Rebalancing device difficulty

[backwardsEric]

For the deep staffs and rods with a level 40 dwarven priest (default point buy with no additional bonuses to intelligence; device skill will be 78 if...

[backwardsEric]

Proposed activation difficulty settings for the randart activations are up as the second comment at https://github.com/angband/angband/issues/6187 . There's...

[backwardsEric]

Autorepeat on device failure (only happens if the repetition has a chance to work; so failure rate less than 100% and device either still has charges...

[backwardsEric]

The changes proposed in the original post are all to the activation difficulty, the "level" parameters in object.txt and artifact.txt. Internally,...

[backwardsEric]

With the proposed changes it has a difficulty of 40 so a device skill of 56 or better should bring the failure rate to less than 10%. If the character...

[backwardsEric]

After 4.2.3 was released, Nick proposed rebalancing how difficult magical devices are to use, https://angband.live/forums/forum/angband/vanilla/10352...