User talk:Gentlegiant03/Completion

2011-01-10T01:09:52Z

Headrock: Created page with 'This is bloody fantastic, GG. I've gone ahead and added it to my user page. I vote it stays. --~~~~'

This is bloody fantastic, GG. I've gone ahead and added it to my user page. I vote it stays. --[[User:Headrock|Headrock]] 01:09, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Headrock

2011-01-10T01:08:57Z

Headrock:

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User:Headrock

2011-01-10T01:08:30Z

Headrock: Created page with '{{User:Headrock/Completion | fign=green | figs=green | figc=green | figl=green | figf=green | bern=green | bers=green | berc=green | berl=green | berf=green | warn=green…'

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Talk:Alpha:Transmuter

2011-01-10T00:57:36Z

Headrock: Signature...

* Completed the normal dungeon with Transmuter. Unsure of any new items opened, but after defeating the boss I was not prompted to retire. I did get credit for the boss kill, and completion was registered. Transmuter button was not highlighted as is typical for ''Normal'' completion. I was able to get [[Binlor Ironshield|Binlor Ironshield]] early on and went from level 2 to level 10 in no time. This class really seems to overpower the dungeon, so it would make sense to have no major gains. Interested to see how it fares in the special dungeons.—[[User:Dariuswhiteplume|Dariuswhiteplume]] 13:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
** I'm led to believe the lack of a retire pop-up is because there aren't any Transmuter unlocks for normal. I found that after completion the class button wasn't outlined white either, this is probably related to how there's no unlock as well. Anyway, I'm willing to bet the Transmuter is great most every dungeon, especially the Snake Pit. I still haven't unlocked the Vampire but it sounds like a great/interesting class too.--[[User:Gentlegiant03|Gentlegiant03]] 17:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
*** Yup, no unlocks for the Transmuter (or any of the other Special Classes IIRC) when completing the Normal dungeon. --[[User:Headrock|Headrock]] 00:57, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

2010-12-13T15:52:03Z

Headrock:

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|unlocked=Completing Normal with [[Bloodmage]]
|notes=Toggled On/Off freely
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BLUDTUPOWA ("Blood to Power") is one of the [[Glyphs]] you can find in a game of Desktop Dungeons. A unique type of Glyph, it can be turned on and off freely without spending Mana. When activated, it doubles Mana Regeneration but disables Health Regeneration. Initially locked and available only to the [[Bloodmage]], it can become unlocked and available for all classes.

==Usage==

BLUDTUPOWA is unique amongst the Glyphs, because it is a "toggled" ability: Click it once to turn it "on", and again to turn it "off".

Activating or deactivating BLUDTUPOWA costs no Mana whatsoever, and may be done at any time.

==Effect==

While BLUDTUPOWA is in its "activated" state, tile exploration will regenerate 2 Mana Points per tile instead of the normal 1 Mana Point per tile.

On the other hand, while it is activated, BLUDTUPOWA will prevent all Health Regeneration from exploring tiles.

The end result is that activating BLUDTUPOWA enables a speedier regeneration of Mana instead of regenerating any Health. The key is then to know learn when to turn BLUDTUPOWA on for increased Mana regeneration, and when to turn it off to regain lost Health. Different classes will behave differently in this regard.

==Availability==

For a new Player Profile, BLUDTUPOWA is not available for use. To be able to use BLUDTUPOWA at all, the player must unlock the [[Bloodmage]] class by defeating the Normal Dungeon with a [[Sorcerer]].

Any game played with the Bloodmage will start with the BLUDTUPOWA Glyph on the starting tile. The Bloodmage needs to pick it up if he intends to use it. BLUDTUPOWA always appears when playing the Bloodmage class, regardless of any other factors.

Once the Normal Dungeon is beaten with an Bloodmage, BLUDTUPOWA becomes fully unlocked. From that point onwards, the BLUDTUPOWA Glyph has a chance to appear in any dungeon played, regardless of any other factors. The chance for it to appear is supposedly the same as that of other Glyphs, though this has not yet been conclusively proven.

In addition, once the dungeon shops have been upgraded enough by completing the Normal and [[Snake Pit]] dungeons with several classes, shops may occasionally sell BLUDTUPOWA. This requires a shop quality level of 35. If the Glyph is bought in this way, it will be placed on the tile the shop used to occupy (the shop disappears, as always).

==Spell Combos==

Naturally, increased Mana intake from exploration means that any Glyph may be cast more often once BLUDTUPOWA is acquired. Some Glyphs benefit more than others from this increased regeneration.

===BURNDAYRAZ===

BURNDAYRAZ is the most common and straightforward Glyph to combine with BLUDTUPOWA: If you can defeat a monster with BURNDAYRAZ alone (I.E. without having to resort to Melee attacks), only your Mana will have been depleted, and you can use BLUDTUPOWA to gain it back twice as fast as normal for the next creature fight.

Naturally, heavy spellcasters will find this combo useful in most situations they encounter. This is less true when the character relies on Melee attacks, in which case one of the Three-Glyph-Combos below may be required.

===APHEELSIK===

APHEELSIK and BLUDTUPOWA on their own are not very useful, but will become a powerful combo with a third Glyph, BURNDAYRAZ.

With this combo, BURNDAYRAZ is cast on a monster as many times as possible, followed by APHEELSIK to freeze its Health regeneration. BLUDTUPOWA is then used to regain Mana quickly using up fewer unexplored tiles, and the process is repeated.

To maximize efficiency, your hero will need a respectable Maximum Mana - enough to cast BURNDAYRAZ at least twice before running out of Mana. This will cut down on the number of times you need to "waste" Mana on APHEELSIK to facilitate further exploration. The more Fireballs you can cast before reaching 5 Mana, the more efficient this becomes.

With this tactic, it is quite possible for heavy spellcasters to destroy monsters several levels above them - theoretically killing a boss without the use of potions or other healing devices!

Always remember to leave 5 Mana for APHEELSIK at the end of your BURNDAYRAZ volley.

===CYDSTEPP===

A preferred combo for Melee Combat specialists is BLUDTUPOWA and CYDSTEPP. The high cost of CYDSTEPP (10 Mana, normally) can be replenished quickly when BLUDTUPOWA is activated. This is augmented by the way CYDSTEPP works: Your health becomes less relevant because CYDSTEPP will prevent death even if your Current Health is only 1 point. Therefore, repeated use of CYDSTEPP means that you do not actually ''need'' to regenerate Health at all.

Of course, this depends on how many times you can cast CYDSTEPP without having to regenerate Mana for more CYDSTEPPs. If you require a large number of hits to take a monster down, keeping your health full for the first attack may be required (to get a hit on the monster without having to avoid death, and so forth).

Once again, when combined with APHEELSIK this can be a winning strategy (see APHEELSIK, above), especially for characters with a powerful attack and low Maximum Health. It is not recommended for heroes who rely on a weak attack and plenty of Health, as they will usually need to regenerate their Health more often, and benefit less from each blow they make.

===GETINDARE===

Another Three-Glyph-Combo together with BLUDTUPOWA and BURNDAYRAZ, this Glyph can help heroes who require one Melee attack to bring their foe to 0 Health after weakening it with BURNDAYRAZ. Due to the nature of First Strike (bestowed by GETINDARE), if the fireballs together with the finishing Melee Attack can bring the monster to 0 Health, the hero will have lost no Health at all, and can then use BLUDTUPOWA to focus on Mana Regeneration for the next combat.

===HALPMEH===

This Glyph has a special relationship with BLUDTUPOWA, as together they enable the player to control both Mana and Health regeneration as they see fit.

BLUDTUPOWA will gain you a large number of Mana points per tile explored, but no Health points. You can then cast HALPMEH as many times as required in your specific situation to regain as much Health as you require. In this way, you can artificially regenerate the required amount of Health whenever you need it, without having to waste unexplored tiles. Without BLUDTUPOWA, or when the Glyph is deactivated, exploring for Health is wasteful when your Mana pool is already full. With this combo, that never happens because you can always use that extra Mana for more healing, and explore only to regain lost Mana.

This is assisted by the fact that the conversion rates for HALPMEH and BLUDTUPOWA are completely in sync with normal Health and Mana regeneration: Correctly using these you can ''artifically'' emulate normal Health and Mana regeneration rates, so neither Mana or Health is lost when choosing to use this combo instead of turning BLUDTUPOWA off.

Finally, note that the Wizard (who has lower Mana costs for spells) can actually achieve better-than-normal Health Regeneration with this combo, since the Mana Conversion ratio of HALPMEH is 33% better for this character class. However, the Wizard has little use for Health unless attempting to play as a Melee-oriented character. Use with caution!

===LEMMISI===

For spellcasting specialists, LEMMISI and BLUDTUPOWA can be a terrific combo used once all tiles have been explored - I.E. when preparing for the final boss fight. You will regain 2 points of Mana for each tile revealed by LEMMISI instead of the normal 1. So instead of simply regaining the amount of Mana required to cast the spell, you will gain 3 extra points of Mana for every use, enabling you to regenerate your Mana with LEMMISI. Of course, this kills off LEMMISI's Health Regeneration, but you can always turn BLUDTUPOWA off when it is required.

Note that for Wizards this is even more useful: They will regain 4 Mana points for each use of this combo, instead of only 3.

==Specific Classes==

===Bloodmage===

Choosing a Bloodmage for a dungeon will always spawn the BLUDTUPOWA Glyph on the starting tile (see above). Bloodmages use BLUDTUPOWA to regenerate their Mana, and can always use remaining Blood-stains to regenerate their Health when required. However, as noted on the Bloodmage character class page, this Glyph is actually less useful for Bloodmages than it is for some other classes who rely more on their spellcasting abilities.

===Paladin / Warlord===

The Paladin begins each dungeon with the HALPMEH Glyph, while the Warlord begins each dungeon with the CYDSTEPP Glyph. As discussed above, both these Glyphs can form powerful combos with BLUDTUPOWA.

===Transmuter===

This character class derives the single greatest benefit from BLUDTUPOWA, because Transmuters already do not regenerate Health from exploration. Therefore, once BLUDTUPOWA has been acquired, the Transmuter can simply leave it on all the time, gaining its doubled Mana regeneration without the concession of Health Regeneration.

The downside of course is that this leaves only one Glyph slot unoccupied, as the Transmuter now has both ENDISWAL (his crucial Glyph) and BLUDTUPOWA taking up the other two slots. This cuts down on the number of combos you can use, but is usually worth it.

Also note: If you intend to join Binlor Ironshield (practically a necessity for this character class), remember to turn BLUDTUPOWA on before doing so. Binlor will deduct -1 Piety point for the activation of the Glyph. This is really not much compared to the amount of Piety you'll be collecting though, so it's not that big a deal.

==BLUDTUPOWA and the Gods==

Several Gods in the game have various opinions about the use of BLUDTUPOWA - they may favour it or reject it, depending on their own particular creeds.

===Glowing Guardian===

[[Glowing Guardian]] is perhaps the most staunch opponent of BLUDTUPOWA.

If BLUDTUPOWA is already in the hero's Glyph Slots when joining Glowing Guardian, it will be deactivated immediately (assuming it was activated beforehand). From that point onward, any attempt to reactivate BLUDTUPOWA will fail spectacularly, costing you -20 Piety points! The only thing to do with BLUDTUPOWA remains to convert it, unless you plan to renounce Glowing Guardian at some stage.

===Binlor Ironshield===

[[Binlor Ironshield]] isn't very fond of Magic. The only spell he allows you to cast without negative consequence is [[ENDISWAL]]. All other spells will incur a penalty of -1 Piety points.

This effect applies also to any activation or deactivation of BLUDTUPOWA. This makes the Glyph relatively useless when worshipping Binlor: Most characters will need to turn the Glyph on and off repeatedly, and those who don't will still be relying on massive spellcasting anyway, so Piety will invariably be lost at a high rate.

The only exception is the Transmuter. This character can earn massive amounts of Piety from destroying walls, and has no real drawback from keeping BLUDTUPOWA on constantly. Do remember to activate it before joining Binlor if you want to avoid losing that one Piety point.

===Taurog===

[[Taurog]] despises any use of magic, and will deduct -5 Piety Points for each use of a Glyph. This includes both the activation and deactivation of BLUDTUPOWA. In other words, not a good idea.

===Mystera Annur===

[[Mystera Annur]] awards +1 Piety point (or +2 with a Boon) for each use of a Glyph. Unfortunately, unlike Taurog and Binlor, this does not extend to the BLUDTUPOWA Glyph.

Therefore, while BLUDTUPOWA does invariably increase the number of spells you can cast per dungeon (hence increasing Piety gain indirectly), it is not in itself a way to gain Piety with Mystera Annur.

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Brainstorming/Archive1

2010-12-13T15:51:39Z

Headrock:

{{ArchiveInfo|Brainstorming|November 24,2010}}

== Suggestions about this wiki ==

Some of these suggestion pages need to be cleaned out or archived. The majority of entries are suggestions, bugs, and issues from prior versions that are no longer relevant to the game. These pages are currently so large that no one would notice a new addition without checking the page history log, and as a result are borderline useless.--[[User:Darvin|Darvin]] 20:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

dislekcia: Can we put in a picture of the game and a link to the latest version in the "Welcome" area? I can't see how to edit that...
:Well, I've added the front-page link, but you're going to have to either upload the image or enable external image linking ($wgAllowExternalImages) for me to do the screenshot. - [[User:Chippit|Chippit]] 09:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

salejemaster: I'm not sure how to do this but we should somehow change the screenshots that are posted here in the tigdb http://db.tigsource.com/games/desktop-dungeon to screenshots from .5 because the new tile set is much better then the old one, and you know how graphics matter to people, if anyone has any info on how to do this please post :)

DGM: For the wiki itself, a section for the spells should be added. Also, Glitterfingers is missing from the gods section. For the game, here are some ideas for the deity system:

yidda: we should maintain distinct version information on the same page, like the Dwarf Fortress Wiki does:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Stockpile
So if you go to the Gods page, you can click on the older DD versions to see what they used to do. this would also work for pages like this one, so that we don't have suggestions for the old God system next to the new ones.

== Suggestions for the game interface ==

'''Avoid math computations -'''
Would it be possible to include a number amount for the damage increase in the tooltip of Bysepps (and in other similar situations)?

Almost: Some indication or acknowledgement of the thief's first attack bonus or the berserker's bonus damage when attacking higher level monsters when hovering the mouse over them would be nice.

:Account for damage reduction when showing how much damage enemies do.

:Resistances are a pain to the mental math, how about displaying the actual numbers, for example, if I'm a monk, a monster's rollover would say "Attack:41 (20)" Admittedly it's easy for monks, but when dealing with 30% resistances, that is harder.
:Agree. This applies to both the damage the monsters will deal to you after Monk bonus, Tower Shields, etc. and the damage you'll deal to them after their resistances, your Berserker bonus, etc. This can either shown in the monsters Health Line or next to your attack value. --[[User:Twinge|Twinge]]

Would it be possible to include an icon somewhere to show what glyphs are active? I can't count the number of times I've died because I assumed CYDSTEPP was on when it was not. --[[User:W4ffl35|W4ffl35]]

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'''Show which classes finished a dungeon -'''
Stormy: What about highlighting the classes who beat a particular dungeon. Just like it's currently done with the standard dungeon, but extended to the others, when the cursor hovers over the buttons.

:On the main menu, rather than having to look at the rollover text to see if you've beaten a challenge with a class, instead give the dungeon selection buttons boarders like the class selection buttons get after beating the normal dungeon. Also, give the transmuter et al. classes boarders after beating the normal dungeon, don't leave them out.

Can I suggest a menu redesign with a 'Go!' button, as opposed to simply clicking on the dungeon you want? That way, you can select each dungeon by clicking on it and the borders will show up around all the classes you've beaten it with for the dungeon you currently have selected. It'd streamline that aspect a bit.

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'''Rand-seed -''' Almost: If it's possible, generate dungeons from a seed number, and allow the player to replay maps by giving it the seed again or challenge a friend to do better than they did on that map. Maps from any mode could be replayed in such a manner, but completion of these maps would not count for unlocking stuff or highscores. This would also allow players to retry a map that they think they could've done better on and attempt more ideal solutions while learning how to play.

:Seconding this, and display the seed number during the game. That way we can always recreate the game when someone posts a screenshot and asks questions about it.

:: Seconded, but don't count a seeded game as a normal game, since a player could cheat by doing the same dungeon several times.

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'''Picking up blood not compulsory''' Perhaps the Bloodmage and Vampire should have the ''option'' to pick up blood patches, or not.
Perhaps it could be done via the glyph interface.
Of course, if a summoned monster dies on a glyph, then I suppose that could lead to trouble.
: I'm not sure, I think it's an important bit of strategy, that you have to plan out where you stand. [[User:Neongrey|Neongrey]] 14:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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'''Victory -''' When I killed my first boss, I wasn't sure what to do next and spend several minutes clicking around before realising I should 'retire'. It would have been nice if the retire button was replaced with 'victory!' in those circumstances.

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'''Arrow keys -''' I'd love to be able to use the arrow keys to navigate! -- [[Special:Contributions/99.238.53.245|99.238.53.245]] 16:58, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
: yes. Please.
:: Numeric keypad!

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'''Class description -'''
mtarini: I think it is a pity that the one-line descriptions of the classes are only visible once, when you unlock them (the ones like "rogue: a class that specializes at avoiding taking damage").
Can we see them, maybe in smaller font and italics, when we roll over? BTW it the "three traits" system with traits name is very sweet.
[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 19:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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'''Fresh game start -''' Currently, when the game just first start, you have two dungeons: "normal" and "snake pit". I would leave only "normal" for the first runs, until you win that one once. It just looks nicer... more "fresh and immediate" for newbie players. --[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 23:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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'''Tooltip -''' Position: I frequently hover over my character to remember the information the tooltip shows. However this tend to cover other interesting stuff, like adjacent monsters, which is mildly annoying. A possible solution could be to (a) move the tooltip when it's closer than 2-3 squares from the character; (b) include that information (current effects, traits) in the area below the runes.

Information: instant death protection is not taken into account on a monster's tooltip. --[[User:Lejonmanen|Lejonmanen]] 09:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

== Suggestions for the Gods system ==

1) Dracul rejects Priests. Should the Glowing Guardian accept Assassin followers? It seems out of character, and it's a cheap way to steamroll the Assassin/Crypt challenge.
:Seems TGG is pretty forgiving to me (more generous than the god they're copied from anyway!) - if you are an Assassin that isn't using poison, they're fine with it I think. On the same topic, though, I think TGG altars shouldn't even spawn in the Crypt, because it basically makes it an auto-win for any class. --[[User:Twinge|Twinge]]
:: Agreed. By the same token, altars to Dracul shouldn't spawn in the crypt (unless it were to be included as a fourth "atmosphere" altar) due to his literally total uselessness there. --[[User:MrGuy|MrGuy]] 15:49, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

2) Binlor Ironshield gives the wall-buster spell when you convert to him. This should be used for other gods: Mystera Annur should give Fireball since her worshipers are helpless without it, and the Earthmother should give the stoning spell.

:Earthmother *does* give IMAWAL... providing it doesn't already exist. Binlor is the same way with the ENDISWAL Glyph: if it already exists, he won't create it. And that leads nicely to Mystera: BURNDAYRAZ is guaranteed to appear on every map anyways. All this said, it wouldn't be a bad idea to move the Glyphs to the player's feet when they convert to these gods --[[Special:Contributions/94.7.130.253|94.7.130.253]] 15:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

3) Speaking of the Earthmother and the stoning spell, she's lame mostly because the spell is lame. It denies you experience and doesn't clear obstacles out of the way; it has no use except to make her happy and her reward isn't good enough. I suggest having the spell only work on monsters below your level, but count as a regular kill (giving experience, triggering rewards/punishments from the gods, etc.). This would make it useful in its own right and make the Earthmother less painful to follow.

:Rather than change the mechanic of the god and render the special Gorgon class somewhat irrelevant, why not just change the reward? +1HP per level per enemy petrified, perhaps. Or +1HP per monster level. -ChaoSpectre

::The Earthmother giving regular XP for stone kills seems quite fair, as it balances with you not being able to take those stones out of the way.

:::Some wild ideas --[[User:Lejonmanen|Lejonmanen]] 09:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
:::a) EM doubles MP recovery when exploring
:::b) Petrifying a monster regenerates MP equal to monster level
:::c) Each time a monster would petrify you, EM kills the monster and gives you +10% physical damage resistance (stone skin)
:::d) EM gives another rune (LEMMETRU) that creates a "tunnel", preserving the rock but enabling the hero to go through, for a cost of 1 permanent HP per level
:::e) Petrifying monsters creates a "tunnel" instead of a solid wall
:::f) "Knowledge of earth" - can see walls 3 tiles away without revealing. Like the eye of scouting, but only for walls
:::g) Destroying ENDISWAL glyph should please her.

4) Glitterfingers just helps you get money, right? You can stockpile money easily enough anyway. How about having him spawn some potion shops to spend it on?
:How about if Glitterfingers removed the cap on gold for that run only? If you had more than the max at the end of your run, then it would be reduced to the max. [[Special:Contributions/68.159.130.228|68.159.130.228]] 16:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
:He could certainly use something - right now he's vaguely useful to grind up some gold slightly faster between real games, and even then mostly only if you don't have Goblin unlocked. Giving 2 gold per kill instead of 1 - and maybe also removing the cap as mentioned above - probably still doesn't actually make him useful, but would be a start I guess. Glittergfingers should probably be revamped completely, but that can wait until the whole gold system is revamped.

5) Right now there's not much reason to renounce a god except to see what happens. I'd like the option pick a god from the start (like race and class) instead of spawning random alters, so why not use the god's curses as part of another unlock system? If you level up at least, say, 5 times AFTER earning a god's disfavor and still win the game, you get the option to start with him as your deity. As an adjunct to this, let the player brick an alter with the stone spell or shatter it with the wall-buster spell as a way of angering the deity.
:renouncing a God serves the purpose of being able to worship another one --[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 17:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
::I was also able to renounce just to convert a glyph into a potion so that I had enough life to kill a boss.--[[User:Sxerks|Sxerks]] 02:22, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

6) Fizanko: to make every gods more usefull and varied, maybe having them spawning a glyph or a new trait for the player, unique to them after the player successfully attacked and destroyed the other deities altars, giving alternatively an incentive for the player to explore the whole dungeon to find every altars.
Could then be used to balance the less interesting gods by having them spawning a more interesting glyph/trait.

7) Mystera Annur is absolutely terrible. The mana bonus can be useful, sure, but reducing your attack power to one is absolutely crippling, especially given that BURNDAYRAZ is much weaker than the standard melee attack even for your average wizard. Either lower the damage penalty, or have Annur increase the power/decrease the cost of BURNDAYRAZ. --[[User:MrGuy|MrGuy]] 15:46, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

8) I would like it if the game either let you know which altars are available on the map or let you choose that a certain altar will appear on the map. I'm trying to clear the Factory with a Wizard, and from what I can figure, you pretty much need Mystera Annur to lower magical resistance so you can win. If I don't find a Mystera Annur altar, I'm just going to retire without trying. If I could know ahead of time whether that altar exists in the dungeon, it will save me time playing maps where it doesn't exist [[User:Cyrai|Cyrai]] 19:49, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
:Or as an alternative, let players choose which god they serve before the game begins. As it is, each character goes into the dungeon as "atheist," including priests, who by definition must serve a god in order to receive their divine powers. --[[User:KenLaird|KenLaird]]

== Suggestions for the Scoring system ==

rickgriffin: Thoughts about the high score board:

1) Include which boss was defeated on the run.
: Agreed. Also what god they were worshiping, if any. --[[User:Twinge|Twinge]]

2) Besides the top score board, also have separate boards for each class, so people have a reason to have high score runs without just selecting the 'best' class/race.
:Ideally there wouldn't be any clear best combos, and I think that is the goal down the road; there may be some combos that suck, but there shouldn't be any that dominate ranked games (I'm looking at you, Vampire & Human Rouge/Monk!) Not that having separate charts for each class would be a bad thing, I'm just saying the bigger issue is one of overall balance =) --[[User:Twinge|Twinge]]

* What about also having top score boards for each of the challenge dungeons, as well? [[User:Neongrey|Neongrey]] 21:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

* Now that I think about it, having a score breakdown would be a neat thing too, so you could see what all contributed to a high score. [[Special:Contributions/68.159.130.228|68.159.130.228]] 13:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC) (rickgriffin)

3) Berserkers wish to die in battle. When playing as a berserker, get a bonus for dying and a sizable penalty for retiring. --[[User:Egasimus|Egasimus]] 20:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

4) Have an off-line high-score table.--[[User:Egasimus|Egasimus]] 20:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

5) Damage dealt being a part of the scoring system should probably be capped, or removed entirely. As it stands, the maximum bonus for speed (an instant win) would be 60 * 3 * 15 = 27,000. The difference between a one minute win (impressively quick) and a two minute win (not bad) is only 1800 points. On the other hand, the max bonus earned by maximizing damage dealt (bringing all monsters to low hp, exploring to heal them, etc.) is literally over a hundred thousand, and easily achievable with a level 1 Human Sorcerer (infinite casts of 4 damage fireball, not "skill"). I feel like ending up with a mid-to-low tier high score somewhat detracts from the impressiveness of doing the entire dungeon in under a minute. Some quick ideas at other way of calculating scores:
* Score could be based entirely off 'moves made' (the fewer tiles traveled / clicks before killing the boss, the better)
* Have "lightning short" times give exponentially more points (Maybe start with a x 9 modifier to the time score, and every 30 seconds it drops by x1)
* Classify scores by "games under 5 minutes", "games under 10 minutes", etc.
* Break ranked mode into multiple modes, where scoring is done differently in each (a "speed runs" dungeon, a "fewest moves" dungeon, a "maximum damage" dungeon where monsters don't heal, etc.)
* It seems odd that ranked dungeons are randomly generated at all. The dungeon arrangement has a huge influence on a player's max potential score. [[User:Varuka|Varuka]]

== Suggestions for the glyph system ==

1) Certain glyphs - mainly the three teleportation spells - are vastly inferior to most other glyphs. Rather than try to make all spells equally useful, though, I suggest dividing glyphs into two categories: Master glyphs and Apprentice glyphs. Master glyphs would work as glyphs do now. Apprentice glyphs would be weaker and/or more costly and would give no bonus on conversion, but each game some of them would spawn next to the player's starting position. This would balance the glyphs and help eliminate hopeless starts.
: I like that there are random difficult starts. Don't turn in into a chess solitaire. ----

2) To go with the above idea, here's a suggested new spell: DUNBEESHOKD (Lightning Bolt) - 4 Mana. Deals 2 damage per player level to a monster. This would be an apprentice version of Fireball, suitable for giving to the player from the start in case they want to go the pure magic route.

3) Suggestions for specific spells:

....BLUDTUPOWA needs work. How about letting it turn a health potion into a mana potion instead? That would make it more generally useful while keeping with the Blood Mage's health-for-power theme.

....WEYTWUT teleports you somewhere useless or dangerous too often. How about having it only take you to shops, glyphs and alters? Or at least making it send you somewhere you haven't already explored?

....I already discussed fixing IMAWAL when I talked about the Earthmother earlier, but I'll repeat it here for completeness: restrict it to enemies below the player's level, but let it count as a normal kill for reward/penalty purposes.

....make LEMMESEE work as an eye of scouting until the player attacks a monster. Or make it scout only nearby interesting stuff (monsters, shops, altars and runes) without displaying what they are (use a question mark icon) -Lejonmanen

Limiting WEYTWUT to unexplored area would be a definite plus.

'''Rename BURNDAYRAZ.''' I understand and like all other glyph names. BURNDAYRAZ, however, I didn't decode until I came to this wiki! To me, it looks like either "Burned a Raise" or "Burn Day Raze", neither of which makes sense. Alternative suggestions: BABIKIU, TOSTOR, OOELDUNN, FIYABUNN (the last has a nice Jamaican twang to it). --[[User:Rsl12|Rsl12]] 23:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

== General suggestions==
'''Difficulty''': After getting pretty good at the game with certain strategies, the fun becomes beating certain dungeons with certain classes. I thought it'd be cool if it'd be possible to add some ability to increase the difficulty independently of class/race/dungeon, by adding bonus settings to place more (or bigger) bosses, or options to remove shops, not heal when exploring, etc.

'''OpenSource?''' DGM: Nandrew, I assume you're reading this since I got the link for this wiki from you. Are you going to share the source, so we can play with ideas you reject? Failing that, would you use the discussion page and comment on which ideas being presented here that you're considering using? I've got more ideas for the glyph system I suggested, but there's no point in talking about it if it will never be implemented.

'''Randomness -''' Jabberwock: One suggestion for the dodge - as it seems it is one of very few random elements after the game starts (maybe beside the Imp teleports), it is a little bit out of place. What if the order of the enemy miss was predetermined instead of random? That is, one of the five enemy hits misses - I receive hit no.1, 2 etc., and the no. 5 always misses... Would certainly make it more strategic.

'''Minimum gold -''' fall_ark: This might sound a little cheap but... how about adding a "minimum gold" bonus? Or change the saved gold system as a whole. I mean, after unlocking the Goblin race it becomes super easy to gain 50~70 gold in a few minutes, and before that I used to choose rogue to do some rounds of hoarding...It just feels a bit tedious. Or I'm just lazy and spoiled...

: I would like that your max gold go to full inbetteen rounds, basicly I max my gold with the goblin/trasmutat and just hit "retire" , doing this meny times can max gold - but - shouldnt the game just do this automaticaly "max" my gold since i can do this trick anyway?

:: On the contrary - on retiring without beating the dungeon boss, you shouldn't be able to keep all your gold. Hoarding sessions seem a bit unfair to me.--[[User:Egasimus|Egasimus]] 19:53, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

: I totally agree! What a waste of time. If you do have to do this use Goblin Wizard...--[[User:Greatdiwei|Greatdiwei]] 07:09, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

'''ports -''' There really should be a /iTouch version of Desktop Dungeons. I think it would be awesome on the platform. Dont know how hard to port it is but you know, a suggestion:D
zreaperz-
:or even for Android. It is definitly the kind of time sink i'd love to have in my pocket
::It would definitely work well on a handheld.
::: What about an ? The is desperately needing a good roguelike :) --[[User:Greatdiwei|Greatdiwei]] 07:09, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

:Any chance of a version for OS X?

'''Other Dungeon Bosses''' Rather than just level 10 enemies, how about in some harder modes, the actual gods are in the dungeon to fight? or maybe there could be a mode for that. Simply because stumbling in on Taurog for example would be a totally kickass moment. --[[User:RocketShark|RocketShark]] 12:56, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

 
'''Monster Tiles''': Might I suggest arbitrarily grouping different types of monsters into a tileset and then assigning a set randomly to a spawned dungeon? eg group off a set of 5-10 enemies... lets say in this case Orcs, Goblins & Ogres. Instead of the dungeon being populated with every enemy in the game, which gets increasingly bizarre with the number of available foes; This adds a lot more cohesion with very little spent in gross resources. --[[User:TokinAtheist|TokinAtheist]] 2 August 2010

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'''Placement biased tile sets''': Also I think it would do wonders for the game visually if the tiles in the dungeon had a placement bias. This trick can be done with very few lines of code and streamlines the appearance of the dungeon. It requires more work on behalf of the tile set authors but also gives them a lot more flexibility and control over the finished product. --[[User:TokinAtheist|TokinAtheist]] 2 August 2010 

'''Keybindings?''' Self-explanatory. I'm just used to using the ASWD keys to move in nearly every other game I've played.

== Suggestions for Objects / Shops ==

'''"Dungeons and Dragons basic player manual"''' - after you buy this (expensive) object, you gain one extra EXP for each GOLD you collect! :-D --[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 22:59, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

== Suggestions for the classes ==

'''Religion oriented class? -''' It seems to me that the three current special classes could appear as Tier 4 classes.
* the "Transmuter" belongs to "Wizards",
* the "Crusader" belongs to "Fighters",
* the "Tinker" belongs to "Thieves".

That leaves the "Priest" line open for a new character: GOOD! because it is about time to have a ''Religion'' oriented class. Maybe one that senses altars, starts with an extra altar, and can belong to two religions (or, maybe, can get away with changing religions at any time). --[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 22:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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'''Tiers 5 classes?'''
* Thieves -> ''Ninjas'', specialized at stealth (see below)
* Fighters -> ''Man-at-arms'', specialized at armours (physical protection)?
* Priests -> ''Disbeliver'', specialized ''against'' religions? (someway)
* Wizards -> ''Alchimist'', specialized at potions?
: or maybe
* Wizards -> ''Archmages'': 2 MP regeneration, negative protections (take double phys damage), 0 start attack?

just brainstorming...--[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 22:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

'''Special Class for defeating Lothlorien'''
All that hard work should be rewarded :) --[[User:Greatdiwei|Greatdiwei]] 07:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

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'''Ninjas''' - "a stealth assassin that acts in shadows" ''[class porposal]''

They have a glyph that allows them to go ''stealth mode'': in that mode, they explore the dungeon NOT revealing anything, but leaving stuff in shadow instead (just as the half-dragon's extended view radius, but at radius 1 not 2). So they sense monsters and stuff at radius 1, but cannot see what it is. That should feel like they are acting in total shadow. The very square they are in, the one "at radius 0", is the only square being actually explored. Ninjas can attack a monster in shadow (not knowing what it actually is - risky!), gaining first strike, huge bonuses, and some 50% chance of monster being "dazed" and not fighting back for that round. The monster (if survives) is then revealed anyway. If the ninja would be killed in response, it gets out of stealth mode with 1 HP instead (and, if appropriate, poisoned, mana burned, or even turned into stone, etc). One can get out of stealth mode anytime by clicking on the glyph again (at no costs).

Completing with the ninja might unlock the stealth glyph for other classes as well, but only the ninja should get the extra bonuses. So ninja would have, as traits: (1) starts with that glyph, (2) bonuses when attacking an unrevealed monster, (3) survives if killed by that monster. For other characters, attacking in stealth mode would be very very riscky (well, it ''would'' prevent life stealth from vampires, if they are killed).

However stealth-mode is useful and powerful, for anyone, as it allows one to preview things but waste very little "explored space". This could be balanced by negating the MP regeneration and/or one point of HP regeneration for the only square that is actually fully revealed (the one where the player is). The cost of activating the glyph itself should be 0.

--[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 22:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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Going4Paladin: The monk needs a buff, his last 2 skills are lovely, but when he loses half attack, he has nothing to kill with.... maybe he needs a poison immunity???

:The monk really doesn't need a buff. His DIAMOND BODY skill already allows you to take half damage from the start, and you're doing half damage to the enemy, so fights tend to simply take twice as long. But HAND TO HAND just has your Damage Bonus start at -50%. Each Attack Powerup you find or Glyph you convert as a Human increases this by 10%. So after 5 Glyphs/Powerups, you're back to base damage, whilst your enemies are still doing half damage to you.

:The net result of these two abilities is that every boost to Damage Bonus has *double* the effect than for other characters, and that's one hell of a buff. The same applies to any extra Physical or Magical Resistance items you may eventually find in the shops: they provide twice as much help to the Monk because his resistance is already so high.

:So yes, while he can be a little difficult to work with at Level 1 due to damage being rounded down, he swiftly gets much stronger as you gain sources of Damage Bonus. And his enhanced Health Regen makes hit and run tactics much much easier. --[[Special:Contributions/94.7.130.253|94.7.130.253]] 05:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Fizanko : i agree with DGM up there, i believe IMAWALL is in a need of a rework in my opinion, as in its current status it brings no advantage in comparison to every other glyph that cost a base 5 mana or even less, as by using it not only you deny yourself the xp of a petrified monster (and in Desktop Dungeons you need every xp you can) but by mistake you can block you own way.

The only use is for The Earthmother deity, but still i don't see the +1 HP gain to balance the xp you will not get from the petrified monster and the blocked path it creates, or just converting it for a bonus.

I can see and understand that to be a difficult glyph to balance, but i think it should count for a kill (so delivering the xp) when used for monsters that are below your own level (so you can't use it on a boss to get an "easy win"), or making it only in a limited amount of use so you can't overuse it.

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To round out the tier 1 classes, how about showing the locations of the altars to the priest, and the stores to the thief?
:I can see the benefits/symmetry there, but I find thieves to be pretty awesome already, and I can see the effective playstyle of priests, so I dunno if this is really needed.

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Okay, maybe I'm just bad at using them, but bloodmages strike me as pretty terrible. I can see where the devs were going with it, but it starts with a glyph that can only be used effectively by one class (and not even well by the bloodmage!), an ability that the vampire already gets and can make way better use of, and a boost to mana potions that also carries a cost in health that negates the benefit from blood pools anyway. So I think we need to replace the tier 3 wizard class.

*The class should have a playstyle centered around a glyph of some sort, which is unlocked for other classes upon winning and should ideally be usable by anyone.
*The class should also have a playstyle that focuses on glyph usage, in keeping with wizards and sorcerers.
*I'll put down a few ideas that sound awesome in my head right now, feedback on any (or more suggestions) would be super appreciated:
**Enchanters, which start with the DINTURT glyph (-20% to enemy's next attack), use less mana to cast glyphs that give bonuses like GETINDARE, BYSSEPS, and such, and gets higher attack boosts per level at the cost of lower health boosts per level.
**Occultists, which start with the BIYAPAL glyph (cast on a monster to have it assist in your next attack if it can move next to a monster, expensive and only affects one monster at a time), can move through monsters, and has lower damage to start with.
**Wild mages, which start with the WUTZINDABOCKS glyph (low cost, random glyph effect), generate 1 more of either shops, potions, or glyphs, and have a slight chance to use up no mana in casting a spell.

== Still uncategorized ==

Some more Random idea:

Other Offensive spells (Difficult to implement, because the fireball is pretty well balanced at the moment)
Have 1 off glyphs that can be cast once, so a big Fireball explosion, maybe 12 damage per level for example?

Have an offensive spell that either ties in with Max Mana, or your attack Power...?

A spell like poison, maybe "STASIS" that binds the enemy and as you explore the dungeon it loses health. Although this would be like poison, maybe to balance it you lose health as well?

Attack Ideas:

Make a class like a thief or ranger, that does ranged damage. How i see this working would be 1 "free" attack before the monster retaliates and fights back. Conversely some monsters could have the "Cover or Awareness" ability that counters this.
: The problem with this is that it's essentially equivalent to attacking and having first strike on your last hit - either way it's a sequence of blows where you hit them one more time than they hit you. It's a different implementation of a mechanic already in game. --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 

Class ideas:

There are classes that only use the health stat and not mana, how about the other way around? SO only mana? Maybe an Angel, or Elemental? Also for these classes have them do something usefull with the Mana or Health potions/Power ups..

Other random ideas:

Wildmage: When you use a mana potion you get a random effect.
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Quests and multiple ending solutions

I might be fun and had some tactical challenges to had some basic quest with different ways to kill it. For example for a zombie game I made to win you can either :
- Survive the zombies untill the morning (implies lots of barricading and fighting)
- Break the charm causing them to appear (implies to be lucky enough to find a specific object, travel a bit in a dangerous house and get exposed to danger for a while)
You could have here:
- Save the child haunted by a deamon. Either kill the deamon (easy and brutal), or find a way to cast exorcism (should require some object and be more subtle and tricky to apply. For example every new level you get he is surrounded by nasty creatures you have to fight)
- The war. there are 2 different armies on the field. Your target is to kill the boss who is the leader of one army. you can either kill him, or kill all is army, and the other, (if you killed none of them) would kill themselves the boss
...

If might be even better if the targets and different path are discovered in game, with a bit of randmoness.

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Achievements: This game needs something to keep us addicted after getting the last unlock. The high score list won't do it for all players, but an achievements list would. It also provides a handy point system for a 'trait' system.

Traits: Let players select benefits and penalties before each match. This can require 'points' (A certain number to start with, with more available as you complete achievements, or simply one point per dungeon beaten with each class) have an impact on the final score, or both. Example: Jerry selects four traits before his game. Heavy Handed, Explorer, Blackballed, and Veteran.
Heavy Handed prevents him from gaining any Dodge or First Strike abilities, but doubles damage dealt to creatures below level 5. (Score x 1)
Explorer adds 50% to health regeneration and +1 to mana regeneration from exploration. (Score x0.5)
Blackballed removes all shops from the map. (Score x1.25)
Veteran adds +1 xp per kill, as per the Fighter trait. (Score x0.8)
Jerry finishes the map with a score of 28000. After multipliers, he is awarded a final score of 14000 to submit to the leaderboards.
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Brainstorming new glyphs:

* IPHEELWEEK (Weaken) - Lower monster's attack power by 10%.
* WARIZHEL (Mass Charm) - Every monster makes an attack on an adjacent monster. (High-level monsters act first, targeting the lowest-level monster they can reach.)
* HIVOLTIJ (Chain lightning) - Deals 3 damage per level and leaps to any adjacent monsters.
* IKANSI (Selective Amnesia) - Unexplore twelve random tiles. (12 == casting cost.)
: A wizard could cast this, explore the tiles (possibly with LEMMISI) and regen hp AND be one mana up. Also consider that there's an item that doubles your mana regen, and I don't think a glyph like this is workable. --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 
* BEGON (Banish) - Instantly kill monster of lower level. Add their level to max health.
* CRAMBLEDEG (Warp world) - Scramble the dungeon. (Generate a new dungeon layout with the same number of monsters, shops, runes, etc. as the present.) Vanishes after one use.
: What about the state of visible/invisible tiles? Sounds like it would be either broken or...weird. --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 
* TOKIWOTOMARE (Time Stop) - Your next attack is completely unopposed. (Special monster abilities such as blink and life steal also turn off for the duration.) The strain on your body permanently reduces your damage bonus by 10%.
: Again, very similar to first strike. --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 
* NOTUITZME (Polymorph) - Transform monster into random monster of the same level.
* GLOINZADARK (Destruction) - Cause mass destruction centered on you. (Destroys all walls, shops, altars and floor objects within 3 tiles. Monsters 1 tile away take 6 * level damage, 2 tiles away take 4 * level damage, 3 tiles away take 2 * level damage. You go to 1 life.) Vanishes after one use.
: When would you use this? --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 
* SLEPOVREZN (Monster Migration) - Create new monster of level 1 to 9 somewhere in dungeon.
: Desktop Dungeons is meant to be about scarcity - this gets you something useful for almost nothing. Even if it's not something you can beat now, it'll be something you can beat later. --[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 15:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC) 
* CUMONDEN (Enhance Monster) - Level up target monster.
* IZALWAZRITE (Summon Store) - Summon a phantasmal merchant. (One chance to purchase a random item.)
* BULKUP (Enhance Strength) - Increases base damage and max health by 1.
* INRI (Holy Symbol) - Drive monster back with 50% knockback damage, or 100% against undead.
* ZENERCARD (Clairvoyance) - Detect the location of any items and monsters within 3 tiles.
* NOUSIIT (Invisibility) - Gives 50% dodge chance for your next action.

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Achievements:
* GODLESS - Follow no deity.
* AGNOSTIC - Follow all three available gods in a single run.
* SKIMMER - Reveal less than 50% of the map.
* PACIFIST - Killed boss but more than half of total monsters alive.
* THRIFTY - Didn't visit store.
* SCROOGE - Exited dungeon with 30 or more gold then you entered with.

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Much like how vampires follow Dracul for free, Binlor should do something special for dwarves who follow him. [[User:Neongrey|Neongrey]] 03:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

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The dungeon specific monsters (naga, imp, vampire and armour) are pretty fun guys, and it would be nice to see them in the main dungeon. Perhaps as a reward for beating their dungeon with [x] classes.

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Petrification doesn't have any purpose but to please the Earthmother god. And the Earthmother doesn't have any purpose other than to make petrification useful. That's not good!

SIMPLE IDEA:
Make petrification work in same way as a gorgon's death gaze: it counts as a kill in every way, but only works on monsters of less than some % health. Now it's a very situational assassination skill -- super-good against some bosses (like Super Meat Man) and super-bad against others (like Gharbad.)

But this doesn't help that the gorgon class' innate petrification is either trivial (so long as they keep their ENDISWAL glyph) or game-wreckingly harmful (if they don't.) So:

MORE COMPLEX IDEA:
Stoned monsters become statues which the character can push around the dungeon sokoban style.

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Love the game. Gushing aside, criticisms:

Classes:
The best classes seem to be "mix" classes: thief and priest, for example. Classes that rely primarly on melee or magic (fighter, wizard) seem to have their work seriously cut out for them.

Fighter is awful, and could use a buff. Perhaps "regenerate" his death save? (every 5 kills?)
Wizard is poor, even with the -1mp: largely because (imo) the only way to kill things with magic is fireball, and at high levels fireball does not scale well at all. Perhaps this more an issue with fireball, though.
Vampire is ungodly powerful, largely down to it having fireballs out the wazoo. Perhaps remove its ability to use magic? (and give it a buff somewhere else?)
Crusader seems weak to me... probably because momentum caps out. I have a hellish time defeating bosses with crusader, because after the first hit, damage drops significantly. Also, fireball causes momentum to reset - not sure if thats intended, but it renders fireball pretty much useless.

Glyphs:
PISOF and WEYTWUT are both pretty much useless (unless you get trapped, but even still, id rather have pretty much anything else).
IMAWAL as noted many times above, is awful. Other people have good suggestions.
LEMMISI, even with the trick, I feel is underpowered: largely because once you run out of spaces to explore, it becomes useless. Perhaps reduce the MP cost to 1? Incidentally, it also causes vampire life leech to trigger. Not sure if thats meant.
APHEELSIK makes or breaks games, for many classes. Taking down Super Meat Man (or many others) becomes trivial with poison: if you dont have it, it becomes incredibly difficult (in some cases impossible - try take down Super Meat Man with a wizard, for example). As a possible alternative to messing around with poison, nerfing Boss Regen rate may help "fix" several aspects of the game.
BLUDTUPOWA is awful at high level. ~16 health for 1 MP is a rip. Increasing the MP gain or reducing the health drained (perhaps by half) would make it less awful, and would buff magic users.
BURNDAYRAZ as mentioned above, doesnt scale well. Magic users generally feel gimped as a result.
BYSSEPS could probably do with a "fail" if already cast. Not really important.

Bosses:
Some bosses seem significantly easier than others. Part of the problem is what boss you get randomly assigned: perhaps thats just the nature of the game, but if i see a Tower of Goo as a melee class, I may as well just restart. Super meat man seems horrendously impossible without poison.
: it is not --[[User:Mtarini|Mtarini]] 19:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Other stuff:
As others have said, having to farm between games is sucky and encourages grinding. Remove the gold cap, start off every game with the bonus you would've got for clearing the crypt multiple times, and dont have gold transfer. Also, rather than having certain squares cause popups (such as altars or bosses), why not have the information appear at the side (and disappear if you move away)? It seems to break the game, and after the 300th boss conversation, I dont really care what they have to say. (Also, I had to fight a boss who was beside an altar, using poison. Every time I moved beside him, I got an altar popup. Bleh)

Anyway, as I said, love the game and hope it continues to improve. --[[Special:Contributions/82.35.212.80|82.35.212.80]] 19:22, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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More people keeping an eye on spam and maybe only contributions for registered users. All this spam ;/

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Should gorgons really still turn things to stone when they kill them with the fireball? They die from damage, not from the death gaze. [[User:Neongrey|Neongrey]] 14:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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Lots of assorted ideas: 
1. Slightly randomize the amount of goodies available in the dungeon. Perhaps one round there'd be one less gold pile and one more attack upgrade, or one less glyph and one more health potion, or an extra 5th level monster, or whatever. It makes it more interesting if two identical characters can reach the end game with different proportions. Naturally, there should be a wider variety of useful glyphs (I pretty much find myself using the fireball and poison above everything else) and gods (Enough gods are of dubious use to make it possible that I wouldn't want any of the gods) to supplement this. 
2. I thought of a way to make PISOF useful: 
2a. Have monsters guard the tiles around them, and if you try to pick up something off the floor next to them (or use an altar/shop next to them? (or attack an enemy next to them??)) they get an attack on you, either at full strength or at diminished strength and without their normal on-hit effects. That way you might want to teleport a monster away to get at its goodies scot free. Spend mana to save HP (or to not die) (or to not get poisoned). 
2b. Generate the level such that monsters explicitly block the paths to caches of stuff, or prevent you from picking up stuff near them outright. (Perhaps only on the orthagonals?) 
3. I thought of a way to make ENDISWAL...not useful, but preserve the feel of it: 
Right now, it feels like it's an item that would have limited tactical benefit (grabbing bits of explore from the edges of the map, going around a monster blocking your way, etc.) but otherwise doesn't fit in the game, so a god has also been shoehorned in, but he doesn't make it too appealing either, what with gold being a mostly metagame material AND there being another gold-based god.
Why not implement a system of doors, with keys lying around the map (or dangling off of enemy's belts in a tantalizing fashion), with various glyph/class/item assisted ways to pick, force or circumnavigate them? Then ENDISWAL would have a clear purpose (getting around doors), or it could be replaced with a specific make-the-door-go-away glyph. You'd need a smarter level generator to ensure that all levels would be reasonable even with doors, but I think a smarter level generator is a good goal to strive for anyway. You could even colour code keys, so that unnecessarily difficult monster is worth killing to get its goodie cache, or maybe the boss is hiding behind a door which its henchmen has the key to, or so on! Also, chests, mmm. Keys keys keys. 
(Also, renouncing the Earthmother shouldn't turn EVERYTHING into stone, just drop enough stone to hamper your life unless you have teleportation or wall removal.) 
4. I thought of a way to make WEYTWUT useful: 
Make it a controlled teleport. Click a spot on the map, and the game will put you on the nearest open tile. Now you can use it to your advantage in conjunction with any way to sense monsters/glyphs.
Might be interesting to consider other forms of detection to compliment this - perhaps a form of detection that reveals the 9 and 10 level monsters, or revealing all of X item, or all the altars... 
5. I thought of a way to make IMAWAL useful: 
Ditch the idea of it instakilling a monster. It's a nonsensical idea in a game where monsters only threaten you if you threaten them. Instead, it would be great if it did something to mitigate the amount of damage they could do to you - perhaps a -% damage increase that 'regenerated' either with every exchange of blows or with every tile explored. 
6. In general, it'd be neat to vary the monsters up a bit more - I didn't realize so many of the monsters had the same 100% for one or both of the stats! If too many things share the exact same numbers, you run into a kind of 'threshold' problem: if your stats aren't quite high enough to surpass X barrier, they aren't helping at all, but as soon as they are you can go to town. 
7. Glyph idea - X% physical or magical or both resist for your next hit only? Like a defensive BYSSEPS. 
8. Some way to burn gold for a raw effect? Not sure if it'd be class or glyph related, but it'd make for a cool theme. I'm kind of picturing it being dragged onto the glyph exchanger to burn it for a stat boost ala the racial effects. 
9. A race that can burn a glyph for a supercharged next hit - some combination of extra damage, resist and ignoring extra enemy effects. Picturing 'boss killer/level catapulter'. (Actually, talking about all this brings to mind the idea of having a 'damage potion' and a 'resistance potion' - or would that be two resistance potions? - to supplant the two current potions, but maybe that'd make things too homogeneous, so perhaps not. 
10. How about an enemy with an innate chance to evade? I picture a cloud of bats for some reason. Maybe because they're Goddamned Bats. 
11. The pathfinding should try and involve moving to hit a monster such that it reveals nearby tiles, because doing so is often unwanted behaviour. 
12. Thinking about keys et all earlier got me onto the idea of traps - but is that too much of a jerk move for the game? I guess it'd be a fundamental mechanic change, so maybe not worth talking about. 
--[[User:Patashu|Patashu]] 14:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Alpha:CYDSTEPP

2010-12-13T15:51:22Z

Headrock:

{{DDGlyph
|title=CYDSTEPP
|image=[[File:CydsteppLarge.png|75px]]
|mana=10
|effect=Protection from Killing Blow
|unlocked=Completing Normal with [[Warlord]]
|notes=None
|}}

CYDSTEPP ("Side-step") is one of the [[Glyphs]] you can find in a game of Desktop Dungeons. When used, this Glyph grants you Protection from Killing Blow. Initially locked and available only to the [[Warlord]], it can become unlocked and available for all classes.

==Usage==

CYDSTEPP is cast by simply clicking it.

Each use of CYDSTEPP costs 10 [[Mana]], except for the [[Wizard]] for whom it costs only 9 Mana, and the [[Berserker]] for whom it costs 12.

==Effect==

When cast, CYDSTEPP will give your hero the ability ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' (commonly referred to as ''"Protection from Death"'', ''"Death Protection"'' and so forth, although the concept is slightly different).

This ability will remain with the hero for an unlimited amount of time. However, it will instantly dissipate the moment your character receives a hit from a monster that would otherwise kill him. When this occurs, the hero's Health will be reduced to 1 instead of 0, and he will survive the hit. This is indicated by the words "Saved from Death" floating above your hero.

If the hero receives a hit that would not reduce him to 0 or less Health, the Protection effect does not trigger and does not dissipate. It is therefore possible to receive any number of hits from a monster without losing the Protection effect as long as the hero doesn't receive a Killing Blow.

CYDSTEPP will only protect you from attacks by enemies. Other effects that drop health below 0 or otherwise kill you (such as effects from racial abilities and/or [[Gods]]) will not trigger the protection, and will NOT save you from death.

CYDSTEPP is ''not cumulative'': You may only be protected from one Killing Blow at a time. If your hero already has the ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' ability, a second use of CYDSTEPP will not have any effect! However it is still considered a "successful" use of the Glyph, will cost Mana, and will trigger God-related effects if any. It does not matter which source gave you ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'', be it items, Gods, or a previous casting of CYDSTEPP.

Once a previous ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' has dissipated due to a monster's attack, CYDSTEPP may be cast as normal.

''A note to remember: Triggering a Death Gaze from a [[Gorgon]] or other monster is considered a Killing Blow, and will trigger the ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' effect accordingly.

==Availability==

For a new Player Profile, CYDSTEPP is not available for use. To be able to use CYDSTEPP at all, the player must unlock the [[Warlord]] class by defeating the Normal Dungeon with a [[Berserker]].

Any game played with the Warlord will start with the CYDSTEPP Glyph on the starting tile. The Warlord needs to pick it up if he intends to use it. CYDSTEPP always appears when playing the Warlord class, regardless of any other factors.

Once the Normal Dungeon is beaten with a Warlord, CYDSTEPP becomes fully unlocked. From that point onwards, the CYDSTEPP Glyph has a chance to appear in any dungeon played, regardless of any other factors. The chance for it to appear is supposedly the same as that of other Glyphs, though this has not yet been conclusively proven.

==CYDSTEPP vs. Other Sources==

CYDSTEPP is not the only source in the game for acquiring ''"Protection from Killing Blow"''. Items, Gods and Racial traits may bestow the same exact effect.

Remember that you can only be protected from ''one'' Killing Blow at a time. The only way to survive two Killing Blows in a row is to acquire the effect, use it up (by surviving a Killing Blow), and then acquire it ''again''. You will need to repeat the process for every Killing Blow you wish to survive.

The source of the effect makes no difference!

==Stand-alone Use==

CYDSTEPP is one of the few spells that has a serious impact on gameplay on its own - finding it in a Dungeon might dictate the rest of your game, if you choose to pick it up. This is especially true for all characters who subsist on heavy, powerful Melee combat - particularly [[Human(race)|Humans]].

The general strategy involved is to cast CYDSTEPP as soon as you find it (or have the Mana for it), then replenish enough Mana to use it again (more than once, if at all possible) without actually activating it a second time. You then go fight a foe who is much tougher than you, to the point where it delivers a Killing Blow and your Protection leaves you alive at 1 Health. Proceed to cast CYDSTEPP a second time, and attack the monster again. You will remain at 1 Health, and will still be alive, after having delivered at least 2 blows to the enemy. If your Health was high enough to survive the first attack (or several), this will have increased the number of attacks you've made on the monster to 3 or more!
You can continue surviving and casting CYDSTEPP over and over until you run out of Mana to cast it.

This strategy enables characters to take on very tough monsters in Melee combat. A character with a high Attack Strength can bring down monsters several level higher than himself this way.

The reason why this spell is usually used "stand-alone" like this is because it costs so much mana to use (10 for most characters), leaving little or no mana for other spells. However, it is always possible to give up the second step of the above strategy (casting the second CYDSTEPP and surviving another Killing Blow) and instead use the built-up mana for casting other spells, such as BURNDAYRAZ, APHEELSIK, etc. (see Spell Combos, below).

==Spell Combos==

===APHEELSIK===

This is a simple and extremely effective two-punch combo. CYDSTEPP is used in the regular fashion to suffer as many Killing Blows as possible while inflicting a lot of damage on the monster. 5 Mana are kept "Aside" at the end of the CYDSTEPP volley to Poison the monster with [[APHEELSIK]].

At that point you are free to explore for Mana and Health, cast CYDSTEPP again, refill Mana again if necessary, and repeat the process on the monster until it dies.

This combo can help you kill monsters that are of a MUCH higher level than yourself. The CYDSTEPP basically nullifies those monsters' Attack Strength (they'll just drop you to 1 Health every time, even if they have Death Gaze), and APHEELSIK makes sure that only the availability of unexplored tiles determines how much damage you can inflict on any monster.

This is the basic Melee-oriented equivalent of the BURNDAYRAZ+APHEELSIK combo.

Also remember that APHEELSIK doesn't work on the Undead, and can be Resisted by monsters who possess Magic Resistance.

For a Three-Glyph-Combo, try BLUDTUPOWA.

===BURNDAYRAZ===

This is, usually, not a good combination of Glyphs to have. CYDSTEPP and BURNDAYRAZ are counterparts - they are the two primary Glyphs used to damage your enemies, where Melee-style characters employ the former, and spellcasters employ the latter. There is not much benefit in using the two together, especially when other combos can be acquired.

The main reason why it's usually one-or-the-other is that they both cost a large amount of Mana to use. BURNDAYRAZ works well in combination with cheaper spells, or alone. CYDSTEPP doesn't really leave Mana for anything other than cheaper spells, and is already excellent if you have the mana to cast it more than once!

However, barring other options, it is always possible to start your attack run with a BURNDAYRAZ fireball just to give your enemy the first "push". You will need no less than 16 Mana for that to work though, so again, this is not the most favourable solution.

===BLUDTUPOWA===

At first this combination looks great: You can cast CYDSTEPP more often, and need to waste fewer tiles between fights. However, remember that characters who rely on CYDSTEPP will constantly be hanging around at 1 Health, so using this combo is risky.

If you have other means to get your Health back, such as lots of Potions, assistance from Gods or racial abilities, this combo is much more acceptable. In addition, this leaves one extra Glyph Slot to be used for a low-cost spell of your choice - preferably APHEELSIK. In a three-Glyph-combo, CYDSTEPP, BLUDTUPOWA and APHEELSIK can be devastating to your enemies!

===BYSSEPS, GETINDARE===

These are two very simple and very common combos. The low casting cost of these two Glyphs means that either of them can be cast with the little extra Mana that always seems to hang around after casting CYDSTEPP.

Naturally, their use is very different:
BYSSEPS should be cast between every blow, until you are left with just enough Mana to cast CYDSTEPP. If you can come by a little extra Maximum Mana, you can cast it for the first, second, and even third round of combat (if you can survive that long).

GETINDARE is a little different: It's a Mana saver combo. When you and your enemy reach the state where the next attack will kill both of you, instead of casting CYDSTEPP to survive this blow, cast GETINDARE. You will kill your enemy with the first strike, thus not wasting more than 3 Mana and not costing you any Health (though your Health would usually be 1 at this point...). Basically, it will save you about 7 Mana points per battle. This combo only works if you have enough Maximum Mana to cast both CYSTEPP and GETINDARE together (normally 13 Mana).

==Specific Classes==

===Warlord===

Choosing a Warlord for a dungeon will always spawn the CYDSTEPP Glyph on the starting tile (see above). Warlords rely on CYDSTEPP to kill high-level enemies by surviving their deadly blows while causing as much damage as possible to the monster. This is their primary method for taking out bosses, as well.

The same method is used by pretty much any other character who picks up CYDSTEPP once it's been unlocked, though each class will add its own twist to this method.

Note that the Warlord has a special benefit that other classes do not: When his Health is below 50% of Maximum, he receives a +30% Attack Bonus. And since the Warlord spends most of his time at 1 Health (after surviving Killing Blows), this bonus is applied very often. Note that the bonus is ''cumulative'' with all other attack bonuses, so you can even double this up with BYSSEPS (see above).

===Rogue===

The Warlord may live on CYDSTEPP, but the Rogue is its greatest champion. Due to his extremely high attack damage, the Rogue can deliver massive damage to the enemy while sustaining several Killing Blows thanks to CYDSTEPP. In addition, the Rogue already has low health, and so doesn't sacrifice much from constantly hovering around 1 Health. Combine this with the Rogue's innate ability to First-Strike his victims, and you've got a winning combination - with two Glyph slots to spare!

===Berserker===

Similarly to the Rogue, the Berserker is built on Attack Strength and can use CYDSTEPP to deliver a lot of damage to an enemy.

The downside to this is that to the Berserker, casting CYDSTEPP costs 12 Mana. Therefore finding and using CYDSTEPP early in the dungeon is rare. In addition, Berserkers tend to follow gods who dislike the use of CYDSTEPP, making this a little trickier choice.

===Fighter, Thief, Assassin===

All three are primarily Melee-oriented classes who can nonetheless withstand the cost of CYDSTEPP and benefit from it. If your character development is already leaning towards spellcasting though, you may want to forgo CYDSTEPP.

===Gorgon===

Another useful Melee class, the trick here is that you only need CYDSTEPP to lower your enemy's Health to the point where Death Gaze can finish it off. This saves up on some Mana, because on average you'll be using CYDSTEPP less often than other classes, especially if your Death Gaze ability is high.

===Vampire===

While the Vampire has a strong Melee attack, he is completely incapable of using CYDSTEPP properly. This is because Health is the Vampire's chief commodity, and is always scarce. Dropping to 1 Health after surviving a Killing Blow means you cannot cast CYDSTEPP again - giving you only one Killing Blow survival per fight. This is much less preferable to the Vampire's supreme BURNDAYRAZ specialty.

==CYDSTEPP and the Gods==

Several Gods in the game have various opinions about the use of CYDSTEPP - they may favour it or reject it, depending on their own particular creeds.

===Glowing Guardian===

As the god of Holy Warriors, Glowing Guardian respects any hero who can heroically risk his life and come out alive. For each use of the CYDSTEPP Glyph, he will reward you with +2 Piety Points. This occurs regardless of whether the character already had ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' when the Glyph was cast.

To make things even better, for each time you actually survive a Killing Blow (I.E. trigger the effect of the spell), you will receive another Piety point. (Note that this happens regardless of whether the Protection effect came from CYDSTEPP or any other source).

This makes Glowing Guardian the veritable patron saint of CYDSTEPP.

===Jehora Jeheyu===

The God of Chaos, Jehora prefers his combats messy and deadly. If you try to cheat death, you will be punished.

Jehora Jeheyu will deduct -10 Piety points each time you cast CYDSTEPP. Note that it doesn't matter if you already had the ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' effect when you did so - you will still be punished.

Note, however, that the spell is still considered successful - it will cost Mana as normal, and ''will'' give you the ''"Protection from Killing Blow"'' effect!

===Taurog===

As with any other Glyph, [[Taurog]] will penalize you -5 Piety points every time you use CYDSTEPP. Also, his reduction of Maximum Mana means you will usually remain with too little Mana to use the Glyph anyway.

===Binlor Ironshield===

[[Binlor]] is also averse to the use of spells, and will inflict a penalty of -1 Piety point per each use of CYDSTEPP, as with all other Glyphs (except [[ENDISWAL]]).

===Mystera Annur===

When you rely on CYDSTEPP, worshipping Mystera is a big mistake. It may boost your Maximum Mana, allowing you to cast CYDSTEPP more often, but it also reduces your Attack Strength to 1 permanently, meaning that survival in Melee combat brings you virtually no benefit.

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