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I'm not proposing using the 'wrong' brand on Draconians, etc. It's unusual not to have access to Vorp, Speed, Flaming, Freezing or Elec. Those are all fine for the mundane enemies in Zot.

Maybe it's the way I do Zot, or the characters I take there, but Draconians, Dragons, Killer Klowns and Orb Guardians are not usually scary. Are there any significant other vampable monsters?

The things that you usually get me in trouble are ALiches and ALiches.

Rings, late game armour, good aux armor early, solid wand. It wouldn't be that impressive on average, but for D2 it's pretty damn good. iirc I just cleared 1-15, going to go to either Orc or Lair next. I have an elec great sword and a flaming great sword so I'm pretty solid as far as that goes. I a...

How many !mut do you have? If you have anything like 3-5 then you're in a good spot to improve your mutation set and keep a couple of potions back, just in case. If you are down to one or two, I wouldn't use them, because Blurry Eyes is really bad and having a way to get rid of it is good. Edit: Off...

Turn visible was tied evocable invisibility, not spell invisibility. If you weren't wearing a +Inv item you couldn't turn invisible. It existed mainly for the purpose of convenience, because you could turn visible by removing the +Inv item. Now that removing a +Inv item no longer removes your invis...

To preserve your sanity it's probably easier just to wear those rF+ and rC+ rings. Otherwise you may need to x-v a lof of enemies and swap a lot of rings, or risk getting hit unexpectedly hard. The first pip of rF and rC do quite a lot, the other two or less important. AC is pretty powerful and work...

Sorry about the loss. If you can get to 14 runes and Tomb 3, then there's no real reason why you can't win a 15 rune game. Aura of Abjuration (you had it, but didn't look active when you died) and Control Undead (controlled scarabs are incredble) are really good spells for Tomb. Given that you still...

It might also be possible to have the explosion occur on the tile of the thing that gets hit, which would make more sense anyway I think.

Majang wrote:Why did you give him that name? It seems that Crawl wants to get away from real-people uniques nowadays.

Rat Pack

I don't know the details of crawl, but of course most real mummies are human!

What makes you feel especially lucky in this game? The rings?

Might as well go all the way then:
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Gods can really carry some characters, and, as VAF suggested, some are useful even just for the passive benefits. If you are really not bothered about gods, then you could try demigod. At least you're not missing out on anything.

To return to topic: Self-damaging spells that can do large damage are usually annoying and sometimes extremely fiddly to use. In a lot of cases it becomes more convenient to just use something else. I would be in favour of removing the self-damage, or toning it down dramatically. If that leaves the ...

I've seen a few experienced players suggest that 'ninja'ing the orb' isn't a good idea in 0.21. The new orb status makes teleports quite slow, and a lot can happen between teleports. Also your particular character isn't so strong that you can just crush your way through difficult situations, and you...

I'm surprised you didn't pick up Nemelex immediately when you bumped into the first altar. Trog would've been pretty good too of course. Was it perhaps because you had already won with those gods? It looks like you put your stat points in Dex, which doesn't give you very much benefit with your size ...

It is a bit odd. Presumably "the pages of history" mean a written record. Something "vanishing" from a written record can mean several different things, including deletion, destruction of the record, or perhaps simply the record keepers forgetting that the record exists. Of cours...

Sure, but even just moving, or being, outside of LOS can be useful. You can use it to prevent enemies from getting into LOS for example.

About enslavement, again, the effect should just break outside of LOS, or at least substantially reduce the duration.

I didn't say they can't hit a single target hard on a good day (though I've had plenty of bad ones where they just keep missing/underperforming with damage, too). It's more the packs of things one after another that often make them frustrating on D:1. Well, except jackals there aren't any packs on ...

You could leave the character on this floor, and play different versions, or even quit!

It depends what you mean with 'problem'. It wouldn't break the game, of course, but it would make book starts stronger. Considering that they are already considered the strongest starts available, in my view, this would not improve the game.

I guess you already trained a lot of longblades at this point, but depending on when you found "Eos" that would've been a good option. Decent base type, great brand, free rElec, just remember to swap when you need blink/tele. It costs a lot less XP to get to a good point than a triple swor...

Yes, putting it on and removing it is quicker with an empty slot...

There's a golden opportunity here to make every item mysterious, unless it's in your backpack, on your body or under your feet. Imagine the fun we could all have wandering through the dungeon. Time to memories shadow creatures. Now where was that book I saw earlier? Was it this game? It was this gam...

This makes me wonder if allies (summons, undead, etc.) should just 'unravel' or 'fall apart' out of LOS, just like clouds. Thematically it would be easily justified. It would also weaken allies, although it would still be the strongest thing going I suspect.

He's in statue form. Presumably he's wearing this: s - the cursed +1 ring mail "Wirulau" {Str+4 Dex+5, unknown}

Golden Rune in less than 9000 turns. What?!

That's pretty crazy.

Out of curiosity, why isn't he wearing a second ring? Save 0.5 turns from putting on someting that's not strictly necessary?

Oh but punish those magi who might somehow carve out a hole in the dungeon where they can keep sitting to replenish those 3 starting points of MP over and over cause well, they might hit critically and they're ranged? Or something. Despite what you might feel personally, book stats are actually str...

I wonder what the rationale was behind making fire dragon scales worse than ice dragon scales, as far as the AC/ER ratio is concerned. Is it just because, well, fire?

This is the kind of vault that one looks or up doesn't enter. Both are bad for the game.

And I thought the way to make dangerous ghosts is to teach them fun spells...

I suspect the description came about because of the ghost, compared to yours, and its speed.

In a Ce I wouldn't usually raise Dex. Because of the size and the barding ER it's difficult to get high EV. So as a heavy armour user I would typically raise Str, to get to comfortable plate level ~20 or so, then the rest in Int. If I'm casting spells, I'll probably just go with lighter armour and I...

Reported here.

Without searching the commit-log, I'm fairly confident that you are just experiencing ordinary variance.

Is it intended behaviour that there is no warning/prompt before using a discovered staircase that is excluded on the other floor? I excluded a sleeping hydra on L:5, this placed the exclusion zone on a staircase 2 tiles away from the beast, explored L:6, took stairs up and found myself next to the a...

Toxic Radiance still works very well in Vaults, and even in Depths. I would usually cast it twice, move a couple of steps, then ignite. Even with moderate spell power this kills enemies very quickly, including Vault Wardens, Invokers, Deep Trolls, Deep Elves, Boggards, etc.

It's hard to suggest anything specific, but shorter sessions are usually better for concentration. Playing slower may help too. Perhaps the best thing to do is to regularly ask yourself: "Can this kill me?" If the answer is "Yes!", then stop pressing buttons and think. That said,...

I agree that the mix feels a bit disjointed. Health from killing is a nice mechanic, but doesn't have any connection with demons or chaotic magic. The god of self-harm is supposed to be Yred. I think there might be an opportunity here... 1) Create an Yred/Makh hybrid that does life-drain, pain mirro...

It's probably a nerf, because Minor Destruction is available when other similar options are sometimes not available. On the other hand, Major Destruction becomes available by the time most characters have collected some wands or ranged weapons. I almost never use Major Destruction, because the varia...

Well, "more fighting" comes down to the choice you made of overspending on weapon skills. Use the holy greatsword for cobs once they are next to you. I wonder if you lure enough. There shouldn't usually be "floods of mobs". You are fairly sneaky too, so I find this surprising. My...

Yes, Deathcobs and Dracs are not the dangerous bits of Zot. A +8 greatsword of holy wrath should take care of cobs fairly casually. You have your acid and cloud wands, and lamp of fire against cobs if you need it.

Taking a bunch of friendly skeletons for a wakl in the early Dungeon is great, until you bump into a SpEE ghost.

Turns out I'm an idiot, and Iron Shot is actually quite scary at 3d44. With that range, it's probably more scary than LCS.

I don't know the answer, but I suspect PArrow does more damage than Iron Shot without rPois, and less damage with rPois.

Now, let's google...

kuniqs wrote:I really like the concept of the Demihuman from the future. You don't even have to change the abbreviation.

Don't you? Where's the 'g' in 'Demihuman from the future'?

With or without rPois?

That crossbow is ridiculous. You've got some pretty good gear all around. Invisibility is pretty good in Zot, because Dr can't see so well, as you know. Even if the crossbow is slower, 'stabbing' might be less safe if you have to move towards enemies to do so. If there were ordinary +2 gloves around...

I don't think many people know the exact numbers, but surely most experienced players know that LCS does a lot more damage than PArrow.

I am not in favour of completely removing real world references. For me, noticing and looking up references, and reading quotations and description is a fun part of the game. Perhaps, for the sake of balance, one could add Marie, a unique somehow based around irradiate, malmutate, etc.. There are of...

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