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It has been awhile since I've played, but if things haven't changed too much, that longbow can win you the game. If you're not using a shield it might make sense to tank up on armor and impale things from a distance.

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Orc:2 | Bought the +12 gold dragon scales of Pantheism {*Slow rPois rF+ rC+ Str-3 Slay+5 SInv} for 2484 gold pieces

Is this a good or a bad artifact? Genuinely curious. I'd be inclined to say bad on pretty much 95% of characters.

Mennas and other good uniques saluting you when you worshiped one of the good aligned gods.

The best strategy to beat Mennas is to immediately read a teleport scroll whenever you see him. Fighting Mennas is one of those things that if you have to ask if you should, you shouldn't.

What happens if a Felid sacs a leg?

Doing a dry run might have been a good idea for a build like yours. I'm glad the orb runs are harder now, they used to be really snoozy and perfunctory. My last few have been properly tense. You had a particularly hard run because your character was never going to do well against pan lords. But you ...

Okay, stay calm, you can do this. Shadow creatures is very strong in Zot. Just fyi. Right now you are way ahead of the power curve, and that's going to make you overconfident. Be careful as you progress. There are enemies out there that are still going to be a major problem; a single caustic shrike ...

So you're playing one of those games of Crawl where it basically begs you to win. Let it! I'm pretty sure that your best weapon is that +12 battle axe of freezing, but the vamp axe is good too. Both are WAY better than your rapier. The large shield requires too much skill to be useful at this point,...

Unless you 100% really know what you're doing, don't abandon Trog. Abandoning Trog means that you'll get a bunch of bezerking trolls, stone giants, ettins, dropped in your lap just when things get properly spicy. You have 3 runes and 3 scrolls of magic mapping. Clear the crypt, hopefully get some gr...

Bezerkitis is generally considered a very dangerous mutation on a melee character because it removes a lot of choices about how you are going to fight. I'd bank the win.

This is a very strong character in my opinion. You have a lot of tools at your disposal to kill pretty much any threat you might encounter. Some thoughts. I'm not crazy about the stat bat you have as your main weapon. I think you might want to have the eveningstar ready because that's a solid weapon...

I dunno man, I think Duvessa is right. Lajatang of pain is an especially good weapon for any character who trains necro, and with heroism, which should basically always be activated, he's already at minimum delay. Using a suboptimal brand like venom for spider is a recipe for death as well.

I feel like there's something here I'm not getting...

I think one issue with this is that unique monsters and portals are overall pretty dangerous. If the devs did this Crawl would get significantly harder in most cases and characters ahead of the power curve would have an even easier time. I'd like to see more, not less, regression to the mean in Craw...

Seems to me that Crawl is filled with situations where if you have to ask whether you should or not you 100% shouldn't. I think that this can tend towards a fairly limited playstyle, where it's difficult to experiment unless you have a lot of experience or you have the capacity and interest to dig i...

The Hive!

I'm playing a Vehumet caster and I just remembered that you had to save the hive until you were ready to push into the last gifts because her/his piety decayed so rapidly.

Wohoo, I escaped with the Orb! Using the X + [ and ] trick on the stairs, checking the route maybe three floors ahead, made the Orb run a piece of cake, really. Thanks! Now to decide what to play as next. Some kind of spell caster, probably. Felid and Octopode seems interesting, too, but I think I ...

I would 100% agree with the above advice, but only to Vault 4. Vault 5 is very, very hard. Once you finish Vaults 1-4 post another dump.

I don't know that I would ever put abandoning Oka in the "easiest" category. It's no death sentence but if you're new to extended, having some titans airdropped on you in the middle of a fight can spice things up more than you like. Very good point. I think it's a decent path because you ...

This is kind of off topic, and I am kind of hijacking this thread, but it's a partially relevant realization I had during my last win. Also, I know I have a lot to learn, so if you disagree, please understand that I take your disagreement as a gift an an opportunity to learn more. I'm not claiming t...

Don't know anything about Wikis, but I do a lot of Google tech support. I found this. Have you tried it?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Pjby0sdeg3e60rfy

Fwiw, the conventional wisdom used to be not to train fighting. When? This certainly wasn't the case at any point during or after 0.9. I'm not sure I want to get too into it, but I do recall getting a lot of advice to keep fighting low and not to invest a lot of exp. I'm seeing a lot more emphasis ...

Fwiw, the conventional wisdom used to be not to train fighting. I'm not sure why, or if the skill changed, but as someone who started playing in .9 or so, that was most certainly the case.

For this character I would suggest that you try for the Abyssal rune. You have a lot of sources of teleportation, a way to consistently output a lot of damage, and have good defenses. Trying to safeport V:5 is almost certainly going to cause you to die, as it's packed with monsters, some of which ca...

Do people still make stashes? Is it still necessary?

If you really want to try extended maybe you should try a HoFi or HoGl of Okawaru, transitioning to TSO once you have gotten the 2 lair runes, the silver rune, and the slimy rune. I think it's the easiest personally, but there are other very strong combos as well.

Seconding that you don't need to change gods. BiA is good and so is the regen/mp boost you can get. Also, Trog's wrath is no joke. Especially if he hits you with it when you're at 70% health fighting an ancient lich. As for TSO/Zin, I'm not sure if you can change between them easily anymore. I know ...

Good job so far! Acquirement is such a mixed bag. If there are things in shops you want but can't afford, I would always recommend acquiring gold. That said, if there isn't, armour can be a decent choice, but as a spellcaster you might get something you can't use. On that note, I would recommend imp...

It's something dangerous. The devs are warning you not to open the door. They're warning you so hard that they even put a magical barrier that prevents the door from being opened unintentionally or by a monster. Of course you want to open the door, there might be loot inside! But it's probably not w...

Oh! I almost forgot my favorite: playing mutation roulette with the potions you made as a Sludge Elf Transmuter. Remove Felid, bring back Sludge Elf!

Getting horribly mutated on D:3 by Jessica with a wand of polymorph.

If you haven't run it yet, don't forget that this is the last part of the game. Burn everything necessary. Use consumables as soon as you might have a reason. Spam god abilities. Just get out.

Is this your first potential win? I say potential because the Orb run can kill you for real. If it's your first, then bank it! Getting your first win is a pretty big deal. Extended is special; there are a lot of challenges and it's entirely possible you'll splat because you get hit by 3 torments and...

I recently got some really good advice on this forum when I was stuck midgame as a DSTm. I don't know enough to go into as much detail as the people who helped me did, but I did take this one lesson away: efficiently maximize the efficacy of the things you are good at now before thinking about addin...

Thank you all for the advice. I was able to boost my defenses, and with the help of some pretty incredible lucky loot, was able to get 3 runes and the orb with very little drama. Some notes I took: (These may be super basic to you, but they really helped my game) SLOW DOWN- because I felt like I was...

Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it!

Hmm...I was thinking more like this, but that make sense too...

I'm curious.

Hello all! I've been away for awhile and I decided to see what was up in the Crawl world. I'm playing a DSTm and i'm really, really struggling in late early/midgame. I'm not the best player, but I have ascended 5-10 fairly easy combos. Any help would be greatly appreciated. http://crawl.akrasiac.org...

Hello all, long time no post here! I was wondering if one of you more seasoned adventurers could explain how unarmed combat is currently working. I have to admit, I've never really fully understood it, and I'm experimenting with a DrTm to get a feel. I currently can cast blade hands, ice form, and d...

Hello all! I'm having a lot of trouble getting a stabbing character past the dungeon and the rune branches. This one I'm currently on has been near death ever so many times, and that's with a really good RNG run on loot. I think I've played decently so far, haven't been overly reliant on invis...but...

I've been having a lot of fun with an OgHu who follows the smith. A fire branded GSC is a thing of beauty, and it makes me so happy to have an ogre in plate mail. Fun god for me so far, haven't used the abilities all that much; the passive is just wonderful enough. Not sure if it would be enough on ...

I've played a few Gozag games, and while the idea is cool, I found myself abandoning my games because he bored me. Perhaps this is too abusable, but what if the open shop ability was replaced with a acquirement like ability? As in, you pay for the acquire feature, pick an acquirement category (not g...

Ha! I'm about to do the Hive!

I'm also REALLY hoping for a katana.

Edit: Aaaaaaand it reset. =(

After playing a MiPa yesterday, who is still alive fwiw, I've come to really appreciate how much BETTER Crawl is now than it was back in the "good 'ol days."

Thank you devs!

also plz bring back mountain dwarves

Quick Q,

In trunk, are troves guaranteed to generate? I haven't found one and I'm at D:27 with Elf and Vaults clear.

I want to second thanking Neil for the server. If you have a paypal, I would love to send you some cash.

Can't we keep CYC limited to meta posts about the CYC meta plz?

It's like it's becoming GDD-fails.

Suggestion: Remove permadeath from CYC

rebthor wrote:
mrbobbyg wrote:I LOVE SIGMUND SO MUCH!

GRINDER IS THE NEW SIGMUND. ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD ... I MEAN GRINDER.

so over sigmnund now whatevs

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