[CF-Devel] Improved invisibility ... isn't

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On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:11 pm
Rick Tanner wrote:

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      On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, ERACC wrote:
     
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      > <rant warning>
     
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      > Does Cyclops have an inordinate amount of luck? That would not be
     
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      > surprising since they are so freakin' powerful already. I mean,
     
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      > PUHLEEZE, you guys 'n gals already took away my ability to melee
     
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      > Cyclops while playing dragon chars by crippling "holy possession"
     
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      > so one can only cast it once. Yeah, right, invulnerability
     
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      > potion, sure THAT lasts a long time ... not. My dragon char,
     
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      > level 66 - phys 46, has to use one potion per Cyclops! Heck, holy
     
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      > possession lasts longer than that. GEEZ! :-/
     
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      > </rant warning>
     
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      FWIW, holy possession not stacking has been in effect for almost a
     
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      year now.
     
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Heh, then I've been playing on some OLD servers. :-P

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      Cyclops are tough monsters.  They have 50% resistance to every
     
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      dragon attack type (and 100% resistance in one instance) unless the
     
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      dragon has an attack type granted through their god.
     
     
No kidding. But I have been in party with a fellow who was playing an
Elf char. Worshipped Devourers. Had a sword blessed by devourers that
"leeched" HP back to him in melee (according to him). I, with my own
disbelieving eyes, saw him destroy a room full of Cyclops and
Gaelotrolls in about 10 to 15 seconds. It took him about 2 seconds
per Cyclops and fractions of a second per Gaelotroll. Not fair, says
I. Dragons, being big, powerful critters themselves, should be able
to do as well with claw attacks. :-P

Maybe I should wait to see how my dragon char does at much higher
physical levels. Maybe I've never gotten a dragon's phys high enough
to be effective against Cyclops without lots of help.

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      So, what's next?
     
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      Increase the duration of potions to 5 minutes so you can kill Evil
     
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      Masters and Hyper Kobolds with melee.. ? ;D
     
     
Hmmm, now THERE is a good idea if I ever read one. :-P

Oh yeah, as "yuri" and I were discussin' on #crossfire, if a potion
is called "potion of invulnerability" then it should give 100%
protection. Otherwise the word "invulnerability" is a lie. We note
that this "potion of invulnerability" does not make one invulnerable.
To wit a Cyclops still hits my char for some damage even with that
potion applied. Look up the word in a decent dictionary and see the
meaning:

invulnerability
 n 1: having the strength to withstand attack [syn: {impregnability}]
 2: the property of being invulnerable; the property of being
    incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally) [ant:
    {vulnerability}]

Thus this potion's name is a misuse of the term. So there. :-D

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