RIP wands of scattershot


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Zot Zealot

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Post Sunday, 17th May 2020, 13:17

RIP wands of scattershot

apparently these have been removed

Wands of scattershot were honestly my favourite wand. Great for emergencies, and enormous DPS in the end game (I remember using one to take out Lom Bobon, when my holy axe didn't do the job well enough). Whereas other wands are best used to start fights, scattershot was very good at the end of a fight, and great for getting out or trouble. Which made it good for me.

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Lair Larrikin

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Post Monday, 8th June 2020, 16:59

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

The new evokable item Tin of tremorstones seems to be similar at least flavor wise.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Tin_of_tremorstones

Zot Zealot

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Post Monday, 8th June 2020, 17:05

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

It's no good at killing an enemy which adjacent to me though, is it?
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Crypt Cleanser

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Post Monday, 8th June 2020, 17:52

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

It's good for that too, if said enemy is low on AC or you are high on evocations.
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Snake Sneak

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Post Tuesday, 9th June 2020, 04:39

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

We've lost the hilarious mental imagery of a Wand of Shotgun, though, which I'm quite disappointed about.
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Crypt Cleanser

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Post Tuesday, 9th June 2020, 06:40

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

Well, now you have the holy handgrenade.
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Zot Zealot

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Post Tuesday, 9th June 2020, 10:18

Re: RIP wands of scattershot

I thought there's still self-damage with the tremorstones? My characters who benefited most from scattershot relied to a large extend on SH, which leaves them unprotected from tremorstone self-damage.

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