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diviton wrote:...the early game (the only time you'll really use breath anyway)...

*Jaw drops* This is exactly why pale+mottled are on top, because their breaths are useful all game long. Use them!!

The thing the blue named players are trying to communicate is that all those tools that make elf safer make getting runes and the orb safer too. And presently, only lair and orc contain neither runes nor the orb but still increase the chance of getting runes and the orb more then they increase the c...

Even on my guys with 0 weapon skill i end up tabbing all the sissies, which ended up not working too well with distortion and without reaching. With a stabber it was special since distortion combos well with stabs and gave me options when i couldnt stab.

Anyway, good luck!

Personally the only weapons i enjoyed with distortion were stabbing and polearm. When I tried other weapons I just got way too frustrated with the blinks. Maybe blink chances have been changed since.... like 10 months ago, but I wouldn't put distortion on a mace anymore.

...Could you be more specific?... Basically it's just too much of too many things. I'm probably not a good person for suggestions since I haven't completed forest in a while and I believe changes have happened since, but when I did the density of special things I *had* to be aware of in any single ...

I seem to remember manuals being really strong in sprints. Probably has to do with the weird fast way skills level up in there.

It's a bit uncomfortable how winning and streaking in tournaments with xom means taking xom at the altar and with chaos knight to dump xom on turn 1.

Xom is really fun and makes the game more interesting after the bullshit early game deaths. That's why I recommend to take Xom at the altar rather then starter gods for people who want to play him, so you have the tools to deal with most of the bad actions. Also someone posted that recently Xom was ...

I would love if it was removed from the auto-attack and moved to the ability menu even with a very short cooldown.

I seem to remember another similar thread in this forum about this subject last year but i can't seem to find it

I think it had some good stuff... maybe...

Enemies fleeing is excellent for raging without divine help.

Even if it's thematic and increases challenges, it's pretty unfun so it's one of the reasons I usually use polearms, one whack when they approach and another when they try to leave.

I think the point everyone is trying to make is that nemelex + 20 evoc is enough to deal with almost every challenge in the entire game, which makes it a very strong god. Anyway, back on topic, i think mara is a very good unique since he has a good enough kit to be a challenge to most heros while be...

It's really fun and then you die. If you insist on trying it out remember you can have your battle sphere eat most MR resist spells if you have it out between you and the enemy caster. It's immune to all effect spells (including banish) so it's a perfect tank for those and can eat 1 hit before dying...

How can/could you remove confusion with a rod? You used to be able to use rod spells to not die while confused. Now you can't. Thanks for info, never knew that thing. I have tried to play really really safe for some time. And I have died anyway. Note that your chances of winning a mummy chaos knigh...

If you wanna have a "reasonable" chance as a mummy of xom I'd suggest not starting with xom but instead taking xom at it's first altar. Mummy wizard of xom seemed to be the least horrible one when i was trying. If you insist on starting as mummy of xom and actually care about trying to win...

Back when i started playing crawl I killed a troll in an almost identical situation by eating poison food.

I died starving and poisoned.

If you just wanna mess around with that spell you can try a centaur archer of kiku. Max your bow and then get necromutation. It's not much different then centaur hunter without necromutation, but centaur ranged combat is so strong that you should be able to experiment with stuff rather safely. It's ...

I guess if I think about a moat while wearing a helmet I won't be visualizing kobold meat extraction using a mace. Thanks guys.

If my int score was higher I'd make a new competing thread called "Mating with a spear and mace" which would let me acquire laughs. Dreams can be so beautiful.

I'm having a hard time getting used to separating kobolds from their meat using my mace. I don't think it's a bad thing. But it seems to be brushing up against my insecurities about getting excess amounts of kobold juice all over me. Don't you all go through the motions when you press 'c' in perfect...

The dude above really has it right. Fridge is ultra good, but not used much only because it's so extremely annoying in practice. Serious talk: why is cold so crazy amazing? Freeze, Sleep, Frost, Beasts, Amour, Icicle, Clouds, Bolt, Fridge, Mass Slow, Storm. And that other proposal would add mass pet...

What i like most about ice storm is the big killer combo it allows. Shoot orb of destruction at enemy at edge of sight, next turn shoot delayed fireball + ice storm at enemy as it gets hit by the orb of destruction. It's so satisfying to be able to chunk all the enemies in the game 100%-->0% in a tr...

How about summons decrease their time remaining at twice the rate if their summoner is dead and poison status is guaranteed to lose 1 level per turn when no tension? At medium tension, poison could be identical, at high tension it could inflict higher damage ("your excitement helps the poison c...

I think it's a reminder of how unfun cats used to be with brown meat sickness. Especially heal cats.

*Pukes*

For the 10 rune challenge, any troll will get you to temple through tabbing, and wizards will reliably get you there too (berserk first room, imps to get to temple door, conjure flame in doorway and let water elemental kill itself in it). For not wizards/not trolls it seems way less reliable but it ...

If you wanna try something different for that sprint i'd recommend human caster (i found conjurer easiest) of sif. In that sprint sif gifts every 2 fights or so, so it's possible to try all sorts of crazy spell combos. I think that one specific sprint is easier for gifting gods, and i certainly don'...

Haste+Blink worked for me last melee dude to get to a side corridor, though i miss stairdancing, as this was the most fun place to do it. I was very surprised the first time i saw locked stairs, still don't like it much, but i guess i'm getting used to it (means i don't go to vaults until i have a m...

Baldu: "Secretly" -- where have you been? Grimm is openly known as Satan's minister in this forum. I'm just some guy who plays a lot, complains a bit, and makes new accounts whenever the forum autologin forgets me. How was I supposed to keep track of good and evil? At least now I have a c...

Grimm wrote:Has thanked: 666 times

Are you secretly satan?

The reason boots of running and swiftness are so amazingly powerful is not just because they are useful during combat, but because they are useful before combat is engaged to create situations that are massively advantageous. The ability to kite/run/get to priority target quickly are also incredible...

How about scroll of enchant armour adds a random ego once armour piece is fully enchanted? Time to start hoarding boots and using enchant armor on them over and over. ??? Checking on my current game that's probably gonna be a 3 rune win (currently in zot1) i've found less then 10 enchant armour scr...

How about scroll of enchant armour adds a random ego once armour piece is fully enchanted?

I trolled a bit but am left wondering, if i download local tiles, can i replace some of the enemy drawings by politician pictures? Might make me feel better!

As of 5 minutes ago the USA gov is officially shutdown. It's gonna be super unfun for a bunch of people (most likely including me), so i need a picker upper. Suggestions?

My current guy has spellcasting at 15, conjuration at 17, air at 19, poison and ice at 0, and intelligence at 25 and has freeze and poison cloud at ~4% fail.

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Governement of the USA now turned off

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