Vestibule Violator
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Joined: Saturday, 3rd August 2013, 18:59
Tuesday, 26th April 2016, 19:20
Duvessa Is the Donald Trump Of The Tavern
duvessa wrote:"Would lead to annoying dilemmas" reflects the opinion of exactly 1 dev who added those mostly-incorrect elaborations to that page a few years ago. The consensus is much closer to this: dual wielding doesn't lead to new strategic decisions, because there's already a special mechanic that lets you forgo a shield in order to get more damage. It's called two-handed weapons.
duvessa wrote:Vehumet's spell gifts are garbage. She always starts by giving you low-level conjurations that are already obsolete, and by the time you start getting potentially useful spells you would be getting equally potentially useful spells from Sif too if you're training magic skills (which you would be doing with any character where vehumet/sif are reasonable choices).
duvessa wrote:it's hard for me to take this complaint seriously when you're pointing at spellbook descriptions that are so bad in the first place. the one in the OP reads like something from a 10 year old boy's rpg maker game. the whole point of purging these descriptions is to improve the flavour, not "remove flavour" (how that's even supposed to be possible is beyond me) and the idea that there's some campaign to "streamline" crawl is nonsense in the first place, because equally ridiculous descriptions are added all the time, nevermind all the new mechanics/monsters/items/spells that show up with every version.
duvessa wrote: You make an entire thread for no reason other than to spew bile about me and accuse me of driving people away, which is of course bullshit because unlike you and dpeg, DracoOmega was overall an awesome dude.
duvessa wrote: I’m pretty sure most people’s problem is with dpeg (even if they don’t realize it), who does next to no coding (even stated as such in the wiki) and is the main “idea” guy.
Problem is, he’s a sperg and has proven time and time again he is willing to let his creative vision get in the way of good design decisions. I have no problem telling him he sucks, especially after how he has treated the community in the thread. He doesn’t even contribute that much to the development process, he mostly implements vaults created by other people and probably spends the rest of his time dreaming up his magical turtle race that can’t wear armor, but can strap up to 10 shields on their back!
duvessa wrote:No, but it would've sounded nicer to say "don't post your terrible ideas in completely unrelated threads"
(Disclaimer: Many of these are taken out of context, duvessa is actually a great guy, this is nothing more than cherry picking for laughs, please don't start drama.)
Can we get a thread of minmays best moments? I feel like I've missed a lot of duvessa's greatest roastings and most memorable memes and would love to see a compilation if possible.
To all new players: Ignore all strategy guides posted on the wiki, ask questions in the Advice forum, players with lots of posts normally have the best advice.
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