YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!


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Post Saturday, 30th December 2017, 19:16

YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

In CXC chat Charly told us that one of his recent chars got instant 200 damage by shatter. Well, that's especially painful when the actual HP were below 200.

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711775 Charly the Portalist (level 25, -41/267 HPs)
             Began as a Centaur Transmuter on Oct 19, 2017.
             Was a High Priest of Cheibriados.
             Killed by Shatter
             ... invoked by Wus Dat the pandemonium lord
              (200 damage)
             ... in Pandemonium on Oct 20, 2017.
             The game lasted 06:48:17 (17818 turns)


We don't know if Charly thought "Wus dat?" when he noticed the pan lord...

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Post Saturday, 30th December 2017, 23:39

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

Hard to comment on this without swearing.
Reminds me of Angand comics talking about Angand etiquette.

DCSS etiquette: You are allowed 1 minute of swearing after a Panlord has killed you with 200 or more damage.

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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 07:17

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

IMHO this proves that either panlords or shatter (or both) are bad design. 200 surprise damage despite AC 38? What is expected play? Quaff flight when any panlord is in view and then find that the panlord has airstrike???
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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 07:26

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

If you're going to use statue form in Pan you should be maintaining flight at all times, yes. Ideally you'd do so outside of Pan too because of ghosts. Gee what a great design for a monster spell.

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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 08:06

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

duvessa wrote:If you're going to use statue form in Pan you should be maintaining flight at all times, yes. Ideally you'd do so outside of Pan too because of ghosts. Gee what a great design for a monster spell.
The character from OP did not have boots of flying nor evocable flight so this is not even an option.
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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 08:08

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

I think the best solution would be to remove shatter interaction with flight for PC and then decrease monster shatter damage.
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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 12:20

Some details of the above mentioned morgue file:


17029 | Pan | Noticed Mnoleg
17052 | Pan | Killed Mnoleg

17488 | Pan | Noticed Cerebov
17703 | Pan | Killed Cerebov

17817 | Pan | Noticed Wus Dat the pandemonium lord
17818 | Pan | Killed from afar by Wus Dat the pandemonium lord


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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 13:02

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

I don't see how that pan lord could have been more aptly named
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Post Sunday, 31st December 2017, 14:44

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

VeryAngryFelid wrote:IMHO this proves that either panlords or shatter (or both) are bad design. 200 surprise damage despite AC 38? What is expected play? Quaff flight when any panlord is in view and then find that the panlord has airstrike???

I suppose it all depends on whether you think the whole concept of "sudden death" is exciting. It's all kind of arbitrary whether one gets one button press or ten or twenty before hitting the "danger" zone... But Pan Lords and high level spells generally just all up the ante on "Oops, I didn't really mean to do that" as I say when I find myself getting too nervous and hitting a step completely by accident while trying to figure out what's going on.

It certainly isn't just Shatter that's high-powered, anyway. Even Force Lance for example, can do some pretty hefty damage if you get thrown into a metal wall...
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Post Tuesday, 2nd January 2018, 21:22

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

I'd be in favor of removing shatter's interaction with flying/stone things (statue/gargoyles). Especially for the monster version - if you want to keep it being weak against flying targets for players so that it doesn't just handle all monsters, fine. But honestly I think a level 9 spell should be usable to kill all things; firestorm already does this.

Also it always struck me as odd that a gargoyle on the ground takes double (or was it triple) damage as a human on ground, but if they're flying, it's exactly the same. You'd think the gargoyle would take double (or triple) the reduced flying damage, but instead it completely removes the whole "I'm a gargoyle" part.

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Post Thursday, 4th January 2018, 13:39

Re: YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

Remove Shatter from pan lord spell lists
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It doesn't function very well as a monster spell in general (and should
possibly also be removed from Jorgrun) - much more so than other high-level
conjurations, it's likely to kill lots of the caster's allies, and especially
on very high-HD monsters is able to deal extremely high damage to players
without the kinds of restrictions that other scary spells have.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/9 ... 6fb5ee6999

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