Banishment & Rods, revisited..

mrbrklyn · Post by **mrbrklyn** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:52 am

Zephyrus wrote:Fire spells include meteor swarm, and if icestorm has more power, then so it should. Not really sure whether this is the case, though.

As for sunspear, it is likely one of the main sources of rod problems. Are you a Valriel follower? If so, fine. If not, well, banishment, sunspear, etc should probably not be so powerful. I had a dark elf take 150 HP in a second with sunspear in a case where as far as I know, the equivalent firebolt (at -30 fire res) wouldn't even have hurt as much.

I had that happen. I learned to respect the little vamps when I use banishment in big rooms...........

Ruben

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:57 am

Banishment should be slightly underpowered and tweaked like charm.
You need to respect spell casting creatures with rods of banishment.

mikeeusa22 · Post by **mikeeusa22** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:59 am

Rods should have a lower probability of popping up. They should be rare.

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:56 am

/me remembers he has an outstanding patch to nerf monsters' use of rods on the sourceforge tracker.....

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:13 am

cavesomething wrote:/me remembers he has an outstanding patch to nerf monsters' use of rods on the sourceforge tracker.....

Has it been tested and worked on a public server?

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:23 am

Nope, but I tested it on a private server, and it didn't crash.

The point is that I want to limit rods to make them act like they are attunement to a particular spell, so that they are usable up to 5 levels above use_magic_item skill.

The monster patch is a counterpart to that, to keep a vaguely level playing field, they would only use rods 5 levels above their level.

The player patch I tried to budge but that kept segfaulting. I should poke it again at some point.

Obviously however, I can't nerf rods for monsters without doing the same for players, otherwise it would be too easy

The other that is needed afterwards, but that I will leave someone else to deal with, is enchant/ dechant rod scrolls, that increase or decrease a rod's level appropriatly.

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:25 am

Perhaps leaf may want to try using this patch sometime, hmmm?
It would certainly change banishment deaths to undead players.l

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:30 am

bort wrote:Perhaps leaf may want to try using this patch sometime, hmmm?

I only apply map patches.

This is a patch that requires implementation by a "higher power" then me..

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:34 am

What? Then who does control the server leaf?
I thought you performed updates on it. If not, who does?

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:45 am

Leaf is migrating the server over to a debian system, so that he can apt-get upgrade it every now and then.

I think Mark Wedel does the compiling atm, is this correct?