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Ice spells - I have to agree that these are overpowered. I can stand against the fire of Ancient Red Dragons without much trouble, but a few wimpy chinese dragons come out and I've got to panic and ready some healing potions, even at high resistance of cold. This is amplified by how horribly hard it is to find items that add to cold resistance, compared to those that add to fire resistance. It also makes playing as a serpentman impossible. Most high level places have at least a few monsters that fuse ice spells, and even at high levels I was screwed because of the -50% cold resistance.
and think of poor fireborns. mine can't face 2 chinese dragons
And another problem with this is that there is loads of fire resistance artifacts. Like the essence of flame, girdle of the fire god, dragon mail, power dragon mail, dragon shield/fire shield, and a few others, but I have yet to find an equivilent cold resistance artifact. I know there is white dragon mail, but from what I hear it's quite hard to get.
All this gives me 93% resistance to fire, without and fire rings equipped. So I can fight through the Demon TC with melee weapons against groups of demon lords and balrogs, but a single fiend comes out with an icestorm rod and I'm running for my life.
I think that the belzebub's sword is over powered intentionally.
After all, very few weapons have acid attacktype, and everyone will eventually need to kill one certain monster to be called hero of pupland *cough cough*.
The rings of paladin and dark priest are overpowered.. no argument there..
And there should be more ice protection..
but..
There needs to be a armour or ring with god power protection.. The tradeoff is ice and fire res goes down
bort wrote:and everyone will eventually need (acid) to kill one certain monster to be called hero of pupland *cough cough*.
As a dragon for my main character who cannot get acid melee, I have found that there are numerous other ways if you're willing to use your brain.
bort wrote:The rings of paladin and dark priest are overpowered
Hmm... I find them useless myself.
bort wrote:And there should be more ice protection..
Agreed.
bort wrote:There needs to be a armour or ring with god power protection.. The tradeoff is ice and fire res goes down
The point of god power is that it should be impossible except from those breif resistances that a god may be willing to grant. Such a ring would be ok though if it was both godgiven (as in destroys when dropped), and only lasted for a certain duration (not reset by taking it off) before it self destructed or became a ring of adornment.
Rednaxela wrote:The point of god power is that it should be impossible except from those breif resistances that a god may be willing to grant. Such a ring would be ok though if it was both godgiven (as in destroys when dropped), and only lasted for a certain duration (not reset by taking it off) before it self destructed or became a ring of adornment.
That sounds perfect.
If you have high enough prayer, with luck, your god may grant you every now and then (set to frequent) a ring of temperary god power resistance. It should last for one 1/2 hr (in real time, not game time) if you wear it. Set at god given, you cant get rid of it, and if you amass to many, it becomes somewhat useless.
