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Honestly, I've wondered why Repel and Deflect Missiles are Charm+Air instead of Hex+Air. Thematically, hexes affect things other than the caster, and strategically, it'd remove the synergy of Haste + DMsl.

Hi all, I'm trying to build a mummy caster up to 15-rune quality. So far, I've been killing stuff with Poisonous Cloud, Ozo's refrigeration, Lightning Bolt, and Airstrike -- though Airstrike is definitely feeling a little underpowered for killing things right now. Mainly, I'm looking for skilling ad...

Just a thought: what if tornado power, instead of being higher for flying monsters, scaled with monster size such that large monsters took less damage than small ones? Then, one way to adjust the spell's effectiveness would be to adjust monster size. That'd also make monster size more relevant -- I'...

On the other hand, this allows players to examine the Abyss a bit, presumably after their first banishment and I thought that'd be great to reduce the need for spoiler. This alone is a compelling reason to keep Lugonu as a starting god -- playing some AKs (well, CKs at the time) and wandering the a...

Whoever decided to make Scrolls of Identify reveal the top card on a deck: thanks. Drawing an identified Tomb card saved my butt the other day. Finally getting some use out of decks as a non-Nemelexite.

Also! Just because you can kill all the vault guards in a few moments does NOT mean the rest of the level isn't friggin' dangerous.

Haste, rC+++, and Ozo's Refrigeration make for the easiest Vaults:8 welcoming committee ever. Never have I killed so many vault guards so fast.

Maxxillo wrote:
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x - the ring "Raagubut" {cTele rElec rPois SInv Stlth++} (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)

That is quite possibly the best artefact I have ever seen. Congrats on the win!

Kaliman wrote:btw i noticed chei doesnt get angry at me for having rageitis,is it posible to abuse this in any way? noticed that when i press @ it always says i move very slow,so i have no idea if im actually going slower.

I'm almost certain Chei prevents berserk haste, but not the rest of berserk's effects.

Galefury wrote:A rough estimate of attack speed is displayed ingame somewhere (something like "your attack speed is above average"). I don't remember where, but the game does in fact tell you how fast you attack with your currently equipped weapon.

Press "@".

Those 64 creatures included two fungi and a plant. Awesome.

A boggart A twisted little sprite-goblin. Beware of its magical tricks! It is slightly resistant to hostile enchantments. It can see invisible. It is fast. It is little.

Hm... I actually agree; the messages regarding summons aren't particularly clear, IIRC: "The boggart mumbles some strange words." and a bunch of things pop on the screen. I'm pretty sure demon summons aren't any more clear -- they simply gesture. Maybe being more explicit would help: "...

How is certain levels not generating some items different than those levels not generating some monsters?

The features they imitate are important enough that it's important to check them, and uncommon enough that it's practical to do so. According to the mantis wiki page, it's no longer possible to check them -- up to and including letting a monster go through a door mimic. I'm guessing monsters will b...

The advice about eating contaminated doesn't apply quite so much to DD -- stat rot doesn't heal itself on them.

The point of randomness is that it's the really good players who will prevail agains seriously bad rolls. This is exactly the input of player skill we want. If we would equalize matters (especially on a strategical level, like asked for here), then we would _reduce_ the amount of skill needed. It i...

PS: in case anybody cares, the threat level assessment is based on XP provided by the monster. Constructive feedback is welcome as always so we can improve the system. Well... at first glance, XP value should probably the best single value that represents generic moster "danger." If it is...

Marten wrote:why does the lantern equip to primary hand and not secondary (shield) hand?

I think it's the choice you make with the lantern -- it prevents using a weapon and greatly weakens your spellcasting, in exchange for reducing LoS and summoning popcorn undead to trip up the pursuit.

Unparalyzing before death is interesting, though I'm not quite sure about the mechanic -- would it cancel the killing blow? Leave you with Death's Door-levels of HP? And really, getting surrounded-and-almost-killed in effectively a single turn doesn't seem a lot more satisfying. I agree: source matt...

Yup. What evilmike said. It's funny; I was thinking about this and thought "well, maybe it'd be better if the duration were fixed and short" and then: he'd already said it. Note that I'm not suggesting paralysis can't be made balanced; it's that every other paralysis-like effect is more in...

Hi all, In a bunch of places , people have had problems stemming from being paralyzed. And it's not surprising why: if you fail a roll and aren't wearing stasis, you're unable to act. If there are even moderately nasty nasties around, you might be unable to act for longer than it takes to die. It's ...

Can you polymorph 'em?

How about no brands at all? +1 This also means there's a chance you'd actually use that Scroll of Vorpalize Weapon in your stash. Or the proposal I read a while back in which Oka wouldn't just give you stuff, but would summon an opponent armed with the "gifts," (or transport you to an are...

Compare the way that Demonspawn mutations were buffed. Demonspawn mutations are an excellent example of how random things can force a major change of strategy: woe betide the Okwararite with Demonic Guardian 1. I could, however, be convinced with the argument that Holy, Pain, Distortion, and Antima...

Drinking a potion of healing when poisoned is always good. Not if you were going to get better without drinking the healing potion. Then you wasted the potion. Seriously: Getting a distortion weapon from a god is really annoying and may change your strategy significantly, but it's not a death sente...

On a completely different note: on my current conjurer build, I grabbed a buckler on something like D:13 and found that getting level 1 of the skill was really challenging. I finally had to find an orc and let him pound on me for a while, as I was too squishy to spar with the normal-depth monsters. ...

Spider form being unable to butcher is mostly about Ash I think. The point about Ash makes good sense. ... except that, if you're playing as a Tm of Ash (and not going unarmed for some reason), you'll have Ice Form castable by early-mid Lair, and Blade Hands shortly thereafter. So you'd be unable t...

+1 on that page in general. I'm happy with forms causing more restrictions; it's mostly that the butchering restriction is irritating while not ever causing a real hazard to the player. It's not like I'm chopping corpses while there are monsters around. And looking back at my post, I wouldn't ever b...

It would be rather nice to be able to gain nutrition from corpses while in spider form. The situation now just leads to ending your transformation, butchering, and transforming again. I guess it'd be a slight buff in that you could spiderform to get around wielding a cursed blunt weapon, but really....

galehar wrote:A bit of both would give good results. You'll end up with a slightly bigger cloud with the 2 types randomly mixed.

Note that this would be a significant buff to the (already powerful) Mephitic+Poisonous cloud combo.

joellercoaster wrote:If it helps your state of mind at all, it's still definitely the easiest rune other than Snake and Swamp!

If you're fast and can levitate (and preferably blink), I vote Abyss for easiest rune.

So, my SETm has: The bardiche of Rontir {drain, +Blink rElec Str+1} ... It insulates you from electricity. It lets you blink. and The mace "Val Tuarph" {elec, rF++ Stlth++} ... It greatly protects you from fire. Which is great, because now I have rElec and evocable blink, and great rF. But...

... or worshipping Ash, or curing the mutation, or killing stuff without melee. And like I posted: the reduced percentages change the mutation from "the end of my melee game" to "dangerous but manageable" -- and this is with zerkitis 2 and Chei preventing zerk haste on me. I thin...

Galehar, I want to buy you a pony.

Also, is there a place where I can search the commit log? Gitorious doesn't seem to have that option...

Berserkitis may be the worst mutation for some builds, but I'd rather address the mutation (trigger it less often for example), rather than make a clarity spell. Out of curiosity, did this actually change recently? I'm playing a SETm on trunk with two(!) levels of 'zerkitis, and meleeing the crap o...

So, I'm playing my first game with the new skill system (goodbye, 0.8!) and here's my thoughts, for what it's worth: * It Just Works. I play normally and things train more or less as I want. I don't miss the exp pool at all. * The level 0 skill training thing doesn't bother me at all. Whatever probl...

dpeg wrote:if the player kills the royal jelly but Dissolution exists, he could still worship Jiyva.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about doing this. Kill TRJ, snag the Slime loot, and follow Jiyva.

galehar wrote:No you don't get anything from partial levels and so you are right, it's optimal to train skills one after the other.

Is this by design, or because changing it would be difficult?

If you kill The Royal Jelly but leave Dissolution alive, does Jiyva continue to exist? If not, should it?

After some playing, my main quirk is the 0% for deselected skills. I know that this is very often what you want, but, at least for me, it is also not what I want: suppose I start a VM. I'll want to disable Poison soon enough, so that it doesn't eat all the xp. However, I never intended Poison to st...

Don't just grab and wield Sonja's glowing dagger thinking "Sweet: Venom!" Because: Distortion.

The only time I did Elf:5 early and found it easy was with poison immune allies and just sitting back and spamming that... You should try it with Poisonous Cloud sometime. The new cloud AI would make it a bit harder, but it should still be easy to poison pretty much everyone in LOS and run away whi...

you had a rod of demonology, which contains abjuration, so even if you did not find a book with it you could have used it from the rod. Yeah, when I found that rod, I was all "super awesome, now I don't need to find abjuration!" Then I actually used the rod, fairly extensively, ultimately...

How OOD is an Unseen Horror on D:5? Henzell says monsters from DL+9 are rare, but possible, even before the OOD timer kicks in. And I feel like Unseen Horrors are definitely around by D:14...?

I'd never had too much trouble with Elf:5 before, and realized: I'd always had a fairly serious ranged attack before: Bolt of Fire, high-end slings, Poisonous Cloud, or something. In essence, hit 'em and GTFO. This time, I came in as a DDNe (easiest build there is, right? Still haven't won one) pack...

... just tried a few hours of Dwarf Fortress. Interesting game -- but one of the things it did was make me realize how much thought and effort went into Crawl's user interface. So, thanks!

I'm under the impression, based on what I've read in the wiki and on this board, the Necronomicons are supposed to be extremely rare. For a while, I thought that pretty much the only way you'd see the Necronomicon was through Kiku-worship... but from my experience, you have about even odds of seein...

Ah, yes, Hall of Blades with a pure melee build: DRAIN DRAIN DRAIN BANISH DRAIN BANISH.

Whee?

Especially if you have a source of Hunger- and something that reduces movement delay, Abyss has plenty of food laying around, and it's a whole lot easier to leave than Pan. It should be really, really rare that you need to cast something that incurs a hunger cost there. Also, remember to quaff that ...

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