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Thanks everyone, I think my next step is to watch some games specially around zot and the tomb to see how people deal with the randomness of those area's. For now I am going to chalk this up to a lack of knowledge and good play. One of things I could do on Zot is where a ring of -tele, seems like th...

Hello everyone, Is the game significantly harder or have my skills dropped over the versions? I seem to get teleported, held, marked etc and die. I wanted a win during the tournament but it seems much harder even with Hill orc as the death's I experience have little to do with HP but stuff like flay...

Nah I'm with the devs on this. You can have a game that is chock full of features, like Skyrim. If you are really good at game design, maybe some of those features will even be compelling or interesting. Alternatively, you can have a game that is strategically interesting - that does not devolve do...

I think the game gets harder on each revision. I would like to get great player but it appears harder to accomplish this on the new rules. I think I may stay on .19 or .18. I am here to have fun and I don't find the new version fun. Removing levels removes xp, removing items like heal wounds removes...

Thanks for the reply's. I have been trying to do a FeCj focused almost completely based on conjurations, hoping for earth spells for Orb's of fire. What would the easiest Felid build be? I tried FeBe but I found this build more difficult than FeCj. I searched for a Felid build and didn't find anythi...

What skills/spells do I need to win with FECJ? I have been slowly learning new things I need like Passage of Golubria. At this point my in ability to win with FECJ must be my lack of skill. My deaths start around spider and shoals usually to a lack of rpois. The good news I normally die with no blin...

@PurpleRed, how did you deal with Orb's of fire if you were so heavily invested in in fire?

Thanks everyone. Looking back I wasn't wearing the best equipment for abyss and I was focused on getting the crystal spear up to quickly. I am going to keep at it, I am learning a lot from playing felid.

I am slowly improving with felid but I am finding the third rune just out of reach. Abyss seams chaotic and hard to stay alive as I approach the rune. Vaults 5 is a felid trap, I am thinking that maybe dropping down a hatch randomly might be a good tactic. Any advice? I feel that the felid, or my pl...

Not sure if this is the write place to report bugs (mod edit: merged from Technical Support into here) but here goes: While worshiping Ieoh Jian on CBRO I selected Project weapon through an invisible skybeast at a scorpion behind the sky beast and the weapon tried to go through the invisible sky bea...

Not even crawl development related, I love the game, even the parts I hate. I would like to be able to play multiple online games of the same version. Have a few drinks let's play a MiBe, playing serious maybe play your FeBE. OK, one thing: if health = 100% and player can't perform any action withou...

On D:5 I ran into a bunch of deep trolls. Was 1500 turns enough to activate OOD? I died as a result of this and a few mistakes. One of my mistakes was coming back to d5 after being overwhelmed on d6, I should have stayed on d6 where I would have had a better chance. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version ...

Thanks, I am going to try and mix things up, FeSk sounds like fun since I haven't done a sk yet.

Has anyone won with FEBE on .19? I am now 22 games in and have been unable to win with this combination. When I get past orc I feel that my character gets over his head the farther I go. I think this is due in part to the reduced experience of orc and lair being shorter. While I am asking what is th...

Thank you so much this was huge for my gameplay as it makes it easier to throw items at the monsters. Also not moving helps strategically which I am sure you know.

I searched for this but couldn't find the answer. Shift-tab doesn't work online and I would like to never move when autofighting. How can I map shift-tab or the fight weak monsters without moving?

autofight_stop = 85 I often consider setting autofight_stop = 90 or 95. Setting autofight_stop to 85 is the single biggest thing I have done to improve my gameplay. Experts will probably say you shouldn't use autofight but I do. The default is 30 and I have found if my health is at 30 % I am likely ...

I love DCSS but I don't like dying without any interaction. It has the feeling of a random coin flip, heads you die tails you lose. Granted I had very little time into this character so it's not very frustrating. But here is a situation where I was almost at full health and died with no interaction....

I am currently working on great player, starts off easy but gets much harder as you progress.

Wouldn't all backgrounds with MI be fairly easy, start off as MIWZ and switch as soon as you find a fighter type god.

I am trying to learn the mechanics of the game. Recently I was attacked by a skeletal warrior while playing a deep elf. I assumed, wrongfully, that while I was moving from him at what I thought was the same speed he wouldn't be able to attack me as my health was low and I wanted time for it to regen...

OK, I get it now. The easiest 3rd rune for all characters is Slime, except in unusual circumstances. If you have pretty much any area spell with decent spellpower, it is not even a question. A "caster" should kill tarantulas before they get into melee range. I would say that melee charact...

After re-reading my last post I will stop responding on my iPhone. Abyss with a bit of stealth is easier than vaults:5, so this would appear to be a better choice for obtaining the third rune. Is there an easier option? Playing a DE in my experience is far more difficult than playing a melee charact...

Is it really useful to talk about a "caster" dungeon order? Is it really different from the other characters'? Is it really useful to talk about a "casters" in Crawl? What is that, anyway? What is the joke behind calling runes "ruins"? I don't get it. "Abyss 3 for...

The weaker your character, the harder it is to deviate from that path, actually. I was told that by not doing the vaults 1-4 before doing the S ruins that my play was impatient. I read this and thought the dungeon order is way more complex than I thought. Here is where I am at, I suck at DE so I ne...

Branch order is mostly the same for all characters. Lair -> D:12 -> Orc -> D:15 -> S:3 -> maybe other S:3 -> get rune -> Vaults:4 -> maybe get second rune -> Depths:5 -> get three runes -> Zot I normally follow this but it doesn't appear to be optimal especially for week characters. I am looking to...

I know it's here already but I couldn't find it. What is the easiest weak caster (DEWZ or OCWZ) dungeon order assuming you get sinv and rpois? Here is what I think it is d1-d11 Lair D12-D13 Orc 1-2 D14-D15 Snake or spider to level 3 Shoals or swamp to level 3 Elf 1-2 Vaults 1-4 Snake or spider to ru...

Got another character up, waiting for a book of earth spells. God is Vehumet because I found an early alter. I will change up my god choices.

Thank you for the advice. I think I need to read more online, I had thought Vehumet was the best and easiest god for a caster. Vaults 4 is safer than Shoals:4? Then is Snake:4 safer than Shoals:4? I believed that everything but slimes was equal in difficulty of the S levels. If I chose Kiku should I...

How many turns does it take to go down stairs? Is it also 5 turns? If so I understand completely why I died. I can't believe I didn't notice before it takes 5 turns to go up stairs. I have learned a tremendous amount about crawl by playing DE, honestly I am getting slightly better but it's a hard ro...

First question can I get a mentor? I have 117 DE games and not a single win. My win rate has dropped to below 2%. My most powerful DEWZ character just died on one turn. I made a huge mistake by not recognizing that going down stairs is dangerous even for one turn. I won't make that mistake again. Wh...

ydeve wrote:
sage1234 wrote:is there a standard key layout that shows where they keys are for a default setup? I am always wondering which keys I can use for macros.

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Printing it now, you rock!

I love your keyboard views, is there a standard key layout that shows where they keys are for a default setup? I am always wondering which keys I can use for macros.

You are correct, now that I think about it, I died due to magic damage but not elemental, had I been wearing the robe of MR I would likely still be alive. Just a note (I don't know if this is clear to you, as you said you have a lot of wins but was talking about "magic damage"): MR does n...

I am trying for great player. Is there an easier combo than DEWZ for DE?

I would wear +1 robe of MR intead of +2 robe of resistance (I know some players will disagree but I don't care, with good tactics and Blink you cannot die in orc unless you are paralyzed). Also I would id that unknown amulet and wear it (magic regeneration) instead of reflection. Also I would put s...

The thing in this morgue that screams out to me is that you have iron shot at 1% fail and a reasonable spellpower at XL14, and you're still pouring more than half of your experience into magical offenses. Iron shot is a spell powerful enough to win the game with; if you have it castable this early,...

Thanks. I will be more conscious of how much I lure monsters.

I was wondering about those boots.

Thanks.

Btw, I have a lot of wins with dcss but few caster wins, learning how to be a caster is a new skill for me.

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Generally I know when I make a mistake what I did wrong or maybe didn't understand but lately with DEWI I feel like I am getting better at avoiding YASD. The problem is I burn through consumables until I am out and then in lair, orc, I am not able to escape death. My best run with DEWI was to Vault:...

Thanks for the help, I died, never got rpois and just ran out of resources.

Any advice on my caster, not sure what Armour to wear nor how to deal with orb's of fire. I always think about orb's of fire, are their spells they will take damage? I have almost no melee skills at all. This is my first true caster not a hybrid. Thanks in advance. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/...

Not every day with DCSS is a great day, much life real life. I love this game and I love the fact that it survivable, if I want to play .16 or .5 (not sure why .5 is the newest version) I can and once in my folder it can never disappear from my life. This comes on the heals of my need to play wizard...

If your rmut doesn't protect you and you get the berserk in combat mutation, quaff a potion of cure mutation asap. On this specific point: there is no rMut anymore in the latest version. Blocking line of sight (or priority quick-killing) is how you avoid being mutated. Getting the berserk mutation ...

Thank you. Although sometimes frustrated with death, I keep coming back for more. I think the best thing I can do to be a better is to learn from my deaths and improve in the future. Also this is a lot like life, well except you don't die most days. I have to admit I was frustrated this morning when...

I am not sure if this by design, but I am finding that I am getting killed in new ways then having to reach out to the forum's to determine what the fix for this death is if any. Here are some of the examples, if your swept up by a tornado around deep water or lava immediately quaff a potion of flig...

I tend to have the easiest time with octopodes as an assassin. Does octopodes constriction increase stab damage? Constriction is incredibly lethal in normal combat for very little xp investment. Normally monsters that a stabber fails to stab are dangerous when they wake up, but constriction just ki...

Thanks for the advice, things are going better, last death was due to paralization, I blinked and then got hit by steam. I am not really concerned about paralization deaths, what's concerning is when I run out of resources. Octopodes appear to be especially vulnerable to paralization. I generally th...

Is there a build for octopode that isn't a a straight up fighter? I am probably on my 50th Octopode, the few that made it far died in a spectacular way but most of them don't make it off the ground. I am assuming that a straight fighter build is really difficult and I need to combine casting and fig...

I am not complaining, I love this game I just played two crazy games in a row, made it to d11 with only a ring of ice, literally the only ring I got was that and a cursed ring of teleport. Another game made it to d7 with no identify scrolls and only x2 potions of haste. The RND in this game is somet...

A good compromise is when everyone is unhappy. Honestly though the difficulty of the game seems pretty good. My last death was a 20 minute struggle burning up all my resources before I couldn't teleport or heal anymore. The only deaths I feel that are unwarranted at this time are paralysis from almo...

Thank you. I am afraid of abyss and need to get over that.

Switching to long blades is a great idea I haven't considered and it could open up a whole new selection of weapons.

Thank you.

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