Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Friday, 25th November 2011, 07:36
I'm annoyed by everyone calling the wiki outdated!
Averages around 10 or so updates a day lately; the goal of this post is to triple that! I've been checking all of the pages linked from the main page, and they should all be updated for 0.10. Some questions:
Is it still true that spellcasting takes 130% exp to raise, and stealth/invocations/evocations takes 80%? I believe that has been removed and all skills are the same. It is mentioned here for updating once I am sure of the answer.
I added a link to the knowledge bots on the Monster page - there was talk about getting a script to update all the monster stats on the wiki, but I don't know how to run it, so until then, linking to the knowledge bots is fine, imho. Honestly every monster I've ever looked up on the wiki has correct stats aside from some of the statues, and I could probably add those by hand.
I'm tempted to recreate the most awesome flowchart ever and just change "MDFi" to "MiFi" (flowchart found at http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/d/d2 ... wchart.jpg)
Other than that, the only main pages that really need work are some of the race pages. Draconians in particular have been changed around a bit recently and I'm just not experienced enough with them to update it as a whole, although I did make some corrections. Merfolk is flagged as version .8, but it seems pretty good to me. I haven't checked all the aptitudes, though. Spriggan is likewise flagged as .8, and mummies as .9. Both seem pretty well written, but post here if you see anything inaccurate on those pages, and I'll change them. You are free to rewrite it yourself if you have an account, of course.
Honestly, it's looking fairly accurate to me. Today I only checked over the "main" pages so if there's inaccuracies in some deeper pages please feel free to mention them here as well.
Yes, i did leave in the line "A Spriggan with a rod of destruction is nigh unstoppable, at least by monsters." This has been quoted by cerebovssquire as being laughable, but he didn't quote the rest of it: "The problem is to survive until you can acquire or find (good luck with that!) one, and then to survive the hunger from the rod (Int and spellcasting skill help with spellcasting hunger, slow metabolism 3 helps with walking about, but NOTHING in the game completely mitigates Evocations hunger.)."
I think the complete passage is accurate information. If it really bothers you it can be removed, I suppose.
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