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UC is already really good. Claws are really good, too -- see Trolls. I think if you could ?enchant yourself claws, let alone UC brands, weapons would be obsolete.

Did you say you're not expecting to win? I'm great at not winning!Is it loo late to join up?

Calculus-esque, adj:

1. Characterized by addition and multiplication of integer values.

So, assuming your AC is not particularly low given your GDR, GDR is a lot like flat melee damage reduction of (GDR*MaxDamage/2), right?

From the looks of the log, the player was teleported by the Abyss into a scroll mimic's lap and died before getting the chance to act. Xom has nothing on the dreaded turn 2 telemimic gank.

XuaXua wrote:
Grimm wrote:It's finally safe to go in the water again.

What? No, it isn't!

Sure it is; Krakens can only move through ugly tiles. Try it in wizmode.

I'd be willing to ignore the inconsistency just to help Ogres out a little.

Does ?immolation, in principle at least, also Inner Flame the player?

I'm not sure this would change much. It's mostly just non-Kiku necromancers that really need corpses for purposes other than food, and they should have a good beatstick and probably Dispel/Control Undead anyway. I guess it makes things easier for Ghouls, but that's about it.

V, W, and p genus monsters could all reasonably take light damage.

Blink Close would be extremely powerful as a player spell. I'd like to see it tried out though. "Greater Apportation"?

I'd say that a small chance of insta-death on an otherwise weak brand would be too unreliable to see much player use, and it would feel annoying and unfair when it was used against the player. It's sort of like weapons of chaos -- they suck to fight against, but you also don't get much use out of th...

Sludge Elf & Mountain Dwarf = Dirty Mountain Elf: Like Humans but with +2 to all apts. Immediately gets removed for game design reasons.

Part of your problem may be a result of neglecting the Dodging skill. You have good Dex and aren't taking huge armour penalties, so your EV should pick up very quickly with training. You could definitely use some more Invocations -- if you're using the abilities a lot, they might as well pack a punc...

Margarete wrote:I suddenly realised that i like to grind, and would be really happy to spent hours in pandemonium to get enough gold to buy all artefacts from stores. It seems i can't really think of idea that is not about grinding.

Try playing Angband: http://rephial.org/

Holy Wrath branded UC:

Code:: You punch Cerebov. Cerebov convulses! Cerebov apologizes and gives you the fiery rune.

Getting cheap armour and playing the first dungeon for most of the game seems disturbingly close to optimal.

Unarmed Combat is a special case among weapons, and really shouldn't have any +2 apts. I believe this was discussed during the development of Gargoyles.

Necromancy has Deep Elves at +2.

From http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/changes.txt : 654be61 | gammafunk | 2013-08-17 12:00:17 +0200 Purge all of Pan from our midst Our dear brother Sir Kilobyte fought long and true to remove all of the demonic realm...but he did not strike the finishing blow! Pan lives on, biding its time, hiding in ...

1. Summons share damage with the summoner, so (Like the Kraken's tentacles) you could kill the summoner by attacking the summons, probably damage done to the summoner shouldn't be full damage (Maybe half, or a third) so damaging the summoner directly would be more effective, or perhaps damage shoul...

Shatter on v:$ is this spell that people tend to overthink. Yes, it's loud - oh noes. Does reduced damage to flying - luckily the base damage is massive! If you have earth magic 25+ just go downstairs (you don't even need haste) and shatter until out of mp. Go back upstairs. Go back downstairs, may...

If Sprint is meant to be sillier, can we use it as an excuse to bring back Jesters?

+4 Leda's Rubber Boots {rElec, MR, Ponderous, Contam}
No penalties from shallow water.

Edit: Oops -- Leda doesn't even have a Wizlab! Never mind... :-P

I'd say it only serves to deepun the joke.

Ehh... Red Sonja and The Arena of Blood may be the most extreme cases, but even The Ten Rune Challenge feels a little tight-fisted. For a relatively long time, there's generally only the one book from the Temple and a set of mostly trash-tier equipment out of the Orcish Mineroom. A typical character...

The relative lack of items in the various Sprints has always struck me as strange. This applies to non-Sif/Veh/Kiku casters as well as, to a lesser extent, non-Oka/Trog primary weaponeers who can't necessarily find decent weapons on the floor. The development of Sprint characters seems like it needs...

One interesting game choice, especially now that Stabbing = .5 * (Weapon + Stealth) in Trunk, is whether to use daggers, which are lame in normal combat but can potentially one-shot virtually anything, or a normal weapon, which just does decent damage every round. Short Blades are probably the most ...

Keep in mind it makes lots of noise, so it's probably too great a risk for a pre-Slouch Cheibie.

Since both your weapons are daggers, they hit mindelay at 10. More Short Blades than that hardly gives any benefit unless you find a good sabre or something.

Projectiles do not travel widest when thrown as high as possible; have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ideal_projectile_motion_for_different_angles.svg for comparison! I had assumed firing most projectiles at 45 degrees would hit the ceiling, but perhaps not. Say a Magic Dart, capable o...

How does it work in trunk, or better is there a current running changelist from 0.12. http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt I'm playing a DsFi right now as well though I'm a bit behind you (on Lair:7), but looking at all that sweet stuff it seems like my gear is...

Backgrounds Chaos Knight Death Knight Healer ^can just grab a more focused background and join these Gods in the early game anyways. I kind of think this about Berserkers too -- starting as one somewhat reduces challenge and adaptability in the early game compared to taking a Warrior-type class to ...

Isn't that why we have Yred?

I guess you misunderstood my idea. Idea was that creating water tiles is trivial matter. First you use ability which creates few water tiles around you and on top of you. (maybe better idea would be give a first level water spell which creates 1 tile of water but doesn't require water) Every other ...

Out of curiosity, one of your initial assumptions is: projectiles are never observed spending more than 1 aut in the air. However, it takes a minimum of 3 aut to fire a weapon (That being a bow with finesse active), a full 10 to throw a large rock, now while it might only take 1 aut for a projectil...

You've inspired me -- I have to do a Ghoul now.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2683-geefce6b (console) character file. 2017690 Igxfl the Petrodigitator (level 27, 205/241 (242) HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Necromancer on Aug 8, 2013. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Aug 14, 2013! The game lasted 10:36:...

dirtywick wrote:Shatter will work, but most of the floor is going wander over, so be ready for that.

Well, if there are Sentinels wandering around, I assume everything will wander over anyway...

The three basic units of measurement in Crawl are well known: aum (mass) aut (time) tiles (length) We can thus say that a wand masses at 10 aum, or that the typical Ticktocktomancer moves at .05 tile/aut. These units reveal much more about the Crawl universe than it initially appears. Some brief con...

Seconded that boulder beetles need to scale with distance. Maybe 1d20 per tile rolled, capping at 3 or 4?

As for sixfirhies and jiangshi, would it be better to give them slow movement and let them cast semicontrolled Blink? It would end up working pretty similarly but it would be more transparent.

Basically, yes. I think limpid is just somewhat more emphatic.

I was referring to the related but deadlier unique, the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Seconded. This is way more readable.

Code:: Sticky Flame Sword Sandblast Polearm Iron Shot Choko Conjure Ball Lightning Xom Magic Missile Longbow

Strength is way more important in reducing EV and casting penalties in 0.13 than it used to be. However, you already have a ton of strength, so unless you're aiming for the heaviest of heavy armours (which will probably lock out most casting anyway, given your Int and apts), I'd pump Int, yes. What ...

What if there was a god that not only made all your apts good, but also allowed you to simultaneously cast Bjorgnor's and Symbol of Torment with no max HP cost or harm to you?

1) Start the game.
2) Find CPA on D:1.
3) Encounter Sigmund on D:2.
4) Stumble into lava while confused.
5) ???
6) Ascend with the Orb.

It probably won't beat Z-casting no matter what, but anything is better than trying to read "@---->..."

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2682-gb26bf1a (console) character file. Igxfl the Metallomancer (Deep Dwarf Necromancer) Turns: 84581, Time: 08:32:15 HP 94/234 AC 13 Str 13 XL: 26 Next: 19% MP 34/34 EV 33 Int 27 God: Makhleb [******] Gold 8285 SH 15 Dex 18 Spells: 15 memorised, 3 levels le...

Nay, there should be one wizard-based clothing item for each slot.

-1 Cigotuvi's Latex Gloves {rN+, rPois, +3 Int, +3 Acc}

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