Overall 3.5

[Spacebux]

Chaos Breath x3

I'm quite sure there is a bug where chaos breath is counted thrice in the current 3.5 code. I don't have the time to chase it down at the moment, but unless one has RChaos & ~500HPs to spare, any chaos breath is hazardous to one's @ health.

[Derakon]

I'm quite sure there is a bug where chaos breath is counted thrice in the current 3.5 code. I don't have the time to chase it down at the moment, but unless one has RChaos & ~500HPs to spare, any chaos breath is hazardous to one's @ health.

Nope, it's just that it applies three different effects (confuse, hallucinate, drain life), each of which can be resisted individually, so you get three messages.

The chaos breath damage cap is quite high, so monsters with lots of HP that can breathe it (e.g. Great Wyrms of Chaos/Balance) can do serious damage. It's also (I'm pretty sure) one of those variable/random resists, so even if you have chaos resistance you can take a lot of damage.

[Spacebux]

Nope, it's just that it applies three different effects (confuse, hallucinate, drain life), each of which can be resisted individually, so you get three messages.

The chaos breath damage cap is quite high, so monsters with lots of HP that can breathe it (e.g. Great Wyrms of Chaos/Balance) can do serious damage. It's also (I'm pretty sure) one of those variable/random resists, so even if you have chaos resistance you can take a lot of damage.

Ok, so RChaos is no longer RChaos, then? To effectively resist chaos, RConf, HLife, and RHallucinate is now required?

[Derakon]

Ok, so RChaos is no longer RChaos, then? To effectively resist chaos, RConf, HLife, and RHallucinate is now required?

Every elemental resistance gives you protection from the effects of that element. So rChaos gives:

* Some variable damage reduction against chaos attacks
* Protection from hallucination as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by a Mushroom of Emergency)
* Protection from confusion as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by monsters casting Confuse)
* Protection from life draining as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by nether attacks or melee drain-life touch attacks)

If you have pConf but not rChaos, then chaos attacks won't confuse you, but you'll still take full damage, start hallucinating, and will lose some experience (barring also having Hold Life).

This is probably being overly verbose, but I hope there's no confusion (er, so to speak) now.

[Spacebux]

PDSM got squelched.

On the ground: Power Dragon Scale Mail (-3) [60, +23] {squelch}.

I double-checked my squelch settings for DSM: 'excellent with no high resists'.
PDSM (among others like BalanceDSM) does have 'high resists'. Granted, this DSM would otherwise be 'good', quality-wise. But, some DSMs do have a number of higher resists.

Anyway, glad I took a double-take on that message.

[Spacebux]

Every elemental resistance gives you protection from the effects of that element. So rChaos gives:

* Some variable damage reduction against chaos attacks
* Protection from hallucination as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by a Mushroom of Emergency)
* Protection from confusion as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by monsters casting Confuse)
* Protection from life draining as caused by chaos attacks (e.g. not as caused by nether attacks or melee drain-life touch attacks)

If you have pConf but not rChaos, then chaos attacks won't confuse you, but you'll still take full damage, start hallucinating, and will lose some experience (barring also having Hold Life).

This is probably being overly verbose, but I hope there's no confusion (er, so to speak) now.

Ok - thank you for spelling that out. It still seems like I'm taking an awful lot more damage than the 1/3rd resistance damage I should be for having rChaos on. If I didn't know any better (and I probably don't), I'd say I'm taking 1/3rd damage each time the code checks for those 3 effects.

[EpicMan]

Ok - thank you for spelling that out. It still seems like I'm taking an awful lot more damage than the 1/3rd resistance damage I should be for having rChaos on. If I didn't know any better (and I probably don't), I'd say I'm taking 1/3rd damage each time the code checks for those 3 effects.

You're not, because chaos resistance doesn't block 2/3rds of the damage. I couldn't figure out the exact range but it looks like chaos resistance blocks X / 6ths of damage, where X can be as low as 1 and as high as something(5?).

It would be much more intuitive if high resists blocked a fixed percentage of damage (and if it was the same % across the high resists). Setting it to 2/3rds protection might nerf high damage types too much, but making it something like 1/2 protection might be good.

[MattB]

On the ground: Power Dragon Scale Mail (-3) [60, +23] {squelch}.

I double-checked my squelch settings for DSM: 'excellent with no high resists'.
PDSM (among others like BalanceDSM) does have 'high resists'. Granted, this DSM would otherwise be 'good', quality-wise. But, some DSMs do have a number of higher resists.

Anyway, glad I took a double-take on that message.

This intensely annoys me as well!

[Malak Darkhunter]

On the ground: Power Dragon Scale Mail (-3) [60, +23] {squelch}.

I double-checked my squelch settings for DSM: 'excellent with no high resists'.
PDSM (among others like BalanceDSM) does have 'high resists'. Granted, this DSM would otherwise be 'good', quality-wise. But, some DSMs do have a number of higher resists.

Anyway, glad I took a double-take on that message.

This is why I don't use squelch that much on armor or weapon types, happend to me before as well.

[Spacebux]

You're not, because chaos resistance doesn't block 2/3rds of the damage. I couldn't figure out the exact range but it looks like chaos resistance blocks X / 6ths of damage, where X can be as low as 1 and as high as something(5?).

It would be much more intuitive if high resists blocked a fixed percentage of damage (and if it was the same % across the high resists). Setting it to 2/3rds protection might nerf high damage types too much, but making it something like 1/2 protection might be good.

Ok--seems like I'm being naive on the damage resistances then. Good thing I haven't walked into a pit of Jabberwockies. It just seems that everytime I had a chaos breath from a pit fiend, unlike any other breath attack, chaos had taken an unusually high HP damage toll on my poor little @ symbol, that I began to wonder whether chaos had been tweaked incidentally or intentionally.

[Nick]

This is probably being overly verbose, but I hope there's no confusion (er, so to speak) now.

I think you made that joke in TANG

[Derakon]

I think you made that joke in TANG

Well, that just goes to show that my sense of humor hasn't changed much in the last 15 years, then...

[Malak Darkhunter]

I'm not sure why but targeting isn't working for me using the * key to target, hitting the #5 key on keyboard usually works to fire the missle after you target, but it does nothing....is there any other commands to try to fire at your target?

[Derakon]

You can also hit Enter to select a target.

Have you checked if numlock is on? That might explain problems with the numeric keypad.

[Malak Darkhunter]

You can also hit Enter to select a target.

Have you checked if numlock is on? That might explain problems with the numeric keypad.

yes indeed, it was the numlock, thanks...my numlock key dosen't light up on my keypad, so overlooked it..I've played all the way to DL 70 without targeting!