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I actually tend to use Meph quite liberally pretty far into the game when playing casters. It takes the punch out of things like centaur/yaktuar packs. It defangs many otherwise deadly uniques as you progress through the game. It makes it far easier to beat Orc:4 without going elsewhere first. It ca...

I don't have the ttyrec player downloaded, but let me show you this- watching it was what helped me win for the first time with a DE caster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jFOuwT1Cs This is an OpWz, so it's a little different, the person is very informative on why he's making his decisions. Hopef...

Plus, and I don't think I've mentioned this, I always clear everything, for all 122 of those games (now working on #123). I also take all timed portals, (although it's not always possible to clear those, and often a hasty retreat is the result). So when you see the depth and exploration stats of my...

You will splat and die with those defenses. Train your Dodging and Armor ASAP. Turn off everything else until they're higher. Only train as much shortblades as you need to get to one aut per swing until your defenses are better.

I'd also put some more points into Dex.

Wait- trunk?

Fffffffffff-

...Guess I have to start over!

EDIT: Just found the spot in the rules where it said this. I'm a derp, had totally checked them and missed it before I started.

I'm no Crawl expert, but it looks pretty good to me! I'd keep training up armor and dodging before more fighting at this point. Your EV is a little low. I'd also be putting some more points into M&F. You don't want your swings to take more than 1 aut, so make sure you're at that point. You shoul...

I was casting regeneration an aura of abjuration mostly, although I had been trying to get a few more spells online before I made the terrible decision to get out and win with only 4 runes :) Also used it to dispel undead a couple of ancient liches near the end. They go poof. Nice to know it's poss...

I'm in! I play as Nemora on CAO.

Congrats!

I fell asleep last night before I got to watch you finish it.

I'd be going for more fighting, invocations, then probably some dodging. Fighting is a BIG priority. You want more than 66 HP at this point.

On the plus side of this thread, I didn't know going invis would protect me from ghost moth mana drain before this, and I made ample use of it in my last game.

Decided to just go ahead and grab the win before I got myself killed. I didn't find much permafood this game compared to what I'm used to getting, so...better I win than starve to death! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-1-g650416f (webtiles) character file. 1441338 Nemora the Annihilator (lev...

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You fall through the hole! Welcome to dungeon level 4. Quaff what? [q?*/] ? q - a cursed potion of gain level Quaff what? [q?*/] q You rise up, through the ceiling!

Nethack, go home, you're drunk.

I'm running out of food and two tries in, I'm not sure I can take Cerebov. Might just cut it and run. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-1-g650416f (webtiles) character file. Nemora the Annihilator (DEFE) Turns: 135024, Time: 13:37:34 HP 102/170 (171) AC 23 Str 11 (12) XL: 27 MP 2/48 EV 34 Int ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-1-g650416f (webtiles) character file. Nemora the Annihilator (DEFE) Turns: 130698, Time: 12:55:30 HP 170/170 (171) AC 22 Str 12 XL: 27 MP 48/48 EV 34 Int 36 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 7910 SH 0 Dex 18 Spells: 15 memorised, 2 levels left rFire + . . SeeInvis ....

I ended up drinking the curemut and the beneficial mutation pots. And lo and behold, wild magic! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-1-g650416f (webtiles) character file. Nemora the Annihilator (DEFE) Turns: 112244, Time: 10:56:39 HP 154/154 (155) AC 20 Str 12 XL: 25 Next: 64% MP 45/45 EV 30 Int...

See, I've got this bottle of gin here... ...ahem. So I'm in a WizLab right now, and I am presented with this situation. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-1-g650416f (webtiles) character file. Nemora the Devastator (Deep Elf Fire Elementalist) Turns: 78443, Time: 06:36:29 HP 108/108 (109) AC 12...

I wouldn't worry about getting the trident to mindelay yet. Getting it to only taking 1 unit of speed is good, but past that isn't really necessary at this point. You're not planning on fighting with it a lot; it's a backup, since you, as a squishy caster, don't want to be in melee terribly much any...

What the subject says. I've only rarely tried to use them, and I found it difficult to justify the turns of equipping them and using them unless I was already out of other resources. But I suspect this is because I haven't figured out which ones are better for my characters and how to best implement...

I used Maxwell's patent armor for a little while in my last win, an Okawaru-worshipping MiHu 6-runer. I only stopped using it because I found Armor of the Dragon King. In that game, with the armor I didn't end up in situations where I regretted not being able to teleport. Partly because it offered m...

You could have just converted to zin i think I could have, but I wanted TSO more. *grin* Not a decision I'd advise to someone else, but I honestly just didn't feel like it. It seemed like a big hassle and since I hadn't won yet since I'd come back to playing a couple weeks ago, I decided to just po...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0-18-g0341e45 (webtiles) character file. 2835821 Nemora the Invulnerable (level 27, 169/169 (180) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Hunter on Apr 17, 2014. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 6 runes on Apr 19, 2014! The game lasted 12:51:1...

I concur with varioueslite. I cracked the fuck up! To me, DCSS feels a lot like a more challenging - and more streamlined - version of Nethack. Nethack's challenge (at least the last time I played it, which was a few years ago!) would be pretty much negated with the right set of armor. Crawl, on the...

Sandman25 wrote:
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8961 | D:8 | Noticed a quicksilver dragon

Without any runed doors on the level.

...you win.

Congrats!

With only three wins under my belt I'm still a relatively newb player, but I do believe it's normal to get that purple aura once you've grabbed the Orb.

Just recently I had a DEWz game that spawned two Guardian Serpents on D:9. It also happened to be where the Lair entrance was. And then Gastronok was at the beginning of Orc. I was not very happy that game. The worst part is I finally managed to get around the serpents, and then I died to a stupid m...

After I saw how damned powerful hunter is with my centaur hunter 3 rune win, I decided to stop splatting Minotaur fighters and try out a Minotaur hunter instead. A couple false starts later, I got this character going. Aside from a couple close calls in the early game, there weren't too many moments...

Yeah, I noticed on my own DEWz of Vehumet playthroughs that once I'm running low on mana, it's time to GTFO. I notice you hadn't used Fire Storm that much. I was spamming the hell out of that once I got it online, because it does so much damage. Sure it takes a lot of mana and causes a lot of noise,...

I see! That makes a lot of sense. So, correct me if I'm misunderstanding. The idea is, I should have been using a buckler if I wanted a shield at all when I was playing this last game. (And even then, maybe not.) When I'm playing a big race, I can go ahead and use a large shield without worry. But, ...

Interesting. Thanks for the info, I shall remember it for next time!

The bow bashing for the most I think came from wanting to get rid of some plants and fungus, but feeling too lazy to switch weapons...so yep.

When would you say that shields/large shields are worth it?

Interesting. Good to know. I have another question that might be a bit of a derp: I wore shields pretty much the entire way through the game. But this slowed my bow speed significantly. But I wore them anyway because I found some really bamf shields and it went a long way toward making me a fast-mov...

Thank you! :) And haha yep. I ended up using Heroism late (as you can see) in fights that I felt like I needed help on. (And also ones that I felt like I could go toe-to-toe with the enemy. I brought the Lernaean Hydra down with wands because I realized very quickly that it was going to kill me if I...

My second win! The first one was my DEWz of Vehumet, with which a full-powered Fire storm let me coast through many things. After that I started another DEWz, which I splatted to a draconian pack because I underestimated the importance of having all the resistances available against those bastards. ...

Sandman25 wrote:Congratulations!

Yes, Pan scared me too when I first saw it, but wait till you see Hell, I still have helltormentphobia

Thank you!

Oh gawd. No wonder so many people go for Necromutation or TSO.

I decided to go to Pan for a little bit. And, surprise surprise, it was the second big challenge I'd had since I got fire storm on full power! Most of it wasn't difficult, but with my lack of rN, tormet hurt . And so did Hell Sentinels. Thanks to their combined efforts, they dropped me to 11 HP at o...

I cleared the rest of Zot: 1-4 with ease. And then the first orb of fire showed up at the end of Zot: 4. Tornado helped a lot , I won't lie. But it was still the most challenging fight I'd had in a long while. A bit trepidatious after that experience, I went down to Zot: 5. Holy geezeballs. Most thi...

@Sandman25: ...I had apparently never done the cntl+F, because there are two of them hanging out on D:26. Doh! I also didn't think I had haste available to learn, but I searched...and lo and behold there it is. So I apparently have all three of those things at my disposal. Thanks for the tip! @hxy: ...

So! While I am no stranger to rogue-likes, I am pretty new to Crawl. The last time I played was around .8 or so. I'd been making good progress with a KoBe, 2 runes in, but then I got sidetracked and never got back to the game. I picked up Crawl again a couple weeks ago, downloaded the new version, a...

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