Ok, dilemma: I'm playing an Ogre Abyssal knight who's been dabbling in Necromancy. I'm currently wearing troll leather armour, and just picked up a mottled dragon hide. I can't decide whether to go all in on the MDA, or wait for a fire dragon to pop up.
EDIT: To hell with it. MDA is amazing as is, and I'm swimming in ?armour.
you know what would make Sticks to Snakes a better and more interesting spell? If the snakes got branded bite attacks based on what kind of ammunition you used to make them.
Really, you should only be training one. It generally goes "Things you use to killdudes" -> "Things you use to not die" -> "Killdudes again". You might want to train multiple if you're casting spells that have two/three requirements, I guess.
you know what would make Sticks to Snakes a better and more interesting spell? If the snakes got branded bite attacks based on what kind of ammunition you used to make them.
Basically, when training, you want to think in terms of short term goals. For example, if you want to cast Mephitic Cloud, you want to level Air and Poison at the same time. Meanwhile, on my Ogre AKs, my first point of order is hitting things in the face, so I go to 8 M&F, followed by 8 Invo to get Banish reliably castable.
I was actually thinking maybe like Sif cuz I want the other Transmutation books (I think there's like three over all?) but I don't know if those are super common or not.
Fedhas provides wandering mushrooms once you get to enough piety. They don't move while in combat, but they hit like a truck. They provide a great complement to speedy glass-cannon types. And they're useful against poison/cold resistant creatures, while your transmutations are not.
Basically, besides getting lucky with wands, the only reason my Felid Transmuter's been alive for so long is because I keep kiting snake-proof enemies back to the mushrooms for them to kill it. Or better yet, poison them with the Spider and then kiting them.
you know what would make Sticks to Snakes a better and more interesting spell? If the snakes got branded bite attacks based on what kind of ammunition you used to make them.
I feel like any proper implementation of that would probably lead to making original snakes for each brand, which would lead to more snakes as monsters. Maybe even a StS-based unique.
Don't get me wrong, making Sticks to Snakes more awesome than it already is, I'm down with that. I just don't want to make the game harder.
I think you could theoretically just spawn normal snakes (probably the ball pythons mostly, I feel like adders shouldn't get the brands) and then have them programmed to get a buff that grants a "temporary" branded attack, but have the duration of the buff be longer than the duration of Sticks to Snakes. Kind of like Beastly Appendage.
That's just theorycrafting though I have no idea how this stuff works.
I already have too many games to play, I shouldn't have gotten addicted to this too. Troll Berserker is a great combo, because: do you eat the corpses or sacrifice them to your god?
Also, I ate a sky beast and now I can see invisible and have -10% less MP. (Oh no!)
I ended up dying horribly anyway--tore my way through the orc mines until I wound up in a wide-open room with orcs on half the tiles. ...Probably should've just gone back up the stairs.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The permastasis really screw you hard, and often.
I could also just stick with what I have b/c +5 damage bonus
well now.
Conjurer is what I said.
I started with 3 spell casting, 4 conjurations, 1 shields, 1 transmutations, Pain, a club, a shield, and a teleportation scroll.
(I can technically cast Pain... at a 95% failure rate)
EDIT: Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd I died. On D:1. Because of a pack of 7 jackals.
EDIT: To hell with it. MDA is amazing as is, and I'm swimming in ?armour.
God I love Animate Dead.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Monk is a recommended class and Transmuters are essentially Monk+Magic.
I'm thinking that perhaps some of the form changes might not affect Vine Stalkers because they are plantfolk.
I generally only do that with spellcasters, I guess it's a good practice in general though. I wonder how hard it would be to mod this in
or indeed how hard altering DCSS is in general.
my old nemesis....
Maces & Flails (AKA the one weapon skill Ogres don't have 0, -1, -3, or -4 in)
I was actually thinking maybe like Sif cuz I want the other Transmutation books (I think there's like three over all?) but I don't know if those are super common or not.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
That's just theorycrafting though I have no idea how this stuff works.
really
But still, the irony is staggering.
I managed to distract it with snakes, and after I came back out of the temple I was a Fedhasian, so it didn't care that I was back.
Makes the game a good deal more playable imo.
Was in spider form and he pincushionized me in like three hits.
I should do my update for the day I suppose.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also relevant to this thread I asked for some advice in my LP thread.