Can we talk about distortion?

[mrbobbyg]

I never use it, but I've just been *ahem* invited to do so on a DDEE who picked up a glowing dagger on D:2.

It seems wickedly powerful, and I can still butcher with a dagger, so I think I could credibly use this thing until I'm able to survive red glow or an abyssing.

But overall, what do people think about this powerful and dangerous brand?

[mageykun]

Distortion is an interesting brand. It's not necessarily the best choice for killing things, since there's a chance the target is going to be blinked or tele-ed away, or banished (this can get quite annoying, actually, in some circumstances). But it is just about the best brand for getting things out of your way, and can double as a (not without risk) escape option.

For a caster, the first problem isn't much of one- since you want to be killing things at range anyways. For a low level EE, you've got the problem that it's going to stop you from equipping rocks for sandblast, though.

[mrbobbyg]

Yeah, I'm seeing that.

I managed to kill Purgy, Eustacio, and a few Ogres, so I can reliably cast Stone Arrow now, which is nice. So far it has saved me HARD when I got shafted from D:5 to d:8 into a bunch of gnolls, skeles, and a jelly. The dagger bought me some time to flee.

[jejorda2]

I recently played a spriggan wizard with a trident of distortion. I would hide behind flame clouds and summons, but enemies would get blinked into my escape route or teleported into areas that I thought were safe. I eventually got smashed by a Cyclops' rock.

[SinCosTan]

It's fun, but not extremely reliable. If you have nothing better to wield, I don't see much of a reason not to.

Anyone else think it would be very fun if distortion effects could proc when you were butchering?

[cerebovssquire]

No, that sounds absolutely terrible?? Something extremely similar is in the list of things we are never going to do, anyway.