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After losing three high powered characters in a row due to stupid errors, I've got another one taken off. HuAs is a fun class for thematic reasons, and Wu Jian really adds to the Ninja feel. Wu Jian also really rewards Short Blades and especially the quick blade since martial attacks are regulated b...

imo the best way to structure a tournament to reflect skill and not encourage massive grinding is to only allow a player to count their *best game* for any given category. By only selecting a player's best run, it encourages significantly less brute forcing multiple runs for 10+ hours per day. You c...

When I cleared Tomb with a HaFi of TSO, I devoted almost all of the experience I gained in Cocy, Dis and Geh to getting Control Blink online. Once you can cBlink over to the doorways and up stairs, its a bit more manageable. Immolation scrolls and Evocables like the Lamp of Fire are good for clearin...

"Ach, didn't realized I was confused and moved while next to my Hep ancestor. Well that's another game wasted." Fun fact, your Ancestor can be affected by Discord. So if you are playing Hep, and have gone heavily into hexes yourself, be careful of casting Discord near your ally or he may ...

Interestingly, I like TSO when I play Summoner. I feel that TSO's toolkit offers a lot of interesting benefits at the cost of the high power unholy summons. Halo prevents invisibility near you, and most summons don't have see invisible. Even if the player has see invisible it doesn't help as much if...

2) Stealth sucks, in fact it is dangerous. Had this been an extremely loud character of TSO with lots more AC, it would have been perfectly viable to start killing stuff from the stairs and stair-dance in the worst of case scenarios. I got lulled in by gnoll's multiple aptitudes. I actually consist...

i disagree that only Bee and Centaur packs are interesting. I personally think that Orc packs are fairy well done, at least at the time they are first encountered. Orc packs function really well because the various orc types have some basic synergy that works pretty well together. Priests are danger...

I was thinking about this proposal and the more I think about it the more I like this proposal. Berder's problem is spot on, whenever I play a caster basically as soon as I clear the lair I am keeping an eye out for the same spells, almost without question. The only time an Air Elementalist really f...

So I guess this turns into a YAVP. :D Still never found that scroll of Amnesia, so I was locked into spells for the rest of the game. I haven't played in a while so didn't feel like trying my luck with Ziggurats at this point. Maybe some other time. First Deep Elf Win, and it felt good to play with ...

I don't see how you are getting out of this one. Lethally poisoned is your primary concern, and Aizul is just the icing on the cake. If you had caught this catastrophy earlier, there was a lot you could have done. But I fear that it is too late now- seeing as you don't have any curing. Potion of Res...

The math doesn't make sense because you can't simply add evasion and block chances together and come up with a useful number, if you evade 24% of attacks, and you block 20% of attacks, then you will block 20% of the 76% that remain after you evaded 24% of them, so you will actually end up dodge/blo...

Quick update. I've jumped into End Game proper. I had a bad experience in Abyss (as I expected) as the requirement for rapid movement was not letting me keep up with my spells. After escaping, I ducked into Pan, which is much more to this character's pace of resting in between fights. Since my curre...

That and the extra information Ashenzari provides is really good in the field which people don't often give it enough credit for when considering a min maxed build. Ash gives the player a lot more information about what is around the next corner than any other god. Passive mapping gives you a peak a...

I haven't played a pure caster in a long time. This character has really come into her own though, so its likely I'll go for a full 15 rune run. I am currently in the process of pivoting my spell selection and am almost out of available spell slots. I'm pretty close to where I want to be in terms of...

I will say that one of my absolute favorite little flavor pieces in nethack and SLASH'EM was the elf-orc and angel-demon hatred. It was a nice feature that these two groups would rather fight each other than you and that they would fight to the death even if they were aligned to the player! ...that...

I will say that one of my absolute favorite little flavor pieces in nethack and SLASH'EM was the elf-orc and angel-demon hatred. It was a nice feature that these two groups would rather fight each other than you and that they would fight to the death even if they were aligned to the player! I think ...

I have noticed that pivoting with stabbers can be difficult. One thing I've found to help me is to take advantage of cross training with long blades- which are the better weapon for longer fights. Stabbers tend to be more EV focused since heavy armor hurts stealth score, which coincidentally pairs w...

But if you already have a pain branded weapon- like that hand axe there. You are getting comparatively little out of Kiku's Pain brand gift. Also more things start resisting Pain brand the further into the game you go, and you get more use out of it the earlier you use it. By the time you actually m...

One of my most pleasurable 15 rune Ascensions was an Ogre Warper of Dithmenos, I really like Dithmenos and found him to be fantastic throughout the entire game, and overall he felt more helpful to me in extended than games I've played with Mak/TSO/Veh. Dithmenos does three main things in endgame. 1)...

Tarrare The Gluttonous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare The insatiable god of gluttony. Tarrare was a powerful demon who ascended to divinity by forcibly consuming a god. Tarrare’s hunger is infinite, it is predicted that in the end of days all of creation will be consumed by this terrible god’s...

When I'm looking at shields, I typically look for Ego over Type in most circumstances. If I've found a shield of resistance be it buckler, shield, large shield- I'll typically try to get enough skill to get it online. All else being equal I think 15 is reasonable but 25 is a bit steep unless you've ...

Update! So I've been playing a few hours here and there after work. Got banished to the Abyss by the Enchantress with a Quick Blade of Distortion. I think i'll let her live this game, as I don't really want to get banished again. I did learn her a lesson however. Figured Abyss wasn't so bad and coll...

So I've started playing a bit of tiles, because that is what my friend plays, and its fun to watch him or have him watch me. Even though it kills me inside to not see my character as an @ sign. Oh well. Anyway, I started playing some OgWp, which is a combination I really enjoy, and the run has reall...

But I also have the Black Mark mutation which does help a little with HP. Not as good as a vampiric blade for regaining HP but the damage is sometimes helpful. Having just recently done a 15 rune Ds run, I've noticed that the Negative Energy Perk really shines during extended. I really enjoyed that...

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/akaean/morgue-akaean-20150405-041845.txt Update! Happy ending for my DsGl. I hit the Zig hard. Found some of the gear I wanted. I bailed after 16 levels or so. Didn't feel comfortable pushing further and wanted to finish the run. I definitely had a good time in the ...

One of my new goals is to try to get an ascension with every class of Ds... but if course its no fun if I don't go for 15 runes when I feel like a character has some decent potential. I've gotten a 15 rune run before, but I've never done a Ziggurat. And I think I want to give it a go. Hilariously, d...

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[CIP] Cagey Shinobi - HuAs^Wu Jian

Re: Tournament rules can cause health problems

Re: Tomb 3 strategy without ranged attack?

Re: What would current features look like in older versions?

Re: How to win Deep Elves?

Re: Annoyed

Re: Can we tone down the number of two-headed ogres

Re: Dungeon Crawl: Mage Book

Re: CiP DEWz^Ash Endgame Spell Selection

Re: help

Re: How to win Deep Elves?

Re: CiP DEWz^Ash Endgame Spell Selection

Re: Extended Gods besides Mak/TSO/Veh?

CiP DEWz^Ash Endgame Spell Selection

Re: Why everything wants you dead?

Re: Why everything wants you dead?

Re: Make stabbers great again!

Re: CiP: Vp of Kiku, weapon advice

Re: Extended Gods besides Mak/TSO/Veh?

God Proposal: Tarrare the Gluttonous

Re: CiP: OpMo of Chei

Re: CiP OgWp of Dithmenos

CiP OgWp of Dithmenos

Re: death's door and the Necronomicon

Re: YAVP: DsGl of Okawaru (Looking to 15 runes / First Zig)

CiP: DsGl of Okawaru (Looking to 15 runes / First Zig)