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I made a related patch: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10750&p=148792#p148792 Looks cool, Siegurt. As I am a newbie, I don't know how to use patches. I did a search on this forum and only found a reference to using a patch requiring the compilation of a new binary, whic...

I guess if there is a place for feature requests, it might be kinda cool if the game could do the math for me and just show me how many levels I need whenever I look at a weapon's description in my inventory. Computers are designed to do math. Harder to fit such a feature into the program and make i...

There's a table on the wiki but it was wrong last time I checked. Instead, just use the extremely simple formula here . 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))"...

What I usually do, though, is wearing a robe or archmagi(I haven't seen as many as before, lately) I haven't either. I guess it's just random number probability (unless code has been changed), but I've been having a lot harder time getting mottled dragon armor myself. I killed four of the mottled d...

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Amnesiac wrote:Wyrmbane takes less skill to get to min-delay than a long sword (12 vs. 14).

Is there an easy way to see this difference between weapons in the game, or is there a table on the Wiki? That's one of the subjects I'm unclear on.

All of this advice will help with my next Wyrmbane-less game, so thank you all! Unfortunately I got cocky after my second rune and decided to clear the first two floors of Elven Halls (wasn't going to go deeper) and the second floor had a Wizard's Lab portal where I got busted up while once again ne...

Followed your advice -- luck of the draw failed and got demon blade of venom instead.

I just got a "brand weapon" scroll, if that affects this discussion at all...

my way of playing is concentrating on the spell power and killing everything fast, and retreat before I run out of mana. That's me, too. I'm only considering training a weapon because I've gotten a lot of advice I should do that for emergencies. I think you could check that runed demon blade, and i...

What I would do myself: use Wyrmbane because holy crap it's rare and I always wanted to use it. Yes, it is nice! I don't need any other poison resistance gear for the spider branch. I tend to think I might be tempted to try to kill stronger dragons with it to raise its stats (killed a fire dragon a...

to simplify things, you could just go with a staff of fire and switch to a lajatang for fire resistant monsters if you are not wearing a shield, this way you will only need staff skill and you won't need to switch in most cases. I still take a spell like orb of destruction or iron shot/lehudyb's fo...

So, I've started my next DEFE campaign and have been lucky with my weapon finds. Here are my options: * a staff of fire, which would enhance my main magical attacks * +11 +8 lance Wyrmbane (slay drac, +rage, AC+5, rF+, rPpois) * +11 +7 bow "Phaze" (frost, rElec) * +8 +2 short sword of Smav...

Insult to injury on this map was that all the walls were destructible, leading me to think there might be more treasure if I dug through all the walls. Gave up after a little futile experimentation.

I had a staff of fire, but also had a ring of fire and thought I would use that instead (but have to take it on and off for different situations, due to all the different monsters with different requirements).

Well, it's over. I managed to find a portal out of the abyss but it put me right back where I went in and a lorocyproca that wouldn't die killed me. Now that I think of it I had a teleport scroll, goddamn it.

Cool, thank you SublimeSnake. I thought it might have been the case that the only way out was deeper. Glad you told me before I went in!

Yeah, it was a spell. So, after some close scrapes, I've come to a portal "deeper into the abyss" -- is that what I should take in my attempt to get out of here?

Guess I should have gone for that magic resistance earlier (though I'm not sure if it applies in this instance) -- just got banished to the Abyss.

Edit: also you can press # in-game and look in your... think it was morgues subfolder in Crawl folder for a file called YourCharacterName-SomeNumbers.txt (if you had many similarly named characters, sort them by date) and paste the contents of that file in code tags. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup versio...

The answer to both of those suggestions is that I (maybe misguidedly) was trying to get my AC up, so I went for the mace of protection. I do have an enhancer staff -- think the advantage would make up for the loss of AC?

I have a DEFE and I am about to enter Depths level 5. I've done Crypt down through about level 3 when I stopped because it was seeming too risky. I've done Vault 1-4, Elf Halls 1&2, and Hall of Blades. I have the runes of Spider and Shoals. Other options I have for entering are Hell, Slime Pits ...

it's not really "design" as it is "You're about as likely to get something you want as not" FDA is probably one of the better armours for a DE who is heavily invested into spellcasting skills to end up with. That specific treasure trove was programmed by someone. I looked it up ...

I'm a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist who can't wear heavy armor and the treasure trove I had to collect all game for gave me, as I entered with wonder and anticipation: a gold dragon hide (too heavy for casters), a crystal dragon armor (too heavy for casters), two fire dragon hides (I already had one fr...

Siegurt wrote:You can step directly from a. to b. by using diagonals,

I do that in all critical situations. I feel like I've noticed that taking corners is when most of the creatures catch up to me that were formerly a square behind.

Yep, someone posted recently about *three* spawning on the same level, even—and made it to all three. Also I had forgotten about the alternate possibility which I ran into once of an ossuary portal that was making the sand noise and everything but was actually a mimic. I wondered why it was still t...

Also, for anyone reading this: I just had something happen for the first time that seems unusual to me (as I haven't seen it before) -- are there supposed to be two timed branch entrances on the same dungeon floor (so I can only pick one)? Before it's been only one per floor in my experience. [EDIT:...

...ogres are speed 10? They sometimes have randomized speed fluctuations, but they shouldn't be able to catch up to you if you have more than a square between you and them. I will have to check again. I thought it just happened to me. I know they catch up when turning corners -- which doesn't make ...

These hulking ogres seem to be able to chase down and kill my deep elf wearing only a robe while we run in a straight line -- he catches up and hits me if I don't find a stairwell fast enough. Seems like big ogres would be slower than small elves to me, but that's just an amateur theory. I guess I'm...

A bit off the topic: it is incredibly pleasant to see how everybody rushed to help the rookie player. My sincere and non-mechanical thanks to everyone involved. =) I agree -- especially because I opened the thread with a whiny complaint about the game stating I thought something was wrong with it -...

Oh, never mind. I died on Vault:4. Same situation as I complained about in the initial post. This Orc Warlord had taken me by surprise and hit me with a unique axe my hitpoints went so low that I couldn't read a teleport spell as I would have been killed while doing it. So I kept swigging health pot...

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Well, I'm back with a report -- thanks to the advice in this thread I've gotten farther than I've ever gotten, have two runes (Swamp and Spider Nest) and have completed most of Vault 3, currently still alive. I have the mottled dragon armor that was recommended and have trained my armor and shield s...

A rough rule is that if the monster's name is bright red, that means it is liable to be very dangerous. Does that apply to the "web tiles" version? I play online and just tried your advice and all of the monster names were in bright red. Even when I got so I could kill a quokka in one sho...

Things you *can't* fight (i.e. higher-powered fire immune/resistance creatures when you're main/only attack is fire based) should just be run away from, as soon as you see them, anything less is a waste of resources, you don't have to kill everything on every floor, or even explore the entirety of ...

Well here's how I would play a DEFE A lot of helpful suggestions in there. I will give them a shot. Thank you. I will now back out of this thread and avoid posting in it further as I realize some of my comments above were a wee bit abrasive and don't really see any way out of the path of the enrage...

If you are taking more damage than potions of Heal Wounds heal, you're doing something wrong. Either you have developed your character poorly, you're in the wrong place, fighting wrong battles or something else. Can you explain how to do it right? Or is the goal of "it's not the game, it's you...

Generally, armour as light as mottled or leather doesn't noticably interfere with your spellcasting success unless you are using a shield without appropriate skill. And EV is really good, characters can wear a robe and still have good defenses. Also, your priorities are off. Firestorm isn't importa...

If you took time to read the thread that ""guide"" was posted in Thank you for the insulting assumption. I thought this was a game, not the SAT. How many threads am I supposed to "take the time" to memorize in order not to feel after a 12 hour game that I have complete...

Sar is also suggesting mottled dragon armour which will prevent a ton of damage from hits that actually do hit you. Unless you have a great robe or very few enchant armour scrolls, I would switch to using that. In the game I was playing, I had cleared the entire main dungeon, entire lair except sid...

I believe it is not a design goal to let player escape any possible situation he got himself into The situation I got myself into (apparently the game had no responsibility for what happened within it) was that I was confronted by Azrael with tons of fire minions hell hounds etc. and I was able to ...

I appreciate this advice. That said, it doesn't seem to address the main point of my opening post: health potions are useless for me. Your answer seems to be: don't get wounded so you don't need health potions. What is the purpose of carrying around all of these heavy health potions then? They're al...

Try training these: Dodging, Fighting, Armour. Try not getting in situations where things are hitting you hard. The Deep Elf Fire Elementalist guides I've read on this site say not to waste points on dodging because it is not effective beyond early levels, that I should channel all of my training i...

I play a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist and these have limited hit points. I am kind of sick of getting pretty far in the game (12 hours or so put in) and getting confronted with villains who can hit me faster than I can heal with health potions. The potions basically become completely worthless, becaus...

Thank you guys for the calm advice and not making fun of me for being a ranting newbie.

Was playing the first level of Lair on web tiles and one "extremely dangerous" player ghost comes at me and I barely kill him but am out of magic. A whole horde of monsters are attracted by the noise of me killing him and I have to run for my life. I make it to the entrance of the Ice Cave...

Sandman25 wrote:After several deaths to own ghosts I always remove all ghosts, that's not a cheat. If my character dies, I want it to die to some real monster, at least I learn something new in this case.

Is that an option in the init file?

Took a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist Vehumet follower into the Lair after slowly building him up so he could survive with his frail HP. The Labyrinth was there and I have never died doing it before, always able to spam the minotaur with fireballs from a safe distance. This time, though, I opened a door...

One more thank you for you both! I know that holding the key down is bad -- that's a good way to get killed by a centaur in a second! But I was being a little too fast on my button presses! :oops:

Ah, two questions I forgot. 1) I wasn't fighting using the tab key, I was fighting by pressing the arrow key in the direction of the ballistomycyte, which attacks it. Will this fix you two suggested work with that method, or do I need to switch to fighting only with the tab key? 2) I didn't know abo...

Ah, now that you two mention it I did notice that edit link and wondered about it. I will give that a shot with webtiles, so that I can access my current game on both my home computer and on Android. Thank you both again for walking this little lost lamb back home!

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