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I had the following dilema: Playing offline as a Merfolk Ice Elementalist, hybridized to a fairly heavy polearm user. Beyond that, no especially decent weapons, armour or artifact jewelery. So, this was a tough choice from my first acquisition scroll: a - the +5 bardiche "Golic" {vorpal, r...

On a Demonspawn Fire Elementalist, playing as a hybrid. Already using evocations as I had found a few useful wands and a cloak of invisibility. I thought these were quite good for before my first rune: F - the ring "Hauntouj" (right hand) {*Slow +Inv rN+ Str+6 Slay+4}. You found it on leve...

Best store ever? At the end of Orc: Welcome to Mery's Jewellery Emporium! What would you like to do? a - 618 gold the amulet of the Air {Inacc +Fly rElec EV+5 RMsl} b - 273 gold a +3 ring of protection (unknown) c - 390 gold an uncursed amulet of guardian spirit (unknown) d - 990 gold the ring "...

Code:: W - the +6 long sword "Best" (weapon) {slice, *Noise Str+8 Int+10 Dex-4}

Possibly the Best weapon so far for my long-blade-wielding spell-caster...
(Found on Elf 3, before entering depths.)

...What did you do in those circumstances under the previous potion set? I mean the current incarnation is actually much more forgiving of being accidentally mutated early than the old one was (as mutation is a much more common potion), i don't see how encountering an early mutatation source change...

I think the developers definitely did a good job of flattening the difficulty curve a bit. I find it easier to die post-XL3 than before and realize I don't have a good escape option more frequently. These are mostly nice changes. However, I'm not loving the new mutation system yet. I really liked th...

I think that Factorialite just won this thread...

I do quit whenever I get monstrous, but that's because I (a) am a bad/lazy player, (b) like items more than winning, and (c) irrationally hate unarmed. A monstrous Ds berserker or transmuter does just fine. Yup, this is pretty much my view! The thing I really don't understand is: Why do monstrous D...

The loot from an ice cave on Lair 2 was guarded by a couple of dragons, one of which was kind enough to leave scales. Both dragons got me to within 1 turn of dying, but this was probably worth it, as I'm sure I'll have many tender moments: E - the amulet of Tender Moments (around neck) {+Blink +Fly ...

Hmmm, let's see, a glittering golden ring looks pretty: M - the ring of Hunaes (right hand) {rF+ rC+ MP+9 Int+5} I guess it will impress the Hunaes... This is on a caster, but at the end of the vaults, with glaciate already online. Although there was an interesting find much earlier: L - the +6 dagg...

MfIE (offline, XL22) Cost was a wand of healing (9/9), which cost about 520 gold for (5/9) and I had the necessary single scroll of recharging. As I hadn't realized that there even was such a wand for sale, until I searched, I figured the cost was fair. Visible Items/Features (select to target/trave...

Not really the best/worst, but it seems my current (offline) game wants to beat that Dex-8 hat: the +10 flail of the Wilderness {flame, +Blink rF+ Int+3 Dex-3} the +8 ring mail of Noon (worn) {rF+++ Str+6 Dex-3} the ring "Ofom" (right hand) {+Inv rPois rF+ rC+ Dex-3} Although I don't think...

I would still like a toggle for including carried items in ^F results at all, since typically if there are no matching items I'm not already carrying, I'd rather see the one-line "No results" message than a useless screen I have to dismiss. That makes sense to me too! Anyway, as I'm using...

... as suggested in OP. so you get 'a' for closest and can see what's in your inventory also. Great! Oh, I didn't see the second part of the OP. And the amusing thing about that is that I wanted to quote/adapt the first part precisely, so I must have scrolled past that at least 3 times to read, the...

I can see the advantage of having this listed: Has anyone else ever searched half the dungeon trying to find an object that they are already carrying? :oops: My suggestion is to list the items that are carried or worn/wielded without letters and just assign letters to items on the floor. If they nee...

t - the +15 plate armour "Woph" (worn) {-Cast rElec MR++ Str+2} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 5 of the Lair of Beasts) For a heavy-armor using axe-wielding orc... The best armor otherwise was a plain +0 plate. I guess Okawaru wanted to make up for gifting me needles for most of the re...

Nice idea!

From Google, "vos es captus hoc serio".
But I suspect that someone with language skills could improve it.
For example "captus hoc serio es" rolls off the tongue well, but I've no idea about grammatical validity.

I was going to start a separate thread for this, but figured it would fit here. Is this a good artefact or not? the +7 gold dragon armour of Qomazyng {*Contam rElec rPois rF+ rC+ Int+11} (2211 gold) I wasn't thinking of going for an armor heavier than Fire Dragon, but the +Int makes it look tempting...

That's pretty nasty!
But, unless I missed something in your morgue, it looks like you had a shot at escaping...
Some combination of these items would probably have helped:

Code:: B - a scroll of teleportation q - a potion of speed z - 2 potions of heal wounds

The posts that I've read from nago were very good! Anyway, there were a few things I wanted to add to this discussion: Firstly, I'm not really sure that nominating people for counsellors or their withdrawal should really be a public thing - I think there's too much potential for hurt feelings. Maybe...

Yup, the first time I got this I was surprised: A beneficial mutation just made all my spells harder to cast, wtf? But it seems to me that the big increase in spell power outweighed the smaller cost. Anyway it's pretty hard to get fire/ice storms to max power, even late game (especially if, like mos...

Yup, I'd vote for the cowards route too. Unless I'm missing something I don't see how you can cause enough damage to the ice fiend in time. But your escape options look reasonable. If your luck is like mine, the fight would go "Torment, Torment, oh crap, I've got less than 30 HP, Bolt, Die"...

This is another thread where I suspect the responses depend on what role you think unrandarts should play. Are they for interest only? Only useful in specific situations? Or should they be the best in class? Personally, I think "all of the above" - some items should fall into each category...

I think the answer to this topic does depend on whether you think all spell schools should be useful at all points in the game. IMO poison is a little overpowered early and so the fall off for the post-game makes it nicely balanced. If one did add something high level to this school, I'd say that it...

Sounds like my problem was that I was doing the poison/water branches way too early. Thanks for the help guys! That's a common problem! The things I'd add to this are: There are probably older threads with more details on this topic. In case it's not clear, branch ends can be much harder than the r...

minmay wrote:who would when in a fight irl a wand of hasting or a amulet of gourmand

Batman.

Well, I hope to find most of those eventually, but not necessarily on level 1. For example, I get most use out of gourmand when trying to get high-level spells online, not at the start. Similarly, I'd probably spend so much effort to avoid wasting the wand of haste that I'd die. :-) Possibly the sta...

Um, I assume you do know that there are different gift timeouts for different kinds of items...
The ammo timeout is much lower.

(There are some amusing posts I made where I didn't know that. :lol:

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I guess that shafts can be generated in Zot. (?) If that's the case, then that suggests it's probably a good idea to have a bit larger stock of emergency consumables on Zot 3 and 4 than I usually do. I believe that shafts will not take you to branch ends. I like the extra debug info in your char du...

:D I had a comparable YASD in one of the hells: I was diving to the final level as quickly as possible but somehow forgot that I was on the penultimate level. I took a hatch and emerged on the final level in the thick of things, quickly got tormented to about 10% HP and resorted to random teleport s...

I wanted to add my thoughts (partly based on XuaXua's excellent linked post). Some of this summarizes a few things people have already said. It seems to me that there are 5 (or possibly even 6) scrolls for boosting weapons/armor: ⋅ EW1 ⋅ EW2 ⋅ EW3 ⋅ Vorpal &sd...

Yes, Mennas can pretty much be a death sentence for a DsCj without a way to escape. It can be horrifying to watch him block a succession of orbs of destruction then silence your puny attempts to blink away. :-) Although you could have survived with this: o - a wand of teleportation (4) Run away! The...

Thanks for the ZX Spectrum comment. - Me too! :-) I suspect the real answer is that some people play high-stakes poker not for the thrill of winning but for the buzz of just avoiding a catastrophic loss. To me, it's the investment in the character that makes the excitement: I am always very busy, so...

Well, I'll post a "don't know" vote. :-) In my current game, (DsFE) I was going the light armor route, but dropped it for Archmagi. Then I found the revised Robe of Folly (Archmagi, Int+5, -MR) and traded again. Combined with the wild magic mutation, I'm having a lot of fun switching betwe...

I was just thinking that this was a good idea. Typically the spells I want to forget are the ones that I am not using much any more and so they are nearly always the very ones that I cannot remember the key assignments for...

Try these keys: GT
Note that most levels will have several stairs down. Some will be different and often lead to different branches of the game.
The temple is also a good place to drop some items, although leaving them on the floor and using search is a better habit.

Ok, if you're dying at that point, it seems to me like you need to manage your skills better. Look for other threads on that (or listen to the posters with blue names). A quick suggestion is to look at the spells you want and train the skills you need for those. Maybe a bit of dodging and stealth, b...

There were some threads with ideas about this some time ago - it's probably worth searching for those. The other idea I remember was letting Beogh grant resistances too. Anyway, I like both your ideas. The downside of (1) is that when you lose a bunch of your toughest followers, it can already be a ...

minmay wrote:5 minutes is close enough to a year I guess

Depends which side of the toilet door you are on...

Well, if people are into mistreating orcs, the other fun way to abuse your orcish followers is to polymorph them. IIRC it's not a good idea to do it yourself, but it's hardly your fault if they happen to stand between you and a Neqoxec... A tough orc can easily end up as a hydra or dragon. And yes t...

Well, I'm not sure I can help, but I'll be interested to see how you do. I once had a stealthy-stabbing-dodging orc priest who could have won, and that combination worked surprisingly well. - If the stab fails then recall followers (or at least that used to work)... Definitely the main targets for h...

Ok, this I like a lot: a - [D:18] the cursed +3 robe of Folly {Archmagi, MR- Int+5 Curse} I guess that's an unrandart? But I think it's new. I want to wear it, but the name has definitely worried me. If the MR- does lead to YASD, I'll post that... :evil: Edit: Ok, it is the robe of folly. It's been ...

Legitimizing your tiles would destroy the institution of consoles.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Spell_noise Edit: It looks like the noise page is also useful to determine what you are comparing with: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Noise#Melee_combat - You gave me the idea to look this up for a char who has not found (or been gifted) the L9 spells I want...

As if that's any consolation...

Ok, that does sound unlucky! I don't understand the Ash comment - my guess is that Galefury is implying there are likely to be unconnected zig portals. :?: I'd be interested to know. I don't really know the layout of Pan well enough to be sure, but several version ago (before the removal of secret d...

There should be a thread for "I'm playing Crawl while drunk"... :mrgreen:

That explains some of my YASDs.

Isaiadrenaline wrote:I got 5 runes. Do I want six?

Edit: Nope.

You know you do. You don't just want to beat your rival, but to set a mark that will leave him feeling crushed. :-)

Yup, in one of my earliest zig clearings, I think I didn't find any until after all of the pan runes...

Um, does this thread remind anyone else of the caterpillar-dragon from dragon hunters? Never did understand the hate that lighter dragon armor gets. The big suits all have very useful resistances (albeit with a pip of countering weakness), while the medium or lighter suits are, with the exception pe...

As Galefury said, the intent was not to be insulting, but to talk about what went wrong. I think I tried the same thing before too, but I can't remember exactly where the idea came from. If you got this idea from a guide, then don't follow that guide. Another point is that you were placing your char...

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