Halls Hopper
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Joined: Friday, 2nd September 2016, 02:00
Non-flying scarabs
They spawn as hostile mobs in locations without deep water or lava (Tomb and one Spider rune vault). So, this limitation doesn't affect them as hostile mobs. They also can be made with player's spell Infestation. Again, usually this limitation doesn't mean anything, except making the spell less convenient for players who can fly or travel around with Passage of Golubria in some locations, notably, Gehenna and Cocytus. By my experience it doesn't make the game more challenging, but forces a choice between abandoning scarabs, taking a longer route around, or memorizing recall, which actually is a no-brainer:
- If it's Coc:1-6, then abandoning isn't problematic, you can always make more.
- If it's final floor, I want to take as much of scarabs to the final boss as possible - if not to kill, then at least to maximize the chance of slowing them down.
- Recall is never an option because it takes away spell levels from other, more valuable and versatile spells.