Borg's Revivification is a trap


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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 06:30

Borg's Revivification is a trap

Borg's Revivification is a trap for new players. By the time you can afford to cast it in heavy armour, you already have 15 runes usually. And if you don't wear heavy armour, you should either cast level 9 spells (which compete for the same MP, nobody casts Revification when s/he can cast CBlink, Necromutation or another Fire Storm instead) or wear heavy armour.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 07:18

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

VeryAngryFelid wrote:nobody casts Revification when s/he can cast CBlink, Necromutation or another Fire Storm instead

I did...

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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 07:22

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

Link or didn't happen :)
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 08:36

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

hey man we're not all angry felids here, some of us have only one life to live and cant afford to angrily cast firestorm instead of restoring all our precious hps

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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 09:05

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

It's just funny how people say that Necromutation is bad while Born is good when in reality Born is almost never used and Necromutation is great in many fights.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 12:15

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

BR is just as good as worshipping mak, and by that i mean you should not plan your builds around losing hp, unless you are a DD.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 13:53

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

I think DDoor is similar to BR in that sense.
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/papilio.html

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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 16:48

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

It's good to be able to get your HP back in a pinch, people aren't "planning their builds around losing HP" if what you mean by that is running into battle with the intention of losing HP or something. Things just go wrong sometimes.

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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 17:32

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

Shard1697 wrote:It's good to be able to get your HP back in a pinch,

Not being in a pinch is better, aka trying to escape is normally a better choice. If you are in a pinch its normally due to being in a situation that you cannot handle.
Shard1697 wrote: if what you mean by that is running into battle with the intention of losing HP or something. Things just go wrong sometimes.

Nobody is gonna get BR as their first high level spell, nobody is gonna get it at all until they have nothing else to get and its basically free. People will worship mak though, even claim hes better than ely, and i just consider that a bad idea.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 17:41

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

Mak is better than Ely. Try getting 12 runes during orb run as Fo of Ely and tell me what you think.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 17:45

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VeryAngryFelid wrote:It's just funny how people say that Necromutation is bad while Born is good when in reality Born is almost never used and Necromutation is great in many fights.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 18:08

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VeryAngryFelid wrote:Mak is better than Ely. Try getting 12 runes during orb run as Fo of Ely and tell me what you think.

Your bias is showing.
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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 20:09

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Try getting 12 runes during orb run as Fo of Ely and tell me what you think.
This is, indeed, my typical everyday game scenario.

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Post Monday, 16th January 2017, 20:25

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

stickyfingers wrote:
VeryAngryFelid wrote:Try getting 12 runes during orb run as Fo of Ely and tell me what you think.
This is, indeed, my typical everyday game scenario.


My point was that Makh provides more power, especially for good players who don't need life-saving abilities that much (or in case of 12 runes during orb run need it too often so Ely runs out of piety).
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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 02:02

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dynast wrote:
Shard1697 wrote:It's good to be able to get your HP back in a pinch,

Not being in a pinch is better, aka trying to escape is normally a better choice.
Yes, of course... this is not mutually exclusive with having borgs. Especially because it's in one of the best if not the best spell school in the game.

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 02:09

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

bad idea: borgnjor traps that cast borgnjor's revivification on you whenever anyone steps on them

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 15:44

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

Just used borgs in zot5 lungs on a FoFi^Kiku (floorgod gift ) because 7 OOF's spawned in one lung.

Three times.

It's pretty good in a 3 rune.

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 19:29

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VeryAngryFelid wrote:Mak is better than Ely. Try getting 12 runes during orb run as Fo of Ely and tell me what you think.


Yeah, and swiftness is stronger than haste.

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 21:19

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

well swiftness exists

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 21:52

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

NhorianScum wrote:Just used borgs in zot5 lungs on a FoFi^Kiku (floorgod gift ) because 7 OOF's spawned in one lung.

Three times.


http://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20141012-101358.txt

Here is an old game that had pretty weird Borg scenario. Teleported right into the middle of Andy's rune room in Coc and he had 7 ice fiends there.
Had to use 4 Borg's because I had blurry vision to fuck up my blink scrolls. Was tormented into like 30 HP immediately after every Borg.

The funniest thing was that I did cast it at very low spellpower. Ended up losing about 120 max HP. But first and foremost, it saved my ass 4 times from certain death.

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Post Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 22:40

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

If only you had necromut or just didnt teleport to antaeus vault... Im really glad the spell you learned 85k turns into the game paid off, as you didnt need it before that.
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Post Wednesday, 18th January 2017, 05:03

Re: Borg's Revivification is a trap

Necromut indeed would have been better when landing on a place like that. However, there was no chance of getting lichform at that point as Necronomicon was found in Pan (item history file doesn't have Borg spellbook anywhere). Starting to build up Transmutations skill with 10 INT in Pandemonium is just something I would never do :)

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