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Ehh just tried again... I'm going to regret saying this but the species is too powerful. I don't know if lowering the apt max will fix it. Instead maybe make everything +1 but keep fast leveling (I believe it is XP multiplier)? Gozag is a damn good god but with Cyno it seems to be extremely good. Yo...

I'm not sure I can say much about this gnoll like species with out another play but I generally liked it. I did do more than 3 runes because I knew 3 runes would be fairly easy but I did not do hell and pand. I probably could have because of statue form and the gear I had. I would say it a little st...

Well, if you've seen late midgame Yred played carefully, you often have over a dozen permanent allies plus several derived undead. That's a lot of message spam and it's hard to match it without using a lot of summonings magic, but then you're not worried about your guys dying. I'll put it this way:...

I agree Enslave Soul is pretty awful though. Considering his entire proposal is to replace Yred with a version of Yred centered around Enslave Soul, I do not think he said that. Whoops! :oops: I was doing too many things when I wrote that comment. I meant to say I disagree and that Enslave Soul is ...

it's considered spammy, boring, and/or annoying by a lot of players. I have never heard Yred being spammy or boring. Both Mak and Kiku IMO are far more spammy (you can unleash lessor demons continuously with out stop with an amulet of faith with Mak). I agree Enslave Soul is pretty awful though. I ...

The subject pretty much says what I think would make the game slightly better: Give Control Undead to Yred worshipers and remove the normal spell. That is Control Undead would be an invoke ability (or maybe even passive) for yred worshippers and would scale based on ability. At high enough invoke ma...

I can see how the book was removed but I'm not sure why the spell was.

If they are going to remove that spell they should remove Excruciating Wounds IMO.

If you have the spell or lugonu and your character is a stabber and has no XP problems then distortion is one of the best brands in the late game particularly if you have deflect missile. It is also good for various sprints. Warp weapon is probably one of the more underrated spells in the game.

According to FSIM a single +3 slaying ring will often times do more damage than the offhand punch (which makes since but it appears offhand does slightly better for really low EV monsters). It is about equal on stone giants and almost anything with more EV the ring is more effective. Rings of slayi...

For those that butt curious why butt have butt turned butt. It is butt it butts down my gameplay so I butt butt cautious/slowly. Actually to be butt that is the butt rationale I keep having as I'm just too butt to turn it off. I was hoping to break butt and report to butts about it butting but it is...

According to FSIM a single +3 slaying ring will often times do more damage than the offhand punch (which makes since but it appears offhand does slightly better for really low EV monsters). It is about equal on stone giants and almost anything with more EV the ring is more effective. Rings of slayin...

Sar wrote:I don't care about resistance arguments, but I can thank your post if it makes you feel better!

I wish I could lie and say it doesn't matter but ... it does

thanks

It is my opinion ( this is game design but also advice on getting resistance) that 50% damage reduction for a single +r is overpowered. Nago even proved my point to some degree... the fact that you only need like one ring is proof that resistance are scaled incorrectly. It should not be so high for ...

My advice was if your a troll in early D and you see a shield with some resistances it is probably worth it over the 15% damage. If I see a large shield with rF+ as a troll I'm going to use it particularly if it is early in the game. This is a species that has a hard time finding any defense early g...

Counterpoint: resists don't matter very much and you generally shouldn't worry about them much. Use them if it's reasonable, don't go out of your way(ex: don't wear armor that gives you significantly worse ac/ev for the sake of a resist) umm you should worry about resistance considering there are m...

Counterpoint: resists don't matter very much and you generally shouldn't worry about them much. Use them if it's reasonable, don't go out of your way(ex: don't wear armor that gives you significantly worse ac/ev for the sake of a resist) umm you should worry about resistance considering there are m...

The god is ridiculously strong.... I almost 15 runed in 69K turns with Hu but died on the @$%^! orb run.... yes died with 15 runes on the orb run... I'm not going to play crawl for some time because of that (I just suck at the game.. I have no patience and I only like to do 15 rune). http://crawl.be...

The game actually does get harder your character just happens to be properly filtered by then (ie its the bottle theory the other characters have died earlier on). Its also because people grind and clear all floors. The whole zot 5 is "easy" is ridiculously wrong. It requires knowing a lot...

Dith is a good god for both KoFi and HaFi and isn't entirely because it (god) makes stabbing easy (although that is a plus) but because it gives you time to regain HP while hiding from monsters and not attracting a lot of monsters attention in general (again to Sandman's point about the HP). Dith pa...

I have noticed that for Hexes if the monster is wearing some sort of armor and it is not identified and it has MR+ the success percentage will lie. Of course that makes since though since you haven't id the armour. I can't reproduce it exactly as I'm not sure how to unidentify armor in Wiz mode but ...

So I played a little AM. HuAM for sure is not easy (regardless of what path you go) but the recommended species are not hard. I picked KoAM and whatever first god I saw (besides chei and xom). Picked the new god Uskayaw. That god apparently kicks serious ass if you have Slow and an Sblade (I also ha...

Yes but you are far more likely to find the 4-5 gods I mentioned (that give boost stabbing.. oh and I forgot Ru) very early D than Trog. I mean it sounds like your being hypocritical by saying just pick trog or contentious for the sake of it. Of course that is a viable option but you have to get the...

Well that's almost the same as saying "Arcane marskmen are meant to be played as berserkers who don't start with trog. You should pick up the first melee weapon you see, wait for a trog altar, then burn your starting book for piety" This is a valid way to play an arcane marksman, for sure...

So.. you're saying arcane marksman is just an enchanter who starts without a dagger, enchanter book, and starts with a bow they shouldn't use? If you want to use confuse, or dazzling spray, just pick en and you get it. What you said applies to every single background that isn't EN, the only differe...

til chei is strong because it lowers human turn count Well yeah why do you think 4tharra whatever his name pick chei over and over again... because chei lowers human turn count (this is in part because you are stronger ... as I mentioned earlier you hit harder). Winning faster in less turns for a l...

Why is statue form op? Because you do ridiculously more damage per hit, you get free AC as spell caster with no penalty to EV or casting and massive boost of HP. Of course there are like 4 more things but the above two are the major ones. The more damage per hit and going slow thing actually helps ...

IMO arcane marksmen is basically a stealth hexer. Don't waste time with the launchers, train sblade and a little stealth. Hex spell books seem to be fairly common in the game. I'm not sure what the weighting is but you just need Confuse, or Dazzling Spray and that will basically take you to vaults (...

If you see a shield with any resistance you should absolutely use the shield since Crawl I think seriously over powers resistance (yes even at one +).
That is rF+, rC+ and basically any r* (even rMagic and rPois) seriously trumps the offhand punch.

IMO the problem with combat magic in terms of competitive play is turn count and human time. When I say combat magic I mean mainly conjurations. For non competitive fun play it is novel for a little while blowing away things over and over again with conjuration spells but they basically glorified la...

I'm just curious about the people that complain the game isn't difficult enough. Are they complaining because it is easy to win with GrBe or MiBe? Its fairly easy to make Crawl more difficult... play more difficult species and gods. I agree with Tabstorm on a turn count timer or something to that d...

I could see this being abused to perhaps force certain god gifting or acquirements. For example you might choose Staves (the weapon) really early which is typically unavailable but has extremely good acquirement probability. Some one (I think Kvaak or Wheals) ran the numbers on wizmode and its like ...

chei/veh/ash/sif/zin/kiku enhance magic directly ... I have heard this before and I guess I have different idea of what "direct" is. Directly would be giving a spell power increase. Sure there are gods that assist but there isn't really an Oka or Trog of magic. Yeah there is Mak of magic ...

I have thought about something analogous a couple of times in the past and always came to the same conclusion... there is just too much overlap with Jiyva. A god that will basically turn you into your proposed species. If you want to play a slimeling worship jiyva. What I'm currently tossing around ...

I was hoping Qazlal would be more of a magic god. I'm going to loose the battle on this one but I still think Crawl needs one more magic enhancer gods but I can't figure out a mechanic that would be interesting. Maybe spell power enhancing elemental spells? Equivalent to a stave or something or ring...

I'm just curious about the people that complain the game isn't difficult enough. Are they complaining because it is easy to win with GrBe or MiBe? Its fairly easy to make Crawl more difficult... play more difficult species and gods. I agree with Tabstorm on a turn count timer or something to that de...

I went down this path at one point myself but far more extreme: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16409

I posted it on Crazy Yuif though because I knew it probably wasn't a good idea.

At one point on CBRO there was an interesting god that really disliked stair dancing. I believe the god was called Wanderlust. I'm not sure why the god got removed but I like having difficult game changing gods like Xom and Chei (albeit Chei does get vastly stronger as does Wanderlust) as an option ...

My advice on transitioning from melee to magic for new users is not to do blaster master but rather hexes. Hexes are so strong early and you need stealth anyway for most magic users. Also might want to consider not picking Veh or Sif. I think Dith, Ash, Fedhas and Kiku are better gods for most magic...

I actually find this to be pretty dangerous to do with all but the strongest blasters and axe masters. There are some exceptions but in general limiting LOS, and having walls around you (ie digging) are superior to stair dancing and blowing stuff up out in the open. It also waste a ton of turns beca...

I would agree that Pakellas is not terribly original. To be honest with the exception of Ru and Fedhas I really don't think any of the gods are terrible innovative. Plus I'm not sure if innovative = fun. I would also argue that Pakellas is strong in the beginning. The exception being you don't get w...

Yes but so is Pakellas... and most gods that give gifts... except I guess ole nemelex would kill you now and then

I'm sure its possible. I couldn't figure out how to test it in wiz mode but I'm almost positive it is.

You guys probably didn't play old nemelex much. Old nemelex you could spam deck of wonders for pot experiences. And Mu had the best chance of getting it because of the shear amount of shit to sacrifice. I had an mu at XL17 before entering lair and helix degeneration isn't really that bad on mu... Th...

I play on cbro so I have been playing pakellas for some time now. Pakellas is possibly my favorite god in the game. It (Pakellas) really changes the game and gives the game a sort of DoomRL feel to it. Grunt did a great job (I think it was Grunt who made Pakellas). He is absolutely fantastic for Mu ...

I have had so many issues with Jiyva and tmut spells that I almost refuse to play jiyva with the species/char combos you would think would be good with jiyva (trolls, octopodes, felids, dracs). One of the issues is the whole melding/unmelding. Your equipment doesn't unmeld before the game does a < 0...

One way I guess to make yred relevant in extended besides demon killing piety is perhaps zero piety decay. At least you get piety when you kill stuff with yred...(I really can't stand new nemelex and new ely of press "o" for piety... ash makes up for it kicking ass later).

Which would you rather die to: Two Hellions or the Serpent of Hell? I would rather not die? What's your point? "Plain" monsters should be completely harmless so players would only die to ones with cool names? Caustic Shrike, Shard strikes are more interesting deaths. Why? Because instead ...

I didn't read KoboldLords' post prior but that is basically my sentiment. I didn't mean to imply that the posters did actually group-think but rather the OP was hoping for it.

Some one new plays the game with a different way of thinking and a fresh open mind and offers a opinion to the game. Someone else takes his opinion and reposts it as a blockquoted joke (I am assuming that is what happened if not ignore me... I feel dumb for missing that it was blockquoted) so that t...

I don't think hellfire is bad (game design wise) but rather the Hellion. The Hellion really needs some love. Its a terribly boring monster which makes it even more unsatisfactory when you die to it (I too have died in Gehanna with Gr). This is in part because of the complete RNG crapshoot that is He...

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