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Some Ukayaw feedback: The main problem I experienced is bad piety gain mechanics. Example #1: I never got the chance to use grand finale on something dangerous. For example I entered the bailey that is shaped like a hexagon with an orc warlord in the center room. There are many orcs there. I thought...

Can potions of beneficial mutation be made to only give beneficial mutations please?

@Wahaha: Glaciate doesn't work as well as Tornado, Iron shot etc.? I mean, it's harder to get working but in my experience it works pretty damn well due to huge amount of irresistible damage, oofs having only rC+ and Glaciate ignoring EV. You probably should use it at short range to get maximum dam...

Orb of destruction, iron shot, LCS, strong summons, tornado. Works but not as well: fire storm, glaciate.

2 fire resistance. Know when to fight and know when to stop and run.

I do not understand how "remove evocable invisibility" as a response to the topic makes any sense, in any way whatsoever. If it can be used reliably at 0 evocations and this is a problem, the solution would be to increase the required evocations skill to use it. I recommend a failure % cur...

I wouldn't bother with spells with a character in CPA doing a 3 rune game. And I would not swap the CPA for something else. You should be training armor and then fighting + armor.

From a metagame perspective PBD is one of the worst mutations because when you're fighting enemies 1 at a time it doesn't do anything (except prevent piety decay). So most of the time it's useless. Now from a real player perspective it is indeed good, because real players don't have infinite patienc...

Probably correct translation, the word "clearer" confused me:
If you have a winner character, you can participate in a player vs player game mode with that character.

The Wz background should just be removed. It does what lke 4 other backgrounds do, but badly. Give Cj the extra Int or something. Conjurer is more similar to the 4 elementalists than Wz is and is a better candidate for removal. But I don't think any of them are so similar that they should be remove...

It's not true that you should always use a scroll of acquirement right away. Here is a very simple scenario where you want to wait: You decide that wand is the best choice. You do not have wands of haste or heal wounds. You do however have potions of haste and heal wounds. You decide to not read the...

When a god doesn't have a 1* ability they mostly cannot compare to gods who do. So personally I can almost never pick them.
It might be beneficial to let piety decay from 6 to 5*. It is for sure beneficial before extended.

I hate Yred too and this could be a better version. Keeping the name Yred.

I would pick polearms because as a Berserker you can train your weapon skill to a high level easily, and bardiches have higher damage and reaching. Lajatangs have better brands. Better brands are not worth the lower base damage when you're a berserker in my opinion.

A little offtopic but why don't faded altars give a starting piety bonus again?

Make him hate halos and halo monsters. So mace of brilliance is not allowed, and monsters with halos give bonus piety. Keeps the flavor and is irrelevant otherwise.

However, in this case the original proposal is simple and will make the game a bit better for everyone. I think the unspoiled player experience has not been considered at all in this thread. But after thinking about the vaults that this change would potentially ruin, for unspoiled players but also ...

A player could read the wiki or read the code to learn everything there is to know about the game. This is not a flaw that needs to be fixed. By this argument, having monster data available in the x-v menu is completely unnecessary and should never have been coded, since the player could always jus...

A player could read the wiki or read the code to learn everything there is to know about the game. This is not a flaw that needs to be fixed.

The best solution might be to make allied orcs not step into chaos clouds.

Short reminder, someone some time ago suggested that dropping stuff with D removes that stuff from autopickup. Would be awesome to patch in as well! I would hate, hate, hate it if you did that. I routinely use D as a convenience to juggle around a single inventory slot when I'm full up. But why wou...

Since not all players look at .des files, this would remove the element of surprise for the players who don't, and make the game worse for them. If a player can recognize a vault from the outside well enough that they can look it up, then they pretty much already know what's in the vault without nee...

Place an exclusion on a square if you want to see the los from that square.

"Centaur but without movement speed" is boring in my opinion. It's like, let's take a human and give it 20% hp and make it worse at defenses in the early-mid game. Except this proposal has tough skin 3 to partially make up for having bad defenses. That's about it for special characteristic...

But you don't lose *fragile items unless you unequip them.

That's a pretty ugly fix in my opinion. duvessa has already covered that - it's only one possible fix. Generating new levels is another possibility. And that's an ugly fix too. You're incorrectly assuming that I'm "triggering immediate-responses"? which is slightly insulting. If there was...

I don't see how making the orb run not a spoiler fixes the problem with digging passages in preparation for it.
Edit: ok the dug walls would be restored. That's a pretty ugly fix in my opinion.

I think that the killhole strategy is pretty bad compared to using stairs. Stairs guarantee having less enemies to fight consecutively, make it easier to rest after a fight, make it possible to walk away, make it safer to teleport. I do dig a corner on Zot 5 to make ranged enemies approach me. If th...

dowan wrote:Halflings are just extra boring humans with unnecessary weapon and shield restrictions.

But they're really bad at transmutations!

On a related note, do people actually used nerfed Swiftness with non-AE's? Pretty much the only situation where it is useful is when you're next to a melee monster, and you're not too far and not too close to stairs, and you cast swiftness to get a space between you and the monster as you walk to t...

You can alternate between drained and non-drained levels on the skills screen so I don't think it's that important to show a number on the main screen.

You shouldn't worry about losing torment immunity unless you're fighting a demonspawn and a fiend at the same time. In which case you should, but it's not that common.

Whenever you're fighting a fire monster it is like having 1 ring slot. Furthermore the game would be unplayable for me if I walked around with rF- and had to swap to an rF ring for every fire monster to have 0 rF, and then a 2nd ring to have 1 rF. And then swap 2 rings back. Every time. Perhaps it i...

I think permanent distortion would make the game really easy. In the early game it would be hard to die because distortion does bonus damage, and because blink and teleport would probably increase survival. Later in the game distortion is super annoying and bad, but this drawback is "worth"...

I would just wear whatever and train a lot of dodging. EV as the main defensive stat does not rely on finding anything better than a +3 leather or something similar and works fine for the entire game as long as you train dodging. Of course you'll often find a dragon armor at some point and train arm...

10 armor skill is good for mottled, doesn't need to be higher. You can expect defenses like 20 AC 35 EV at the end of the game. The AC increase would be from enchant scrolls and finding better equipment.

Stealth has little use for this character. The main weakness is the bad weapon as you've noticed. Getting a good weapon should be first priority. Double sword is not a bad idea. You can clear swamp with agony and being careful. You don't need flying but you have to pay attention to shallow water in ...

I'm not thinking of noise. I'm talking about moving into the LOS of an enemy. Especially if one step reveals more than one enemy, and they both wake up, and you don't have enough MP to kill both (and would have enough ammo). Just to be clear, I'm talking about the start of D:1, because later you can...

It signals that stealth is a skill of interest to mages Then why doesn't AM have stealth skill? Why doesn't Hu have 2 stealth instead of 1? Stealth is of much more interest to those backgrounds than it is to the mage backgrounds. Can you please explain why AM and Hu might benefit more from stealth ...

Apparently I'm pretty much alone with my view that Oka's abilities are crazy strong even for species that can't use the weapon and armour gifts. You shouldn't treat other opinions as 100% correct. For example I disagree with half of the gods named as stronger than Okawaru above, *when using UC with...

Yeah Okawaru with UC is absurdly good early. Not so much after midgame but what matters is before that point. Still really good until the end. You didn't even mention how heroism gives +5 to other skills like dodging and armor too on top of the huge UC damage increase. I haven't played him since the...

Vehumet's spell gifts are more likely to be useful earlier than Sif's gifts. For many gods I find that the very first ability at 1 * entirely determines their power level, but for Sif and Veh I think later abilities have to be considered as well. The reason for not comparing Sif and Veh on the first...

Yes you should stairdance. Pull enemies 1 by 1 to stairs. If there are too many enemies at a staircase go to a different one. Also maybe go somewhere other than shoals 5 if there is an easier place.

Win % is the best indicator of how much you rely on luck to win. That is assuming you always try to play well and your skill level doesn't increase over time.

The monster frequency and danger level of V:5 is like 90% of the time higher than of Abyss. The drawback of Abyss being you can't escape that easily. (walk away until your tp works? Also carry wand of digging so that you're not prevented from walking away) But on V:5 you can't escape easily either b...

The hexagons? one that appears in D:20+. It's like a bunch of adjacent circular or hexagonal rooms of varying sizes at the top of the map.

I'm not really sure how grinding factors into the proposal I listed, to be honest! Yeah I don't know either. Grinding Pan for potions of cure mut?? I don't think grinding is relevant to this thread. I am also slightly disappointed when my character gets mutated in Zot 5 before winning and it's not ...

Does LCS "seem" not worth it or have you actually tried using it and were disappointed? When I can learn LCS I always learn it, and use both IS and LCS. Like crate said, doing more damage per turn, with better accuracy, and less AC dmg reduction is good. If LCS is in danger of being eclips...

lethediver wrote:How do i do those things?

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WingedEspeon wrote:I would find that third prompt useful for D:1.

I didn't write this. Paste in config file.

Code:: { local need_skills_opened = true function ready() if you.turns() == 0 and need_skills_opened then need_skills_opened = false crawl.sendkeys("m") end end }

Could give piety for finding a book. Not a main source of piety but a little bonus, like Trog's book burn piety.

They could search for any 1 tile wide passages and seal them off. They're good enemies. Edit: oops you meant do away with doorways, not the wardens..

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