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==Strategy== | ==Strategy== | ||
*Summoning the tentacle is not instantaneous. After summoning the portal you will have to wait awhile for the tentacle to come out. Use it with other summons. | *Summoning the tentacle is not instantaneous. After summoning the portal you will have to wait awhile for the tentacle to come out. Use it with other summons. | ||
| + | *The tentacle can attack outside of the player's [[line of sight]]. | ||
*A [[ring of sustain abilities]] is useful for minimizing intelligence damage. | *A [[ring of sustain abilities]] is useful for minimizing intelligence damage. | ||
| − | *Eldritch tentacles cannot be hasted. | + | *Eldritch tentacles cannot be hasted or abjured. |
==History== | ==History== | ||
Malign Gateway was added in [[0.8]]. | Malign Gateway was added in [[0.8]]. | ||
Revision as of 21:25, 5 November 2013
 Malign Gateway
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| Level | 7 |
| School1 | Summoning |
| School2 | Translocation |
| Source(s) | |
| Casting noise | 6 |
| Spell noise | 10 |
| This spell tears a gash in reality, creating a self-sustained but thankfully temporary portal to an unknown, tainted otherworld. Which dastardly denizens of this place might choose to poke their tentacled appendages through, nobody knows, but certainly nobody would want to be nearby when it happens. |
Malign Gateway is a level 7 Summonings/Translocations spell which summons a portal through which an eldritch tentacle emerges. These horrors are powerful and fast, capable of hitting the average monster for up to 70 HP of chaotic damage per attack and inflicting all manner of extra effects with each hit. Fortunately, it will be friendly for a number of turns dependent on your spell power, but eventually it will either turn neutral and attack all creatures around it or simply die when the spell ends, closing the portal and severing the tentacle. Each time you cast this spell, you face a 20% chance of taking 1d3 points of temporary intelligence damage.
There can only be one such portal open at a time. This means that if you cast the spell, enemies who know the spell will be unable to cast it until yours closes (and vice versa). A monster-created portal is referred to in-game as "a portal to somewhere," and because of the danger inherent in facing a hostile tentacle, attempting to move next to a hostile portal triggers the warning:Are you sure you wish to approach this portal? There's no telling what its forces would wreak upon your fragile self.
Stepping into such a portal will cause you to take minor irresistible damage and blink.
Strategy
- Summoning the tentacle is not instantaneous. After summoning the portal you will have to wait awhile for the tentacle to come out. Use it with other summons.
- The tentacle can attack outside of the player's line of sight.
- A ring of sustain abilities is useful for minimizing intelligence damage.
- Eldritch tentacles cannot be hasted or abjured.
History
Malign Gateway was added in 0.8.
