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You have 11 RC, so wear Tuna and slaying, and swap to Bluc when needed.

IMB + Battlesphere does a lot of damage. As long as your defenses are pretty good, you don't need any other source of damage to win the game (though it could be helpful). If this were my character I would immediately work on getting about 15 more levels of dodging and 10 more levels of fighting.

Eyesburn wrote:You can get Iskenderun's Mystic Blast and/or Iron Shot for fire resistant monsters, later on you can add Orb of Destruction.

In my opinion, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast is much better than those other two for this character.

what I do for UC characters is I select armour without ever caring about the UC-specific penalties, because the UC-specific penalties are complicated and rarely actually change your armour decision Agreed - I'd pick armor based on what armor is best. But let's say you get some amazing yet heavy pla...

TheDefiniteArticle wrote:Also no one would ever ever play this just because resting would make it unendurably boring.

I assumed that taking an action would just end the turn, so the game would play as normal except with a turn timer (in which case, o and 5 and such would make many turns happen instantaneously like normal).

I doubt that anyone is seriously considering this, but if so: skipping the turn (like pressing s) sounds like a much more reasonable result of missing the timer. And the timer would ideally be adjustable as an option (perhaps in rcfile or something), with 9 seconds probably suitable as the default.

Following the best advice ever will help a lot.

Perhaps we could make the player's normal movement speed a non-integer number (for example, 9.5 or 9.8), that way you are never the same speed as an enemy?

Sandman25 wrote:
archaeo wrote:Maybe I'm confused, but what does the slaying ring have to do with the choice of armour (and thus the AC/EV bonus) here?

People suggested to wear chain armour in order to free a slot for slaying.

I think and_into and I already pointed out how that is not a good suggestion...

XuaXua wrote:What about the GDR and optimal Armour skill investment?

PDA has higher base AC than chain mail, which means that it has higher GDR (not that it matters much) and gets more bonus AC from armour skill. There is no magic number for training armour skill.

rF+ does absolutely nothing against most monsters (because most monsters don't have any fire damage), and for the few that do, that ring is all you need to get the job done. I would wear the PDA and slaying rings, and ring swap when the resist is needed.

If you have the blink spell, it is optimal to cast it whenever you put on an unidentified amulet for the first time, to see if it is stasis.

I'm officially dropping out of this contest. Sorry to go, especially as I seemed to be overall ranking well, but with my schedule it was tough to make time for it to begin with and now pretty much impossible. Big thanks to walkerboh and sandman, you guys made this fun for me while it lasted

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Good point; as soon as I resumed play Veh offered me OoD, and I have but one spell level and one Amnesia scroll available. I'm also not sure what to forget out of my current spells; I don't use Dazzling Spray or Meph Cloud much, but I'm aware they could be very helpful in some situations. Perhaps F...

Potions first, that's sure Then jewelery, but I try to auto-ID a lot of rings/amulets : ⋅ wear it for a long time (sustencance) ⋅ wand of frost/flame on myself (rC/rF) ⋅ quaff !para or walk in tele trap on known level (stasis) ⋅ quaff !confusion (clarity) &sd...

So, I have a few questions. Is DG a good choice if my intention is to be as powerful as possible for extended? Any particularly good backgrounds? I'm thinking IE might help to overcome my early game weakness. How should I advance my stats? Last game I shot for a balance between dex and int, but I'm...

TeshiAlair wrote:Why does Searing Ray look so good and is never satisfying?

so it's that kind of thread...again

1. Mention GDR on armours. There is still no indication to a new player that a +1 Robe is worse than a +0 leather armour. First of all I think a +1 robe is usually better than a +0 leather armour...second of all as long as it states somewhere that base armour rating offers extra protection against ...

What I like about turn count: 1) Without it, your odds of winning would be improved by consumable juggling (dropping them when you have more than 2 or 3 and running back to them when you have less). 2) Certain things are pretty much always optimal even when turncount is considered (fully resting, fu...

Not saying this is a good idea, but if I had animate dead, I would try to survive with the help of mah zombehs. Otherwise probably convert. I think that's a good idea, but unfortunately I did not get animate dead in my first gift book. But you have animate skeleton, is that not good enough? You nee...

You could be like me and stupidly wield a qstaff to ID when there was no need to. Of course it was distortion. XL13 at full piety with Kiku, I unwield instead of converting it to pain and land in abyss next to a Lugonu altar. What would you do? Not saying this is a good idea, but if I had animate d...

I'm fine with the systems the way it is. If something is to change to make it more fair to all, then one option would be to just give points for 3 rune victory and bonus achievements and don't give extra points for the in-game score (unless that happens to be a bonus one week). What I like about al...

Enchant your auxiliary armor now, hoarding your EA scrolls has hurt you!

Will Evolution mutation trigger when I quaff potion of mutation? And if it does would I have more chances to get good mutation? There is a chance that evolution will trigger from quaffing a potion of mutation, but it is quite unlikely. If it does happen, then yes, the mutations you get from evoluti...

Scrolls b - 2 scrolls labeled SAISSY NEO j - 2 scrolls labeled ABA RUOKUCAPPA k - 6 scrolls of remove curse o - a scroll labeled CROPAJ XELUW p - 12 scrolls of identify q - 5 scrolls of teleportation s - a scroll labeled ETREIB LAKALER u - a scroll labeled ZIETHO FUOP v - a scroll labeled KLUH UXAR...

heavy armor generally is better protection than light armor. The catch is that it hurts your spell success.

Now what should I ask for with this scroll of acquirement I just read? Armour is a pretty good bet. Although If you don't have a wand of HW, those are really good and you might get one from wand acquirement. In my opinion book is a bad idea, especially in this case as you really don't need more spe...

Stealth skill also makes it harder for enemies out of LOS to track you (this is regardless of your armour as far as I know), so the first few nearly-free-anyway levels are probably worth getting.

That looks about right, but I do have some petty disagreements: dodging started later than I would've done, as with invocations (with okawaru I pick up 1-2 levels of invo as soon as I reach *). Also I pretty much never train a melee weapon skill on a *Hu of okawaru, to me it doesn't feel like any he...

Even the first dump of Sandman's KoHu is a lot later than XL 8, so might not be much help. I think good early-game KoHu advice would be: Train crossbows and dodging, turn off all other skills. Use a melee weapon to kill popcorn, but always explore with your crossbow wielded. Do not use a shield or b...

Actually I was responding to this They are good to *use* on spellcasters, because those are the things that usually extra actions are ones that you don't want them taking I think that the action-stopping aspect is pretty useless on spellcaster enemies, since I really don't mind if they walk towards ...

I always assumed that turns that enemies spend struggling out of a net are turns that they would have spent walking or hitting you.

Why do people quaff brilliance/might/agility before leaving dungeon? I know it makes sense during tournaments but otherwise it does nothing except makes it more difficult to determine how powerful the character really was (AC/EV/spell failure chance/spell power/spell hunger). Maybe it just feels go...

But I AM misreading those tables, right? There's no way that someone with max polearms skills only lands a hit 6% more often than someone with 0. That's six percentage points of accuracy, since the accuracy goes from 44% to 50%. But going from 44 hits out of 100 to 50 hits out of 100 increases your...

Does this mean your first deck has a 10% chance to be Wonders regardless of your actions? To me that sounds like a really concerning change; getting Wonders as your first deck is extremely bad since you have a useless deck in the part of the game where you really need a useful deck, and not only tha...

duvessa wrote:1.13% flaming, 1.13% freezing

I have a feeling that decimal is not in the right place, is it?

but just think of the explicit benefits to parties!

2.5 extra levels in Stealth can allow to put exclusion on Erolcha, for example. At the price of potentially allowing Erolcha to put 3 casts of banishment on you before you can do shit about it, for example. For a non-Chei naga or a non-naga Chei worshipper in that situation, it would be at most two...

We could simply have the cap be modified directly by MP aptitude. So say the cap is 40: with a +10% mp aptitude, the cap becomes 44; with a +20% mp aptitude, the cap becomes 48; etc. But of course, removing the cap would be even simpler, imo there's no reason for it.

Great, I look forward to traveling back to around D:5 for an EW3 on every single Trog game. edit: I see you didn't mention "altar" anywhere in your post, so hopefully you meant it to go through, say, the ability menu (which I really wish all the god final gifts did).

I feel kind of cheated ! Went downstairs, Pickel and his band all around, up with them, use all consommables, dead :( http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/mopl/morgue-mopl-20140226-100414.txt If I'm reading it correctly, you had an identified potion of speed that you could have drunk to haste yours...

Or grant a passive 5% boost to spell power for conj. Or something akin to that. 5% ._. Even enhancers give something like 50%... you're complaining that he doesn't givve you a 50% bonus to damage? Spellpower is a term used in-game (well, in the manual I think) to represent the potency at which you ...

In all honesty though, if a monster is approaching you where the difference between avoiding or taking the first hit actually makes a real difference regarding the final outcome of the fight, you should be executing one of your various escape options. Not juggling jewelry. There are situations wher...

I see, I should have tried the setting before criticizing it. But unless this going to be the default setting in the next release, butchering will remain a pain in the ass for players who stick to defaults. And when possible, isn't it better to remove a superfluous action than automate it?

confirm_butcher = never Well, this setting is suboptimal play because if you stand on a stack of corpses and know that you aren't going to eat all of them, you waste piety (even with gods that don't care about corpses, piety decay means you lose piety from the time spent unnecessarily butchering). ...

Surely a lot of people would prefer to see eating removed outright, but there are also many who feel that that would be too drastic a change. This proposal is not drastic, as you are still eating the flesh of your enemies, just in a more convenient way. There may be some complaints about flavour, si...

I have to agree with Xom that this was pretty hilarious: Message History Ouch! The goblin barely misses you. Ouch! The goblin hits you but does no damage. Ouch! The goblin hits you with an elven dagger of chaos. You feel yourself slow down. The goblin freezes you. Press: ? - help, v - describe, . - ...

Shield of the Alchemist. Because the Alchemist had two hats, one of which was reinforced with a metal frame (causing it to attract electricity and therefore lose it's rElec property) so that it could be held with the off-hand and used to block attacks.

I am 99% sure that is not a carpenter.

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