Blades Runner
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Joined: Saturday, 18th December 2010, 04:50
Is there ever a good time to pick Sif Muna?
Literally the only times it actually seems somewhat viable for me to pick Sif, is when I'm playing as a mummy (hungerless channeling is great, but then disappointment overwhelms you once you remember that you're a mummy), a summoner (maybe I'm just extraordinarily unlucky, but I can never seem to find any spell books that actually have decent summons for mid/late game, Sif usually fixes that, still a bad reason to pick her though), or a mummy summoner (lol). But even in those situations, when compared with other gods, Sif looks exceptionally mediocre.
A list of game changing abilities that Sif grants you:
Channeling
And that's pretty much it. Spell books are nice but you don't actually start getting them until after you hit Lair, and I can only think of one time that I've actually found the amnesia ability useful. Miscast protection sounds nice, but even with protection it still isn't a good idea to be casting spells that are probable to fail, so it ends up being irrelevant in most instances.
When I first started playing Crawl, I always thought that Sif was the coolest god. "Infinite mana and every spell in the game! There can be no better magic god!", I thought. Now I rarely ever bother to take Sif, even though I want to like her.
Am I missing something here? Is there something I'm just not getting about Sif?