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This is main reason why our experience differ IMHO. Fireball is not a trivial spell to use, it cannot be targeted at walls so player should create a situation when adjacent monster is hurt but the player is not. Freeze is closer to melee being a range 1 spell. Yes, positioning matters most for mele...

I would not use DE (a decidedly niche race) as an example for your argument. It would be much more convincing to use a species that actually attempts to function like most other species in Crawl.

Ghost Moth.

I'm just glad someone else knows Populous exists.

How is this proposal any different from giving Humans an extra "god" to worship? TheDefiniteArticle brings up this question multiple times (albeit, in not the kindest fashion), and I have yet to see a convincing argument refuting that. That is literally what this proposal is trying to acom...

Minotuars -2 Transmutation aptitude is overshadowed by the fact all the other skills you train have great apts. The experience necessary to get Blade Hands online is a decent chunk, but it is nothing limiting. If you wanted to train it, I would probably pump it after I got better defenses and a bit ...

Blade Hands does a ton of damage. To be honest, I would have never rolled a Tm without the intent of using Spider Form because that is why you pick Tm. Again, Blade Hands does a ton of damage, and I'm not trying to minimize that; however, plain UC does enough damage at every point in the game if you...

I was not considering demon whips because I read that they have a Str/Dex weight of 20%, while morningstars have 80%, and since I have much more Str than Dex, I thought it would be better to go with the morningstar. I have stashed a +1 +0 demon whip of freezing and a vampiric demon whip. About even...

Are 'Sparse Dust Clouds' intended to do nothing? They cause no damage, are not displaced by the PC, and seem to have zero effect at the moment.

In depths/vaults:5 - without anything else giving you rF+? I mean I know this guy is a caster, but taking a couple of fireballs to the face hurts a surprising lot. I would argue a character with these defensive (almost 200 HP, 37 AC, 22 EV) would have zero problems facing monsters using fire elemen...

Hooves also have 1 more damage than Talons at level three (10 vs 9). Also, PbP's effect you actually care about is repeated (and slightly abusable) Might/Agility effects. Well, at least on a DS that would be happy to be monstrous. The synergy between PbP, Manashield, and Augmentation is really neat,...

Monstrous--
Claws
Horns
Hooves

Powered By Pain
Mana Shield / Powered By Death

Robust

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I'm aiming for skill 15, so I can use shields (not bucklers). From my experience (and I use shields too much), the breakpoint of 15 is only really relevant as a stopping point, not a strict goal. I regularly stop training Shields (while wearing a normal shield) at 8-12 to pump other skills, especia...

+ If using short blades ... Also just be more willing to avoid fighting certain high HP enemies that can hit hard. This should be revised to high AC. HP isn't nearly as close to a limiting factor to SB damage than AC is. I'm also of the opinion that pretty much all stab enabling stuff outside of In...

1) When experience elsewhere is more important than killing things better. This pretty much goes for all weapons too, especially those with exceedingly high minimum delay breakpoints. 2) I don't ever train a ranged launcher as a "secondary weapon". I'm of the opinion that there are almost ...

There is a lot going on here. That is my critique of this species: it falls into the trap of trying to fit too many mechanics into one species (imo). Let me list the things you are attempting to introduce: 1) The largest species in the game. 2) A plant species. 3) A species that cannot wear any body...

It's the worst god overall, but Sandman's point of it not changing most of the Naga's battles is true. Chei's con of crippling speed is significantly limited since the Naga is already painfully slow. All the strengths of the naga & cheibriados for the price of what you'd be stuck with anyways. ...

Robes, Dragon Armours, and Troll Leather Armour (and Hides). However, Troll Leather Armour does not provide Trolls with additional regeneration (unless that was changed at some point). And Hats and Cloaks.

It's super interesting that you are highly offended by these 'personal insults and harassment,' yet this thread and multiple posts of yours are some of the worst offenses of this I have seen to date on these forums. I'm of the opinion your reactions are a larger problem than the occasional condescen...

I keep hearing the same arguments about why Naga of Chei is bad, but I don't see it. The thing is, if you're playing a naga, you're not going to be able to run away from anything no matter what, which is by far the worst thing about the species. See, this is where you are wrong. A Naga without Chei...

I don't know who you are talking about.

I think the biggest problem with this guide is it implies that Okawaru followers should be spell-less and prioritize for evokables regardless of anything the dungeon generated at all. It also implies that evokables and learning spells are somehow mutually exclusive, which is just not true at all. Th...

I don't find anything fun about a monster flashing when I attack it in melee. I wouldn't find using Freeze any more fun if it flashed the tile blue upon usage. I don't like your definition of fun because it doesn't fit my definition of fun. This is an example of a really bad argument.

This thread seems to go beyond something...

In cases like Quickblades and Whips, I will eventually train a bit more than minimum delay (anywhere from 14-18 skill). I would never train any of the weapons that require 20+ skill past minimum delay. Outside of niche cases like xxBe or incredible aptitudes, I don't think it is really worth train p...

Seeing as how Ely + some invocations makes it very easy to get to Jiyva, and Jiyva is not made *less* powerful by having trained invocations, saying that Ely is useless due to reliance on invocations is really quite off track. Yeah, you're completely correct when you say that (especially given that...

You can also worship Elyvilon or TSO and convert, though those gods want invocations and Jiyva doesn't. I forgot about TSO & Ely. Ely is pretty useless due to reliance on Invocations, but at least TSO will give you a halo for free. You would also switch from TSO to Jiyva around the time TSO's b...

I could actually see that by now. We were very conservative with god access back when Jiyva was added. I once wondered about something stronger than the current situation but still weaker than your proposal: a guaranteed Jiyva altar on Slime:1. (Or any other range including 1 and excluding 6.) What...

Now, if I only played DeCj's then sure, wild magic is good. But considering that most characters aren't DeCj's, and are in fact primarily melee characters (remember, the game revolves around melee) in medium or heavier armor, who train just enough charms to get haste, just enough tloc for phase shi...

+1 against super heavy armour on Jiyva. Jiyva's stat shuffling has been improved over time, but this is one area it is still absolutely terrible. I have ran into the same issue of Jiyva tanking dexterity in favor of ridiculous amounts of Str multiple times. Otherwise, the mechanic works quite well. ...

This might be a stupid question, but how will Nemelex win the game for you? I ask because I recently splatted an SpEn of Nemelex in V:5 and your comment makes me feel like I probably wasn't using him correctly. What I mean by those gods "win the game for you" is that they give you consist...

If you want to win--and you don't know how to do that--Yredelemnul is the best god to do that with. Like Nemelex & Evy, Yred is a god that will win the game for you. Unlike Evy, he doesn't require learning anything new about the game to use (E.G. hunger/pacification rules becoming a relevant fac...

You could have it check spell success on each swing. If the casting fails, the buff is removed (perhaps with some sort of small miscast effect). Allow the spell to be turned off in the magic menu and also remove the buff on unwield.

Congrats!

(Pssst. All of you are absolutely wasting your time trying to get Sandman25 to see why you are correct.)

My biggest issue with this proposal is the fact that it would be much easier to give Su a spell similar to this. There are a couple of different ideas on the dev wiki for choice summoning spells to function in a manner very similar to this proposal. This is solely my opinion, but Su is an incredibly...

Water levels have always sucked, and I have no idea why. Also, the drowning themes in Sonic games always gave me massive anxiety.

This is how I use jumping vs normal speed monster (possibly with ranged attack) who noticed me: 1) I see a monster and retreat behind a corner. You just did this way better if you had Boots of Running equipped. Especially if the monster is at full LoS and has a ranged attack. Or a higher speed mons...

That's exactly why running does not help much vs normal speed monsters. Actually, that is exactly why running does help. If you cannot see this, this argument is going to go nowhere. I mean, I understand this argument is already going to go nowhere, I've been here before, but here goes anyway. If t...

Running will always be better than Jumping for an extremely simple reason: In like 99% of all monster encounters, the proper response is to first move away from your target.

This is a bit off topic, but it still relates to petrifaction. If you use Zin's Vitalisation when you are going to become petrified, does it stop you from becoming fully petrified?

I don't know how common knowledge this is, but shafting from Chaos can also shaft you multiple floors at once. I've been shafted down two levels multiple times, and I've even been shafted three floors. It was bad enough when I thought I just couldn't use Chaos on V:4, S:4, E:2, Z:4, etc etc. Chaos b...

Shadow Creatures isn't just great in Zot. Vaults and especially Depths both have great monster sets for using Shadow Creatures. In Depths, you'll regularly get Dragons, Ettins, Fire/Stone/Frost Giants, Tentacled Monstrosities, Very Ugly Things, and pretty much any pack you can think of (Naga/Yaktaur...

Just acquired this in early Lair:
C - the cursed +10,+10 cutlass "Soasky" (weapon) {elec, Contam +Blink +Rage +Inv +Fly rF+ rN+ Stlth--}

Good thing I only had 6 points in Maces.

This is working great for me. Thanks a bunch!

Tavern arguments seem to only have two modes of discourse: "Oh...I can't refute your point? Well, here is some out of context quote by you!!" and "Oh...You proved me wrong? Well, let's ignore that. Can you disprove this completely different point that isn't relevant to our original ar...

I got that dancing weapon to "almost destroyed" with 4 bolts. Now I know those were extremely lucky shots but there was no way to see that in the game. I like games where I can make INFORMED decisions, where I get excited with lucky rolls (46 out of 1-48) or unlucky rolls (2 out of 1-48)....

Y'know, it doesn't take numbers to tell you that you should quit attacking something you're not killing. I mean, yes, you proved it is a really bad idea to just keep attacking something you can't kill, but that is a terrible idea regardless. Especially when the target your facing continuously drains...

Aaaaand as predicted: I got Abyss'd by an Ogre Mage and died. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1254-g249fea6 (tiles) character file. 103424 Mox the Slicer (level 16, -41/159 HPs) Began as a Naga Chaos Knight on Dec 20, 2013. Was a Plaything of Xom. Killed from afar by a deep elf sorcerer (50...

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