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And I died escaping from Tartarus:7 with all 15 runes. Man, that was dumb -- I had blinking scrolls, could cast controlled blink, and could escape to the abyss. Instead I decided to try to finish off a shadow fiend, and died to a 59-damage bolt of cold (3d27 - 0-45 AC). Slogging through tomb and he...

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Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 4 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 2 . Week 4: NaNe (Naga Necromancer) Tier I Bonus: Enter Elf before entering a rune branch. Tier II Bonus: Reach Depths:5 before entering a rune branch. *Entering the Abyss (for example, b...

I would advise sticking with TSO at this point and heading to Pan/Hells. If your MP starts getting too low (<15), you might consider just going and winning, as Zot will take a lot of recharges with TSO. In general, I would recommend not switching from Makh for extended. Makh's hp regen is still good...

At around 35k turns, though including clearing a depths floor and making one trip back to orc. still no sign of TRJ, Sojobo, or Eustachio. Piety is down to ***, almost all from decay (used exit 3-4 times). I'd say don't bother continuing to explore, it seems like a bug to me if you haven't found it...

If it's in the game, it should have a purpose!

Alternatively, if it doesn't have a purpose, it shouldn't be in the game.

10k turns seems a bit ridiculous, it seems like a bug. I was under the impression that you are guaranteed to find banished uniques on Abyss:1 - as you mentioned, I found TRJ almost immediately. Can anyone familiar with the source confirm or deny this?

Abusing teleport is my favorite strategy, though not the safest way. I hit haste, agility, resistance, brilliance, whatever spell buffs I have, then tele port until I'm in a lung and run into apport range from there. Tele again if you land in a bad situation (too many tough dudes, ghost moth or mot...

You will never regret using Eos. The only reason you wouldn't use Eos is because you found a demon whip of elec with similar enchants. Everything else in your inventory is trash.

Right so all it does is puzzle new players once and then it's a slightly more inconvenient way to get free loot.

Right but Qazlal is not turning you into a draconian (as duvessa hinted at), he is giving you a defensive brand. So making it consistent with pre-existing defensive brands makes more sense.

Edit: Though I agree that the AC is underwhelming unless you already have the other resists covered.

The AC+3 is actually more consistent. Protection brand on armour (only possible for shields) is +3 AC. Maybe you could argue that it should be +5 since that's what the protection brand gives on a weapon, but to that I would reply that the protection brand should probably always give 3AC regardless o...

It worked, thank you. Really bad vault indeed. It's a puzzle that can be solved. :p The only problem with it is having no idea how much damage Tornado actually does to you, so you're reluctant to actually try out the solution even if you do solve the puzzle (which was my reaction to the one time I ...

There have been a few hints at reasons - descriptions of the current situation such as "stupid", "annoying", "awkward and bad", and a description of using corpse animation to get around the limitation, but nobody has given a reason why doors being locked open by corpse...

That's really impressive, good job!

[14:58:02] WalkerBoh ??diamond obelisk[2 [14:58:03] Sequell diamond obelisk[2/2]: You can just step onto the edge of the tornado and wait for 3.0 turns (including the time taken for the step) and then step off onto the loot. Repeat to get out.

The beat goes on.

Abusing teleport is my favorite strategy, though not the safest way. I hit haste, agility, resistance, brilliance, whatever spell buffs I have, then tele port until I'm in a lung and run into apport range from there. Tele again if you land in a bad situation (too many tough dudes, ghost moth or moth...

What are you?

Take a shot every time you splat. Can be a vicious cycle.

It's even worse than that, I'm afraid.

Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 3 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 2 . Week 3: OgAK (Ogre Abyssal Knight) Tier I Bonus: Kill any unique while in the Abyss. Tier II Bonus: Kill the royal jelly while in the Abyss. *Note: For the purpose of bonuses, "b...

My finest crawl moment involved a gallon of 2% milk, a blow torch, 3 Belgian trapeze artists, and the reincarnation of King Tut himself. I'll let you put it together.

For a troll of Chei, large rocks are your friend against hydras.

confuse is not big reason for mummy early game deaths, where they are very very fragile, so i have no idea why you people keep obsessing over, making it sound like some huge flaw that needs immediate fixing. Mummies are actually not that fragile right away. If you're the type of player who doesn't ...

Easy mode: Makh, Ely, Trog
Tough but doable: Jiyva, TSO
Incredibly hard: Everyone else.

I won one game as a DD^Chei in which I used a vamp hand axe all game. But yeah, it's not easy.

Well I hear it has a conveniently sized and shaped hole in it....

Statue form already gives you "slow", so...

Sure, you're in. You still have a couple of days to do the Week 1 challenge, too, if you have the free time to do it.

Also, I think we got the kinks worked out of the scoring sheet tonight. So hopefully it should work without any errors now. Thanks for having patience while we fixed it up.

The power curve isn't really a problem though... Except for the unavoidable confusion deaths.

Pff, spells are for nerds. I prefer to tear my enemies limb from limb, thank you very much. I used to blink/run for the edges, but I've found stairdancing to actually be more reliably safer since the V:5 changes. You do get the occasional warden seal, but they no longer block you if you start going ...

Interesting. My strategy is more like: 1. Go downstairs and stairdance the entry vault with the guards + whatever random stuff pops out of the quadrants. 2. If a vault warden shows up, either buff and try to tank until you can kill it or go back upstairs before it seals. 3. If you end up on Vaults:4...

The intention is also that, upon reaching the midgame, most deaths will come at the fault of the player. Mummies are not likely to reach the mid-game (where they are able to utilize this player skill) due to their combined weaknesses sabotaging them, leaving more players encountering 'unwinnable sc...

Walker: I didn't realize the scoreboard was manual! Thanks again for organizing all of this, 6 games over 6 weeks is much more my pace then the regular tournament. Well it's not supposed to be, but we're having some errors with the automation. So until we get that worked out, I'm only updating it m...

I find there is much higher likelihood of being mutated in pan than Hells. And Zin is better in both, in my opinion - regen does not matter in Pan since you can find quiet areas easily, and in Hells the cancellation of Hell effects is basically like free regen.

Mummies currently suffer from the problem that their early game survivability rate is terrible. Is this really a problem? If you want to argue that the specific ways in which mummies are terrible are in contradiction to the design goals, then fine. But that doesn't seem to be your argument (and I d...

Guppyfry wrote:When does the scoreboard update?

When I get home.

Or just switch to Zin. I don't see much need for going to Ely in-between, just zaps your piety for no reason.

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Triple points for bringing back a thread to make aggressive offtopic posts. I mean, seriously?

Yermak'd.

I added some Division Statistics to the "Overview" tab of the standings sheet. Just shows games played and won for each division, by week and overall. Maybe I'll add a page with individual player stats next week, if I have time.

I don't usually bother training up a spell school or conj, no. I do wait to put on armour until I can kill things in melee though. If you are interested, here is the beginning of my FoAE game, thru part of D:3 : !lm walkerboh wk2 began -tv:>16:channel=walker Type that into ##crawl, and then you can ...

Well, that was ugly ... tried switch right off to melee mode and failed miserably twice over (once on D1!). So of course, the only altars found in the second, slightly better game were Sif, Veh, and Kik (maybe the game telling me something about my choices? though I could have taken the latter, I s...

e1999 wrote:Seems interesting. I'm in.

Do I need to wait to be added to the spreadsheet before playing?

Nope you can play now. When I add you it will update the score for any games you already played.

Yeah I got an elec long sword from Blork on D:4 (and had a wand of paralysis so dealing with him was easy), so that definitely helped.

I have no idea how I'm doing this.

My thoughts are that I don't know how you get to use this authoritarian tone of what "needs tweaks and overhauls" while being so goddamn wrong on so many things.

Being loud tends to be more persuasive than being right, both on the internet and in real life.

it'd certainly be nice for the ultimate earth spell to be able to kill things like dragons and orbs of fire, but I'm not sure I'd like to lose that protection from enemy shatters. Especially as a gargoyle, you're now making it extremely likely to be one/two shot by jorgrun (is he only enemy shatter...

Fo should always use at least a buckler, and there's no reason not to use a normal shield for most chars.

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