Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ray


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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:09

Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ray

The new exploit weakness wand makes wand of Magic Darts look so weak and, early in the game, a waste of a turn. Sure, it always hits. Sure, it does physical damage. Can't it be better, though?

Think of searing ray as an alternative. The first hits are comparatively weak to Magic Dart. Why not replace it with the Searing Ray effect so that multiple hits would be encouraged? I cannot think of any time in the five years I've played crawl where I thought multiple hits from a wand of Magic Darts would be a viable offensive option.

Perhaps the wand should just be removed altogether.
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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:21

Re: Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ra

I like wands of darts, the never miss part lets you take out Spores at range and never miss those other high EV enemies...(though wands of fireballs are better for that use later). That said, getting a different use as opposed to just 'counter EV, but not do much damage.' would be interesting...
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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:22

Re: Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ra

The new exploit weakness wand

What is this?

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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:27

Re: Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ra

I am a little confused now. I have a wand of Magic Darts in my trunk, but Wand of Exploit Weakness apparently replaced magic dart wands in addition to flame & frost. Did it get reverted already?

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=8228
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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:28

Re: Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ra

twelwe wrote:I am a little confused now. I have a wand of Magic Darts in my trunk, but Wand of Exploit Weakness apparently replaced magic dart wands in addition to flame & frost. Did it get reverted already?

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=8228


That's just a patch, you can see here http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=shortlog that it was never actually added.
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Post Monday, 24th March 2014, 02:33

Re: Proposal: Replace Magic Dart wand effect with Searing Ra

Don't worry twelve, I think somebody on IRC made the same mistake a while back.

It's kind shows the fallibility of memory to believe an item never added is in the game.
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