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I understand this logging function may be optional(?). If it can be disabled, that'd be great. I chat too much as it is and would rather not clog up my (or my friend's) dump files. Thanks!! :mrgreen:

When you have the Orb, you cannot reliably semi-control blink with CBlink, right?

6 to 10% failure on your main high level spells is way too high. Get your Necro to 18 and your Ice to 20.

Hehe. Congrats!! :mrgreen:

What is that, your 10th online win now? Nicely done!

So I'm just screwing around on Crawl local while doing pre-Christmas stuff, and the RNGs decide to give my XL 8 Halfling Hunter this on D6.

Merry Early X-mas to me! :mrgreen:

(Actually it turns out that if you manage to get on top of a mimic without it revealing itself, you can pick it up and use it just fine - unless you later drop it, in which case it'll finally reveal itself and attack you. Possibly that qualifies as a bug and I ought to go fix it, though :(). roflma...

Well, good to hear she is still alive. Bummer on the lack of needles tho! :( Okra's been stingy with our SpAs too. Only gave us 5 para needles and 1 already got mulched (silly me, using needles instead of just dispelling the friggin lich). Dreamer and I have had reasonable success meleeing. Hero + B...

OK, I just finished Menkaure's Violet Keep. It is a frustrating, but fun, map. I think it is more luck based than 10 Runes. Here is the morgue file: Dungeon Sprint DCSS version 0.9.0-27-g8a39726 character file. 287966 Snozzcumber the Sorcerer (level 13, 65/77 HPs) Began as a High Elf Wizard on Dec 3...

I don't have good defense Charms yet, so I don't think Charms is urgent. Right now I need to learn how to kill stuff without wasting all my MPs. Speaking of which, why deactivate Conj if I'm going to use such a wide variety of Conjuration offensive spells? (fire air and poison) Well, I try to keep ...

I'd turn off conj and pump casting, charms, and fire. Pumping charms will help get you the good defense spells. It would not hurt for you to get traps to 3 and invoc to 4 or 8. You have Siffy, so use that channel power when you get cornered and low on MP. The hunger should be manageable for you. Def...

Do not go into Orc. You are not ready. Keep exploring the main dungeon and do Lair when you find it. Orc was beefed up in the last version or two. There are some really nasty caster types (Sorcerer, High Priests) and some brutes (Warlords) that will tear you to shreds. I suggest you focus your skill...

OK, so Daydreamer and I decided to give the SpAs a real go. She's done pretty well, having cleared out Lair (high point was stabbing Rupert using a sleeping needle). The Hero + Finesse combo has also been awesome when we've had to resort to actual melee (took out a troll ghost with it). I can see ce...

I agree with greepsih and cerebovssquire. If you have Swift and Flight, get those asap. With that combo, you will outrun most threats. Haste and Deflect huge too. Then aim for C Blink -- before then, you can use a CTel ring or the spell to do semi-controlled blinks which is plenty good. I'd turn off...

I dunno. This thread inspired me to fire up a SpAs (and I don't even play stabbers, normally). Having that curare from the get go sure is awesome. I can see this combo doing very well. Might have to give it a real chance someday...

You're headed for Zot? Do yourself a favor and memorize Shadow Creatures. It is great in Zot. Use it to create defensive meat shields and Haunt for the ranged attacks. Heck, you might even get lucky with Shadow Creatures and get something really dangerous: like a wrath moth and a drac pack. Enjoy th...

@ mageykun : yeah, Imps are hard to keep in line. :lol: Here are the solutions I found: Siggy - summon the imps in Iylb's room, saving 6 mp. Lead them to Siggy's room. An imp should kindly find and open a secret door for you (I think they do that to line up with you). Now you have 2 meph shots to ge...

You need xp? Finish off Crypt and Vault 7. Be careful with Crypt 5, some endings are nasty. Heck, with stasis and abjuration, you can even poke your head into Tomb 1 -- just don't go past the Sphinxes. Agreed with minmay on the buckler. Get some shield, have Flight + Swift + Haste running and you ca...

OK, I just got through the Red Sonja Sprint map. This one was much shorter than the 10 Rune Challenge. ;) Here's the dump file: Dungeon Sprint DCSS version 0.9.0-27-g8a39726 character file. 280141 Snozzcumber the Sorcerer (level 12, 72/72 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Wizard on Nov 26, 2011. Was the Cham...

I was on level 20 of Ziggurat and met an army of dwarves. You died to Pain Mirror. Deep Dwarf zig levels are dangerous because some of the dwarves can be Yred followers. A persistent AoE attack is a very bad idea, as you found out. Sorry to see your run end. Good luck when you decide to come back.

I just won my first Sprint game. :mrgreen: A friend put me on to the 10-rune challenge as a mini-version of the standard Crawl game. It is hellafun. Here's the dump file: Dungeon Sprint DCSS version 0.9.0-27-g8a39726 character file. 26130380 Snozzcumber the Archmage (level 21, 150/150 (152) HPs) Beg...

Hey, congrats, Dreams! SEEE of Ash sure seems like a fun combo! The Hell/Pan portion of your run was hilarious. Here's the screenie I got of ol' Dis' demise.

Now, time to go win a MDFi before .10 comes online! :mrgreen:

o_O wrote:Call the new species a Dwarf Minotaur, like a small hairy drunk Minotaur or a horned bullish Dwarf. Everyone am happy

Horny Dwarf.

Done.

Can we go back to arguing about food now?

I use Vehmy a lot and I think this is an interesting idea. Right now, getting spells from Vehmy takes time. If going the blaster route, I am usually only interested in the 2nd (Power), 3rd (Annihilation) and 5th (the one with Abjur and Shadow Creatures) books. I usually cannot get the 2nd book until...

I like mimics and enjoy having them as part of the game. They are particularly funny when your friend hits one (or better yet, several... in a row...) on WebTiles. :mrgreen:

Hambone wrote:I'd built the character around Tornado, but I just could not find it.

I know how that feels!

Bonus points for doing most of Pan and Hell w/o Lich or Nado. Grats, Ham!

So this character was inspired by DayDreamer's 15 rune KeMo. See here for that character: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.8/Daydreamer/morgue-Daydreamer-20110622-234322.txt Instead of going melee though, my chicken went the caster route. It started as an AE and worked its way through the early gam...

They were made with the almighty Microsoft Paint. I started with the normal creature and then used eyedropper to get the zombie colors and manually penciled/bucketed the normal critter into shades of zombie. I added blood and bones here and there (the troll has blood on its claws and the draconian h...

Since WebTiles is undergoing maintenance, I decided to try to do something constructive with my time. Here is a stab at some zombie tiles. I took a look at the 0.9 tiles and I didn't see anything specific for trolls, draconians, griffins/hyppogriffs, harpies or sphinxes. If I missed em, sorry! These...

I think it is happening again. Someone mind hitting the big reset button? Thanks! :mrgreen:

Hey folks, I have a merfolk IE (but played more as a melee hybrid) going into the the V8/Zot stage. If I monkey with my INT rings, I can get level 6 spells to 0 hunger. So I was trying to decide between staying with Oz Refrig or going Freezing Cloud as my smite/AoE spell. (I don't have any significa...

I died to mara at lvl 17 due to me not knowing several things about him. Learned that he can still mislead and blink while silenced and the image he creates is not a player ghost so it will follow you up stairs, also that I cant heroism while silenced. The spell to take down Mara is Abjuration. It ...

DivineHammer wrote:I knew that any offensive spells I cast would be weaker and waste mp that should be put into my next Tornado, so I just sort of walked around and felt silly.

This is why Xom invented the Channel Staff. nado, vvvv, nado, vvvv, nado, vvvv, rinse, repeat... :twisted:

Paging Daydreamer...

Congrats, speciesxxx! Details. Give us the details!

Way to go, Lonewordsmith!

I agree with mumra. I think what you need to work on are your escape techniques. It sounds like you are fighting until you are nearly out of mp and then trying to escape if the enemy is still alive. I found that, with squishy casters, I need to (a) plan my escape before I engage, and (b) implement t...

Wow never thougth it could be that easy after been dying so often. Walking on my toes all the time though, maybe that is what does make the difference. Anyway, i cleared Hive and Orcish Mines (in Hive level 2 i didnt risk to destroy wax walls that were behind water tiles with sharks, i dont want to...

Pretty character you have going there. Esp with the resists and spell hunger management (altho with Gourmand, that shouldn't be much of an issue for you now). Some suggestions: 1. You have a source of rP and have found the Hive. You should consider clearing Hive now, instead of more Orc or Lair. Kob...

Do you have a Ring of Sustain Abilities? If so, wear that and it should fend off deterioration 1.

Congrats, man! Feels great to get that first win, doesn't it?

Nice job!

K, a couple of things here. I think your magic skills are kind of high. Spellcasting at 7 is fine. But you didn't need Conj at 11--having Conj match Spellcasting would have been enough. Also, to use Mephitic, you only need 2 Air and 2 Poison. I would turn both off after that unless you really had a ...

speciesxxx, you should post one of your morgue files. That would help us see how you are allocating your spells and skills. I suggest you play a High Elf Wizard. When you start, before you take a step anywhere, turn off all your skills except Conj. Then fire a bunch of Darts into the air (using the ...

That is hilarious. I love mislead.

Someone should make that an acquirable mut that activates/deactivates without warning. That's sure make me want to drink more mut pots! :lol:

As a protip, can you explain why you are using a staff of channeling vs an enhancement staff? (with that evo it should hit like a truck neh?) Also, what was your progression with short/long blades to staves? I'm not a pro, but I would be happy to explain my reasoning. :D What you see is my gear set...

OK, this is a write up for a High Elf Wizard of Vehumet. I have found this combo to be one of the easiest to play. It--plus a lot of help from people on WebTiles--got me my first 15-rune win and my first Zig! :mrgreen: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-178-g5053f60 character file. 8758434 rooto...

While you are at it, you might want to go ahead and make the following changes: Section 4-i easy_eat_chunks = true easy_exit_menu = false Section 4-j mp_warning = 30 show_gold_turns = true The first option allows you to eat clean chunks just by hitting e. The second disables exiting menus with the d...

OK, here is the complete process, based on Wes' explanation: 1. Download Putty. You can get it here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ 2. Run Putty and login to crawl.develz.org via Telnet, port 345 3. Login using your WebTile login & password 4. Select 1 (Crawl 0.8) 5. Select o...

Congrats, danr!! Now that's some real good news!

Well, that's the end of that. Trig died to a Yaktaur Captain in V7. 61 damage from a single bolt. I had Repel and Phase running at the time. I don't think I would have approached this situation differently. That is, I think that if I had to do it again, I still would have fired that Poison Arrow as ...

LOL. Yeah, the RNGs love me. That is the third Gourmand Amulet they've given Trig. (5, 43, D:13) an uncursed amulet of the gourmand (12, 3, Crypt:4) an amulet of the gourmand I think this is a sign to the devs: Spriggan are underpowered. Let them eat meat already!! :mrgreen: Not much of an update. T...

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