Best resist Fire/Cold/Poison etc for fighter

[debo]

Originally Posted by MattB

Absolutely.

Is that actually true? I was under the impression that it is theoretically possible to move through more than one stun level between turns.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by jford_2505@hotmail.com

I'm a bit confused. I am using "complete monster knowledge" option, and cannot see in the "grand master mystic" description where it says he can stun you.

It says "hit to paralyze", and "cause mind blasting". Is it one of these attacks?

The stunning effects from GMM melee attacks are because basically all of their attacks are "critical hits" due to how the game decides if a monster attack is a crit. Basically, if the attack rolls at or near the maximum possible damage, and if it does at least a certain amount of damage, then you can get stunned by it. GMM melee attacks use d1 dice so they always deal the same amount of damage, and their damage dealt is high enough to trigger the stunning effect.

This really should be changed to be more clear. I know NPP has a "hit to stun"; maybe Vanilla can just lift that and do away with the current overly-opaque system.

[MattB]

Originally Posted by debo

Is that actually true? I was under the impression that it is theoretically possible to move through more than one stun level between turns.

Ah, yes, I see what you mean. But you can't go from stun to knocked out without passing through heavy stun (as I understand it) even if, as you say, you can progress through more than one stage without getting a turn. I think.

[Derakon]

Yeah, if you're, say, at normal speed in a room full of Plasma Hounds, you can go straight to knocked out if they decide to breathe enough. It's rare though, and you'd have to be phenomenally unlucky for it to happen when fighting a Grand Master Mystic even if you were at normal speed to his +20.

[fizzix]

Originally Posted by Derakon

This really should be changed to be more clear. I know NPP has a "hit to stun"; maybe Vanilla can just lift that and do away with the current overly-opaque system.

I wholeheartedly agree.

[AnonymousHero]

Originally Posted by MattB

I seem to remember that there was a fault in the randart code that made pstun really rare on randarts, but that seems to have been fixed and (ymmd) I usually don't have a problem covering it. I don't think many standarts have it...

Yup. It used to only generate on body armor (IIRC) -- which made it exceedingly rare. Nowadays, from my anecdotal experience it generates pretty regularly on randart sets, but it there are occasional games where it doesn't generate at all. (That's the nature of randarts.)

Generally the pStun-on-randart generates in a less contended slot than pStun-on-standarts (crown, and...?).

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Derakon

This really should be changed to be more clear. I know NPP has a "hit to stun"; maybe Vanilla can just lift that and do away with the current overly-opaque system.

That sounds like a sensible thing to look at after the restructure.

[debo]

Originally Posted by Nick

That sounds like a sensible thing to look at after the restructure.

imo rocket launchers are higher priority

[krazyhades]

Originally Posted by debo

imo rocket launchers are higher priority

Your sig labels you as biased in the exploding things feature development area.

[jford_2505@hotmail.com]

Looks like it might still be safest to get pStun at around 2500', especially when the consequences of being knocked out are so dire.