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morik the Destroyer (level 13, -1/91 HPs)
Began as a Demonspawn Wizard on Dec 14, 2016.
Was a High Priest of Sif Muna.
Slain by a black mamba (8 damage)

It all started when I killed Crazy Yiuf and took his +4 quarterstaff of chaos. Finished getting mephitic cloud castable with <10% failure, got staffs to ~6.5 skill, and am now tearing everything up. I barely needed spells aside from an occasional mephitic. I found a brand weapon scroll and now its a...

So if I wanted to give Qazlal or Ru a shot, what would be good backgrounds for that?

Trunk got rid of the unarmed speed penalty for shields & heavy armor... as a transmuter, should I strap on a shield?
Or is it not worth the loss of the offhand punch?

I haven't played in over a year, but figured I'd try to get through (probably extended) with a DsTm. I was thinking of trying one of the newer gods, and Qazlal & Ru both look interesting... anyone have thoughts on which would be better? I'm leaning towards Ru as it doesn't seem to require invest...

It should not require external documentation. My understanding is that encumbrance rating can be roughly thought of as "if you don't have at least this much strength, you're going to have a bad time". Not sure if there is any intuitive way to figure out rough spell success models off of e...

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Encumbrance_rating Your spell failure with 11 encumbrance would be adjusted by: (25*(2 * 11^2 * (45-armour)/(225*(str+3))) - 20)/100 With 20 strength & 27 armour, that is about 1% extra to your failure chance. With, say, 10 strength and 10 armour, that is 52% extra fa...

In the early game, the benefits of fighting are so small that they are practically nonexistent. That XP would do a much better job in UC or doging or anything else. The formula for fighting's effect on HP changed in trunk; there is now a non-XL dependent boost (as well as an XL-dependent one) which...

It really is quite nice... I'm on D:10 and it has saved my life a couple times teleporting hard enemies, or sending them to the abyss. Like when I went in a bailey and a few orc knights with polearms came at me.

Hall of blades is probably the least worth it, the loot being particularly poor, and the risks not being worth it ever afaik. If you have excellent ranged weaponry / conjurations and escape abilities (extra speed), Hall of Blades can net you some extra XP with little effort. Yeah, till that anti-ma...

Do I just keep it in hand for a good long while? I'm on D:5. I have PbD , would prefer not to die to abyss banishment... but while I have no problem currently with running around with a +2/+5 trident of distortion, once I find a nice staff I'd love to swap... Should I just never unwield it until I a...

So I've been playing around with mages of various sorts (generally wizards or conjurers), and am ok getting through lair, orc, and D:16 (well, I die alot, but I can get through those often enough). however, then I tend to run into problems.. If I go to the depths, I generally find that I don't have ...

Hi guys, So a while ago (maybe in 0.6) I think I read on the wiki that the best place for a stash is Lair:2 due to no humanoids spawning to take your stuff. (Yes yes, don't trust the wiki.) However, another while ago (maybe a year ago), someone was observing my game and saw me go to my L:2 stash and...

Sounds good. Thanks for the help!

Spell success is irrelevant for a spell you won't get any bad miscasts on and that you cast before combat (delayed fireball). 4% for OoD is fine, but I guess you could get it down a little bit more if you like seeing as you only have 11,3 Conjurations. The thing is, your Fighting and Dodging are ve...

Train fighting/dodging before getting the bit extra conj I need to get delayed fireball & ood out of the yellow-zone? (My instinct would be to get those to a good place first, which shouldn't take long--if that is not the right decision I'd love to hear why, so I can learn. Is it that I can just...

More info: Skill Level Train Apt Skill Level Train Apt a - Fighting 6.0 -2 h - Spellcasting 17.1 +3 b - Staves 5.1 0 i + Conjurations 11.3 100% +1 c - Unarmed Combat 0.0 -2 j - Charms 5.2 +4 Summonings 1.1 +1 d - Throwing 0.0 +1 k - Necromancy 7.0 +2 l - Translocations 4.1 +1 e - Armour 0.0 -2 m - F...

I've done lair & orc, and am on D:16. My current spell list: Your Spells Type Failure Level a - Magic Dart Conjuration 1% 1 b - Iron Shot Conjuration/Earth 3% 6 d - Iskenderun's Mystic Blast Conjuration 1% 4 e - Poisonous Cloud Conjuration/Poison/Air 12% 6 f - Bolt of Draining Conjuration/Necrom...

Until a bit of exploration is done, it isn't always obvious which direction is towards or away from the center of the map. I assume auto explore shouldn't be deciding which way to go based on info the player doesn't have. So you'd need to consider the currently explored portion and have an algorithm...

@Volteccer_Jack: So don't use the interface if you choose not to. I'd certainly use it for necromutation instead of having to manually recast. And on certain characters, it can be decent to always have up a long-lasting buff. If you can cast dmsl with no or little hunger cost, and have enough spell ...

In order to truly play optimally, there are a few tedious things that need to be done: - add to the runrest stop option all the spell expiry messages for spells you want to keep active. - recast each as it expires. (You could set up a macro to do this for you, though that won't stop casting if a mon...

What if upon entering battle (player is attacked by anything, summon attacks anything, player attacks anything, summon is told to attack something, monster in LOS is aware of player or one of player's summons), summons start ticking down on duration. This duration countdown resets a short time after...

Fan of Gales is an evokable which does basically what I'm envisioning So why should we replicate this with a spell? A) it isn't quite the same; Fan is stronger (as it should be; it is usable infrequently). (Fan is omni-directional & pushes pretty far, from what I've seen of it.) B) It seems tha...

Having some way to deal with really dangerous enemies is nice. I like Wz and Cj as starts: - Wz has conjure flame to block passages (then you can snipe with magic dart, or hopefully will find a polearm quickly and you can take your time hitting them from 2 tiles away with a fire between you; recast ...

Force lance only pushes a square or two. Fan of Gales is an evokable which does basically what I'm envisioning, but it does it in all directions, and it takes a while to recharge. I'd imagine wind blast would not push as far as fan of gales, and certainly wouldn't do it in all directions. I am think...

Deals minimal or no damage. Pushes the target a certain aum-tiles distance (increasing with spell power). If there are other creatures behind the target, their weights are added to the target's weight once adjacent, and affect remaining squares pushed. Would be cool if you could cast it in reverse t...

RIP--killed by Gastronok

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http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/morik/morgu ... 213856.txt

XuaXua: nope, already got claws

That helmet is never leaving my head.

morik the Ruinous (Demonspawn Wizard) Turns: 9683, Time: 00:40:19 HP 61/61 AC 14 Str 7 XL: 9 Next: 96% MP 22/24 EV 15 Int 25 God: Vehumet [***...] Gold 347 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 5 memorised, 11 levels left rFire + + . SeeInvis . a - +3,+2 cutlass (protect) rCold + . . Clarity . D - +2 elf robe {rC+ rF...

If playing a character that needs to find their god quickly: - wait till D:4 (first level temple may be on) - read-ID scrolls on the up-stairs to D:3. - If I read-ID magic mapping, will be able to bee-line for temple if its on the level - If I read teleport, I go up to 3 so I don't end up in a bad s...

Nevermind, I died in a wizlab

Char dump: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/morik/morik.txt I'm playing on trunk (0.14) I've done dungeon to the bottom, haven't broached the depths. I've done Lair & Orc. I'm not clear on the safest place to go next; I haven't found blink, nor have I found repel missiles. I don't have haste castable...

@partial: At a given spell level, single target spells do a good bit of damage, while multi-target spells do less damage, or do damage over time (e.g., clouds). I'm proposing a new type of spell which is in between; more damage on average than a ray to a single target, but less on average than singl...

Some examples: Chaotic Barrage: - lvl 4 spell - Range 6 - fires 1-5 projectiles in a line. Fires all of them instantly (not over multiple turns). - each projectile is chosen randomly amongst: throw flame, throw frost, magic dart, sting, and a single-target shock ball (similar damage to the shock spe...

Your signature prompted me to go look at the code. There are a few different checks, but the main one I was interested in is (str + dex) is tested against a roll of 0-49. If str+dex is greater than the roll, you hit. UC skill has nothing to do with it. (Though it does affect your chance of an off-ha...

Wiki & learndb say UC has no effect on auxiliary attacks, but only discusses damage. What determines the to-hit roll for auxiliary attacks?

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Re: My DsWi is turning into a badass...

My DsWi is turning into a badass...

Re: DsTm--Qazlal or Ru (or someone else)?

Unarmed in trunk--use shields?

DsTm--Qazlal or Ru (or someone else)?

Re: Can't really figure out encumberance ratings impact

Re: Can't really figure out encumberance ratings impact

Re: Trying to go it Unarmed

Re: My low-level DsCj just wielded an un-ided distortion wea

Re: 3 rune games, any reason to do harder branches?

My low-level DsCj just wielded an un-ided distortion weapon

Branch order 0.14?

Stash advice?

Re: Air or Earth on my DeWz, Veh, circumstances inside

Re: Air or Earth on my DeWz, Veh, circumstances inside

Re: Air or Earth on my DeWz, Veh, circumstances inside

Re: Air or Earth on my DeWz, Veh, circumstances inside

Air or Earth on my DeWz, Veh, circumstances inside

Re: Autoexplore improvement

Re: Auto renew spell

Auto renew spell

Re: Summoning proposal

Re: New spell proposal: Wind Blast

Re: Easy introduction to spellcasting character ?

Re: New spell proposal: Wind Blast

New spell proposal: Wind Blast

Re: One of the best starts I've ever had

Re: One of the best starts I've ever had

One of the best starts I've ever had

Re: How do you typically handle ID'ing scrolls and potions?

Re: Could use some advice on where to go next.

Could use some advice on where to go next.

Re: Proposal: Multi-projectile spells

Proposal: Multi-projectile spells

Re: Does UC affect auxiliary to-hit?

Does UC affect auxiliary to-hit?