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I honestly do not get your point. Some spells are better than others, and BoM is amongst the weaker ones. Powerwise there are almost always better options. And that is because for a level 5 three school spell neither the damage, nor the range is good. Of course bad range would not be a problem if it...

While statue form occassionally could be useful for a troll, I think mostly when you have not found a good dragon armor. I would just train armour skill for gda next time.

Majang: [*] Instead of training the second school for BoM, you could train the first one and get even better damage on your main attack. It's damage is bad if your starting spells can beat it. [*] Range of 4 is bad, LRD has much better range. And freeze and sticky flame being very good spells at ran...

I do not know if hybrids are more powerful or not, but I think your examples are not good for demonstrating this. I think that with 3 orb of fire in view and 2 panlords during orbrun is not exactly a situation where I would do any melee attack - not even with melee fighters! Formicids has more reaso...

VeryAngryFelid: I think those who suggest not to train weapon skills on conjurer type characters do not suggest to no use them. With good defenses you can easily kill most monsters with a 0 skill weapon. I personally always train a weapon, but I am convinced that on many characters it is mostly for ...

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Uhm, why can't a DE run around with lajatang, one of the best weapons in the game?

Furthermore NaTm of Chei cannot use spider form's normal speed What do you mean here? I just meant that while Tm is a good start for Na, I do not feel that it is a good start if you intend to go for Chei. Also, if you talk about extended than the starting class is not very important. I do not wante...

It's just a personal opinion, but I do not think Formicid is easy with Chei (compared to other races with Chei), as while you cannot haste anyway, you also cannot teleport or blink. Step from time needs lot of invo and costs a lot. Tm is also not the easiest chei starts, as it is quite XP demanding....

I suggest Troll. Troll is good because it is powerful enough to survive Chei early, when she is very weak, and Chei dex helps to mitigate the slight drawback Trolls actually has (low defenses beside hp). Chei int also lets you cast some spells as a troll. I would start as Hunter for ranged option. I...

Sometimes I walk up 20+ floors tabbing everything in the way, then a pan lord with chaos attack comes on D4, I do not pay attention and die.

Well, I could not have quaffed cancellation since I was a mummy. I also teleported, and it did not helped. Maybe it was too slow due to the orb, or I was landed badly.

I do not think that statsis prevents petrification, is it?

While I am not sure, I think that the pan lord hasted up, and he was faster than me in the first place. So haste also does not guarantee anything.

Actually it was petrification, so I had time to act. Also, it's only chaos attack that could bypass my MR, so it does not apply to other forms. I guess I should not have been adjacent to the pan lord, that is the design intent.

It's a level 2 spell, so it's quite possible to cast it, especially with switching to wizardry.

I had a YASD just now: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/sanka/morgue-sanka-20170616-095345.txt I know that it could have been avoided, but I am still a little bit annoyed. A pan lord petrified me with chaos attack, then paralysed me while I was petrified, and I died from max hp. I read teleport...

Writing 2dx instead of 1dx would be much more confusing. How do you know that this is the already doubled damage? It is quite well explained that this is the damage for one zap, but you can have two. Shock is better against plate mail than magic dart because it deals twice the damage. Not because it...

I know that currently gods are not very balanced. It seems straight contradicting to the design goals as it creates a bad choice inside the game for the theoretical player who wants to win: should I choose the powerful but really annoying or the very weak but fun god? Some people claim that gods are...

What earth elementalist want to train fire magic? Conjure and sticky flame can be cast with really minimal investment, if you want them, and LRD is better than all other fire spells, and is in the starting book of earth elementalists. It is better than bolt of magma about anywhere, so why waste the ...

VeryAngryFelid: Duvessa talks about hitting the *same* monster twice is the norm, by bouncing the bolt. So if you compare lightning bolt and an other normal AC checking spell vs a high AC monster lightning bolt does not have an advantage even if it only checks half the AC, since it checks it twice, ...

I would use the lajatang, and switch to the helmet actually.

I would only train dodging and fighting right now for a while, switching off all other skills.

I made a mistake actually, you can only train all magic skills to 9 for the cost of training spellcasting to 27. Training all of them to 10 requires a little bit more xp. Anyway, to have a good deceison when to train which skill it is really useful to understand that the cost of skills raises very, ...

20 levels spellcasting costs more than training *every* magic schools (there are 12) to 6, and it gives you only as much success/power as training the schools to 5 . 27 levels of spellcasting costs more than training *every* magic school to 10 9, and it gives you as much success/power as training th...

You can always try to choose a position so that in case you get paralised your chances for death are minimalized. Fight with paralizers alone. Also, giant eyeballs have a paralization attack that does not require line of fire. They are very rare tough, only appear in slime and as summons I think. Th...

Doesnt wrote:not sure if this is a joke or not but we call those minotaur and deep elf

I do not think you have actually read on understand the proposal itself, just the title

@Leszczynek : I must admit I do not understand your post. This proposal does not seem to be a melee buff to me and not about melee vs magic. Also I think that mage starts are stronger than melee starts. It's true that melee biased races are stronger than magic biased ones, and melee biased gods are ...

I dislike idea of breaking 20+ species to make Hu more interesting. Hu is one of my least played species, I dislike it. Basically in current crawl everyone can find combos which they like, be it HuXX for guys who like to adapt or MiWz as Wz for those who like to role-play. I don't think it still wi...

Sorry, I wanted to reply instead of thank (altough thank you for replying) - but I do not agree. The question for me is what is the point of having a "Mi" race in crawl. If it is a roleplaying game, than it is perfectly acceptable that you want to play a muscular guy with horns, and it is ...

I have the feeling that there are two approaches to crawl. One kind of player likes to play it as a role playing game, selecting some imagined figure and try to play as such, like Troll FE played as FE, etc. They want to have backgrounds far reaching effects, because it makes the roles available at ...

I have a feeling that as you progress in the game, the monster density raises while individual monsters get less threatening. I feel that this leads to bad gameplay. This is especially true for Depths - there are no enemies that are dangerous alone, but there are so many monsters that it is really t...

Oh, I die everywhere :-) I mean that I think in dangerous encounters even against living monsters I frequently finish the battle with more hp with a high damaging freezing weapon than with a vampiric brand. The vamp brand is good because there are a lot of individually not very threatening monsters ...

Vampiric brand is not that great in individual battles. It can be good if you cannot rest easily because it can turn trivial encounters to hp, and obviously it is very convenient for deep dwarfs. There is exactly one place where there are a lot of living enemies and you cannot rest easily: V5. I gen...

"Squishy" is not an adjective that easily comes into my mind when I want to describe trolls. I suggest to train fighting and dodging, and put stat points into dexterity. ( Unless you find some dragon armour, when you may train armour.) Also, hunters used to start with large rocks, which so...

I really think that this is only an April 1st joke - sorry for ruining it. I think duvessa like to point out that vulnerability is a really really bad drawback (design wise, not power wise), so maybe it could be removed from mummies. Maybe not tough, sorry if I am wrong, but that would be my interpr...

I always find it a little puzzling when someone claims that removing some of the late (not dungeon) levels makes the game harder. With playing a little bit of hellcrawl (early versions), I found that it would make the game easier (even without xp/item compensation), because the lost xp and item hard...

In general I have found that sometimes it is convenient to have good stealth, it makes the game more smooth, but it is absolutely useless to prevent deaths not due to boredom. I'm not sure what all bores you ... But I think that sometimes it's more boring to have to kite a strong opponent a further...

Not waking up a monster can be useful, but even with very high stealth they sometimes simply wake up, and you need to deal with those cases also. Yes, it can save some consumables, but I found it a non-issue: very early on stealth is not a good idea, since focusing on offense is much better, and lat...

Since I posted about a hellcrawl tournament, I had an idea: what if we organize some daily/weekly hellcrawl challenges, a little bit similar to the Casual League in the Dart Board? My plan: 1. Since there's no support for milestones on IRC etc. now we just believe everybody's achievements by sending...

How much work would it be to set up some online statistics, either on IRC or on a webpage? (In my dreams we could even organize a hellcrawl tournament, with some webpages.) It is a little bit painful to going back to regular crawl after playing with hellcrawl - I really hate those lot of extra keypr...

Does anybody know if (and how) I can get online statistics for my hellcrawl games? Does the "lg" command works for hellcrawl somewhere somehow? (I could not make it work, but I was so lame that I did not found the menu for Hellcrawl in the first place). I would really like to play this bra...

DEFE in 0.8.

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/git/sanka/morgue-sanka-20101012-130309.txt

I vaguely remember a 0.5 win with a mountain dwarf in heavy armour offline, but I am not sure about that one.

I am not the best player, but here is my advice: 1.) Throw frost is ranged damage, which is very very useful in some situations, when you never want to stand next to a monster. 2.) I usually just train ice to 6 or even 8, not because of future spells but to increase spellpower of freeze. But the fir...

@Sanka: I'm at best only half serious here. They're dangerous in the sense that you have to divert your attention back to the game for a couple of seconds in order to deal with them and you shouldn't make a mistake while doing so. They're not dangerous in the sense that you can deal with them very ...

No, Kiku mostly. Sometimes Oka, sometimes somebody else. I almost never play Ash, as I find him very weak early.

I have not won actually, I always die somewhere, but usally because I do not pay attention or use tactics.

I always find the temple on D3. First, shouldn't it generate between D4-D7? It makes the game much easier than normal crawl. Otherwise it does not seem to be much harder - the only (small) difficulty jump is that since there is only 1 easy lair rune you need to complete V$ and slime as well. I have ...

I have never heard anybody saying that orc wizards and centaurs are not dangerous...

I always thought that orc wizards are amongst the most dangerous monsters in crawl (if not the most dangerous).

Uhm, I feel a little stupid myself, I did not notice it... Thanks!

Hellcrawl, I am coming!

Like hellmonk said above, hellcrawl is currently playable on CBRO which hosts both webtiles and console. Works just fine. Let me know if you are having trouble connecting. This is what I see after logging in with my user name "sanka" to cbro: Crawl server (North America) hosted and mainta...

It seems that it is still not available via console anywhere

At least I can only find it on webtiles.

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