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The summoning cap is pointless and adds nothing but annoyance. You can STILL summon an endless swarm of creatures. Just now it has to be a mix of say ice beasts and scorpions instead of just scorpions or whatever. It's like if the devs decided (arbitrarily and for no point at all) that you can't use...

Thanks for all the advice. I've found that lava orcs make the best chaos knights so I've been sticking with them. Also felids are decent because they can just abandon xom and wait out the wrath (since they have slow hunger and can eat until engorged).

Lava Orcs are like Hill Orcs only better. Don't get me wrong, I love Lava Orcs, but really why play a Hill Orc when you can play a Lava Orc? At the very least Lava Orcs should probably have lower invocations since invocations were one of the few things that made Hill Orcs different than just a Minot...

I'm having extreme difficulty winning one.

If I play carefully with Xom, he kills me.
If I ditch Xom, he kills me.

I've tried various Chaos Knights, including Trolls, Spriggans, Mummies, and most of the time I don't even make it to the Lair. How are you supposed to win one of these?

The Abyss, Pan, Zot, Hells, and other areas with infinite spawns are farmable. You really shouldn't be able to do this though. First off there's no reason that spawns shouldn't stop after a certain amount of time on any floor. In regards to Pan and the Abyss: if you've spent over 100,000 (or some ot...

It honestly shouldn't go off in the first place though. Rather the game should just act like there's a visible monster around after you're hit until that monster leaves LOS.

1. If your autopickup turns off due to an invisible enemy it should turn back on again when that invisible enemy leaves your LOS. Yes, this can be considered and information leak, but it's such a minor one and there are tons of existing information leaks (for example, how exploration works around ti...

Now that you can butcher with a cursed blunt weapon is there any real point in curses? They only really impacted the early game and now they don't really do that except for maybe a ring of teleportation (and even then only in the rare case where you have no remove curse scrolls). I think this has be...

I would read a scroll of silence to shut you guys up but I can't due to all this flaming. Also preservation and conservation will take a bit of a hit in usefulness if item destruction is changed which would further remove any interesting equipment choices. 99% of the time you're not going to have b...

Insult hidden from tender eyes. Kids: don't do this. - Grimm Galehar just stop. You're not winning this one: no one agrees with you. Just go add more AI quirks that everyone hates or whatever you do. Anyway on topic: Item destruction effects some characters more than others and I think this is a...

User was warned for this insulting post. - Grimm I'm a bit worried that being able to carry all your consumables without any risk or downside would remove a lot of tension. To put it bluntly: this is fucking stupid. There's no tactical difference between carrying 2 scrolls of blinking or 6. ...

You could always lower dragon form's level to like level 5 or 6 or something.

1. Savescumming while forgetting to save. 2. Endless pan raids. 3. Abyssal raids. The raids wouldn't be as dull if you weren't savescumming. Just sayin'. Alright that is a lie. In a recent online game I did 15 zigs in a row. The record is 38 but it was boring so I just decided to ascend the charact...

ah, i misunderstood your confusion for sarcasm since this point comes up a lot. there are a bunch of charts and stuff but basically just get your STR to at least the encumberance rating (preferably higher). armour skill and STR go into a some complicated formula and out comes god knows what but hone...

my advice: read spoilers. i know that's the point you want to make and i've made it before... the game mechanics are overly complicated and then hidden because they're so disgusting and ugly. instead of simple black and white mechanics we have lolcurves and arbitrary "let's throw a 27 in here b...

The automatic system doesn't work because it leads to stuff like going to the Temple and blinking over and over just to level up Translocations. Why would you want to do that if you didn't have to? Furthermore it's not like it made sense or anything: blinking in the Temple only levels Translocations...

my stratagy for elven halls: get 100+ hp and learn poison cloud/haste then just poison all the elves and kill them offscreen occasionally you'll get one or two with rpois gear though... then just use like fireball or mystric blast or something. also blademasters/master archers can't sinv. one time i...

just trog's hand when you see a unique like that. trog's hand basically makes you immune to banishment except for distortion brand... but the brand rarely banishes you and usually just blinks you or something. you have understand that if you randomly blink/teleport, you probably just got hit with di...

If something's not even worth mentioning then why have it exist in the first place? It's like elegance and intuitive design are strange and obscure concepts or something.

Can people stop posting this? This also goes for "New Species Idea." Unless you know C++ and are willing to code it yourself there's basically a 0% chance of it being added to the game: any suggestion beyond a minor tweak is pretty much ignored by the devs because they just don't have time...

Having a custom background doesn't really work for online play.

The issue is mummies sort of suck and the entire game is a struggle. The only way you can win with one, unless you're like an expert player or something, is to seriously abuse every broken mechanic you can find. With that being said poison cloud/arrow can kill like 99% of enemies and with decent ste...

I've said this before but: Sometimes bad AI is better than good AI. Possibly some of the worst additions to the game so far are how centaurs arc around corners or now enemies flee when they can't reach you over water: such things either remove tactical options from the game (the arcs) or add absolut...

Ammo should be removed and items such as "bow" should be renamed "bow and arrows." 1. The way ammo brands and launcher brands stack is confusing. 2. Tactics to "save ammo" aren't interesting. Seriously you can write a 30 second script that makes the uninteresting weapon...

why do gargs have sharp toenails and not sharp fingernails? also in game it says their hp is +10% but in practice it's +20% i think...? i'm not sure how hp works but it has lots more than a hill orc i really like the species and it's like a sludge elf with more hp basically which is cool. i don't th...

remove wizard from the list and add berserker please

hungerless berserking >>> killing yourself to fail at casting magic dart

seriously djwz is harder than mube

I figured out the problem. For anyone also having this problem: if you use += it doesn't change any colours changed before it (in other words: the default colour changes). So you have to first use = to erase the previous settings. For example: message_colour=cyan:prompt: message_colour+= mute:.* ......

I created a new init.txt file with only this in it:

Code:: message_colour+=mute:.*

It blocked every single message... except for the missed attacks. This is such a headache.

channel.plain+=mute channel.prompt+=mute channel.god+=mute channel.pray+=mute channel.duration+=mute channel.danger+=mute channel.food+=mute channel.warning+=mute channel.recovery+=mute channel.talk+=mute channel.talk_visual+=mute channel.intrinsic_gain+=mute channel.mutation+=mute channel.monster_...

The reason we don't have potion throwing (fulsome distillation) is long gone so can we have it now? Just give us a functionally identical version of evaporate and everyone will be happy. :) Also can we remove ammo? It's sort of pointless and "use a melee weapon on bats to save ammo!" doesn...

Chain mail should have an EV penalty of 3 matching dragon armour. At the moment it's usually just ditched for a plate and the choice between chain mail and dragon armour is a no brainer. Even with an EV penalty of 3 it still won't be that great but some people might pick it over a plate. Also leathe...

at the moment the wizardy boost is enough for something like dragon armour. problem is that only comes in around the vaults and it's just damn hard to branch that and so much easier to just wear a robe and cast some defensive spells. my proposal is to make such hybrids less of an uphill battle relia...

we already have sif for pure spellcasters. if you're not a pure spellcaster you're better off with kiku than sif. veh is this sort of "if you suck at casting pick me for the wizardry" guy that is only good for challenge builds.

giving a troll the option to invest a large amount of xp into getting a level 3 spell to work is not the same as letting it cast fire storm furthermore the optimal zig clearer is anything that can cast lich form. i've cleared zigs with spens which have horrible int... and there isn't much a hat of i...

Instead of wizardry how about Vehumet greatly reduces the casting penalty of your gear but only for conj? This would make followers of Veh and Sif look vastly different since you could wear heavy armor and cast conj but would have trouble casting stuff like haste or invisibility. It fits the flavor ...

I'm in support of background not determining stats, it's really dumb how e.g. He gets spells more easily than Fi. This can be fixed by adjusting starting stats of He. I disagree with idea in the OP. I've seen DEGl (Nemelex' choice) with Fire Storm in the latest tournament who had only 26 Int and co...

looks like it's time to play more spriggans

Very early on I didn't realize corpses disappeared and I had the idea to collect the bodies of all the uniques I killed. Looking back it was a bit of a creepy idea.

Even with the Ely self-healing nerf, I still think DjHe is overpowered. If I was a slightly better player, I imagine that I could skill robin Invocations and clear out Vestibule without ever entering a branch. As crate mentioned the imbalancing factor of Ely worship isn't self-healing, but the lack...

What? Your Background is basically irrelevant Post-Lair. If anything, Backgrounds choices should be more relevant. This isn't true. For one your starting stats count as a severe limiting factor for what you can and can't do for the rest of the game. This is especially true for any background that s...

i've always seen oka a weaker trog for combinations that can't go trog trog gives you an early demon weapon/exe axe/whatever, usually with high enchantment, while oka gives you floor trash. trog gives berserk which is better than heroism if you know how to use it right. trog gives BIA. while zerk/he...

You only get to distribute 9 stat points and usually it's all just dropped into the same stat. Meanwhile starting stats vary to an absurd degree depending on your background. It has always SERIOUSLY bugged me how little choice you're given and I feel that: 1. Your species should determine your start...

hill orcs are fine as is. lava orcs just need their apts lowered.

essence is just hp + mp... fighting/spellcasting still boosts hp/mp... and essence = hp + mp

minmay wrote:i was hoping they'd remove mf instead

Why would you want this?

Anyway the forest is too hard (at least compared to vaults and crypt).

hungerless channeling? that's the very first thing people tested in wiz mode... and the stronger channeling items are disabled anyway.

realistically it's not like you could just tank + channel to be unkillable. if you're taking that little damage per turn then you might as well just tab dudes.

whyyyy is necromaner suggested background with -3 necro??

i was all like fuck yeah time too kill dudes@@@@@ and picked suggested background and yeah pain with high hp is kinda cool but you can't just paindudes all game.

lava orc is like hill orc only better i won one recently... was like hill orc only easier because of the automatic swiftness makes escaping from ogres and stuff easy. cold weakness isn't that bad cuz they have lots of hp. aptitudes are too good imo, with the one i won i didn't even bother doing extr...

berserkers seem like one of the better backgrounds for them... not getting hungry from zerking is nice. the caster backgrounds don't seem that great: 2 hp per 1 mp seems too harsh. I don't think 1 for 1 would be too good. i get the idea that curing potions now = magic potions, but you also lose mp w...

Sure, you CAN carry an arbitrary number of wands but my point was you don't NEED to. Furthermore we have a mechanic (burden) that is supposed to limit something that doesn't need to be limited. What, is it supposed to limit the number of wands you carry into Pan or something? It clearly doesn't do t...

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