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What I learned about the divine menagerie: Orphans can surround you with blessed fire but there's nothing on your own square so you can just stand there and blast them to pieces. Angel are supposed to be fast threats, I guess? But they aren't very resillient so they only get close to me when I wanna...

Oh, it is, and I wear it when I'm not resting in safe haven where opponents can't get at me without being spotted ahead of time by my antennae. When I venture out I replace the Sustenance Ring by the Ring of the Five Gods (cTele is just too good an escape tool not to use it), and if I am going to fi...

Yeah, I am abusing .10 mechanics a bit...

Does anyone have any advice on skill selection?

In fact, there was no way to find out in-game that damage increases with depth. I've just expanded the descriptions for the branch (?/bj) and the slime walls to mention that fact. This constant support of the game is what makes Crawl by far the best roguelike. And one of the best games ever in gene...

So I was doing another run through Pan, mostly for the XPs and the giggles, and I land next to a weird creature. A Shedu. I thought to myself "I don't recognize this demon ... let's see what it does." turns out it wasn't a demon at all! Rather some sort of holy creature, like the Holy Swin...

Sanctuary prevents enemies from attacking and removes harmful clouds, but it doesn't turn acid wall into harmless walls. Unfortunately.

It was just a crused cloak I hadn't gotten around to discarding yet because I was beam-dueling Frost giants and Ice Dragons but not going into close combat at all (Boots of Running + Swiftness makes outrunning pretty much anything laughably easy). After that particularly tough deep D floor (the prev...

OK, thanks for the advice! I'm going to keep the scrolls of Acquirement stashed in case I start running out of either food or gold.

I now have all the Pan runes, yay! I'm wondering what I should be doing with the scrolls of Acquirement and the Bazaar. I probably should visit the bazaar now. As for the scrolls ... I don't know. If there's an unlimitted amount of Zigs that can be found in Pan, maybe Gold. Otherwise maybe food? Alt...

So I've been delving through the Dungeon, and here's where I'm at now. Leaving the map and message history on this dump 'cause it's relevant. :D Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.4 character file. Tepeth the Demonologist (Mummy Wizard) Turns: 122589, Time: 12:39:03 HP 132/132 AC 8 Str 12 XL: 23 ...

Hubris is the great equalizer.

I wield the Hellfire crossbow when exploring levels. It gives rF++ and rC-, so it's a bit better than a ring of fire (especially since it doesn't affect ice spells). This is a look at me exploring a level: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.4 character file. Tepeth the Convoker (Mummy Wizard) Tur...

That's what the crossbow is for. Also I normally don't wear the Ice ring, but I knew I didn't have to be afraid of fire in Swamps & Shoals.

I have a Leather Armor of Fire Resist. in storage, do you really think I should ditch the Archimage robe for that?

Any advice on what I should be wearing from that?

I tried your strategy and it didn't work out because i couldn't inflict enough damage. My HP bar went down way faster than his and then his friend came so I enacted a strategic retreat. A temporary retreat, of course. I surrounded myself with a personal guard of Greater Demons, went in, and then bac...

Harpies were by far the most dangerous thing in Shoal, damn things nearly very killed me. Or re-killed, given that a mummy is already dead. Anyway, other than the flying hags, there wasn't anything noteworthy in Shoals. I'm going to try to do all of D then ... I don't know. Get the runes? Oh yeah, I...

That's what I've been doing, yeah. Note that I did find a CBoE in the Zig ... I just didn't bother picking it up because I don't have the Evo I'd need to make it work.

I'm now on the 11th floor, where I had to kill a Pan Lord and all his friends. As if I didn't get enough of that in Pan ... I ended up at 28HPs and 0MPs and then I realized that my situation was dire despite having just dispatched the Pan Lord, I ended up doing Blink -> Channel -> Death Door -> More...

I'm wielding the whip because I was killing weak monsters. When I'm somewhere dangerous I wield the staff of Wizardry which gives me the following spell success chances: Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger a - Fire Storm Fire/Conj #########. 2% 9 Choko b - Blink Tloc N/A 0% 2 None c - Apport...

I just did Swamp 1-4, and it was ridiculously easy. I almost didn't need to use anything but Throw Icicle, just a couple blinks for Hydras and Freezing Clouds for groups of flying nuisances.
I'm going to do Shoal now, keeping in mind that it may be significantly more difficult.

To zig or not to zig, that is the question. I've stumbled upon a Ziggurat entrance on my trek through the Pandemonium. I'm wondering if I should purchase access or not. Note that I've never done one of those before. Here's the dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.4 character file. Marduk the ...

Thanks! He was a really tough son of a b****.

Yeah, if you want to use a "pure" caster that doesn't rely on weapons, that's your esthetical choice to make and I'm not going to diss that. But don't start as a Necromancer, starts as another magic background and then go Kiku.

I found " T - the amulet of Notoutau {Ward Dex+3 Dam+6}" on my way out of Pan. I was thinking that I should wear this when I'm not in the vicinity of a mutating monster. Brimstone Fiends are pretty much the only threatening thing I find in Pan (along with Pan lords, obviously) as everythin...

WOW, so since I was worrying about fighting fire monsters when I entered Pan, of course I ended up in front of Cerebov's vault. Turns out that my whip is enough to kill both a Blarug and a Pit Fiend at once without spending even a single MP. Sweet. The ring giving rF+++ and the gloves might have bee...

So the thing I'd really like to know now is how should I handle fire creatures, because spamming Fire Storm at everything isn't very practical (and it takes pretty much all my mana to kill a single Brimestone Fiend). I was worried about Balrugs, Hellions, Pit and Brimestone Fiends. But it turns out ...

Thanks, that's what I thought. Charms miscasts are bad because of the chance for Berserk or Paralysis? Am I correct assuming that I'd probably better do Swamps 1-4 then Shoals 1-4 before finishing the Dungeon, and then get the 3 runes? Or maybe going into Elf before some of those. And is raising Sum...

95% success isn't enough?

I went to check out the Shields, and the artifact one turned out to be +0 of Str +3 -__- . But a Shining one is a +2 Shield of Cold resist and I don't have any rCold normally, so that looks pretty good. And on my way out of the Vault, I spotted a stash I had forgotten about, which on top of the usua...

I did all the first 7 levels of the Vault, so now I'm going to either delve a bit deeper in the Dungeon or tackle one of the Rune branches in the Lair. As soon as I've gotten another point of T&D I'll be done with the planned skill levels, so I'll have to decide what to do. Probably raise Summon...

I was afraid of that. In that case I'm going to keep identifying the bonuses of Freezing and unbranded dwhips. OK, I managed to find a way out of the Abyss. But then I suddenly ran into the Pan Lord of that plane when going around a corner! The mighty Wifaos, very first Pandemonium Lord I meet which...

When I left the Disco Hall of Pandemonium, I had a bad feeling, "better not get careless now" I thought. So I put up all my buffs and replaced Sustenance/SustAb by my battle rings. Good thing too, since I landed next to Mnoleg and his merry band of Neqoxecs & Brain Worms (although mayb...

I use my dwhip of freezing to kill all 5s and 4s as well as a few 3s (using fire storm on a lone sun demon is a bit overkill...), but this time I met a red devil with a demon trident of distortion and he sent me right down the Abyss. I went past 3 altars to Lugonu and 3 empty arcs of stone when I no...

Uh, the whole point of learning Dispersal was to deal with Executioners who get in melee range. The one time I tried it, it resisted all cast until I was so low on MPs and HPs that I had to burn a Blink and Teleport scroll to get out alive. My post had nothing to do with your character's shoes. It ...

I got another +2,+1 demon whip of freezing, should I enchant it right now or try to get one with a better base modifiers? I decided to check if the high level book gathering dust in the crypt was indeed a Necronomicon (it was :) ) and on my way back up I met Mennas, who I had left there when I clean...

For recovery in Pandemonium, look at what sort of stuff the level is spawning. If it's weaker demons, just find a corridor (less tiles in sight) and rest / cast regeneration / wear rings of regeneration. If it's fiends or executioners, you might want to just dash for a portal after less healing. So...

HAAAA! I wasn't wearing my shoes! Thanks for pointing that out. I really feel stupid, and not just because that bloody Neqoxec made me lose the +Int from the Gain Int potion either ... The entry portal landed me right in front of the Pan Lord's vault, with a Neqoxec in my back (as well as a balrug a...

Butterflies can stop hellfire? Good to know! After going through a couple of levels of Pan (and getting smited by TSO for killing holy swines and eating their flesh, hahaha), I have to say Executionners. I used to be able to easily blow them up with Orb of Destruction, but now that I've forgotten it...

DM is useful vs Bolts of Fire/Draining/Lightning/Cold/Venom so Pan monsters list includes Blizzard Demon, Green Death, Ice Fiend, Shadow Fiend, Gloorx Vloq etc. Thanks! Then again, the bots also raised my opinion on Sure Blade. Especially when I realized you could use it on a branded weapon. What m...

Edit: Oops, you don't have Deflect Missiles and Regeneration. They can be very useful and don't require much XP for your char. I do have those two spells, but that reminds me that I wanted to ask something about DM. What monsters is that useful against in Pan? Other than the occasional launcher wie...

I was afraid of that T_T .

So, does anyone have advice on what spells to learn beyond those two panic buttons?

I see ! So having max # in the spell power category doesn't mean you have max spell power, just that you have at least 150. OK, that's good to know, I'm definitely packing the Conjuration Staff now. Is the max HP reduction from Borgnjor's Revification is akin to the one from rot? That is to say, re...

Well, that was fun! Interesting fact: not all Pan levels have a Pan lord inside. Also I can blow through most of those levels fast enough that I get more food than I spend. The notable exception was that vault full of iron grates protecting a variety of smiting demons like Smoke Demons and Brimeston...

I wasn't really sure if training Air magic was a good idea, but I had a Air Magic Manual gathering dust, so I went ahead and used it.Greater Demons are a lot of fun.

Ok, so when i went into Pan, I forgot to replace Sustab/Sustenance by actually combat useful rings. And when the first room turned out to be the lair of a Firestorm casting Pan Lord, I even forgot that I had a rF++ ring I could equip. It wasn't pretty ... Thankfully, cBlink saved my bacon, and I was...

I got myself both Dispersal and Dig. Dispersal saw a little bit of use, especially those few times I took the stairs to a new level and landed in an area already surrounded by enemies. But Dig! Damn, this is the spell I used the most in the Pits, by FAR. Those Acid Walls are so annoying, but so easy...

Permafood IS in unlimited supply - because it spawns in Pan which is infinite. But permafood accrual isn't unlimited if you can't find it faster than you consume it. So maybe I'll get good enough to do that in Pan, but it hasn't been my experience for the time being. It's nice to know that it's a p...

Corridors also deny OODs. Yes, OOD is cheaper, but it's not faster in all circumstances. OK, point taken, OoD is not going to be a good option in many situations. However that brings me back to the previous point : why should I forget this spell for? So those spell slots aren't quite as useful as I...

When you're not careful while playing crawl, you get shafted.

Except I'm very far from being able to cast Freezing Cloud for now T_T The idea wasn't to kill things myself while my summons tank but rather to use Summons to kill all the dangerous things safely while getting all the XPs from the majority of enemies with Cnj. So I trained Sum that high because whe...

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