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That's very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I do have a question, though. I get that you are playing a Monk for the bonus piety, but why a Gargoyle? Is it because it's tough enough to survive the handicapped start and can fly for free later?

Don't forget that shadow form is also invis I hadn't forgotten, actually; I had no idea! :shock: (It's my first time with Dith :oops: ) Thanks a lot for that tip. I guess it's time to train Invocation! Or maybe not. I won't be able to spam it given the piety cost, so I might be better off training ...

Best long blade is a +1 scimitar. Meh. Mace & Flail is looking good, though: - the +7 flail "Cocusy" (weapon) {freeze, Str-4 Int+3} - a +1 demon whip of draining I'm guessing that the additional +6 of the flail isn't enough to make up for the huge difference in base type, so I ought to...

I started a Demonspawn with the goal of grabbing a heavy armor, joining Makhleb, and slaughtering everything with elemental devastation and my blood-stained axe. I love this playstyle. But right at the start, on D:1, I can Nightstalker. And on D:2 I find an altar to Dithmenos. So I decided "scr...

You have cBlink and dMissiles and Haste. You are plenty tough enough to do the extended game. Your resist are a bit on the low side, but I don't think that's too much of a problem.

A type of hybrid I really love (or maybe more of a pseudo-hybrid) is a heavy armour warrior of Makhleb (or Qaz), so you can be an awesome weapon master while still being able to rain down elemental destruction on your foes (and summon minions!). Hill Orcs work great for that, but I personally like D...

I've been training up Earth and it's now quite usable. I still don't have enough spell power with LRD and Petrify to make those my primary weapons, but they are situationally useful. And Stone Arrow is a nice middle ground between Minor and Major Destructions. But now I face a new choice. I found a ...

But wouldn't my Staff of Death work just fine for a while now?

A DDNe is supposed to be easy, right? Well, yeah, it kinda is. As long as you remember to flee from most undeads and demons. Apart from the Staff of Death I have found almost no equipment for a long time, but I still made it through the Lair and to the Vaults with ease. Enough Necro to Vampiric Drai...

So you went for Stealth, Stabbing and some SBlades right from the beginning and founght like an Assassin, neat. How did you use your Lugonu-gifted powers to help with that? I mean beyond the obvious "distortion brand on the quickblade for easy slaughter" thing when you reach max piety.

Why ignore "you feel clumsy" ?

Annonith wrote:Pikel's slaves have no MR whatsoever, so proper used wand of enslavement can quickly turn Pikel into minced meat.

I always used my /Enslavement on Pikel, that's good to know! I'll try this next time.

I would have trained Long Blades, but not that early. That is an end-game worthy weapon, but it takes some significant amount of XP to make best use of it and it's not necessary until much later. You deal almost all of your damage with Stabbing, not weapon skill. And in the few situations where you ...

I really don't know what to do with this bloke. I really like the Book of Geomancy + Staff of the Earth, but the useful spells in there rely on Earth and Transmutation, so I have absolutely no skill investment in those. Are Stoneskin, Petrify and LRD good enough to train a second starting book from ...

Spell power from a ring is ((2 * (Evocations skill)) + 5) instead of the regular ((Spellcasting / 2) + (2 * Hexes) + brilliance) * (INT / 10) * enhancers * wild magic * augmentation so it does tend to be significantly less powerful. Even without the usual (brillance, augmentation, wild magic or even...

OK, I've been doing a lot of play and testing these days, hoping to improve my game. I thought I'd better put the lessons I painfully learned down in writing, and concluded that here would be the best place. 1) Don't take stupid risks. Seriously, just don't. You only get a single life in Dungeon Cra...

Amnesiac wrote:Can it eat the necromicon, btw? Because it seems like an artifact to me

Jellies can't corrodes artifacts, but they can eat them just fine. Only thing Jellies can't eat are stones and rocks.

yogaFLAME wrote:That is a very strong mutation set, but notably Tr * Xom always ends up with good mutations if you are playing competently.

How should you be playing to do that?

When you need some meat shields and not The Crusade, followed by The Crusade, you draw three. When you need something dead now , you want a bolt of something, not torment followed by OTR. Good points. Note that I said "you should almost always either Draw One or simply evoke them.", so I ...

Iron Shot is really not very reliable against critters that dodge a lot, and having some AoE is crucial, so you definitely shouldn't neglect LRD just because you already have a nuke. As a side note Shatter and LRD only requires Earth magic while Iron Shot takes Cj too, and Sp have a better apt in Ea...

You can't always multizap fire resistant creatures with Lightning Bolt, it is very noisy, and there are creatures with both rF and rElec, so I'd replace LB by either iron Shot or Orb of Destruction. They still have a hunger cost but it's only your fallback spell when your regular attacks won't work,...

A Tentacled Monstruosity is one of the game's most dangerous monster once they get their slimy pseudopods on you. Thankfully they are not particularly fast and have no way to threaten you beyond melee, so handling them is usually easy enough for Spriggans. Don't let them get close and you're golden,...

If you want non-fire blasting power, you should go Earth. The best Earth spells are the close range single target nukes, and that's precisely what Fire lacks the most at high level. And right now Bolt of Magma would give you a partly resistible spell that's already rather high spell power thanks to ...

I've been playing around with that sort of character for a while. My first successful FE was a Deep Elf (not very surprising...) but playing that girl I noticed that the FE background was less blasty than I'd have thought. Mostly because of Sticky Flame being so awesome and melee-ranged, but also be...

I don't have the dump, but one time the game spawned me into a little cul de sac and a kobold with some sort of exploding darts just at the perfect position to end my game in 3 or 4 moves. Don't really know what I could have done, no cover, no way to fight back, DOA. There is something like that in...

So the advice is to learn Fireball for AoE damage and train Spellcasting?

Things have been going rather well, other than finding very few scrolls which almost got me killed when I needed to teleport because of Josephine... Anyway, now I am starting to get spells from Vehu, an since I'm Grey I was quite happy to get Sandblast, that allowed me to raise my Earth skill a bit,...

I lost a character to a Catoblepas today. Or more accurately to the Death Yak that came after I killed the catoblepas and got myself petrified. I was hit by the petrifying breath and just stepped to the side on what I believed was a free square. But there was actually a cloud I hadn't seen there and...

If you have Finesse, Haste is considerably less important.

Should I learn Petrify and/or Dig? At what point should I look to get more spells online? You have the skills to make Petrify work, and having a way to completely neutralize monsters by beating their MR is a useful trick to have. I'd learn it. Dig's usefulness depends on your playstyle and the leve...

OK, I'm going to try that.

Thanks for the advice on how to handle new Vehumet. What do you think I should be doing with my skills?

I really love the new Conjurer. And not just because I didn't like old one being basically an ice Elementalist, but because the spells are really interesting. And I love this new elemental-neutral magical background, since I enjoy using them for Draconian to adapt to the color I get. Not that you ha...

Congratulations!

Killed TRJ by spamming Haunt and a couple of Simulacrums at max range. Stayed there thanks to cBlink, because this $#|% can't be shaken off by Swiftness. Who had the great idea to make this thing Speed 14? That was not nice. Not that it's anything new for Crawl... No loot of value down there. So muc...

Yeah, when I tried Tomb with a Fire Storming DS I learned DU thinking it'd be useful. Not so much. The lvl 9 nukes are way more effective when you can deal with their downsides.

Of course you can get a powerful DU much earlier than a reliable Storm spell, so there's that.

I was thinking that Darkness makes it less likely for summons to get in your way. The spell range becomes closer to the LoS range and there are less summonners in the area at any given time. Summons blocking the line of fire were my main problem with using DU to clear Tomb:3.

OK, that's good to know. I'm currently cleaning the last level of Slime. This is hard.

Bargain is from the Deck of Oddities so you can't aim for them. Unless you noticed one while peeking!

Pretty much this: 1) http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=Sage+card 2) yes, if you're maniacally scared of getting shuffled. I never bother to do that (and one or two of my victorious char were shuffled) 3) I blindly draw, otherwise why would you try to get wonders as first gift? Surely, it isn'...

Wonders is by no means the best deck. It's not the best , but it's great and rather difficult to get. Summoning is powered by corpses sacrifice like with blood gods except you're not limited to fresh corpses so it's rather easy, you won't use the vast majority of the equipment so Destruction and Es...

I prefer Chokos, because you can slice them. You may get into the habit of slicing everything like a Choko, but it's worth it.

Really addictive game. You occasinally end up in unwinnable situations but a lot of tough spots can be beaten with careful calculations.

I was wondering if Silence and Darkness were worth learning. Also if I end up getting rid of Animate Dead (for Haste for example), is recall still going to be useful? I've been parking undead minions in a corner of the map to recall them when I need a screen, but if I only make short duration summon...

All those spells you listed plus ensorcelled hibernation. They can all be discarded - EH because all the seroius threats have way more MR than the power cap on that spell. But not all of them need to go. There's no reason to get rid of a spell unless it's to replace it by a more useful one. So unle...

I was thinking I should improve my spell list. I haven't found a single Haste book and Swiftness only in a book shop. On the other hand since I don't think I can find any new shop I probably should just go ahead and buy that Book of Burglary. I also think that now that I have enough Translocation fo...

If Naga character has unarmed skill 16, it could have unarmed skill 15 and Traps 6+ because Naga has 0 as both aptitudes. To get skill from 15 to 16 it needs 1150 skill points (8200-7050), as you can see Traps 6 requires 1050 skill points. const int exp[28] = { 0, 50, 150, 300, 500, 750, // 0-5 105...

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+9 CPA +rF Int+3 Acc+4

I think this is petty good. It has rf, some int so I don't have to worry about stat death, and accuracy. Could this be the armor I'm looking for?

Oh yeah.

My solution to Acid blobs is to spam decks of Summoning at them. They totally deserve it.

I remember how I learned that Traps was an essential skill. I was playing a DE blaster who was one of my very best character ever, demolishing evertyhing in the lair without any hint of trouble. And then I got one-shotted by a blade trap.

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