I am not suggesting to remove TO. Just to see how far you can get without.
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Some variants make banishment, mass banishment and destruction have no effect in vaults. Others have monsters which teleport to the player. These are possibilities.
Another option is to simply remove any vaults which teleport other makes too easy.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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Yeah, frankly any fight can be trivialized if you can set up the terrain beforehand; just dig (or find; they aren't uncommon) a corridor such that monsters must move into your firing line before they get a turn in LOS. Wake up the monsters, they come out, you plink them away as they do. Fixing that would require monsters to refuse to step into the player's firing line, which in turn means the player has to always come to the monster, getting into LOS of a bunch of monsters at the same time etc. etc. etc.Comment
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Yeah, frankly any fight can be trivialized if you can set up the terrain beforehand; just dig (or find; they aren't uncommon) a corridor such that monsters must move into your firing line before they get a turn in LOS. Wake up the monsters, they come out, you plink them away as they do. Fixing that would require monsters to refuse to step into the player's firing line, which in turn means the player has to always come to the monster, getting into LOS of a bunch of monsters at the same time etc. etc. etc.Comment
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There are only two GV:s that risk/reward ratio is hugely in favor of reward, and those are the CGV-variants, and both of those are actually very difficult to clear even with TO if your level and monster level are different enough. I rarely can clear those until I'm so high level that items in them are not really huge improvement anyway unless I have access to mass-banishment and banishment. Other vault types usually are just huge disappointments (and some of the enormous ones take forever to clear, so I would vote for their removal or shrinking).
Just remove earthquake, banishment, mass banishment and destruction effects inside vaults.Comment
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Needs definition of "too easy". To me GV is not place of challenge, it is a place to get good stuff. They do not need to be extra super dangerous. If you increase danger so much that you can't handle them (which you do if you nerf TO in them) then no-one will be bothered to even try and the point of having GV in first place goes away.
There are only two GV:s that risk/reward ratio is hugely in favor of reward, and those are the CGV-variants, and both of those are actually very difficult to clear even with TO if your level and monster level are different enough. I rarely can clear those until I'm so high level that items in them are not really huge improvement anyway unless I have access to mass-banishment and banishment. Other vault types usually are just huge disappointments (and some of the enormous ones take forever to clear, so I would vote for their removal or shrinking).
Just remove earthquake, banishment, mass banishment and destruction effects inside vaults.Comment
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@ can hit D but D can't hit @. In fact @ can (could) hit everything diagonally up and to the right of D like p.
What in particular LoS asymmetries exist? Or is that a spoiler....Comment
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Hitting p would be hockey stick, which is good that you can't do anymore (didn't even know that's fixed). Hitting D without it being able to hit you still exists.Comment
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Yeah, frankly any fight can be trivialized if you can set up the terrain beforehand; just dig (or find; they aren't uncommon) a corridor such that monsters must move into your firing line before they get a turn in LOS. Wake up the monsters, they come out, you plink them away as they do. Fixing that would require monsters to refuse to step into the player's firing line, which in turn means the player has to always come to the monster, getting into LOS of a bunch of monsters at the same time etc. etc. etc.Comment
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Kind of miss hockey stick against hounds . Hmm I could have sworn I got hit in the @ vs. D position above in 3.5.0, but I'll experiment to be sure.Comment
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