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Won! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11-b1-123-g87ac691 (webtiles) character file. 6010721 Lulero the Hellbinder (level 27, 238/260 HPs) Began as a Mummy Wizard on Sept 1, 2012. Was the Champion of Sif Muna. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Sept 15, 2012! The game lasted 4days 03:50:16 (3...

@galehar Yes it is too complicated. As I worked on it more, it kind of became obvious. I still like the idea of a pact as an initial order/purpose for the summoned creature that, once accomplished, frees it. I believe it can be used in interresting ways, to balance and add some flavor to the spells....

I first posted this on the wiki, then I realized a forum rule strongly hinted I should start here. I looked for a thread talking about summoning and posted a first draft here. But as I kept editing and adding stuff it got quite long and it really felt like I was hijacking the thread. So, here I am, ...

EDIT: Removed the proposal from the wiki, if the idea sounds good enough to be discussed further I'll make a dedicated thread and a wiki page. So, by all mean, please let me know whatever you think of it. EDIT 2: Moved it yet again . As I edited it and kept adding stuff it got quite long and felt li...

GDR is a percentage. This percentage means you will reduce incoming damages by that much. GDR Is simply a percentage of your AC I'm no expert and your answer confused me. I checked the wiki and shared. I can see your point (you were talking about the cap), and I'm sure you understand mine as well.

I'd follow crate's advice on this one. And 6k gold is about 1k5 more than what you need for max piety with Zin, so you are fine.

To donate pray at Zin's altar, it will spend half your gold. Do it twice (to donate 4k5) and wait a few hundred turns to kick in.

Good luck and let us know

Maybe I got it wrong but to me GDR isn't a percentage of your AC. However I do agree it's the better option right now. xAC simply means you reduce 0-x damages. GDR% reduces incomming melee damages but caps at half your AC. The two aren't cumulative. No matter the figures: ⋅ GDR% is a lot m...

Congratulations!

Very nice weapon and armor indeed, and those rings deserve a mention too, both of them.

Reading through the morgue file I can see you experimented a lot, which is good. Doing crypt early CAN be fine, but you don't have to and it's not that rare to cross path with Khufu, an ancient lich or a curse toe. I guess you explored the level entirely before going down to the crypts so avoiding K...

Not only that, at high piety it also provides:
Cure Bad Mutations: Removes a randomly selected bad mutation. (8 MP, 200 Food, 15 Piety)

4 ziggurats now, didn't clear them. But it does start to look silly. http://pastebin.com/WqUsYF0V The best part is I don't need dragons anymore to have fun in Pandemonium. And I'm not done yet. I want to be able to melee things too now (already 50AC). I have a ton of scrolls saved and access to all ...

Do you have a morgue file to share? I'm curious to know what banished you. Also I just noticed you had blurry vision, that's a very bad one too... Especially in Zot as it not only make it hard to read scrolls but also prevents passive trap detection. I had a very similar run with the one and only Mi...

I mean can I outrun the baddies, or the spawning will be so strong that it's better to go slowly but steady? No to both ;) You will outrun most of them but not all, but it's a never ending stream of monsters so you have to run. You should be fine though. AC53, EV34, swiftness, teleportation & d...

Very nice! Congratulations on those ascensions and the 3 wins streak. This is way more impressive to me than some 15 runners, I feel once you are able to clear Zot:5 the game is pretty much yours to lose unless you play without spoilers or want to clear a ziggurat. I'm sure you won't have any real t...

If you stick with Okawaru, don't forget heroism boosts all your non-magic skills (includes invo & evo) by 5 points up to 27, so you maxes at 22 when using it. Yes, Traps & doors to 10 is enough, but it's not really needed before the realm of Zot. Shield depends on what kind you use, check th...

As Abominae said, no matter what weapon you go for, you have enough points in the skill. Best way to improve your offense right now is to invest into shield. No need of that much traps & doors that early either. When you have enough armor to lessen the EV penalty from armor, you might want to in...

Only Zot:5 and hell left now. Still no clarity. Planning to grind pan/zigs for it, I can use the exp anyway. But it's not very exciting. EDIT: On floor 17 of a second ziggurat. Still no clarity while I found all the other kinds of amulet in randart version already, boots of running and other stuff. ...

At this point you will need some luck. For this specific encounter I'd do as you said, except I wouldn't swift & run but channel instead. When you get teleported next you want mana this time. And if teleport doesn't come, you have a decent position to fight those. Then I'd look for stairs to go ...

Heh, thank you for pointing this out. Anyway, still alive and it's looking like it could be my first 15 runes win. http://pastebin.com/LsjmB7ix Missing all of zot:1-5, slime and all of hell (but vestibule). Been trying to skill in order to be able to cast reliably while wearing the pearl dragon armo...

Did elves, D:27, Crypt and Vaults:8. http://pastebin.com/wvv3yKqF The upgrades I got were all on elf:3, didn't get much since then but for another 3 scrolls of acquirement. I now have 6 of them saved and still not sure what to do with them. By the end of crypt summon dragon was at <20% fail. If pati...

Yeah, it is a small halo, and that's very much like what I saw. There is no uniq who scares me as a Mu Wz more than this one. Haste-like speed, weapon of holy wrath and silence: One wrong step and I'm dead. From the answers here I decided I was indeed overreacting and gave the eels another try. Only...

@BlackSheep Mennas doesn't have a halo? Was it removed recently? I met him a couple of times already with other chars and checked in the offline client arena, he had one. Insulation isn't that expensive, I have some amnesia left and worship Sif Muna if need be (and she already gifted me all I needed...

Won! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11-b1-123-g87ac691 (webtiles) character file. 6010721 Lulero the Hellbinder (level 27, 238/260 HPs) Began as a Mummy Wizard on Sept 1, 2012. Was the Champion of Sif Muna. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Sept 15, 2012! The game lasted 4days 03:50:16 (3...

Hi there :) I feel like a real newb even though I started at 0.6 and ascended twice (MuWz and MiFi). I still die to Sigmund time to time though (as a matter of fact, I just did). I have yet to go deeper in hell than vestibule and see what the spider nest looks like. One of my hobbies is game design ...

I did try Tomb and it was indeed a pain. The only time I ever went there before was with a mummy and I didn't realise how hard it is. Made it to floor 3, cleared some and decided to follow thecolorofthatsky's advice. I'm glad I did it though as I learnt a lot for next games. However the cost was pre...

Alright, more news! I cleared Vautls:8 and then finally decided to convert to Zin. I was a bit short on piety, and headed slime pit. Didn't know the vault here couldn't have gold, and a very badly timed wrath of Okawaru did cost me a Sanctuary (15 piety). Still I got a couple of nice rings down ther...

I'm no expert but I share your hate of those stone giants and, although to a lesser extend, yaktaurs. With a melee character I always run away to the closest corner when I see one at the edge of my LoS.

Still alive! http://pastebin.com/cZsKhNZ7 I took option C, keep going at least for a bit. 1) D:23 to D:27 I switched to the eveningstar that I enchanted up to +6 (soon to be +7) and started heading down. As thecolorofthatsky said -30% hps isn't that bad. I feel the lack of AC from deformed body hurt...

About weapons, I got those: +2, -2 demon whip of Yfia {god gift, vamp, Stealth+} +2, +2 eveningstar of venom {god gift} +6, +6 hammer of the Jester {Pain, +Blink Str+2 Int+3} +5, +7 morning star of the Tooth {pierce, Stealth-} Why, oh why, it had to be vamp on that demon whip? Or why did I pick M&am...

EDIT: Not updated but I managed to go a bit further and fix some of the issues, see my next posts. EDIT 2: Won! After dealing a while with the crippling, eventualy switched to Zin to clear the mutations and to TSO to do crypts, a bit of tomb, vestibule and Zot. See other posts for more details. Hell...

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Re: CiP: MuWz, 11/15 runes

Re: DiP: Pact-Based Summoning (reform)

DiP: Pact-Based Summoning (reform)

Re: Summoning

Re: +8 AC or +8% guaranteed damage reduction?

Re: [CIP] MiBe, everything went horribly wrong in Zot

Re: +8 AC or +8% guaranteed damage reduction?

Re: CIP: MiFi of Okawaru (and the Orb of Zot within my grasp

Re: YASD: MiFi of Okawaru

Re: YASD: MiFi of Okawaru

Re: CiP: MuWz, 11/15 runes, scared of Hells

Re: YASD: MiFi of Okawaru

Re: CIP: MiFi of Okawaru (and the Orb of Zot within my grasp

Re: YAVP: 24 3 runers! One of every species!

Re: CIP: MiFi of Okawaru

Re: CIP: MiFi of Okawaru

Re: CiP: MuWz, nothing new, got some questions

Re: CIP: MuWz is supposed to be easy mode

Re: CiP: MuWz, nothing new, got some questions

Re: CiP: MuWz, nothing new, got some questions

Re: CiP: MuWz, nothing new, got some questions

Re: CiP: MuWz, nothing new, got some questions

CiP -> YAVP: MuWz, 15 runes, completed a zig

Re: Thank you!

Re: CiP: your average MiFi of Okawaru, but crippled

Re: CiP: your average MiFi of Okawaru, but crippled

Re: YASD: TrTm of Chei

Re: CiP: your average MiFi of Okawaru, but crippled

Re: CiP: your average MiFi of Okawaru, but crippled

CiP: your average MiFi of Okawaru, but crippled, EDIT: YAVP