Chish wrote:How did people possibly think I was talking about butchering corpses DURING combat? That's obviously stupid.
Well, if combat is over, how is there a DEDM to cast twisted resurrection there? I mean I seriously don't understand, are you suggesting that it's optimal to butcher all corpses on those levels in order to avoid the possibility of a death mage wandering on screen while you happen to be standing around next to the corpses, while you're like resting or something? I mean If that's your concern why would you just not rest with corpses in LOS, just walk a couple steps back into cleared areas (which is optimal anyway, you shouldn't be resting where you just killed a bunch of stuff for noise reasons). It's not like DEDM can cast Twisted resurrection while you aren't in LOS.
I'm seriously not understanding what situation you are talking about in which it is optimal to butcher corpses that isn't "in combat" if you aren't in combat, then there's no monsters around to cast the spell, so it doesn't matter if you butcher the corpses or not.
Also there's two contradicting things in this thread:
1. It's claimed that it's optimal to prevent DEDM from having the ability to cast TR
2. It's claimed that TR is a sub-optimal action for DEDM, therefore you'd want them to cast it as many times as possible (over and above the other sorts of things they could do to you)
I assume that you disagree with 2. because if you agree with 2. that invalidates 1. which appears to be your premise (at least as I interpret it).
*but* if we assume that 1 is true and 2 is false, then it's more easily and less tediously accomplished out of combat by simply not standing around and waiting for DEDM to appear while standing next to corpses. I guess maybe if you have a particularly nice tactical area that you'd like to re-use and you don't need to rest then butchering corpses is faster than waiting for them to decay(?) Is that the crux of your argument here? That you've created or found killing zones that are helpful for luring large number of elves to, but in order to re-use them, it's optimal (presuming that it is, in fact, optimal to not let DEDM cast TR) to butcher the corpses to re-use that zone more quickly?