

Regarding the first issue, I don't like the idea of changing monster behavior in Zigs. It might make sense to change how the loot gets placed within levels, but I don't have an opinion there.

Regarding the second issue, that sounds like a good candidate for a mantis report.

[...]what is the point on removing decks on all characters but Nemelex followers? The main argument is that they were not as good as other items and that you had to blow identify scrolls in them. Then don't use them! Decks are a fun feature, why do you have to make the game more simple? The argumen...

I think all the good advice has already been given, but I'm gonna expand on some of it for emphasis. Strong combos almost always mean a strong species and a strong-to-fine background. Strong species are mostly the ones with high HP and/or fast movement speed; weak species are mostly the ones with lo...

If you're having troubles with a dancing weapon, you should probably stay out of elf entirely. Dancing weapons will be easy once you find a source of invis.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Another thing to throw on the list...

It would also mean switching to a shield every time you want to run away.

These messages are spoilers about what happens after death, and need to be removed. People are supposed to learn that only by dying themselves.

The hat of the alchemist and the lajatang of order still can give rMut.

Crossbows use Str for damage because the dev team chose consistency over simulation in weapon-stat interactions. I'm not necessarily defending it, but that's why.

On the subject of luring and abuse, it's already the case that fighting summons gives you no piety and fighting weak monsters gives you much less piety than fighting strong ones. Luring a bunch of chaff is generally not as effective as just fighting the thing you're trying to kill, since damaging th...

Also Dex-8 isn't possible in any recent-ish version of crawl, and after 0.16 you can only have up to 2 bad qualities on the same randart. I assume this is either from an ancient version of crawl or some extreme exaggeration.

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