Storm Form (spell)

Trunk-only: This article pertains to a feature of Crawl which is being tested. It will likely change before the next release, and may even be removed entirely.

Storm Form
Level	7
School1	Transmutation
School2	Air
Source(s)	Book of the Sky Inescapable Atlas
Casting noise	0
Spell noise	0

Lets the caster walk through the air as a raging, lightning-filled tempest. The caster's melee attacks are strengthened, electrified, and strike all adjacent foes. The caster also flies, is more evasive, and resists electricity. They can launch themselves as a lightning bolt, blasting through everything in their way. The damage and evasion granted by storm form are highly dependent on the power with which it was cast.

Storm Form is a level 7 Transmutations / Air spell.

Pros

• Unarmed Combat recieves cleaving, is elec-branded, and a base damage of 2 + spell power / 2.5.
• Gain innate AC and EV based on spell power: 2 + power / 10 AC and power/10 EV.
• Blinkbolt: Bolt-targetted ability that deals electric damage to everything in path, blinking you at the end. Has a cooldown.
• Nonliving:
  • Immune to Poison.
  • Resistant to Electricity.
  • Immune to Petrification.
• Insubstantial.
• Flight.

Cons

• All equipment slots except for rings and amulets meld into the new form.
• Unable to throw items.
• Relatively frail.
• Requires high spell power to be effective.

Strategy

Storm Form is intended to be a high damage spell that scales well with spell power. At low spell power, Dragon Form outclasses it by damage. Even when Storm Form deals more damage, its low defense and HP discourages general use; instead using it in situations where damage or cleaving is desired.

Like Dragon Form, Storm Form benefits greatly from support magic such as Ozocubu's Armour.

History

• Storm Form will be added in 0.27, replacing Hydra Form.

References

Commit adding Storm Form.