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It sounds pretty similar. Drop all scrolls before read-IDing vs unwield weapon before read-IDing. No real effect on the game either way except to be annoying.

Seriously, though, buff mummies.

Equipment Slots: -- 27 amulets -- 27 hats -- cloak -- no rings -- no gloves -- no boots -- no armour Hydras, like Felids, cannot use wands, weapons, or throwing, and also cannot use scrolls because hydras can't read. (Literate Hydras would just be silly.) However, their excess heads allow them to dr...

Grimm wrote:
Siegurt wrote:FIFY

What does "FIFY" mean?

Flame Insectoid Fluff Yodeler.

All explored items on the level jump into your pack. I call it... Mapportation.

It's much more effective to roll up an Enchanter or Arcane Marksman and just use the spells.

I'll often switch weapon types for that early whip{elec}.

Since plate has noticeably better base AC and GDR, I'm not sure it's even too far behind defensively.

Careful doing multi-turn macros. If the RNG hates you that day, Mennas can walk up in and drop Silence before you can actually react.

3758 | D:5 | Identified the +6/+7 demon whip 'Portalquaffer', the Wails of Hubris. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is made from finely tanned death yak leather. The leather is inscribed with images of pain and torment. It bristles with tourmaline spikes of electricity resistance. ...

With advice like that, we'll be macro w1zs is no time!

Siegurt wrote:Heheh, good point, I'd forgotten. Then the only way to get bonuses to spell power for charms is archmagi, which means you would need 75 int to actually get to max spellpower with archmagi and 27 charms.

The best part is that it would take a DEWz^Chei to get there...

I did like the idea of cutting Haste with one of the less common spell schools. This would be a good way to force more XP investment as well as dilute the tendency for so many characters to load up on Charms.

Yeah, Nagas of Chei and hasted Spriggans have about the same chance to sneak up to a monster. It's kind of weird, but making faster things automatically sneakier would be worse.

Tiktacy wrote:15) Needles of Paralysis work on all 4 hell lords, all 4 unique pan lords, and on all Tier 1 demons(including hell sentinels).

I didn't know that. That's pretty great!

What if it did something really obnoxious, like preventing consumable use or causing extremely loud noises?

jejorda2 wrote:So "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||" is the name of the fourth sprint map. I haven't played the map, so I don't know if it's 29 staves, or pipes, or what.

Why isn't it 27?

prozacelf wrote:
Igxfl wrote:In a pinch, you can kite them with garbage polearms.

Note that this method can take long enough to make you seriously consider suicide.

Point taken.

Could we just bump Haste down to +25% speed instead of +50%?

In a pinch, you can kite them with garbage polearms.

Based on no evidence, I would guess that HP gains are 1 HP => 1 EP, and MP gains are 1 MP => 2 HP, just like the costs are. Bear in mind that this is based on no evidence.

minmay wrote:I don't see how there's an issue at all. Characters with no spells wielding bread rations make weak ghosts too, do you want to change that?

Well, bread rations have been notably underpowered since being nerfed during food reform.

Also, throwing away scythes right now is a no brainer. Isn't that against Crawl design philosophy? I kind of assumed they only existed for monsters to use, like clubs do. But unlike clubs, which monsters use all the time, scythes usually just occur on an infamous unique and one type of tier-2 demon...

MfIE can end up very strong in either Ice/Conj or melee. This is the point in the game where your background stops mattering much and you need to choose what to develop into based on the items you have at your disposal. In short, if you have a fancy trident lying around, go more into melee. If you f...

Hurkyl wrote:
Igxfl wrote:A potion of invisibility protects you from everything but wargs, allowing you ample time to cast AOE spells before serious danger crops up.

Orc sorcerers see invisible. According to the wiki, so do orc high priests.

Wow, that would have gotten me killed. Sorry.

Actually, this would make it the only weapon capable of hitting two monsters at once in a corridor, which is really pretty cool.

Yeah, I would totally like to see scythes attack 20 tiles at once. For the amount of weapons skill you need to get scythes to min delay, you could be using either a bardiche or an executioner's axe.

The wiki says that "Full" starts at 7001 nutrition. What if the Ghoul cap were moved from 6999 to 7001? It would make almost no difference except you'd get a "Hey, I just maxed my food" message, the way engorged is for most races.

Once you have Fireball online, cast it at anything remotely threatening. Flame Tongue is for rats and goblins.

crate wrote:
minmay wrote:neither does beastly appendage

I try to pretend appendage doesn't exist

"You hit the hobgoblin with your disturbingly large nose!"

"You carefully kebab the corpse. You have 3 chunks of yak flesh."

Could teleport control cancel haste, slow, and paralysis, then you could just remove this amulet? Then you have to invest a little skill and decide to evoke the ring. Not being able to have Haste + cTele up at once would be interesting, but this would probably get weird otherwise. Stasis is good. I...

Maybe it's just an unlucky swarm clustered around the stairs with a few warriors and a knight.

I guess Stasis would either have to prevent intentional berserk or allow the post-berserk slow to happen anyway.

Stasis is probably the worst amulet, inaccuracy included. As far as I'm aware, no mildly experienced player uses it outside of a handful of rare corner cases. I believe this amulet would have a much more interesting role in the game if it protected only against hostile/involuntary translocations and...

battaile wrote:Why do so many people have problems with gnoll packs around D3 when they can just fire storm...

1. Sneak past gnolls.
2. Dive to Temple and worship Vehumet.
3. Get banished and scum Abyss to learn Firestorm.
4. Return to vanquish gnolls.
5. ???
6. Profit!

You wield the +2,+8 battleaxe of Inflation.
Your 2437 gold pieces become 454 gold pieces.

You can hold up -3 fingers by promising not to hold up a finger the next 3 times you would otherwise do so.

A potion of invisibility protects you from everything but wargs, allowing you ample time to cast AOE spells before serious danger crops up. To answer the subject of the thread, you can stairdance with Death Door. You just drop all your scrolls/potions if you are using fire/ice storm and then use any...

Those decisions aren't mystifying at all! Oka is great, Haste is great, Stealth is great. Forget that you started as a Venom Mage and just be a kickass melee character with some good spells to fall back on. The only things I'd find odd are the lack of mindelay on the trident (which you very well may...

Avoiding melee with dangerous monsters is, of course, advisable. However, I've found that a tanky melee character can carefully lure out and kill Nagas, Naga Mages, and maybe Naga Warriors one by one without undue trouble. Mostly, I beat the Snake Pit either by waiting until I'm overleveled or by ab...

Jelly (J) -- "A pulsating mass of acidic protoplasm. It can and will eat almost anything, and grows a little each time..." I assume these things don't have eyes, especially seeing as they aren't bothered by invisibility. However, my HuCj just blinded one using Dazzling Spray. Is that suppo...

You mean the Experience aptitude? Why is it more important now?

Smoke demons and Merfolk Aquamancers have a spell called Steam Ball, which does what it sounds like. Has there been consideration of making this a player spell? Blocking LOS would of course be very powerful, but if the steam clouds were thin/brief and the spell were relatively difficult to get runni...

I do worry about the foodlessness, but because Djinn heal quick enough and skill up so much faster than mummies, the really super-grindy strategies could easily be suboptimal on Djinn. I hope.

Lava Orcs do get xp slower that Hill Orcs: -1 xp apt vs. +0. HOs also have aptitudes 1 better than LOs for Axes and all ranged attacks (although LO wins slightly for Fire/Earth and heavily for Tmut). The only other relative disadvantages of LO's are slow movement at low temp (which doesn't really ma...

I love mummies too. However, I'm not sure why, as [insert race] are better. They have all the important things from mummies (ability to use spells/attacks/items) but none of the bad things (can't drink potions, awful attributes, awful aptitudes, rF-) Are there any reasons why someone would play a mu...

That's okay -- you just learned a lot about the game and probably got way better. That's the main goal of characters until you start getting near Zot. :-P

halbyc wrote:as always i could easily have gotten away, but everything i'd encountered up until that point had been so easily dealt with, that i thought i could just smash face.

This is like 90% of my deaths. Probably 90% of everyone's deaths, honestly.

It's weirdly impressive that you had rPois up and still got to red poison before dying.

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