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Airwolf wrote:And greaterorbrunner!

I see someone has been working on DK, He, SE, etc.

comborobin will never die!

Seems a bit cheap to clear Hells, Tomb, and V:5 first, then go back, but ok. I guess it is technically correct.

I don't even remember all the combos I did, but I know I didn't solo any.

Don't worry arag, I credited some mysterious player for all that shield investment.

Pffft and gamma is still getting credit for pointing out the !tiamat thing. That was all me! :p

But great job everyone, it was fun!

And the curse of the KoWz is over. Had a really easy Z:5. First off, tons of shops on V:5 meant enough consumables for a good 4 wins. Then only one OoF and a handful of Alichs. Great Zot layout. I do question one of the players skill investments though. Did this char really need 21 shields? It was O...

There are really only two sheets that you need to update. That is the "Ongoing Characters" sheet (at least put the combo in the appropriate server/version cell) and the "Won Characters" sheet (add the combo at the bottom if you win). I have been updating the "Combo data"...

True, but not everyone uses IRC and the spreadsheet is in the first post, so it is good to have both. Hell, the only reason I played the KoWz that was not quit was because it was further along when I found it. As I said before, it was bad form to start it without checking to see if it was in progres...

The ^q may have been because there was another in progress that was pretty far. Granted it may not have been the best idea since that one died. That being said, I think it is bad form to start a character that is already in progress as well. It would be really nice if people would actually update th...

Just watched a KoWz, that I got 2 runes with, die on Z:5 after being petrified with MR++++ and then LCS'd twice by an alich. So sad.

Have you found a blowgun? Poison needles take yaks out easily with a normal speed character- a spriggan with a blowgun should trivialize yaks... I'd like to emphasize this advice. I ignored blowguns for a long time because I wasn't training throwing, or they seemed like a lot of work to manage. The...

I cleaned up the spreadsheet a bit and since KoNe was won again, I just copied the wins from the CAO scoring page to the Combo Data sheet. Since the Won Characters sheet is all kinds of fucked up (seems like some extra lines and missing characters), I added another way to check to see if a combo was...

Two I know of are polytheist for all gods and tiamat for one of each drac color, but these should come just by finishing.

8 Runes and 7 to go. So far hell has been easy. Did Iron and the Undead one first. Just dived down buffed and killed the boss. Cold should be ok but will be more careful. Must go back to lair to get my dragon armour for fire resistance. Actually, my stats are healing in Hell. I was pretty wiped out...

Felid enchanter of Dith is not easy exactly because Dith does not really help you too much to kill things that you cannot stab. Keep this in mind. You could avoid most fights tough. I don't know about Dith not helping kill things you can't stab. Dith does give shadow mimic, and unlike short blades,...

Anyone else notice that Tabstorm is listed twice, once for Ghoul and once for DD?

Seems to me like that action fits Xom perfectly. He's supposed to be a jerk who messes with you. But it's annoying when it's just an inventory and interface screw and not tele roulette or something. Again, that sounds right up Xom's alley, but I've never really tried playing a chaos knight. What ex...

Assuming I survive character level 1, I generally roll through all of lair and orc with no problems, do D down to 15 and then I just die (three times, naturally) in whatever branch I try. Specifically, I've been playing some Felid Enchanters (generally of Dith, which seems very powerful up to this ...

spudwalt wrote:Seems to me like that action fits Xom perfectly. He's supposed to be a jerk who messes with you.

But it's annoying when it's just an inventory and interface screw and not tele roulette or something.

And I did play that way for the vast majority of the game, and it really didn't add much to the experience. I avoided Vaults 5 because of that way and also had the most exciting Zot 5 for my 2 years "career". I realize it is not fun to teleport around when you are fighting popcorn or auto...

I never did find ammy of stasis, but did end up using a -Tele ring for part of Depths, V:5 and Zot. While I commend your son for programming this up, I can't say that this species was particularly interesting or fun, and I would not recommend it's addition to the game. Of course it was not fun, you...

If you see a normal curse skull, you should walk to the nearest stairwell and retreat through it. If you can bypass the level, do so, but it's basically never worth fighting a curse skull. Murray is a special curse skull that only spawns in a particular vault that is packed with monsters, has lots ...

Just a quick question to those out there who have a bit more knowledge about the underlying mechanics than I do. I was playing the Imp experimental branch the other day, and I found myself with the Flay status, despite Imps being torment immune. I don't ever recall having a Gh, Mu, bloodless Vp, or ...

I started a ImHu before the tournament, and came back to it. Won the other day. http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/Stigandr/morgue-Stigandr-20150405-014703.txt Teleportitis had its up sides, namely when I was in real trouble, but I would say a lot more negatives, most of which weren't of the dan...

Or just use large rocks to kill hydra! I have 9 of them on my current TrMo^Qaz, and I find I'm using all of them and finishing the hydra off with tomahawks (Throwing 9.6). I also don't use a large rock when the hydra is standing in deep water. I've been quite disappointed with the piety cost of Qaz...

Just a quick note for my colleagues in Team Evil; I'm pretty ill at the minute and simply haven't had the energy to play. I'll try and finish my current game before the tourney's conclusion, but apologies for not being able to participate more. no worries, and get well soon :) Playing crawl while s...

Berder wrote:Fortunately I do have a degree in the subject.

Well then you should be aware of the adage, "garbage in garbage out". You can't rely on crappy data to get good inferences.

nope, data > anecdotes. The data we have here is actually pretty good. First, anecdotes are a form of data, they just aren't usually all that useful. Second, we are dealing with observational data. Observational data, even in the best of cases, often fails to fit model specifications and so any inf...

I don't think we should limit number of gimmicks. 60 good gimmicks is better than 20 good gimmicks. I don't like gimmick reuse, it's similar to fighting the same monster at higher XL again but with more HP/damage. We should identify bad gimmicks (if there are any) and fix/remove them. Except that c...

I like the fact that different branches have gimmicks that don't appear elsewhere. It gives the branches a unique feeling and atmosphere. So I wouldn't like to see starcursed-mass-lites or junior vault wardens in early dungeon. A couple of unique gimmicks might be okay. However, I think crate is ri...

Both are really good weapons, though I have a feeling the GSC will serve you better in most dangerous situations and certainly on Zot:5 and extended if you do that. I am more worried as to why you would want to do this? Was thinking on a jiv switching fun run, and I still may troll the abyss for an ...

The dead are walking!

Let's make it really confusing and set an aptitude to be 100 for 'normal' with lower numbers meaning better aptitudes and higher worse. In all seriousness, when the old system was being replaced, was the option of inverting it and getting rid of the factor of 100 ever considered? Then a 'normal' ap...

Let's make it really confusing and set an aptitude to be 100 for 'normal' with lower numbers meaning better aptitudes and higher worse.

The fact that "pacified" monsters are actually bloodthirsty killers that will viciously turn on their friends and family would seem to be a bit of a weird thing to keep in crawl, so I would argue that using them tactically is not a good thing from a flavour standpoint, if nothing else. I ...

Personally, I hate traps from a design perspective, but I find them silliest in Shoals. Hmmm, I wonder what is going on with that one tile that just will not flood?

One of the issues with the bear tiles, too, particularly the black bear one, is the way the bear is standing. The front legs don't look straight enough for a standing bear, they are too dog-like with that slight bend in them.

Edit: Ignore my bad mechanics.

Not that I think this is a good idea, and it may not be a good GDD thread, but clearly, Dith <-> Qaz.

Don't forget that Trog's Hand gives MR++, good to have up around sentinels in vaults and on elf:3.

That plate is awesome, btw. I wouldn't worry too much about resists at this point, with careful play you should be ok, and you really only need rF+ to win (not that having more resists doesn't make it easier). If the rPois in Spider is too much, you can always go Vaults:1-4 at this point, and if you...

I thought this behavior was caused by reflecting spells that TSO hates, like a bolt of draining. Or had that been corrected?

The range of thrown large rocks increases with str though. Is the range-strength connection something unique to large rocks? Yes. if (wepType == MI_LARGE_ROCK) { range = random_range(5, 8) + random2(you.strength() / 5); max_range = 7 + you.strength() / 5; } else if (wepType == MI_THROWING_NET) max_...

You can throw large rocks as a troll or ogre no matter what your Str stat is. The Str bonus to large rock damage works the same as other similarly-weighted weapons. If there's a problem with Jiyva stats (and there probably is), it's not unique to this scenario. The range of thrown large rocks incre...

You had a lot of teleport, pop one of those early in the fight and you would have had a decent chance of survival. Especially with all those evokables.

rMut really isn't that important. Most muts aren't game-changing, and the only consistent malmutate-casting monster in a standard 3-rune game are Orbs of Fire, and then they are only in Zot, and mostly only on Zot:5 in any great number. At this point in the game it is very easy to avoid malmutate in...

You have already invested into Axes and will gain little benefit from training another weapon. Instead you could invest in Armor, Fighting, Dodging, Evo, which will all have greater utility. In this case, you should probably work on Armor, since you are wearing plate.

I wouldn't go for crossbows at all.

GlassGo wrote:Of course it's better. But not in Tomb, not in Hells, not in Panda. Even not in Slime Pit.

Why do you think necromutation is better than stat form in any of these places?

Regardless of which armor you choose, use two of those enchant armor scrolls on those boots.

If I were asked to redesign felids, here is what I would propose, remove.

This is shown at the top of the inventory screen in online tiles (and console, IIRC).

the player should orient themselves within a special arrangement of rock wall formations in order to deal damage properly or drag everything until they bunch up just so, after who knows how long, and only then should you apply your now maximally efficient predefined damage pattern upon the enemy. t...

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