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I understand if this is a pretty old topic to be bringing up, but why were stalkers cut from the game? It seems like such a unique and interesting idea for a background (make potions and blow them around on enemies) that I think adds some interesting mechanics and finds a use for all the potions you don't really want. Was it a balancing issue with them? If so, why couldn't they just be balanced into line? Or was it that nobody else liked them and I am just some weirdo who likes the idea of blowing potions onto other things?

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=54df5be6b9d9bdd40a116d0b4ddd192871e8adb2

Code:: Remove Evaporate and Fulsome Distillation, and the book of Stalking Mephitic, poison and miasma clouds from a level 2 spell just isn't balanced at all (compare to Poisonous Cloud, a very strong spell at level 6). Fulsome makes the first two of these completely unlimited in practice, and miasma is absurdly strong even with decay corpses being rarer.

That's a shame, it sucks that the class couldn't get sorted out.

But it did get sorted out - into the trash can, where it belongs.

Pollen_Golem wrote:But it did get sorted out - into the trash can, where it belongs.

Oh you

Blants wrote:I understand if this is a pretty old topic to be bringing up, but why were stalkers cut from the game? It seems like such a unique and interesting idea for a background (make potions and blow them around on enemies) that I think adds some interesting mechanics and finds a use for all the potions you don't really want. Was it a balancing issue with them? If so, why couldn't they just be balanced into line? Or was it that nobody else liked them and I am just some weirdo who likes the idea of blowing potions onto other things?

did you try playing them?

Note: Moved to CYC since this wasn't really about Dungeon Crawling Advice.

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