{"id":3607,"date":"2016-06-28T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2016-06-28T01:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T23:31:49","slug":"trunk-updates-27-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-27-june-2016","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 27 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Trunk changes?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spells:\n<ul>\n<li>New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), found in the Necronomicon. Targets a 5&#215;5 area; victims inside become &#8216;infested&#8217;, and, when killed, friendly death scarabs will pop out. Friends!<\/li>\n<li>Alistair&#8217;s Intoxication only inflicts Vertigo on the caster if it succeeds in confusing any monsters.<\/li>\n<li>Confusing Touch is back to level 1 (and the Book of Cantrips), after its long stay at level 2.<\/li>\n<li>Hydra form devouring is no longer limited to victims smaller than a hydra. Yum! Support for extra-spicy meals has also been added.<\/li>\n<li>Cure Poison has been removed. From the commit:<br \/>\n <i>Trivia: This was the last player-castable vestige of the pre-Stone Soup &#8216;Holy&#8217; spell school. RIP ;_;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Monsters:\n<ul>\n<li>New unique: Bai Suzhen, Madame White Snake. A late-game draconian unique, she casts Summon Hydras; when severely injured, she enters her true form (a water dragon) and becomes surrounded by a ring of storm clouds. Also she gets water breath. Fierce! (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legend_of_the_White_Snake\">this is what the refrance.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Necromancer monsters can now cast Bind Soul, causing nearby monsters to reform as spectral things after death. (Somewhat like Death Channel.)<\/li>\n<li>Almost all monster &#8216;shouts&#8217; are now the same volume. The only exceptions are &#8216;hisses&#8217;, which are half volume, &#8216;deafening roars&#8217;, 1.5x, and &#8216;deep rumbles&#8217;, 2x. Also, pigs now squeal, and a few other monsters have had their shout behaviour changed.<\/li>\n<li>Entropy weavers have become faster, but cast Word of Entropy less often. Also, now they&#8217;re ant-men, finally answering the question of &#8220;what are these weird things, exactly?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Death scarabs lost their miasma trail, but are somewhat tougher.<\/li>\n<li>Tzitzimitl no longer have pain or draining brands.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto the bennu draining brand.<\/li>\n<li>Obsidian statues can now Mesmerise. Stare into their spooky jeweled eyes&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Young spriggan druids have been replaced by boggarts. They really were too young to die&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The Cloud Mage has come into his or her rightful inheritance: Tornado.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Gods:\n<ul>\n<li>Nemelex Xobeh&#8217;s decks have been reworked, again. Current list:\n<ul>\n<li>Escape: the Tomb, Exile, the Elixir, the Cloud, Velocity, the Shaft<\/li>\n<li>Destruction: Vitriol, the Storm, Pain, the Orb, Degeneration, Wild Magic<\/li>\n<li>Summoning: the Elements, the Pentagram, the Dance, Foxfire, the Rangers, the<br \/>\n               Illusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  If it&#8217;s not in here and it&#8217;s not a wrath effect, it&#8217;s not in the game.<\/li>\n<li>The Vitriol card applies corrosion to all monsters in LOS.<\/li>\n<li>Hep no longer provides additional &#8216;specialization&#8217; choices beyond the initial ancestor class choice. Ancestor upgrades have been moved from XL21 to XL19 and from XL27 to XL24.<\/li>\n<li>Hep&#8217;s Transference now drains targets at 5*, rather than slowing them.<\/li>\n<li>Hepliaklqana&#8217;s ability piety costs are slightly higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Items:\n<ul>\n<li>Rapiers have +1 base damage, matching falchions.<\/li>\n<li>The amulet of dismissal now only triggers on hits that do at least 10% of the wearer&#8217;s max HP.<\/li>\n<li>*Drain items and &#8220;Harm now apply 50% more draining when taken off.<\/li>\n<li>Vorpal weapons are no longer extra-likely to chop off hydra heads.<\/li>\n<li>Books can now be ID&#8217;d by (r)eading them while on the floor. (Ideally this should be automatic, but it&#8217;s not quite yet.)<\/li>\n<li>Scrolls of random uselessness can no longer create butterflies. Somewhere, a tiny bell tinkles for the last time&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Yiuf&#8217;s hut now has a runed door. Poor guy lost his keys&#8230; go let him out, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/li>\n<li>The minimum, average and maximum number of altars in Temple has increased, by about 2 each.<\/li>\n<li>There is now a strong correlation between disco balls and demonic runes.<\/li>\n<li>Quite a lot of other new and changed vaults. I shan&#8217;t spoil them, but I will say that <i>several<\/i> contain rare &#038; powerful artefacts. Be on the lookout&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Web traps are no longer torn &#038; destroyed when creatures escape from them.<\/li>\n<li>The Monk background gains a choice of weapon, but no longer gets a choice of Dg.<\/li>\n<li>Storm clouds have a 1\/3 per-turn chance of striking (up from 1\/4), but have dramatically less &#8216;spiky&#8217; damage; from 40-131 down to 35-80.<\/li>\n<li>You can no longer ID gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Trunk changes? Spells: New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), found in the Necronomicon. Targets a 5&#215;5 area; victims inside become &#8216;infested&#8217;, and, when killed, friendly death scarabs will pop out. Friends! Alistair&#8217;s Intoxication only inflicts Vertigo on the caster if it succeeds in confusing any monsters. Confusing Touch is back to level 1 (and [&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\/3607"}],"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=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}