by Lujo on Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:59 pm
There's a few other subdungeons where it works - hitball and such. But it's a real killer if found early since it's "waste some blackspace for scout: anything", that is - in the beta it doesn't randomly reveal stuff but tends to reveal at least one or two important things with each hit. That can be a ton of info - who the gods are, WHERE the gods are, which glyphs are where, who the bosses are, where de white women at, where the shops are, where the rather important mana boosters are... And then you scoff it up for a nice conversion pop with most races.
You could argue that starting with it is the beta Transmuters strongest ability outside of VGT cheeze sillyness.
In the alpha, yes, plenty of otherwise unreachable blackspace so having the glyph actually ment you gain blackspace. It's still bloody good in this capacity in some of the Beta dungeons (Dragon Isles layout, Namtar's Lair layout, Ick Swamp (oddly enough)...). The only problem is whether you want to use it to scout right away (very strong) and then CP it, or save it on the ground for later (could be good).
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!