Tiktacy wrote:I'm not sure I understand why people say qaz is so bad.
I've only worshipped him once and the game was so easy that it was laughable. I beat the game on my 3rd try using him(and I've only beaten the game 3 times)after coming back from a long break from crawl. I didn't even get that lucky during the game, I was playing as a Dr and got lucky enough to get smoke as my base, but aside from that most of my finds were pretty mediocre. I did manage to get haste online pretty early though, which made dealing with the noise issues a lot easier.
That being said, I did play him when he was still extremely new, perhaps he has since been nerfed.
The worst god is obviously xom, but he is less of a god and more of a "Hard mode."
The gods I've experienced as being the worst are beogh, Yred, and gozag. Beogh is by far the least fun god to play, a lot of people give chei a bad rep but chei is extremely fun to switch to late game depending on the character. But Beogh on the other hand is just an awful experience all around, and dying while playing with beogh feels like the worst kind of death because you spend so much to with herding your orcs. Yred is just un-exciting, I never felt there was there anything interesting or unique about him. Gozag is just gozag.
The reason people say qaz is bad is that he makes you more powerful, at the expense of making the state of the game less controllable. One of the things that highly influences game win rates is your ability to control your situation.
The only situation that qaz doesn't detract much from is stair dancing, so if that is your primary (or only) tactic, then as long as you can do that for the whole game, qaz just gives you more power. However there are some games where it is impractical or impossible to stair dance the whole game, and if you have to venture into unknown territory, qaz can turn an ordinarily simple situation into one that is our of control and potentially deadly.
If you don't have a tool box outside of stair dancing for mitigating non stair dancing situations, then you are going to get into potentially deadly situations with our without qaz, so more power is good, but if you know how to avoid those situations in the first place, qaz's drawbacks outweigh his advantages.
When you compare his additional power to other gods, he really doesn't give you significantly more power than most of them, and he doesn't give you many tools to overcome his drawbacks, so once you have started to rely on noise and positioning tactics to win you more games, he starts to look less and less like a good deal, and more like a challenge/conduct god.
Thursday, 3rd December 2015, 17:01 
