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Airwolf wrote:I'm sure I missed some, too.

How does the damage bonus from Statue Form interact with Short Blades? Would that give enough extra punch to cut down a high AC target?

My goals with this character were: I wanted to win with a high evasion, low GDR character, I wanted to win high evasion, low GDR with Uskayaw, and I wanted to win short blades without Trog and without branching into summoning. This was an experiment as much as a goal; I've largely ascended heavy arm...

Sprucery wrote:Blade Hands was in the Book of Changes already in ancient times.

It was. Thinking back, my memory of never finding Blade Hands was from a strong CeHu that wanted it for extended but never found it.

I had a room mate named Pikkle in 1996. Did you ever break an heirloom hammer looking for a stolen cat? Evocations is better for a transmuter than throwing, since so many forms can't throw. It wasn't me XD. In what sort of video games would one name himself Pikkle back in '96? I was Pikkle in World...

I'm playing a DGTm right now, and notice Blade Hands is in the starting spellbook, which it didn't used to be. Back in the day, Blade Hands was an end-game quality spell. Is it still? Is my "Zot weapon" right here in my starting spellbook? If so, I like the change. Blade Hands was always m...

Nice rings. I just won a MiFi of Okawaru without Haste the spell, but I did have a wand that I used while ascending. You don't need to have it, but it's a really good spell . IMO your halberd will need to grow up into a big boy's weapon before Depths -- a glaive or ideally a bardiche. Your rPois pla...

Hi friends! Happy to be playing this fun game again. Okawaru just gave my MiFi a Crystal Plate Armour, which LearnDB and the wiki give an Encumbrance Rating of 24. But inspecting the CPA in game shows the ER as only being 23. So... which is it? And then, how much strength do I need? (I assume I shou...

Roshnak wrote:Fedhas is the one god I haven't tried yet, both due to not knowing how to apply him to a character and thinking that he's very underpowered.
Clearly he's not UP, and I guess a merfolk would be optimal. I'll have to give him a try.

Not underpowered at all, but more importantly,

SUPER FUN GOD.

Psieye wrote:What Lv4 nuke? Static discharge is 3, lightning bolt is 5.

Not sure why I thought it was level 4

I just cannot stand the AE earlygame of "you have to keep running away with swiftness to get double-zap positions with shock/lightning bolt". Starting as a Wz, VM or Cj and then getting to Tornado is just as viable. IDK, it's pretty darn nice to have a level 4 nuke in your starting book. ...

This guy is my favorite.

you flipping won fifteen runes with an octopode gladiator o___o No words. No words at all. I am as appalled as I am impressed. Why not tell us about the game a little? What were the hardest parts and what parts were the most fun? With such an unusual and amazing character like this, you'll inevitab...

njvack wrote:As this is an advice thread, I'd say: treat everything you find in the Zot:5 vault with the utmost respect FOREVER.

Fixed that for you.

Tornado is NOT like Ice (or Fire) Storm. The awesomeness of Tornado lies in the fact that it keeps on killing things while you also are killing things in other ways. Those other ways are NOT orb of destruction. That said, Summon Shadow Creatures is the best Zot spell ever that you didn't spend XP to...

I often find the demonic rune on my very first pan level, and afterwards encounter many pan level vault layouts that typically contain the demonic rune -- if you haven't already gotten it. Your situation could certainly be explained by RNG, but are you sure you're clearing pan lord vaults? The level...

Fungus wrote:Though maybe that's just how melee Tomb is...

It is.

Dying of poison early on tends to be from a misplay. Early kobolds can be pulled into melee range by using corners and you can usually just shake off the 1 or 2 hits of poison... but 3 or 4 hits of poison from charging them can kill you. Also a lot of players waste their curing potions by sipping t...

Tornado on a beefy melee character is just as awesome as you were imagining, but TSO angels on a beefy melee character is also awesome and unfortunately they aren't compatible. I wouldn't regard the XP as wasted though; extended has so much XP that you've got to put it somewhere. With Air Magic so h...

Nice gloves! I've never used the pain brand before - how did you like it?

Congrats on your victory, it's all good if you had fun. Have you not found the staff of air during thw whole game? It would have been useful for boosting Chain Lightning/Tornado spellpower somewhat. Also, air magic school has the best spell for Tomb, namely Silence. Yes, resorting to melee when you...

What does that mean?

Code:: amulet "Mom Etway" {rMut rElec rPois Dex+2}

I can't believe someone successfully did 15 runes in Maxwell's. How did you handle close calls?

CBoE can still misfire at max evocations. Not often, but often enough that you'll want to carry a staff of channelling for backup. Try to use CBoE when you're above 1/2 mp and it'll work brilliantly almost every time. You'll be drowning in curing pots by the time you hit extended, so confusion isn't...

Gras on the win.

Where the morgue is stored locally will depend on what operating system you use.

Never tried this, but you may be able to copy-paste from a dump you select on the "High Scores" menu.

If you would have patiently killed Margery, she would've dropped some dragon armour for you.

BountyHunterSAx wrote:Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that shields of reflection can reflect damage without line-of-sight and through rows and rows of minions . Firestorm 6-16 deep dwarves. . . see what happens .

-AHMAD

Those aren't shields of reflection, it's Deep Dwarves invoking Yred's pain mirror.

Psieye wrote:Also, home of the Silver Star, aka Orb of Zin. At least you only face one of them in there.

And guaranteed potions of cure mutation!

Also a great source of Holy Wrath weapons for non-TSO worshippers.

Grimm wrote:Ironically?

Because you can't use 'em.

I think if you send him into Tm with the expectation of not being squishy, after having just won in Crystal Plate, he'll be sorely disappointed. Sure, Tm doesn't *end* squishy, if you gear it up for Blade Hands, but I recall spending much of the beginning of every Tm game running away in Spider Form.

Does anyone have experience with a Vampire of Jiyva? That seems like a very interesting combination of mechanics.

So it's hosted by BlueHost, not some decades-old broken down laptop plugged in under a table stealing Starbucks wifi. Unless they're the same thing...

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I definitely do that - especially with TrBe. Hydra? Berserk! Smash! I've never been disappointed losing a TrBe. My recent HEAE was primarily melee-ing well before he was prepared to, because GODDAMNIT HE WAS A BATTLE-MAGE. He wasn't a "ninja", but before he did a Zig, he couldn't kill a Pa...

stillcen wrote:having played my share of role playing games; it seems pole arms should have "reach". Is there a way to melee monsters 2 squares away with my spear?

Press 'v' to select a further square to attack.

Sorry to noob it up in here, but what needles to needle-stabbers use?

I don't like using LRD on tomb:1. You will have to fight a lot of greater mummies if you do that. I'd rather just fight the tomb:2 mummies. You should always skip the tomb:1 rim by random teleporting on tomb:2 (either before or after you kill the welcome crew, up to you) unless you want to fight a ...

Hopefully I'll have an opportunity to try it both ways.

Psieye wrote:If you can cast statue form, you probably can cast LRD at power 60+ to skip most of Tomb (uh, kill the Sphinx squad first) and go straight to Tomb:3. That's where noise management makes it easy to thin out the numbers.

I'll definitely try this next time.

Trolls and ogres and centaurs and minotaurs seemed a bit like one-trick ponies with very frustrating equipment restrictions. Techinially, no. But if you want to view it that way, it's a really good trick. Mind clarifying this for me? Their aptitudes make it a bit hard for me to imagine them doing m...

Statue put me in a couple of difficult situations, but it's good. Definitely worth keeping. And the blade is an eudemon blade from a daeva i killed. How was the tomb? I've never been able to do that place without summons. Have some really bad memories there... Tomb was, as ever (for me), the scarie...

I'm not sure how you can be unimpressed by blade hands and dragon form damage. In normal circumstances they dramatically outdamage basically any other weapon (with 20/20/20 stats and 27 fighting/weapon skill, dragon form deals more than twice as much damage per aut as a +6 triple sword of holy wrat...

I'm still progressing 10/15 runes with my grey DrMo. And to tell the truth, i wanted to make the asskicking combo you did, but decided to stick with Ash rather than going for Jyiva. Was rather unimpressed by bladehands. Was terribly disappointed by dragonform. And then i found a holy blade and drop...

15-Rune DrMo (Fedhas->Jiyva) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1261-g70e25bb (webtiles) character file. 10245995 Pikkle the Grand Master (level 27, 290/290 HPs) Began as a Mottled Draconian Monk on Dec 7, 2012. Was the Champion of Jiyva. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Dec 9, 2012! ...

But really, with a stash of 600 normal bolts plus all your branded ones, there is no way you're running out of ammo (except maybe if you go TSO later and then scum Pan for zigs but not in a "normal" 15-rune game) False. Very false. It really comes down to "do you do stuff besides cro...

A spy wrote:But really, with a stash of 600 normal bolts plus all your branded ones, there is no way you're running out of ammo (except maybe if you go TSO later and then scum Pan for zigs but not in a "normal" 15-rune game)

False. Very false.

Nobuharu wrote:Trolls and ogres and centaurs and minotaurs seemed a bit like one-trick ponies with very frustrating equipment restrictions.

Techinially, no. But if you want to view it that way, it's a really good trick.

minmay wrote:

Holy crap I just scared my cat laughing so hard.

Thanks all for the tips. I'm just now playing a HEAE that found a D:4 Jiyva altar and I'm going for it! I'll let y'all know how it goes. UPDATE: Died on a brutal D:9 staircase next to a Wyvern and a Komodo Dragon :( . Didn't get to see much of Jiyva (though I should have tried to Slimify the threat ...

"Fingers crossed this is !Curing."

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