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Swapping weapons: a recent addition, I asked for it because it otherwise Xom characters are incentivized to avoid wielding launchers/etc while resting First I heard of this. I still (painfully) remember losing a character in extended to a demonspawn's chaotic mirror making us both berserk while I w...

I'd be happy with this, or alternatively show the damage when you hit a monster. There are some pros and cons to each approach, but I think it's been discussed before, if not several times. If people want to get into it, go for it, but I feel like most people already have a firm opinion on the topic.

This is why I find chei so addictive, it's hard to go back to characters that aren't absurdly tanky, which require you to actually use "tactics" instead of tab.

I'm not sure how to find my winning morgue, but I think I'm the first winner, having abused crossbows the whole way through: Goodbye, Tasonir. 476254 Tasonir the Kobold Arbalest (level 32, 228/228 HPs) *STANDARD* Began as a Kobold Hunter on Feb 27, 2018. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the...

The bot is drunk? Uh Oh. But I do agree that the tournaments should make the hat of pondering as common as rations, that way I can wear it every game.

If we're not dead-set on this being a Final Fantasy thread We are in fact dead set on this being a final fantasy thread, and I want to remind you that 4 black belts is and always will be the strongest FF party. Also I was the only one to actually FINISH the run, so I'm still pointing fingers and ac...

Having seen a lot of arguments for guardian spirit vs regeneration amulets lately, there are even some posts were vitality is considered inferior to guardian spirit. While I'm not suggesting any changes to the regular amulets, I think there's at least room for the unrand amulet of vitality to be buf...

Hmm, I like the unlimited ammo. Rang a bung of SpHu^Oka just to test it out, and the kiting is legit, borderlining on OP. I'd argue that especially on fast races, it's completely OP. But that's mostly an issue in main crawl as well; it's just that infinite ammo means you no longer have any reason t...

...to pretend that 0.4 H P per turn is better than effectively 20+MHP or 5 SH. To respond to this more seriously - except that sometimes .4hp/turn is better than 20 hp. For one it's a disingenious comparison because while it is often the case that losing the 20 mana is fine, there are cases where y...

I mostly post because it's better than working. When I'm funemployed, I post a lot less. Exceptions are made for tournaments.

if you're just training transmutations for petrify, don't overtrain it too much. You can always train more earth if you want a bit more spellpower, which has more useful spells that you might learn (LRD, iron shot, clutch, etc). I'm assuming you aren't planning on doing something crazy like convert ...

Ah wow, only two days before the one I found. I might be partially blind. Thanks.

gammafunk wrote: experienced players prefer to actually win games more than 4% of the time, especially when they play simpler characters.

I'd respond to the rest of your post but I'm afraid I'm going to have to wait until I get out of the hospital first after I received this SICK BURN.

Reported the lack of morgues/character dumps issue on git, and also that I'm now getting crashes which I believe are linked to the no_exp_cap = true option. My character's level 30 and is crashing after killing ~5 or so monsters on elf:3, repeatably. I assume that final monster gives me an experienc...

I don't think gnolls should have any trouble casting freezing cloud, conjurations manual or not. Especially when you say your level 5 spell is starting to 'taper off' that sounds like your level 6 spells should be right about online. Normally freezing cloud is a high investment due to triple spell s...

First world problems: When trying to set a skill training target over 27, it gets capped to 27. Assuming you have > 27 skill, it then turns off the skill the next time it's assigned experience. I'm getting repeated crashes on elf:3 when I kill an elf. It's possible my experience gain is causing some...

Also, I can't access a morgues directory on that server, so I'm not sure how to get a char dump from it. In any case, the kobold with crossbows has been a huge success, crossbows are somewhat overpowered (in main crawl) and letting you use it all the time without having to put experience into a mele...

Additional ranged/ammo bugs:

1) Throwing nets probably shouldn't drop in x8 quantities; I just found 24 in a single pile.
2) This isn't actually overpowered though, because they 'mulch' as soon as they hit the target and don't actually do anything to disable the monster!

There's definitely something buggy going on with the infinite ammo option. As a kobold hunter, I started with 100 bolts of penetration. Not using them and attacking with an empty quiver works to shoot unbranded ammo, but occasionally the penetration bolts get automatically equipped, and then if you ...

Some first impression thoughts from just reading the readme: Monsters can't climb stairs is very interesting - you buff stairs as an escape method, but greatly weaken the few places where you're intentionally splitting up a large pack by lifting monsters up (Vaults:5, tomb). I imagine people will cl...

Same except for regen amulet, the most overrated amulet in the game. As far as this one goes, that's easy to explain: the amulet of regeneration is the best amulet in the game for o and tab. I suppose it probably isn't the best amulet if you're actually being tactically optimal, but for accumulatin...

Makhleb has two very good things, one is the risk of summoning hostiles, the other one is HP based abilities. Exactly because of the HP thing, it would be cool if its powers weren't very close to some spell, since, in theory, it's a god that could be very attractive for spellcasters. While not enti...

Chei hates 'em because someone *intentionally* designed them to be faster, that they didn't use a magic enchantment to create that effect has no bearing on that nasty horrible speedyness I always thought they were all enchanted to be speed weapons, but that the game just explains that through 'lore...

Losing XP using summons makes no difference: This has to be one of the most boneheaded arguments I've ever heard. Particularly now with levels which don't respawn enemies, XP is most certainly a limited resource with a few exceptions (abyss & pan which come with heavy considerations.) Furthermo...

I haven't used the zealot's sword, and the base type is quite strong, but even so I'd be worried about the berserk. It is certainly easier to continue using the weapon type you've already trained, though. Still, wyrmbane is only 12 skill for min delay, and it's quite powerful. Both weapons allow a s...

Since no one's said it yet, I think I'll state what I assume most people would agree on: Yes, it would be better to be randomly rounded. Some caveats are that this won't actually make very much impact practically speaking (I doubt many players would even notice it), and that it's using developer tim...

Floodkiller wrote:
bel wrote:Can someone post a link to the SA thread?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showt ... id=3845579

No idea if the paywall is currently up or not.

FYI: Yes, I can read the thread. However, it's also 19 pages long, so I just skimmed the first page only

Can I just say that I (or we?) have a seriously sweet butt and have clearly not been skipping leg day. I'm a bit concerned for how thin my/our waist is though.

Ask the goat if the 5th dimension is bleeding, and if so, whether or not chaos orbs will be back in fashion.

Oh right! OP asked other questions that hadn't been answered yet. Implojin's quite correct, so I won't repeat that stuff, although I will mention that the value of training armor goes up significantly once you have a barding. Early on fighting, once you have heavy armor, then armor. You can do a lit...

I'd say the Ijyb pack is probably the best, because you should be able to separate them with stairdancing, and nasty wand possibilities aside, Ijyb isn't usually one of the nastier uniques. Certainly easier than Sigmund, at least. And I'm saying this as someone who's 4 win streak was ended when the ...

The aptitude has nothing to do with how long it takes to use up the manual. It's entirely due to Gn training every skill at once. Spellcasting 14 at +8 aptitude: 1500 skill points Spellcasting 22 at +8 aptitude: 4425 skill points In other words, it's possible to reach 22 (from 14) with <3000 points...

Changing their healing ability to be a regeneration effect (1hp a turn with a duration equal to the current healing amount) would make it harder to spam it in a bad fight, sure. But imho the main issue with DD is that you can heal in other ways that aren't the racial healing ability, effectively get...

* sandals of stability: Immune to any non-consensual source of repositioning (enemy tornado, enemy blink, trample, enemy force lance, enemy lesser beckoning/gell's gravitas if that exists, blinkitis/teleportitis, banishment, shafting, teleport traps, enemy teleport other, enemy octopode crushers I ...

I suppose it turns out that having a +8 aptitude is really, really good. You'll never need that many skill points to max it, hence why manuals never end. It just feels slow when you're actually playing because you're splitting your experience ~25 ways or however many skills there are.

So some people definitely like the servants, so maybe they aren't as terrible as I consider them to be. That said I mostly agree with duvessa in that they feel like 'just spells', being a typical conjuration/summoning spell without really feeling like a god ability. And while minor destruction gets ...

Background In its current state, Makhleb is essentially the god of heal on kills. Its active abilities feel somewhat tacked on, in order to justify the god as not simply a single passive effect, even though the god is almost always taken simply for that passive effect. Considering power level alone...

Duvessa thanked a post that included the phrase "Imperial Myrmidon"? I demand an explanation for this hypocrisy! (reference: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23390&start=0) In short (so you don't have to read the whole post): Oh and something I'll mention here be...

Obviously they are in .21 as that is what I was playing. I was referring to ogres losing +3 m&f. Who asked for this? Why? Was ogre really so overtuned compared to even 2/3 of the races? But from looking through changelog this is old history so what ever. My take on the ogre thing, although it's...

The garbage: Gourmand --> wear it until you find something better, food is a joke currently, end the game with 100 rations... Harm --> it's just a plain annoying *ha ha you got drained, it won't stop me from attempting to ID amulets without ID scrolls Faith --> it's an annoying *ha ha lose some pie...

I use: confirm_butcher = never auto_butcher = hungry That lets you set how hungry you have to be in order to autobutcher; for most races you'd want hungry. I'll change it to "full" if I'm playing a troll. A more advanced file could have a separate setting for each race so you don't have to...

Haven't found regeneration yet either? I generally use statue form + regeneration. You can continue to use the demon trident with this, although if you aren't using reaching, then unarmed will do more damage. Wild magic 2 hurts your spellcasting a bit but even with that mutation 9% fail isn't too ba...

It's worth training dodging even on characters with low dexterity, you would probably just train it less. The first few levels of a skill being very cheap means it's almost always wrong to not train a skill you're "using", and all characters use dodging. Almost all characters use armor (un...

(Active) Liberation / cost 30 energy Creates a dimension gate that sucks a 3x3 range at the selected location. Objects adjacent to the dimension gate are constantly subject to damage and change to trooper upon death. When energy is over 50, range increases to 5x5 Have you heard of the spell singula...

Someone in the thread suggested that different Gnoll games will be too similar to each other because you would use the same spells late game but my problem with Gnolls is that I almost stop casting late game (at least in 3 rune game): you are practically guaranteed to find a good vampiric weapon an...

I recently lost an enchanter who wielded a -2 dagger, and then never found a single RC scroll until they died on d:8. And I identified all scrolls as soon as I found them...

I also tried enchanting it to -1 because I forgot that no longer uncurses weapons (it used to). Oops.

Similarly to Cheibriados, there's no new abilities at 6*. The main benefit is you know that you can use heavy penalty abilties like slouch at least several times before you hit 5*. Technically for chei the final point of +stats comes right at the border of 6*, but there's still 40 more points over t...

I mean, it's always better to have it than not, I've had a few ice fiends summoned on me by liches...but yeah, rF, rPois, rElec even are all higher priority.

It's been a while since I played a stabber, but I don't recall hydras being too hard to confuse? They have 60 MR, which isn't exactly low, but it isn't really insurmountable either. You'll certainly want to spot them at a distance so you have a few turns to try, and be mindful of how much damage you...

You might be slightly overestimating heal wounds/curing potions. If you're at low health with an acid blob in range, quaffing curing is almost certainly not worth the time it takes to quaff. Heal wounds might be, but it's definitely questionable. Blinking/step from time/teleporting should be your fi...

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