most hated monster

[pampl]

i played some varient where the @ was a u and i couldnt deal with it, also the walls were like big and the floor was like a big dot, eeeeeeeee no offense to thatone

If it was Posband (where playing as a demon starts you as a "u") then there's an option to make yourself an "@" like normal. I don't understand what walls being big means so I can't help with that.

[Max Stats]

My vote is going toward the mystics. Even when Great Wyrms are pushovers, the Grand Master Mystic still has to be dealt with very carefully.

[LostTemplar]

dealt with very carefully.

T.other/destruct suddenly stop working ?

Dangerous monsters can only be seen on early levels. Deep endgame is pushover anyway, just use destruction more.

[Max Stats]

T.other/destruct suddenly stop working ?

Dangerous monsters can only be seen on early levels. Deep endgame is pushover anyway, just use destruction more.

TO wand is a level 20 item, we certainly aren't limiting discussion to only level 1-19 monsters. And we are talking about hated monsters, so they aren't necessarily just dangerous but perhaps deceptively hard, so you look at them and think "hey I can take that" and you end up dead or barely escaping with your life. Or maybe it is just a monster that is annoying or whatever it is that makes you hate a little letter on a screen.

[PowerDiver]

T.other/destruct suddenly stop working ?

That's one of the reasons I choose crebains. They come in such numbers that TO isn't a solution. Even when I try to be careful, half the time they start shrieking.

[dos350]

yes, mystics~ eeeeeeeee!

[Hariolor]

gnome mage.

so.

annoying.

[dos350]

i had a mage recently, i was slain by a 'mage' ARGhHhhhhhh eeeek eajhjhj

[artes]

Magic Mushroom Patches.

Yes, they are the most annoying thing I can think of. If there are a few of them in the same room, one can hardly do anything for all their blinking and gesturing in darkness. I really hate them.

What I fear the most is anything that have "Nexus" in their name, if I don't have resistance. One hit of their nexus and the character stats may be permanently jungled around and the character build is ruined. At least that was how it was when I played long ago. That felt like worse than dying.

The big, dangerous things that kill me, those I don't hate. I just think they are cool.

[artes]

I wonder if there are any statistics about which monster kills the most players. That would be an interesting read. Like a reversed kill count from the monster's point of view.

Maybe the experience points from the monsters could be determined from this. Though this is only a thought, I don't think it could be easily implemented.

[artes]

My second most hated monsters are the zephyr hounds, all of them. When they are not deadly, like the chaos hounds and such, they are boring. To me it feels like they have no personality and that they don't really belong in the dungeon. To hack through groups of hounds is the most boring and meaningless thing in the game for me. Hacking through the orc hordes is at least some fun, because they are orcs, and orcs are fun.

[jens]

Magic Mushroom Patches.

This used to be one of the monsters that annoyed me the most, but these days It seems much less so... Has it been down tuned in the last few years?

[Timo Pietilä]

This used to be one of the monsters that annoyed me the most, but these days It seems much less so... Has it been down tuned in the last few years?

They used to appear in groups. That's the main change. If there are more I don't recall what it is.

[buzzkill]

I wonder if there are any statistics about which monster kills the most players...

ToME 4 does this and I doubt that Angband's results would be very different. It would probably be something that appears very early and is relatively fast or has a (death inducing) special attack. I'd vote for one of Maggot's dogs, or something like a floating eye.

[Napsterbater]

something like a floating eye.

Not anymore. I melee all the floating eyes I see. Only died once.