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Woot for that robe, this is quite awesome!
The weapons are in fact not that great (although nice!) - but the hammer sounds like a true apropos randart (see learndb)

Lantier wrote:Bananconda. Looks like the fruit until you try to grab it. Then it grabs you.

And squishes you.

Like, well, a banana.

Food mimics are back online, I guess

My obit said I died with 0/98 HP, meaning he decided to hit me from full life to zero with no overkill. For all the giants and such that I slaughtered indiscriminately, it was a freaking snotball that did me in!? A titanic slime creature (made of five standard slimes) can deal up to 110 damage. You...

joellercoaster wrote:It was only after I looked at a bunch more VPs that I realised my 4-runer could have been an n-runer, but I regret nothing - the first win is the sweetest

Testified!
Still, every victory is so sweet

Teleport Other is very poor in my opinion; if you can overcome something's MR, do it with something that will let you actually kill it, such as Confuse. Divide and conquer. If you Teleport Other three elephants in that pack, you can kill the last one without Confuse and then recover your mp before ...

Well done! Congrats on your first win!

mageykun wrote:Wands apparently have a recharge limit you can hit. But they don't explode when you hit it!

For anyone interested:

Henzell wrote:# Wand limits: invis, heal, haste, fireball, tele: 9; lightning, drain: 12; fire, cold: 15; other: 24. Note that these limits apply to recharging only, not starting values.

-1 for unlockables. Unlockables simply mean a limitation of available playstyles to me, it's that simple. I'm certainly not the only player who found his niche within Crawl in successful yet not straight-ahead-notable builds, and I would not find it if not for a friend's recommendation. If Spriggans...

OneTrueFelid wrote:The tournament from August had achievements of a sort!

Which most of newbies are unlikely to reach within weeks for some and never ever for others

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Fighting would be worse for spellcasters if the spellcasting skill reduced the bonus HP from the fighting skill. Something like this: TotalHP=BaseHP + Max(FightingHP - 2 * Spellcasting, 0) But this would mean that a hybrid char whose Spellcasting just rose up would find that his maxHP just dropped ...

Witcher?
(although, these did not augment their skills by weapon brands

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I've been thinking (and this is totally non-representative of the rest of the devteam as I haven't talked it over with anyone else) that it might be interesting to merge all three enchant weapon scrolls into one. Basically, remove EW I and EW II, make EW III show up earlier but overall rarer than a...

Orc high priests are usually a "get off this level" sign to me, unless I know I'm able to deal with them very quickly.
Well, it's YAITWLAILTP (Yet Another I Think We Learned An Important Lesson Today Post)

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Too bad - that PAGG was really almost set up. Better luck next time

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absolutego wrote:i went in without rpois and couldn't walk ten squares in. something invisible kept bashing and poisoning me. i was right next to the stairs so i got out, but i didn't hit it once. any idea what that was?

Sounds like a ghost moth. Did it also drain your MP?

Drowning, when caused by you, e.g. by a meph cloud, gives full XP.

Great char - congratulations

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Volgon wrote:1. Is Necromutation virtually needed for a 15 rune win?

Not at all. Surely it's helpful, but nowhere near necessary.
In fact, there are melee all-runers that don't need spells at all.

casmith789 wrote:Now I've got to remember why :/ Lol

For the online help on my first all-runer (SpVM of Vehumet) back then in August - my times in Pan would probably be much harder without you two overseeing my progress

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The royal jelly also spawns a bunch of other jellies when it dies. Is this correct? The RJ certainly spawns a bunch of other jellies when hit , but IIRC it does not spawn them on the killing hit. Quite an advantage for stabbers. Also, my condolences on those eyeballs. Guess I was just lucky, but I ...

I would change the order of the columns though, to go: Mages - Battlemages - Warriors - Zealots Misc could fit under Zealots as well. While a good point by itself, now I realize that the order suggested by Smock could confuse those players that have been with Crawl for some time. Now, the order pre...

Ugh, I recall that one. This made me add a --more-- prompt to levitation-expire warning.

danr wrote:Eye of darts - like other floating eyes, but its attack is a gatling gun of magic darts.

Ugh ... Almost makes me want a Poison Arrow Gatling Gun as a monster as well *shudders* ...

Enjoy your stay

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And no, not every square has a door, and in fact, I can't recall ever to find any secret doors in the regular Vaults structure.

Also, I keep running into this guy: Boris (thrice) (Vault:5 Blade Vault:8) Is that correct behavior? Yeah. He used to come with taunts when you killed him. "You, kill me? I think not!" No idea why he stopped doing that, I imagine it can be pretty confusing for people who haven't met him b...

+1 for this idea, Smock! There one minor problem though - the standard console window width is 80 characters, while your lineup ended at 87. This could be solved by removing the gods' names from the Zealots group - the god these worship is mentioned in the class description anyway. MAGES ZEALOTS BAT...

Hi sanka, IIRC, the Hell effects occurence is based on turns instead of your speed - no matter how fast your actions, Hell effects will occur with about the same frequency. If you feel like it, try Dis first, as this most of it's denizens are melee monsters, and is considered to be one of the easier...

You could have wear stasis, couldn't you? I could have - but this would mean that I have to remove rMut. In one of my previous winners, I had entrances to both wings of the Orb chamber blocked by teletraps, and got badly mutated when trying to lead orbs of fire out to fight them one on one. So this...

szanth wrote:Which means what? It won't work on monsters with no MR because they're too powerful in general?

Exactly that.

Henzell's learndb wrote:# Chance of confusing if hit = (30-HD)/30 if monster is natural, (22-HD)/22 otherwise.

Note to self: Orc:4 ogre vault with two-headed's and mages is fun fun fun and tons of free XP - when playing SpVM 8-)

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Well, now you know.

I learned the same fact the hard way, being the first ever online to die to a titanic slime creature. "Only" 77 damage, though

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Btw., they can do up 110 damage. Quite a reason to stay the f**k away from them, or at least not to fight them in corridors.

More-so, i would like to see improvment in AI of smiting mobs. Because orc priests rushing into melee and not hiding in back rows behind warriors is counter-productive. For orcs apparently. I'm not quite sure if this was not only a coincidence, but in my last game orc priests did tend to hide behin...

Holy whatever!
Starting as a Fighter and ending as a PAGG - great respect to you!

joellercoaster wrote:Also: You can be [Slow] and [Fast] at the same time. Who knew?

These effects cancel out speedwise, but the "Fast+Slow" is an indication that both of these effects are present.

I see a Meat Ration on the floor, out in the open. It always looks like a cartoon steak in tiles mode, and because of years of association in cartoons and movies ("Nice one Chewie - always thinking with your stomach"), I am convinced it's a trap. It always takes an effort of will to just ...

another question: cloak and helmets make the unarmed bad? Cloaks have no influence at all. Helmets don't have a direct influence on to-hit or attack speed. However, they make headbutts a little more damaging, spiked and horned helmet a bit more still, and visored helmets block bite attacks. All of ...

Going far off topic, but - a truckload of the arcade games are emulated and playable on your computer via the MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).
It's nice to be able to take Mike Haggar to the streets once again

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Especially in the arcade - forcing yourself not to put in another coin and hit continue took a certain kind of discipline, but it was how you got good at stuff. It also meant you got longer for your money, repeatedly playing through the early parts of games until you could do them blindfolded. It m...

I've yet to get a melee character deep enough to try the TSO switch but stories like this make me keep trying. Thanks as well :). If you're seriously interested in this switch, then one advice - go Oka first instead of Trog. Trog gives better weapons, that's true (a +9, +9 blessed double sword I ha...

They're a reason to not go maces & flails, since you can remove their heads without them growing back if you just use a bladed weapon of flaming. While you're right, the M&F approach is also perfectly valid. Many people do Lair before Orc, and I personally often find myself having no flamin...

LunarHarp wrote:Also, vampiric draining always hits weather you can see them or not. You just have to hope you know where they are

Lure them into a corridor and move away from them. They behave like bats, so if you move away, they will end up next to you.

i was spying on you on and off for the last hour and a half or so (from the second zig on). not much of a thrill by that point, but fun nonetheless. congrats, and good story. crazy gear, crazy gear. Not much of a thrill, that's true. But the lesson with Ereshkigal kept me alert. I learned a lesson:...

Long time no YAVP, right? But this one will be a bit longer, more filled with frustration and the more with the victory achievement. Grab a cup of whatever and listen to the story of Zicher the Minotaur fighter and the Xom-likeness of Crawl: The char went on as a Minotaur Fighter who wanted to get a...

If you have set of mutations out of which one is really dangerous (like teleportitis before doing Tomb) and you have two potions of cure mutation, quaffing will clear all the mutations except the really bad one. And you'll never, ever find another potion of cure mutation again. (It's really that bad...

Erolcha banished me when I was XL11.
I made it out, went on and returned to her level when I was a bit tougher.
She then fell in two hits.
Revenge is best served with a double sword to the face.

If you're a melee fighter worshipping Okawaru, turn off Throwing skill the moment you get it. Otherwise, be prepared for an infinite train of darts gifts. No more weapons and armour for you. (Seriously though, this could be considered a bug, although it's given by the game mechanics of gift timeout ...

Removing an amulet of faith gives a major immediate piety hit, even if you only just put it on. The piety loss is 1/3 of current piety - the higher you were standing with your god, the more piety you lose. Piety gain is also slower beyond **** - making the hit at high piety even worse. Lesson learn...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:You can also learn Iskeredun's Mystic Blast, which is basically a much stronger Magic Dart.

And basically a much less available Magic Dart, unless you really luck out finding the Book of Power before the Ossuary

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whelen wrote:It seems to reduce my mp from 31 to 10, about 2/3.

Anti-magic reduces your maxMP to 1/3.
Gotta find yourself some other rPois source, I guess

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To add to this, remember that Trolls gain +1 Str every third experience levels.

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