Tremorstones


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Halls Hopper

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Post Sunday, 10th May 2020, 10:30

Tremorstones

So current iteration of T-stones at 14 Evocations one-shots stone giants, quicksilver dragons, liches and almost one-shots caustic shrikes, not to mention the assorted popcorn. It also deals about 20 hp worth of damage at most to a AC29 character, usually less. Is it working as intended? Seems a bit too strong, especially considering it's an item, that only heavy armour users would want, and I'm not sure they need a such a strong AoE tool at all.

Edit: At 16 Evocations it one-shots electric golems, ancient liches and fiends, two-shots gold dragons, also managed to "one-shot" an orb of fire after blasting it with acid once.
In fact the DPS was higher than +9 trishula with 40 str at min-delay. Felt a like heavy armour user version of fire storm.

Side-note, positioning doesn't seem to matter much in practice, since AoE is huge and the item is spammable, and characters for whom self-damage might be an issue mostly wouldn't want to use the item at all.
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Zot Zealot

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Location: Augsburg, Germany

Post Sunday, 10th May 2020, 20:34

Today I watched a MuGl of Gozag, played by Zorot on CXC.

When I logged in I saw him cleaning a pan lord level in zig:25 and tremorstoning everything to death. No need for anything else, it looked a bit like fire storm without any cost.

Here is some code from the actual game:

Character:

  Code:
 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.25-a0-992-gca090100c3 (webtiles) character file.

Zorot the Conqueror (Mummy Gladiator)             Turns: 100187, Time: 05:55:16

Health: 249/249    AC: 59    Str: 27    XL:     27
Magic:  41/41      EV: 17    Int:  9    God:    Gozag
Gold:   34798      SH: 37    Dex: 19    Spells: 39/54 levels left

rFire    + + +     SeeInvis +   k - +8 mithril axe "Arga" {speed, MR+}
rCold    + + +     Gourm    .   e - +18 shield of the Gong {rElec rN+ MR+ EV-5}
rNeg     + + +     Faith    .   p - +12 gold dragon scales
rPois    ∞         Spirit   +   v - +2 hat of the Bear Spirit {Spirit, +Rage rN+ MR++}
rElec    +         Reflect  .   W - +2 cloak {+Inv}
rCorr    +         Harm     .   q - +4 pair of gloves of Laukelumn {rF++}
MR       +++++                  F - +2 pair of boots {Fly}
Stlth    ..........             L - amulet of regeneration
HPRegen  0.91/turn              D - ring of Due Proportion {+Fly rF+++ rCorr SInv Stlth-}
MPRegen  0.27/turn              H - ring of Ruky {rElec rC+ AC+4 Dex+4 Stlth+}


Branches:

  Code:
You have visited 13 branches of the dungeon, and seen 57 of its levels.
You have visited Pandemonium 2 times, and seen 17 of its levels.
You have visited the Abyss 1 time.
You have completed 2 ziggurats, and seen 54 of their levels.
You have also visited: Bailey.

Actions:

  Code:
Tin of tremorston |       |       |       |       |       |       |     3 |    54 |  1172 ||  1229

I was told he found the tremorstone in depths.
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Zot Zealot

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Post Monday, 11th May 2020, 18:17

In the meantime I've seen some more players abusing the powerstones...

... but now it has been nerfed.

Thanks!

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