(DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)

Found a suspicious vault locked by crystal doors (can only be opened by the player), read a scroll of revelation to see what’s inside.

Holy shit. A storm dragon, a hell knight, a deep elf annihilator?! Even on a fully cleared floor this party will kill you outright.

Mean game.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    For monster infighting, there’s also orbs of mayhem. But yeah, somewhat of a risky option. You can’t really control which monsters are affected and they can still decide to attack you, and the affected monsters get buffed. 😅

    • Lucy [she/faer]@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      With all the new orbs I completely forgot about the orb of mayhem to the point that I was shocked to see it in one of my recent games.

      the affected monsters get buffed.

      Yara’s Violent Unraveling reasons B)

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        To be honest, the main reason I linked to that wiki page is that I had opened it to try to find out whether orbs of mayhem are still in the game. 🙃

        Would not have surprised me, if they tweaked the design a bit with 0.34 and then gave them a different name, but at the same time, well, I did just describe that they have upsides and downsides, which is how the devs like to design things…

        • Lucy [she/faer]@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Amusingly, mayhem is a unique orb brand because all the other brands scale heavily with evocation skill nowadays yet mayhem still has a fixed effect. But it’s the one the most likely to backfire so that makes sense.