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I have recently started doing the same, wasn't sure anyone else did. Seems to help. Usually have 10 stealth by the time I find an exit. Yeah, same here, I had exactly 10 stealth. Anyways, afterwards in the last level of Orc I got banished again, by a common orc. I was like, let me tab it with the g...

I can't believe it, I found an exit almost right after that fight was over. Granted, a Thrashing Horror and Sun Demon came into sight multiple times, and I had to kill a pack of Hell Hogs which almost killed me. I'm glad I started training Stealth only the moment I entered the Abyss, as I'm sure tha...

Alright, thanks very much. It's up to me now, I guess.
I am fairly certain a better player than me could probably get out of this situation even at xl10, but unfortunately I don't have much confidence in my ability to do so!
I can only hope to get lucky with spawns and terrain generation

Yes yes, of course I'd press 5 to recover my health, thanks about pointing that out! I understand it may not be such an obvious choice in a game as complex as this one, but I could realize that much on my own. It's my fault, my question in the reply above should've been more precise: what to do now ...

Alright, so I finally decided to do something and went ahead: http://postimg.org/image/63yyoxa6v/ It turned out the raiju wasn't alone, there were 3... I killed them all, along with the Neqoxec, Ufetubus, Great Orb of Eyes and a Small Abomination... Surprisingly enough, the orb of eyes was the easie...

I have 1 might, agility and lignification potions, as well as 4 potions of heal wounds and curing and 2 scrolls of cause fear. I also have a wand of invisibility and lightning, but only the Neqoxec can't see invis, the Raiju and Great Orb can. Also, I may be able to petrify the raiju after I retreat...

I agree with you, however... http://postimg.org/image/5jx43ddsx/ I moved only a few tiles and ( other than getting malmutated already ) a raiju appeared out of nowhere... If not for this new sudden encounter, I would've simply moved 1 tile more to the left, proceed to buff up and try quickly kill th...

Yeah, I thought about moving to that space to 'safely' fight the Neqoxec, and then just circle around that cluster of walls to regen hp/keep out of the orb's LOS, depending on how fast and smooth things go with the Neqoxec. Just running still seems like an option too, but I prefer scenario 1 where I...

Here, a screen of my current situation to make it as clear as possible:
http://postimg.org/image/7412fn7dt/

Alright, I will go ahead and try to kill it.
If I survive, just ignore the orb of eyes and retreat as much as I can to cut LOS and hope I get teleported to another place in the Abyss?

Thanks for the responses, but there seem to be two conflicting advices here. Do I fight or run?? The great orb of eyes certainly could kill me if left there without doing anything... I don't think I can lose it by just running away, as the gap between us isn't that far, unfortunately. Keep in mind t...

Eh... Okay, so I disabled auto-pickup and moved a bit. Being a Formicid, my character sensed monsters behind walls and I avoided those without much hassle. However, a Neqoxec and Ufetubus appeared to the edge of the screen; they noticed me. I moved in the opposite direction, and... a great orb of ey...

I'm worshiping Okawaru currently. I remember surviving his wrath a long time ago, but as a much higher level character... If his wrath hasn't changed, then it would most likely kill me, correct? Anyhow, if I understood correctly, all I need to do is run away from monsters unless otherwise impossible...

My XL 10 Formicid has been cast to the Abyss by none other than that annoying b*tch of Psyche. As I had the +8 Glaive of the Guard, I got overconfident and did not examine her beforehand to see whether her dagger was chaos or distortion branded. How very stupid of me... Anyhow, as I know almost noth...

Oh, well... There goes a cool but perhaps too gimmicky strategy

If I cast Discord and then use either Step from Time or Temporal Distortion, will the enemies still be affected by Discord during chei's ability effects, or will they simply stop going berserk and just wander away/fall asleep?

Alright, that was very easy; thanks to the both of you, now I can enjoy this game online much more.
Another question: what's Lamia's tile name? I can''t seem to get that one to display, is it because the monster was removed from the game?
Also, what's the tile name for the black felid?

Oh, glad there's a way to do this.
Where do I find the options guide? On the webpage or locally? Either way, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do this alone; I've never touched any .rc file or any other kind of settings before.
Sorry for the inconvenience

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to change the appearance of the player's doll on cszo to the ones used by monsters, and if so, how. Apart from a few exceptions, the player dolls unfortunately look all the same to me, while the monster versions are much more interesting and diverse. I underst...

Arrhythmia wrote:I know you don't want to use any other combat magic, but magic dart would pop your ball lightnings every time, guaranteed.

Really?
I can make the exception, maybe I'll start with a conjurer afterall...
Thanks!

Well as I said it's just a gimmicky build! It'd be boring to play as a tengu ae/cj... I really don't like it. I imagine an angry constipated bird with claws and a quiver full of pointy javelins ready to be thrown at anything that moves, with exploding balls of lightning everywhere much cooler than t...

Well, if str really boosts javelin damage, then it wouldn't be such a crazy idea to go chei as a tengu for the stat boost
But yeah, I want to use conjure ball really often :twisted:

it's a fun spell

I've had this idea for a while, of a gimmicky build centered around exploding/electrocuting everything with balls of lightning as a tengu. Okay, tengus have awesome air and conjurations aptitudes, so what's the problem you might ask. Well, I want to make them detonate with stuff. Basically I want a ...

I never meant to say that the persistent traps found all around the dungeon are good. Hell no they are not, they are only annoying. I think I explained myself better in the above post... Traps would come as an ability and they would not be persistent, just like summons are not persistent, and of cou...

Well, you are saying traps are not fun because they could either kill you outright or simply damage you. So, inner flame, delayed fireball, fulminant prism, and to a lesser extent conjure flame could be considered to work similar to traps. But it is fine, because instead of being mechanical, they ma...

But why?? I mean, as they stand now traps surely are lame, you just train them up to 8,6 and that's it. But why removing a skill instead of reworking it? There surely could be ways to make the traps skill interesting, especially for classes, like gladiator and hunter, which are purely focused on mel...

I have an idea for this species! This would also change slightly its background lore. What if, in the depths of the caves and tunnels of the dungeon, there inhabited a species of sentient bipedal insects? What if, through evolution, these insectoids evolved differently between one another? This woul...

Well, good to hear the mechanic isn't atleast unwelcome, I hope the next patch will have the new mutations implemented Also, I was thinking, arthropods have 6 limbs, so how about a mutation/mechanic that somehow revolves around them having 4 arms? Maybe they can reach min delay sooner? Wield giant c...

Just a quick brainstorm :mrgreen: Formicid Ambusher/Scout 1)thin skeletal structure 1 2 3 2)permaFly 3)small -mov delay 4)See Invis Formicid Drone/Warrior 1)Fangs 1 2 3 2)acidic bite 3)AC boost 4)poison stinger? Formicid Forager/Worker 1)sustenance 1 2)passive mapping 1 2 3 3)rPois 4)contrary of thi...

Yeah, I agree, it would be a fun and interesting addition; the argument against it was that it would clash with the 'randomness' of roguelikes in general, but it seems a little silly to me Regarding the aptitudes, not even vampires ( which are one of the best stabbers ) have +2 in short blades, they...

Hmm, I see... Well, in any case, they could still be random, I just thought it was kind of fitting for an insect, as long as it was balanced, could have added flavor

Anyhow, I'd like to try them out, is there a game version or a patch with formicids in?

I'm glad you appreciated my input; I think the aptitudes are looking better now, although I agree with bim on the weapon aptitudes; only the most simple/easy to handle weapons should have a positive aptitude for them. Short blades alreay is at 1, and they seem to have a big stealth potential, so put...

The sentiment you describe of the new races being off to you is the same for me in regards of felids and especially, octopodes. It's been awhile since they have been introduced, and I still never ever play octopodes... I mean... what the heck?? Who would want to be a sentient octopus? I like felids ...

Hello, I must say that I absolutely love the concept of an insectoid race, and that I had something like this in mind for a long time too! I imagined an insectoid race would have good aptitudes in earth and poison magic as well, and perhaps in stealth and possibly fighting ( due to the predatory/agg...

mumra wrote:Usually, refreshing the browser will sort this out. Don't worry, your character will be saved on the server anyway.

Yeah, after reloading the page a hundred times it finally worked.
Too bad that character got banished in the abyss soon after and died a horrible death. :mrgreen:

Hello, I am having problems with tiles online; I have no idea if this is relevant at all here or if I have to post elsewhere, so I apologize in advance if I made some mistake. Anyhow, my notebook crashed in the midst of a game session on cszo and now I can't get back on the game, or do anything else...

Iron Shot would be great if you had Earth Magic. But you don't, and there's no sense training it now. Airstrike is still useful for things that you have to hit NOW. It also gets a damage boost against flying monsters. Otherwise, OOD + Foo Storm + Tornado should be pretty much all you need. Yeah, I ...

Iron Shot would be great if you had Earth Magic. But you don't, and there's no sense training it now. Airstrike is still useful for things that you have to hit NOW. It also gets a damage boost against flying monsters. Otherwise, OOD + Foo Storm + Tornado should be pretty much all you need. Yeah, I ...

Being kinda excited about this character of mine, I thought it'd be a good idea to share it before it splats ( or wins! ). :mrgreen: As the title says, it is my first non demigod character, a High Elf Wanderer infact. I am pretty green to all the worshipping and gods thing, and decided to worship ok...

BlackSheep wrote:No, once the weapon is blessed, the change is permanent.

Well, that's awesome, thanks. Would you either bless a demon whip, trident or blade? I know there are better weapons but I like to use 1H + shields

Since I've always played demigods, worshipping a god is pretty new ground for me, so this time around I decided to experiment a bit and switch from many different gods in one same game. :geek: I wanted to know if leaving the Shining One's crusade after blessing a weapon will cancel its bless from it...

galehar wrote:That was yesterday, at 8:22 GMT:

<+Napkin> CDO's data-center has a heat problem. I'm shutting down the heavy services for a while, discs are quite hot already.

Aha, now I see! Thanks for the info.
Glad I asked afterall, hope it'll be back up soon

Untill yesterday everything was fine, I was playing online with my beloved DgWn as usual, but today I can't connect to the lobby at crawl.develz! The problem might be on my part, but since I can load every other webpage just fine, I think it's worth asking here if anyone else is experiencing this, a...

Ah, that is exactly what I wanted to know, thanks magekyun. Afterall, if they'd let it be scummable, it wouldn't be that different from the normal mutations ( which can be pretty much spammed untill you get only good ones ). Guess I'll just stick to my last Ds, found a labyrinth with an abyss gate i...

Ah nice, so according to the info in that link, demonic guardian is a tier 2 facet and so is nightstalker, and that will give me the chance to still get the latter some time in the future. But I'm still curious to know whether or not these Ds mutations are already determined once you create a new ch...

After playing a lot of Ds characters, I'm starting to wonder how their mutations work. Are they totally random, like the normal good\bad mutations? Or are they determined even before you level up? I wanted to play with the nightstalker mut, but so far I tried leveling 4 characters and they all got d...

Hmm well I'm pretty new to the game and I'm not familiar with the formula that adds bonuses to Max HP depending on your Fighting skill, so I supposed the more I had earlier, the better would be my HP later on. Am I wrong?? Yes. It doesn't matter for your final HP if you trained it at XL 1, 15 or 27...

Your fighting is way overleveled for right now. If you really want to use that lajatang of speed (and it's a pretty good weapon, I think), train up staves quickly. You have no weapon skills at all to speak of, and that's going to hold you back. You have a similar problem with your spell skills. You...

Hello! After several tries at the Wanderer class, it seems as finally things are starting to look good. This is with all probability my best character so far (I only play Demigod Wanderers). Character file is here if you want to check it out: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Ar...

A Demon Trident of Pain is a very solid weapon - if you have the Necromancy skill to back it up. That spear is worth holding onto as a swap for rPois but it is not nearly as good a weapon. Seeing as you also have Necromancy spellbooks, I would think about training up some Necromancy, or possibly a ...

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