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Sandman25 wrote:It could be very frustrating to die with one of those wands unidentified just because you are still looking for a "rat". I usually identify a wand as soon as I can (i.e. no monsters in LoS). Sometimes it leads to random teleports on uncleared floor though.

do you not see any rats the entire game? just leave one of them alive and come back to it when you get a wand

Volteccer_Jack wrote:--EXP pool still exists
--Hive branch still exists
--Evaporate spell still exists (probably the entire reason this guy is playing 0.7, given his choice of character)
--Fulsome Distillation spell still exists
--Berserk Rage spell still exists
--Bone Shards spell still exists
--Draconians still suck immensely (probably the other reason, though god knows why you'd want to play 0.7 draconians, other than green drac's OP breath)
--Sludge Elf still exists
--Mountain Dwarf still exists
--Kenku haven't had their god-awful name change yet
--Felid doesn't exist yet
--Djinn doesn't exist yet
--Paladin still exists
--Priest still exists
--Crusader hasn't had the god-awful name change yet
--Crusader hasn't had the god-awful book change yet
--Reaver still exists
--Stalker still exists
--Wizard/Conjurer still get a choice of starting book
--Makhleb is still a starting god choice
--Enchantment still exists (in newer versions it is split into Charms and Hexes)
--Arcane Marksman has Swiftness and Poison Weapon and is therefore better than the current version of Arcane Marksman

--Armour heavier than leather is completely useless
--Slime walls are even worse
--Mimics aren't terrible
--No awful ranged AI
--Pack monsters randomly sit on their asses less often
--Earth/fire/air magic are god-awful except for ranged sticky flame and bolt bouncing
--Noise actually fucking works
--Statue form is a spell only cool people like instead of a spell only uncool people like
--Everyone has move delay 6 except for nagas
--Mummies haven't been nerfed into oblivion

Anyway use makhleb

Um, unarmed gets much worse penalties than any other attack from body armour. It increases the delay. Anyway your "best bet" on these things is to look at the source.

much better

I would have polymorphed myself again. The other forms are pretty awful too but at least they can move. rMut (even in mutation form) does nothing against polymorph; another reason MR is by far the most important resistance in the game.

Ok well if animate skeleton and animate dead and animate remains didn't exist then you might make sense but they do so you don't

1010011010 wrote:Perhaps base it on species, would it make sense

nope it wouldn't

Yes, it being optimal to drag 5,000 heavy items to Zot:5 sounds like a great thing to add to crawl.

Don't read the wiki.
Don't read the wiki.
Don't read the wiki.
Don't read the wiki.

i recommend removing the rF++/rC- and breath weapon from non-dr dragon form because im worried kilobyte will make it tmut/fire again otherwise

the hat looks like poop

jejorda2 wrote:If strength-weighted weapons had high AC and low EV compared to dex-weighted weapons, it might help.

The fact that this is basically already true should be enough to demonstrate how interesting it actually is in practice.

Club, hammer, mace, flail, morningstar, spiked flail, dire flail, eveningstar, great mace, giant club, staff, or quarterstaff would also work (although spiked flails are not generated in 0.13).

I wasn't trolling. I thought it was very commonly thought that Blade was a terrible branch. The monsters are either completely trivial (you have invisibility or some good damage spell/launcher) or they repeatedly banish you (you try to kill them with melee). Looking at recent games from greatplayers, the only branches entered less often than Blade are Hell, Tomb, Dis, Tar, Coc, Geh, and Forest; except for Forest these are all branches that you should obviously never enter if you are trying to win, and the only reason Forest is there is that the others have existed dozens of times longer. Every portal vault gets entered more often than Blade!
I assure you my post was completely serious. I have never enjoyed Blade, with any character, nor can I come up with circumstances where I would enjoy it in its current state, and moving it to a random dungeon level would certainly not change that.

Ramc wrote:
brendan wrote:I'd be very hesitant to add Disjunction to a monster, particularly a ranged one. It would make her mostly immune to melee.
Giving her teleport other in the escape slot might be a more reasonable choice.

I wouldn't want the monster to be mostly immune to melee, I just want getting into melee to be very tricky to the point where just charging forward is a bad idea.

Good news, just charging forward is already a bad idea against 95% of monsters in the game, ranged or not

reaver wrote:Could you try to give an example of when you would enjoy doing the Hall of Blades?

never

adityarajbhatt wrote:if something revulutionary as the Abyss is added, is it necessary to compensate for it by removing other things?

I hope so.

crate wrote:a complete list of things tornado doesn't kill:
air elementals, ball lightning, the like 2 other things with wind resistance I'm forgetting

orb of destruction, diamond obelisk

No, I think battlesphere is a dumb spell. I just don't really think it's overpowered. It's a noticeable damage boost but it's not that much compared to the amount of damage conjurations do in the first place, unless you are using magic dart all game because you think it's cool to kill orc warriors by "just" casting magic dart. The original design for the spell actually was to copy spells cast by the player, but it would have resulted in a low-level spell that got more powerful the further in the game you are, which would have been really bad. It also would have been overpowered for players smart enough to cast poison arrow instead of magic dart.

Also I thought your username was some sort of play on the word "scrotum"? Is this incorrect?

Scrotar wrote:I chuckled a little when I killed the first Orc Warrior I saw with 2 magic darts with sphere up.

Provided you understand the concept of resting to recover MP, how is this any more overpowered than killing an orc warrior by casting mystic blast twice?

khalil wrote:
Lasty wrote:Why don't you care that Ossuary is there? It's usually free XP and loot.

I think we might have found what was once thought impossible: Someone worse at this game than me.

I'm pretty sure we just proved it is impossible

fun fact SCP-173 actually predates Blink

main means entire here btw

also i thanked a post by accident for the first time oops

how about making dragon form single-school for non-draconians so that it isn't awful

khalil wrote:Given that the player has no control over if a miscast happens (I had that spell at 5%)

have you considered...not casting the spell with a bad failure rate

ebarrett is sick so i'm filling in for him today: hahahaha tiles haha

XuaXua wrote:Ask yourself, which is better to wear: +1 Leather or -1 Ring Mail?

Both provide +4 AC

based solely on in-game info provided to the player,
ring mail has encumbrance of 7
leather has encumbrance of 4 and slight corrosion protection and less spell penalty
You'd pick leather.

and you would be overwhelmingly, obviously correct

Velikolepni wrote:A - the -3 ring mail of Anaesthesia (worn) {rPois Str+3 Dex+3 SInv}

This is some of the worst armour I have ever seen anyone wear. Even a plain +2 robe would be better, though you should raise your strength by one or two points (longbow damage has a sharp cutoff at 14 str with +9 enchantment). I recommend mottled dragon armour if you have a few enchant armour scrolls. Speaking of which,

Velikolepni wrote:t - 2 scrolls of enchant armour

don't carry these around, something will just burn them. Leave them in your stash until you use them.
A +9 longbow of holy wrath would do by far the most damage against things vulnerable to it. Against things not vulnerable to it, piercer is the best longbow you have, and remember that vorpal stacks with flame/frost arrows.

Bim wrote:I would say 50-60% is good to aim for (not that I've tested it extensively) to make it above a half chance that scrolls/potions won't work, but not so much higher that there is pretty much no point in even trying. In my opinion/what I would aim for is that if you have 4 teleport scrolls you should be more or less confident that you can initiate a teleport whilst burning through a lot of them.

at 50% you only have a 15/16 chance of successfully teleporting with 4 tries...

Why shouldn't you be able to carry 6 scrolls of blinking instead of 2? Who the hell uses 6 scrolls of blinking in one fight? One is enough to save you, then you can run to your stash to pick up a replacement scroll. Carrying more than 3 of one consumable doesn't make you any safer, it's just more convenient, and there's no point in deliberately inconveniencing players.

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KennySheep wrote:Whoops, should have checked that before I said anything. I honestly think monsters that the player can just avoid but tend to cut off escape routs are interesting

if these monsters ever cut off your escape routes then you are very bad at crawl. since they can't hurt you, you can put them anywhere on the level that you want. if you are really in the habit of putting them in your escape routes then im surprised youre still alive. in real life do you set bear traps in your own bathroom? because thats basically exactly what you did if you ever get your escape cut off by a goliath beetle in crawl.

a monster being invisible does not prevent you from knowing exactly where it is...

Also, the rune troves.

No. If you can't kill hydrae just avoid them, they are the same speed as you so they can't catch you. You can also easily kill them by throwing javelins or large rocks if you find those, and if you really need one to die you can use brothers in arms on it but it's kind of a waste of piety otherwise.

ontoclasm is probably right about Corona but is completely wrong about Sure Blade. Sure Blade's power is based on the remaining duration:

Code:: if (weapon && wpn_skill == SK_SHORT_BLADES && you.duration[DUR_SURE_BLADE]) { int turn_duration = you.duration[DUR_SURE_BLADE] / BASELINE_DELAY; mhit += 5 + (random ? random2limit(turn_duration, 10) : turn_duration / 2); }

Recasting it also adds to the duration, it doesn't "reset" it. You generally want to cast sure blade several times if you have the turns to spare.

Q: what do undead use to erase ink
A: wight-out

Q: who invented the barrowplane
A: the wight brothers

Q: what did the necromancer wear under his trousers
A: tighty wight-ies

Q: why were the wong twins bad necromancers
A: two wongs dont make a wight

Q: why did the necromancer dislike martin luther king jr.
A: he was a wight supremacist

Q: why did marvinpa name his dog angelina jolie
A: so he can say he's had sex with angelina jolie

mumra wrote:Hellfire immunity is out of the question, since even the toughest things in extended aren't immune to it.

how about making the wielding code work
that way felids can hold weapons in their mouths without breaking things

The other giants are already extremely common in the main dungeon. Zot monsters are really bad, if anything the vaults that place curse toes and such should be removed.

He got a single kill while he was there, although it took over two years.

well it was just one option, you also could have quaffed speed and walked away

trailer_park_vixen wrote:Actually . . . no. Dexterity was at zero, -2 with the Shield of the Onion. Stats death occurs at 0 or below:

Actually . . . no, it was at 0 with the shield of the Onion and would have been at 2 without it. Stats death occurs at 0 or below. 2 is not 0 nor is it below 0.

the way to survive this would have been to not waste all your scrolls earlier

njvack wrote:
evilmike wrote:It raises the question of how you can sing two songs at once (this is not something I'd ever want to restrict btw).

Huh! And here I was thinking it might be interesting if we had a class of powerful buffs that:

* Are mutually exclusive
* (Maybe) cause a wizardry malus

transmutations

evilmike wrote:It raises the question of how you can sing two songs at once (this is not something I'd ever want to restrict btw).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBb_Qicdmgw

Actually, all you had to do was remove the shield of the Onion.

IMO jackals are bad meatshields too

crate wrote:I don't have any idea where the file ends up if you use the windows installer though.

iirc it ends up in windows, not a very good place *sick windo$e burn*

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