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Type 1 traps that are always hidden, and can't be detected (atleast by normal means). These force the player to quickly adjust to the new situation, but are never instantly dangerous. They can make previously bad situation suddenly survivable or force you to quickly retreat or use consumables in or...

Remove shaft traps from D:1-3 (you could argue further too - perhaps start shaft traps at D:7). Past the very early game, noone is going to track squares. This solves both problems with unfairness (RNG decided to drop you from D:1 to D:3 without any items and 10 max hp) as well as tedious optimal be...

KoboldLord wrote:Dying to a jackal after chain-miscasting your entire mp bar is just part of the spellcaster experience.

Just fix this. Is there any good reason for starting spellcasters to be so bad?

Luring as in pillar/stair dancing is the equivalent of refusing to roll the dice, thats why its problematic. These are two separate things. Pillar dancing is about rolling the dice many times in order to reduce variance. Stair-dancing is to do with separating a pack, where fighting the entire pack ...

One of the defining characteristics of this game for me is how fair it is. Most other roguelikes will simply destroy you in some games even if you played optimally. Many of the suggestions in this thread, if employed in isolation, will increase the randomness of the early game. I've been streaking f...

I think the negatives of this hat get blown up a bit. It can be a good hat (actually I like using the ponderous plate too when decent plate is unavailable). MR is very important, 10 mp and 5 int are a lot, and 1.1 move delay isn't that bad if you are well aware of it, outside of the early game. It d...

Mistakes were obviously made before the lethal poisoning, but after that, the only thing I can see was to try evoking berserk from amulet of rage to gain some hp to eat up some of the poison. I can't tell if it would've worked but it would've been worth trying (while you still had some HP left, not ...

Wiley

i.e. Ely backwards

I think it fits

Shafts work as intended, they're among the best traps Crawl has. You can be unlucky (as has happened to the OP), but as we *also* say in the philosophy section, better to err on the side of risk. Apart from that, shafts are *exactly* about "challenging and random gameplay, with skill making a ...

Someone really likes Makhleb, Sif Muna, Nemelex, Yred, and Vehumet...

I have once or twice in a long crawl career been one-shotted by ettins as a spriggan. If both swings connect (unlikely) and both roll high (unlikely) thats one of those "should not happen" deaths. Should one never be adjacent to an Ettin as Sp? Is that even a problem since its so rare? Ye...

2) Actually even streaks of two wins of newish accounts sometimes get griefed. You should register on all the servers. It doesn't take long, and it means you can log in on those when you want to spectate someone and chat. List with links at http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto

Unfortunately I don't have a morgue file to show you, as I keep deleting them all because this game still does not have a way of turning ghosts off. The thing that really astonishes me is that because I'm playing a Dg I have access to heavier armor while still being able to cast, yet this Centaur w...

By my perspective of species strength i.e. ability to survive and win a 3 rune game: Tr, DD > Ce > Mi, HO > Sp > Dr > rest I don't think Fe is any good until you get your first life, and I think Sp speed is overrated vs their HP if you consider 1-2 shot scenarios and getting trapped. Og, Gr, Hu, Gh,...

It so happens that I just completed a MuAs of Gozag yesterday: https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/zzxc/morgue-zzxc-20151223-160652.txt The As start is a bit different (and stronger) than the Sk start but by lair it should be much the same. I highly recommend Gozag as almost certainly the best Mu go...

I saw elliptic using Ring of Flames in Snake:5 to kill nagas using the flame clouds. It looked very tedious and the char was quite weak.

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Well, I'm yet to play a free game better than Crawl, or probably even any game. I like reading RPS but my list would look very different to that.

You are underselling EH, it gives you a much higher tier of stab than confusion. Confuse is good when EH fails and vs. enemies that are immune to EH. If this is directed at me, then I don't think so. EH is excellent of course, but confuse is the spell to reliably stop highly threatening monsters fr...

Enchanters: Your bread and butter spell is confuse, as mentioned earlier. EH is just a reliable way to kill enemies when you aren't in much danger. By training stealth, you make it less likely that an enemy will wake up when you step to them. Regardless, you will want to be using EH either in melee ...

Polyphemus now throws death yaks at you.

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... fc87e3ec90

This can be important.

I think it always did.

The only change I want is for animate dead to be a guaranteed spell in Kiku's gifts. I don't think it's right when you worship Kiku all game and you can't use the spell he is all about. The non-permanent minions don't bother me.

There are some youtube video tutorials such as https://www.youtube.com/user/nonethousand/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/sharkman1231/videos ... Crate posted a video as well: https://youtu.be/kCOU6Qtt2nw I think there's no better way to learn tactics than to watch them in action. I was thinking...

There are some youtube video tutorials such as https://www.youtube.com/user/nonethousand/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/sharkman1231/videos Also, the Hyperbolic SpEn guide, and the Hyperelliptic branch order guide, on learnDB. https://lookupdb.guy.ht/#term/spen https://lookupdb.guy.ht/#term/hyp...

INTP checking in.

Ds of Makhleb with 43AC and 26EV. My armour skills and dodging skills are at 20 and 19 respectively. When I hit that stage of a char (usually depths, V:5), I switch exclusively to fighting for HP and offense unless there is some spell I particularly want for zot, which is rare. I think HP is the be...

Polymorph works well on early eels. I think that might be the extent of its utility, outside of weird TRJ stuff that I don't experiment with. Slow wand is a little bit useful. It makes enemies like spiny frogs a little bit safer to fight as a melee focused char, as you won't have much to do while wa...

I've used 50 for a while now. Strikes a good balance for me. I will almost never be tabbing at full-speed any high maxdmg enemy like ettins, aliches, titans, simulacra, and DE/drac annihilators. In the early game 50 won't save you from all situations even on strong chars, but with the smallest dose ...

nordetsa wrote:Right, I'll keep that in mind.

But how did you get my character dump?

That link will always get you your most recent char dump on that server. Nago probably found it by querying the IRC bot with your name to get the dump with '&dump nordetsa'.

Felids are already among the strongest races for streaking, perhaps the single strongest. There's no way this is true. Adders on D:1 can result in unavoidable deaths. So can orc priests on D:2. Tr, DD, HO and Mi don't have this problem (it depends on the background too but these races are more like...

While testing felid one time I had an orc pack spawn on D:1 before I had fully cleared it. I wasn't taking a long time in particular, and I certainly wasn't scumming. Just tabbing enemies and resting to full HP after each fight. This shouldn't be possible. Why not? Because orcs spawning in D:1 is a...

While testing felid one time I had an orc pack spawn on D:1 before I had fully cleared it. I wasn't taking a long time in particular, and I certainly wasn't scumming. Just tabbing enemies and resting to full HP after each fight. This shouldn't be possible.

I was speccing busb in extended and he used disint on himself vs Eresh instead of tele when he was almost dead. He did the same thing in the second fight. During the ascension I dared him to disint himself as low as possible before he won. https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/busb/morgue-busb-2015040...

In May 2013 I wrote a YAVP for my very first win at http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/1ei9qk/dcss_first_win_also_would_like_advice/ . I was playing a DEFE and one thing I wrote about fire storm was this: Well, I picked this up because I had spare spell levels. Zot:1 was the hardest zone I ...

There are many things you could teach this way. Using weak enemies to block ranged attacks from strong ones; breaking LOS against smiting enemies; digging / finding kill-holes; multizapping; using conjure flame effectively; using allies effectively in battle; approaching targets optimally for stabb...

http://i.imgur.com/wDBrZ3l.jpg I made this image really quickly as an example of what I was thinking. A whole series of diagrams which demonstrate tactics in crawl. This one would be one of the most basic. It's really rough. I don't know how to make neat and cool-looking diagrams. There are many th...

On my first DD win I used device recharging 7 times between XL 7-12. I am pretty sure I used it not only for heal wand but also paralysis wands and the like. It really is a strong ability that helps you go a long way. https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/zzx ... 130937.txt

Perhaps a better guide to learning crawl would consist not of a list of combos, but of tactics and topics. There is a huge amount to learn, and a new player can easily get overwhelmed and focus on the wrong areas first (eg. combo). So the list might go something like 1. Melee Positioning, 2. Recogn...

This 'edge exploring' is also what I do while playing in tedium-mode (streaking). The risk is if a monster comes from the middle, blocking off your escape. This can be mitigated by mixing in some expanding spiral patterns around the stairs, so that you have more space to work with. Once you find an ...

Flying doesn't make gargoyles faster like it does for tengus, though. Tengus seem to be special in that regard. I guess because they're birds and not lumps of stone.

Patience is definitely an enormous part of playing 'good' Crawl i.e. maximising chances of winning each game. Running away from everything, excluding sleeping enemies, avoiding uniques till later, pillar dancing for regen, manually exploring early D, and so on. It can get tiring playing like this bu...

Slime I normally find quite unpleasant to deal with. -cTele on the final floor makes it extremely dangerous if things go wrong. The level is so open that situations can suddenly turn sour. V:5 on the other hand allows cTele and there are heaps of chokepoints to work with, and the monster set is pret...

There are many ways to deal with V:5, which is why it's my favourite floor in a typical DCSS game. You can shatter-stairdance, or regular stairdance, corrupt/other god abilities, random teleport, blink and run down the corridor, magic mapping and ctele to an edge, or a combination of these. Some ver...

I do vaults for third rune on every single character. It always works out for me. If you can get through all of Depths then V:5 shouldn't be much different, except you need to pay closer attention to tactics and contain fights properly lest you get overwhelmed. The early stages of V:5 are the most d...

Lernean hydra mirror can one-shot the Lernean hydra.

Welcome to the tavern Azumarill! The next place to go to would be the Orcish Mines, floors 1-3. Stay near the stairs and be cautious (applies to everywhere in crawl). Hopefully you'll find interesting shops and a runed plate mail. Then head back to lair and finish floor 8. If there's a bad situation...

The best ones I've had in my online wins so far: +11,+10 lajatang "Chesch" {flame, rF+ rC+ MR+ SInv} +2 shield of Egusat {rElec rF++ rC++ MR+ Stlth+} quicksilver dragon armour of Buum {rF+ rC+ MR+ Stlth-} ring of Haehiq {rElec rPois rF+ AC+4 Dex+4} ring of Uneblaib {+Fly rF+ rC+ Slay+5} +1...

n - +2 shield of Egusat {rElec rF++ rC++ MR+ Stlth+}

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/zzxc/ ... 120438.txt

Congrats! 'Incredibly careful' play is exactly how you win in crawl.

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