Current Doom Hounds

[bcadren]

How do you deal with them? They are like Iron Brand Convokers that don't need a multi-tun windup these days; I just retreated from Tar in my current game because entering it went all; hound summons 3 fiends, a shadow dragon and another hellhound...and...I didn't see more conflicts like that going well.

[CanOfWorms]

Doom Hounds can only howl once and can't summon more Doom Hounds. Summoned Doom Hounds don't howl at all.

[WalrusKing]

Doom Hounds can only howl once and can't summon more Doom Hounds. Summoned Doom Hounds don't howl at all.

Is that how they've been changed to work? Or is that a proposed fix? If it's a proposed fix, why not remove them entirely because they're just a pack of shittier reapers now?

[bcadren]

Fairly sure the current version no longer summons just other hounds but pulls normal creatures from around the floor, like a convoker...

[CanOfWorms]

Doom Hounds can only howl once and can't summon more Doom Hounds. Summoned Doom Hounds don't howl at all.

Is that how they've been changed to work? Or is that a proposed fix? If it's a proposed fix, why not remove them entirely because they're just a pack of shittier reapers now?

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=co ... 21acddc366

Doom Hounds are Tartarian Mangroves.

[WalrusKing]

Ah, that's way less bad than what I thought it was. I guess you still want a wand of para or something to deal with them, but at least now you can't lose a level to them outright if your damage wasn't high enough

[majesstic]

Ah, that's way less bad than what I thought it was. I guess you still want a wand of para or something to deal with them, but at least now you can't lose a level to them outright if your damage wasn't high enough

Yeah, a wand of paralysis will neutralize roughly half the doom hounds you come across. The rest will get a howl off... just blow them and their summons up I guess? I dunno, I don't find Tartarus monsters very threatening, as Hell goes.