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I'm actually using the vampiric gsc and ravaging the Dungeon mercilessly - Trog is so proud of me that he's keeping to gift awesome randart among the usual great pile of useless rubbish, including another vamp gsc -the +5,+9 giant spiked club "Enwextil" {god gift, vamp, +Inv}. Strangely en...

Oh. Didn't know there was actually a spell called 'controlled blink.' Wonder where can I get that spell from? Also, I also think firestorming the Tomb:3 wouldn't be a good idea, as I would be subject to several death curses. But how would you clear Tomb then? I went there twice as MiFi, and the roo...

2) How to deal with torment attack? Is Necromutation the only answer? From what I've played so far, the end-game play is pretty limited: you'd either go TSO to make up that lost hp or cast necromutation to be completely immune to it. I haven't played much, so this is all I know. Any other method? D...

Casting a spell put right in penance while training magical skill has an (heavy) piety cost, so animate skeletons is out of question. Webtiles seems again down, so I don't know if I'll have a chance to equip this GSC :cry: Nice rings. Also, do you have a big problem with drinking your robes? Stupid ...

In normal game, I prefer poison arrow over iron shot: the former deals over all the same (or maybe even a little more) damage than the latter, but it also poisons the foos, letting to kite them 'till are dead. In extended iron shot is better. As the op is going with air, also chain lightning it's te...

My second relatively successful ogre has been gifted by Trog of an awesome randart GDC: the -1,+6 giant spiked club "Groi" {god gift, vamp, rElec rF+ rC++ MR SInv} It grants every resist I practically need, has a decent dam bonus and it's marvelously vampiric. The problem is: should I wiel...

Please note that staff of channeling is the only renovable, reliable and somewhat cheap source, outside Sif Muna, to channel mp. Actually, all other methods require gods' power and killing dudes and aren't obviously enough to keep mp bar filled. Sure, there's powered by pain, but it's only for demon...

orb of eyes are immune to enchantments, so that's not an option. There's also a ogre mage in LoS, who is a bit less scary but still quite capable of paralysing, confusing or abyssing with your poor MR. Going for a trap door is a desperate solution, I would use only If in extremely need to explore th...

Trog will punish around every n turns, but not always the same turn you leave him. You can check whose God are you suffering wrath with ctrl-o - red means angry. Anyway, gods' wrath is quite long, you'll probably end the game - in a way or another - before it ends. Please note that the cure of *all*...

The rc files of players playing online are public ( http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=rcfile ). You may read the best players' ones, there are many improvements which smooths the gameplay a lot.

Both staff of energy and power are presently useless to you: the former because even 9 level spell are hungerless, the latter for the reasons Blacksheep explained. Instead of those, grab a staff of fire, if you have. You could also swap the robe of augmentation with a robe of resistances/rf+: you wi...

For spells: your character have good defenses, you don't realisticly need deflect missiles - repel is good enough. Mass abjuration is a waste too: you need a lot of summoning to get that online, and firestorm does the same job, better - it kills not-summoned foo at same time too! Firestorm is good e...

Chei frowns upon the use of swiftness, but no one cares of him anyway :cry:

the ring of Compulsion (left hand) {+Rage rElec rF+ MR}.

On d:4 with a MfAK.
Killed by an ogre who was waiting me next the stairs on D:5.
Most typical RNG's humor.

Here is a little known fact: TSO actually provides rmut. He does this because one of his abilities actually completely blocks mutation attempts as long as you are smart with positioning. I have done extended under TSO without rmut and it is really not bad as long as you are smart. (What I am referr...

Thanks, I'll give them a try.

I'd go Hells first: they may be harder than pan, but the only source of mutations there are eventually summoned cacodemons, and only a couple of enemies have summon greater demons, so you shouldn't face more than 1 at time. On other hand, Pan Neqoxecs tend to appears often and in swarm, and cacodemo...

- You said that tornado moves enemies farther from you, which is bad. I read somewhere that tornado pulls them closer, not push them away, which sounded good. Do tornado moves them randomly? - Is dodging completly worhtless, or you can train it later when there's not too much to train (say instead ...

Reflection is a very bad brand, almost useless: initially, you need to block a bolt, then to reflect it, and finally hit something, which happens very rarely. As I said, a buckler of resistance (or even only rf+) is ten million better. The main weapon could be very good, but we should know the base ...

Just won with a DmTm in Dragon form - it's a really straightforward combo, it isn't really different from a tabbing MiFi, so I don't think there are big advices to be given :lol: You still have to clear most of dungeon, but you shouldn't have problem in Dragon Form with those good resistances (I had...

I used to check official statistic of on line games through crawl.akrasiac.org . However, CAO is obviously down; there's another way to get those informations, or do I need to wait that it will be online again? Thanks

Halfing need 21 in shields to eliminate normal shields penalties, a huge investment of exp which isn't worth at all. Disable shield, stick with a buckler (of resistance, if you can find it) and be happy. Rpois isn't necessary for Lair (heck, even Swamp and Snakes can be done without it!). Start to h...

I've checked in wiz-mode, with 17 skill you gain +1 AC. If you try this wearing only the gloves, you will see that you need 22. This is because the bonus of sklev/22 is not multiplied for each piece of armour individually; actually, the base AC of each item is added together first, and I guess the ...

we don't know yet. What is certain is that webtiles puts a heavy load on CDO and Napkin isn't really motivated anymore to run it. So, it would be good to start looking for another hosting in europe. Maybe it will involve asking for donations to finance the hosting. Thanks for the informations. Pers...

All praise Napkin!
Finally I can wake up my sleeping DmTm and let him win (or die ignominiously, like the 100 before).
Anyway I'm a bit worried about the "for now". Are you planning to shut-down definitely the server, or are you thinking to update it along the others?

Isn't this supposed to be 22? I've checked in wiz-mode, with 17 skill you gain +1 AC. This mechanic never existed. Acquirement weightings use the stash tracker, not what you currently have equipped. I wonder where I've read this bad information, I'm pretty sure I haven't invented it - oh anyway, so...

The -1 gloves are giving about +0.5 AC to the character in the original post (+1 base, +~0.5 from armour skill, -1 from enchantment)--I am not sure how rounding works in the armour calculations. Wearing them is better than not wearing them, assuming the character has no other gloves available. I ag...

Spawned jellies never gave xp, if I remember correctly. Personally I still haven't fought the new RJ, but I kinda dislikes this change: it could be too easy to kite and kill the old RJ, but that (along the spawning mechanism) make it different from other strong uniques.

If you have a nice plate, you should really use it instead of the splint mail. The latter is a very bad type of armour while the former is very good. Furthermore, like eeviac said rpois is high overestimated - outside Snake and Spider is almost useless, as long as you have at least 1 healing pot in ...

Thank you for the answer. For my part, Webtiles and online scoring board were the only thing that kept me coming back to Dcss. The server not showing up apparently for us Europeans make my decision to fall back to old Style Angband more and more to the point. Another sad webtiles user here too :( I...

Vampiric only require "full" status to be wielded, then you can have any level of satiation. Wield that weapon - if it's good - and don't worry anymore.

Oh, I didn't read the spear was in a shop. Skip it unless it's cheap for your finances

From the bot: reaping is a weapon brand that turns everything you kill into friendly zombies if a corpse is generated So, any corpse will create a zombie - the chance a monster leave a corpse should be 50%. Zombie stat are related to the monster type base stat: the biggest differences are they're sl...

I'm guessing they were confused because pits typically means the slime pits. Yup :D You have 32 int and 35 dex, yet have 0 spells and 0 dodging. You aren't playing to your character's strengths. Here's what I would do in your position: First thing's first: Turn off traps and doors. Don't train armo...

lajatang are nice weapon and vampiric is probably the best brand in normal game. I don't know your AC/EV and what skill level has your character - if you feel you can spare some exp, switching to the lajatang could be a good idea, even if you are in mid-game. Btw, what are you doing in Slimes Pit? Y...

Both executioner's axe and triple sword have higher base damage - 20 the former, 19 the sword, upgraded to 20 if blessed, while the bardiche has 18. This is a quite huge difference if we consider only raw damage, especially against high ac enemies, at least according the results provided by sheet. B...

Put "show_game_turns = true" in your .rc file if you play online (if offline, it may be put in your init.txt , i'm not sure). This option shows turns in this way: 69436 (0.8). The first number is the total number of turns spent by your character, the number between brackets tells how much ...

I've just made a comparison between a trishula and holy bardiche, because of a discussion in YASD forum. I've used DCSS weapons' sheet, so I base my considerations on the results it provides - if they're wrong all my idea could be too. I've set polearm and fighting to 27, no slaying bonus. Anyway, I...

Projected noise is said to be useful with that tactics - but I've never tried, dunno if it's really viable. Gold can be found randomly scattered in pan/abyss, or acquired, there aren't other ways to earn it. The entrance fee vary greatly, from about 2k to 14k gold, you may have to wander a bit in pa...

Thanks. I have Shields skill already at 25. So is it necessary to switch to smaller shields? I've never met any good shield. More. When is this '-5' being substracted? I've got a lot of slaying bonuses from two rings, boots, occasionally from gloves, mask and amulet. Is this '-5' so crucial? Which ...

Some advices: you need 25 points in shield with a normal size race to cancel the penalty of a large shield. Furthermore, a demon trident/trishula is hand-and-a-half weapon, which suffer significant malus if used with a shield (-5 to damage, hit and speed in case of a large shield!!!). You should imm...

Anyway, if a SpFE can confuse a enemy, he can probably safely kill it in less time, so, as Blade said, I don't think there's a situation where's confusion could be a better move than simply nuking the foo. Maybe when your character gets surrounded by enemies? Although you can just blink or teleport...

cerebovssquire wrote:By a great stroke of luck, Cheibriados wasn't in the Temple, and divine self-flagellation could wait for a bit. By the time I converted, I was strong enough to actually kill monsters, so this FeMo of Cheibriados didn't meet the same sad ending as his predecessors.

Alistair's is better than meph (lesser resistible, affect everything in LOS) but can't be compared with confusion, as the latter affects enemies with rpois, undead and maybe demon (not sure about the last). Anyway, if a SpFE can confuse a enemy, he can probably safely kill it in less time, so, as Bl...

elayed fireball is a good to spell to have with Vehumet: without any guaranteed (and cheap, as sp) way to channel, a delayed fireball is a neat panic button if you're out of mp, also because you could get some more mp killing enemies with that spell.

Great post, nago. I have updated the wiki page for Bolt of Magma. I have done some calculations and I got this result: Against a monster immune to fire, Bolt of Magma @160 spellpower deals the same amount of damage that IMB @100 spellpower (max spellpower is 100). In this calculation, I used the ol...

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Thanks for the information, maybe I'll give a try in the future!

Without a dump is difficult to give precise advices. Anyway: Damage suffered influences the probability of your shroud being destroyed. As spriggan you probably have ridiculously low AC , which means a little reduction to damage and that the few attacks pass through your amazing EV will break the sh...

Haha, as far as the ring goes I really didn't have the ring of slaying on post game. I only had like 8 restore ability potions for the entire end game, it was weird. I was more afraid of stat loss in hell than anything else. Eh, I can count that up as a newb mistake if it is a big thing. My only re...

Well, with stone giants usually works - as they carry only few rocks - unless you worship Chei

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