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Oh, sorry, misreading on my part.

Any attempt to confuse the knight or warriors would probably confuse me as well, and running around confused with priests smiting me didn't seem like an attractive plan. You had posion resistance, which makes you immune to meph confusion. In such a case, targeting the meph on yourself confuses ever...

Note that this "shadow monsters" feature is extremely useful especially for monsters or uniques, which you don't feel like beating at the moment.
You'll know what I mean by the first time you'll be XL14 and meet Boris or Mara at Swamp:4.

An orc knight and 4 orc warriors were waiting and apparently very awake right next to the stairs. My only option was running back down the stairs um, i think another option for you would be to evaporate confusion on those orcs... Not quite. The resulting meph cloud has only so much chance to confus...

Of course then you also have to deal with the problem every Che worshiper has - getting cornered and having no way to outrun anything. I tried a SETm of Chei, and found a great way to replace running - semicontrolled blinks. Of course, you have to be that lucky to find a ring of cTele and a spellbo...

When I play Crawl, I usually listen some melodic metal.

Then again, I usually listen some melodic metal all the time ...

You may want to try a Kenku Monk. They can get an awful lot of aux attacks with their talons, beak and off-hand punches.

Gourmand effect can be determined by the message you receive after eating chunks. If the chunk tastes "terrible", there's no nutrition - gourmand didn't kick in yet. If it tastes "great", gourmand is already in full effect. There may be some intermediate messages for partial nutr...

Ettins do 45 damage per attack, and get two per turn. This means that if they get a double pulse and land 3 hits, your elf is toast. Monsters shouldn't be able to attack you twice because of energy randomisation. But they are able to attack you twice because of other reasons, mainly your attack/mov...

Congratulations!

If you want a lot of laughs, pick a weapon with a Noisy property, e.g. the Singing Sword.

danr wrote:So two-handed weapons are actually potentially faster than single handed weapons (until recently)?

In the mathematical sense, it sounds so. However in practice, I can't recall any one-handed weapon with attack delay higher than (or even equal to) 140%, and these get minimum delay of 70% anyway.

lucy_ferre wrote:Pretty much any combo that can survive D:1&2 with no problems has a high chance of winning if played well.

Very, very wise words!

Go SpVM

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Of course then you also have to deal with the problem every Che worshiper has - getting cornered and having no way to outrun anything. I tried a SETm of Chei, and found a great way to replace running - semicontrolled blinks. Of course, you have to be that lucky to find a ring of cTele and a spellbo...

For the record, these scrolls are not totally useless - they still count towards Spellcasting training, for those chars tha start without this skills. Sometimes they count even twice - if you get the "This scroll reassembles in your hands!" message, you're free to get another try. Plus, so...

During 0.5 times, before the AC nerf, there was a nice flowchart describing a near-guaranteed way to win:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7421/dcflowchart.png

Now, after the recent armour buff, we may be back on this track again

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smock wrote:I swear I just got mutated by an illusion!

Are Mara's illusions so powerful that they can give permanent mutations? Or should I make this a bug report?

What a Jerk-Face.

I assume that the monster, disguised as that giant orange brain, was in fact something that can mutate you as well.

Just to add some points: 5: If you want to read-ID scrolls and quaff-ID potions, it is usually better to start with those, which you have the most. The most common potions is healing, the most common scrolls are identify, detect/remove curse and teleportation. Don't start quaff-IDing potions until y...

And if you do have either of those, it'll be the vault where it's blocked by a stone statue instead. I still don't get those. What the point? Wand of digging will not help you to dig through stone walls. Even if you will find one on a D1-5 lvl :| It's stone statues . But anyway, a wand of disintegr...

I loved it when I decided to clear the top 6 levels of Elf, and discovered that Elf is now only 5 levels deep (wiki and leanrdb notwithstanding). I found out the hard way ;) I had a similar story - playing online after a few weeks, quite a promising character, so I decided to clear Elf. I was very ...

Once an ice conjuror gets Throw Icicle and Bolt of Cold, there's no point in learning a direct damage spell again until Ziggurat-raiding time. Really? How do you deal with the undead, then? Or in my particular case, Boris. My Ice-casting reaver casts hungerless Bolt of Cold, Freezing Cloud and Iske...

Try a centaur with a bow, a halfling with a sling, or an Ogre with large rocks.

If you start a class with a god, Temple will spawn on D:4.
If you start a class without a god, either the Temple will spawn on D:7, or it will not contain an altar of the god you want to worship.

At this moment, I'm playing an SpBe going long blades, when I meet Blork the orc. After beating the living crap out of him, his weapon is IDed as a +4,+5 long sword of slicing. My damage output jumped up quite a lot

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Thanks a lot, Blork. Especially for not hitting me with this one

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First, congratulations on your first win! As for the extended endgame, I suggest you try Hells first. They're usually the most difficult branches to get through - Pan and Abyss are IMHO easier. Thus, if you can survive Hells, you're ready for anything. But don't forget to bring a lot of resists ther...

danr wrote:For Devs: Dungeon Designer? Rune Reader?

Orb Operator?

Yeah, this topic belongs precisely to Crazy Yiuf's corner

A very nice sight at a D:5 jewellery shop:

a - [D:5] the ring "Besigeck" {rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ MR Dex+1} (847 gp)

Time to start saving money ...

I used a wand of enslavement on (at?) a Slime Creature and it became charmed. Then it merged with another Slime Creature and I got a charmed large slime creature. Then it split and I had two charmed slime creatures. Is that behaviour intended? It seems a bit strange, but it is funny nonetheless. Th...

For the record, in the current game I had Saint Roka, Roxanne, Donald, Polyphemus and Nergalle on Shoals:4. Cleared them, and after a few minutes, on D:18, Nikola, Norris and Mara within approx. 30*30 squares.
I ran, well, like a hasted Spriggan

minmay wrote:Six uniques on one level. That has to be some sort of record.

In fact, during the 0.7 development, when such unique clusters were introduced, someone on ##crawl announced to have met as much as ten uniques on a single floor. Myself, I met seven once, although, IIRC, not as nasty.

just wondering, how did you post up your character dump file? I play 0.7.1 ASCII on crawl.akrasiac.org and I don't know how to find it and post it. If you're playing on CAO, then press # ingame. Dump will then be stored at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/YourUserName/YourUserYame.txt (note the ca...

Just found a treasure trove, which opened por a single potion of cure mutation.

There was nothing of interest, and the misery of this trove was best documented by this:

v - the cursed -5,-3 dagger of Glory {flame, +Rage Str-4 Int-5}

Silent spectres make boggarts _much_ less dangerous.

This falls probably more into a "hilarious artifacts" section, but anyway, here's what I found on D:16:

_c - the +3,+3 knife of Evil {speed, SInv}

Yes, this a truly evil knife. It's been a long time since I had such a great laugh

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Un67 wrote:If you quaff a potion of resistance before trying to take on a sleeping Nikola, then you will manage to sneak up on him and kill him in one hit.

This is perfectly OK, as it fully complies with the golden "better safe than sorry" rule

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Grimm wrote:Whenever I see a quokka, I think "Ah, lunch".

I say the same when playing Troll Berserkers and meeting Sigmund :mrgreen:

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This combo is working pretty well for me. Unlike most melee builds in 0.7, I regularly get to Lair with this (and, of course, once I get there with any build, my deadliest opponent is that notorious unique, Teh Stoopid). Find an early sling and some ammo and you fill in the ranged attack hole that ...

galehar wrote:Trog's wrath is brutal.

Very true. On the other hand, if you can hold your ground against a zerking stone giant, then you can stand against pretty much everything in the game.

Grimm wrote:Tangentially, "KoCK" has got to be one of the worst race/class abbreviations in the game.

In learndb's "bad ideas" entry, someone proposed to remove the "KoCK of Lugonu" combo, as Lugonu is considered female ...

From Henzell's learndb: # Attack delay is 10 time units for a weapon with base speed 100%. Every 2 levels of weapon skill lower the delay by 1 unit. # A weapon's minimum delay is half of its base delay (rounded down), but if the following value applies and is lower, use that instead: 3 for quick bla...

gb: Nice job anyway, and you surely learned your lesson. Keep up the good work, and you're bound to get that Orb out in little time!

Oka is just like that.
The last game I worshipped him, I received a +0 pair of boots {god gift}. Too bad I already had +2 boots of running on my feet ...

OK, let's give it a shot. Following are, IMHO, the most viable or "most easily imaginable" backgrounds for each race. Humans : Don't really excel at anything, don't really suck at anything. Probably the most viable choice for Wanderers . High Elves : I always tend to envision them as Legol...

This combo is working pretty well for me. Unlike most melee builds in 0.7, I regularly get to Lair with this (and, of course, once I get there with any build, my deadliest opponent is that notorious unique, Teh Stoopid). Find an early sling and some ammo and you fill in the ranged attack hole that ...

Well, looking back on this game, I see that I did not berzerk a single time past Lair. Trog's Hand was not used at all and Brothers in Arms were used very rarely even in late game. I think that next time, I may follow this game's branch order except Crypt, then go to Slime, clear Zot but not touch t...

Yet again, I have to advocate my favourite and by far the most succesful char: Spriggan Venom Mage.

Who is better suited for VM's hit-and-run tactics than spriggans, being well able to to both hit and run?

Here's another idea: how about a splash screen? "Me + You: crawling together since 2005" or whatever. That will personalize the game more than anything, will show up every time / frequently, and requires minimal coding. In fact, assuming you're playing tiles (console version has no initia...

I'm a bit curious as to who exactly said they're a horrible mismatch? I think it was in the thread at some point? I'm way too lazy to actually look for it! Anyways, congratulations on your win. My SpBe keep dying due to random huge monsters cornering them and then beating the snot out of em but eve...

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