Zot Zealot
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Joined: Thursday, 16th August 2018, 21:19
recent artefact & item changes
Majin-Bo now gives all your spells vampirism instead of giving archmagi. Casting spells still costs hp.
-This sounds really fun. It might even be worth giving up a shield slot for. I'm really hoping I'll find it before investing 15 skill into shields though... I'm still not sure whether it is worth it after that point.
The shield of resistance was buffed. It now grants 2 pips of all the most important resistances.
-I don't think this was necessary at all. The SoR already was a no-brainer on most characters. A +5 shield of resistance was one of the best shields to hope for (tied with +5 of protection) and MR+ is easily worth 3SH on most characters. Now it's even more of a no-brainer.
Cloak of the Thief no longer has evocable fog, instead having uncontrollable fog when you are damaged.
-I don't think I'll ever wear the CotT again, unless it gets buffed. Uncontrollable fog sounds useless. I never found evocable fog obnoxious, and the -2Slay made the cloak not a no-brainer. It won't be any good for escaping.
Wucad Mu refunds mp when you cast spells some of the time, but also has a chance to give you confusion whenever you cast spells. The chance of an mp-refund increases linearly to 1/3 at 27 evocations. You need at least 10 evocations to use the staff reasonably without it backfiring all the time, which does sound fair.
-I like the change overall but I think getting randomly confused when casting spells is going to make the staff worth it only very rarely. Either if you have clarity or are willing to spend curing potions (eg for boss fights, or near the end of a game). Maybe a downside other then confusion would work nicer.
cloak of rats now automatically spans rats instead of having evocable rats
-I've actually had this on a character whilst the change was being implemented. I was initially just wearing the cloak for +2AC rN+ rPois+, because I could never be bothered to evoke rats. The change feels nice. Having some extra rats show up occasionally was surprisingly helpful. It didn't trigger very often though, and the resistances were still the major benefit.
In addition, hoping this doesn't need it's own thread:
Does anyone like the Scarf of Shadows (-1LOS, -archmagi)?
-I feel like -1LOS is too little to be noticable. I'd still use if if no other cloaks wera available, unless I was using spells of any kind. with -2 or -3 I might use it, but again only on spell-less stabbers. I don't see why this item needs -archmagi.