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papilio wrote:This has been introduced to control speed of giving Books. (IMHO this is awful decision of Devs)

sif got slowed down piety gain after 5* because that's how every god with normal piety works, not to fix some balance issue with book gifting

I bring you the hot insider scoop on 0.20 zot

good news: blink scrolls don't matter that much in zot anymore

phase shift has a significant drawback already: it's not in the game

you could have just posted spellbinder[4/4]: !lg * cikiller~~Spellbinder 2 -tv The orc wizard's magic leaks into the air. There is a sudden explosion of magical energy! The explosion engulfs the orc wizard. The orc wizard is severely wounded. The explosion engulfs the orc. You kill the orc! Okaw...

dowan wrote:Ahah! I though of that. You can't throw a wand out of LOS, and still have it end up past the zot trap

use any source of LOS manipulation after throwing the wands (darkness, fog, steam)

it's a common misconception. a hot dog is actually a fruit

It's correct and informative that rast is an absurdly egotistical person? Oh OK... if you're incapable of separating (what is a digressive) opinion from fact that's your problem, not duvessa's problem. the focus of duvessa's post is on point: it's easy to notice problems, but people are not capable...

(and that's assuming the developer has the knowledge to teach that in the first place which they usually don't). You just implied that in fact you are a better designer than at least some of the devteam... no, that's just a fact about people in general. the art of teaching is actually really hard a...

the fun part of the game with demigods is trying to figure out the best way of using the loot you're given instead of going to a god that fasttracks you on a winning strategy with gifts

that was recently changed to be consistent

go forth and become the triple crossbow wielding spriggan sniper you were always destined to become!!!

good post, but who are you replying to in the first line?

scandalous!!!

confusion stab damage from short blades is not generally a "one-shot" on monsters like stone giants (also if you read the log I was quoting it was a rapier of freezing)

Unless you have maxed out stabbing bonuses, in which case a rapier will be far better than a dagger. you need a ridiculous amount of dex, short blades and stealth skill to actually hit the cap from stabbing bonuses for non-dagger short blades. until then, daggers have twice as much stabbing bonuses...

tabstorm wrote:You stab the stone giant with a rapier.

well, there's your problem

summon mana viper

edit: misread the question

"are the benefits worth incurring god wrath" is not terribly interesting when you can reap the benefits without incurring god wrath (i'm interpreting god wrath as an actual punishment instead of piety loss/penance) i mean if you were arguing for both of those items to just excommunicate th...

well, it's not actually an interesting decision because the only time you'd want to use lignification with zin is when you don't have access to sanctuary, and in that case you can just abandon zin and quaff lig to avoid penance

VeryAngryFelid wrote:
CanOfWorms wrote:it's a good thing AC display doesn't actually go up to that amount of pips (it stops at 8)

So a player ghost with AC 35 has the same number of pips as player ghost with AC 80, right?

yes

I am arguing that for low AC you need to display AC as number because of sandblast and that for high AC you need to display AC as numeric range because it is very inconvenient and weird to count pips in +++++++++++. it's a good thing AC display doesn't actually go up to that amount of pips (it stop...

"I think this" (not knowing precise numbers) "might, if anything, lead me to play overly cautiously, rather than leading to extra deaths." damn it siegurt In this case, it's less information with more cognitive load (!!! count, conversion rate, range) vs more information with le...

If nothing else, lets not pretend that more information leads to worse choices. i'm pretty sure no one actually claimed this There's a very good reason you do research before you make an important decision. people may do research before making an important decision, but no one actually makes a impo...

kimnosuk wrote:But... But then transcendent Spriggans has become more sluggish one than not-transcendent ones! Maybe they are getting closer to chei?

sure. time is a preoccupation of mortals

the flavourful answer is that they've died and transcended concepts such as "physical movement", or "lack of opposable digits"

But the monster AC displayed in monster descriptions is often inaccurate in the case of things like orcs and other monsters wearing armor-it guesses an "average" for that monster, which may be totally wrong based on whether it's wearing leather or chainmail. But when x'ing over it you can...

ok so what happens if you're simultaneously hit by tarantella confusion and magical confusion in this system

it means it has no more than 8 times as much AC as the highest AC an enemy with AC: +.... can have

(at least that's how I hope it's implemented)

dpeg wrote:
goodcoolguy wrote:I would remind newer developers that being the guy who finally removes food from crawl will make you a folk hero in the community.
He would also die of some unnatural cause within hours.

You mean starvation?

the danger descriptor is based off ⋅ HD ⋅ max HP ⋅ the spells the monster knows ⋅ whether or not the monster has fast regeneration ⋅ the monster's speed ⋅ if the monster is fast, whether it has a "strong" melee attack (over 30 max...

i have a life, sadly

CypherZel wrote:I would estimate that if someone were to just rewrite it by themselves and no life it it would take maybe a year

alright, you make a good sell. I leave the task up to you

hellions and tormentors are hd 7. hill giants are hd 11. should players be led to believe hellions and tormentors are "easier" than hill giants

I also don't see why we can't just use the existing danger descriptor to begin with

fo fighters can start with quarterstaves

I am not sure. In my experience hexes alone are not enough, you run out of mp too often and with qazlal you cannot just retreat to restore mp. stealth-based kills really help to have enough mp when you need it. stairdancing with felid is not exciting. it's not very hard to go up a set of stairs and...

Rast wrote:AC: -5
S) -39 lajatang (vamp)
Corr (-48)

This is dumb. Please fix it.

I would say you're already at the state of diminishing returns, you can't lose any more AC

En seems reasonable. The book handles nearly every monster in the early game and most monsters in the endgame, and you can use invocations to kill whatever hexes can't. But... but... Qazlal and noise and stealth! You have a severe misunderstanding of what the En book is for. Noise has no impact on ...

so what, does following fedhas kill every single plant in the dungeon? does following jiyva wipe out trj?

you can technically make sacrifice love affect iood, fprism and bsphere but the first two don't use allegiance to function at all, i.e. a "hostile" ood will still target whatever you cast it at, it won't magically target something else, a hostile fprism will still hurt whatever's in its bl...

En seems reasonable. The book handles nearly every monster in the early game and most monsters in the endgame, and you can use invocations to kill whatever hexes can't.

it's as much of an ally as qazlal's clouds (read: not at all)

Nemelex Nemelex should not give any decks of summoning to the loveless, only destruction and escape. Note, destruction can still summon an air elemental via Storm card. Nemelex gifting summoning to followers isn't actually a problem, unless "god is weaker after sacrificing love" is a prob...

duvessa wrote:it's the chaos cloud tiles ripped from the game, scaled and rotated; they are ugly and out of place

actually they're mutagenic clouds

we'll change the text the game prints when you hit monsters with them

Code:: _With a resounding crunch, you crush the goblin into a fine paste, spilling its innards everywhere. Its blood spatters on your face!!!

I found my first potion of resistance in Zot:2 after clearing Dungeon, Lair, all 3 Lair branches, Depths, Vaults, Crypt, Elf and Tomb.

CypherZel wrote:I'm not saying MP doesn't matter but during the period when skilling doe matter killing power matters more then how many times you can cast a spell

the killing power of casters is directly correlated with the amount of times they can cast a spell

duvessa wrote:Not every monster needs to be a pack monster, christ.

we are coming up with a fresh new monster, monster tamer, who spawns with 4-8 pack leaders in depths (each leader spawns with its own pack)

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I love to fight Lom Lobon in kill hole and I have never seen him cast Chain Lightning there.

lom lobon doesn't have chain lightning, and as far as I can tell, never did.

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