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"Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" Morphed to death by killer clowns in ZOT1. Anyway never been so close to a victory with a DD. Last time I was in Zot (with a mummy fighter if I remember well) I wasn't so scared by clowns. Shall learn to respect them (while I mangle them with...

thank you for you hints :-) it worked pretty well so far. I trained EVO and INV and started spamming Mak minor destruction. In the meantime I bought an artifact plate armor I forgot was getting dust on D6 or D7 and it revealed to be a +8 plate armor with various resistances. Long story short: i dest...

Hi everybody, I don't think I've ever gone so deep with a Deep Dwarf, they usually die to my hands a lot earlier. I've done the full dungeon, Orc, Lair and I'm heading to Lair branches. I've started swap but I've found a depressing change of pace as soon as I've stepped in. Monsters hits a lot deadl...

thank you, sounds like the way I should go

EDIT: always like that, 30 seconds after an answer on the forum I die horribly.
I should stop asking for advices

Clawed to death by some undead summons.

Hi everybody, I like the skeleton but its innate magic shield is kinda annoying for a mage. So I picked Ice thinking I could ice shield me and sustain less damage. So far it worked. Ive cleared dungeon, lair, orc, shoal and serpent. Now I should be aiming for Vault 1-4. I have a high death count on ...

thank you both. Unfortunately I died to a dead Tesla, he somehow killed me with a bouncing bolt while already dead.
Game is sad.

Hi Everybody, after a hiatus of a year, more or less, I've decided to jump back on the dear DCSS and what a better start than a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist? Well maybe a minotaur warrior, but anyway. First of all, the dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.24-a0-639-gb70a11d811 (webtiles) character...

I did it!!!!! Yayyyy Thanks everybody, this is my first online win, without your help I don't think I'd be able to do it :) Wu Jian is done, bye bye Wu Jian, never again :) And here is the morgue! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23-a0-171-g5ae17c6 (webtiles) character file. 1467167 torrenera the ...

I'm down in Zot 4 and I have this level layout where draconian summoners are sorrounded by (impenetrable?) walls and keeps summoning stuff:

https://imgur.com/a/i6wHRsZ

how am I supposed to kill them? Shall I ignore 'em?

EDIT: answer: wand of digging

and Vault is a memory! :) I was too afraid of going rogue on the level so I stairdanced ALL the monsters besides a couple of dragons :) It worked just fine. The heaven clouds of Wu made the difference when some m*fkers blocked the stairs, but all in all Shoal has been a more dangerous place. Now I'm...

thank you, not that I've never defeated Vault5, but every time seems like first, is so tough!
It was so obvious, swap the rings!

m.

Well well well, Depths and in particular Elf has been a success! Finally the RNG has started to be nice and this is the situation so far: from zero resistances to RF+++ :) Now Vault 5, if the demonspawn survive it Zot will be a walk in the park. For Vault 5: better to use the prot +5 ring or switch ...

thanks, that was the kind of reply I was begging for :-)

Will do!
cheers,
m.

UPDATE! I'm incredibly still alive (thanks to your hints). I've managed to clear spider nest, I've ventured in the Vault clearing 1-4 (level 5 scares me too much, I'm sure I'll die somehow) and I've digged into the 3 levels of the crypt (a breeze, almost, a vampire knight was very close to end my jo...

first of all thanks a lot! Dammit, I'm used with Troll unarmed and I went full shields especially for the Shoals that is usually a tomb for my poor toons. Well now it's done so I guess I'll have to stick with my board, let's hope at least I'll find a good one. Wu Jin do not use Invo as far as I've s...

Hi Everybody, I've had a very bad luck with mutations so far, with horn3 as my best random gift. Meh. But nonetheless a bit of luck has brought me to Shoal rune and 35 AC. I guess I've not deeply understood how Wu Jian works, and it happear very week to me compared to - for example - Oka. Next stop ...

thanks - as always - meoow ^^

Edit: died to a spiny frog. Summer Sadness. No, not the wonderful russian movie but a simple Dg that struggles to survive to the harshness of the Dungeon. Well, to be honest, I'm not really *struggling* but being my first post lair Dg I just wanted to check with you, pro-guys, what should be my next...

well not five minutes but some hours later Vault 5 has a new tombstone.
Thanks anyway for the good strat :-)

thanks guys, sometime I realize that I need some sort of couching session from you guys :D :D :D As always thanks a lot, I'll follow your advice, I feel more confident on heavy armour so I'll do whatever possibile to wear that GDS and be able to cast at least vamp touch. (that said, its fairly usual...

Hi everybody, my best DD so far, never had the chance to arrive to Vault with one of those derros. I think it's all because I'm abusing the Vile Clutch. Once removed my DD will start dying at L1 or even earlier :) Beside a very good ring and a nice leather armour I had not much luck with the RNG, bu...

Hi, I'm googling this since 1 hr, cannot find a way to change the resolution to which DCSS offline starts with. Old forum messages says to alter tile_options.txt file but apparently this file is gone. I've messed up with init adding tile_window_width = -150 tile_window_height = -150 but it seems not...

tought exactly the same thing.

damn I hate this game

Siegurt wrote:
Elf is a trap, its' dangerous, and the rewards are rarely worth your time once you can clear it with little risk (there are a few exceptions where you can clear it especially easily, but you don't fit into any of those categories)

For my future runs: what are these exceptions? ^^

Hi guys, as always thanks a lot to all of you. Yes, I have this thing with hunger. I've always had (despite my noobness, I'm playing DCSS since 0.6 :-|). I am one of those who take Kiku with Troll because "you never know I might run out of food when I am in Zot". Said that yes, I have to u...

Died of stupidity. Hi everybody, I really don't know why, but this draconian ice elementalist looks very very weak: I had to skip Saint Roka, was unable to damage him (not kill, I wasnt doing pretty much anything to him with cold bolt...). Had to skip Spiders, Arachna was nearly killing me 2-3 times...

so true.

dammit the STEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) You are absolutely right, I'll learn dragon form! Edit: nothing to do, Abyss killed thir poor felid :( To be honest I've had issues doing Elf2 and moved to Vault and it wasn't easier: each fight was a bloodbath, my HP always running out, my 38 EV seemed not to pro...

After some other kitties (a notable FeNe that died orribly) my EE's succeeded in obtaining the Statue Form!!! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21.1-1-g345015f (webtiles) character file. torrenera the Spry (Felid Earth Elementalist) Turns: 36197, Time: 01:44:16 Health: 66/66 AC: 3 Str: 4 XL: 14 Nex...

thanks guys!
the poor kitty died (different times...) days ago, but I was curious nonetheless on how to approach game with a purrrrr.
I'll retry soon

Thanks again.

Update: I got blade hands, ice form and invisibility. I think I'm going to delete some earth spells and go the hexes + blade hands, could that be doable?

edit: no statue nor dragon

just ice form and some hexes, clouds etc (indeed a lot of books, but no transmutation...).

Hi Everybody, I wanted to try something strange and I randomed a char. It went out a wonderful Felid and for the first time in my DCSS history I went so deep with a cat to reach the post Lair. But without further ado, here is the dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-322-g60b3cfd (webtiles)...

thanks again <3 :-)

thanks as always!

(you like the double sword then?)

Hi Everybody, new year, new DCSS toon to die horribly! This Demonspawn mutations are not very good, claws and protective blood on my opinion sucks, but apparently he has been lucky to be able to finish Lair, Orc, Dungeon and Spider Nest. This is the morgue: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-4...

what do you mean with "bail"?

neverming i died to something silly after killing TRJ.
I go back playing sudoku.

Hi everybody, I thought in the past that Qazlal makes things harder more and more you approache to the endgame but apparently I was wrong. Even with the terribile noise sorrounding me, I had no real issues going through all the dungeon and even clearing Zot was not a big deal. And I don't think I've...

truth is I was steamrolling the game, no need to memorize any other spell, everything in the damn snake pit was succumbing from my fire-exploding blood, my elec short sword, my spined skin, my poison-res flesh and Iron fucking shot. It's just I'm too damn stupid at this game and I died to my stupidn...

I had zero necromancy, it was kinda hard to take spells from there...

died in the most stupid way on earth to Vasha or whatever is her name in the foookin Snake Pit. He really doesn't deserved an end like this.
I wanna cry.
I'll remember this powerful Ds as one of the best cambion that ever walked my digital DCSS world. Hail to the daemon!

the perfect combo this game sometimes (some - times) do: I have the resistance from poison, fire blood, can walk into flame clouds, got ignite poison, doesn't it looks poetic? A perfect chiseled character! Also named short sword of ele for poison resistant enemies! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0...

Hi, first of all thanks to both of you for your suggestions. Re: crystal plate I see it like an end game item, if I wear it now I don't think I have enought strenght to properly use it. Maybe later, maybe with other items. Re: dagger and trident, yes good call, I think I'll go this way. Re: shield, ...

Hi Everybody, here I am again. I've tried for the first time the new Gnoll and I have to say it's a blast! It's like I'm playing a new game: now everything the dungeon presents to me can be done. I have infinite possibilities inside the limits of the low all around skills. I'm having a lot of fun an...

yes I read this at the time. I guess it was the fire wheel you see wandering in the fire when you cast firestorm.
Fact is that it took me a lot of time to kill the OOF and they malmutated me so bad

it's just DEFE (and a lucky game): I was able to cast fire storm pretty soon and everything melt down (besides OOF: I remembered I switched from Vehumet to Zin in order to cleanse all the malmutation I got from them :-)). As you can see from all my posts here, I suck so bad with any other combinatio...

thanks for the hints. I love Draconians but I guess I'm not yet ready to play them (maybe I'll never will, if I remember correcly I play DCSS since 0.6...). I've lost a game while trying to 15 runes with DEFE, and he was a powerhouse, I was spamming firestorm so much that I got annoyed and lost to b...

I was looking for a weapon cause so far I've had only iron shot as a high level spell and rule n.1 I've learned with DCSS is that you should train skills that are good with the things you have now and not skill good for what you can have in an hypotetical future. But I guess you're not wrong, I'm un...

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