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Why not make the spell useful, by making it not slow the player, or making it area/cloud targeted.

Just wanna mention that there are very few situations where a killhole is better than going up stairs.

Also I think this enemy is pretty much deep troll casters with dig, unless they were removed idk

Why is silence lvl 4?

Did anyone even mention the difference between fast and slow weapons against porcupines itt? It's pretty big. Having/not having equipment to deal with certain enemies is a big part of the game. I would suggest making their spines do more damage and reducing their normal melee attack damage, slightly...

You can make the monster follow you further out of the vault if you don't want to fight multiple at the same time. Same tactics as in the rest of the game for fighting one monster at a time. I'm not saying teleporting monsters on Zot 5 is a lot worse than not teleporting them. But I think it's at le...

ololoev wrote:Why everybody think necromut is bad?

It's not bad, it's very good. It's just not always worth the exp.

Because teleporting 3-5 very damaged monsters spread through zot 5 to be hunted down individually is easier than killing 3-5 monsters at the same time, while waking up more monsters to come to you. You're not forced to do the "fighting 3-5 monsters at the same time and waking up others" p...

Why is teleporting monsters behind you better than letting them follow you out of the vault in a controlled way? It's not.

To simplify the "not silenced by their own aura" thing, they should simply not have a silenced tile under themselves. The aura starts around the character, not on them. That is if the silence aura is something to keep, as duvessa said. Or yeah they could not be affected by silence at all, ...

Just take the orb and win, there's no point in getting more exp or items. The chance of dying while clearing an extra area is higher than the insignificant amount of benefit you would get from it. Your character is very well equipped.

The argument was more about variety of god picked over many games, and not choice. Even if currently the choice of god was obvious and therefore not a real choice (and it's absolutely not obvious) Funny how you contradict yourself later on with "Trog is the best choice for HuFi". there is...

And im back to saying thats not a choice. Seriously, how is that a choice? Its like starting a game unarmed with no skill, coming across a dagger and saying "the dagger is my choice of weapon". You either let player choose god variation for his games or you dont call it a choice. The argu...

The spear isn't bad aside from rF- rC- (which is very bad later in the game). It has the damage of Wyrmbane with 5 less enchantment and 10 more strength. But demon trident of elec is way better.

You shouldn't have negative cold resist. You should have at least 0 cold resist and be ready to equip another cold resist item. That's because some pandemonium lords use ice storm and other stuff like liches and shadow fiends have bolt of cold. If you're not at full health, and you're on an up stair...

You don't need rPois because you can simply not stand in poison clouds.

That reminds me, I really liked djinni. Why didn't they get into stable? A lot of people somehow managed to miss the fact that combined hp and mp makes for a very interesting and different race. Instead they focused on specific balance problems like Ely or fire immunity. Just don't give them fire i...

Wouldn't this make the game more boring?

Yes they're just rare.

BabyRage wrote:I don't see the point in using great mace when demon whip is so good.

Because a great mace is better.

Sar wrote:Why not just make mottled never miss?

It would still be worse than red, so it needs something more.

They don't need to be changed to living if instead we change how slimify works so it can affect more types of holiness. Right now only MH_NATURAL and MH_UNDEAD are affected by slimify, but why not MH_PLANT and maybe MH_NONLIVING as well? That way only demons and the rare angelic enemies will be imm...

I also had the displeasure of playing a demonspawn with antennae with Jiyva recently, but thought that it was such a rare case that it's not worth reporting.

I think thorn hunters should be slimifyable, and other similar cases too. Maybe they should be changed to living.

You should worship Okawaru on fighters because his gifts are great. This isn't that bad. For example if you want to play a melee character then getting weapon gifts is very good, regardless of the existence of heroism. Dith is great for spellcasters because of shadow mimic. Why is this bad reasoning?

Reflection is not bad. Many things are better than reflection when competing for the slot/ego.

duvessa wrote:remove liquids

What other tile the has the properties of "can be fired through freely but cannot be walked through"?

Scythes are pretty pointless. They should honestly be removed. This thread happens to have a suggestion for making them not pointless, maybe you could give your opinion on it. I get the impression that the only reason scythes haven't been tested with reaching + cleaving is that no one wants to prog...

The quickest way to get this for yourself would be to write some client-side javascript bookmarklet which can take a username and reactively delete a user's messages as they come into your chat window. Well this took a lot longer than expected. I don't even need to block anyone myself. Use your fav...

I expect radiation to radiate, not to be hurled/thrown/shot/blasted (blast of radiation is fine if it originates from the caster's tile and expands in a cone or circle but that's not what hellfire does). The word damnation is very weird when used as a tangible thing. My favorite word so far is hellb...

This would be too confusing for players with an RPG or fantasy lore background, which is most players.

In the median XL mod for diablo 2 was a spell "Lorenado" which created a tornado of books around you...that would be a good 5* sif ability. It should scale with the amount of books carried in your inventory. When you use the ability they fly around and hit things. At the end of the abilit...

I think calling the mezzanine thing a stair is pointless given how different from a stair it is. It's the opposite of stairs. The 2d floor plane goes on forever. In practice I think it's fairly similar to "when you use a stair all monsters in LOS can follow through the stair over the course of ...

Regen doesn't work when bloodless, it never did. It does work when near bloodless, you can use it to heal if you want to stay at low blood levels.

This is from before gozag was buffed to drop gold from undead or demon kills and to generate shops below you instead of deeper below the dungeon, vaults or depths. Shop funding was already strong back then. Would you rant less if shop funding costed always 3k gold to fit your god's consistency narr...

I'm not sure about that. In my view it would be preferred if the ability were available throughout the game in a linear fashion. I.e. roughly equal number of uses per floor. The problem is that gold doesn't generate in a linear fashion. Some branch ends have rather large stashes for example. Also t...

What the game needs is a special tile that stops autoexplore. But then you can't use autoexplore anymore because it will keep trying to go back to Yiuf's hut. You need autoexplore to ignore the area. If an exclusion is acceptable then that would work. There's already exclusions placed automatically...

I used bribe in two games on Zot:5 and it was a free orb chamber clear. I used it right before entering a side and didn't need to touch a single monster to pick up the orb. Both times it was an orb of fire or two that killed everything. Had to get in and out fast because in the first game the two fr...

I think you and I must play very differently. I didn't fund any food shops, nor did I even buy food from the existing shops. I was playing a melee guy with sword of power from Lair:2, and decent defenses. I was not taking a long time to clear levels. I was not using anything that consumed hunger. W...

Game 1 with Gozag. Notable items: bought sword of power on Lair 2. Abandoned Gozag on Lair:8 because the food problem was horrible. Game 2. Learned my lesson and played a mummy. Notable items: the +2 cloak "Daegeggu" {*Drain Regen+ MP+9 SInv} +8 autumn katana {slice, Clar} +0 gold dragon a...

Teleports are now delayed after picking up the orb, even if the teleport was activated before picking up the orb.

I don't think "make evokables stronger" is a good idea for a god. A character using primarily evokables sounds cool for about 1 playthrough, but like, it's really not a good idea with how Crawl evokables work. Also a thing that frustrated me about the addition of Pakellas is that Nemelex w...

That sounds pretty hard for a melee character. What tactics do you use to not let the ~30-40 tarantellas that you meet in Spider hit you? (I will genuinely follow your advice if it's good)

Maybe confusion should not prevent canceling a transmutation form.

About the removal of clarity, I don't understand how mummies are supposed to do Spider now. And the lack of clarity is too harsh for them in general. Removing clarity and not adding any kind of alternative is not good imo.

Yeah, my knight was fairly strong, I was not disappointed with the damage at any point in the game (not saying it was great, just that I didn't think it was bad). With idealize it could solo anything. But part of the strength of the knight is that it is harder to kill than the other ancestors. It tr...

I like it when Crawl is fun to play.

Tiktacy wrote:I sincerely hope this is satire though.

You made a post about how males are naturally stronger than females but you conveniently ignore that some people are naturally fat. Typical.

There is a troubling lack of fat uniques, not even talking about normal monsters, and this is frankly quite problematic. The only fat unique is Snorg as seen by its tile. This adds insult to injury because Snorg is probably the ugliest unique and it implies that fat people are ugly. To better repres...

instead of using a scroll of blinking just attacked one more time. And here we go, everyone got paralyzed. The gambling is that the player couldn't be sure that they don't miss, Ukayaw tells you a few turns in advance before the paralysis happens. Something like "Uskayaw prepares for your solo...

I strongly agree with the opening post description of current ranged. Don't agree with the proposal because the advantages/disadvantages are not described and it still requires swapping between a good and a bad weapon to conserve ammo.

With decent damage and hp you can simply move towards orb spiders and melee them. Their kiting isn't perfect, they let you get into melee range, even in an open area. I don't bother with paralyzing orb spiders unless my character is notably weak. I used a wand of paralyze on them in two, maybe three...

Until now I thought the ? sign indicated three things: unaware, confused, and distracted.

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