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Patashu wrote:Enable TSO for demonspawn

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Perma-wrath, I dig it. Simple. Maybe making activations somewhat less frequent on average to compensate?

You couldn't game this by, say, mucking about with trash mobs until you get a wrath action, before tackling a boss monster, to make it less likely you'll get one during that encounter -- right?

>In fact I've only won one, for great player status.

There should be a "boredplayer" status, awarded for winning a Demigod of every background. :-P

Abyss:1 aka "Easier than old Abyss" is a newer feature, so that should be scrutinized as the root cause of the issue before the much-iterated-upon wrath system. Maybe being in the Abyss during wrath should make the Abyss harder? (Obviously I mean harder than Abyss+wrath is now.) "Give...

99% of the "problems" with buff spells like ozo or stoneskin or phase shift are actually problems with the mechanics of timed buffs as a whole, and would be easily fixed just by copying the "permabuff" mechanics from hellcrawl. What are the permabuff mechanics from hellcrawl? NM...

My demigods all die of boredom. They need *something*.

Nemelex's Deal Four is similar. Not as powerful as three Firestorms by far, though without the downside. Would giving a players a highly-reliable "Execute Phase" ability would trivialize too much of the game? Note that Death's Door could be the third spell, if the player were worried about...

So... if you lucked into one on D1 and wore it until someone without the amulet would've hit level 10, you'd be... at level 10 around 30% of the way toward level 11. Yay?

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Experience# ... e_Required

Lungs filling up with water is a lot faster way to die than gills drying out?

For lava snakes though... if we're positing a creature that lives IN LAVA, I can't see how being deprived of oxygen would be life-threatening for it.

IMHO innate Blurry Vision 3 is better than workarounds to give back some functionality provided by scrolls that the species cannot do without. That solves issues raised with amnesia, enchant weapon/armour, identify, and remove curse, but still leaves blink/fear/fog/holy word/immolation/etc severely ...

Nice trick!

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Shambling_mangrove

Amulet of Faith would be marked as a grey/useless item?

That seems like a pretty heavy nerf. With enemies in sight, is it often better to cast OA than to spend those auts killing things or escaping?

Isn't there a way to make the spell better suited for its original purpose, which I thought was "group things up better for more efficient X"? Where X is Foo Cloud/Ignite/Ball Lightning/Grasping Hands/Scroll of Immolation/etc. With a side benefit, depending on positioning, that things that...

I'm keen on this proposal and hope it makes it in in some form. I think commenters underestimate the value of -1MP cost for spells above level 1. Back when Vehumet gave a similar benefit, I really noticed the extra mid-game nuke or two that I could afford to pump out before I had to cut and run. The...

Double-necklace HP/MP regen while standing in water seems beyond OP. Moreover, when you found or made water, you would then want to lure the entire floor to where you can fight it from there. In watery branches you'd be invincible.

I thought the positional game around multizapping was good for DCSS.

Self-damage from lightning is part of its flavour. With rElec+, many lightning school spells become more usable, including 5-range LB. Seems ok to me.

I keep abandoning Makhleb worshippers out of boredom. So yeah.

With the merging of food, wands, and books, without commensurate bloat of other demands on inventory space... maybe Nemelex is fine now? Just carry all your decks and spam cards in any reasonable fight when you need to make space? It's better than carrying all 20 weapons you might ever use against 1...

VAF -- I wonder if that is borne out by the data. Sounds like a good strategy, but speculation that it's so dominant/obvious that a problematic proportion of players will fall into it. Maybe there's enough other attractors in Gnoll's strategy-space that it's not an issue.

Okawaru, because as a Gnoll with Zephyr, Heroism and Finesse are better than any divine-boosted spellcasting you could be doing instead.

Welcome back. Permanent ally is really strong. Good choice for Gnoll since it supports using modest combat skills in situations that would be too dangerous solo.

Having the banishing monster follow you to the Abyss would be interesting. (Presuming adjustments were made to preserve game balance.)

I totally dig the labyrinth. I hope that the approach taken is to understand why people find it enjoyable and not boring/grindy, and improve upon that while mitigating downsides. You could easily add a scattering of exit trapdoor vaults for frustrated players like the OP. That'd improve enjoyment fo...

Is there a reason why we haven't counted how many shots you get per arrow on average in the current game, multiply ammo drops by that much, and make ammo mulch 100%?

I'm slogging through the Abyss. Do you work off temporary mutations from starcursed masses via turncount, or XP gain?

What is the most efficient method to read the descriptions of spells that you haven't yet found in your current game?

Care to update to let cool people know your take on Borgnjor's Vile Clutch?

You're not the wiki's intended audience, duvessa.

Anyone know whether this is intended? Coming back?

It was working earlier today, but now everything at crawl.chaosforge.org, such as http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Crawl_Wiki is 404.

Note: if you go to http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/, the "Game wiki" link on the right sidebar is the above URL.

I submit that it's within the realm of acceptability -- and folks have already settled on a nickname that no-one misunderstands.

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VeryAngryFelid wrote:Fragile casters don't work as permanent allies, nobody prefers them over Orc Warlords

...in which case this calls for a revision to the Recall ability, or targeted Dismiss, rather than the introduction of a UI that allows everyone to make the same choices.

MainiacJoe wrote:An interface that lets me set the order in which my follower orcs arrive when recalled would be sufficient, right?

Why create an interface when we already know (roughly) what decisions the player would make using it? Instead, make Beogh's Recall prioritize targets based on HD.

Alright, let's build off of this, I think it's becoming a more and more solid proposal for a high-risk high-reward deity. I like continuumg's addition about defacing altars to anger gods. I see a couple different ways this could work: 1. Piety is granted immediately, and the amount gained is propor...

I see significant drawback to merging decks and little benefit. Aside from different cardcounts, they have different qualities. Inventory squeeze is far less of a problem than it used to be with the reduction in slots used by food, ammo, and now wands. I enjoyed playing with Nemelex. Yes it's an odd...

I'm confused. Are you asking how it's different to find scrolls that can be used on any wand as opposed to charging wands by finding more wands? No, I was not talking about Scrolls of Recharging. "Wands you aim and scrolls you don't" seems like the best answer. Maybe Blinking should be a ...

> what is the effective difference between a stack of wand charges and a stack of scrolls?

njvack wrote:You can't choose where the stack of charges goes, it's limited by the kinds of wands you find.

How is that a difference compared to scrolls?

I like it. Using any active ability puts all of Iquotin's active abilities on cooldown? May be overpowered otherwise. Seems obvious there are too many features. Could remove some eg free XP/stats/mutation support, while keeping a core, interesting concept? >2. Passive : when player is not under wrat...

Neato! QoL win.

The question this leaves me with: what is the effective difference between a stack of wand charges and a stack of scrolls?

njvack wrote:TDTTOE

So we can expect a commit for "You have refilled your poison sap supply" shortly? Way cool!

Majang wrote:If you ever parked your car under a lime tree, you'd know that trees can spit poison...

But breath...

"You have refilled your poison sap supply."

To avoid repeating the message every time a monster is pulled up the stairs and killed, would it be possible to flag monsters that spawned with the level, and inform once when they're all dead?

Heroism plus your javelins/tomahawks should be enough to kill them. Identify that iceblast wand to ensure you don't miss with the last hit if it is next to you. Oh ok! I've never been much of a Thrower except for Heavy Rock characters. Adding some Throwing skill. (7 plus Heroism would be min delay ...

Trying the NaWn craziness, I started this one with Young Poisoner's Handbook plus Swiftness. Spamming Poisonous Vapours, plus Spit Poison, plus dagger of venom for a finisher made for a good start. Then I found the +6 scimitar of Honesty {speed, *Drain rElec MP+9 Dex+3} on D6 so I'm training Long Bl...

As a lignified naga, I can spit poison. Seems pretty odd to see "you have got your breath back" while still a tree. Intended?

Individual monster power could always be reduced to offset any power increase of better AI.

you shouldn't worry about losing XP. There is a glut of XP in the game, and if using a given mechanic helps you get some of it easier, it is making your game as a whole easier, not harder. Summoners are advised to have a non-allies method for dealing with non-threatening enemies, so as to avoid nee...

Poisonous Vapours is apparently the most efficient way to take care of unwanted orcs. You monster.

Airwolf wrote:You guys are missing that he's with Gozag, so getting a GDS is not easy.

Is that statement valid in .20? ie with scales dropping as opposed to being generated by butchering?

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