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naga stabbers are pretty nice

postgame vp without reliable healing is rough, would not recommend

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Lyrick wrote:It doesn't work on the undead, or on things that don't have a brain.

i remember using discord in tomb and it worked on mummies there - turned them neutral

My bad: it doesn't zerk em.

Playing a vampire not of Mak or Kiku in Hell feels just about impossible. I had a stack of blood, wand of heal wounds, and a comfortable stack of recharge scrolls, and managed to dive through one and a half hells. If we could get some living dudes in hell it would make things a lot better. Random fo...

You can probably expect similar success rates for both. The effect is similar to mass confusion, except the crowd thins itself out without your further intervention. Scroll of immolation is optional. Good places to use this: vaults (ogres/orcs/vault guards/wardens/sentinels, ugly things, etc.) orc (...

Just kill off this one and name your new character properly.

Drastically reduced line of sight means you spot fewer monsters, and fewer monsters spot you.

Summoned shadows get in the way of enemies.

All around great item if you aren't attacking.

Stacks with the spell and with nightstalker, if you like being nearsighted.

Works great on anything that doesn't resist it.

Don't use if following certain gods.

Delayed fireball?

Stabbing without might is already overkill.

Whatever gets you to a safe failure rate. As in, white text for the % fail rate. Invisibility isn't a spell you should be using in combat, so it does not have to be super reliable. (I left it at yellow fail rate til they changed miscast effects to be much nastier) Invisibility is not going to clear ...

Corpse regen is very useful, in branches with corpses. Eventually you'll probably want invisibility and haste. Darkness is also a good spell for stabbers (reduces line of sight and hence monster's ability to see you). Shadow creatures and Animate dead will give you some buddies to be meat shields or...

I let my characters in pixel dungeon starve for a while (re: until I run low on healing potions) before eating food. You lose 1 HP every few turns while starving. The one time I found a sword of vampiricism I didn't have to eat for the rest of the game. The equipment degradation feels annoying to me...

[quote="NeonMy comments-questions: 0. How awful carriyng so many weapons for hard monsters with vulnerability?[/quote] Not worth it yet. Whether a monster is vulnerable to your weapon brand is not a huge issue, since 1. You have a +10 dagger with a stabbing level of 18 ((short blade skill + ste...

Invisibility and stabbing will get you very far. Animate dead is great for support and for escaping; run through your zombie horde and leave the nagas/spiders/vault guards to fight through them. Pick up some evocations or magic so that you have a way to deal with monsters from afar.

Rast wrote:using stealth tactically to avoid fights or control the circumstances of the fight.

What do you mean by using stealth to control the circumstances of the fight? Is this something distinct from avoiding the fight and coming back later when you're well-equipped?

Having a non-crappy stealth factor and a high stealth skill are probably the most important; at stealth 27 with a stealth factor of 18 (small or stealthy races) you get 486 stealth.

Nightstalker and antenna are a stabber's wetdream, by the way. You don't get a chance like this very often.

Giving them a bow would make them a hell of a lot better than Hunters.

i keep looking but i don't see the quickblade option

On topic, there probably is no such thing as a "balanced berserker", so long as you start with enough piety to use Berserk.

The same chance as pure fighters or "pure spellcasters"? What are stabbers lacking?

Whats the point of throwing the gold anyway, if you'll kill the monster and pick it back up? Even if it vanishes, a 75% chance to distract an enemy is really strong, and 270 gold is inconsequential.

Yes, axes are excellent if you are stuck fightin 2 or more monsters out in the open. No, you should not make your primary weapon an axe unless there is a highly compelling reason to (executioner's axe of speed). Almost all fights in the game you will be seeking to reduce to a 1v1, where axes don't r...

Eucharists of holy wrath

You have exactly one piece and when you throw it you will still have one in your inventory, but it deals 50% less damage with each use.

Now that you have experience, you can not underestimate the RNG and be fully prepared to lose a character at its sole whim.

Hydrogen dragon
Vulnerable to fire
Breath attack leaves behind hydrogen clouds that cause fireball explosions when exposed to flame.
Armor grants constant fire vulnerability and inner flame style explosions when exposed to fire damage.

If you can grind the abyss, you don't need to. You know it's weird. Early game there's specific punishments for grinding. Mid-laste to post game there are areas where you are just free to grind. (Abyss and Pan) seems like a pretty staunch change in tone. Is that so? If you can grind the abyss or pa...

Euquanauque is a god of indeterminate gender Aren't they all? Dual wielding is strong and no heavy armor isn't much of a restriction. What about no armor? lol. An instantaneous reduction from 52 to 26 item slots seems pretty drastic. Something like Chei where the penalty creeps in slowly over piety...

I think its gone forever

Hellfire is quiet as a spriggan

Xom giveth, and Xom taketh away.

Ziggurats are indeed lucrative, and it was rather unlucky that you didn't happen upon a rmut amulet all game.

You could also hunt around for popcorn to kill.

Its a pity the regen on the armor is wasted...

So I suggest the following: Cursed item cannot be identified, cannot be removed before reaching next XL and is automatically apported, picked up and equipped if corresponding slot is empty (even in the middle of a fight, it is instant action). Suddenly, the pair of boots rise up and weld themselves...

its usage is more situational and finicky than fireball, level 5 is fine for that. Same level as ignite poison, and I'd say they're in similar spots, though ignite poison is full LOS so it being two schools seems reasonable.

Eyes of draining will give you a couple of levels, if you can find and kill one.

You kill things under a lot of gods, why is Trog's killing evil when TSO's killing isn't?

i play online, but i also play offline, which is a crime.

Then put on clarity when you wanna use Alistair's, and take it off when you don't.

Gyre and gimble is two unbranded mildly enchanted quickblades. It has some phenomenal damage if you get some slaying, but is not the dual wielding that most people would be thinking of.

Xom-if you’re getting bored with dying after lair give Xom a try

fixed that for you

Int improves your spellpower, spell success rate, and reduces spell hunger, all of which are also accomplished by your magic schools and the spellcasting skill. Ultimately, since in any game you can have up to 27 skill levels of magic, that should be more than enough to get most of your spells to lo...

You could probably cut down the gods with that axe.

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I see you were working on Necromancy up until you died. Necro is a very good school, but like some other magic merely being able to cast the spell at a low failure rate is sufficient, and having additional spellpower doesn't add considerable damage/utility. While vamp drain is pretty good, as the mo...

Wait, so you can enslave an innerflamed monster?

...That is fascinating.

For more efficient suicide bombing, I believe bigger monsters have bigger explosions and higher damage.

Do they start with extra Xom interest?

The cost for using vamp is well worth it. (Unless, possibly, if you are a spriggan). Unfortunately, there are a few branches where it is impractical to wield constantly. It also doesn't proc off summoned monsters, which become a regular occurrence after the midgame. Distortion is useful in any branc...

With regards specifically to Energy Flow stance: What is "burst casting"? Dyou mean firing 6 iron shots in a row? MP does limit spellcasting in a sense, but most characters who'd want to be have around 50 while attack spells cost about 6 to 9 mp per cast. Dropping that by 20% merely gives ...

All short blades are eligible for the flat bonus damage. Daggers just reach the cap much more easily.

Even so, with reasonable stealth + weapon skill it doesn't matter what shortblade you use.

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