{"id":3442,"date":"2016-02-19T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2016-02-19T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T06:43:13","slug":"trunk-updates-18-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-18-february-2016","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 18 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Spring has sprung, so here&#8217;s some changes for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wand changes:\n<ul>\n<li>Removed: Cold, Fire, Draining, Fireball, Frost, Invisibility, and Magic Darts.<\/li>\n<li>New: Acid, which shoots a beam of corrosive acid. Roughly as powerful as Draining was.<\/li>\n<li>New: Iceblast, which launches an explosive, partially physical explosion. Somewhat more powerful than Fireball was.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters will no longer machine-gun their wands quite as often.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other removed items: Xom&#8217;s chesspieces, rods of destruction &#038; the swarm, and potions of poison.<\/li>\n<li>Luckily, potions of degeneration are back! They now drain all stats by 1d3 points when consumed.<\/li>\n<li>Even more luckily, stats now regenerate faster at low XLs.<\/li>\n<li>Statue form, bat form &#038; hydra form no longer have stat modifiers. Low-strength Vampires rejoice!<\/li>\n<li>Statue form also now gives somewhat more AC.<\/li>\n<li>Other spell changes:\n<ul>\n<li>Ozocubu\u2019s Armour now gives ponderousness (+0.1 movement delay).<\/li>\n<li>Passwall is now level 2 (previously, level 3).<\/li>\n<li>Song of Slaying has been simplified; it now gives +slay with every kill, capping at +9 slay. (It was previously&#8230; complicated.)<\/li>\n<li>Removed spells: Stoneskin, Condensation Shield, and Phase Shift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God changes:\n<ul>\n<li>Ashenzari now lets you directly curse items, rather than needing to create scrolls of curse armour\/weapon\/jewellery. This ability still consumes a scroll of remove curse.<\/li>\n<li>Okawaru\u2019s abilities (Heroism &#038; Finesse) are now considerably lower duration at low Invocations, but cost less piety and scale to higher max durations.<\/li>\n<li>If you would regenerate MP under Pakellas while already full, you can now get a potion of magic instead.<\/li>\n<li>Sif now gives miscast protection at ** and amnesia at ****. (Previously, the reverse was true.)<\/li>\n<li>Yredelemnul&#8217;s Enslave Soul now works on angels and demons<url=http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hLb7SI7.jpg>.<\/url><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Swamp worms&#8217; ambush predator functionality should now function correctly. Beware&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The Captain&#8217;s Cutlass now does flat bonus damage when it disarms an enemy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to chequers for helping to compile this post.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are interested, there&#8217;s also two new experimental gods being tested &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/learndb\/#ukayaw\">Ukayaw, God of Ecstatic Dance<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/learndb\/#helpal\">Hepliaklqana, God of Ancestral Memory<\/a>. They can be played on <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.berotato.org:8080\/#lobby\">CBRO<\/a> or, for the antipodeans, <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.project357.org\/\">CPO<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Spring has sprung, so here&#8217;s some changes for you: Wand changes: Removed: Cold, Fire, Draining, Fireball, Frost, Invisibility, and Magic Darts. New: Acid, which shoots a beam of corrosive acid. Roughly as powerful as Draining was. New: Iceblast, which launches an explosive, partially physical explosion. Somewhat more powerful than Fireball was. Monsters will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}