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I'm amazed with the discussions, really interesting to see the arguments :) I decided to try out as many of the suggestions as possible, since both summoning and necromancy are my least-comfort zone-schools by far. So I unlearned tornado and tried Mana vipers, haunt, death channel, silence, darkness...

Some different views on this, really appreciate it.

As a final note, what would be a good weapon? I think there is at least one demon whip available (brand unknown, cannot look it up right now). If I had the option, should I take a double sword/lajatang and drop the shield?

Thanks for all the input. For specifics, what would be a better weapon? I'm assuming I should keep the shield, and from what I can recall the quick blades are pretty rare. Short blades does seem rather unexiting outsite of stabbing from my experience. Also, seems like some of you don't like the choi...

Hi, As the title suggests I'm having trouble with how I should approach the mid/late game with my Spriggans. Starting with stabbing and some hexes is very reliable, but I'm having trouble in progressing past the stab-plan. I have let many Sp down that has taken 1 or 2 runes but then start having tro...

I ended up dying to these Jellies before the tele would kick in. Thanks for all the good suggestions, it really helped in analysing my mistakes.

Thank you for the analysis. I'll give it a shot tonight, and yea going there was probably a bad idea in the first place.

Hello fellow crawlers, i'm in a quite sticky situation. I just killed TRJ for my third rune and had to take a random tele out of the mess after he/she died. As you can see in my morgue file two azure yellies are having their way with me. Any ideas how to solve this situation? How do I know if they w...

Hi, i have customized most of my bindings (used this config for a year or two) including the C-key for movement and cannot find a way to configure how to close doors. Anyone knows how to do it? in 0.15 i could Ctrl-click with the mouse (as a work around) but since 0.16 it swings my weapon instead. A...

Oh sorry, I meath mottle dragon armor - MDA.

Ok thanks for the info, Ill try to just beef up a bit and train more dodging then! Staves + Evo is a good idea i guess, I wasn't aware evo increased staff of fire-dmg.

Hi all, I was hoping for some advice on my current run. Having cleared snake and shoals I am a little lost how to proceed (first time this far in 0.14). What should I go for armour-wise? I just found a FDA, or well the skin but I have a scroll. Alternatives is the MTA (which i'm not so impressed by)...

Thanks for the advice, I found a cTele-ring in Elven Halls and used it to tele to a corner. All went fine until I met a draconian ghost which was way too hard for me. I managed to escape and pick up the slime rune instead :) Morgue if anyone is interested: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-28...

Hi all, i hope you are having a great day. Lately I've been having some problems with V5, I think my three latest promising characters have died there. To avoid continuing this streak I have come for guidance - what is the best way of clearing V5 with this character? (tips in general are welcome as ...

Cool, thanks for the write up, nicely written and a very interesting read indeed. Ill save this for later if I decide to try some speedruns myself.

I mean that I dont understand how its possible to beat them at XL 21 - i think that they are pretty rough at XL 27. I can handle them, but if I compare to how strong my chars usually are at 21 OoF would pose a serious threat.

Impressive run, and congratulations on 50 wins. I am on 10 myself and try to improve my game, would you mind clarify some things about this run? I have not tried Elyvilon that much yet, but how can you handle places like Zot5 at XL 21? And also the rune-endings, especially V5. Do you tele-ninja the ...

Ah, in case anyone is curious this ended up a YASD: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.2 (tiles) character file. 360315 GiveMeThreeRunes the Phalangite (level 23, -18/200 HPs) Began as a Merfolk Artificer on Aug 27, 2013. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Demolished by a stone giant (30 damage) ... w...

Thanks to both of you - extremely useful advice here. Glad to see both your opinions on the weapons, I think Ill switch to the vamp. I will heed your advice with 22-skills for oka, thats a good lesson. I was thinking I coulde raise just polearms to mindelay without hero but I realise it may not be w...

Hi, hope you all are doing fine this lovely day. I have a CiP here and just faced a rather interesting dilemma. The background is that I found a good pain branded bardiche early, and started to train necromancy just to get this damage up. My first question is if this is even remotely feasible? It fe...

Ok, I tried to make a run for it, but being brainless I failed reading blink scrolls. I died on the next zig-floor. Thanks everyone for helping! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.2 (tiles) character file. 888252 Huhu the Axe Maniac (level 27, -3/272 (275) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Hunter on July ...

Ok, I think I have a stat death coming up. This is something I did not consider, I should probably have spotted the problem way earlier - Im standing in a zig at florr 11 i think (went in from pand) and got stat drained to -2 and I see no way of fixing it. What I am considering is rushing a few zig ...

Glad you feel that way :) It's been really helpful, I have now gotten the slime and gold runes - my first time in tomb and it went pretty decent. My main problem was Rot - it made me waste around 5 scrolls of recharge to regain my max hp using wands of healing. Ill give pand a try even though it fee...

Thank you everyone for the extensive replies. I agree that some of the gear is rather mediocre (especially poorly enchanted armours + weapon). Great Idea to bless the pain-axe, I'll definitely do that! Great advice regarding the INT on levelups, is that a general rule to always pick int on all class...

Hi, I have very little experience with extended, but I would really like to explore it more and learn more about it. The character in code tags below has cleared everything (standing on the orb and chambers cleared) with 3 runes. I can't say that I've had amazing drops, but some gear is pretty decen...

Thank you for taking the time, this sounds all like very good advice. I'll ditch the shield and focus on a heavier sword and hope for a longbow. Also good point with the armour, I have been waiting for a FDA but it might be smarter to get whatever dragon armour I can before I die :) Ill get right ba...

Hi all, I have been trying to get a Ds melee char with support spells going for a while and have some questions. I am in a situation here that I have seen multiple times now: Lair and orcish are cleared, got down to Vault or so but here things start to get too tough. Its like I am leveling my charac...

Ok, thanks! I did not know that.

Thanks everybody for the guidance, it ended up a win! And I am actually on my first streak as well - 2 in a row!! Here is the morguefile if anyone is interested: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.0 (tiles) character file. 1447237 Tunk the Slayer (level 27, 302/302 HPs) Began as a Troll Monk on J...

Thanks for the suggestions - much appreciated! I'm going to use the scrolls then, and as you say rF is great for Zot. Also good point regarding the shield, I didn't know it was a viable combo with shield + UC - Ill look into that. I guess trolls big size contributes to this being more viable as well...

Hi! This is my first Troll to get past XL 20 and I would really appreciate some advice on how I can make this a 3 rune ascension. I am kind of stuck strategically, this is the situation: previously I was stuck because I didnt have sInv or any good way of handling hydras preventing further descension...

Thanks for the advice, smart usage areas of blocking LOS both for blink and torment.

I don't think mephitic cloud would work since it doesn't block LOS - but I guess creating steam can (fire over water, steam Draconian's spit comes to mind).

Excellent topic, I cant help you much I'm afraid but I've got some questions of my own: 1) What are the best uses of scroll of fog? I have came across two situations; detecting invisible monsters and trying to hide from ranged attacks when running away. Are there more good usages of this item? 2) Ho...

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