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damerell wrote:For what it's worth, I've mostly got nagas home by spitting poison at everything.

"Mostly" is the problem here, i've had good experiences with them as well until that recent incident.

Welcome back, and thanks for the fun to read report! Finally a post on Tavern. I find it quite funny that the longest active streaks are literally 4 huge variety ones, then two streaks with 20+ felids and no other race even comes close. How do you list streaks? I had a look on the CAO homepage, and...

Well, long time no see, right? It's been over three years, and so much has changed since then. I've saved up some money and went on the longest vacation, then devoted a lot of time to playing and streaming Hearthstone Battlegrounds (which was ultimately a failure but at least i got into top 25 in my...

Welp, as you all probably know, my greatfelid run is complete now, and has in fact ended 3 months ago. Someone has made a reddit post about it back then and the crawl scoring page on CAO website has been displaying my streak the whole time too. Meanwhile, i've been procrastinating on making a report...

Not gonna lie, i'm already bored with Crawl again but gotta finally finish this run ASAP anyway. FeEE is actually a surprisingly solid (yet not recommended by the game) start: Sandblast deals a ton of damage for a level 1 spell and felid's speed is as good as always. However, i still got into big tr...

Next felid to play was FeAE which is a recommended start again. In offline test run, i tried to introduce more variety and worship a god not taken on the streak already. Ended up getting an early Dithmenos altar and trying him out. Despite Dith not being a new god in the slightest, i'm still not too...

Ouch. Being overconfident as a mummy should never be a thing.
You had a ring of rF+ in your pocket and an empty ring slot for some reason.

So, the calendar says it's June, this means it's time to play muh cats again! I've been postponing this FeIE character for a few reasons: ⋅ I don't like IE all that much despite the Tavern wisdom™ teaching us how good this background is. Would play FE over it every time assuming i got equ...

Amulet of Vitality not being great sounds very odd. Are you into amulets of faith?

That was an interesting read, thanks for putting in the effort despite it not being very efficient in terms of thankscumming. I was happy to see Fe above Mi even though i don't agree with that at all. Truly, felid is the master race. Does the whole "lategame is trivial" concept still hold ...

Did you notice the change of transmutations' damage to not depend on character's stats anymore? How big of a nerf to Chei is this?

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=success_rate wrote:Note that Intelligence stat affects spell success 1/6 as much as average spell skill, and Spellcasting skill affects spell success 1/4 as much as average spell skill.

Yes, it's barely relevant. I probably shouldn't be trying to train Int and Dex equally on melee cats.

Although it is an option to always autoexplore in statue form, which would probably be better if you're at 10% miscast, although you lose the automatic disengage (although it'd still be fast enough to end statue form and run away from a 10 speed monster anyways). I usually do keep statue form up wh...

Odd. I mean at 10% fail that's likely still a yellow miscast, which seems like it'd be high risk to use for an entire game. You only need about 1 more skill in trans/earth to bring that down to <5%, why not do it? Or train spellcasting a bit more if you want mana/to help other spells? You may also ...

So this is going back a bit, but any reason why the FeSu had 10% fail on statue form at the end? I'd think you would have taken that down somewhat by the end, did you really have that failure rate all game long or did you swap equipment or something which just makes it look like you had higher fail...

Magipi wrote:
ZoFy wrote:Vehumet seems to have a similar role for conjurers as Okawaru has for melee/ranged combatants

And this role is "being the fourth or fifth best option", I guess.

Elaborate please, otherwise you're going full minmay.

Where's the covfefe?!? I was too tired to actually finish this post yesterday. The most straightforward elementalist, FE, is checked off the list now. Once again, it was a deathless game, but oh boy, was it a tough one. The character had a nice and slow start until it got shafted from D:3 to D:6 . ...

This sounds like the start of a lightbulb joke but how many zombies does it take to kill an orb of fire?

I think FE is great for melee. Your best spell, sticky flame requires you to be in melee range anyway. So you might as well hit the dude a few times so it dies even faster. It is trading safety for turns and real-time which is bad while streaking IMHO. As Fe you don't have a reason to stay in melee...

Won a necromancer too, no deaths again. There was one crucial near-death experience at XL 4 when i was fighting Robin with friends and ended up having two mighted hobgoblins with slings two tiles away from me while being at 7 HP. I blind-quaffed a potion, got brilliance instead of curing but one of ...

Not bad - between lich form and the +6 ac ring, you almost had armor :) I could also cast Ozocubu's Armour for 10+ AC and have legit defences. That cat didn't even need to defend though. So, it's time for the dreaded Felid Summoner. I did some offline testing with the combo, tried to learn the enti...

Whoops, didn't realise i took an almost 2 week break after the last cat. Had some stuff to do IRL, was practicing the FeSu start and also wasn't looking forward to playing a mage character online. Not gonna lie, when FeNe popped up as a Nemelex's choice in the tournament, i was actually pretty tempt...

I can see why at least all-runing cats without the big 3 wands becomes a lot more dangerous. In my most recent 0.19 game, I don't think the recent changes would've made a difference in 3 runes, but all-runing cats without /hasting and /HW would feel a lot worse. You might know some late game tricks...

So, i got more interested in Crawl again and therefore decided to continue the greatfelid run. Over the past year, devs continued making their game more and more unwinnable, some of the strongest spells in the game (Haste and rMsl) are gone, and soon enough stable players will have to say goodbye to...

A bit of a wild guess here but OP might be unaware of the standard branch clearing order which goes approximately like this: Lair -> D:12 -> Orc -> D:15 -> S:3 -> maybe other S:3 -> maybe Elf:1-2 -> get one S rune -> Vaults:4 -> get second S rune -> maybe Crypt -> Depths:5 -> get three runes -> Zot ...

"I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter" — every orb run death.

Pfft... >dying in crawl.

2442 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You can exhale a cloud of poison. [potion of beneficial mutation] Finding a great weapon, armour or wand early on to get you to Lair happens from time to time but this might be the first time i got an early diesel mutation. That naga could kill any non-rPois monster pr...

Code:: _O - a potion of beneficial mutation A pair of antennae grows on your head! The helmet of Apathy {*Drain rF+ Int+6} falls away! _You feel drained. You feel fantastic!

Confusing Touch seems really powerful Shhhh, don't say that, aren't you afraid of the nerfhammer? It has already left felids without the Haste spell, high stealth modifier and Passage of Golubria in Zot/on the orb run. From my experience (halfway through a greatfelid run), Confusing Touch is one of...

There was a thread recently by someone who went through all backgrounds for felid race, it was insightful and helpful! Hey, that probably was me. To be fair, i've stopped right before the mage backgrounds because i'm not really sure on how much magery i should do (and got a bit tired of Crawl as we...

Good job. Let's show the world felid is a viable race.

Why? Playing 20 hours with easy caster instead of 9 hours is even more boring. "Speedrunning" GrBe is better IMHO I assumed he had spent too much time trying to play carefully/optimally when the combo didn't need it and found the games boring for that reason. That's what would happen to m...

Playing the same GrBe for 9—11 hours sounds quite boring indeed. An average player wins such a combo in 3—4. If you play slowly, you should consider combos which actually require you to pay attention.

Don't save enchant armour scrolls for GDA because if you can kill a gold dragon you should be strong enough to find more of those scrolls by scumming the Abyss or clearing half of a Ziggurat.

Also, bring black sheep back. I haven't seen those in years.

If you're asking "Can Xom do X?", the answer is likely "yes".

Be afraid of the first adder you meet.
The same goes for orc wizards/priests/warriors, gnolls with polearms and uniques, of course. In some cases, even D:1 humanoids with weapons and jackal packs. This list is not even complete.

But we already have a god of happenings, we call him Xom.

She's very good for that and lets you learn spells up to level 6 quite effortlessly but doesn't fit into the whole "mid and late game is meaningless" meme.

Even though i called FeEn relatively easy (because it is), i still almost managed to lose with this combo a few times. Shamefur dispray. It all started at D:4 when i snuck up to an ogre, stabbed him, barely missed the kill (i've been training exclusively UC and Stealth at that point) and got one-sho...

I'd train Invo to about 12 because Enter the Abyss doesn't reach a reliable success rate at 10 AFAIK. Banish also scales with Invo all the way as of recently, Corrupt should as well (at least the badwiki says so). Don't hesitate to use Corrupt on single problematic monsters like Mennas, Mara or iron...

As cool as the slime knight idea is, it's probably bad because having early loot/XP denied by jellies might leave characters underdeveloped. Though i have no idea why a guaranteed Jiyva altar near the Slime entrance isn't a thing already. You can't call Jiyva too good to have a guaranteed altar in a...

In what world does that remove player knowledge? Perhaps the one where it's considered good that people be forced to remember every little detail in a game specifically designed to hide stuff? Because you are no longer required to be familiar with your enemies For me personally, it would just save ...

It should probably get harder once i get to the mage backgrounds. People say mages have lower win rates than melee, right? They are probably not talking about quick low HP races though. But still, i have no experience with mages online. Also, watch me lose a FeSu to Ctrl-Q.

Oh, look. It's Ijyb. She's not wielding another ridiculous club and her armor seems normal, looks like easy experie- The acid burns! You die... Wait, didn't devs remove this? The only time i got wrecked by a high tier wand in the hands of an early monster (Ijyb with acid too) this year happened to ...

Well done! Wondering though, made a search and saw very few mentions of caustic shrikes in your morgues, so how do you deal with them? I consider them possibly the greatest threat in 3 rune games after the early game, for most characters I avoid them or lock them up in closed rooms or when in packs...

Dith is a good God for book background, especially anything with a low/mid lv beam spell you're going to spam a lot, like cj with mystic blast or ie with throw icicle. For jiyva, you should do fedhas > jyiva Sure, i'll consider Dith for those. You won't stop me from going full stealth with an Encha...

Curing and heal wounds got buffed significantly in terms of dealing with rot over the past two years. There's no way curing would restore only 1 max HP these days. If i understand the learndb correctly, those potions restore as much of the rotten health as they would restore regular HP.

Curing, if it wasn't obvious enough. I believe one potion would do the job.

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