Swiftness changes.

A L2 buff that could easily be kept up permanently and gave a very powerful
effect for the entire game was problematic for a few reasons. The stealth
and trapfinding penalties were supposed to help with this, but they didn't
really succeed, so let's try something else.

Now Swiftness has two stages, of equal duration. In the first stage it
decreases movement delay by 25% and in the second stage it increases
movement delay by 50%. This has the effect that the spell is speed-neutral
over the two stages combined if you are moving the entire time, so you
cannot simply use the spell to kite monsters forever. It still provides a
powerful short-term boost to movement speed and the balance between the
two stages can be broken in a few ways, including simply taking more
non-movement actions during the second stage.

Of course, the spell cannot be recast while either stage is in effect.

The penalties to stealth and trapfinding have been removed and the spell
is now castable by Formicids.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/spl-goditem.cc b/crawl-ref/source/spl-goditem.cc
index 595d1b87a2..988917dbc6 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/spl-goditem.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/spl-goditem.cc
@@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ void antimagic()
         mpr("Your charged fireball dissipates.", MSGCH_DURATION);
     }
 
+    if (you.attribute[ATTR_SWIFTNESS] > 0)
+        you.attribute[ATTR_SWIFTNESS] = 0;
+
     // Post-berserk slowing isn't magic, so don't remove that.
     if (you.duration[DUR_SLOW] > you.duration[DUR_EXHAUSTED])
         you.duration[DUR_SLOW] = max(you.duration[DUR_EXHAUSTED], 1);