Slime Squisher
Posts: 332
Joined: Friday, 4th February 2011, 18:04
Location: The South, US
Demonspawn Mutation Feedback
Wishlist: Earth Facet, Air Facet (but it can't duplicate Black Draconians, or even be terribly similar), Poison Facet, Translocation facet
- Ice 1 - rC, Conserve Potions, Icemail - Excellent. It's thematic and useful
- Ice 2 - rC, Conserve Potions, Passive Freeze - Ditto. I love getting these.
- Fire 1 - rF, Conserve Scrolls, Hellfire - I have never gotten this. I might have played a DS slated to get this, but they all must have splatted before they did.
- Nightstalker (3 Levels) - increased stealth, decreased LOS - Claustrophobia! (I like this one)
- Spiny (3L)- Damages opponents in melee by a small amount - Is this affected by Slaying/Might? It gets your player to lean toward melee, whatever they were planning to do before, which I think is a positive thing.
- Powered by Death (3L) - Corpses in radius cause you to regenerate
- Powered by Pain (3L) - Damage done to you gives you MP, a la Sublimation of Flesh
- Resist Negative (3L) - up to N immunity
- I don't like this one. It seems thematic at first, but then it just crosses off one nice-to-have resistance from your hunt. It's entirely passive, and particularly prior to V:8, it's not especially helpful. Now that XP cap is gone, however, this is a good extended endgame mutation, since it allows you to hold on to all 79,000 XP.
I would like rN as part of a facet, though, like the Ice facet. Perhaps rN, Summon Shadow, Vampiric Aura/Touch (or possibly >25% HP damage [Torment excepted?] curses the attacker with a mummy curse - Slow, Pain, Drain, Agony, Summon Reaper, Summon Soul Eater). There are many other ideas on the wiki that could easily coalesce into a Necro/Negative facet.I don't really want to see a Necro wiz bonus, though; that would be boring and already part of the Mummy schtick.
- I don't like this one. It seems thematic at first, but then it just crosses off one nice-to-have resistance from your hunt. It's entirely passive, and particularly prior to V:8, it's not especially helpful. Now that XP cap is gone, however, this is a good extended endgame mutation, since it allows you to hold on to all 79,000 XP.
- Resist Torment (3L) - 1/5, 2/5, 3/5 chance to avoid Torment
- I don't like this one, much either, and for reasons similar my dislike of rN mutation. I do realize that this is just an opinion, and doesn't necessarily indicate that there is something wrong with these two mutations.
- Demonic Guardian (3L) - At high tension, a demon or two is summoned to help you
- The first time I got this, and watched as an Executioner went bushwhacking through my enemies, I liked it. However, my opinion on it has changed, and pretty much reflect smiley's reasons on the wiki: You can't control them very well (especially since they decide when to show), they steal XP, and they get in the way of spells.
Perhaps they could be moved to an (a)bility with a hostility counter, such that a back-to-back call for help will get you a pissed off demon, with chance for hostility decreasing either with time or with kills or both. Naturally, at the 3rd level, the counter would be much longer.
- The first time I got this, and watched as an Executioner went bushwhacking through my enemies, I liked it. However, my opinion on it has changed, and pretty much reflect smiley's reasons on the wiki: You can't control them very well (especially since they decide when to show), they steal XP, and they get in the way of spells.
- Body Slot - Claws| Talons, Hooves| Beak, Horns, Antennae (3L, detect small radius, level 3 SInv)
- Random Scales, Thin Skeletal Structure, or Repulsion Field - I like almost all of these (Rough Black scales is the exception), so fun to see which one I get
- Magic Resistance (3L) - MR is nice, I think, but not terribly thematic -> possibly a magic facet?
- Passive Mapping (3L)- While I like this one, I seem to get it if I think I'd like to go Ash . It is useful, though, especially in Orc or on levels with a portal.
If I've left out a mutation or something, lemme know. These are all I could think of.
TSE