Stalkers?

[Blants]

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?

[Sar]

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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.

[Blants]

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

[Pollen_Golem]

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

[Blants]

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

Oh you

[duvessa]

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?

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