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You got any summons? Summon some helpers out to tag the clones when you can. Wand of confusion too.

100% do crypt. Be careful at the bottom. You can cautiously do the first 4 levels of Zot for equipment, no problem. Try the first 3-7 levels of that ziggurat and also keep the distortion brand ready; randarts might not be worth it. Pan could be fun, depending. You'll need RMUT, SUSTAIN ABILITIES and...

Jk: if it can damage a single good potion, even if only with small chance, players will be compelled to drop potions prior to mummy encounters. Won't do. That's why you go with line of sight. Don't affect inventory, affect environment. This wouldn't cause combat dropping; it would cause players to ...

Apparently some transmuter was using mummies as a way to manufacture otherwise rare potions of degeneration so they could spam clouds of degeneration with evaporate. Sacrificing potions is a 100% logical tactic; I wouldn't have seen that as a nerf. Then-again, he was probably doing that "Creat...

Thanks for those answers! I'm making some great progress (getting close to the farthest any of my characters have gotten), at an extremely slow pace. This is the most hard unique's I've ever killed (Aizul, Nikola, Boris, Saint Roka, Xtahua)... although I've had to flee in terror from Mara. Try not ...

Be prepared for SHOCK when you get to Shoals/Snake: 5. I was all "Oh, these first 4 levels are easy, wtf" and level 5 is just a scale all its own. You'd think 1-4 would get harder on the way down, but really they're all about the same level of toughness. Level 5 is completely off the wall ...

Zicher wrote:
XuaXua wrote:What, no one is going to suggest going the Pandemonium or Hell routes for runes?

Hey, be gentle

With a dagger of distortion at his side, he could just pilfer PAN for a while (though I'd skip Cerebov) for food and stuff.

Every successful step I take around a sleeper should chance build towards it.
Every successful step I take around a distracted should chance build less towards it.

x1 for each monster present.

What the heck is up with building Stealth Skill? I've got a guy wandering around with 20000 EXP sitting there, stealth at 22 (25%) and he's just walking circles around a draconian who has a ? around him and none of the XP is diminishing (as in, applying to stealth). You'd think that'd be the case, b...

What, no one is going to suggest going the Pandemonium or Hell routes for runes?

Here is an idea: Let felids wear one piece of armour (crawl inside) or wield one weapon (bite it) but don't allow the felid to move, cast, or execute a melee attack while in that position. When I played a felid, it was disappointing not to be able to find out what that smoking whip was, even though...

We were discussing revising vorpalize and enchant scrolls over here if you'd like to put your opinion in for enchanting items without having to wield them first.

MarvinPA wrote:The price affects the loot, actually.

Both troves and ziggurats?

Does ziggurat depth affect the loot?

Do all portals to Ziggurat lead to the same load of Ziggurats?

For example, I have two Ziggurat options, one that costs $3000 and one that costs $7000.

No difference there but the price, right?

-1 -3 so no.

Change log shows reaping has been removed. It's useless for the enemy, and gimmiky for the player (since you were encouraged to use them to deliver the finishing blow). GOT REAPING TODAY! I found "The Bow of Grast" artifact, which as reaping! crawl_tiles-0.8.0-a0-5476 Bug or feature?

I've currently got a character with -2 INT. He has a sword of int+3 Every time he unwields, he goes to -2 INT and gets assigned as "Brainless". Every time he wields, he goes back to 1 INT (or earlier, 2 INT) and the "Brainless" stays for a bit till time recovers. I'd think it wou...

I agree that vorp scrolls currently tend to be a disappointing find - You find it and think "awesome" but then you realize that you can't really do much with it. What if the vorp scroll gave a random brand? A lot of the time you'd still get plain vorpal, but sometimes flame/ice/poison, an...

One of the issues I have with vorpalize weapon scrolls is for non-spellcasters. What if you find an awesome normal bow and you really want it to be a bow of flaming? Spellcasters can learn the brand spells and use them then vorpalize, but non-spellcasters have to hunt down a bow of flaming instead. ...

There are a couple vorpal requests at the moment

- Revise the vorpal brand applique : https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=1921
- The one jpeg just requested : https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=3550

Any feedback regarding usage of Vorpalize Weapon on missiles or armor as well?

I've run across three scrolls of vorpalize weapon in my game and yes I used one to awesome-up a bow, but my other items are already branded or artifacts. So that means that two extremely valuable scrolls go to waste. It is a shame these scrolls cannot be used on missiles (arrows of penetration, woo!...

Got enough to get the sword to +6, distort/unwield when all those damn mummies from the Tomb showed up in ziggurat, got to abyss, ran to the tomb, entered and AAAAH F--K I had full equipment, many unidentified rings.

I have entered Pandemonium. Hopefully I am equipped enough.

I want that trove, screw the orb of zot.

Do that thing where you collect all the +0 arrows you can find (traps and doors skill!) and pile them up till you have 600+ of them, wield the stack specifically, and used enchant weapon on them, fold in your +1 arrows and continue until you have like 800-1000 +4 (or higher) arrows.

F---! If the Royal Jelly dies, but YOU are not the one to deliver the killing blow, the walls do not turn translucent and teleport control is still disabled. 0.8.0-a0-5476 Has this been fixed, or is this correct behavior (Brothers in Arms, nooooooo!!!!!!!!) EDIT: :oops: Nevermind. Damn teleport con...

It is poorly worded.

Are characters that cannot equip certain slots (spriggans with boots, gloves, heh) more vulnerable, or do those sections qualify as "unable to hit with acid"?

I beat crypt, but holy crap. Last level had TONS of secret doors. I was about to die somewhere, and teleported into a square full of gold with a bone dragon (easy kill for me), surrounded by a translucent wall and a secret door with undead around it trapped behind ANOTHER translucent wall, with a va...

Knowledge Bot keeps telling me "Acid damage increases for each unequipped item slot (50% chance if wearing a cloak)." So what does that mean? Does that mean I should equip as much as I can (hat, gloves, etc.) and if I am not wearing boots, I take more acid damage? Or does that mean I have ...

Terpsichore just died and told me she'd see me soon. I wonder if that meant "in death" or if she comes back too, what with being a muse and all.

It doesn't mind what brand the weapon has. Cleared D27. OK, the sword is still not +6/+6, and I want to do it, so I guess I need to find more scrolls. I also would like 300 more gold somehow for a ziggurat access. Here is what I have left: Slime (1-6) Crypt (2-5) Zot (1-5) Tomb: (?-?) Hell: ?-? Hel...

Yeah, I'm not using it. The "latest" problem I have is the trove earlier on. It requires a "+6 demon blade". Will it matter if it is a "+6 demon blade of fire" (currently at +3/+6) or should I just start putting scrolls against a different demon blade that I've picked u...

Not sure if I want to go crypt; the loot in the vault at the bottom is impenetrable for me, right? I can "get" rN+++, but not without giving up some good stuff like my armor (I'd put on the pearl dragon armor). At the moment I'm rN+.

I now have 1258 +4 Arrows... AAAANDDDD vorpalize weapon does nothing to them.

Per your Q, SH when +3 buckler of reflection is equipped is 26 Got the buckler from a scroll of acquirement, IIRC and used some scrolls on it. I'd love to get a good cape. Additional equipment available to me include: ARMOR +2 Dragon Armor (vs flame) +2 robe of cold resistance +2 Wizard Hat of Thoov...

Discarding all advise, I grabbed the +13 demon blade and took to the crypts with the pearl armor and just defeated level 1. I tend to try and 100% clear every level, so I'm kind of nuts that way. I gained a lot of XP as follows: Went to lair and beat it. Went to hive and beat it. Took out orc. Went ...

Yeah he comes back. Sucks about the deterioration and screaming mutations, but other than that you're alright. Should've put more into dex rather than strength, but good otherwise. Trying to figure out my best weapon. I have used up all pots of Cure Mutation, and then just recently quaffed 2 un-id'...

Tiber wrote:I would be careful of coding problems regarding using a weapon that both damages a target and makes it an ally. I can imagine it causing certain problems with some gods.

Apply damage before rolling for charm. You gain a health-damaged ally, sort of inherently-penalized, providing a mild balance.

Also, I keep running into this guy:

Boris (thrice) (Vault:5 Blade Vault:8)

Is that correct behavior?

Is there a thread for character evaluation? Please evaluate my character. Not sure what to throw where. Have a ton of other stuff accumulated in 2 caches as well. Just beat vault and I got this cool demon blade, but I've been using the quickblade. What should I carry? I just dropped a wand of inviso...

Mine requires a +6 Demon Blade to enter and I have a +1/+4 on me right now, but no scrolls.

What would be nastier, and a great deal more fun, would be arrows of steal summons. I propose missiles with "charm" brand potential to charm the target, similar to cupid's Arrows of Love. In fact, I would love for someone to create a "Cupid's Bow" artifact that causes all arrows...

TGW wrote:Point 3 is a terrible idea. Training skills should not confer gigantic penalties to a character.

Unless they're opposing in magical nature like ice/fire.

Before I started playing trunk a lot, I'd play v0.7. And it was almost guaranteed that every other game I'd encounter one or more "teams" of centaurs in the standard dungeon levels armed solely with either bows and/or arrows of reaping. Been playing trunk for a while now and I haven't seen...

I would love to see traps loaded with... weapons that are greater in value than +0, with a high likelihood of being cursed. That would totally shake a lot of things up. As it stands, arrow traps are huge generators for the ranged-minded. Granted, I have not yet encountered a trap loaded with non +0 ...

This was pretty much what my last near trunk orc 4 looked like.
Brothers in Arms of Trog and invisibility.

Did anyone notice where I put "no undead" under racia restrictions in the original post?

Distortion is completely inappropriate for starting gear. e.g. If you don't think distortion would be a good idea (and I never claimed these were all good ideas), you could also say something like "I'm not sure about distortion, it's too powerful, but another brand could be doable - protection...

One ability might be speedier magic power regeneration, since that isn't affected by poison/sick/etc.

I've been hungry a lot in-game and thought it might be neat to have a god for which you gain piety when starving. A little development time and I transformed him from a God of Hunger into a God of Self-Affliction , when I considered poisoning, rot, sick, etc. might work in the favor as well. I poste...

...? Does it? It makes you less likely to pass out. Doesn't affect the food cost though. Really? Haven't gotten one this round with the SpBe, but last time I recall hitting (a) and not seeing a food cost. The penalty is not being able to do it 100% due to requiring evocations. Maybe it was a high e...

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