On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 06:38:07AM +0100, crawl-ref-disc...@ml.develz.org wrote:
> commit d56e90d92889ffad74a5ca2ba44963c816a7bad8
> Author: Chris Campbell <chriscampbel...@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 18 05:05:04 2011 +0000
>
> Remove Alter Self
>
> Since it's only good for scumming.
I am afraid this greatly increases the problems with potions of mutation.
Smart play means that, to have a way out of a nasty mutation set in the
future, you should distill every single mutagenic corpse you see, since the
supply of them, while very plentiful (~50 during a game) dries out before
you go to neqoxec-heavy branches.
This is tedious and thus not many people do that, but it brings significant
safety for 15-runers. Potions of cure mutation spawn so rarely there's
little hope to get rid of a specific debilitating mutation. Alter Self
provided another way out, its removal encourages distilling everything.
Everyone but Troglodytes can do that, too.
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