[Announce] Poschengband 3.3.0 Released

[AnonymousHero]

95% fail rate?

I... see. I mistook the spell for a power (U)...

EDIT: ... I've always been kind of intrigued by the idea of a berserker who's allowed exactly one spell (outside of their normal powers). I guess you could do some really overpowered ones, but it might be fun.

[mewmew]

Amazing!

Also it's a power (on 'U' button) but probably Int depending? Anyway fail rate it's exactly the reason why I gave up on idea of a gnome zerker with their built-in phase door/ It seems it wasn't so in the past.

[Tulip]

I have a question and a suggestion depending on the questions answer.

Do weaponsmiths eventually gain the ability to forge artefacts? I ask this because on my level 20 or 30 (forgot since it was a long time ago) weaponsmith abilities were hopelessly outclassed by artefacts and such.

So if they cannot forge artefacts, I request they gain the ability to do so at a decent cost. Like trading +15 falcon blades for a falcon blade artefact at the cost of X amount of gold and essences. The higher level the weaponsmith (and amount of resources spent), the better the artefact, to the point they are better than most artefacts you could find naturally.

From what I've garnered, weaponsmiths trade actual physical ability with superior equipment, which is utterly negated in the mid/late game.

Of course, this suggestion is irrelevant if they do get the artefact crafting ability and I never got to the level required for it since I'm terrible at this game.



Another thing: It would be nice if items in the museum would persist through multiple games. I like to put my oddities there but it would be better if you could see the weird things you've found through playthroughs

[mewmew]

I don't know much about weaponsmiths, they cannot improve artifacts AFAIK, you are not the first who mentioned that, check the latest weaponsmith winner on the ladder.

Also, you probably know that, you can make random artifacts from plain weapon as any class, you don't need 15 falcon blades either, one plain falcon blade (and if you have egoed ones only you can make one with a ?of Mundanity), one artifact, decent fame and 1M or more gold, the quality and price depends on the reforged artifact; or with a ?of Artifact Creation from a plain falcon blade, the quality depends on the depth where you read it. Well, that's not what you play weaponsmiths for though/

[chris]

Weaponsmiths should drain those awesome arts on principle! Egos are a way of life

You are correct that smiths cannot improve artifacts*. However, they can do some really cool things with egos, like turning those +11 speed boots into +11 con boots too. Or, as clouded recently showed, augmenting a crazy extra attack mace of disruption to slay evil as well. (BTW, add slay evil to a diamond edge and you rival Vorpal Blade!) Your PDSM should be +5 speed of necessity, of course. In fact, adding +5 speed to your awesome dragon gear can free up your ring slots for, say, crazy rings of archery. Then take your crafted slay evil seeker bolts to the serpent! There's really lots you can do with this class if you turn a blind eye to all those awesome artifacts dropping about you.

* Ideas for a crafting class are interesting, but smiths really aren't that so it would have to be something new or smiths would need to be redone.

[mewmew]

Hm, thinking of a berserker with magic mapping, can they reliably use Peerless Tracker special ability?

[HugoVirtuoso]

I doubt this...Berserkers probably have a 100% failure rate, I'm sure.

[mewmew]

I decided to try, made a demigod zerker of minor god, leveled it to CL20 in 13-14 minutes in wilderness and quit.

>Peerless Tracker 20 25 95%

So you are right.

[chris]

Peerless Tracker which uses Int for a casting stat, so your fail rate will be abysmal the entire game. Trying to use any racial combo that powers off of Int, Wis or Chr probably won't work.

[debo]

Why are staves of mana storm not actually staves of mana storm? These 'balls of damage centered on your character' spells are kinda weird.

Also I'm, at DL88 and I'm killing Shadowers and it's saying "You have slain the Hell-Hound of Julian" and they're dropping hell-hound corpses. I have killed a lot of shadowers and don't remember them being weird before!

[mewmew]

AFAIK shadower it's any mosnter, at least any hound, I saw plenty of hounds masked as shadowers.

[debo]

AFAIK shadower it's any mosnter, at least any hound, I saw plenty of hounds masked as shadowers.

Ohhh! I didn't realize they were a 'cute' monster

[Arjen]

Shadower's can be any non unique monster.

[debo]

So now that I'm in the lategame, what is the general strategy against the kabillion monsters that drain charges other than ragequitting? Can rods be drained? I have 6MGP and I'm thinking of spending it all on random rods to see if I can get enough of healing and speed. (Never mind that I can't even really use rods reliably right now.)

I've tried 'just dealing with it' but it's completely debilitating, you lose an entire stack of something that is generally pretty important to your survival and the dude you've been hitting for the past 50 turns is suddenly at full health again.

[mewmew]

I dunno too, you are probably supposed either to use potions and scrolls or to have warding or to kill them at range.