Darkness as a permabuff
Posted: Friday, 12th July 2019, 15:30
Stoat Soup has permabuff spells. Should Darkness be one? Now, I know the vast majority of the people reading this don't play Stoat Soup, but I'd like your advice anyway (on the assumption that permabuffs in general are a good thing) - I have had Darkness castable about twice in my Crawl-playing career, so I don't really have a sense of how it works.
I can think of the following arguments:
* No, it would be much too powerful.
* But there's nothing stopping you casting it every time it expires in vanilla. That would consume most of your MP regeneration, but the Stoat Soup permabuff implementation means it will consume just as much of your MP regeneration.
* Then it will be much too fiddly. You'll keep wanting to turn it off to recover the MP supply, then turn it on again.
* Is that really more fiddly than repeated recasts if it's not a permabuff?
Any thoughts?
I can think of the following arguments:
* No, it would be much too powerful.
* But there's nothing stopping you casting it every time it expires in vanilla. That would consume most of your MP regeneration, but the Stoat Soup permabuff implementation means it will consume just as much of your MP regeneration.
* Then it will be much too fiddly. You'll keep wanting to turn it off to recover the MP supply, then turn it on again.
* Is that really more fiddly than repeated recasts if it's not a permabuff?
Any thoughts?