He can be buffed to make up for it, but I really like that you don't need to kill him if you can manage to sever his sword-arm.


He's already resistant/immune to all the things Petrus and Oree are.

I don't mind the mage, he is very fragile, so you only have to find him quickly, but the golems are really hardcore if a diamond or an ommel bone one generates. Maybe you could keep the golems as is, only without the strongest being generated?

EDIT:

The other thread is here.

No, that's your disease immunity timing out. Maybe you ate some mushrooms and they gave you disease immunity?

Neither did I. I wouldn't have let my angel anywhere near that siren otherwise!

Wow, I was completely annihilated by my own angel.

I got an angel from sacrificing to Cruentus and we were steamrolling through GC. But when I needed to return to Attnam to sell my loot, my angel ran after a siren. The siren survived the first round with only some lost limbs and brainwashed my angel, turning her hostile!

Well, before I got a turn, my angel disabled both my arms. No wands for me. I tried to pray to Nefas for a mistress to use as a meat shield while I tactically run the hell away, but she gave me a new arm instead. Unfortunately, the arm didn't make it through the next angel's attack, so still no wands. I tried praying to Cruentus even though his prayer timeout was not enough, but he liked me enough to try to help anyway. He managed to scare the siren, but not his own angel...

Next turn, I was only a torso and a head, 3 HP left. Then my wonderful angel beheaded me.

It slowly drains their stats.

I must say I like the new sores message, because I do notice it and it definitely helps.

Hm, I've never actually been confused by sirens... They only ever steal my stuff.

The way danger is calculated basically takes into account how hard you and your foes are to kill - it calculates how much damage you're likely to dish out (ie. your accuracy, damage, speed) and how much punishment you can take (ie. dodging, blocking, HP), then does the same for monsters, then compares this to get relative danger value for you and monsters you can see in wizmode spoilers. If you look at the danger value, then equip better gear and get more stats, then look at the values again, you'll notice that danger of monsters have dropped, as they will have harder time killing you. When spawning monsters, the game looks at normal danger of the floor it tries to spawn monsters on - and because danger of monsters drops as you get stronger, it can spawn stronger enemies in lower danger areas.

Basically, because you have more HP, you can take more damage before dying - so the game spawns monsters that can dish out more damage to compensate. I understand that it's rather weird how more health means you're more likely to die, but changing the way danger works without completely upsetting game balance would probably be a nightmare...

Another thing, though, is that some very dangerous monsters use HP thresholds to limit their spawn only after you have that much HP. This can cause problems if you gain large amount of HP without the gear to go with it, and this might be more easy to rectify. Maybe we could change HP thresholds to some gameplay milestones, adding flags like "do not spawn this monster before the player kills Jenny", "do not spawn this monster before the player descends at least to GC4 (but spawn it anywhere afterwards)".

I added one last item, a wand of webbing, and all seems to be working well now. New PR!

I tried to address comments from here and the other thread, but any further remarks are of course welcome.

Oh. I'm sorry, I broke our release.