[Announce] PosChengband 3.5.0 Released

[wobbly]

Got round to playing a blood knight & the targeting on blood spray behaves oddly. If I haven't targeted an enemy it balls around me without asking for a target. If I target an enemy 1st it balls around them. Only discovered I can use it at range by accident.

Quick question, does regen stack? Will a half troll blood knight get double regen?

[krazyhades]

Got round to playing a blood knight & the targeting on blood spray behaves oddly. If I haven't targeted an enemy it balls around me without asking for a target. If I target an enemy 1st it balls around them. Only discovered I can use it at range by accident.

Quick question, does regen stack? Will a half troll blood knight get double regen?

Yeah, this is a bug I've noticed as well, able to target Blood Spray from range when you shouldn't be able to.

Yes, regen stacks, but it also increases hunger stacking. Not sure if it's a doubling.

[krazyhades]

^ In the pre-3.0 days Giants used to be able to shatter AND use weapons at the same time...until chris saw me taking advantage of that once wholly overpowered dual-melee-ability.

yeah I was thinking of mentioning that the nerf was your fault but decided against it :P

[caruso]

Are there magic schools that allow you to buff or heal your allies? I know you can also spoiler: throw potions and use wands of Haste Monster etc., /spoiler but I'd like to have a more reliable source.

[krazyhades]

Trump realm gives access to summons, Haste Monster and Heal Monster, and gives you a spell that swaps your position with a monster's. Crusade has some summons but its buffs are all self-only. Demon, Necromancy, and maybe others can turn their pets into magical suicide bombs.

[wobbly]

Magic eaters have heal, haste & animate.

[HugoVirtuoso]

yeah I was thinking of mentioning that the nerf was your fault but decided against it :P

I also noticed that Mimics (probably Possessors, too) now no longer get a Ring of Combat upon completion of the Wargs quest. I guess chris had it with me posting chardumps with me getting Rings of Combat with > 10 on its damage modifier.

[krazyhades]

I also noticed that Mimics (probably Possessors, too) now no longer get a Ring of Combat upon completion of the Wargs quest. I guess chris had it with me posting chardumps with me getting Rings of Combat with > 10 on its damage modifier.

That I think was in the recent 3.5. The warg quest rewards got nerfed to utter uselessness for many builds.

[caruso]

Thanks folks!

[wobbly]

Just tried to reforge an artifact onto a poison needle. "You are presented with nothing", that's a bit scummy isn't it? Why not just prevent selecting a poison needle.

[wobbly]

If you're a doppelganger & you mimic a beastman & get polymorph, after polymorphing it still displays [beastman] on your character sheet. Eventually after polymorphing enough times the game crashed, at a guess I polymorphed in to a draconian & hit the draconian polymorph bug but I'm not sure.

[Rydel]

I started playing this version, and I've been getting some odd rings. Do far, I have a Ring of Protection with no AC bonus, and a "Ring." I've identified both, but not *Identified* them. Do they do anything I'm not aware of?

[debo]

I started playing this version, and I've been getting some odd rings. Do far, I have a Ring of Protection with no AC bonus, and a "Ring." I've identified both, but not *Identified* them. Do they do anything I'm not aware of?

Yes, this is normal. Plain rings are used for reforges (also plain amulets), so those are good to collect. Rings of protection often come with no AC bonus, but may still have an elemental or status resist of some kind.

[hjklyubn]

Unfortunately most of these ring (or amulet) properties don't show up unless the item is *id*ed. Basically think of every non-plain ring as a randart, except that the ring's item type restricts what attributes the ring can have. For example Rings of Protection get miscellaneous attributes like free action, see invisible, warning, etc. Rings of Elemental Protection get elemental resistances, and so on.

In town it's usually cheaper to price-*id* or sell-*id* rings than using the town service to *id* them, because of the fact (bug?) that ided objects always sell at their full value as though they were *id*ed. This means you can both get a pretty good idea of how good a ring is from its sale price, and also know about how much you will lose net to buy the ring back if it turns out you actually want it (the ring will be *id*ed automatically once you actually sell it). If you sell everything worth less than your current rings you'll save a lot of money even if you end up buying back a few useful rings. Of course if the ring sells for more than 10000 or so you probably want to spend an *id* on it!

For deciding what loot to bring back from the dungeon to sell, assuming you have no scrolls of *id*, you just have to guess based on how good the ring item type is on average...

[Rydel]

Well, the selling tips won't help me, since I'm playing with No Selling. Turns out, this version has actual No Selling instead of sell for 0, so I can't sell ID.

While waiting for a response, I was trying out a Death Sword, and found myself dying really quickly. Any survival tips early on? Also, how can I become something stronger than a Broken Sword?

Thanks!