Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Monday, 14th October 2013, 01:05
Spiny is (way)too strong, Foul Stench is too weak
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449 | D:1 | Gained mutation: You are partially covered in sharp spines. [demonic ancestry]
449 | D:1 | Reached XP level 2. HP: 25/25 MP: 2/2
646 | D:1 | Gained mutation: You are immune to rotting. [demonic ancestry]
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2414 | D:3 | Gained mutation: You may emit foul miasma when damaged in melee. [demonic ancestry]
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6191 | D:7 | Gained mutation: You are mostly covered in sharp spines. [demonic ancestry]
But what I discover as a result of getting these mutations at the same time is that, even when I've gotten 2 levels of Foul Stench while Spiny is still level 1, Spiny is still doing a whole lot more(and basically easily carrying me through the earlygame, despite my stupid play). And when they're both level 2, Spiny absolutely kicks the shit out of Foul Stench.
"But miasma is strong, what do you mean?"
Well, I mean both that Spiny is so strong and Foul Stench activates so rarely that I am standing still next to packs of enemies, letting them hit me repeatedly until spiny kills them(without worry!), and Foul Stench still basically never goes off.
There's 2 issues here:
- Spiny is so powerful that it's made everything easy, from earlygame through lair, basically all by itself. (including uniques and the lair 6 endvault enemies much of those screenshots are of.(ps: spriggan riders hit slightly harder than death yaks.) killed grinder basically by randomly quaffing potions at him.)
- Foul Stench's chances of spawning miasma are so bad that even when I'm literally not attacking at all, stretching out fights much, much longer than they would normally be, I still rarely see it do anything worthwhile at all. If I am actually playing it might as well not exist. And that's when I've gotten lucky enough to get 2 levels of the mutation quickly, if you just get the first level it's actually straight up completely functionally worthless.
I have a decently tanky character, but not a super tanky one-AC was at 25-28 or so throughout lair. Missing a couple of armor body slots due to horns and hooves. No AC mutation, +4 chain mail or something like that.
Yet I literally just stand still and everything kills itself on me. If I actually bother to attack, every fight is trivial.
It is(and I'm not just saying this for the sake of the argument I'm making here)very boring.
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