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I knew I was blessed the moment I set foot into the dungeon. I started with a book of Necromancy and 5.0 skill in Necromancy. Basically, Pain was killing everything with ease. My luck just went through the roof on D:2 when I found a staff of death. At that point, I became super cautious because I kn...

I had a DsAr with raging momentum - found a whip of venom as my first item, zapped three puffs of flame to kill Menkaure, 1 random zap bolt of cold + 1 fireball to kill Sigmund, found a PEARL DRAGON ARMOUR next to the Temple on D:6, sac'd food items and got a deck of wonders. Then I wielded Sigmund'...

that's really a nice win, how did you manage your slow leveling and skill gain? That has always turned me off of the demonspawn race. Honestly, -1 aptitudes is nothing. If you've played with mummies as much as I have, you'll realize that even -2 aptitudes, although painful, is generally fast enough...

Deimos wrote:
Woops! Sorry, wasn't aware of that terminology. Used to a certain other game where a RoR is a ring of regeneration. Will keep that in mind

DotA.

Continuing on the topic of armour, I've noticed that although I can wear armour with strength at the 3xEVP level, my Evasion penalty continues to decrease as my strength further increases. What is the minimum amount of strength needed to offset ALL penalties, thus leaving you with the pure EVP of th...

Playing dumb is using Slimify on an OgAs and dying in 3 hits before realizing that Mennas is neither living nor undead.

What are the specifics for the bonuses received by player Vampires to vampiric weapons?

That means that it's only worth hitting the enemy once, and switching to a higher damage weapon for a few turns before hitting again?

Berserk KoBe + Constricted by Naga Warrior + 2/112 HP left = literally nothing you can do except attack, but you're not strong enough to kill the naga in one more hit.

How are post endgame Vampires supposed to heal? I know there's some methods, like stabbing, Vampiric Draining, etc. but besides these very few methods, is there no way? I remember I was getting stuck fairly early on (Swamp, level 17) with an extremely powerful Vampire who couldn't advance further be...

I've found Labyrinths to have become significantly harder recently. The Minotaur hits hard - much harder than an Orc Warlord, although not quite as sturdy. I've had experiences where the Minotaur 2HKO'd an otherwise extremely powerful character who can tab through the dungeon. Once, the Minotaur pic...

It's like Zot 1-4 only with sooooooooo many more enemies. Tiamat is very very dangerous, but will fall to Summoned Orbs of Fire. Hm, why does everyone seem to say that Shadow Creatures summons OOFs? Shadow Creatures only summons normal monsters, not out of depth monsters. I'm pretty sure that all t...

If you're trying to all rune, then I would recommend switching to TSO. Pick up a demon whip somewhere and then bless that into a blessed scourge, which will deal more damage in the Hells and Pan than your spiked flail. Whoa, if that character is strength based (minotaur?) then using an evening star...

I find it best to just focus nothing but Unarmed until level 3 when you actually memorize Spider Form. Depending on your aptitudes and stats at this point, your failure rate could be anywhere from 38% - 72%. I usually then train pure Transmutations until I'm around 47% failure, then resume Unarmed. ...

Congratulations on finding Maxwell's - I've never found it yet. Let's see - training up necromancy to a high enough amount to make pain powerful requires a massive amount of experience, especially with negative aptitudes. Furthermore, this necromancy skill will never be used for another purpose, so ...

I've never taken a Chei character to the post endgame, but I can imagine that it would be extremely difficult. Pan levels and regular Hell levels shouldn't be too bad with semi-controlled blinks. However, I can imagine that you would have a lot of difficulty on Hell:7 levels because all of your dama...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:Also, Khufu is little more than a dangerous sack of HP without his greater mummies around to spam torment.

What enemy in crawl is not "little more than a dangerous sack of HP." Besides, he has torment too.

Code:: You whack the ooze! You burn the ooze. You kick the ooze, but do no damage. The ooze is severely wounded.

You're quite strong.

Also watch out for Draconian shifters. Getting byssed is a pain in the ass, so switch out for lots of MR. Also, you really want see invisible for ghost moths, which can really ruin your day if you're playing a caster. They can even be annoying if you're a non-caster as you could suddenly lose access...

Playing a NaMo, sitting in the Lair at level 12. I'm following Xom and I have an amazing - AMAZING - mutation set. Only a couple of bad mutations, and about 8 good mutations. I was originally going to do my standard Xom --> Jiyva swap, but I don't want to lose these mutations (also the Jiyva altar m...

If I'm on D:4 and have M&F at level 6 and I am told that I have become a monstrous Demonspawn, is it worth switching over to UC?

Mennas with 28 EV and a large shield will avoid every Slimify attack (is he even considered living?!). And he will drop your 160 HP 15/29/0 Ogre to 0 HP in 5 turns.

AGAIN, lost a character to the new Abyss where it would have survived the old one. Gets me every time, I've never escaped from the Abyss ever since it changed. A lesson learned in this game as well: Slimify is NOT a 100% get-out-of-jail-free card. If you were depending on slimes and you miss your ne...

It's actually a custom basetype: +3/8/130%.

Hey guys, I finally got a Mummy Arcane Marksman going after many, many tries (yes, I love challenges). I've been going pretty well up to this point on my venom weapons, and I had a fantastic moment where I was sitting at 4 HP with a spear-throwing gnoll sargeant and vanilla gnoll chasing me, but I t...

Slouch: ... The cost of 8 piety is often regained immediately if you kill multiple targets in such a case. I haven't noticed this. Almost every time I use Slouch, Chei starts reducing the support of my attributes (every 10 piety is -1 aptitude). I've used 3-4 Slouches at the Dire Elephant Lair endi...

Since the walls and everything change positions every single turn, sometimes you can let yourself get surrounded on every side by walls (even steel ones!), and believe it or not, this is a fantastic opportunity to rest up if you were dangerously harmed while on the run from baddies everywhere. I've...

After tens of games, I finally got a really good MuMo going. A MuMo of Nemelex after Lair and Orc on D:15 with a possible rF++++ (that's five sources!) and four sources of SInv. Tabbing his way through literally everything. Then I got banished by Sonja and promptly died because the new Abyss is a ni...

Climb back up.

I believe stasis works as well. Start eating mutagenic chunks.

Titanic slime creatures don't split even in wide open space, and, if you don't have any source of blinking, the one turn you take to cast Swiftness and escape is the one turn that you will get hit for over 100 damage.

A lot of power for humans comes from gods. But what about Demigods? A heavy-armour fighter can't worship Okawaru so it has to rely purely on floor loot, which can really, REALLY screw over a character. Similarly, for a spellcaster, they aren't guaranteed any books at all beyond the starting book, wh...

Q: Does constriction happen more often with faster attack delay/action times? (for example, use a quick or speed blade to get constriction, or swap jewellery while constricting an enemy)? edit: this seems to work, and perhaps be abusive. I don't know if it lets you constrict more often. Constrictio...

Utterly useless garbage. Whatever. I'm strong enough with heal wounds. Meant to say "without." And I ended up dying on the orb run! Even after surviving a one turn move in Zot:5 that resulted in a double-torment from a summoned Fiend with a Ghost Moth staring at me, so I was 14 HP and 0 m...

Generally speaking, species is a much smaller contributor to success than background. Backgrounds range from wildly overpowered to chaos knight, while species tend to range from vanilla to quirky. If you pick a power background suitable for your species and learn the quirks of your species' gamepla...

Kiku and Nemelex are good choices for almost every character. Vehumet of course is a great option.

Another thing I've noticed is that after the early game, I hardly use tactical consumables anymore - potions of heal wounds and might just sit around my inventory, and I only very rarely use scrolls of teleportation or blinking. It almost seems useless to carry around so many items when I hardly use...

Bought my wands of TP and hasting. Acquired wand. Got polymorph other (which I had already identified). Acquired wand. Got cold (which I had already identified). Acquired wand. Got a CROOKED BONE WAND which I, with heart racing, promptly identified. Turned out to be invisibility. Utterly useless gar...

To the OP: That really was a very unfortunate, hardly preventable death. Paralysis as a Hell Effect is extremely rare and a single occurrence at the wrong time can easily result in death. As for your mana problems, I've only taken melee characters to the post-endgame but I would think that there are...

I haven't checked in shops for ID scrolls, but there should be some. I have 3 potions of cure mutation so not having rMut isn't the worst thing in the world. I used 11 potions of heal wounds to enter the trove and I have none left. I guess I'll try to acquire wand to get heal wounds.

Hey guys, Looking for some advice here. I have an OpEE with THREE scrolls of acquirement ready to be used. I've just entered Zot feeling pretty confident but I want more confidence. I entered a trove earlier hoping for some good equipment but it turned out to be a weapon trove. I got NOTHING useful ...

If you're worried about wand identification, just use a scroll of identify on it. You should have plenty lying around. If you're specializing in staves, Evocations can be worth training, but chances are you're going for axes and if so, you should just stick with axes. Evocations in general requires ...

Good stuff that enemies can't use like ?acuiqrement, ?enchantments, !cure mut and staff like that can be left on the ground anywhere. Equipment should go in Lair:2 or Vestibule. I never use Temple because I don't usually find the need to drop stuff by the time I get there, and Lair:2 is much more co...

Perfect Zot equip.

crate wrote:
sir_laser wrote:Any tips on how to deal w/ Mara-

Run.

Gianozzolo wrote:Headed back to Z:5 and started the ascension, and then I seriously shat my pants

Pretty intense game I must say. Congrats on the first win!

Something I did not know: when making a brand permanent, a vorpalise weapon scroll also causes a spell effect around you depending on the weapon's brand. So ozocubu's refrigeration for freezing aura, toxic radiance for poison weapon, and an effect like a scroll of immolation for fire brand. Does si...

About the STR effect on bow damage, it seems as though there is an optimal level of strength at each level of enchantment, which is weird... for example, with the +5 longbow, +5 arrows and 10 skill, 15 STR seems to give more damage than 16 STR. Is that supposed to happen?

Did 0.11 just crash? Lost a promising OpFE... EDIT: Upon trying to start a new 0.11 game, it says: write error while saving: No space left on device Hit any key to exit... What's up with that? Pressing (P)lay now! again gives: /bin/crawl-git-launcher.sh: line 95: cannot create temp file for here doc...

KoboldLord wrote:... you can brand [bows] with holy wrath even though you can't normally apply melee brands to launchers.

Is this exclusive to bows?

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