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Question: how exactly do shields compare to EV, defense-wise? Say I've got 10 AC, 15 EV, and 10 SH. Is that more or less optimal than 10 AC, 25 EV, O SH? I'm guessing the numbers aren't just interchangeable like that, but why exactly would a super high EV be preferred over mid-range EV and SH togeth...

I looked up the likelihood of fear working on the high MR of the hydra, and according to the wiki it would have been practically zilch chance.

So, I zapped my tele wand and proceeded to splat quite bloodily on the very next turn. Such is life in Swamp 5.

Oh, what a fool I was! I totally forgot about the possibility of the Lernaean hydra in Swamp 5, so I went to blasting with my conjurator, believing nothing could stop me. Well, now we know know that turned out. So. What to do? I can survive maybe 2 turns. Realistically, what are my options? Dungeon ...

Flagrant misuse of terminology is what this is. Quoting from Wikipedia, "Sublimation is the process of transition of a substance from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase." The real question is, what is magic? Gas, liquid, solid, plasma, or ...

I'm fond of playing humans precisely because they're so flexible. In a game where hybrids are a strong choice of play, humans are one of the ideal hybrid species. Where a troll monk or a deep elf conjurer narrowly restricts playstyle, a human can do anything, just slightly worse. But for me, doing 1...

What if there was a "Drained" effect that did impact you like the other hex effects you mentioned? It could have a negative impact on skills, as has been proposed, kind of like an anti-heroism. I'm not a numbers guy, but maybe something like a maximum 1/3 reduction in skill levels at no n...

Shoals should be a piece of cake as long as you're careful around merfolk javelineers/impalers, given your tiny EV. Then, wind up the Dungeon and see how Zot 1 looks (beware of mutation/corrosion). For now, unless you ditch that GDA, spellcasting is pretty much out of the question for the remainder ...

Why didn't you drink the potion before you explored the mummy zig floor? I had a temporary but acute case of The Dumbs. How did you find the Abyss rune hunt with Chei? He's been buffed on that matter in 0.10 but still... The hunt was easy for me for two reasons: I had poison arrow/sublimation, and ...

I tried Step from Time twice, succeeding on the second attempt. However, all that did was expire some of the summons; I still had all seven ancient liches around me afterward. So I blink, Borgnjor'd, and teleported until I was in position to escape (thankfully enemies don't travel between Zig floors...

Not unexpectedly, I've gotten in over my head. In general, what's the best escape route in a Zig when there's uncontrolled tele? My anticipated famous last words? "Pay no mind to those seven ancient liches. I've got Deflect Missiles up!" Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-b1-77-g1574bd0...

I'm pretty careless with skill management in general; one of my big strategic flaws. But this character especially so with all that int has meant managing spell skill levels hardly matters (besides firestorm, as you mentioned). I'm playing lackadaisically at this point, and I haven't encountered a s...

Spoilers abound, read at your own risk! I've been running my first truly successful Naga wizard of Chei right now (which also happens to be my first game in .10). Having said that, it's been a reverse learning experience, seeing all those percentage failure chances in my skill screen rather than exc...

The title/grainy screencap says it all. And I wasn't even treading water at the time! mennasscimitarX3.JPG Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.0 character file. 113088 Heet the Eclecticist (level 15, -8/85 HPs) Began as a High Elf Fire Elementalist on Aug 14, 2011. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Mang...

My face was kinda like this when it happened. :| Deep dwarves being silly, as usual. "You could see 7 unborn deep dwarves, 7 deep dwarf death knights, an eidolon, 5 deep dwarf berserkers, 3 deep dwarf scions, 2 deep dwarf artificers, 6 deep dwarf necromancers, 2 wraiths, 2 deep dwarves, a shado...

Raising this thread from the dead, for better or for worse. I could never get a Kiku worshipper off the ground. This is what I ended up with for the article. It's very fluffy and not really newsy news news, but that's reality for you. Thanks to everyone who participated: very insightful, and interes...

I find that Pan can be just as spontaneously generative as the hells sometimes. You don't necessarily get fiends dropped right on top of you, but the enemies seem to thicken far quicker than they would in a normal dungeon level. Also, my experience in Pan levels is that they come with two or three &...

Yeah, the necromancy was off a manual. I briefly considered scumming the Abyss for exp so I could get dispel undead castable in Tomb, but I decided "nah".

I sometimes polymorph just to see what I'll get. Sure, it's a crapshoot and often doesn't work at all, but I could score and change it into a agate snail or something. Or a dragon, but hey, let's hope for an agate snail.

But seriously, wands wands wands. You'll find more wands later in the game.

My first melee 15-runer. Proof that with absurdly good equipment, you can play an absurdly good game. My first acquirement scroll netted me Maxwell's Patent Armor; basically, nothing touched me in the entire dungeon besides a nest of shadow dragons. Add on top of that the boots of running, the fixed...

Just keep on keeping on through lair, and be very careful around spiny frogs, hydras and unexpected uniques. Maybe turn off your elemental skills and hexes for the time being so you can put more exp into spellcasting and charms? Also, robe of resistance *and* naga barding AND a buckler before you're...

Are you going to refer to him as Felix, Jacob, or or something else entirely?

given your equips thus far, I'd stick with Trog. For one, his god wrath is brutal unless you teleport (multiple berserked stone giants, generally). For two, you already have what I'd consider an endgame weapon setup (no need for TSO's god gift). For three, you're missing out on Trog's abilities whic...

I'd clear Swamp and then Snake. If you can't deal with hydras via crossbow, try invis-stabbing them. Your absurd buckler and ring should help quite a bit. Being a Trog worshipper, your playstyle is pretty limited from here. I wouldn't actively train crossbows; at 15 skill level, you're probably bett...

Nessos, Harold, Snorg, Gastronok, and Urug just spawned for me on a single level (which also contains the entrance to the lair). What the heck.

Works fine for me... maybe you accidentally rebinded the shift key or something? Alternatively, remember that your character stops for every little thing when you shift move, be it an item or a corner or an enemy sighting.

For me, Necromutation is one of the nicest spells you can have; it probably saved me thousands or tens of thousands of HP over the course of the postgame. Immunity to torment/immunity to negative energy trivializes the melee death trap that is Tombs, along with most of the Hells. Plus you get some e...

With a few pictures, aww yeah! This is my second conjurator, after my first Human one. Overall, I feel that merfolk are much less suited to postgame because of their less than impressive magical aptitudes. It took awhile to whip up my Necromutation to a level where I could cast reliably. Before that...

What's with you people and your +11 crystal plate and Fencer's Gloves? I'm lucky if I can get one to drop every 100 games, much less both in the same game. Also, how did the vampiric work for you? Is it something that triggers on all enemies, or just "organic" ones? Were you ever seriously...

I feel ya on the draconian front. You play one and you think "awesome, I'm a dragon man!" and then you realize "half my equipment slots are restricted and I have subpar attributes." On the other hand, with resist poison you could've hit up the Snake Pit. With mephitic you could a...

Sorry for the double post, but

I feel myself powerful enough

were the last words of every Crawler.

I'd go for slime or clear out the early levels of Zot. If I'm not mistaken, all your ponderous randart equipment should be immune to acid degradation in slime. If you do go into slime, though, I'd recommend memorizing Dig temporarily, simply because I hate acid walls.

Good ol' Tomb - always good for a laugh

It's either that or you wait for a gold dragon armor, IMO. I'd enchant your current plate just so you don't die *before* you get GDA.

Maybe you should learn abjuration. Learn abjuration. Maybe learn abjuration. Consider learning abjuration.

Think of it as an investment. An abjurinvestment.

Also, higher spellcasting might help out. Did you have any problems with low mp throughout the game?

Surviving teleportitis for that long is a feat in and of itself.

Tell us how it turns out. I would pee my pants before taking any low-speed character in the hells because you can get a lot of junk thrown at you *fast*. If you get really unlucky, you could score something like a fiend, 6 skeleton warriors, and a bunch of demon popcorn within a hundred turns of eac...

But you couldn't blink? Didn't want to burn those scrolls? It all happened so suddenly you were like "whoa"?

Crawl's motto should be "coulda, woulda, shoulda". But yeah, anacondas are the worst snakes there are, even worse than greater nagas.

I'd hit up the Crypt. As for carrying equipment, here are the things I'd get rid of: Wand of frost (you've got a bow) 1 arrow of flame +3 darts 8 healing potions. You don't need to be carrying 13; if you're using more than 5 pots (plus your heal wounds!) then 8 more isn't going to save you. Are you ...

My first macro was to make magic dart one key instead of two. My pinky was killing me at the time.

I'd argue that casters got indirectly nerfed in this version. Fully implementing spell noise makes things like mephitic and the storm spells far less attractive (enjoy having half of zot running in your direction!) The noise of mephitic and firestorm hasn't changed. Casting noise has been fixed, bu...

Just bad luck, I think.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Miscast

"Failure to cast spells causes various generally nasty things to occur, becoming nastier with spell level and spell failure. Miscasts come in severity 0,1,2,3; 0 is always harmless."

I'd argue that casters got indirectly nerfed in this version. Fully implementing spell noise makes things like mephitic and the storm spells far less attractive (enjoy having half of zot running in your direction!) And, maybe it's just me, but the spawn rate for monsters seems more harsh as a caster...

Heal once with your wand, and then you have two choices: if all squares are occupied to your east, uncontrolled blink. If not all the squares are occupied, take a step northwest, then blink. I argue you should heal because you only have 3 enemies capable of attacking you at this point, unless I'm mi...

I can't prove anything, but I suspect that as long as the head is in sight, the tentacles can get you.

I'm happy to hear that someone's having success with LRD. I've always been afraid to memorize it for fear that all those spell levels would go to waste. Just remember: Little Prick died so that others may live.

My poor purple DrAE got mangled by a kraken. What makes this so frustrating is two things; first, "rabble rabble too hard" complaint that the kraken is basically an executioner with more HP; extending tentacles in the Shoals means that there's almost no way to escape beyond teleportation, ...

Just thought y'all should know. So much for that using that +rpois, anti-magic randart on my caster. It seems to reduce my mp from 31 to 10, about 2/3.

I got lucky and there was only an orc priest able to follow me up the stairs. One more turn and I would've had a troll, two ogres, and a hill giant making me into chunks and dragon hide.

I'll get my revenge, though. Just wait.

I mean, seriously? Advice is welcome. I'm probably going to burn my last blinking scroll in hopes that nobody is near the stairs, but I'm also thinking of digging my way into the south, then going around and back up the stairs. I'm wary of teleporting because Aizul is hanging around. http://img811.i...

Their timer changes depending on how close you are, as well as how much time is left. For instance, you'll hear something like, "You hear the frantic ticking of an ancient clock, a long ways away." That means the timer is almost up and the gate is far away. Or, you might hear something lik...

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