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Wahaha wrote:I am one of the people who would test things if they were compiled for me.

I feel honored three people put me in their top 10. I won't let you down, especially you battalie! 7 walkerboh AWBW Rising 1868 2 12 16.67% Perfect, I need you to play no better and no worse than you are right now! 7 WalkerBoh AWBW Rising 3802 9 100 9.00% I told you I wouldn't let you down. :)

The bad news is that GDA is actually pretty awful. However, polying slugs into dragons for dragon hide in general can be nice, assuming you can handle the dragon.

1) If you don't have a fast way to kill fiends, don't go into extended. rN+++ with 2 hand weapon is good enough. Well, the typical scenario is the following: I am confidently strolling down Pandemonium and see a field at the edge of my line of sight. By the time I get to it, I usually get tormented...

I feel honored three people put me in their top 10. I won't let you down, especially you battalie!

Auto explore trail is one of my favorite options, why would you want it off? That's free useful info!

The way it's set now, I personally have no motivation to ever kill one of the pan/hell lords other than during the tournies for my 40 pts. This is precisely because the turns spent killing them lowers my score significantly more than killing them raises it, and the only reason I bother doing extende...

That is truly impressive. Too bad he didn't wait for the tourney to start, that'd be worth all the points.

Clearly that's what I'm doing wrong then.

Oh what's the difference between zot waltzing and ninjaing the orb? I was under the impression they were interchangeable.

Lately I've been ninja'ing the orb a lot instead of actually plowing through the lungs. It's nice for getting a bit more speed on high score games, or just downright avoiding threats on weaker characters. I successfully pulled it off on a few chars (SpCK^Xom, DrWr^Zin, DDFE^TSO, FeAK^Lucy) but have ...

I would make that switch 10 times out of 10. A +2/+12 exec axe is a ludicrously good weapon, and you have an excellent apt as Minotaur even after cross training is done.

I have done far less appealing switches at later levels and have never once regretted it.

It's very useful against the royal jelly, that's my most common use for it. Torment torment wand wand.

khalil wrote:The singing sword was fun, but there were objectively better choices everywhere. You shouldn't have to choose between playing effectively and having fun.

Sure you do. That's the entire premise behind playing as a felid or a summoner.

Ash is like the least newbie-friendly god in my opinion... In the part of the game where new players need the most help, ash does almost nothing for you.

Not gonna lie, scythe of curses was really really good the one time I found it (on a winning NaAM on a streak). Even though I was Oka, it was amazing. +13/+13 makes up for a lot, even on a scythe. As for your general idea, I don't think all unrandarts need to be good. Maybe you don't use the singing...

Or just don't turn your settings on to automate things you don't want automated...

You use lots of buffs, random teleport until you are close to the orb, pick up the orb, random teleport until you can escape. It's really not that hard. I've been doing this lately too. Only death was when tele brought me right into 5 orbs and a lich that summoned a shadow fiend right away. Worked ...

Lamia is one of the only uniques that I am truly terrified of and will never fight again. Giving something OOD and mesmerize is just downright cruel.

It's more that starting wiz spells give an early start on spell schools that are good for offense (fire, air, conj), in addition to being nice support spells. Necromancy provides charms.

Except not at all.

I certainly think of necromancy more as a support spell school than an offensive spell school. The most regularly useful necromancy spells for me are things like regen, DD, Borg, lichform. Outside of early pain/vamp drain I can't think of many games where I used any necromantic spells as a main form...

@minmay: I don't really understand how slightly tweaking starting skills and adding a starting weapon turns Necromancer from a good background to "so terrible it was removed"... Are you sure old death knight wasn't bad for other reasons?

Nowhere did he suggest we change the name from "Necromancer" to "War Mage". He was just suggesting we make it more of a warrior mage background (grouped with skald, warper, etc on the starting menu), rather than being a "pure" caster class. I agree that necromancers are...

On another site I frequent they set up a PayPal system that you could use to donate. No clue how hard it was to set up.

Anyways, probably worth considering! It's one thing to generously give time and effort for free to make crawl as great as it is, and quite another to also be financing it.

One time I found the Orb of Zot on D:1 or D:2.

Too bad it was surrounded by unbreakable transparent walls (and also was almost certainly a mimic). Cool vault though.

Wow, that's cheap in one sense but I didn't realize you're shelling out $1200/year for hosting costs just so we can all play for free online. Thank you neil and if you put up a tip jar, I'd throw some $$ in it. On that note, does crawl have some sort of "Donate Money" feature? I'd gladly ...

No I explored all but the end vault. I got marked while running from the end elves and died, then left. It will be terrible going back, so I probably won't.

Not sure how best to attach the dump but heres the link: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/WalkerBoh/WalkerBoh.txt Basically I took Chei as a joke because I still haven't won Chei and found him right away. As for surviving without dying, I found an early ring of invis and abused it. Plus playing sup...

Well I made it to lair:7 without dying even once (found Chei on d:2 at xl1), so that feels like a victory to me!

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