Remove Contamination from Haste


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Shoals Surfer

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Post Wednesday, 29th March 2017, 18:34

Remove Contamination from Haste

With the removal of wands of hasting, potions of haste are likely the only source of Haste available to the player (outside of dirty effects like Berserk or unreliable god effects like Potion Petition, calling potion shops, decks of escape, and Xom). Since this means that Haste is now actually limited in supply for most players unless they explore to find more, I no longer think it is required to balance (the repeated use of) Haste with contamination.

E: Whoops, meant to post this in GDD, but whatever.

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Tartarus Sorceror

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Post Wednesday, 29th March 2017, 22:10

Re: Remove Contamination from Haste

I agree. Contam for haste and invis to me seems like a relic of when they were BOTH spells, but now that one is consumable only(and the one that had the strongest reason to have contam as a downside) I don't see why specifically the combination of drinking haste+invis should be punished when drinking haste+might or haste+resist is not.

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Post Monday, 3rd April 2017, 14:50

Re: Remove Contamination from Haste

Does +Inv on artifacts no longer exist in trunk?
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Shoals Surfer

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Post Monday, 3rd April 2017, 16:43

Re: Remove Contamination from Haste

MainiacJoe wrote:Does +Inv on artifacts no longer exist in trunk?

I don't remember seeing any changes for that, so they should still be able to generate?

Also, I pushed a PR to remove contamination from Haste because it was pretty easy to make, so it's up to the dev team if they want to merge.

Edit: Merged by Brannock, thanks!
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Post Monday, 3rd April 2017, 18:38

Re: Remove Contamination from Haste

Mod note: moved to GDD
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