Saturday, 28th July 2012, 07:44 by FalconNL
pubby wrote:For instance, replace potion of brilliance, strength, agility with a single one that multiplies all your stats, possibly replacing berserk. Change Nemelex to insert cards into your decks instead of giving you new ones. Wand of flame, frost, and slowing could just be removed. Enchant weapon scrolls could be merged into 1.
Agreed. I have never drunk a single agility potion because I just don't see any point to it. A potion of strength is probably useful for melee builds for a bit of extra damage, but for a caster it's floor trash. Potion of brilliance's only use is memorizing a difficult spell, but I prefer
galehar's suggestion of just getting rid of spell memorization failure for anything you have at least 1% success in. As far as I'm concerned they can all be removed. In exchance, the frequency of gain STR/DEX/INT could be increased a little.
As for wands: Flame, Frost and Magic Darts are useless in anything but the very early game. Is it really necessary to have three variations of a low-level attack wand? I think Frost and Flame can be removed without causing problems. The same goes for the higher-level wands. I don't recall ever caring whether I had a wand of fire or cold. I suggest replacing all four (fireball, fire, cold, lightning) with a wand of Mystic Blast. My first wand of random effects always gets dropped immediately after "you feel this wand is rather unreliable", never to be picked up again. The same goes for draining. I personally never use the "MR" wands (confusion, enslavement, polymorph, slow) either, but I can see them being useful in some builds.
Scrolls: Replace all scrolls of enchant weapon X with enchant weapon III. Scroll of noise seems fairly pointless. You generally test out scrolls in safe locations, so there's not going to be much penalty to reading it and if you want to generate noise, can't you just yell? I don't think breaking the spell of mermaids and sirens warrants having an otherwise useless item.
Wins: DEWz^Veh (4 runes), DEWz^Veh (15 runes), DEWz^Sif (3 runes), HOBe^Trog (3 runes), MiDK^Yred (3 runes), DECj^Sif (4 runes), GrBe^Trog (3 runes), DECj^Vehu (3 runes), MiFi^Wu Jian (3 runes), DEFE^Veh (3 runes), DEFE^Veh (15 runes)