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Serious kudos for writing that essay of a commit note. Very clear what and why you're doing.

A+, I hate carrying stasis around (so most of the time I don't).

To be clear, the commit is Lasty's. I'm not on the dev team, just taking it upon myself to repost commits with significant gameplay effects.

Well, I hope amulet of life saving is not the next one copied from Nethack :)

Seriously though, this is a good change.

Nethack reflection and crawl reflection are very different.

But yeah, I love this change. Hopefully gourmand goes next.

Lasty, you're my favorite.

R.I.P. brooch of shielding

I'm a bit worried by this change because sometimes you needed stasis to deal with stuff that could paralyze you. Wearing stasis was a lot more interesting than wearing a lot of MR+ items as a way to deal with paralysis because stasis had drawbacks. It is just that sometimes you didn't have the MR gear available.

Honestly paralysis is a problem, it darn close to an insteadeath.

FR: add stasis as a weapon randart property (weighted to stack with *contam, *drain, other remove penalties)

Perhaps it's time to introduce partial teleports:
- Ring of pTele: randomly teleport your ring slot somewhere in the dungeon until you find it again

I can just feel the gameplay opportunities.

is there no way to be protected from chaos attack paralysis now? that seems like it would make doing multiple ziggurats more coin-flip-y, not that 'doing multiple ziggurats' should necessarily be a design consideration.

This seems like one of the better amulet removals, but like the others, I think it does reveal a whole bunch of corner cases that I hope get addressed somehow. I only ever used stasis in three cases, all three of which it has been a major lifesaver and quality of life improvement at the same time. In order from bad to worst: centaurs (or worse, deep elf master archers) with dispersal arrows, draconian shifters (especially when I haven't separated them from a pack), and cases where I needed to cross a tele trap to get into the zot lobes. The third of these is just really painful to manage without stasis, and I'd estimate has happened in about 10% of my wins, though that could be way off. I guess this could be viewed as an "interesting" situation which it sort of is, but imo this possibility really just makes zot 5 swingier and more unpredictable, not more tactically interesting.

(My last win there were actually zot traps blocking both lobes -- now that was "interesting". It was a xom game, so I guess appropriate. The main level was small so on the orb run I tried ~8 teleports to get out of the lobes, all failing, before giving up and just walking across one of the things.)

Yup. I meant the compliment for Lasty. You're just chopped liver in my book.

Reporting in: This amulet is the bee's knees for a Fe. I like watching deep elf archers kill themselves while I saunter lazily toward other, more important things.