Make mobs more intelligent and interesting

[papilio]

Here's my idea to make mobs more intelligent/interesting


Howler monkeys -> Howler gorillas:
- Increased attributes
- Their howler can paralyze/confuse you

Remove river rats

Remove quasits

Relegate Ynoxinul to Tier-4

Orc wizards:
- Remove Cantrip
- Chance of using Hexes(Confuse/Slow) increased three times

Orc priests:
- Remove Cantrip
- Granted M_MAINTAIN_RANGE (like orb spiders)
- Change chance of using Smiting increased five times (13->65)

Porcupines/Spiny frogs:
- Make them spike 'Barbs' on melee hit

Remove shadows, grant their AF_STAB to unseen horrors

Remove shadow wraiths, replace all of them to lorocyprocas

Remove wights, replace them to skeletal warriors, nerf skeletal warriors

Remove black bears

Polar bears:
- They go berserk at HP of 60%

Electric eels:
- They are amphibious

Remove dream sheeps; grant their 'Dream Dust' ability to death yaks instead.

Dier elephants:
- New ability 'Earthquaking stomp': lesser version of shatter

Merge thorn hunters and shambling mangroves

Merge hydras and entropy weavers into Entropic hydras, capable of casting Entropy weave and their individual heads have corrosive attacks

Krakens/Tentacled starspawns:
- Their tentacle attack can throw players, like former iron giants

Deep elf death mages/demonologists/annihilators/sorcerers/high priests/elementalists:
- They don't melee

Deep elf master archers:
- Granted Deflect Missiles

Spriggan riders:
- Granted AF_KITE (like red devils)

New monster: Yaktaur rangers, see invisible and casts Yara's Violent Unravelling/Portal Projectile

Vault wardens:
- Granted Lesser Beckoning

Salamander mystics:
- Replace Iskenderun's mystic blast to Fireball

New monster: Gelid catoblepas, capable of casting Glaciate

New monster: Suppressive shrikes, antimagic brand attack

Wretched stars:
- Replace Iskenderun's mystic blast to Force lance

Green Deaths:
- Remove Venom Bolt

Executioners:
- Remove Pain, brand their attacks with AF_PAIN

Hellions/Tormentors/Brimstone Fiends:
- Granted M_MAINTAIN_RANGE

Bone dragons:
- Granted sprint

Juggernauts:
- Granted Sprint
- Their attack cleaves

Iron giants:
- Bring back their throw ability
- Granted Lesser Beckoning

Remove Killer Klowns; Replace them into ironbrand convokers in Zot

Remove iron golems: Replace all of them into Hell Sentinels in Dis

Simplify mummy death curses:
Mummies, Guardian mummies -> No death curse
Mummy priests -> Torment or Pain
Greater mummies -> Torment AND Pain

[archaeo]

Orc priests:
- Remove Cantrip
- Granted M_MAINTAIN_RANGE (like orb spiders)
- Change chance of using Smiting increased five times (13->65)

I would quit playing Crawl.

[twelwe]

if the devs do all this overnight no one will notice

[Sprucery]

Electric eels:
- They are amphibious
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Deep elf death mages/demonologists/annihilators/sorcerers/high priests/elementalists:
- They don't melee

Deep elf master archers:
- Granted Deflect Missiles

I'd agree with these. Except that 'no melee' would make the elves totally harmless when silenced, instead of just almost totally harmless. Maybe they should have guaranteed branded weapons instead.

[lethediver]

Most of Tavern would still say the game is too ez

[NotquiteRed]

mobs more intelligent/interesting

Just let them pick up stuff again.

Vault wardens: grant Lesser Beckoning

And this is actually a good idea to spice up these relatively unimpressive guys, who are supposed to be the supreme nasties among vault guards.

[Elitist]

mobs more intelligent/interesting

Just let them pick up stuff again.

Please no.

[bel]

Remove shadows, grant their AF_STAB to unseen horrors

This would be extremely annoying.

[prozacelf]

Remove shadows, grant their AF_STAB to unseen horrors

This would be extremely annoying.

I'm sure everyone would love SInv to be a must-have ability instead of "nice if you've got it but meh."

[ZipZipskins]

Remove shadows, grant their AF_STAB to unseen horrors

This would be extremely annoying.

You mean like unseen horrors?

Joke aside I agree it's an atrocious idea