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Haste is the obvious answer, Sublimation of blood is great since you already know Regeneration and you don't have any other way to channel mana, Swiftness, Apportation, Blink and maybe Phase Shift are great utility and are fairly easy to get online. Eventually maybe cBlink. Also, Deflect Missiles wi...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.0 (tiles) character file. 13894868 Jebe the Meteorologist (level 25, 210/210 HPs) Began as a High Elf Air Elementalist on Feb 19, 2016. Was the Champion of Ru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Feb 21, 2016! The game lasted 07:15:22 (115628 turns). Jebe ...

One of my 2 15-runes was with a very similar tornadoing black DrWz of Sif -> TSO \ Zin, if you keep Vehumet I'd say you pretty much have to get necromutation online, both beacuse of torment and for the fact that Dr int is not ubergood and you can't afford having tornado costing you ####+ food...for ...

Thanks for your reply, did abyss then tried Hell but decided to ascend with 5 runes because I would have for sure splatted, and didn't feel like wasting a good game.
Not posting a dump since basically I didn't pick up much of anything else, still satisfied of my first no spell win!

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.2 (tiles) character file. Fafeg the Invulnerable (Minotaur Gladiator) Turns: 88676, Time: 04:18:28 HP 256/256 AC 59 Str 27 XL: 27 MP 30/30 EV 32 Int 8 God: Okawaru [******] Gold 4846 SH 0 Dex 24 Spells: 0 memorised, 26 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : ...

Gratz on your win! I had my first win with Chei too, I have no idea why everyone keeps thinking that he is so bad. Btw how did you decide to start ignoring dodging \ armour and start working on necro?

Quick update: found the +5 shield of resistance, so 1h + shield it is. Thanks very much for all the advices!

Edit: Oh btw, found and slained Mennas, guess what he was weilding: a goddamn FALCHION.

Hello, after winning a couple of 15 runes with magic-centric characters, I wanted to try and win with a melee-centric guy. After splatting some promising OgBe and MiBe in the midgame due to hubris, I got a good MiFi going. Unfortunately, this is the point where I usually die due to stupid mistakes \...

Specifically, I would forget EVERY conj spell except Iron shot, FIreball\Delayed fireball and maybe conj flame and IBS. This is where you want to have online Haste, and start considering more utility like DMsl (even though RMsl is fine), CBlink, Sublimation of blood / any other means of recharging MP.

That is some of the most unimpressive equipment I've ever seen on a XL 20 char. Did you check shops to see if there is anything useful? You could be really using any +INT item to help with fire storm casting success and spell hunger. What are you training Necromancy for? If it is in the hope of a Ne...

Eh, if Cerebov decides to go crazy with the fire storms I think you would have a very hard time, otherwise you should not have too many problems. Imho keep the buckler and swap for it in Cerebov's plane.

Yay, thanks so much, I moved the folder and it worked out fine!

So, nobody has had this problem before? Any idea on what is causing this?

Ok thanks, I had seen the header but it didn't give any information about what to use instead. By the way, I am using 0.11 not 0.12, but I guess it does not make difference. Thanks again! Edit: but still, Access denied. I have no clue what to do about it, as I am not very good at these kind of thing...

Hello, I have been playing a necromutated DEIE lately, and I wanted to know if it was possible to make so that when lichform is about to expire autotravel would automatically stop, and if the same could be done for swiftenss and whatnot. The crawl wiki suggests to add this to the runrest_messages.tx...

I did it, maybe didn't even need to take the abyss trips for food, but w\e. I am so happy, been crawling for about a year, this is my second win and my first 15 runes, also first time that I am able to do anything at all in the extended lategame (cleaned W:1 a couple of times but never went any furt...

Update: cleared hell and pandemonium worshipping Zin due to lack of rMut , got abyssal rune, back to TSO I am now in tomb. Things seem to be pretty alright, i can manage to make my way through the hordes of mummies. Only problem is, I am running out of food, due to an extremely unlucky combination o...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. Silly Billy the Meteorologist (DrWz) Turns: 191748, Time: 13:33:35 HP 249/249 (256) AC 26 Str 9 (10) XL: 27 MP 38/38 EV 21 Int 36 God: the Shining One [******] Gold 8640 SH 48 Dex 10 Spells: 10 memorised, 12 levels left Res.Fire : + . ...

Aaand of course forgot the dump! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. Silly Billy the Anemomancer (DrWz) Turns: 165823, Time: 11:23:46 HP 216/216 (217) AC 31 Str 12 XL: 27 MP 48/48 EV 22 Int 45 God: the Shining One [*****.] Gold 6972 SH 45 Dex 11 Spells: 12 memorised, 7 le...

Hello everyone! I have restarted playing more frequently after a looong time and this is the second char that I have been able to get to very strong power. I already have one win under my belt (4 runes SEEE of Chei), so now I wanted to go for a full 15 rune, but I must say, I am very scared by hell ...

Ehm, whoops. That unidentified wand WAS actually digging, I just didn't think it would break the glass walls so i tried it on the metal walls. Sorry for the useless topic.

(I thought we once had a thread for small questions, isn't it there anymore?) By the way, I am in a treasure trove made of a single hallway with all the loot behind glass walls, how the hell am I supposed to get it? I don't have digging nor disintegration, and there is no secret doors or anything......

No, ice form is not a sufficient answer to 4-headed hydras if you are a XL 12 DrTm.

By the way, how the hell am I supposed to deal with hydras as Tm? So far my only option has been Spider form and run...burn through all the offensive wands I found?

Yeah was planning on Oka so that should not be a problem! Thanks for the reply!

I was getting interested in Halflings lately, trying Air Elementalist to go with basic support spells (swiftness, flight, RMsl and eventually haste and all that nice stuff), sabre and sling; I noticed that slings are hella good in the early game due to their fast attack speed, but I was wondering, a...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. Jarhae the Shatterer (Ogre Berserker) Turns: 46745, Time: 02:09:55 HP 209/209 AC 19 Str 36 XL: 19 Next: 23% MP 18/18 EV 12 Int 7 God: Trog [*****.] Gold 4002 SH 0 Dex 9 Spells: 0 memorised, 18 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. : ...

Do remember: one color of drac will always be the most useless color :) Agree on that, but even pale drac (which imho come just ahead of yellow) are still very reasonable with their triple bonus apt and a way more useful breath! I mean, every other colour has some degree of flexibility (well maybe ...

Not that I really cared too much about this char (apart from some pretty good rings that I found) since he was only XL 7 and i randomed yellow (why do they even keep yellow draconian? They are by far the most useless colour), but wtf were a giant hill and a trapdoor spider doing on D:6? And yes I kn...

I'm continuing to post here since the char is not so different. I went ahead and started experimenting with hybrid HEAE and this one had a HUGE help in that I found the scimitart of flaming death somewhere like D:4 and book of wizardry short after which made my early game a joke (stopped training ev...

Yep, splatted. I'll spare you the details, let's just say I was in V:8, had the rune and cleaned up almost everything then runned stubbornly to my death, I deserved it. Learnt a good lesson though: Hybrids are good, for those couple of hours I maneged to keep him alive with all the relevant skills a...

Thanks for the replies! I think I will try the air magic route to have some more versatility given that my demon blade is flaming as well... Any suggestion for the acquirement? I think I would use that on armor given my shitty shield and in general non-stellar armor, but if you have suggestions go a...

Whoops sorry, as I said it's been a long time since I actually posted here! Fixed

Hello everyone, it's been a long time since I last posted here! I recently started again to play crawl, I have no idea why I stopped :D After a couple of failing DrAE and similars, I decided to give Ds a try since I never really used them much, and I must say that this char is coming out pretty dece...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. 41 Buba the Insei (level 1, -1/13 HPs) Began as a Sludge Elf Transmuter on Sept 25, 2012. Slain by a goblin ... wielding a +0,+3 orcish dagger of distortion (12 damage) ... on Level 1 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:00:11 (46 turns). Buba t...

Not that I would recommend chei for anything since he is actually the worst god in the game. Wait, what? I have my only win on a SEEE of Chei and it was totally badass, slouch helps a lot in crowded places and he gives a couple of totally AWESOME panic buttons. Now, that was a 4 runer, so maybe he ...

Duh. I thought ev penalties applied just to spell success, not memorization. Memo to myself: next time think a moment before asking somebody's help. So, used a brilliance pot, memorized Control undead, and started working on both getting to min delay and getting some levels in necromancy. Not only t...

Hi everyone, after getting bored of dying stupidly with all of my HEAE and such, I decided to roll a pretty tabby char, and the second DDFi actually turned out to be doing quite alright. Since lately I have seen a lot of Dex based MiFi going heavy armour I said, what the hell, if minotaurs can do it...

Whoops, you're right, the spear was a +2 +3 spear of venom which, used with conjure flame, gave me quite an easy time so far. As for fighting, I actually forgot it on for quite a while, so that's why it's so high :D . For the Doom sword, I usually soften enemies up with agony or smthg then beat them...

Since there is really no point in opening a new thread, what do you think I should be doing with this char right now? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. Dois the Necromancer (Demonspawn Wizard) Turns: 25500, Time: 02:00:48 HP 96/96 AC 10 Str 8 XL: 13 Next: 47% MP 31/31 EV 13 Int...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. 372732 Dois the Destroyer (level 22, 0/166 HPs) Began as a Yellow Draconian Wizard on Mar 27, 2012. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Slain by a white very ugly thing (30 damage) ... in The Abyss on Mar 28, 2012. The game lasted 06:39:12 (93834 tur...

Just a couple of things that I wanted to point out: you died using a +1 +3 antimagic dire flail when you had a +6 +5 of crushing which is far superior, I believe priests are not affected by the antimagic brand. Also you shouldn't be training transolcations (or any other magic skill) as MiBe, and shi...

BlackSheep wrote:With Cheibriados' help, you can continue casting in heavier armor than leather.

Now that maybe would have helped, considering I had found a couple of Ice \ Fire dragon armour. I will keep that in mind if I pick Chei again, thanks!

Just got my first win, started playing this december and I am pretty sure that I have way more then 500 games as 90% of my char used to die in D:5 :D . One advice I could give you is: experiment with different races \ classes. I tried everything form MiBe to DDFi to DrWz to DECj to VpEn untill i eve...

You visited 13 branches of the dungeon, and saw 81 of its levels. You visited 2 portal chambers: ice cave, bailey. You collected 9539 gold pieces. You spent 3203 gold pieces at shops. Inventory: Armour a - the +1 pair of boots of Khall (worn) {Str+4 Dex+2 Dam+5} (You acquired it on level 5 of the V...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0-14-ga75c42d character file. 1768012 0nan the Grand Master (level 27, 219/219 (222) HPs) Began as a Sludge Elf Earth Elementalist on Mar 2, 2012. Was the Champion of Cheibriados. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Mar 5, 2012! The game lasted 16:11:54 (13...

I got shoutitis by quaff-IDing a mutation potion. Is it worth to use a curemut pot just for that? (got STR+1 and STR-1 so shoutitis is all that's left).

I started this char after YAverySD on a DrWz who who steamrolling everything and died in Orc:4 because I am too stupid to feed some permafood to a near starving caster. Anyway, it turned out to be a pretty badass one, but since I usually don't play tab-smashing heroes, I'm looking for some help, mai...

When you use a scroll of enchant weapon without weilding a weapon, is the scroll wasted?
I know this sounds pretty obvious, but you actually get a message like "your hands glow red for a moment" like you would when you enchant a weapon, so I was wondering if it had any effect?

So I found this magical dagger on a vampire enchanter on D:8, turns out to be a +0 +1 dagger of distortion. Errr...I don't really get the distortion brand. Is it worth keeping? Because, apart the times it gives you the plus damage, I really dont get what do I gain teleporting \ banishing enemies aro...

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