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Berserk, as the major tool of the berserker class, is underwhelming with spriggans IMO. I have played a lot of berserkers lately and I don't think "Berserk" should be considered as the major tool for any follower of Trog. It is good in the early game, but once you're done with lair there ...

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You cannot train any new skill. Increased Stealth to skill level 27.0.

And no skill training is enabled.

How would you not have empty space to swing at AND want to wait for the monster to do something? Even in this cheesy setup the monster is right in front of you or you can swing: ###.# ##.## ###@# ##### I'd propose to do something to actually dispatch the monster instead of waiting for the perfect mo...

I think you are micro-optimizing too much... It will not result in a lower turn count for your score either. If your attack speed is lower than a turn you can swing at the air I guess (ctrl + direction).

This will be interesting. Never played this race... Any tips? Just play as a weaker UC troll?

Most notable thing was getting for the first time the cloak of the thief - man, I supposed it was good, but unlimited fog is the most broken thing in crawl! That cloak is by *far* the strongest thing existing in the game. Yeah, especially as a melee character. Everything has to walk towards you. An...

Magipi wrote:
Cheibrodos wrote:All that's left for me is tomb and zot, but I've lost all will to play after going through Hells.

Show us the dump, please.

If you know the server a player is on you can always get the latest dump. He's on CSZO, thus the link is:
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Cheibrodos/Cheibrodos.txt

The battlesphere can definitely be blinked by dispersal arrows. The tengu conjurer conjures a globe of magical energy! Use which ability? (? or * to list) Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f - battlesphere Aim: a battlesphere The battlesphere is unaffected. You feel somewhat more hungry. ...

I don't know whether you're playing 0.13 or trunk. If you leave Trog in 0.13 his wrath will most likely kill you (I just assume you are not too far into the game). In trunk wrath has been changed recently but I have no experience how hard it currently is to survive under Trog's penance. My advice wo...

ackack wrote:for druids your option is silence, which is comparably a quite rare consumable.

Did the new swamp twice now. Curare works fine against druids and takes a lot of the danger away.

HotCrab wrote:Duvessa, I don't understand the implication. I use ensorceled hibernation constantly so I wear the ring to improve my ice magic. Is that a bad idea?

It gives you a vulnerability to fire. You really don't want that.

crate wrote:in fact it is small enough that even over howevermany attacks fsim does (1000?)

Code:: Attack: Kobold Assassin vs. ettin (4000 rounds)

Variance is a great thing, isn't it

Tedronai, is that with the extra 20 slaying taken into account? It doesn't look like it . . . This was just the plain quickblade. Here is the same with 15 additional slaying (I will not tinker in wiz-mode to get exactly 20): Attack: Kobold Assassin vs. ettin (4000 rounds) (2014/02/12/19:18:57) Kobo...

Oh. One more quick question. How much extra damage will I get from boosting my short blades skill from 14 to 20? How about to 27? Ive got a QB of stabbing +8+7 (which is REMARKABLY resistant to enchantment scrolls :evil: ), and not that it matters but Ive got another +20 in slaying bonuses. My KoAs...

Magipi wrote:Thanks, but I think testing in wizmode is way beyond the limits of average players.

Don't be average then

vengefulcarrot wrote:http://kr.dobrazupa.org/morgue/trunk/hanon12/morgue-hanon12-20140119-134212.txt

Beogh is very viable for incredible wins.

Does this server have no ttyrecs? I'd be really interested in watching this one.

I don't think this is really true. At the time of writing there have been 1113065 online games in trunk versions and 1831380 online games in stable versions. Every time I scroll through the player lists of CSZO, CAO and CLAN at least 90% of the players have a trunk game running. Stable versions pea...

Bart wrote:You can also use bots (sequell) to check what situation did the player die in. Maybe he got bored and firestormed himself to death? Or maybe it was god's wrath? I'm curious!

Probably was starving and desperately tried to reach the one food shop in Orc:4

It will not do that.

What percentage of people just play trunk anyway? (I genuinely don't know this.) If it is high then frequent releases might not change that much in terms of how easy it is to keep track of changes.. Online the vast majority plays trunk. Offline is hard to say... You could try to derive it from the ...

Don't fight enemies with distortion weapons in melee
If you encounter enemies with spell banishment have some good MR or do not engage
Even with high MR stay out of their line of fire as much as possible and kill them quickly

I don't care too much about the change. However I have two concerns: ⋅ Getting marked now seems like a death sentence to me. You can no longer make a sprint around and hope to reach one of the upstairs. The hallway you chose to fight will simply be clogged in no time. ⋅ I think...

Damn this was fast. Got double teamed by two orc wizards

This combo looks like a good candidate for either season high score or season min turn count win...

Viashino_wizard wrote:I personally like to deal with Distortion weapons by chucking them in lava when the option presents itself.

Bear in mind that some salamander might be diving for those hidden treasures (same with deep water and merfolk).

In my opinion it is a waste of time. The only thing I do is taking distortion weapons one floor up (if I have cleared it). This way I will not come across them again until the ascension. Probably a good idea to do that with early draining/elec weapons too. But I don't see any benefit in explicitly s...

Remove rings of fire resistance and cold resistance; leave only rings of Fire and rings of Ice. Why would you do that? Juggling jewelry is already one of the most annoying aspects of the game. Only having resistance rings with an additional vulnerability increases the need to swap around rings even...

Good job making it so far though. I enjoyed reading your dump file, and especially got a kick out of Xom turning Asterion into an agate snail. :lol: I really wanted to see what this new unique is about, Xom didn't give me any chance :( I'm glad Abyss first seemed sufficiently tough. Do you have any...

Fucked it up and died like a bitch in Zot:5. Abyss nearly destroyed all my consumables and I could not get much back in Vaults:1-4. Needed more means of teleportation, 5 charges of a wand were not enough. Should have bought the tele ring in one of the orc shops. Had enough turns in my last moments f...

Trog's wrath is fine. You cannot expect to get a superior weapon and god abilities that make (at least) a 5 rune game ridiculously easy only to then discard him. Most of crawl players will never have a reason to abandon him and those who go for extended only need some means of blinking to reliably s...

Arrgh! Sorry, Duvessa -- I appreciate the link but have an undiagnosed learning disability when it comes to math. I don't understand what "min(7, floor(base delay / 2))" means. What is a floor in this context? Not the dungeon floor, I assume? flooring is the mathematical term for cutting ...

Yes, I know what you are talking about. Stasis-swapping is main feature of Xom player IMHO. About to enter new level - put the amulet on. Seriously wounded - put it on. Barely escaped from a dangerous monster - put it on. You are obviously missing this: S - the ring "Thruokkumn" (left han...

This is my current status. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-2443-g5aee772 (webtiles) character file. TedronaiSDC the Sensei (DrCK) Turns: 52319, Time: 08:35:40 HP 211/211 AC 20 Str 15 XL: 21 Next: 86% MP 29/29 EV 24 Int 12 (14) God: Xom Gold 2282 SH 44 Dex 17 Spells: 2 memorised, 16 levels l...

sanka wrote:Thanks for the advice, altough I also mentioned it

Oh sorry I missed that. Was there really no way to escape? Usually it is a viable method to run onto a staircase and evoke the fan of gales for fast pan lords...

Code:: You die... Xom laughs nastily!

Such a shame

You had a really awesome set of mutations... However you should have wore some MR rings instead of two times regen. Probably would have saved you from paralyze...

Code:: language = en

In your crawlrc.

Still going strong so far. Cleared lair, orcish mines and most of the dungeon. I think this is one of the most intense runs I've had so far. The clarity amulet and a -Tele ring seem to prevent a lot of Xom's bullshit. Also going for Unarmed Combat looks like it is pretty viable for this combo...

Also consider going Pan first next time. For most characters it is considered easier than the hells.

If you want to learn basic stuff play HuWn and adapt as the game progresses... 9) Get used to unfair deaths and "unfair" ones. If you are not with Xom there are almost none of those in the game I start to believe that one cannot be considered a good player unless he/she has won with Xom at...

Wouldn't this be a cool little vault idea? Doesn't even need new uniques. Just have some snapping turtles (perhaps one alligator snapping turtle) guard a few slices of pizza. Similar to the spriggan, merfolk, ogre food vaults.

Bart wrote:And my favourite:
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/JollyGreen/ ... 141702.txt

That guy is hardcore!

GDA4lyfe!

I'm surprised no one has suggested this, but you can switch to Zin with minimal piety loss and no penance and he can cure your mutations. Then you can switch back. He would have to max out Zin piety for this. And I don't think that his mutation set is so bad that it would justify the (temporary) sw...

I don't know what to choose between amulet of faith (for cleansing flames), clarity (Conf was VERY annoying in slime), or rMut (very useful in Slime and Z:5, but is it in Pan and Hell?) Faith is useless at this stage. All you will be facing are endless hordes of demons, your piety will stay at max ...

WalkerBoh wrote:As far as I know, clarity does help with Xom confusion now.

A definite answer would be appreciated. It will decide whether it's worth buying the amulet or not...

Xom really is taking a toll, he must be so happy this week :D Made it to lair yesterday (currently XL 12) and decided that I'll try to get the abyssal rune as my first one. We'll see how it plays out... Does anybody of you guys know if the amulet of clarity prevents Xom's confusion effect? Or is it ...

I experimented with him offline (is this allowed?) because I had never experienced Xom effects. I don't see anything wrong with training offline. The point is that you need to decide when the time has come for your game to be counted. And this decision has to be made before the game is played and n...

So if you want to abandon Xom, I would only do it for a god that immediately improves your survival chances (i.e., Oka, Trog, Fed). That's my 2 cents. I tried his wrath offline... Keep in mind that he can just surround you with Tier-4 demons (which include Blue devils, Iron devils, Orange Demons an...

You're correct. Completing the Tier I challenge = 1 pt, completing the Tier II challenge = 3 pts, and you do not need to complete the Tier I to get Tier II. I think the Tier II challenge is quite a bit tougher than the Tier I (remember, you cannot abandon Xom as part of the challenge), but I'm curi...

Xom roars with laughter!

I suicided because of persistent, unbearable lag. I probably won't be playing any games online in the future for this, but I'll definitely follow along offline. Fun challenge though! Really that bad? You've quite a few games online, you obviously managed in the past... Alternatively you could try t...

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