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either lair or d:10 and then lair; a shield would be nice (just a regular one - you probably wouldn't want to use the randart large shield in your inventory right now unless it's beyond amazing); kill and eat everything; you should probably get enough dodging for a couple more points of EV and some ...

Well, are you able to figure out what went wrong when something does go wrong? I read the morgues for five games you lost streaks on (I didn't watch the ttyrecs as I'm not sure if I should yet), and those deaths did have some things in common. Among other things, it seems like you could do a better ...

Sorry but have more questions than answers. Why does Blade Hands show up in red on my spell list but my failure rate is 19%. That color indicates the severity of miscast you can get from failing to cast the spell. As you seem to have guessed, it's a bad color, which means that you generally don't w...

In fact, Temple-diving to get a god as quickly as possible is a strategy so commonly used that I can almost guarantee that you will know what I mean when I type "Temple Diving". I know this is kind of pedantic but I find it interesting - is this actually true?? There's no benefit to that ...

I'm just going to comment on tm in general and the tendencies I see that cause players to struggle. You need more uc and probably dodging than what you're training. The most common mistake players tend to make about building transmuters is going overboard about getting their spells ~online~. tm spel...

I'm pretty sure he worded it that way deliberately, as on average a winning game has far more than 1000 monsters in it.

I've always loved how the phrasing alone made it impossible to take an otherwise valuable observation seriously.

If your goal is either to become good at crawl or to understand it well, reading the wiki might be the single worst thing you can do. If there's some obviously objective information that you can get from the wiki, there's no reason not to get it from a source that has more rigor and peer review. I d...

You did get some 'actual' feedback already, even if it was brief and cryptic. Your idea has already been implemented in 4.1, which you can play on cdo right now if you want to see what your suggestion would be like in practice. (And yes, as you've probably guessed, I am expecting you to find it's no...

I honestly don't understand why this thread is still going on unless everyone in it is ignoring every single thing crate has said/referenced.

This is a good example of the value of experiential knowledge over theorycrafting. If you were to read about clubstabbing on the wiki or whatever it might sound pretty cool, but if you were to play or even spectate a game that relies heavily on clubstabbing for, well, anything, you would probably fi...

dodging is highly important for you

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=13752&p=192033&hilit=thankbait#p192033

I know this may not be an exciting answer, but the skill that would make your character the strongest (in either of these dumps) is dodging.

It looks like you're slowed from berserk but you hasted afterwards? A good general strategy in that case would be just to survive long enough for the slow to wear off so you can simply walk away (this would be a lot easier if you were flying though - you really should be but it's too late now). It l...

You know what's kind of ironic if you think about general accusations of groupthink and whatnot is that for most games, what becomes the 'meta' is established by exactly the people who have questioned the status quo the most. So no, people like that are not often agreeing with each other and disagre...

Hello, folks, I'm going to present some lectures on topics that I have such a poor understanding of that the flaws in my reasoning will be obvious and unambiguous to experts on those topics. If any of those individuals take the time to respond to my points, it will probably become clear why my under...

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Typically, this type of situation is what I use scrolls of fog for, although that's probably a bit worse with ch-- that god because you have to move a bit to keep standing on the fog. As nago pointed out, you did have a lot of options that did include just beating the crab to death; or you could hav...

I totally understand Greyr, I'm not trying to suggest you did anything wrong at all. I apologize if I'm coming across that way. I didn't see any malicious intent from anyone. I just think the end result was that a thread was closed essentially because people didn't like the opinion being presented....

I love these threads because I don't play crawl and they're not about crawl.

Check out my sword and board melee brute - its bread and butter is axe-to-the-face, making it an absolute wrecking ball. Are you embarrassed for both of us yet?

Why do I always seem to see so little jewelery in dumps? Do people not bother carrying them to swap to? Or did you cut it from the dump?

Sar wrote:tbh I have no idea what any of that means

It's what science looks like when you only have eyes for what you're trying to prove.

Those types of example are only correct when you view the entire game as being trapped down a well with a monster, the two of you just wailing on each other all day.

For some reason I kept reading this title as 'I CAN FIST'. For some reason I just kept shrugging and going, ok.

This death doesn't look unavoidable to me, but I feel uncomfortable about explaining why I think so.

If a player wants to walk into lava, you should let them. You can paranoidprompt them, but you shouldn't forbid them from doing so. After all, we let them commit suicide via CTRL+Q; why not by walking into lava? It was so insanely annoying when the game was like that; you have no idea. Imagine doin...

I've spec'd a fair amount of WebTiles games probably an OK source of information and read through a lot of the wiki probably not... Is this a build that makes sense? You're significantly undervaluing armour, significantly overvaluing invocations, and to some extent overvaluing fighting, at least ea...

A lot of times I would wear cpa when others wouldn't, but this character isn't one of them. I'm just saying this holistically - I don't think I need to give the reasons.

thanks duvessa

What's wrong with the 90s? Remember when you'd call someone to meet you somewhere, and if one of you went to the wrong place you both just had to go home? Those were the days..

Statistically, most players die on d:2. What you have to do to win is SKIP D:2.

'mikee' is actually a semi-public account, so it's the responsibility of everyone who knows the password to finish such an exciting character. A jester speedrun? WOW how often do we get the chance to play something like that?

The postmodernists were right.

Bring back air walk - how bad could it be?

https://loom.shalott.org/learndb.html#mcrawl

FYI the devs have been ripping me off for YEARS. I'm still waiting for my share of the dcss royalties.

It's better to think of your speed as delay. For most actions, when you act, there is a delay until you can act again. For a simple example, if you take an action with 2.0 delay, a speed 10 monster can act twice before you can act again, and a speed 15 monster can act 3 times, etc. On the right side...

This forum makes me salty.

SaidTheAlligatorKingToHisSon wrote:Chei

You just RUINED this thread!

You can also cast storm spells from outside of the silence field and eventually they'll walk into the clouds and die. Or you can storm most of the level anyway before even dealing with them. Probably the two most important resources in zigs are all the space and the fact that you're probably faster ...

Probably the main part of this thread belongs in the advice forum. There are many ways to deal with silent specters in ziggurats of course, or else very few zigs would have been cleared by now. Personally, I've killed them many times with spells, too (I don't think I've ever carried evocables into a...

Are demo and dedk ghosts really that easy to kill?

notcluie is also not the only poster here who is banned from ##crawl.

Trog's hand gives berserkers mr for free, btw - it's the primary reason for using the ability.

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31

Yes, chei in extended is much worse than no god. It's so amusingly bad that it's one of my favorite things to watch.

Dude I'm talking about for a new player who wants to play a fighter.

Gods that screw with you, summoning storms and multi-headed sea monsters for you to fight. Oh wait...

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