Comments on: Trunk updates, 8 October 2014

By: warren

warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:03:35 +0000

Moving Regen from rings to amulets is not a critical game balance change. It is just not annoying. Strongly dislike this change.

By: Quazifuji

Quazifuji — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:24:06 +0000

Clarity, Guardian Spirit, Faith, Rage, and rCorr are all extremely useful. For mummies or anyone using Necromut, clarity is essential. While more amulets might be nice, saying that non-artefact, non-rMut amulets are useless is just silly.

Also, rMut is definitely not essential for extended. I have two 15-rune wins without rMut. Now, you might be able to argue that you need rMut or Cure Mutation, but 2-5 Cure Mutation potions is plenty for extended unless you have exceptionally bad luck or are careless.

By: crying_orc

crying_orc — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:57:15 +0000

except artifacts, of course

By: crying_orc

crying_orc — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:55:53 +0000

amulets must be chenged anyway. after cons amulet was removed, where is only one amulet(rMut), which realy useful.

By: mc

mc — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:20:49 +0000

“Regeneration has been moved from rings to amulets; accordingly, the Ring of Vitality is now the Amulet of Vitality.”

Fucking stupid.

By: nago

nago — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:09:01 +0000

Personally I don’t agree with the reasons of the change: now, instead of ring swapping we have amulet swapping…except in some case it’s even more tedious: e.g. if I’ve also guardian spirit, even time I’m wounded and I want use regen I’ve also to wait mp regenerate.
The only real lock I see it’s faith.
(overall the change itself isn’t bad, considering there are much less interesting amulets that rings )

By: gammafunk

gammafunk — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:39:20 +0000

You do not even remotely “need” to have rMut to do extended, it’s merely convenient for thinking less about malmut if you don’t otherwise need the slot. And if you have rMut it’s quite easy to swap it in when it’s useful.

By: infiniplex

infiniplex — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:11:46 +0000

Axes no longer encourage fighting in open areas instead of passages. So it is now always better to fight in hallways again. Disappointing.

By: Taxman66

Taxman66 — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:46:29 +0000

I partly agree with him. You can’t go beyond 3, maybe 4 runes without Rmut. Granted you can use Regen for a long time, but you’ll have to give up for any extended game (unless you’ve found an unusual amount of Cure Mutation potions). I’ve had winnable 3 rune games lost because I didn’t have Rmut or any Cure Mutation potions.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:56:31 +0000

Ah. Well, that’s wrong, but understandable.

By: Taxman66

Taxman66 — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:51:09 +0000

I would presume he thinks its worthless because Rmut is so damn important late game an only occurs on Amulets. Thus reducing the chance of being able to use Regen ability to randart amulets that appear with both abilities.

By: crying_orc

crying_orc — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:22:11 +0000

great, nonsense swords back.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:57:51 +0000

The reason for the change was technical (it’s rather difficult to have an artefact without a corresponding non-artefact base type), but I’m a little confused by the claim that the artefact is ‘worthless’ now…?

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:50:53 +0000

Don’t agree with the Ring of Vitality to Amulet of Vitality. Effectively make it worthless if you ever do find it. No reason the arte can’t remain the same.

By: Cou

Cou — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:49:45 +0000

Claymores have been renamed to triple swords; bastard swords have been renamed to double swords.

Best change since 0.9