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Amnesiac wrote:I think other branches apart from spiders and shoals are made harder to a higher digree.

Spider is not harder because it was basically untouched, but shoals is significantly harder because of recent changes, sirens probably being the least of these.

Huh I thought sparkling fountains got removed like a long time ago. Somebody must have quaffed the ones in my games before I got there.

I suppose that would explain all the ghosts...

Orcish weapons actually did a decent amount for orcs of Beogh with good piety, unless you don't think that a free ring of slaying about +0,+8 isn't a lot. Removing racial armour would likewise be a beogh nerf, though these might be problems with Beogh rather than problems with removing racial armour.

After perusing some ideas from the dev wiki ( https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:god:zin ) as well as looking at Eronarn's original 70f1de6c commit, I think that I have an idea when it comes to the book of Alliances, the Lost Fifth Axiom of Law. This idea has been discussed se...

Well extra damage from distractostabs could be quite significant if you are playing, say a HaBe or KoBe, but that would not be the primary benefit of either stealth skill or BIA on such characters.

Rod of the Swarm on the other hand...

That seems like a bug.

Code:: The plants of the dungeon cease their hostilities.

At least it sounds like one.

Only 1/6 of your precious scrolls now you lucky crawlers you

Just give nets a 0% chance to mulch on a miss (This might already be the case, not sure), give escaping monsters or players a greater chance each turn to escape, and let the nets do a mulching check every time a monster gets out (by wiggling out, cutting the net, or dying, doesn't matter)

There is nothing wrong with Trog for stealthy types. Even if you go for short blades Trog will likely gift you some decent ones over the course of the game. Berserk is actually a really good way to kill things all game long if you do it in safe situations, and stealth actually helps you accomplish t...

Yeah Statue form on this character is probably worth forgetting. You already have similar defenses (admittedly slightly less HP, but that's okay) to statue form without having to deal with the slowness. The reason that you aren't seeing much melee damage increase from statue form is that probably th...

I think Tm would be better than monk with chei, since you can benefit from all of the stats and in the case of forms the effect of str on UC is ginormous (dex too, in the case of Blade Hands). I probably wouldn't do that with Ds though. I would agree with the others that Cj or -E would be best if yo...

Makhleb's Destruction abilities also scale with Invocations. From ability.cc: case ABIL_MAKHLEB_MINOR_DESTRUCTION: if (!spell_direction(spd, beam)) return false; power = you.skill(SK_INVOCATIONS, 1) + random2(1 + you.skill(SK_INVOCATIONS, 1)) + random2(1 + you.skill(SK_INVOCATIONS, 1)); case ABIL_MA...

I put your ghost down on my HaBe win, RIP hirsch.

Also why not switch to that rF+ ring in your inventory? Well best thing would have been to run but those OOFs hurt

It is sort of lame that nagas spit poison sucks after a few floors. It would be nice if it grew stronger as you leveled or you could train it with a skill. It does. case ABIL_SPIT_POISON: // Naga + spit poison mutation power = you.experience_level + player_mutation_level(MUT_SPIT_POISON) * 5 + (you...

I had like 12 on that list... Lots of great games, though I wouldn't call all of them "roguelikes"

Honestly this post stems from reading another post about how many of Crawl's removals have had to do with "removing unnecessary mental overhead" while I was playing with Makhleb. (I wasn't able to find the post again but that's the basic idea) I realized that Destruction was incurring much...

As long as you are playing your games on crawl.akrasiac.org (looks like you are) your completed games will all show up here: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/hotcrab.html Additionally, to see the dump for a game in progress, press '#' in-game and then go here: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawd...

I don't know if I will be playing any thing but assassin until I ascend but would you mind letting me know what 'SBI' is ? Ah, sorry about that SBl is shorthand for Short Blades. Daggers, short swords and the like. If you are more attached to the Assassin background than you are to Vampires, Vampir...

dck wrote:be a little rupert for a while.

fr: tt while berserk has a chance to paralyze and confuse monsters

Currently hurling Makhleb's destruction is annoying and clunky in that it lets you target things at the edge of your LOS but not every destruction can actually make it there. This applies more to greater destruction, and is especially noticeable with sticky flame and iron shot, but a few minor destr...

I don't want any bad blood between us, but you really ought to try VpEn. Vampires have a fantastic hexes apt to go with their great stealth and good SBl and dodging. Invisibility supported by your other hexes can easily get you through lair (and several other branches as well). You can even crosstra...

Smiting is actually pretty good.

You really dont have to micromanage to have effective orcs just press ^ta and walk over some dead orcs/'taurs

I must admit I didn't check the source when spouting that bit (have been trying to get in the habit but alas), but looking at it now isn't it still true that mutations from evolution are half good and half random? So I just left out the chance to remove bad mutations? Or does it delete itself on tha...

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Sar wrote:No Flight spell generated? I hate that.

You and me both. Well, and Donald, too.

Well Donald wouldn't care too much in this case since he can swim. Wait...

Code:: Donald says, "I'm soaked through. I hate being wet!"

Nevermind, he hates swimming too.

Evolution is a "good" mutation that gives you more mutations over time. Each mutation that it gives you has a 50% chance to be good and a 50% chance to be random. So it will give you generally good mutations and eventually remove itself. Not worth using !cure mut on IMO. Save that in case ...

Code:: The jelly hits the fish. The jelly sticks to the fish! The jellyfish jiggles.

The only waste was not actually using the slings; his sling of velocity with silver ammo would have done almost 50% more damage per aut against chaotic orbs of fire.

Tenaya wrote:Please take away xp gain from training dummies.

Well then they would just be dummies

I totally agree, since rods are generally really good to find and usable on basically all characters. More so than spellbooks which are on autopickup by default. In the meantime you can just add this to your rcfile: autopickup = $?!+"/\% Also if you want runes this will probably work autopickup...

Yeah, the only time summoning and conjurations work together is if you have pets with immunities to what you are slinging, but really this only practically happens with ice beasts, undead or maybe air elementals. In any case conjurations certainly fit the destruction motif better than summoning. I t...

It was my impression that one of the purposes of Pan (and Zigs and extended in general) was to extend the length of a game with a character that you particularly like. Why try to make it shorter and more contained? Speaking of containment, this proposal doesn't really address the idea that Pan is an...

Congratulations! There's nothing like the feeling of your first win

My last Dr (well except for a yellow one but they don't count.) got ruined by Jorgrun as well, except I managed to teleport after he petrified me in Swamp and got demolished by vamp mosquitoes and alligators before I could move :\ Total jerk!

Seems like Vehument would have been good for you already since you are mostly conjurating things to death! Since you are with Chei though I would probably try to ply his advantages (high stats) before thinking about converting. Get some more levels in dodging and fighting and probably find some heav...

OP updated with shadows and death-flavoured demons. Recent changes in trunk to Yredelemnul have replaced ice wraith gifts with plain vampires and have capped the player's combined total of profane servitors and bone dragons to 3. This change might necessitate looking further into Yred's ally mechani...

Invisibility has a number of very useful effects against monsters that do not see invisible or sense invisible. First, it makes such monsters much less likely to notice you making sleep-stabs and avoiding awake monsters much easier. If those monsters then become aware of you at some point they attem...

It might not be so bad if it let you see them anyway but yeah I see how that might be bad. Not a whole lot to pick from early on though. Probably why plain mummies are in there in the first place.

Some chaos brand actions (shafting being one the most apparent) just don't seem like they belong on a weapon brand. For example, I thought that stair-sliding was Xom's doing for the longest time until I read somewhere that it was a chaos brand thing. I do like that chaos brand can do more than just ...

OP reformatted and updated. There are several nice death-flavoured demons that would be neat to use except they are demons. Though technically Yred wrath can generate hostile reapers and soul eaters. Speaking of Necro miscasts, would shadows be all that good as an early-ish ally? They have that new ...

This is really awesome, only it marks (or rather, doesnt un-mark) and butchers rotted corpses for me. Even so this is awesome

Hexes are a little different from damage spells in that you can generally tell how many hits it takes to kill something. Hexes either effect something or they don't and humans are generally awful at estimating probabilities.

Hexes obviously can have awesome effects, but often I find them off-putting because you don't really know how well it effects things without being spoiled. You get a general idea on failure, but that is based on how well the dice roll turned out so isn't really that informative. I think that showing...

When anybody gets hit it's a endless loop of lost souls healing each other. Farm enough souls and you resurrect as an intelligent zombie when you die.

Most of the problems with including that second section come down to flavour. The monsters are interesting mechanically, but aren't the best slaves. That said, ghouls and servitors and presumably some of the ghosts (flayed ghosts at least speak) are intelligent and powerful yet follow the player. Ma...

Does anyone have some feedback on the proposal itself, and not about the lost souls tangent?

If I recall, an abjuration duration of 1 (what I'm assuming that number is) is more like 7 turns or so ,same as Summon Hydra.

New lvl 5 spell: Summon OOD Monster

Do revenants summon lost souls at all? I have played around with them a bit and they haven't yet summoned them for me.

Is there any interest in this at all? I think this would be a great way to get more people to see some of the more interesting undead monsters.

what about some lost souls? fully healing your gifts would be nice. That did cross my mind, though I think that would work better as an ability "Call Lost Soul" than as a gift, which is what this proposal addresses. Being able to fully heal a profane servitor on its destruction would be m...

This proposal neither stems from nor (directly) concerns the power of Yredelemnul, rather the concept that most of his ally gifts are boring. This is, in my opinion, an unfortunate result of the progression in which he grants he grants undead allies. There are several interesting midrange gifts that...

The update is so good.

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