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If your transmuter is face to face with an ice beast, basing your decision purely on attack and selecting spider form instead of ice form is probably a mistake. Especially since ice beasts are resistant to poison, so the only offensive advantage spider form has over ice form is negated :P (but, rea...

Re Sticky Flame: not strictly a nerf, it now always hits. (Still mostly a nerf, I'd agree.) As a player, range 1 isn't that much of a nerf. One reason why I love the Ice Elementalist is their Lv. 1 spell. It's range 1, but it pretty much never (or never) misses. FEs and AEs have what seems like a f...

i doubt that it's a good idea to let those who watch webtile games send messages to console players. why? Because the tiles noobs are going to annoy the leet console players? I think it would be better to have full spectating support both way and a decent chat system which allows to silence or kick...

But what about you? What do you play when you want to cast spells as your bread and butter, but don't want your build to decide too much what those will be up front? Uuugh. Right now I have the nastiest streak of dead less than 10 K point wizards on my hands. Xom is hating on me right now. I don't ...

This is definitely true. Another important reason to melee is that it raises your fighting skill, which is essential for any character because it increases max hit points. On quick tip is use '=' and 'i' to make your melee weapon 'a' and your thrower 'b'. Then you can weapon switch using the "...

Venom Bolt does (rather crappy, but still useful) damage to stuff with rPois+, such as undead and most demons. But it's probably better to hit them in melee, and branch into less narrow magic schools later. If you get your Conj high via Sting and Venom Bolt, Mystic Blast and OOD can see you through...

I usually use Might to get an overloaded character up a couple flights of stairs to my stash. I'll also use Might on a Be before a tough fight. Might is probably the best of the 3 and that sounds like a real waste to use it just to carry stuff around. If you've got a +str ring or randart, use that ...

fnwc wrote:Congrats!

I'll echo that sentiment:

Congrats!

I like Ice better than fire for my Tm too. I usually disable fire as soon as I get it so that I can train ice with ice form. Ozocubu's armour and condensation shield are nice for hybrids. On the other hand, ignite poison can be great for a Tm too. Depends on book drops and tastes. Oops, yeah, I for...

When do you use your potions of might/brilliance/agility? I never really know what to do with mine, and they usually end up collecting dust in my stash. The benefits seem sort of inconsequential, but there must be some good uses for them. If I'm a caster I'll use Brilliance to help memorize a parti...

That's why I said rookie mistake. I usually clear D:3, pop downstairs to D:4 and clear any hostiles in sight, then start ID'ing while standing on the stairs. That way, if you get magic mapping it's not completely wasted and if you get teleport or anything possibly nasty, you can pop back upstairs. ...

Long-time lurker, first time poster, but this was such a rookie mistake I had to post it. Do not read ID scrolls on D:4 unless you are standing on an upstairs to a cleared level and are not slowed. You will get a teleport scroll and land in a room with a Giant Eyeball, a Snake and a Worker Ant and ...

What are the 15 Runes?

About 8 more than I've seen.

About c), I'm concerned about specializing in too many skills and ending up being a Jack-of-all-trades, where I feel I really should be specializing instead. Regarding d), what I find convenient about daggers, stones and the like is that you can quiver them while using another weapon (a sword, for ...

I'm no pro, and I have only a handful of ascensions (and only one in .8), but to me Crawl is a game of plateaus. My big leaps in improvement went like this: -plateau in the early game with me being lucky to make it to the Temple -plateau in the early mid-game with me being lucky to see the bottom of...

Grimm wrote:I keep thanking you without meaning to. Anyway:

galehar wrote:So just run in a straight line in any direction.

AND STILL DIE

I'll thank him again just to be sure.

So yeah - even high level characters who can clear Zot are at risk in the Abyss. Indeed. All you can do is hope Xom (and / or the RNG) takes mercy on you and do your best to play as optimally as you can for the Abyss. In the last while (.7 and beyond) I've gotten out (somewhat) more often than not,...

Orcish Mines has shops, gold, and orcish equipment drops, but no normal item generation at all. Lair has 8 big levels with the usual random items, plus some (admittedly, usually crappy) loot in the final level's vault, but aside from the occasional unique nothing will drop items other than corpses....

I was damn XL 20 and I still died - swarmed by hell hogs, doused in liquid fire, all consumables used up. Farthest I'd ever gotten. I always die in the damn Abyss. I am sick of it. How in the name of all that is unholy do you people do it? Usually some combination of swift, fly, haste, levitate, in...

Winning stats are not a good measure of whether a combo is powerful or not. You might even get better results reading them backward, because the stronger the combo, the more beginners play them (and die). Now, I do think Berserkers (and berserk in general) need to be nerf. I suggest 2 things: When ...

What to do when you run out of beserk and you are still surrounded? Your kobald is in Dire Straights, therefore, use Brothers in Arms. BiA is awesome. Life is hard for a Brotha. :) I've been playing a number of Be's lately**, and BiA is you 'Ooops shouldn't have zerked there', 'Some other idiot has...

Lair:1 is safe enough for me. As soon as the LOS around the stairs is cleared, I usually establish a stash. That's been my experience as well. I usually clear Lair 1 then make my stash and evaluate options. I've gotten to the point where I'm picky enough with what I pick up don't bother with more t...

I've hit that ending a number of times. It's not all that bad. Just take a good look at the map as soon as you teleport and work your way back. My memory is dodgy on a good day, but I've never had that much trouble with it...

From some reading it's been a deliberate move to avoid a boring increase in difficulty strictly through more HP and damage. Like you said, the developers aspire to make things interesting. I'm enjoying it.

I'm running a Kobold Berserker of Trog. He gave me a little gift:

+11 Morningstar 'EOS' (God gift, -TELE, rElec, Elec)

On a Berserker with 15 in Maces and Flails. Muha-ha-haaaa-ha-ha-ha.

tcjsavannah wrote:Both levels have to be +6, but anything above works, so yes your +6/+7 blade will work.

Brands will also work, FWIW.

@KoboldLord above:

Makes sense, and thanks.

Kobold Berserker- Pump Str or pump Dex? Dexterity, unless you want to try to wear heavy armour (don't try to wear heavy armour on a kobold). I like Strength as it does more things However it mostly depends on if you plan to switch to a big sword later sometime around midgame (Which i would highly r...

Quick Question:

Kobold Berserker- Pump Str or pump Dex?

Ah, so its a guaranteed spawn to have an Orc Shopping Centre? Hmm... I live in Toronto, (Ontario, Canada) and there was this commercial or subway advert that had the one liner, "Shopping is excellent in Yorkville!", or something. Since .8 came out every time I get to Orc:4 I say, "Sh...

Personally, as was said, bolt of fire shines for use in a corridor and for high damage. I was unaware of it's lower noise. Fireball does shine in one area: Stair dancing in areas with packs of enemies. Fireball can really shine in Orc, with rat packs in Lair, and with high EV critters like the wisps...

Ouch! I hear that .9 is looking cool of you need a clean install. =) Naaa. Back when the .debs lagged behind stable I'd roll my own, but I much prefer to play stable in .deb form. The developers are hosting stable and unstable Debian builds, but I'm having this vision of an irrecoverably corrupted ...

If you see Mara in the Elf:5 Vault just go the other way as fast as you can. Addendum: If you see Mara, and you're as fully buffed as you can be, go the other way even faster as your illusion will indeed own you.

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If I'm comparing just crawl and nethack, I'd say crawl's harder- but more fair. It's a strange trade off. I was an OK Nethacker, despite never Ascending. The big issue there is that it's pretty much impossible to win without a whole raft of spoilers, and even if you don't have rage issues you'll en...

So things were going well. I've cleared to about D:17, the Hive, Lair, Orc, and I got the rune from Snake. The food game was over thanks to the Hive, a bee vault, and gourmand. I was a high elf 'fire caster'. The dungeon was getting harder so I wanted to double back for more XP and maybe another run...

Silk wrote:What incentive is there to keep me from cheating and regularly deleting my ghost files?

XP for your pool. It's actually worth it to burn consumables to get rid of a ghost in most cases.

If you're worried about the teleport delay you could try to blink to the escape hatch. Drink healing potions until the dragon gets visible again, then drop. Heck with 5 blink scrolls, you could probably blink, then drink (healing), then blink a couple more times all the way back to the up stairs. (A...

Hive is a good place to stash your loot at the mid D-levels. :) Lair 1 isn't that far away. I like the hive but I could see it as a portal vault. As far as Lair vs Orc goes, as a MC or Evaporate caster, especially if I don't have a (reliable) Lv. 4+ zap spell, I'll often dip my toes in Orc first. I...

Huh? Chunks can have more than one status in 0.8. For example, hydra chunks are poisonous and contaminated. The more you know. :) Any idea if all of the monsters have been audited in a similar way? (And sorry for adding any confusion there.) I'm just getting into .8. It's probably simple enough to ...

Shouldn't Critics be Critiques in the title of this form? That's my critic, err, critique anyway. :) I mean critics will make critiques, and trolls will troll, but not all critiques are from critics. If you have to be a critic to make a critique that raises two fundamental questions: 1) What kind of...

I was pleasantly surprised to see how doable Snake is without rPois, last time I was there. In fact since the spellcasting nagas there can poison you anyway when you do have it... I'm definitely with the people who say its main benefit is eating poisonous chunks. I know realism is the enemy of fun,...

Nothing is guaranteed. Which is one thing I do enjoy about Crawl very much. In my first ascension I was confronted with Slime and no resist corrosion. I won with Swamp (easy) + Vault (went OK) + Shoals (It took me to single digit HP more than once). If I had resist corrosion I likely would have don...

I'm with you. I love my OoD.

gb wrote:turn off stealth

Or make some noise. Find a loud spell and blast it a few times. Just make sure you have enough in the tank to deal with Siggy.

vintermann wrote:I would really have liked if the shadow summoning thing could be toggled on/off. That would make it more palatable to the good gods too.

Flavour wise, I don't know if it's a bad thing that it offends good gods, but that's just my $.02 CAD.

I enter the mines, and get instagibbed by 3 Orc priests. -_- Did you try to run back up the stairs in the range of multiple smiters? Even if you don't have a source of confusion you do better to use a source of fog / butterflies / invisible / fear and then randomly teleport / blink if you have to. ...

pratamawirya wrote:Orb of Destruction is great, you should keep it (at least until you can cast Ice Storm).

Plus it's one school, and (up to .7 at least) can work as a poor man's dig. OOD will carry you right though Zot. Oh, and it's cool.

Let me just say that I do appreciate the advice, especially Mephitic Cloud, which I just hadn't thought about. I just think you might be wrong on the spell hunger math. Looking over some morgue files, it looks like my Int is around 26-27 by the time I get to Hive (that's pumping all my bonus stats ...

How I kill unseen horrors without SInv is: I look for another enemy snoogun, and walk back into a corridor shouting (pressing tt). The unseen horror is faster so usually jumps in front of the other enemies and soon you'll have the unseen horror trapped between you and the random snoogun. Now it is ...

You should have plenty of time to mess around in branches that actually have decent loot before you need to collect the food from Hive. You're not going to find anything here that will help you in Lair or Orc. That's the thing. I mostly play casters and I don't thing I've ever died in hive even onc...

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