Wisp Form

Version 0.26: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Wisp Form is a bad form that can be forced on the player character when they are polymorphed. It resembles the monster insubstantial wisp. It has the following characteristics:

Pros

• 5 + 0.5×XL AC
• Unarmed Combat base damage set to 5 and uses XL instead of Unarmed Combat skill
• Movement delay reduced to 8 auts
• rF++
• rC++
• rElec
• rPois
• Non-living holiness (Torment immunity)
• rN+++
• rCorr
• Insubstantial (rSticky, rPetrify, immune to constriction, Shatter, Grasping Roots, Leda's Liquefaction)
• Good stealth bonus (same as Spider Form)
• Tiny size (like Spider Form), with an appropriate increase in EV
• Unbreathing
• Permanent flight

Cons

• You can't use weapons, armour, or jewellery.
• You can't cast spells.
• Sometimes moves as if confused, although won't bump into walls or into allies (10% chance each turn)

History

• Prior to 0.27, wisp form would randomly blink you.
• Prior to 0.26, the form had rot resistance.
• Prior to 0.22, wisp form, along with most other bad forms, disallowed the use of wands.
• Prior to 0.15, wisp form allowed the player to blink as an ability, but prevented you from reading scrolls. It also granted perfect conservation, protecting your consumables from item destruction.
• Wisp Form was added in 0.12.

Wisp Form