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electricity resistance isn't ever expanded into three pips instead of either "totally invulnerable" or "totally immune". It actually does have three pips for monsters. One is 1/3 damage (like player rElec), two is 1/6 damage, and three is no damage. However, I can't think of any...

You get a distortion unwield effect upon transforming, so it works out exactly the same as if you'd just unwielded it.

In trunk you get "Claws" displayed as your weapon if you're a Ghoul (or Troll or Felid), I think putting gloves on is supposed to change that message to "Nothing wielded" to indicate that you're not attacking with your claws anymore but it's not working correctly at the moment.

danr wrote:Any chance of making a plain vanilla version of this weapon, e.g. same speed, damage, accuracy, size and handedness, but +0 and without the mesmerize effect?

It exists and is called a broad axe.

I think there was some ancient plan to have double-handed weapons (that is, quarterstaves and lajatangs (and dire flails apparently, huh)) actually give you two attacks but it was never implemented.

minmay wrote:I'm pretty confident I'm missing the point here but can someone tell me what exactly this "cang" meme is about?

cang

Going into Gehenna as a level 23 Berserker sounds pretty suicidal, good job killing the first Fiend at least.

szanth wrote:If the gloves and gauntlets were differentiated like they were originally supposed to, you could!

No you couldn't, they'd still be unavailable to players with level 3 of a body slot mutation under the proposed system.

It's recoverable if you have a potion of brilliance on hand, but otherwise yeah, you need to be able to read a scroll. There's a Mantis report on the issue here, with the suggestion of lessening the penalties somehow.

The portal is in addition to the normal exit with loot and minotaur.

I think negative EV (and negative AC) are just the same as zero EV/AC.

I think you're also forgetting that Statue Form boosts your HP by 50% and gives you huge AC, especially in combination with Stoneskin. That sounds pretty defensive to me.

Although it doesn't measure things in Sigmunds, a while ago somebody ran a uniques tournament on termcast. The results are up here, it was pretty cool.

I'll join you in fairy land and say you can cast both Dragon Form and Necromutation. If you're fighting Cerebov in Dragon Form and he summons five Ice Fiends at once (or whatever it is he does, it's...uh...been a while since I last fought him directly), you can cast Necromutation right away and get...

"b - the +10,+2 katana of Fate (weapon) {pain, +Rage rF+ rC+}" for my Vampire of Kiku (who also had +0, +15 slaying from jewellery and a demon blade of speed, hurrah) a while ago came from that vault. :) You can actually shatter green crystal regardless of your spell power with LRD, you do...

You can break the green crystal with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction (or Shatter), and then apport the weapon. Alternatively you can get a source of cTele and repeatedly try to land inside the vault with controlled teleports, eventually it'll succeed and because you have cTele you can cancel the effect o...

My Documents is not right either -- in theory it is for directories that users create and manage manually. If apps created directories there then users might be confused by names and of course, name conflicts might become an issue if poorly implemented. The <user>/ApplicationData method is best, pe...

According to that commit, it's actually maximum minimum delay - that is, all weapons now have a minimum delay that is no greater than 7, but may be lower. Yep, that's right. The learnDB got updated for trunk: "A weapon's minimum delay is half of its base delay (rounded down), but if the follow...

I disagree. I don't think we should add variety for the sake of variety because it makes player expect a game-play difference when there's none. (It also confuses developers. It took us ages to realize that helms and helmets were in fact identical and to remove the former. Actually, on that topic, ...

Possibly. What's really confusing is that the same item is displayed in different colours depending on which menu you're looking at it. We'll have to ask console players if there's actually any value in using the base item colour in the stats area. If there isn't, then I suggest the stats area (and...

minmay wrote:People carry around spellbooks because you can't tell what your success rate with a spell will be outside of the memorize screen.

That should probably change.

You can see spell success if you search for a book then examine it. I would like to be able to see it with ?/S too though, yeah.

Stasis isn't too bad an idea with Chei since you can't haste anyway, I'd imagine. You'd have to juggle it on and off to blink/teleport though, yeah.

D:5? Stop being a transmuter and go worship Kiku.

minmay wrote:I'd like to have racial ammo removed.

I'm pretty sure it already was in trunk.

Get Serpent of Hell dragon armour to be really cool.

Hmm, it should probably become ice dragon armour if you get the serpent in Coc. Dunno what would be done about Tar and Dis serpents though.

There are various proposals to simplify the various magic backgrounds on the wiki - I'd definitely agree that there could afford to be a lot fewer choices, but it's a bit difficult because there are so many different ideas and it inevitably leads to wanting to change starting book contents too.

Play them as a fighter with blink until you find a better spellbook, I guess. So you could go with pretty much any god, Kiku would be nice if you want to be more spellcaster-y, or good old boring Oka/Makhleb. I don't think there really needs to be a starting class for Tloc, come to think of it.

They're serial vaults, meaning you get lots of similar-looking features on the same level (supposed to make things prettier and more thematic). And minmay ninja'd me but yeah, their frequency is set way too high.

There isn't a difference at the moment. It's been suggested in various places to have one be soft and the other hard, like caps/hats (soft) vs helmets (hard) - with hard equipment restricted if you have any level of the relevant body slot mutations, and soft equipment restricted only if you have lev...

Can't use smite targeting through walls? Well, I don't know about the spells that supposedly have smite targetting, but my kobold artificer with a rod of smiting did recently clear out that big eye vault (you know, the one with shining eyes trapped in glass cages in the corners). I'm playing 7.1 Se...

I'd suggest pumping long blades and swapping to the triple sword eventually. Elec isn't the greatest brand for it but it's still a triple sword - Berserkers don't have much else to put skills into so they may as well actually use big two-handers. Once you get 18-20 long blade skill it'll be doing si...

I actually had a jelly spawn and eat most of my Lair:1 stash a couple of games ago, which was cool (didn't actually lose much because the stash had only just been set up). But I still stash on L:1.

It's not (anymore). Oh and I take back my suggestion of using Freezing Cloud too, looks like the bug where you could place clouds through a wall was fixed too. :( You can still place Freezing/Poisonous Cloud anywhere in (non-scryed) LOS if you target it with ! though, which is nice and has been bugg...

Reskill to earth and learn Shatter! (LRD would work as well but is much less cool). Or cast Freezing Clouds through the walls maybe. I guess it's a bug that no_rtele_into only applies to the player, and not monsters? Or maybe this is supposed to be possible and you just have to convert or scum up ea...

danr wrote:If those spells don't boost piety (even used properly) then that text is misleading, it should be something like "Vehumet aids the use of this spell."

It's already changed to "supports the use of this spell" in trunk.

Armour doesn't affect your attack speed except for unarmed now, yeah.

Herding is definitely a problem (and I like dpeg's proposals to fix it) but I'm not at all convinced that Beogh is lacking power in the endgame. I won with a band of 6 orc warlords and a high priest killing everything on the way to the orb - it requires careful play (recall your orcs to get them out...

Maybe the recognised items screen could be used to toggle on and off item types and specific items for autopickup (and start off with initial settings based on what's in your RC)?

"Cheibriados thinks you should slow down. You feel a little guilty." It works fine on my locally compiled trunk build. There's no message for putting them on (perhaps there should be?) but they're marked red, described as disapproved of by Chei in the description, and that message appears ...

I think the simplest (and most obvious) fix is definitely making spell power actually have an effect on the current no-brainer spells that everyone picks up, as galehar mentioned. Currently spell power only affects the duration of most Charms, instead of the effectiveness. ((Semi)controlled) blinks ...

Include autofight.lua in your RC, then macro a key to ===hit_closest.

You'll keep getting piety hits for wearing them.

To be a little more helpful: Piety gain/gift timeout is based on the value of the items you sacrifice, and bad/useless items have a value of 1gp.

Chaos is pretty fun but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to actually live.

A lone greater naga comes next to me. More Irony: I could have done Alistair's Intoxication, and survived. Alistair's doesn't work on Nagas. They are poison resistant. I died ages ago from trying to Intoxicate a harpy pack and had no idea why it didn't work until I read spoilers, since the spell de...

I definitely wouldn't want to take orc followers to Hell/Pan/Tomb (although maybe I'll try it sometime anyway if I play another HOPr). Properly equipped orc warlords deal with just about everything in Zot, though.

If you're investing in Twisted Resurrection then Bolt of Draining is a perfectly good option, since you can blast things with it through your undead allies.

Mummies have terrible MR and no way of dealing with confusion until they find Ashenzari or MR items or clarity, yeah. You were basically just screwed. :P A lot of people on the wiki page (devs as well as players) seem to agree that they deserve higher MR. I think letting them use restoration while c...

It's a reported bug, pretty unfortunate way to die.

Apparently they're a real thing, if that helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat

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