Temple Termagant
Posts: 12
Joined: Saturday, 8th January 2011, 03:55
Saturday, 8th January 2011, 06:59
Let's talk felids
I love the little f******, even though they're terribly unbalanced. They couple so well with so many gods!
*Nemelex is a breeze because felids can't use most items, giving you plenty of room to pick and choosFee what to sacrifice to get the decks you want.
*Ashenzari is AMAZING with felids. Rather than nerfing him because you lack all the slots (ala Chei), each slot counts as a full binding. So all you need is two not horrible rings, an amulet that isn't inaccuracy, and you're good to go! If you luck out and find an early altar, you can be reaping all of Ash's benefits before you even hit the temple due to the increased piety gain (which I think is a broken feature of Ash, but it's a blast for the time being!).
*You'll get max piety way faster with Elyvilon, since weapons are useless to you.
*I haven't tried Fedhas yet but it seems to me like it'd be a lot of fun given that you'll have a lot of otherwise useless fruit lying around and hella bonuses to enchantment. Why bother fighting stuff when you can just drown them all to death?
*Jiyva could be fun too, for the same reason as Nemelex; the vast majority of loot in the game is useless to you, so it's fair game to sacrifice. Plus your movement speed means you can stop jellies from eating the loot you can use faster.
Plus you gotta love a race that finally makes Okawaru the LEAST favorable option.
So far I've had the best luck with spellcasting backgrounds that give a smattering of melee skills, namely crusaders and warpers. A few levels of fighting/unarmed gives you some survivability for the first few levels before your spellcasting gets decent enough to survive on your own. Felid berzerkers are pretty nasty too
. Ultimately though, I would stick to a spellcaster or at least hybrid build. With their carnivore 3 and gourmand mutations, felids never EVER have to worry about spell hunger (I don't think I've eaten a single piece of permafood yet with my current L19 FeWr of Ash), plus they're at least decent at everything except boom magic. The only real drawback is resistances late game. Not having slots to get Rn+++ as well as Rf and Rc makes the Hells are real drag. Luckily they're good at enchantment and transmutation, so you just got to wait until Necromutation.
And they're cats! How fun is that?! My last win was with a FeCr named Meow Luc Purrcard.
PS I know felids are way unbalanced at the moment. All of their apts plus their metabolism would make them amazing as is, nevermind the whole extra lives things. However, I really don't see why they can't use cloaks. I mean, if the same cloak could fit on a spriggan and an ogre, why not a cat?
*Nemelex is a breeze because felids can't use most items, giving you plenty of room to pick and choosFee what to sacrifice to get the decks you want.
*Ashenzari is AMAZING with felids. Rather than nerfing him because you lack all the slots (ala Chei), each slot counts as a full binding. So all you need is two not horrible rings, an amulet that isn't inaccuracy, and you're good to go! If you luck out and find an early altar, you can be reaping all of Ash's benefits before you even hit the temple due to the increased piety gain (which I think is a broken feature of Ash, but it's a blast for the time being!).
*You'll get max piety way faster with Elyvilon, since weapons are useless to you.
*I haven't tried Fedhas yet but it seems to me like it'd be a lot of fun given that you'll have a lot of otherwise useless fruit lying around and hella bonuses to enchantment. Why bother fighting stuff when you can just drown them all to death?
*Jiyva could be fun too, for the same reason as Nemelex; the vast majority of loot in the game is useless to you, so it's fair game to sacrifice. Plus your movement speed means you can stop jellies from eating the loot you can use faster.
Plus you gotta love a race that finally makes Okawaru the LEAST favorable option.
So far I've had the best luck with spellcasting backgrounds that give a smattering of melee skills, namely crusaders and warpers. A few levels of fighting/unarmed gives you some survivability for the first few levels before your spellcasting gets decent enough to survive on your own. Felid berzerkers are pretty nasty too
. Ultimately though, I would stick to a spellcaster or at least hybrid build. With their carnivore 3 and gourmand mutations, felids never EVER have to worry about spell hunger (I don't think I've eaten a single piece of permafood yet with my current L19 FeWr of Ash), plus they're at least decent at everything except boom magic. The only real drawback is resistances late game. Not having slots to get Rn+++ as well as Rf and Rc makes the Hells are real drag. Luckily they're good at enchantment and transmutation, so you just got to wait until Necromutation.And they're cats! How fun is that?! My last win was with a FeCr named Meow Luc Purrcard.
PS I know felids are way unbalanced at the moment. All of their apts plus their metabolism would make them amazing as is, nevermind the whole extra lives things. However, I really don't see why they can't use cloaks. I mean, if the same cloak could fit on a spriggan and an ogre, why not a cat?
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