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Tuesday, 26th February 2019, 15:23

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Shadow Creatures and Good Gods

Replies: 2

Views: 1567

Re: Shadow Creatures and Good Gods

It summons non-evil monsters from the generation list for that branch, eg. bennu in Tomb, angels in Pan, iron dragons in Dis etc. Crypt has no such monsters, so it summons nothing and the MP is lost IIRC.

Tuesday, 26th February 2019, 11:38

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Tasonir's 0.23 tournament writeup

Replies: 6

Views: 2379

Re: Tasonir's 0.23 tournament writeup

Not xving ghosts before freeing them is madness.

Tuesday, 26th February 2019, 11:36

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP 0.23

Replies: 10

Views: 2816

Re: YAVP 0.23

How did you get 2 slimy runes? I know multiple demonic runes were there but slimy?

And items had weight in far less ancient versions, it only got removed in 0.15.

Monday, 25th February 2019, 11:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

Good, but I raise with three weapons of my own: 6912 | D:8 | Identified the +13 battleaxe "Vygoaf" {vamp, Str+4 Dex+3} | (Trog gifted it to you on level 8 of the Dungeon) 17335 | Depths:2 | Identified the +12 double sword "Miafa" {slice, *Contam | rN++ Str+5} 30696 | Depths:3 | I...

Monday, 25th February 2019, 09:59

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

It's kind of silent here lately, huh?
  Code:
 n - the +15 plate armour "Engiaxun" (worn) {+Fly MR++ Regen+ Str+3}
   (You found it on level 2 of the Depths)   

Tuesday, 19th February 2019, 00:08

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

  Code:
 49780 | Vaults:2 | Identified the +11 bardiche "Hiceummy" {speed, rC+ rN+
                  | Str+3}

This is floor junk.

Wednesday, 5th September 2018, 09:13

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: What to acquire for Op?

Replies: 27

Views: 7111

Re: What to acquire for Op?

Less. That said, you may still get a randart with bad enchantment, for either slot. On the other hand, the ring you'll get will most likely be only of minimal utility, like stealth, rN+ or rCorr, and the chance of getting gourmand or harm are also non-zero. I'd get armour in this scenario.

Monday, 3rd September 2018, 23:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

  Code:
+12 battleaxe of Dismay {pain, Dex+2}

I'm pretty sure it does full pain damage to all enemies around.

Thursday, 30th August 2018, 11:41

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Add confirmation for waiting 100 turns

Replies: 6

Views: 2502

Re: Add confirmation for waiting 100 turns

100 turns is "hard punishment"? What?

Thursday, 30th August 2018, 10:16

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

  Code:
Orc:2    | Bought the +12 gold dragon scales of Pantheism {*Slow rPois rF+ rC+ Str-3 Slay+5 SInv} for 2484 gold pieces

Thursday, 23rd August 2018, 09:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Let's play equipment tetris!

Replies: 9

Views: 3135

Re: Let's play equipment tetris!

duvessa wrote:i'm not going to give any advice i'm just here to say i hate you for finding buffed vampire's tooth on a vine stalker

  Code:
(You found it on level 5 of the Dungeon)

Friday, 1st June 2018, 22:33

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Scrub League #2 - MiMo (No God + UC + No Body armour)

Replies: 12

Views: 8279

Re: Scrub League #2 - MiMo (No God + UC + No Body armour)

Here it comes: - no god - no weapons - no body armour - no spells - no shields - no evocables or throwing - no potions Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-443-g17c3723 (console) character file. 1458739 stickyfingers the Grand Master (level 27, 272/272 (273) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Monk on June...

Friday, 1st June 2018, 00:12

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Scrub League #1 - SpBe

Replies: 17

Views: 10877

Re: Scrub League #1 - SpBe

+ 100 pts for abandoning Trog on D:1 "before D:2" would be less ambiguous, unless you really want to reward backtracking just to abandon. But that's not perfect either, since you can just startscum for a shaft that drops you from D:1 to D:3-4 straight away. That, or unwield distortion to ...

Wednesday, 30th May 2018, 14:54

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Viability of Pures: The Third Aspect

Replies: 19

Views: 5396

Re: Viability of Pures: The Third Aspect

Spriggan under Trog or Oka using needle stabs would be as close to a pure Dex character as is viable in this game. Needles are rare, so ammo-gifting god is preferred, but can be used to incapacitate almost every foe in the game except constructs and undead. These often can be stabbed with the help o...

Wednesday, 30th May 2018, 14:36

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Scrub League #1 - SpBe

Replies: 17

Views: 10877

Re: Scrub League #1 - SpBe

+ 100 pts for abandoning Trog on D:1

"before D:2" would be less ambiguous, unless you really want to reward backtracking just to abandon.

Wednesday, 18th April 2018, 22:50

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Tomb 3 - kill hole

Replies: 17

Views: 5817

Re: Tomb 3 - kill hole

Based on the screens it looks like everyone goes for Statue Form these days (unless TSO/Kiku I guess). Or Xom: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/git/stickyfingers/morgue-stickyfingers-20180416-190027.txt But yeah, Statue Form is good in Tomb, as it gives you immunity to miasma and flay, along with si...

Sunday, 21st January 2018, 23:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2660587

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

  Code:
 g - the +19 crystal plate armour "Gymej" (worn) {*Corrode Str+2 Stlth+}
   (Xom gifted it to you on level 8 of the Dungeon)   

#goodxom

Tuesday, 19th December 2017, 11:56

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: GnWz of Oka

Replies: 12

Views: 3123

Re: YAVP: GnWz of Oka

I've recently cleared that vault, on this char I think. All you need is the provided wand of digging. Free the cacodemons one by one and use zig-zag patterns, preferably with some butterflies to block malmutate. Charging head-first is rarely a good idea in DCSS.

Friday, 25th August 2017, 21:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The Update The Text Thread

Replies: 17

Views: 5293

Re: The Update The Text Thread

Flame may be useful in 1-tile water pool to create steam. There's also chance that polymorph and random effects happen to be good.
Though I agree that this line is uncalled for.

Friday, 25th August 2017, 21:52

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Broken Swamp Lair Vault?

Replies: 6

Views: 2561

Re: Broken Swamp Lair Vault?

Sure it could, and linking it can't hurt anybody.

Tuesday, 1st August 2017, 16:03

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Don't spawn literal trash monsters

Replies: 15

Views: 5936

Re: Don't spawn literal trash monsters

No gnolls in orc Gnolls are stronger than orcs. So, if orcs belong there, in terms of depth, then I guess gnolls are fully justified. Then again, I believe that the Mines are the worst offender of the game when it comes to spawning popcorn, by the time you enter them. I rarely ever level up to a hi...

Wednesday, 12th July 2017, 08:31

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Conduct: Never deal damage except by ranged weaponry

Replies: 18

Views: 5447

Re: Conduct: Never deal damage except by ranged weaponry

Damn it, will have to go through the whole ordeal again.

Tuesday, 11th July 2017, 20:00

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Conduct: Never deal damage except by ranged weaponry

Replies: 18

Views: 5447

Re: Conduct: Never deal damage except by ranged weaponry

Done with a CeHu of Oka. I also did the antiskillrobin conduct, as well as no god abilities or any evokable uses or spells. Didn't find an Oka altar until after exploring D:6 (Temple was in a secluded part of D:5 that I skipped), then struggled with arrow count until Oka started gifting, was down to...

Tuesday, 11th July 2017, 10:59

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Funny death: killed by something dying off-screen

Replies: 5

Views: 2089

Re: Funny death: killed by something dying off-screen

This makes me wonder if allies (summons, undead, etc.) should just 'unravel' or 'fall apart' out of LOS, just like clouds. Thematically it would be easily justified. It would also weaken allies, although it would still be the strongest thing going I suspect. Summons and necro products already don't...

Monday, 10th July 2017, 15:56

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: World record by Charly: melee rules again

Replies: 15

Views: 4375

Re:

It's unlikely to get a score like this in newer versions, right. We had a recent discussion if 0.16 or 0.17 was better for speedruns (as control teleport was available in 0.16) but probably 0.17 is the best version. A ring of teleportation saves a lot of turns if you can activate it. This was possi...

Monday, 10th July 2017, 15:50

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: World record by Charly: melee rules again

Replies: 15

Views: 4375

Re: World record by Charly: melee rules again

Why do you play 0.17 and not any newer version? Do you think this turncount is impossible in newer versions? Abil: Evoke Teleportati | | 1 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 96 | 119 || 263 Also minor stuff like statue form melee being affected by strength, tomb with stairs, neither -cTele in Hell endings and...

Thursday, 6th July 2017, 18:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: I think we learned an important lesson today.

Replies: 2859

Views: 898573

Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.

Jorgrun already has Dig, and so do Deep Troll Earth Mages.

Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 14:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

Replies: 6

Views: 3209

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

You get "X is killed" message if you reflect a normal projectile, but "You kill X" if you reflect a spell. I don't know if this matters for exp/piety though.

Thursday, 15th June 2017, 18:28

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: duvessa's spell guide for cool people

Replies: 145

Views: 586332

Re: duvessa's spell guide for cool people

random2 means "roll this once", not twice.

Monday, 12th June 2017, 20:17

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: GrEE of Vehumet 3 Runes

Replies: 5

Views: 1960

Re: YAVP: GrEE of Vehumet 3 Runes

Nice gloves.

Monday, 12th June 2017, 18:48

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Proposal for Re-Designing the Hells

Replies: 18

Views: 5739

Re: Proposal for Re-Designing the Hells

Seriously, would you take a spriggan cloak-and-dagger character into the new Tomb? Probably only in a game where you'd fully expect to die. Sure you can do that. Look here for example: http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Sphara/morgue-Sphara-20170604-170322.txt I don't get it, who has so many magi...

Monday, 12th June 2017, 18:08

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournaments!

Replies: 34

Views: 16263

Re: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournamen

It depends on character IMHO. Some time ago felids couldn't use any wands, and now they're much easier. Previously a 12-game streak would not be over during orb run because character couldn't quaff potions while threatened, Ru exists for a few versions already and the situation could be handled bet...

Monday, 12th June 2017, 12:54

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournaments!

Replies: 34

Views: 16263

Re: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournamen

Looks like it worked well. Congrats on your top 10 finish. It's weird to see that it is not enough to have a streak of 10 games including all rune game and Nemelex choice points to get into top 10. It's doubly weird because 0.20 crawl is objectively much harder than ever. It's harder, but not that m...

Monday, 12th June 2017, 11:15

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Embodiment of a God

Replies: 22

Views: 7854

Re: Embodiment of a God

duvessa wrote:
Spoiler: show
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Could someone explain those two?

Monday, 12th June 2017, 10:57

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: a post in (exaggerated) praise of spellcasting

Replies: 12

Views: 3968

Re: a post in (exaggerated) praise of spellcasting

TonberryJam wrote:If you don't have a way to mitigate hunger costs by staff of energy or god choice, then you wind up alternating training schools and spellcasting. Hunger from level 4 and 5 spells should not be underestimated.
Sure, if you're a spriggan and it's your only way to kill dudes. Not otherwise.

Sunday, 11th June 2017, 23:09

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Mutation roulette sucks

Replies: 5

Views: 2001

Re: Mutation roulette sucks

So you actually had a battleaxe but no curing identified? I'm baffled.

Re: Road to greatfelid (15/20), third deathless game in a ro

FE is the best for conjuring. IE is the best for plain melee, while EE and VM are decent for stabbing. AE just sucks.

Thursday, 8th June 2017, 14:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2687430

Re: I love it when...

  Code:
 You miscast Blink.
 You are very lightly contaminated with residual magic.
 Space bends around you! You blink.

Blink was actually 95% fail, I just forgot it's *almost* pointless to cast.

Friday, 26th May 2017, 19:19

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: 0.20 release and tournament

Replies: 45

Views: 40710

Re: 0.20 release and tournament

amaril wrote:cerealjinx/stickyfingers, if you want to join my clan I have two spots left. Right now the roster is bazoo Pedant Chobophobe [bottomlesspete]

Sorry, didn't notice that.

Friday, 26th May 2017, 15:45

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: 0.20 release and tournament

Replies: 45

Views: 40710

Re: 0.20 release and tournament

I'd also like to join a clan if there's any with slots open. I expect to win some games.

Friday, 26th May 2017, 13:44

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: HaAM of Zin (3 runes)

Replies: 2

Views: 1088

Re: YAVP: HaAM of Zin (3 runes)

Why so much throwing? Don't tell me it's to conserve sling ammo. You seem to underuse imprison, and to overuse sanctuary. Good applications of the former can save the piety on the latter. Also, with +Inv and Ha apts it wouldn't be a bad idea to use daggers more, possibly instead of maces.

Thursday, 25th May 2017, 19:14

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Casual League Gritty Reboot - Week 2 - Ha^Zin

Replies: 10

Views: 7034

Re: Casual League Gritty Reboot - Week 2 - Ha^Zin

T3 here : Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-2-ge494091 (console) character file. 1937851 stickyfingers the Orthodox (level 27, 188/199 HPs) Began as a Halfling Enchanter on May 23, 2017. Was an Elder of Zin. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on May 25, 2017! The game lasted 11:38:50 (10278...

Thursday, 25th May 2017, 11:05

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Replies: 43

Views: 18246

Re: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Anyway, I wrote this post because I talk to a lot of webtiles players now and they're almost always playing mibe and they have like a flail and a large shield and they're like what should I do to improve my character? And when I tell them to try two handed weapons they go Well, if a person is using...

Wednesday, 24th May 2017, 14:15

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Replies: 43

Views: 18246

Re: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

mikee wrote:
stickyfingers wrote:I'd much rather study elliptic and the like.

Didn't one of "the like" provide all of the qualitative information in the original post? Maybe not, I guess I haven't played significant amounts of crawl in ages.

Yeah, but I meant "compared to Dynast", as in the post I quoted.

Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, 11:46

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Replies: 43

Views: 18246

Re: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Are species and shield the only two factors that determine victory chance? It's probably assumed that other factors are similar for the two sets. Is it odd that the two species with the highest shield aptitide (Mi and Fo) do worse when they train shields? Fo should be ignored, as they always have s...

Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, 09:45

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: OpXX - update: finally won

Replies: 15

Views: 5255

Re: OpXX - win or die trying

Cigo is usable in armour, so is good for many Kikuites. Ozo and statue are incompatible with it, and good for Octopodes.

My advice for OP - train more dodging. Dodging should be your highest skill most of the time. Train way less spellcasting, it's only mildly helpful.

Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, 09:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

Replies: 43

Views: 18246

Re: So You're Finally Getting Farther in the Game

It's 20 posts and still nobody pointed out that morningstars aren't 10 base damage? Note that while vampires don't get a damage penalty at bloodless, they do get an accuracy penalty. wat If what it takes to be good at Crawl is mainly to be a math whiz who loves fine print and wall of text, then ther...

Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, 09:16

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournaments!

Replies: 34

Views: 16263

Re: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournamen

This is all pretty straightforward. You get a flat bonus of 100 points for your first win, and 50 more points any time you win with a species or role you haven't won yet . You also get bonuses for entering and finishing branches, and getting max piety with a god for the first time. The first three ...
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