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greepish wrote:Fighting yes, for hp (not a whole lot mind you).

Is there any general consensus on a good place to stop with the Fighting skill for casters? 3 to 5, maybe?

greepish wrote: I'm assuming you're just stabbing mephitic victims, and never looking back after that?

Yes, anything that is confused (through mephitic cloud or confuse spell), fleeing, or that happens to be asleep when I bump into it (though I'm not bothering with stealth so it's mainly for confused monsters).

I'm working on a deep elf caster build. I plan to go with pure spellcasting, except for stabbing monsters that are incapacitated. Should I bother with the Short Blades skill? How about Fighting?

When selecting attributes to raise, is there any good reason to favor STR over DEX, or vice versa? Does it even matter? (other than Str >= 3 * EV penalty for whatever armour you're using) On a related note, does strength weighting still exist? It's not in the in-game descriptions anymore (e.g. "...

I don't know how the game decides when to start spawning OOD monsters, but it seems to me that if you're running around killing things, it should realize that you're not just stalling for time.

Update - D:5, turn 6864:

Really quaff e - 2 emulsified cyan potions {!*}?
It has a very clean taste.
You feel less resistant to magic. x2
You feel a little less jittery.

Commencing quiet sobs.

At least I have an ID'd potion of cure mutation ...

3864 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You are resistant to magic. 3864 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You are highly resistant to magic. 3864 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You can translocate small distances at will. Now I'm terrified of Cure Mutation potions, but the only potions I've ID'd are brilliance, healing, mi...

I feel like this is a stupid question, and hopefully I'm missing something obvious. But I cannot find any good way of marking levels as unfinished. Let's say I run into Sigmund on D:2 and dive down, but want to make a note of having failed to clear the level. Is there any straightforward way of doin...

Is it worth taking the trouble to collect garbage like scrolls of random uselessness, potions of degeneration, etc.? I'm mostly wondering if they have the potential to shield other scrolls/potions from being destroyed. (I've seen conflicting claims about this.) Also, other than the Evaporate spell, ...

omndra wrote:I built up some nerve and found some other stairs and went down those so i could could get a SS

You don't need to re-visit the level to get a screenshot. Just hit X, then ] (if you're on the level above).

it wont work at all, the penalty for gda is way to high. Assuming max all skills, 30 str and 9 dex, youll have a great 11 ev. A pretty crappy trade for the incredible amount of xp youd have to dump into dodging. I tried crunching the numbers myself using the wiki ... I'm sure I'm screwing up somewh...

Minotaurs are skilled at Armour, Dodging and Shields, and I have this irresistible urge to try training all three at once. Probably not the greatest strategy but I love the idea. So let's say I manage to get all 3 skills maxed out and am wearing gold dragon armour and a large shield (never mind how ...

I've noticed that thrown darts are extremely effective in the very early game, whereas daggers, clubs, etc. nearly always miss (at least for high-STR, low-DEX characters). At some point there's a crossover where darts become too weak to bother with. Any rules of thumb for when this crossover occurs ...

Zicher wrote:Perhaps these were guarding the Vaults' staircase?

The Vaults were further down. From what I could tell it was just a small empty square room packed with horrible monsters. I think they were all generated asleep, and there were no unhidden doors.

My level-15 Centaur Monk discovered a hidden door and blundered into this. (Notice the turn it took me to realize I should be freaking out.) 67536 | D:15 | Noticed a stone giant 67536 | D:15 | Noticed a stone giant 67536 | D:15 | Noticed a stone giant 67536 | D:15 | Noticed a shadow dragon 67537 | D...

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Re: Stabbing damage: Fighting/Short Blades skills important?

Re: Stabbing damage: Fighting/Short Blades skills important?

Stabbing damage: Fighting/Short Blades skills important?

STR vs. DEX (and strength-weighting)

Re: So... about those spores...

Re: Great early-game mutation set -- should I keep quaff-ID'

Great early-game mutation set -- should I keep quaff-ID'ing?

Best way of marking levels as unfinished

Any reason to keep junk scrolls or potions?

Re: MAAARRAAAAA!!!

Re: The ultimate tank: Armour + Dodging + Shields

The ultimate tank: Armour + Dodging + Shields

When should I stop throwing darts?

Re: How OOD is OOD?

Re: How OOD is OOD?