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‎Weak multihit

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Darth l33t at 15:55, 30 November 2021

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Darth l33t: Created page with "'''Multihit''', analogous to multishot, is a way to decouple movement speed from melee attack speed. The goals are to reduce the extreme influence of speed on characte..."

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'''Multihit''', analogous to [[multishot]], is a way to decouple movement speed from melee attack speed. The goals are to reduce the extreme influence of [[speed]] on character power, to encourage use of [[skill]] slots on melee weapons (currently suboptimal due to the negligible boni), and to promote weapon diversity in the endgame, rather than everyone using the same longsword, katana, or artifact weapon. Performing a melee attack always ends your turn, but you may make more than one melee attack in that turn.

==Weak multihit==
As with multishot, you are denied your Skilled and racial boni if:
* you are [[fumbling]]
* your [[strength]] or [[dexterity]] are less than 7
* you are:
** a [[Healer]]
** a [[Priest]]
** a [[Wizard]]
** a [[Monk]] wearing [[body armor]] or a [[shield]]
** a [[Ranger]] not wielding an explicit [[racial equipment|racial weapon]] in your main hand (the [[aklys]] doesn't count)
** a [[Tourist]] below [[experience level]] 15

==Calculation==
The multihit counter starts at 1, and is modified as follows:

* +1 if you are Skilled at your weapon (or appropriate unarmed skill)
* +1 if you are Expert at your weapon (Master and Grand Master skill provide no further bonus)
* +1 for your racial bonus, if you are:
** a [[dwarf (starting race)|dwarf]] wielding a one-handed dwarven racial weapon (dwarvish mattocks are excluded for balance)
** an [[orc (starting race)|orc]] wielding a one-handed orcish racial weapon
** an [[elf (starting race)|elf]] attacking an {{monclass|o}}
* +1 for your [[role]] bonus, if you are:
** a [[Barbarian]] or [[Valkyrie]] (these roles lack good ranged options; [[Knight]]s have [[polearm]]s and [[attack spell]]s, [[Samurai]] have [[bow]]s and [[shuriken]], and both have situation boni below)
** a [[Caveman]] attacking an [[animal]]
** a [[Knight]] attacking an [[undead]] or [[demon]]
** a [[Rogue]] wielding a [[dagger]] or [[knife]] in your main hand
* +1 if wielding [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
* +1 if wearing "combat gloves" (new item; [[randomized appearance]]: "laced gloves")
* if [[burdened]], or [[riding]] and less than Skilled at it, reduced to a number between 1 and itself, inclusive (so, e.g., a counter of 3 would be reduced to [[D notation|d3]]).
* reduced to 1 if you are [[Confusion|confused]], [[stun]]ned, [[stressed]], bashing with a polearm or launcher, not wielding a proper weapon or weapon-tool, or if a [[joust]] or [[staggering blow]] knocks the monster away

As with multishot, the actual number of hits is d(multihit), and you can use a numerical prefix to cap that number if you wish.

==Mechanics==
Rather than overwhelm the message bar and game with multiple individual attacks, the extra damage is rolled into the main hit, and the hit message adjusted accordingly. The weapon base damage, skill bonus, enchantment, and strength bonus are counted, but not [[silver]] or [[backstab]] damage. [[Artifact weapon]] effects only fire on the first hit. Only one hit is registered for skill training. Passive attacks only fire once, so hitting a [[spotted jelly]] five times won't obliterate you with five acid splashes. If [[twoweapon]]ing, the offhand attack occurs after the main hand as normal.

==Messages==
{{message|You (hit/smite) <monster> twice!}}
{{message|You (hit/smite) <monster> <n> times!|Standard messages.}}
{{message|You hit <monster> thrice!|You hit a monster three times as a Knight.}}

Comments and suggestions are welcome on the talk page.

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 * +1 if you are Skilled at your weapon (or appropriate unarmed skill)
 * +1 if you are Expert at your weapon (Master and Grand Master skill provide no further bonus)
 * +1 for your racial bonus, if you are:
 ** a [[dwarf (starting race)|dwarf]] wielding a dwarven racial weapon in your main hand (dwarvish mattocks are excluded for balance)
 ** an [[orc (starting race)|orc]] wielding an orcish racial weapon in your main hand
 ** an [[elf (starting race)|elf]] attacking an {{monclass|o}}
 * +1 for your [[role]] bonus, if you are:
 ** a [[Barbarian]] or [[Valkyrie]] (these roles lack good ranged options; [[Knight]]s have [[polearm]]s and [[attack spell]]s, [[Samurai]] have [[bow]]s and [[shuriken]], and both have situation boni below)
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 ** a [[Rogue]] wielding a [[dagger]] or [[knife]] in your main hand
 ** a [[Ranger]] attacking an {{monclass|s}} or your race's natural enemies (dwarf/elf, human/gnome, orc/non-orc)
-* +1 if wielding [[Snickersnee]] (which loses its to-hit and damage boni in exchange) or [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
+* +1 for your equipment bonus, if you are:
-* +1 if wearing "combat gloves" (new item; [[randomized appearance]]: "laced gloves")
+** wielding [[Snickersnee]] (which loses its to-hit and damage boni in exchange) or [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
 * reduced to a number between 1 and itself, inclusive (so, e.g., a counter of 3 would be rerolled to [[D notation|d3]]), if you are:
 ** [[burdened]]

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 ** a [[Knight]] attacking an [[undead]], [[demon]], or {{monclass|D}}
 ** a [[Rogue]] wielding a [[dagger]] or [[knife]] in your main hand
 * +1 if wielding [[Snickersnee]] (which loses its to-hit and damage boni in exchange) or [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
 * +1 if wearing "combat gloves" (new item; [[randomized appearance]]: "laced gloves")

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 ** an [[Archaeologist]] attacking a {{monclass|S}}
 ** a [[Monk]] wearing [[body armor]] or a [[shield]]
 ** a [[Tourist]] below [[experience level]] 15

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 As with multishot, you are denied your Skilled and racial boni if:
 * you are [[fumbling]]
-* your [[strength]] or [[dexterity]] are less than 7
+* your [[strength]] and/or [[dexterity]] is less than 7
 * you are:
 ** a [[Healer]]
 ** a [[Priest]]
 ** a [[Wizard]]
 ** a [[Monk]] wearing [[body armor]] or a [[shield]]
-** a [[Ranger]] not wielding an explicit [[racial equipment|racial weapon]] in your main hand (the [[aklys]] doesn't count)
+** a [[Ranger]] not wielding an appropriate [[racial equipment|racial weapon]] in your main hand (the [[aklys]] doesn't count)
 ** a [[Tourist]] below [[experience level]] 15
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 * +1 if you are Expert at your weapon (Master and Grand Master skill provide no further bonus)
 * +1 for your racial bonus, if you are:
-** a [[dwarf (starting race)|dwarf]] wielding a one-handed dwarven racial weapon (dwarvish mattocks are excluded for balance)
+** a [[dwarf (starting race)|dwarf]] wielding a dwarven racial weapon in your main hand (dwarvish mattocks are excluded for balance)
-** an [[orc (starting race)|orc]] wielding a one-handed orcish racial weapon
+** an [[orc (starting race)|orc]] wielding an orcish racial weapon in your main hand
 ** an [[elf (starting race)|elf]] attacking an {{monclass|o}}
 * +1 for your [[role]] bonus, if you are:
 ** a [[Barbarian]] or [[Valkyrie]] (these roles lack good ranged options; [[Knight]]s have [[polearm]]s and [[attack spell]]s, [[Samurai]] have [[bow]]s and [[shuriken]], and both have situation boni below)
 ** a [[Caveman]] attacking an [[animal]]
-** a [[Knight]] attacking an [[undead]] or [[demon]]
+** a [[Knight]] attacking an [[undead]], [[demon]], or {{monclass|D}}
 ** a [[Rogue]] wielding a [[dagger]] or [[knife]] in your main hand
-* +1 if wielding [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
+* +1 if wielding [[Snickersnee]] (which loses its to-hit and damage boni in exchange) or [[the Tsurugi of Muramasa]]
 * +1 if wearing "combat gloves" (new item; [[randomized appearance]]: "laced gloves")
-* if [[burdened]], or [[riding]] and less than Skilled at it, reduced to a number between 1 and itself, inclusive (so, e.g., a counter of 3 would be reduced to [[D notation|d3]]).
+* reduced to a number between 1 and itself, inclusive (so, e.g., a counter of 3 would be rerolled to [[D notation|d3]]), if you are:
-* reduced to 1 if you are [[Confusion|confused]], [[stun]]ned, [[stressed]], bashing with a polearm or launcher, not wielding a proper weapon or weapon-tool, or if a [[joust]] or [[staggering blow]] knocks the monster away
+** [[burdened]]
 As with multishot, the actual number of hits is d(multihit), and you can use a numerical prefix to cap that number if you wish.
 ==Mechanics==
-Rather than overwhelm the message bar and game with multiple individual attacks, the extra damage is rolled into the main hit, and the hit message adjusted accordingly. The weapon base damage, skill bonus, enchantment, and strength bonus are counted, but not [[silver]] or [[backstab]] damage. [[Artifact weapon]] effects only fire on the first hit. Only one hit is registered for skill training. Passive attacks only fire once, so hitting a [[spotted jelly]] five times won't obliterate you with five acid splashes. If [[twoweapon]]ing, the offhand attack occurs after the main hand as normal.
+Rather than overwhelm the message bar and game with multiple individual attacks, the extra damage is rolled into the main hit, and the hit message adjusted accordingly. The weapon base damage, skill bonus, enchantment, and strength bonus are counted, but not [[silver]] or [[backstab]] damage. [[Artifact weapon]] effects only fire on the first hit. Only one hit is registered for skill training. Passive attacks only fire once, so e.g. hitting a [[spotted jelly]] five times won't obliterate you with five acid splashes. If [[twoweapon]]ing, the offhand attack occurs after the main hand as normal.
 ==Messages==