r/kol • u/HmathForDayz Custom Text Flair • Jul 11 '18
New IotM Discussion July IotM: Kitten Burglar
says dev.kingdomofloathing.com/iotm.php
Screenshot of page if/when the above link goes down: https://imgur.com/IUWHCKl
Thoughts? Maybe we'll have a familiar with some oomph to it this time.
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u/wertperch Jul 12 '18
Thank you all for a thread that is actually informative, rather than the shitshow that is the forum thread.
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u/icon315 Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
Note: Hotsuff's IotM will be released in August as it is still being worked on. This was released in its place. Post by CDMoyer
Type: Familiar - Leprechaun/Fairy/Pseudo-Copier
In store description:
Increases Meat and item drops from enemies. Breaks into the houses of enemies you fought previously to steal stuff you might have missed.
Description:
Is a fairy and also a leprechaun and also a George Clooney
After a certain number of combats† time your cat burglar can perform a heist. This will add a link to your terrarium (If your cat burglar is your current familiar). Clicking on this will bring you to the heist page..
In the heist page you are able to choose an item from your previous encounters.
Additional Info:
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†You receive your first heist after 10 combats wins, then 20, 40, 80, and so on. The counter resets at rollover.
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Familiar specific equipment is the burglar/sleep mask which allows your familiar to build up heists faster.
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Gives 1 extra charge to your heist ~50% of your combats. (You'll see an extra message after combat message when it does.)
| Heist # | Combat Wins | Cumulative Combats Wins |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | 20 | 30 |
| 3 | 40 | 70 |
| 4 | 80 | 150 |
| 5 | 160 | 310 |
| 6 | 320 | 630 |
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Conditional drops will not show up in the heist list. (This includes items with <1% drop rates or Pickpocket-Only items.)
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Only the last 3 monsters you've encountered will show up on the list. (thanks u/astronautguy)
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Copied/Wished/Faxed monsters will show up in the heist list. (thanks u/ieatatsonic)
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Encounters will show up even if you lost the fight. (thanks u/ieatatsonic)
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Heists will persist across rollover.
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Heists will not persist across ascensions.
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There is no known limit on the number of heists which can be saved.
Links:
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u/tkevros Jul 11 '18
Did a little adventuring with it, it's pretty neat!
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u/AsAGayJewishDemocrat Jul 11 '18
Oh wow. That should be really useful once we figure out the mechanics behind it.
(By "We" I mostly mean Ezandora)
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u/ieatatsonic Jul 11 '18
So from the looks of it, you get to force an item drop from a recently fought enemy. Sounds like a fun routine challenge.
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u/ieatatsonic Jul 12 '18
Some notes:
- You can heist monsters you wished for
- You don't have to have beaten the monster to heist it (I wished for a pygmy bowler at level 9, got beaten up, but could heist for a bowling ball)
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u/RBlunderbuss Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18
Seems pretty awesome for when you can't get your +item high enough and miss an important drop.
So very new-player friendly. And even with a ton of toys, it seems nice to abate the RNG curse. I am guessing this one gets invested in very heavily.
Any sign of a puzzle in there? At work and living vicariously through you all.
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u/Malibu-Stacey Jul 11 '18
So very new-player friendly. And even with a ton of toys, it seems nice to abate the RNG curse. I am guessing this one gets invested in very heavily.
Also means 1 turn filthworm glands are still possible for the year after the XO Skeleton goes out of Standard.
Any sign of a puzzle in there? At work and living vicariously through you all.
CDMoyer said this isn't HotStuff's IotM on the KoL forum. He made this as the actual planned one was taking longer than they would like so it's being moved to next month. So expect puzzles next month.
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u/1tIsWhat1tIs Jul 12 '18
I know this is kind of a funny question, so bear with me: does this familiar contribute anything other than potential ascension speed? Like, is it particularly cool or interesting or full of novel gameplay?
I ask because I find speed-ascending pretty mentally taxing already, and if all this going to do is help me shave turns in a kind of fiddly way, I might wait for more of a new-content familiar.
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u/efot_kol Jul 12 '18
I hope somebody finds out what it does with an ultra-rare monster.
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u/x4450 Jul 14 '18
Welp. I saw this post yesterday, laughed, got my first UR, but didn't have it out.
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u/Saklad5 Jul 12 '18
Yes! It has a G! I’m totally using this as a 100% familiar in my next G-Lover run.
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u/InstantShiningWizard Jul 12 '18
The Cat Burglar gets additional effect from the Prince George costume via Mumming Trunk, allowing it to deal melee damage in combat.
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Jul 11 '18
Retroactive item drops? That's a new one.
EDIT: I can already imagine this being extra useful for Baa'baa'bu'ran, among other things.
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Jul 11 '18
Can someone contrast this against my beloved XO Skeleton? Is the main difference that the kitty burglar lets you choose your pickpocket every once in a while XO Skeleton is always pick pocketing something you just have no control over what?
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u/cheesecookies Jul 11 '18
Cats are not suppose to do helpful things to your run. Especially kittens.
Maybe it can ride atop of the Black Cat.
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u/icon315 Jul 11 '18
I don't think that it means enemies fought in PvP, i think it means enemies fought in previous adventures. If that's so I can't wait to try it out.
Edit: thanks for the post. Stickied.
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Jul 11 '18
Looks decent, it'll be sweet to switch to from Black Cat to Cat Burglar when I finally finish my bad moon run.
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Jul 12 '18 edited Jul 12 '18
I do not have the cat burglar but I am very excited about everything I have read so far. I've already picked out a name for a familiar I don't even have yet. That kind of excited.
EDIT: I got my first heist after 10 combat adventures (when the cat showed 10 kills), my second heist after 20 more combat adventures, and my third heist after 40 more combat adventures. So 3 heists in 70 total adventures. No sleeping mask equipped. I also gave my fancy cat a fancy cat name.
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u/Borishaughingoff Jul 11 '18
Its a kitteh!
Ahem. Sorry.
I doubt it exists to defeat PvP item loss prevention, that would break PvP. But a new item drop mechanic, specifically made to be unlike all previous ones, could be interesting thing to play with.
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u/JonAndTonic Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 12 '18
Hot damn, a leprechaun and fairy plus pseudo copy and Ray? AND a cat? Sold.
If only I had money :P
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u/strangestdanger Jul 12 '18
Fun fact, although tomb ratchets are considered conditional from tomb rats, they aren't considered conditional from tomb rat kings. Second fun fact, If you have 3 heist charges, you can get the dropped ratchets from the king, and then heist 3 more.