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There is demonspawn mutation that causes spilled blood to erupt in flames. What determines whatever blood is spilled with attack? Do certain weapon types like swords spill more blood (I've got impression that this is the case, but I'm not exactly sure). Or do you just want to cause high damage or at...

Personally I'd probably go for Air magic, with Summon Lightning Spire --> Ball Lightning --> Chain Lightning. The new Chain Lightning is very good, and at least with Sif you can use it even before you can properly 'cast' it. I'd consider Necromancy very questionable on this kind of build. Sure, Dea...

I've been playing as Demon spawn Poison mage, I've got sif muna as god and paralizing spellcasting mutation, which makes me pretty solid caster. Poison magic and poking enemies with rapier when they get paralyzed seems to work very well with me so far, but I wonder what magic I should branch towards...

That's one daamn bullshit ring if I've ever seen one.

Code:: ring "Forget-Me-Not" {rPois rF+++ rN+++ MP+9 Int-4}

I also haven't played for a while and tomb has changed quite a bit. The staircases back a level generally aren't under you anymore, which prevents staircase dancing and makes the tomb quite a bit more dangerous, though I think they've tuned down the amount of mummies in order to compensate for this....

Nice character! Altough it triggers me how you haven't got any spells. I would go for Orb. Going Zig's pure melee build is suicide IMO. I use invocations to basically replace spellcasting because Demonspawn have great aptitude for invocations (and slightly bad aptitudes for everything else). I wasn...

Notable event Notes Turn | Place | Note -------+----------+------------------------------------------- 0 | D:1 | siprus the Demonspawn Gladiator began the quest for the | Orb. 0 | D:1 | Reached XP level 1. HP: 16/16 MP: 1/1 108 | D:1 | Gained mutation: You regenerate a little health from kills. | [d...

Here is the current character file Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22.1-2-g9c5b331383 (webtiles) character file. siprus the End of an Era (Demonspawn Gladiator) Turns: 75096, Time: 04:46:09 HP: 241/241 (249) AC: 55 Str: 24 XL: 27 MP: 36/36 EV: 21 Int: 20 God: Qazlal [******] Gold: 11004 SH: 40 De...

This is one of my strongest character ever. I probably Should have posted this here a bit earlier, since it has had pretty interesting run. At First I was fencer and quite on early dungeon I found a ring of evasion +4. With such high evasion i decided to take Qazlal as my god of choice as Repel miss...

Giving potions and scrolls their own inventory is actually one of the best suggestions I've heard about how to fix the inventory system.

Jiyva gives you lots of free AC muts and also makes you have deformed body (via pseudopods) a large portion of the time. For light armour this is a net plus, for plate or so this is a net minus (defensively, anyway). EV is probably generally better than AC against the things that actually scare you...

I like Jiyva stat shuffle and think it should stay mostly as-is, though possibly for characters who actually want str this isn't true (there are other reasons those characters don't want Jiyva anyway, though). Making it into an active ability sounds bad, better to just remove it. What reasons would...

Although that does eliminate the "permenent alteration to your body" thing that jiyva has going on Well... my experience with Jiyva is that my mutation set changes like quicksand, so it's more of a "constant change" theme to me. My suspicion is that algorithm-based stat shufflin...

W...why would you be increasing strength on a transmuter in the first place? Because your damage in dragon form and statue form is based on strength. I could accept if jiyva had buffed my dexterity then i could have gone with blade hands and natural dodging (at that point, dragon form decreased my ...

If you are transmuter who has been pumping up your strength, and start worshiping jiyva, jiyva starts switching your strength into intelligence! Really messing up character. Of course you can work around this by timing starting worshiping jiyva your level up, and putting point in strength, but I thi...

Moose wrote:Would seem like she is referring to this one: https://www.gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/s ... y.des#L786

Yes it was that one. I guess it is possible that I was just unlucky with the loot generation rolls.

Btw he not she.

The only change that matters is you can't walk around with battlesphere up any more, and even if you tried there's barely any benefit since you'd be casting it only 2 or so steps out of LOS of the monster you attack with it. This attitude towards charms has confused me for a while. Okay, it's great...

There is one bailey which basically just contains lot's of orcs and altar of Beogh in middle. Usually mini branches have abundance of rewards :/ but this one had only one glowing scale mail (and another chain one that some orc was wearing) I guess before you could convert to beogh the beogh altar at...

Btw should this god gift ammunition? It would make this god more viable for ranged characters. (Or if you don't want to make it too similar to okawaru and trog, you could be able to bless ammunition to give it brand) If ammunition gifting is given to this god, I think this god shouldn't support thro...

What would you want to have instead of Trog? You can't worship The Shining One, so I'm not sure what god could be worth Trog's wrath. (Trog gives magic resistance, regeneration and allies all of which are useful late game)

Godless trove should have chance to spawn equipment god's altar. With loot you can't access unless you start worshiping him. (if that suggestion ever goes through)

If i'm training ice magic and there was not crosstraining it might be a good idea to train fire magic to 10-20 and learn bolt of fire to over come ice magics weaknesses...

As you probably know, I am not a fan of all the Cheibriados dissing, but daggaz reply made me think of a fun tavern game: List an item that you think is a game-winner (for you, not for the best Crawl player in the world). How many of us can pull of a near-sure win when finding +6 rElec running boot...

I'm not sure if this is actually a good summary of the issues with djinn, but my understanding was that: 1: their gimmicks combined with certain gods made for very easy games 2: otherwise their early game was usually significantly harder then other races and their late game usually significantly ea...

You had game where you didn't get anti-magic with Trog? I generally get anti-magic weapon for relevant weapon category of weapon type i'm using. Though i have to admit i don't remember getting demonweapons from him, but that might be just because i'm using axes too often with him.

Btw isn't chaos Xom's god brand? Though i guess Xom wouldn't mind other god enchanting his weapon if it created more randomness, though this randomness had to be for the good and for the bad. (maybe high chance for good effects, but rare very very bad effects on self) Btw maybe trying to enchant bra...

The orb just makes noise when you apport it/grab it and holding it halves your stealth, it doesn't mark you and if you read ?tele before you grab it it won't even delay the teleport. Ah ok, have just got orb once. I still kind of feel that having lot of orbs of fire on the level when you grab the o...

With 70 armor the only problem I can image you having in zot, is not having enough resistances. (especially fire resistance and mutation resistance are important) And having good enough weapon to kill orbs quickly.

The big thing with Fedhas is that you don't really need to get past 1* (maybe 2*, since sunlight is pretty good) piety for a while. Mushrooms are the big draw of Fedhas early on, and they're at 1*. So during the phase where mushrooms are good and your character isn't, staying at 1* or 2* is fine, w...

for the most part when a monster dies you get a percentage of the xp directly corresponding to the percentage of damage done by you to the monster, as opposed to done by other sources (allies and banishment are "50% you" for this purpose). so you will not get full xp for a monster that ha...

Few notes. The chopping corpses isn't really necessary for carnivores, before engorged becomes hungry all the food would have rotten away. We could just increase amount carnivores can eat so instead of chunks they store satiation. This way you could just eat corpses directly when you need food. Also...

Hmm... Sound quite interesting. I think this god is one of those god you generally shouldn't take so you can enchant your weapon easily and then change for the shining one. I think penance should be quite severe, like removing lot of enchantment levels from weapons enchanted with this god abilities.

From the point of view of a player who wants to increase their chances of winning, Ash is one of the worst gods in the game because he doesn't help your character at all until mid-lair at best, at which point the hardest part of the game is done with. Gods like Ash and TSO might have their place in...

The orb just makes noise when you apport it/grab it and holding it halves your stealth, it doesn't mark you and if you read ?tele before you grab it it won't even delay the teleport. Ah ok, have just got orb once. I still kind of feel that having lot of orbs of fire on the level when you grab the o...

At anyskill level dagger is worst weapon. If we don't take account for addative brand. 1. no it's not. at 0 skill, clubs and many large weapons are worse against most enemies. daggers are usually better than short swords or cutlasses at 10 skill, at least if they are not +0. 2. well it turns out th...

crate wrote:with en i would basically always suggest doing the simplest thing: don't kill them at all

Doesn't getting the orb mark you? at least for the zot level. Being marked with tons of fire orbs around sound very dangerous.

So i was fighting fannar, and made suicide by freezing himself to death. Do I gain any xp when monster kills himself?

A little clarity: 1. Nausea's removal didn't change the corpse generation chance (It changed the amount of nutrition gained from eating chunks that might have made you nauseated in the past) 2. 'p'raying will turn corpses into toadstools, sometimes turn zombies into skeletons, and occasionally dest...

Siprus, you know that we are talking about recent trunk changes, right? There are no more random curse scrolls, also remove curse scrolls are scarcer. Have you noticed my main objection? 5 remove curse scrolls is something you might get and might not. Can you imagine Trog giving piety only for book...

I don't play Fedhas, but from what I've read: a) Fedhas is one of the few gods where you don't lose piety from inactivity (so it makes sense piety gain would be a bit slower as a balance) b) Praying can also destroy corpse-type monsters for piety gain (zombies & ghouls; in the early levels zomb...

I almost forget ashenzari's ability to take remove curse scrolls as sacrifice. You should have pleanty of scrolls so sacrificing, 5 remove curse scrolls should give you ability to gain piety. (not that hard to come by. Ashenzari giving you single curse weapon scroll at baptism though, would allow yo...

Uh, daggers already get to mindelay faster than other weapons (except quickblades): http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Weapon_Speed . And since their base delay is lower, you are hitting faster the entire time you're working down to mindelay too. Obiviously they reach the mindelay faster than most weapons...

I've been trying some octopode build and deciding that jiyva is the god i wish to worship i decided to worship god which doesn't have dangerous wrath, but gives you boost early game. I feel that rising piety is bit hard with Fedhas, before orcish mines, with low drop rate of corpses since nausea rem...

It's good that racial weapons were removed. As it turns out some new players didn't use demon trident because they already had a trident and were not Ds. So probably demon weapons should be renamed also. people do everything. just because small fraction of % does something stupid doesn't mean that ...

I think racial equipment added nice flavor to the game. Bonuses weren't strong enough to make them default stuff you'd want, but enough to differ them from other equipment's.

Maybe give Ashenzari once a game ability to give you 3 scrolls of curse armor, 2 scrolls of curse jewelry or (1 scroll of curse weapon and scroll of remove curse) or give Ashenzari once per game ability to curse anything on yourself (or curse all armor, hand and jewelry slots with you having ability...

Btw what about making daggers develop to minimum delay faster than other weapons. This in addition to stabbing this would give branded dagger niche as early game weapons for casters. Who don't want to invest much in weapon skill, but still benefit from being able to hack down weak opponents. I think...

Wraith card, does it flat out drain one of your experience level and some of your experience, or is it just draining effect which you'll gain back?

Anyway it's rare enough to not really matter, especially considering little investment you've got in your character in dungeon one. (unless you find golden dragon armor with ogre or similar kind of goodies, but you know what they say easy come easy go.)

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