Search • The Tavern

ackack wrote:Shield and AC don't help against some of the most dangerous things that ancient liches do (e.g. summon Fiends, paralyze). Relatively low EV and no RMsl/DMsl make the conjurations more dangerous, too.

Yeah, the 3d48 crystal spear doesn't care too much about AC...

finally done Could have gone for an all-runer, but like WalkerBoh I despise playing casters... Thus I've settled for 3 runes with Bonus 1. Initially I wanted to stay below the 70k turn mark, my need for mana in V:5 and Z:5 thwarted those plans however. All in all DgCj is a pretty playable combo due...

Pearl Dragon Armour.

and by the way the morgues you guys sent here.. both of you had over 1000 turns spent on D:1 Yeah but the thing is: If you heal up let's say 3 times on D:1 and use auto-explore you get a turncount like that (dependent on how AE chooses to approach the level). Thus, if a player heals up after every ...

fearitself wrote:Walkerboh and ackack both gave good and needed advice in zot and run up.

Division 1 is skewing the competition!

Jokes aside, congrats on your first win. Not a trivial character either, you can be proud of that one!

galehar wrote:wiz-you.cc

Thanks! Perhaps I'll cook something up over the course of the next few weeks

Yeah, it only loads stats and skills. It could be improved, but it requires text parsing which can be painful to write. Especially items. Other stuff (species, background, spells) could be added relatively easily. But that wouldn't help at all for the main application which is fsim. Only inventory ...

Sometimes I want to run a quick fsim simulation and wizmode offers a command to load a character from a dump file (command &#). This would be quite useful for this purpose. However it recreates my character from the dump only partially (in the best case) or not at all. Are there some hidden tric...

nago wrote:I had no idea plain human simulacra could hurt so much!

If you're meleeing simulacra without rC you're setting yourself up for a bit of a surprise...

Well I unfortunately succumbed in my game. Got nailed for 63 dam in Vaults by a human simulacra (animated by a necromancer in Margery's pack). Pretty bummed since it was a great char and probably could've nabbed the high score. Just one of those situations where I didn't recognize how much damage t...

Apparently minmay thinks that Merfolk and Gold Dragon Armour are a great combination

Just for you: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1980-gca903ef (tiles) character file. 72 DgCj the Ruinous (level 2, 0/20 HPs) Began as a Demigod Conjurer on Jan 27, 2014. Slain by an orc wizard ... wielding a +0,+1 orcish dagger (5 damage) ... on Level 1 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:04:...

A spy wrote:I must have made strategic mistakes, but I can't really see which (Maybe I should have done Abyss instead?

Your .lst file shows many scrolls of immolation lying around in the dungeon. I would have used those to blow up the crowds of enemies in V:5.

Oh yes, I totally forgot they resist cold too. I wouldn't like to take Iron Shot, because I've invested in Air (although with Ash that would be possible). Is OoD good for killing OoFs? Surely it misses a lot? Maybe I should just not try to fight them (if that moment comes). Orb of Destruction is su...

pratamawirya wrote:How bad is it to wear a chain mail while punching with your fists? Since my DsMo found a very nice randart chain mail.

I fail to see why you think it would be bad?! You'll have to balance out your AC/EV but this is not really related to UC.

I still think sticky flame should prevent scroll reading for its duration, instead of destroying them. Good idea. Although I do wonder if it should also keep an on hit destruction. Well, it's probably not the right place to ask that, anyway :) If item destruction is to stay please give sticky flame...

The game does not have to guarantee that every character is winnable. If you die, you didn't lose much, just roll another character. Well... you lose your win streak... But I don't think that D:1 needs to be changed. Only once I was one-shotted by "drained of all life" from a kobold with ...

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10738

Yeah, I've never played online and the lag is a huge bummer. You get used to it. As a result you'll play more carefully and achieve better results :) At least this is how it went for me when I transitioned from offline to online play. --- Regarding the challenge I had not much time at my disposal t...

adozu wrote:can anyone explain what got harder in those branches? is it related to the new vinestalkers?

You know what this weeks challenge really needed? Mana Vipers!

(among other stuff, you can check the actual commits here)

Wear lighter armour and train the actual school to which the spell belongs to.

zogre wrote:Distortion GSC seems pretty awesome to me. Why would you not want distortion?

Because you're a melee character and it's just outright annoying when everything blinks away from you all the time? (especially more dangerous ranged mobs like yaktaur captains)

Have there been any advancements regarding this topic? I would love to see a solution to this, my current crossbow character plays not like what I would call "fun" because of this...

I wanted to go after Geryon, but without controlled blink, teleport, or a storm spell, I decided not to. You were afraid of Geryon but engaged a pandemonium lord instead??? Anyways, congrats on the win! Congrats... but what about a new topic for each week? In that way we would have a more organized...

termplay works fine for me.

I risk the statement that with a firemage Cocytus and Tartarus are both easier than Pan. I disagree. The hells are harder than Pandemonium because of the hell effects. Everything can go swiftly and then out of nowhere you're surrounded by a pack of demons. Or you're toe to toe with Antaeus when a r...

Yermak wrote:
siprus wrote:so i wonder if that can summon pandemonium lord

Tedronai the pandemonium lord comes into thread.

Code:: ... summoned by an ironbrand convoker ... led by an ironheart preserver

Ironbrand Convokers sometimes break sprint maps because they can summon monsters from elsewhere on the level.

Javelines of penetration are nice, but as an Orge/Troll there is no need in using them. Large rocks also have penetration and clear a hallway much more effectively. Apart from that, I don't think training that much throwing is necessary. On my recent troll I had 10 throwing and the large rocks alrea...

You could play Merfolk and frolic around in those levels

Playing an ogre berserker. After getting M&F to 22 for min weapon delay with GSC's, should I turn M&F off? What should I be focussing on after 22 M&F? Turn off M&F forever. Focus on Dodging, Fighting and some Armour (for a decent dragon armour later on). And on side notes, which is ...

For a 3-rune game I need round about 8 hours. This is the case for webtile games. I could be way faster, but lag significantly slows me down (chaining commands without seeing what is going on can be fatal). When a character dies I usually try to identify why that happened. Usually it could have been...

I will participate with the account "TedronaiSDC" (which I will use exclusively for playing these challenge characters).

For a simple 3-rune game, this is the order I usually choose: ⋅ Dungeon until Lair ⋅ clear Lair ⋅ clear Orc ⋅ finish Dungeon ⋅ do Swamp/Shoals and Spider/Snake (order depends on the availability of rPois) ⋅ do Vaults down to 4 ⋅ c...

You mean where to go? Shoals 2-4, then Depths, then Shoals:5, then Vaults:5 [...] I don't think Shoals:5 is harder than the Depths. In fact, I personally find it easier than the upper levels of the Vaults. In my opinion / experience the Depths branch is one of the hardest areas in a 3-rune game and...

This one was pretty harsh of the game:

Code:: 774 | D:2 | Noticed a centaur warrior

I survived though.

So, if I downloaded the newest version, how would I get this character on it? A n00b question, but I'm pretty clueless about this sort of thing. Your saves are located in .stone-soup (Linux) or in a similar folder in the AppData tree on Windows. If you download the new version it will still get its...

Upgrade the game to the latest version and then use restore abilities to reduce the draining effect.

They cannot access god abilities.

But it would be quite interesting if those countless early Be-ghosts would recall berserking iron trolls / stone giants before taking you on.

I would take switch to longblades for that weapon. Did it in a recent game of mine where I found a similar weapon (even after having invested 15 into polearms skill). Was definitely worth it, I had 0.5 normal attack speed and 0.2 while being hasted. If you play cautiously the game will not pose too ...

One of the best swords I've come across so far: g - the +7,+6 claymore "Lifebane" (weapon) {vamp, rElec rF++ MR+} (Trog gifted it to you in an ice cave) It inflicts no extra harm, but heals its wielder somewhat when it strikes a living foe. It greatly protects you from fire. It insulates y...

Good to see you've made it out

Would have been a real shame if you could not turn this into a win with a setup like this.

Anyway, congratulations on your first win - may a lot more follow

prospero14 wrote:Well, I met Borris on D25, and my kill list says I only killed him once.

So what was that on D24, then?

After you kill Boris, he will very likely come back on a different floor (for reference). So it was probably really him.

My game has the Tomb. :( Every game has the Tomb. It is the Crypt and the enchanted Forest who alternate in the trunk-version. Good thing about new abyss: I run into relatively few smoke demons. Bad thing about new abyss: Acid Blobs join the ranks of Smoke Demons and Nexoqecs that attack my will to...

I really like Hell Sentinels. They are universally dangerous to pretty much every race/class combination and really spice up the end-game :) For the uniques I have to concur with the choice of Mara. Additionally I really like Lamia. Her set of spells are an interesting combination which forces the p...

Well, this ended being my first WIN : http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/TomPliss/morgue-TomPliss-20131112-210705.txt Clearly, vamp axe + makhleb + damage shaving is really nice. Only went to low HP during zot:5 due to a fight against 2 OoF and a dragon... DD seems easy, that way :D Dungeon Crawl...

About skills, now, what should I do ? I gathered 160 bolts and 14 of flame and a +2/+2 Xbow, and am playing mainly without shield, so I can train the Xbow skill while delving in the dungeon, to get some real ranged firepower... Currently, I'm not really doing anything at range, only using throwed, ...

That axe is really really good for Zot. On pretty much any character it would be Zot-worthy, but in particular it is basically perfect for DD specifically. He should only swap it out while he's in crypt, if he wants to clear that branch, and for tombs / hells / Pan if he wants to do extended. Well ...

This axe is really good, basically all you could ever want for a Deep Dwarf (it even has SInv and rElec). The only downside are the low Acc/Dam modifiers (and it looks like it cannot be enchanted any further). If you want to go for 3 runes I would suggest making this a classical fighter: heaviest ar...

I recently ascended a GrBe (basically first try, the other one got pretty much one-shot very early on) and have to agree that it felt like one of the stronger races, but not too overpowered. However it felt like the additional torment resistance was a bit too much help in the extended end-game. The ...

Search found 300 matches