New Unique: Desco

[Tiktacy]

Desco is a unique rainbow colored Orb of Fire with bolts and fireballs branded as chaotic(or maybe electric?) rather than fire. In addition, malmutate is replaced with a new effect that causes all weapons in LoS(not the ones on the ground) become flying, although they are treated as summons.

Desco can only very rarely appear on Zot:5 in one of the two enormous rooms adjacent to the orb. Possibly ON the orb?

[Arrhythmia]

Desco is a unique rainbow colored Orb of Fire with bolts and fireballs branded as chaotic(or maybe electric?) rather than fire. In addition, malmutate is replaced with a new effect that causes all weapons in LoS(not the ones on the ground) become flying, although they are treated as summons.

Desco can only very rarely appear on Zot:5 in one of the two enormous rooms adjacent to the orb.

say he'll appear on the orb and i'm going to thank you

[Tiktacy]

Desco is a unique rainbow colored Orb of Fire with bolts and fireballs branded as chaotic(or maybe electric?) rather than fire. In addition, malmutate is replaced with a new effect that causes all weapons in LoS(not the ones on the ground) become flying, although they are treated as summons.

Desco can only very rarely appear on Zot:5 in one of the two enormous rooms adjacent to the orb.

say he'll appear on the orb and i'm going to thank you

He'll appear on the orb.

[ololoev]

When you come to the orb chamber, you see 27 orbs laying there. 26 of them are Descos.

No. When you bring orb to the surface, you realize that it is Desco. The real orb is somewhere in Tomb:3.

[ion_frigate]

As a more serious comment, a super-powerful monster that shoots chaos-branded bolts and fireballs actually has a fair amount of overlap with Tiamat - the "can't prepare a specific defense against this" niche.

[Tiktacy]

As a more serious comment, a super-powerful monster that shoots chaos-branded bolts and fireballs actually has a fair amount of overlap with Tiamat - the "can't prepare a specific defense against this" niche.

Sort of, you can be omniresistant but nothing protects you from chaos brand.

Although, in hindsight, maybe that's too overpowered considering it can paralyze you and kill you in basically one hit.

[ion_frigate]

Not every draconian breath is resistible (purple and pale), but yeah it is a good point that the worst any of them can do is damage you.

Paralysis definitely needs reform, though a simple interim solution is just to change it to petrification in such situations. Still shitty since it's basically a "do you have a source of teleportation" check, but better than instadeath.

[Shard1697]

As a more serious comment, a super-powerful monster that shoots chaos-branded bolts and fireballs actually has a fair amount of overlap with Tiamat - the "can't prepare a specific defense against this" niche.

In my experience(which admittedly is probably narrow since Tiamat just doesn't usually show up) t doesn't matter if you can't "prepare a specific defense" against Tiamat when her offense is so lackluster no matter what it randomizes to. I just treat her like any other draconian, but with a lot of HP.

[Sar]

I dunno, 40 base damage + a two-hander with reaching and a brand is not exactly "lackluster" for a lot of characters. Sure, her breaths are filler, but she hits hard and has 350 HP and good AC.

[4Hooves2Appendages]

She got me to red drain in two hits today, I didn't expect that and actually used some consumables in response.

[Tiktacy]

I once tormented tiamat with scythe of curses, that was pretty sweet.