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I am sure this is obvious for experienced player, but I have a hard time finding a strategy for Vault:5 ? (And the search feature of the forum does not allow to search for Vault) My experiences so far: 1. A gargoyleEE^Vehu with Shatter : go downstairs, Shatter until everything is dead or out of Mana...

Hello all, I am looking for advices/directions. I am at the start of Vault with a GhMo, this is the furthest I play an hybrid caster/fighter class so far and I don't really know in which direction I should go skill wise. Except for Animate Dead, that is really handy in tight spot, the spells I have ...

End up as a YASD on Zot:5 Meet an ancient lich, was not hasted, try to somehow run but take some OoD in the face. That was painful. The thing is that I killed one in Crypt already and it was quite easy so I feel confident. The silly thing is that I could have used a scroll of Blink, fog, Haste, summ...

I know this is a pretty basic question but I have had a hard time to find out the answer. My first few runs I ate every time that I turned "Hungry", which was a bad way to waste permafood. Now I tend to eat when I have been very hungry for a long time, or `Near Starving` when I am not sure...

Clarity has been removed as an amulet and as a randart property (was it even a randart property to begin with?). Currently, the only sources of Clarity are the Autumn Katana, OCPA, the Amulet of Four Winds, and Ash. Yes, it sucks for mummies. I am not challenging it but what was the rationale? So b...

I also enjoy the ID mini game (but I am also a Nethack player where arguably there are more strategy to identify potion and scrolls) The interesting part is the choice you have to make to either quaff an unknown potion or flee/die. This is kind of frustrating to die when the solution was in your inv...

mopl wrote:
DrKe wrote:bottle everything
And don't clear Orc for free blood later on...

I have added the tips to the wiki, it is probably true for any form of Hunger management though. But since potion of blood have a longer shelf life than chunks it makes more sense.

Then, you have all these spells that may or may not work against a monster (MR check, etc.), versus a set of spells which are cast upon yourself and always work... charms for example. I'm not saying it never makes sense to ever use anything which has an MR check, all I'm really saying is that it's ...

nosrepemos wrote:I'm not sure if this is sarcasm

That was a genuine question, thanks for answering.

I need to learn to play more quickly : 200 kturn in 12 hours while I am already at 17hours for 130k turn (but since I have never been this far, I am pretty cautious).

Is there any generic tip to play quickly ? Maybe like relying more on Shfit X to move around on a map ?

Siegurt wrote:
The wiki will, by its very nature be out of date in places, if you're updating it, then more power to you.

I will. I am just trying to get the full picture of the changes to paint an accurate historical description. At the very least, I will update the status to reflect 0.17.1

The wiki is littered with reference that poison resistance allow you to eat poisonous corpse. This is not the case in 0.17.1, I think it has been removed when the different kind of chunk were merged. I believe it used to be the case : 4dbbe55 | Nicholas Feinberg | 2014-10-21 22:43:20 -0700 Allow mor...

From hearsay, quickblade of pain is useful for a high Necromancy user.

Since the mindelay is very short, and most of the damage will come from the pain.

The experience cost required to get a lv.8 dual school spells which provides in most real situations little or no benefits. Aka, absolutely don't do that in 3 runes game. In 15 you may have so much experience you can do if you really want - but the question is why? Just play bloodless Vp and quaff ...

DrKe wrote:vampires also can't use lich form

That's the point of my question. Since you can only have one form and not both, I want to know what I gain and lose by choosing a vampire.

But maybe this is an irrelevant question, if the form is useless in any case.

I probably want to play a Necro next. I am looking at some combination of species and God, I am tempted to play a Vp^Kiku. I have read carefully the description of bloodless vampire and lich form, and while they are quite similar it seems they are imporant distinction. Pro Bloodless Vampire against ...

What exactly does "hated by all" do ? I don't remember many dungeon inhabitants being very friendly in the first place. Just checked by myself : Sacrifice Love - Permanently make almost all monsters you encounter hostile to you. This includes derived undead which you generate and temporary...

I also found : +7 trident of Equilibrium {elec, *Drain Str+5 Int+3} That I am currently using. The elec brand and INT+3 are definitely nice. However, the draining on remove is worrying. I really don't want to spend XP in both Polearms and Staves. So I don't know, if I should keep that or switch to L...

Can you use another downstairs ? To come from a safer side ?

I am a bit further with a new question : I found the lajatang of order for about 900 gold in a shop in Orc:1. Does it makes sense to try to use it ? Pros : get rMut I don't have train staff for staff of energy/fire/whatever Cons: loss of buckler I am not sure that it is worth it, but it might be hel...

advil wrote:Thanks for doing this, it's a very useful table. In that same patch there were very tiny tweaks to L2,3 spells as well that it looks like you might have missed?

Ah you are right, I was focused on fixing "my" problem. I'll fix it later today. Thanks for the reminder

Thanks a lot ! Given the name of the branch (or the time range), I assume this was introduced in 0.16 ? This is just to provide the right information in the wiki history. That's what I'd assume, it's tagged with 0.16-b1. Btw I didn't do any kind of thorough search, so I could have missed something ...

Thanks a lot ! Given the name of the branch (or the time range), I assume this was introduced in 0.16 ? This is just to provide the right information in the wiki history. Edit: Updating the wiki means I need to regenerate the table with the right color, it might take longer than expected.. It is tru...

Edit : I have updated the wiki after this message It seems the algorithm or values defined here are wrong : http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Spell_Hunger According to the above formula, with 22 int and 12 spell casting I should have a hunger reduction of 22 *12 = 264. For a 5 level spell, that translate...

ok thanks, it was probably an antique store and not a general shop.

So it is by design that you can not know what is contains before buying. I'll buy it much later (if I am still alive)

I have seen a shop (general store) with an unidentified book, called "a droning book" for about 300 gold IIRC.

Is there any way to know what it contains before purchasing ? I am not even sure this is a manual or a spellbook ?

My 2 cents as a new player and forum member (and non native english speaker), I don't find the place hostile at all. If you ask a question, you get an answer. I obviously don't understand every reference, or strategy if I trawl old messages, but I don't expect it either. It is OK to not understand e...

I am more or less following : http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Majang%27s_ ... lk-Through There have been lots of discussions about the crawl wiki in this forum. I personally like to look things up there but keep in mind that the "guides" are usually the worst part of the wiki. Although there ...

Imho earth elementalists don't _need_ to branch into other spellschools for offense. Iron shot or LCS win the game anyway (if you get either one). You should forget level 9 spells in a 3-rune game, unless you want extra challenge. Thanks that's good to know. For a newcomer, one thing that is hard t...

Hello, I am still a new player (got a rune once), I played MiBe but got to bored by the repetitive play style. Now I want to do a three rune with a caster. I dabled with DECj and DEFE without success, they are really fun and powerful early on, but due to poor tactics, I end up dead around Dungeon 8-...

What stats do I need to cast spells? Even with 3+ spell casting, I can't ever seen to get my character to be able to cast spells at all. Is there some intelligence requirement I'm not aware of? I am a new player myself, so I learn a ton of things in your topic. For spell success, have a look at thi...

Silly question probably but I can't fin on the wiki the number of spell memorisation level you gain for each XP level.

Is it :
- 1 per spellcasting rank
- 1 per XP rank

Is there other subtleties like a racial bonus or somthing ?

Thanks in advance

So used a wand of paralysis and he died quickly. Hurray !

Thanks I'll do that and report.

Tangentially I have another question, how should I deal with later fireresistant monster ? OoD, bolt of magma, battlesphere ?

Hello all, I have a promising DEFE (xl 10) a bit stumped by an efreet on Dungeon level 10. The stairs are clumped together so I can't really move around. All of my spells are fire based.. I also have (with 0 Evocation): a wand of paralysis a wand of polymorph a wand of lightening I have also found t...

I finished Elven Hall 1 & 2. Almost died 2 times to a blade master and demonologist who summoned very nasty demons. Still not found any rPois, but found a shop with plenty of rFire items. I am going to head to snake pit anyway now, I think I have a regen amulet laying somewhere, I hope it will h...

Here is my current character dump. I have never been this far in Crawl, so this is all kinda new... Basically I have finished Lair & Orc, Dungeon until 15. What is now available is Elf, Snake Pit, Shoals, Slime Given I have not found great resistance item, I am not sure what to do next. Mayble E...

Thanks for all the great advice. I had somehow missed you could easily search by item quality
easily.

Hello, I am a new player with my first somewhat promising character, a MiBe reaching Lair-2. I am at a point where I start to find plenty of brand weapons, rings, amulets.. most are useless but I am reluctant to left them behind (in case in the junk there is something useful I could id later, and I ...

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How do you deal with Vault:5 ?

[YASD] GhMo of Kiku

Re: CIP : GrEE : skill choice

When to eat ?

Re: Is clarity removed in .18

Re: Scrolls/Potions Require IDing, Why?

Re: Lich form vs bloodless vampire

Re: Data: Most- and Least-used Spells

Re: YAVP: 9 rune MuCj, Sif

Re: YAVP: 9 rune MuCj, Sif

Re: Poison resistance and Poisonous corpse

Poison resistance and Poisonous corpse

Re: Must short blades stab to be worthwhile?

Re: Lich form vs bloodless vampire

Re: Lich form vs bloodless vampire

Lich form vs bloodless vampire

Re: YAVP: HEAE of Ru 15 runes

Re: CIP : GrEE : skill choice

Re: CiP: Hill Giants at stairs; next turn advice?

Re: CIP : GrEE : skill choice

Re: Discrepancy in spell hunger

Re: Discrepancy in spell hunger

Re: Discrepancy in spell hunger

[Fixed] Discrepancy in spell hunger

Re: Unidentified book in shop

Unidentified book in shop

Re: Ban sarcasm for good players

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Re: CIP : GrEE : skill choice

CIP : GrEE : skill choice, turned YASD

Re: How far is MiFi of Okawaru going to take me?

Spell Memorisation by level

Re: FE against efreet

Re: FE against efreet

FE against efreet

Re: CIP : MiBe : Not sure what do to next

CIP : MiBe : Not sure what do to next

Re: Creating a stash

Creating a stash