Wands Balance Patch - Revision history

Phol ende wodan: this is not a variant in and of itself, remove variants category (and add fourk)

2024-12-29T15:38:16Z

this is not a variant in and of itself, remove variants category (and add fourk)

FIQ: fiqhack barbarians can now reach basic in wands, cavemen are restricted

2023-07-05T11:51:53Z

fiqhack barbarians can now reach basic in wands, cavemen are restricted

Umbire the Phantom at 05:01, 7 September 2021

2021-09-07T05:01:26Z

Actual-nh: Grammar/style

2021-05-01T02:56:12Z

Grammar/style

Phollenback: tweak categories

2021-04-17T00:43:42Z

tweak categories

Actual-nh: More info on monster wand skills?

2021-04-12T02:26:21Z

More info on monster wand skills?

Actual-nh: Grammar/style

2021-04-12T02:23:57Z

Grammar/style

Phollenback: Add fiqhack wand of summoning

2021-04-11T01:55:42Z

Add fiqhack wand of summoning

Actual-nh: Grammar/style

2021-02-11T03:45:48Z

Grammar/style

Aximili: Add category

2020-01-26T06:16:25Z

Add category

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 [[Category:Patches]]
-[[Category:Variants]]
+[[Category:NetHack Fourk]]
 [[Category:FIQHack]]

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 ==Skill Caps==
-Like most skills in Nethack, different roles can reach varying amounts of proficiency with wands.
+Like most skills in Nethack, different roles can reach varying amounts of proficiency with wands. Starting after June 2023, FIQHack swapped the wand skill abilities of Barbarian and Cavemen (the former now topping at Basic, and cavemen being restricted).
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-The ''Wands Balance Patch'' is based on an essay by [[NetHack4]] developer Alex Smith, [http://nethack4.org/blog/wand-balance.html Wand balance in NetHack]. The proposal outlined therein was implemented by [[User:FIQ/FIQhack|FIQHack]] and it was later merged into [[NetHack Fourk]] as well. Note that the two implementations have slight differences, generally minor. In addition to the changes to wands, the wand rebalance made monsters zap each other with helpful wands (polymorph sometimes, invisibility and speed monster), and made monsters zap enemies with slow monster and undead turning. (FIQHack has further changes to monster AI in general.)
+The '''Wands Balance Patch''' is based on an essay by [[NetHack4]] developer Alex Smith, [http://nethack4.org/blog/wand-balance.html "Wand balance in NetHack"]. The proposal outlined therein was implemented by [[User:FIQ/FIQhack|FIQHack]], and was later merged into [[NetHack Fourk]] as well. Note that the two implementations have slight, generally minor differences.
-The purpose of the patch is to make wands more useful later on and avoid [[GWTWOD]] cases (which is an issue with a lot of wands, not just death). Most of the wands in NetHack cease to be very useful as the game progresses. Attack wands have fixed damage that might be effective in the early game, but later on the damage is so small that zapping them might be a waste of turns. Utility wands remain a bit more useful, but even they have fixed, quite boring behaviour, often supplanted by spells.
+In addition to the changes to wands, the wand rebalance made monsters zap each other with helpful wands (polymorph sometimes, invisibility and speed monster), and made monsters zap enemies with slow monster and undead turning. FIQHack has further changes to monster AI in general.
 To improve wands in NetHack, this patch makes wands scale. The effects are no longer fixed, but become more powerful with the newly introduced '''wands skill'''. Players gain this skill by using wands. Additionally, the effective skill can be affected by the wand's [[BUC|beatitude]]:
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 ==Skill Caps==
 Like most skills in Nethack, different roles can reach varying amounts of proficiency with wands.
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 The ''Wands Balance Patch'' is based on an essay by [[NetHack4]] developer Alex Smith, [http://nethack4.org/blog/wand-balance.html Wand balance in NetHack]. The proposal outlined therein was implemented by [[User:FIQ/FIQhack|FIQHack]] and it was later merged into [[NetHack Fourk]] as well. Note that the two implementations have slight differences, generally minor. In addition to the changes to wands, the wand rebalance made monsters zap each other with helpful wands (polymorph sometimes, invisibility and speed monster), and made monsters zap enemies with slow monster and undead turning. (FIQHack has further changes to monster AI in general.)
-The purpose of the patch is to make wands more useful later on, and to address the [[GWTWOD]] cases (which is an issue with a lot of wands, not just death). Most of the wands in NetHack cease to be very useful as the game progresses. Attack wands have fixed damage that might be effective in the early game, but later on the damage is so small, that zapping them might be a waste of turns. Utility wands remain little more useful, but even they have fixed, quite boring behaviour, often supplanted by spells.
+The purpose of the patch is to make wands more useful later on and avoid [[GWTWOD]] cases (which is an issue with a lot of wands, not just death). Most of the wands in NetHack cease to be very useful as the game progresses. Attack wands have fixed damage that might be effective in the early game, but later on the damage is so small that zapping them might be a waste of turns. Utility wands remain a bit more useful, but even they have fixed, quite boring behaviour, often supplanted by spells.
-To improve wands in NetHack, this patch makes wands scale. The effects are no longer fixed, but they become more powerful with the newly introduced '''wands skill'''. Players gain this skill by using wands. Additionally, the effective skill can be affected by the wand's [[BUC|beatitude]]:
+To improve wands in NetHack, this patch makes wands scale. The effects are no longer fixed, but become more powerful with the newly introduced '''wands skill'''. Players gain this skill by using wands. Additionally, the effective skill can be affected by the wand's [[BUC|beatitude]]:
 * Cursed wands lower effective skill by one, blessed wands increase it.
-* Zapping a cursed wand while being unskilled will cause the wand to explode, having similar effects to that of [[breaking wands]].
+* Zapping a cursed wand while being unskilled will cause the wand to explode - this has similar effects to [[breaking wands]].
 Monsters are also affected by this change, and for this purpose have a fixed wand skill based on monster type.
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 |-
 |'''skilled'''
-|Archeologists, knights, rangers, rogues, samurai, valkyries may reach the skilled level of proficiency.
+|Archeologists, knights, rangers, rogues, samurai, and valkyries may reach the skilled level of proficiency.
 |-
 |'''expert'''
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 ==Wand Power==
-For purposes of overcoming monster MR, the wands use following power values in FIQHack (Fourk still works like vanilla in this regard):
+For purposes of overcoming monster MR, the wands use the following power values in FIQHack (Fourk still works like vanilla in this regard):
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 |-
 |'''unskilled'''
-|No potential item destruction or blinding in case of lightning.
+|No potential item destruction (nor blinding, in the case of lightning).
 |-
 |'''basic'''
-|Same as current
+|Same as current.
 |-
 |'''skilled'''
-|If a target is reflecting (but not walls), abort the ray and create an explosion centered on target. Explodes at the end of the ray
+|If a target (but not a wall) is reflecting, abort the ray and create an explosion centered on the target. Explodes at the end of the ray.
 |-
 |'''expert'''
-|If a target is reflecting (but not walls), abort the ray and create an explosion centered on target. Explodes at the end of the ray
+|If a target (but not a wall) is reflecting, abort the ray and create an explosion centered on the target. Explodes at the end of the ray.
 |-
 |'''master'''
-|Explodes on first target, reflecting or not, and create 1d5 explosions adjacant to target.
+|Explodes on the first target, reflecting or not, and creates 1d5 explosions adjacent to the target.
 |}
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 |-
 |'''skilled'''
-|Death unless death resistant, explosions will only deal 50% current HP + 6d6 in FIQHack
+|Death unless death resistant; explosions will only deal 50% of current HP + 6d6 in FIQHack
 |-
 |'''expert'''
-|Death unless death resistant, otherwise drain one level unless drain resistant, explosions will only deal 50% current HP + 6d6 in FIQHack
+|Death unless death resistant, otherwise drain one level unless drain resistant; explosions will only deal 50% of current HP + 6d6 in FIQHack
 |-
 |'''master'''
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 |-
 |'''master'''
-|Digs out d29+20 tiles, ignore maze restrictions (Fourk removed it alltogether, but FIQHack still has it)
+|Digs out d29+20 tiles, ignore maze restrictions (Fourk removed it altogether, but FIQHack still has it)
 |-
 |rowspan="5"|[[wand of enlightenment]]
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 |-
 |'''expert'''
-|Can teleport on noteleport level unless selfzapped. Doing so allows no controlled teleportation (4k) / Cannot teleport on noteleport levels (FH)
+|Can teleport on noteleport level unless self-zapped. Doing so allows no controlled teleportation (4k) / Cannot teleport on noteleport levels (FH)
 |-
 |'''master'''
-|Can teleport on noteleport level unless selfzapped. Doing so allows no controlled teleportation (4k) / Cannot teleport on noteleport levels. You are prompted for where to teleport hit monsters (FH)
+|Can teleport on noteleport level unless self-zapped. Doing so allows no controlled teleportation (4k) / Cannot teleport on noteleport levels. You are prompted for where to teleport hit monsters (FH)
 |-
 |rowspan="5"|[[wand of undead turning]]
 |'''unskilled'''
-|Scares undead that fails to resist
+|Scares undead that fail to resist
 |-
 |'''basic'''
-|Scares undead that fails to resist
+|Scares undead that fail to resist
 |-
 |'''skilled'''
-|Destroys undead that fails to resist, scares otherwise
+|Destroys undead that fail to resist, scares otherwise
 |-
 |'''expert'''
-|Destroys undead that fails to resist, scares otherwise
+|Destroys undead that fail to resist, scares otherwise
 |-
 |'''master'''
-|Destroys undead that fails to resist, scares otherwise
+|Destroys undead that fail to resist, scares otherwise
 |-
 |rowspan="5"|[[wand of wishing]]

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	Monsters are also affected by this change, and for this purpose have a fixed wand skill based on monster type.		Monsters are also affected by this change, and for this purpose have a fixed wand skill based on monster type.
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		+	{{todo\|Please give more information about monster wand skills.}}

	==Skill Caps==		==Skill Caps==

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−	The ''Wands Balance Patch'' is based on an essay by [[NetHack4]] developer Alex Smith, [http://nethack4.org/blog/wand-balance.html Wand balance in NetHack]. The proposal outlined therein was implemented by [[User:FIQ/FIQhack\|FIQHack]] and it was later merged into [[NetHack Fourk]] as well. Note that the two implementations have slight differences, generally minor. In addition to the changes to wands, the wand rebalance made monsters zap each other with helpful wands (polymorph sometimes, invisibility and speed monster), and made monsters zap enemies with slow monster and undead turning. (FIQHack has further changes to monster AI in general)	+	The ''Wands Balance Patch'' is based on an essay by [[NetHack4]] developer Alex Smith, [http://nethack4.org/blog/wand-balance.html Wand balance in NetHack]. The proposal outlined therein was implemented by [[User:FIQ/FIQhack\|FIQHack]] and it was later merged into [[NetHack Fourk]] as well. Note that the two implementations have slight differences, generally minor. In addition to the changes to wands, the wand rebalance made monsters zap each other with helpful wands (polymorph sometimes, invisibility and speed monster), and made monsters zap enemies with slow monster and undead turning. (FIQHack has further changes to monster AI in general.)

	The purpose of the patch is to make wands more useful later on, and to address the [[GWTWOD]] cases (which is an issue with a lot of wands, not just death). Most of the wands in NetHack cease to be very useful as the game progresses. Attack wands have fixed damage that might be effective in the early game, but later on the damage is so small, that zapping them might be a waste of turns. Utility wands remain little more useful, but even they have fixed, quite boring behaviour, often supplanted by spells.		The purpose of the patch is to make wands more useful later on, and to address the [[GWTWOD]] cases (which is an issue with a lot of wands, not just death). Most of the wands in NetHack cease to be very useful as the game progresses. Attack wands have fixed damage that might be effective in the early game, but later on the damage is so small, that zapping them might be a waste of turns. Utility wands remain little more useful, but even they have fixed, quite boring behaviour, often supplanted by spells.

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 | 6d6 damage, MR only halves magic missile damage
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-|rowspan="5"|[[wand of create monster]]
+|rowspan="5"|[[wand of create monster]] / [[wand of summoning]]
 |'''unskilled'''
 |Create 1 monster.

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