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Started off with a HEFi because I wanted investigate long swords. Has ended up as basically a Skald. I always die around this point (done Lair, Orc, about to go and get my first rune) because I get confused about skill training and what equipment to use :-) I'd just like a bit of general advice on t...

What happened to the DCSS Weapon Lab spreadsheet? Jumping back into Crawl after a lay-off, and the latest version I can find seems to be wildly out of date. Anyway, anyone have any strong feeling on which weapon might prove best? Dump of my current game: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/KHekkus/KHekkus.t...

So, this guy: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1-18-g436b03c (webtiles) character file. KHekkus the Earth Mage (GrEE) Turns: 29233, Time: 03:39:16 Health: 91/91 AC: 29 Str: 14 XL: 15 Next: 26% Magic: 48/48 EV: 15 Int: 23 God: Vehumet [*****.] Gold: 1086 SH: 7 Dex: 10 Spells: 6 memorised, 9 leve...

Hah! Learned the hardest Translocations spell I had, Passage of Golubria- instead of being banished, I successfully cast it and it allowed me to passage myself of the island!

Nice. Might even be possible!

So, whilst clearing out a Bailey, my potion of flight ran out whilst on an island surrounded by deep water (Doh). I'm a Formicid, so no teleporting or blinking, no more potions of flight, and you can't shaft yourself on a special level like a Bailey... Any ideas on how to get out of this, or do I ju...

Sandman25 wrote:Also try to find Bolt of Fire.

Yes

Working on it. Found in a spellbook in a shop that costs about 900gp more than I have....

Hey, After the odd solitary win with melee-based characters, I've been determined to win with a caster. Lots of deaths, and I have the most promising so far: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.14/KHekkus/KHekkus.txt Not sure what to do from here though, w.r.t. skill progression and where to visit. I ...

Everyone and their dog loves slaying. So, is this randart worth wearing:

the -5 pair of gloves of the Lair of Beasts {Acc+3 Dam+5}

...my other option for the glove slot being +2 gloves of strength. This character is a MiBe ans wears heavy armour, so I do have a fair amount of AC.

Thanks all. Being a DsBe, it was, of course, a magical staff...

The L:8 I'm on seems elephant-themed, with elephant statues and packs of elephants. There's a bit I've magic mapped at the end of this layout which is blocked by trees. How do I get into it? Can't blink across, or destroy trees. Teleport control the only way? I have no spells.

Oh, notes: 1) Elf:5 is not easy. At all. Though I am a glutton for punishment- the same deep elf sorceror banished me to the Abyss three times in a row, and I kept coming back for more. 2) Orb Guardians are really easy! 3) Azrael takes a *lot* of whupping on to bring down... 4) That Pan lord generat...

After generally dying horribly due to forgetting to do things, not noticing stuff, etc, I decided I just wanted an 'easy' games with not much thinking involved, so rolled up a MiBe, and decided never to use spells or change gods, but just see how far I could take a pure melee-only character. To my s...

What's the latest general advice on when to stop training weapon skills? I remember various posts advocating stopping once you've gotten rid of the penalties for your preferred weapon's speed. Messing about with the weapon damage spreadsheet shows that increasing skills past this point still adds a ...

Remember that your merry band doesn't have rPois and water walking. They might very well die horribly in swamp, and they wont be able to waterwalk after you in shoals.. Was going to use the technique of walking to places inaccessible to them, then recalling them all... They also did surprisingly we...

(was thinking Swamp due to source of rPois, or Shoals cos of orc-Jesus waterwalking)

Hi all, I'd like a little advice here. My merry band of orcs and I have never gotten this deep, and we're wondering where to go next, preferably to pick up a rune or two. Gotten to D17, the bottom of Orc, the bottom of Lair, and have Vault, Shoals, Swamp, Slime, and Elf available to me next. Charact...

Hi everyone! I have what's for me a very promising character, and want to get the skills training right for once. Basically, I'm a little unsure on what to turn off and on, now I'm approaching double digits in various things. Shields is off at 5 cos I have a buckler, Short Blades is off at 13 as I h...

I just found this on D7:

the hammer "Usosies" {drain, +Lev rPois SInv}

I will do ANY branch I like in whatever order I like! Mwahahahaha! ;-)

What you really need is Swiftness, Flight, and Blink. As a berserker, you obviously don't have the first two, but you might have a randart with +Blink. I've got a ring of levitation and an amulet of controlled flight, and a bunch of scrolls of blinking in my stash; does that improve my chances..? B...

I'm wondering if my current character looks like he might survive a trip to the Abyss if I unwield this dagger of distortion I've had since D2... Not sure how to post an online character dump, but he's a L15 KoBe, with a ring of sustenance, evokable levitation, and a pair of Stlth++ boots, so I fig...

I'm wondering if my current character looks like he might survive a trip to the Abyss if I unwield this dagger of distortion I've had since D2... Not sure how to post an online character dump, but he's a L15 KoBe, with a ring of sustenance, evokable levitation, and a pair of Stlth++ boots, so I figu...

Has there been changes to the exp system in recent trunk releases, and could anyone explain them? I seem to get increases to skills unrelated to what I was just doing, e.g. my Throwing skill increases after killing a monster without having thrown anything. The exp pool counter has gone too- does eve...

JeffQyzt wrote:
Is there an easy calculation?

Try it on and find out.

LOL. I will go away now.

I want to know what the deal is with worshiping Beogh and his increased Armour skill for wearing orcish gear. Knowledge bots sez: "Beogh encourages the use of orcish gear by giving additional bonuses for wearing it. With armor, you gain virtual armor skill points based on your piety (+.5 to +2....

I've just noticed a message when attempting to equip some plate mail: " Your low strength makes using this armour a lot more difficult." ....on trunk. I can't remember seeing it before (though have not played that much), and thought the standard advice used to be, 'if you aren't a caster o...

I'm not sure if the AC and Str bonuses are worth the damage reduction in this randart:

+2 pair of gloves of Xefoin {Str+4 Dam-3}

...seeing as I have a Short Blades/Dex specialising Kobold. Is that about right, or should I go ahead and wear them..?

PS Have also made a bug report:
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=3728

...though as I say, could easily be my system :-)

Hi- what options are available for the char_set option? Actually- that may be the wrong question. I'm getting some odd console artefacts from the recent changes to use the 'fancier' characters for features such as water, lava, trees etc (overlapping characters, strange dots in other places), and wou...

I am very jealous that you have a qb of electrocution, imo that's quite possibly the best weapon in the game. It's also a randart: the -1,+4 quick blade "Natut" (weapon) {god gift, elec, +Blink Str+1 Stlth++} It so far seems to be making this particular game a candidate for my first ever ...

Is the anti-magic brand worth it? Specifically, I'm in the Elven Halls, where everyone and their dog is a spellcaster, and I'm wondering whether I should bother with my +6,+9 antimagic quickblade, or stick to my -1,+4 quickblade of electrocution, which the Weapon Lab spreadsheet says does more damag...

Using the utterly awesome DCSS weapon lab spreadsheet, I notice that the 'venom' brand doesn't count towards the 'average brand damage per turn' bits (it's 0.00). Thus, my 0.8 l8 KoBe is having a hard time deciding which weapon to burn his early scrolls of enchant weapon on, the +1,+1 dagger of elec...

Is there a way of seeing the details and scores for ALL games you've played on one of the CDO/CAO servers? e.g. an equivalent of a local version of DCSS's high score table? If I go to e.g.: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/<playername>.html ...one only sees recent games and the highest scor...

A big part of the KoBe game is stealth and stabbing, and getting a workable invis can really help with some areas. I take it that you wouldn't agree with "Disable anything else if you learn it. Due to aptitudes, stealth and stabbing will train whether you like it or not, but it's not something...

Just reading through the KoBe guide on the Wiki: <http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Kobold_Berserker_guide> ...and was wondering about this: "When first starting out, disable everything so you can get a couple levels in short blades. After you've gotten onto your feet, keep the follow...

So, found some +0 gold dragon armour just lying there on D4 (0.8). Unfortunately, I'm a level 8 SETm, with 0 Armour skill. Sludge Elves have such a sucky Armour aptitude, is it worth training it up at all for later in the game? If I wear it now, all spell success becomes 'Useless', and my EV goes ne...

What would be a good choice of god for a Kobold Enchanter? Just reached the Temple, and being a beginner have mostly been playing MDFi's of Okawaru. Play style so far has been mostly to hibernate monsters then stab them. Stealth might be out the window as I just found a nice artifact dagger with Stl...

Don't believe the wiki! It's full of trash information. It hasn't ever been completely updated, most articles aren't based on facts, just speculation, and some of the information is just plain wrong. I doubt it's even worth trying to salvage. Just use the LearnDB. You can access it from the main cr...

...though weapons text spoiler indicates that the only 'conflicting' brands are actually flame and frost... Should the sentence in the Wiki read:

"If a branded launcher is used with ammunition of a conflicting brand (flame vs. frost), only one of the brands will take effect."

OK- is the Wiki wrong? Doing a bit of trawling on it after posting the question I find:

"If a branded launcher is used with ammunition of a conflicting brand (say, flame vs. poison), only one of the brands will take effect."

If I have bow of flame, and fire poisoned arrows from it, will the poison effect still be in evidence? I don't have any ammo in my current game to test this out with.

Is it worth equipping a plate mail I found on D2, bearing in mind I have a Halfling whose Armour aptitude is -2..? Should I stick to robes and leather armour?

Your question really only applies to spellcasters, in which case yes, only wear heavier armor at certain skill levels to keep your spells usable. Armor skill minimizes the EV penalty the armor gives you, it doesn't make attacks less accurate( it does slow them down). Strength and your skill negate ...

What armour do people tend to wear at various levels of the Armour skill? e.g. if you wear plate at Armour level 1 you tend to miss hitting monsters a lot, due to the Ev penalty.

Thanks!

Makes sense now :-)

Thanks minmay!

Hi, I've not really been able to work out the meanings of the colouring on the % screen for items I'm wearing/wielding, it being different to the inventory screen (and much more variable)... Could anyone explain them to me? I'd think it was the usual red=evil/dangerous/bad, but my Merfolk's starting...

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