Proposal: randomized super-abomination for the abyss?

[ClawlessVictory]

How about an abomination with several randomized abilities/spells/abnormalities that can spawn occasionally in the abyss? Or maybe every abomination can have random abilities, the number of them depending on it's size?

I'm not a super-regular poster so hopefully I'm not wasting everyone's time with this idea if it's already been proposed a dozen times.

[duvessa]

So...allow Pan lords to spawn in Abyss?

[ClawlessVictory]

So...allow Pan lords to spawn in Abyss?

Ugh... as many times as I've played, beat the game twice, I've always just fled whenever a Pan lord reared it's head.

Sorry, this thread was a bad idea *shamed*

please feel free to delete

[KittenInMyCerealz]

I think that abyss already has it's fill of gimmicky monsters, without even counting the fact that every monster can generate there (except pan and hell stuff i guess)
Having to examine every abomination for optimal play would just be really tedious.

[mps]

Abyss is a nightmare already, imo.

[Sprucery]

I believe it's working as intended then :)

[Berder]

You want to do something truly evil in the abyss: how about a creature that projects a noTele field around it.

[ClawlessVictory]

I don't know, just seems there's lots of talk about grinding in the abyss. I visited the abyss recently and it was a walk in the park. Granted, I don't have much experience there so I might be out of line with that opinion.

[Sprucery]

The Abyss experience depends quite a lot on your character and of course what happens to spawn there. I've found that stealthy characters can usually just run away from pretty much anything dangerous (whenever you see some monster, go the other way). Being fast makes it even easier. Worshipping Ash helps in finding gates fast.

Of course the most important factor is how you got there. If you're banished in the early game, it will most probably be hard no matter what.

[bel]

If you can grind the abyss, you don't need to.

[twelwe]

If you can grind the abyss, you don't need to.

whata buncha political crap. they (them) say if you watch the videos of dead warbabies in iraq, you dont need to because the suburbanite western women are the ones who need to see it, not the people who seek it out. when i hear someone on the street say that i think 1. helllloooooo gender roles, anyone? and 2. dead warbabies in iraq, who cares? its just like what you are saying about teh abyss and it is a lie.

[mechanicalmaniac]

whata buncha political crap. they (them) say if you watch the videos of dead warbabies in iraq, you dont need to because the suburbanite western women are the ones who need to see it, not the people who seek it out. when i hear someone on the street say that i think 1. helllloooooo gender roles, anyone? and 2. dead warbabies in iraq, who cares? its just like what you are saying about teh abyss and it is a lie.

[bcadren]

If you can grind the abyss, you don't need to.

You know it's weird. Early game there's specific punishments for grinding. Mid-laste to post game there are areas where you are just free to grind. (Abyss and Pan) seems like a pretty staunch change in tone.

[XuaXua]

As you progress through DCSS, you learn that punishments are actually features.

[Arrhythmia]

he's right though

[Lyrick]

If you can grind the abyss, you don't need to.

You know it's weird. Early game there's specific punishments for grinding. Mid-laste to post game there are areas where you are just free to grind. (Abyss and Pan) seems like a pretty staunch change in tone.

Is that so? If you can grind the abyss or pan, then you're perfectly capable of winning.

[duvessa]

he's right that there are areas where you are free to grind, just wrong about which ones they are

the easiest-to-grind one is lair, then there are lair sub-branches, orc (except it has like no xp i guess), eventually dungeon/depths

once you find lair the OOD timer kind of stops working

[Lasty]

Clearly we just need to add caustic shrikes as an OOD Lair threat.

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