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Considering armour acquirement, I think it'd make sense to always give an item for a free slot (does it do that already?) and if it never was of negative enchantment it'd probably always end up being used as it'd at least never hurt your AC. Edit: Always getting a +0-or-better item in a free slot wo...

One thing that came to mind is that what if armour acquirement never gave a "worse" item for a slot already in use? I guess it'd give a too appealing reason to hoard the scrolls instead of using them which would be undesirable. And probably overpowered?

Removing the possibility of complete trash items from acquirement would serve to raise the average quality of acquirement. I also think that acquirement should not give complete trash items. Now the question is, how should 'complete trash' be defined? And should the definition take the current char...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (tiles) character file. Visdux the Carver (Vine Stalker Enchanter) Turns: 27216, Time: 03:32:21 HP 86/86 AC 27 Str 10 XL: 16 Next: 28% MP 30/30 EV 21 Int 17 God: Makhleb [******] Gold 586 SH 14 Dex 19 Spells: 7 memorised, 15 levels left rFire . . . SeeInvis ....

on average. Do you mean you want more consistently ordinary results instead of randomly great/useless results? No. Removing the possibility of complete trash items from acquirement would serve to raise the average quality of acquirement. This was more what I was thinking. So, a direct buff without ...

Yes, I need to reassess. 1/10 upgrades is way off. I've had incredible fortune with Acq lately. Maybe I was on a bad streak before that, which biased my opinion. Acquirement seems fine to me. I think this is the root of the issue here. The rarity of the acquirement scrolls combined with the random ...

Have you tried acquiring wands? Jewellery acquirement and maybe book acquirement could be improved, but on the whole the scroll seems fine to me. I usually go for wands if I haven't got /healing. It seems to be the most reliable option of getting a great item, although I've wasted four in a game to...

Hurkyl wrote:Characters whose higest magic skill is Fire do receive a higher chance of getting a staff of fire. Weapon acquirement is biased towards your weapon skills too.

Oh okay, didn't know that.

I've played enough NetHack not to suggest to turn ?acquirement into a direct wish. But lately, I've also played a lot of chars in Crawl to see why so many people call it the scroll of disappointment. My suggestion is: buff ?acquirement to make it more likely to gain something useful. For example: a ...

Becquerel wrote:Yup. Unfortunately, this guy splatted to the royal jelly's vengance party; what was tripping me up with irradiate was miscasts from other spells, like RoF and less often, bolt of flame. Oh well

A fire blaster should kill TRJ and his posse in 4 Fire Storms at the most.

Shadow creatures will give you breathing room in Vaults. Noted. I've been reading about characters that use summons for backup, but I've never really used them outside of an occasional animated skeleton. I would still wear the shield even if it meant no staff of earth. It's another line of defense,...

Abyss and V5 have too many variables; Abyss moreso. You know what you're going to get (plus potentially Dissolution) in Slime. Do Slime based on predictability; take it slow, don't get surrounded. Many find it easy with proper defense. TRJ is easy with either method (I've done both very successfull...

An unusual advice: for a SpEn, try version 0.11. You start with Invisibility in your spellbook, there are lot less monsters who see invisible, and in general there are a lot less annoying monsters. I started playing Crawl in 0.14 and Invisibility was in the starting book. When it got replaced by Da...

Which rune would you go for next with a 2-rune character like this one, and why? I'd really appreciate the input. My thinking goes as follows: ⋅ Abyss: A SpEn of Ash should have an easier time in Abyss than the most: perma-swiftness, passive mapping and monster warning. ⋅ Slime: ...

notcluie wrote:crawl; the only way to win is not to play

Only bots could come to such conclusion. Even though I agree that Crawl is a strange game.

It was suggested that you needed a good area-of-effect spell to ignite the jellies after reading a scroll of immolation. That rod plus your high Evoc is your AOE spell. Bring two scrolls in case you screw it up. Alternately, use some Wands of Fire/Fireball/Draining. Thanks for clearing that up. Eve...

yeah i kind of glossed over the shield thing oops Well, the main reason I'm not wearing one is the fact that I haven't invested all that much into Iron Shot's spell power--the fact you rightly criticized. I'm relying on the enhancer staff to bring the power. i guess you could just do slime then nin...

Not so subtle hinting about a lightning rod and 20 Evocations So a lightning rod might actually be useful? I really should play a melee dude some day, as the caster types I usually play just rely on their spells and just disregard all the rods and other "useless" items. I've regarded them...

learn shatternado and lichform then do extended with them Sure. I'll just quickly run through Abyss, Slime, and V:5 first. Hold my beer. no, not seriously although for all the iron shot you're apparently using you have pretty low spellpower for it Before Crypt I felt that Iron Shot dealt enough dam...

Crypt cleared. Iron Shot dealt enough damage to clear it, but there were two scary moments. First I was about to stab a silent spectre when Mara showed up. I had the typeitis mutation ("You occasionally type uncontrollably.") and quickly found myself between two Maras in a corridor I was f...

XuaXua wrote:I thought the staff of earth and the other spell staves were one-handed. Are they two-handed for spriggans?

Yes.

I went and cleared Depths:5. I mostly used Iron Shot, finished fights and popcorn by melee'ing, confuse-stabbed lower-MR monsters, Passwall-stabbed a golden dragon, and went invisible to sleep-stab a vaultful of mostly draconians. Surprisingly easy. I don't know what I expected. I burned 3 scrolls o...

damiac wrote:Ash can be easily rebalanced to work with less remove curse scrolls by giving more curse item scrolls per scroll sacrificed.

That could work. However, if the scrolls were more scarce, the issue would become finding even one to get any god abilities at all.

But stuff like remove curse is ridiculous. Most of the time I finish with over 20 left and even in early game I rarely have below five and I liberally use-id weapons/armor/jewelry. With such a drop rate one could as well get rid of the whole curse mechanism. There is tomb, but even then you won't g...

You're likely to get a quick blade from acquirement, especially if you haven't seen one yet. I'm not sure whether or not that's preferable to a pain short sword, though. Not sure either. fsim to the rescue! Current character vs stone giant: +10 short blade of pain: AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | Av...

Training Earth to 24 might not actually be necessary for shatter, you have a whopping 35 Int. Did you put all your stat increases into int? (defenses are the way to go so most people go dex -> more evasion). You are still correct about it being a waste of EXP for a 3 rune run. Every single voluntar...

Dispel Undead is fantastic against undead. If you are perfectly capable in melee, hitting things with a short sword can also deal with undead very swiftly while saving you 5 spell slots. Nonetheless you already have 15 necromancy so I think it'd be a fine pickup. The +10 short sword is quite useful...

Mate, the hell are you doing with 4 scrolls of acquirement in your inventory, is this some kinda conduct you forgot to tell us? I was short on gold at one point and thought that I'd save the acquirement scrolls for spare $ to buy a nice item from a shop if I'll find one. I spent my first ?acquireme...

I don't remember ever dying in Elf:3 with a spellcaster with {MR+++} and a bolt spell, Iron Shot, or Poison Arrow. Ok, once to a deep elf blademaster but that was YASD from my part. Don't know about other combos as I mainly play casters and SpEns. SpEns have high MR and can stab through most of Elf....

Code:: the +10 short sword of Imminent Death (weapon) {pain, rElec Str+2} (You bought it in a shop on level 9 of the Dungeon)

SpEn would kill for an early +10 short sword or for one with the pain brand. He'd stab for one with both, or at least invest some gold.

I'm a card-carrying member of the Dead Spriggans Society. Lately, many of those have went to their graves with a rune or two. I have high hopes for Trispen not to join their ranks. Which would be quite a feat for me as I've yet to win the game. This is my most succesful SpEn so far. I got a great pa...

I downloaded and installed DCSS 0.15.2 from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/files/Stone%20Soup/0.15.2/stone_soup-0.15.2-win32-installer.exe/download While running the tiles version of the game F-secure popped up told me it had detected a virus in the executable and recommended a reboot, w...

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