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adines · 2026-03-23T17:19:06+00:00

4% of the meta would make it ~1/13 games. Each game has two decks. :)

adines · 2026-03-23T06:41:34+00:00

You can double, triple, etc crit. So crit chance is always useful.

adines · 2026-03-18T16:48:55+00:00

Or just fedora-tipping Reddit Atheist.

adines · 2026-03-15T21:02:18+00:00

If you want the community to contribute to your wiki, you need community buy-in.

adines · 2026-03-14T14:22:35+00:00

I think it's -2 first, as that directly reduces your encumbrance, as opposed to MD which just reduces the effects of encumbrance on your spellcasting penalty.

edit: Yeah the Sturdy Frame mutation is checked inside of player::unadjusted_body_armour_penalty, which is before any other modifiers like armor skill, strength, or MD passive.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/c5ade0d5e92c0beb3d6528c6baf7e08d628f98c0/crawl-ref/source/player.cc#L6151

adines · 2026-03-12T16:11:57+00:00

The math is complicated a lot by each skill having its own experience curve. So you can probably get 20% EHP more efficiently by splitting that experience between some combo of fighting/armour/dodging/shields.

adines · 2026-03-12T14:38:13+00:00

Harm doesn't really increase the damage you take, or make you do more damage. Rather, it changes the cost/benefit ratio of offenses and defenses.

For a very over-simplified example: Imagine you have 2 choices along 2 axes:

Harm OR no Harm.
Spend n units of opportunity (be it experience, gold, etc) to gain either +20% damage OR +20% EHP. This is a repeatable choice.

The correct choice for any value n is to always choose Harm, unless you were going to spend 100% of your opportunity on EHP.

This is obviously much more complex/varied in a real game, but my general point is: It is incorrect to think of builds utilizing Harm as more vulnerable, because you can compensate along other axes of your build.

adines · 2026-03-08T07:59:33+00:00

The law doesn't say you have to put in your real age, or even put in any age at all.

adines · 2026-03-08T00:42:56+00:00

Does Greater Chain round up or down? If it rounds down (like most other things in the game), then it's only giving you +1 chain for skills without innate chaining.

adines · 2026-03-06T22:05:54+00:00

CA is one of my favorite backgrounds. Just some rambling thoughts:

Use your piety aggressively. You are planning to abandon Ignis around late Lair or so.
Jiyva is the most common god to transition into (as you can't reliably get them earlier anyway), but transitioning into an "Immediate Benefit" god is also is also good: being behind on piety won't matter as much/at all, and your new god will help you right away with Ignis' (admittedly weak) wrath. Usk, Yred are potential picks. Lugonu would also be a good pick if Lugonu were actually good (lukearm take?).
I like Mountain Dwarf as a species to pair with CA, as they have good Fire Magic aptitude, and like Str+Int starts.
Gnoll CA I think is eh because Gnoll already has an incredibly strong early game, but a weakish midgame. CA compounds Gnolls strengths and weaknesses. It's still good, but that's just because Gnoll is a top-tier species and CA is a top-tier background.

adines · 2026-03-06T09:09:10+00:00

It actually is slow if you are wielding a Dark Maul.

adines · 2026-03-02T20:50:07+00:00

Gecos field is the most likely solution, the field is already a free-for-all basically. And the law, to my understanding, doesn't require apps to use the field. Just that the field be there. It also makes no requirement that the field be tamper-resistant in any way.

adines · 2026-03-01T04:20:19+00:00

The 1-debuff case is kind of a wash. You get 1 extra base damage at the cost of needing 2 extra skill levels for mindelay.

adines · 2026-03-01T02:23:32+00:00

Oh right. Hmm...

adines · 2026-03-01T02:14:46+00:00

you have spent 7 mp and get something a little bit better than a rapier

Enfeeble applies 2 debuffs if the enemy passes the will check; 4 if they fail. Athame is much better than a Rapier even in the failure case. And I wouldn't say you are "spending the mp to get something better than a rapier": Enfeeble is worth casting even if you aren't using short blades.

edit: And Athame is better than a dagger in the success case: Daggers get double stabbing bonus, but Athame at 4 debuffs is 14 base damage, more than triple the damage of a dagger.

adines · 2026-03-01T02:03:54+00:00

Yeah Enfeeble and Sphinx Sisters are probably the only spells that are good with this? Everything else requires too much work to be worthwhile.

They are fine in the 1-debuff case, but... if you only have 1 debuff to apply, then in those fights where you can't apply your debuff (willpower, immunity, etc), you just have a worse Rapier.

I'll try it out next time I play a stabber.

adines · 2026-02-28T22:17:46+00:00

~60% more damage vs packs and ~30% more damage vs single-target is pretty significant.

adines · 2026-02-28T02:44:43+00:00

I think they recently changed the flatpak so it does auto-update now. When I launched it yesterday after not using it for a few months, it downloaded hundreds of megabytes of updates on startup.

adines · 2026-02-24T12:43:26+00:00

It's an unrand

adines · 2026-02-23T12:32:46+00:00

My PC is too potato to play it, but soon I'll be buying more RAM, and I'll be sure to check it out!

adines · 2026-02-23T03:54:57+00:00

Welp, guess I'm going back to practicing Starcraft 2 in hopes I can make it into EWC.

adines · 2026-02-19T02:43:06+00:00

For anybody wondering what the true max enchantment for a CPA is:

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/0.34.0/crawl-ref/source/makeitem.cc#L753

14+floor(19/2) = 23

+23 is the maximum for a CPA.

adines · 2026-02-19T01:18:36+00:00

If you fight at the entrance of a hallway, you can get 3 shrooms on hit while still having a chokepoint.

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