(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
    3·
    21 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·
      13 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.