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According to the knowledge bot... Skill_rate is 3*Spellcasting + 2*Intelligence + 12*(Average of skills in spell schools used by that spell). To cast a level 9 Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 330. 3 * 21 + 2 * 28 + 12 * ((19 + 9)/2) = 63 + 56 + 168 = 287 < 330 Assuming the same Int and Spellca...

You could also try to find a crystal ball and pump evocations.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?t ... stal_Balls

Getting T&D to 10 before Zot is nice, keeps you from hitting zot traps (I'd still get Fire Storm first) I'd personally turn fighting off until you get Firestorm castable, the extra HP are nice but not amazing. Ignite Poison will make Snake a joke. Flight for Shoals is nice but not 100% necessary...

Meph cloud + fireball can work, firestorm is better. Thinking about it, going snake before elf could be doable. It's hard for me to be sure, since my casters normally have firestorm running by the time they finish vault down to 7.

Yeah, Demonic Guardian is crazy powerful. Nice resists, but I'd be careful, the -rC could be fatal in the wrong circumstances. Spell wise, Firestorm is amazing, loud, hunger inducing, but amazing. If I were you, I'd rush it as hard as I could. Location wise, I'd do vault down to 7 then elf down to 4...

We talked on crawl-dev for awhile, and it sounds like the devs were more favorable of ripping out these items and creating new items that don't duplicate existing spells.

Grimm, that looks awesome. I'm going see if I can't hack up a patch implementing some of those.

If you want to hack the changes out locally, I think startup.cc:88 or so is what you want. If you set it to "", I think you'll change things back.

In my games of crawl and in reading the forums/wiki I've come to believe that some of the evokable (misc) items could use some love. Here are my assertions ⋅ Evocation provides some magical options to non-spell casters who acquire the items (Spells are generally better than the equivalent ...

Wow, I won a game! The sound like lies when written down, but I guess I actually did it. After playing hundreds of DE casters, a dozen or so MiFI later I win a game. This guy got going and never stopped owning faces, once I got my +10 full plate and executioner's axe, vault8 and even zot 5 were pret...

Removed hat, will save armor scrolls. Shields are "off" since I don't have a shield equipped. Swapped rage for other ammy. I have 30+ honey and like 10+ food sitting in the temple. Any more thoughts guys? Should I save enchant weapon scrolls for an executioner's axe? My plan is going to do...

After getting so close with a few casters, I decided to switch it up with a melee character (or like 30). This is the first successful one. I've cleared Lair and Orc, and dungeon down to 14. Okawaru's armor gifts have been fail (including a +0 cap when I already had one). My short-term skill plan is...

While I feel somewhat comfortable with Cj based casters (DEFE, DEWz and the like), I'd like to try the other end of the spectrum, a melee fighter. However, I'm having major trouble making it to the lair, which is normally pretty doable for me as a caster. Here's roughly what I'm doing: Minotaur / Fi...

Congrats. That is a ton of mutations!

Yeah, for a long time I couldn't get to lair 7 often, but 3/5 characters or so have made it that far at least, which is great for me. Much of my improvement I believe comes from: - Knowing better when to GTFO, leaving floors, dragging things (Imps) up stairs and losing them and going back - Knowing ...

Cj staff is great unless your spell power (number of #'s next to spell) is maxed out. I'd use it for sure. "Would putting XP in staves be an idea, or does that just affect their whacking prowess?" I believe just whacking power. Unless you want to play a hybrid, you shouldn't be close enoug...

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I normally play DEWz/DECj/DEFE, but I think similar advice holds: I'd turn off all skills but Spellcasting/Air/Conj until you get lightning bolt closer to 3% than 8%, and then Spellcasting alone until you get it closer to hungerless. Beyond that, I'd pick one or two aux skills to focus on, right now...

I guess you are right, I guess I'm comparing Sif/Veh/Kib, but no other god gives spell books at all.

Nevermind then.

While I like the idea of bending the demonic to ones will and summoning having backfire costs (hostile summons), I'd like to be able to play a game with non-evil summoning (and worship a good god for example). Right now, the books with the relevant spells "Book of Beasts" and "Book of...

Don't caste haste before going downstairs. Cast haste in situations where you need to be hasted. About the only times haste on downstairs is at all acceptable and not a pointless, slightly dangerous move (it gives glow, so if you need to re-cast it in dangerous areas after wasting time hasted in ea...

What rebthor said. I'd also be careful where you throw fire storm, as you can hit yourself if you aren't careful. I'd probably start the non-slime lair sub-branches and duck into elf 1-4. With firestorm active, you can kill just about anything that isn't really really fire resistant (Orb of Fire for...

I believe you can delete the bones files to kill all the ghosts locally if you wish. (At work so I can't look up the path).

"I've got no rMut, so pulling orbs of fire out for one-on-one is more dangerous, since it gives them more time to mess me up. Also- what do I do when I see one? Does firestorm penetrate enough to work well on them? Or should I fall back on orbs of destruction? ...should I be using haste + swift...

So, end of the road for this character. After powering through vaults and elf, getting to zot was easy. Zot 1-4 was pretty easy, but zot 5 was another story. I almost died like 4 times, one time escaping by a crazy teleport sequence when I got teleportis. A few lessons learned: 1) High level Fire St...

This guy won't die no matter how hard I try to kill him. Cleared Vaults 8 / Elf 5. I have 3 runes, is it time to dive to Zot? My resists suck, should I swap my +protect dagger for something with better resists? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. Donblas the Sorcerer (Deep Elf Fi...

Cleared through vaults 7 with this guy. I guess Shoals is next? I need two more runes and I hear slime is a branch to avoid. I have 11 spell levels open, unsure what to pickup. Summoning? I have haste/ blink/ controled teleport / flight for utility. I've also never gotten then far in the game, so I'...

Fire Storm > Nikola. Killed him before he could get a shot off. Revenge.

Got my first rune! It was the demon vault in swamp. Being super careful, firestorm, firestorm, firestorm, run cleared it. Shoals or Vault or facing Nikola going down? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. Donblas the Destroyer (Deep Elf Fire Elementalist) Turns: 65623, Time: 03:57:...

Here's my latest guy. I got lucky when I fell through that shaft (last night too tired to noticed I went down multiple floors). I have no interest in going back to floor 16 if I at all can avoid it, screw Nikola. Advice? Where to go? What skills to train up? Now that I have firestorm up, should I tu...

"It was a painful lesson, but it should have made clear that Nikola goes in the "Run first" category of uniques."

"Sigmand, Grinder, Nikola" are currently on that list for me. Any other obvious additions I should make?

"An enhancer staff is one handed, so no problems there. As for the casting penalty, see the learndb:"

TIL two things (1 handed not 2 and that info about shields). Thanks!

"I always wear a buckler as a caster as soon as you find one, 5 Shields is pretty easy to obtain, and the extra defensive layer is often a godsend, especially if you have low AC."

Can you wear a buckler while holding a staff? If you have 5 shields, does it give a casting penalty?

How useful is Dodging and Fighting for Cj based casters and does anybody have a good rule of thumb on how much XP one should dump into them as the game progresses? In my last game (https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4013) I had 9 levels of fighting and 14 levels of dodging and ...

I think you miss-read the morgue file mumra. Here is what happened: I went into floor 15 fully rested. I saw Aizul. I killed him and was brought to ~50 hp. I went into a corner and started to rest (mistake, should have gone to stairs) Nikola showed up. I fired a bolt of fire (mistake, should have st...

"You had enough MP for one cast of bolt of fire." Unless my second blast would have killed him, I don't see how this matters. I had x hit points, he killed me in two rounds. If I had enough MP to cast 5 bolt of fire but his second attack killed me, I'd still be just as dead (Though I admit...

I was 5 squares away from him when I died, and the last "turn" took off 23+8 = 31 damage. Scrolls of fog would have had the same possible problem (blurry vision) I was more worried about dying (due to confusion) than my stuff getting blown up. I was trying to play as defensibly as possible...

And now I'm dead. Aizul and Nikola both showed up on D15, one after another. I tried blinking via a scroll when I saw Nikola (and ran out of MP) and the blurry vision stopped me. Died in 2 turns. :( What could I have done differently? As soon as I killed Aizul I backed away and tried to rest. Even w...

"As a HE, why are you training Earth Magic? " For Fire Resistant enemies. "Rush Fire Storm" So are you suggesting I turn off Dodging and just rush Fire/Conj? I can pickup Summon Elemental, Mephetic Cloud and Summon Butterflies. "I'd do the Dungeon until you feel scared"...

I'm far from an expert but assuming you didn't pick up everything for the dump... I think you are carrying too many wands (3 wand of paralysis for example). Too much food (I normally go 3-4 rations and a few smaller bits) "a scroll of recharging" shouldn't be carried around in case it catc...

Attached is my HEFE, which just cleared Orc Mines. This is the furthest I've ever gone and would like some advice. This guy has been blessed by the RNG, with tons of books, 2 scrolls of acquire and good artifacts (and an early staff). - Any obvious spells I should have that I'm missing? Obviously wo...

*ducks*

Alright, alright, I apparently play Wz/Cj/Fi much better than Su/Ar.

"The backgrounds aren't balanced for all or even most species; I think most people agree that fighter is just weaker than gladiator (for example.)" Interesting, I always assumed that they were roughly balanced with obvious (Wanderer) exceptions. "you're going nemelex" Part of me ...

"Artificiers are supposed to be basically melee characters with a head start in evocation and some wands." If this is true, why would I want to play one as opposed to a Fighter (better equipment / skills)? The evocation skills are much less useful than an extra level of fighting. You are t...

While I have never made an individual game past clearing the mines, I've played many games through the "early game" (Before clearing Lair) and have a game design suggestion for the boards: I believe Summoner and Artificer have a disproportionally difficult early game due to a design proble...

Just for reference, rltiles is a subset of crawl-tiles.

See: http://code.google.com/p/crawl-tiles/

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