staff of energy

[drag0n]

I noticed in the trunk that the staff of energy completely eliminates spell hunger. And it lets you channel. That is pretty amazing. Is this in .12 too?

[drag0n]

if by amazing you mean still useless, then yes

it's not in 0.12

You mean still useless for top players? I know there's plenty of food to go around, but channeling is pretty handy for non-sif worshippers.

[crate]

channeling is good

[khalil]

Doesn't that make channeling fairly obsolete? If I had a choice between channeling, or channeling and not having spell hunger, I'd probably go with the second.
Unless the staff of channeling got a buff or something.
EDIT
Wait, I see. They got combined. Never mind.

[kenmtraveller]

Wow, love that staff now; for a DEFE who finds an early Book of Fire it's awesome to be able to spam Bolt of Fire with 6 hunger bars. And I didn't even know it allowed channeling.

Ken

[njvack]

The reason energy isn't generally compelling is that you're probably using spells to turn monsters into food, so spell hunger isn't usually that much of a downside. It can be more complex than that, but I suspect that once you're good enough it generally isn't.

For spriggans, energy can make L6 spells a lot deadlier a lot earlier.

[snow]

looks like it's time to play more spriggans

[njvack]

Well.. early staves of energy are not exactly common

[khalil]

I generaly find them while playing mummies.
Now I have something to do with them instead of stuff them in my stash like some kind of hoarder.