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You can't go wrong with a HOFE.

I splatted a HaWn who got into an interesting fight with Eustachio and Menkaure. After using ?immolation I kind of forgot to blink away before dealing the final blow to Menkaure -> 39 damage from the explosion, good bye HaWn.

Currently on Lair:8 with a HaBe, looking good.

skyspire wrote:I think you will die many many more times as an artificer if you put 50% of your Xp into evocations from level 1 onwards.

That may be, but that's how I play Ar.

Just a note: Enchanted Forest doesn't exist.

You are right. I never claim to train skills optimally. I have my own system, which depends on the background and aptitudes of the character. It's a roleplaying thing I guess. In this case, playing an Artificer, I put 50% of exp to Evocations all the time. Then I train one other skill (which one, de...

True. I'm still a bit unsure about when to use those, but this was probably one of those situations when I should've done so.

I'd do Shoals next. Use invisibility on the last level. You must have better armour somewhere than that -1 leather. If you really want to use that shield, get 15 Shields skill (I suppose no ego bucklers are around). That weapon is nice, train more weapon skill. There's no hurry for Fire Storm.

The first win is the most amazing thing in the world, congrats! Tip: use Code tags instead of spoiler tags for the dump for more convenient reading.

Congrats, the first time is the best! Tip: put your dump in Code tags instead of spoiler tags for more conveninent reading.

What I don't like about most of these ideas is that they are of the sort, "get rid of scroll use...but not really." Me neither. All in all it seems more like a deity thing: you join a god and give up reading. Then the god provides some abilities to cope with no reading. But there's alread...

After picking up the Orb, just do 'Ctrl-f dungeon' and then select the exit out of the dungeon as the target. When something interrupts you, deal with the situation, go one level up and continue with autotravel. Have a wand of digging with you so you can shorten the path to the nearest staircase if ...

The only significant thing about this death was that it ended my first ever Crawl streak (HEMo, DEHu, DDAs). Started a HOAr. When I found an altar of Nemelex on D:2 I honestly thought I'd have a good chance of extending the streak. But I didn't quite get to the point where decks start coming in at a...

Edit: and for anyone who doesn't wish to read anything above, the proposal is for an optional check to be made only once upon a player's initiation of a directional attack against an enemy that can deliver a single fatal blow . The check is not made against current HP, is not made for ranged attack...

Except if there is any stunner (that's why I wrote about Rupert up here) or confuser, or sleeper, you can get killed in a single unlucky streak. Yes but Aule is not trying to cover all possible ways to die here. It's not supposed to be a fool-proof preventer of death, but a possibly helpful tool fo...

Great job! First win with dark maul and ponderous hat, classic stuff :)

FR: 1/100 chance that when you get to the Orb it is actually a mimic and you made the whole trip to Zot:5 for nothing.

Maybe it would suffice if the warning triggered only if you're going to take a step next to a monster that could potentially kill you before you can react?

Yes but it makes less noise.

Too bad, dying due to a typo. And the giant got two hits in because you accidentally attacked with a 0-skill halberd. But a weapon of protection is good for exploring, so no regrets there.

OK I would have realised it's a joke if Shatter or Fire Storm had been proposed ;)

Yes, DD must be the strongest race. I've played 4 games with DD and won 2 of them.

Noise from LCS: loud.

Maybe overtraining was a wrong word, but you definitely trained it too soon that high. You had 12 free spell levels. Some of the experience spent there would have served better somewhere else. And I'm not saying that you couldn't win with training like that, just trying to give some advice that coul...

Should be easier with wands.

I'm all for randomness, it makes games interesting. I think it was the same game where wands of frost and flame were among the last 4 or 5 unidentified types.

Well, you don't have to (and shouldn't) learn all the spells Vehumet offers. If you want Delayed Fireball, just kill some monsters to get to the next XL so you get one more spell level free. Or train some more Spellcasting. The offer will be there for a while.

Love the hat of Pondering on Marvin's naga.

Electrocution brand makes no additional noise.

For some reason, I seem to almost always have something else to wear than DAs. I just checked, out of my 18 winners, 3 wore DAs in the end (1 FDA, 1 GDA, 1 faerie DA). Of course, some of the others wore some sort of DA at some point, but still. It's quite possible that I dump the 8 first EA scrolls ...

I also think that variable HP is good. The less there are possibilities to exactly calculate optimal fighing strategies, the better.

I wouldn't even mind if uniques had variable HP.

I could do that, yes. I've compiled some versions of Stone Soup some years ago myself because of some terminal-related issues. But for now, the latest official release suffices for me. I have so little time to play anyway (+ I'm a slow player), I haven't even played one game with a vine stalker or f...

Why won't you play online? 1) I play with a laptop without internet connection 2) I would hate other players' ghosts 3) I couldn't stand lag, if there would be some As to the OP, I recently had a character reach level 16 with only one ring found, period. I thought that was weird Well, at least you ...

Yes, that ring is great. You're overtraining Spellcasting. Flame Tongue is unnecessary.

Whenever 0.15 for OSX is released, sure. And I won't miss item destruction either.

So I extended my first ever Crawl streak to 3! After HEMo and DEHu, now DDAs. Funny that none of those are recommended combinations… Ninja in plate. Kids, don't try this at home ;) I didn't plan to go heavy armour, but when I saw that plate in a Bazaar on D:15 I just couldn't resist it. I had alread...

Playing a DDAs of Makhleb, cleared Dungeon, Lair, Orc, Spider, Swamp, Depths, Elf, Crypt, Blade, Vaults, Zot 1:4. Haven't yet seen amulets of conservation, resist corrosion, faith, resist mutation or warding. Guardian spirit was found on Zot:4. Yellow dracs corroded my pair of boots from +2 to -2. S...

When you have 2 runes.

And why stick with Wz?

Naturally the best is the first one: Dungeon Crawl version 3.20 character file. Jysky the Destroyer (Hill Orc) (Level 23 Fire Elementalist) Experience : 23/483477 Strength 18 Dexterity 12 Intelligence 16 Hit Points : 172 Magic Points : 30 AC : 23 Evasion : 12 Shield : 9 Gp : 114 You escaped. You wor...

OK now I have to find a way to take pi and gravity into account when making skilling decisions...

Ouch. So how was the Abyss trip?

DK^TSO? You pervert! ;)

Well, I presented the table because some numbers and formulas were mentioned earlier. From there you can get, at a glance, the idea of how much the aptitudes affect training. But I wouldn't expect a normal (or should I say sane) player to pay closer attention to that. (Personally I use that table al...

Patashu wrote:
starless wrote:I spent 18 potions of curing on a trove, which only had a few useful scrolls and a wand of healing.

And now you know not to do that

I think a wand of healing for 18 curing pots is a good deal.

Sar wrote:Removing autoexplore and autofight.

Everything must be so easy for you kids. Now let me tell you about the good old days...

How about after leaving D:1 with the Orb the game isn't over yet, but you appear at the Elemental Planes... ;)

(I think the current Orb run is just fine.)

Here is a table that shows how many experience points you need to train a skill from one level to the next. The first row is the aptitude and the first column is the next level. +5 +4 +3 +2 +1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 1 21 25 30 35 42 50 60 70 85 100 119 2 42 50 60 71 84 100 119 141 169 200 238 3 63 75 89 1...

I think Evaporate could be brought back as a higher level spell. Without FD it would work with limited resources and give some use to otherwise useless items.

maybe OP compares DCSS to roguelikes like tome4 insane+, if he does its easy ofc compared to that one. some ppl are just hardcore Nope, haven't played those. Just mostly Nethack and ADoM, some Slash'em, a bit DoomRL. Anyway the point of this thread originally wasn't to argue how difficult Crawl is,...

Oh yeah, totally forgot about ?vuln.

How many have experience on corrupting Slime:6? Is there a (reasonable) possibility that the rune vault would not be opened (then just LRD I guess)?

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