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This isn't a discussion of how to win the game; escape tactics have nothing to do with optimum ways to build your character. Any character, no matter how tough, needs to know when to run away. I've lost three awesome XL:27 characters making that mistake! But even so, the better a character's skills ...

There are usually tons of books in the dungeon and in every game I find the majority of spells that I want. There are sometimes one or two useful ones that never show up, or come along extremely late. But you can just let this determine your playstyle and how you build your character to work around ...

Similarly, if Traps and Doors still scales to 27, it's okay that a T&D of 15 detects 99% of traps, as long as T&D 27 detects 99.9% of traps. (I don't actually know if this is accurate. If T&D 15 detects 99% and T&D 27 detects 99.1%, that is bad.) The thing here is that if a situatio...

The biggest problem with this is the non-obviousness of a lot of the caps. Working out the optimum level for certain skills requires complex spoilers about the various dependent equations, and a new player would probably assume that each level of a skill is an improvement and wouldn't realise there ...

"but you could have zapped him with a wand" yea but that wouldn't have done much he was in and out of range within the round A wand can reach to the edge of your line of sight, so if you could see him you could hit him. I guess the secondary lesson is: Never engage stuff that can blink an...

Elf:5 is the last level of Elf and consequently much harder. I've died there numerous times...

Ok, Slime was pretty easy :) First time I've ever even been in tho ... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9-a1-953-ga0a87fa character file. Mallamor the Sorcerer (Deep Elf Wizard) Turns: 179308, Time: 18:34:39 HP 132/157 (160) AC 21 Str 8 Exp: 27/2119433 (0) MP 4/49 EV 23 Int 37 God: Ashenzari [****...

dpeg wrote:It does say "no active abilities" right at the top though

I think that was in my mind when I said "don't step on the toes of Gods"

Eeep! You're wearing an un-ID'd randart ring? I guess MUT wouldn't be as bad if you're always playing in lich form...but what if it's e.g. -TELE? Or -6 slaying? Or something else hidden and bad... Oh Gawd, noob mistake :shock: I literally just found that ring on Vault:8, put it on to see if it Id'd...

I quite like the idea of bridge building, there are plenty of spells that destroy the dungeon, but none that let you create stuff. Would be a nice way for an Earth caster to get around some places better without Air spells. A bit safer than levitation since it's not going to disappear (although I s...

Well I've got Dig (it always comes in handy) and with Necromutation I don't have to worry about rMut. Plus, I just went on a wee jaunt to the Abyss looking for another rune, and I'd gone literally about 20 steps when I saw a spell book ... which just happened to be Annihiliations so I finally have F...

Well I finally cleared that level, I've never seen a single level so covered in blood, holes in the walls everywhere from IOOD, and the floor littered with robes and weapons everywhere you look. Actually it kind of looks like my room. Anyway Vault:8 was easy by comparison and I found a bunch of new ...

Whoever made the D:27 vault featuring a fort containing, oh, about 200 Draconians: well done. That is probably the hardest thing Crawl has ever thrown at me. I finally cleared out the whole fort only to find another wall with a whole load more Dracs behind it. Does this thing ever end? Thanks to Yel...

You guys should really start reading the wiki. Here is the relevant page: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:item:weapon_reform (I know it may not be easy to find, but the wiki's search is your friend.) As you can see, the topic was thought about for quite a while. You will a...

I was considering this, but I thought having decent melee would be good with Tornado. Since it hampers your spellcasting for the duration, isn't it good to be able to slice stuff during gusts? Or should I just be walking away from enemies while they die? I've only got Tornado castable once before, ...

I really like the idea of melee abilities, and I think it could easily fit within the framework of crawl, and add decisions instead of going all str/armour/shields. This would also be a greatly needed buff for hybrids which have been massively nerfed in this version. However, they then tread the li...

Ball Lightning can be great for groups, but you'll get a lot of self-electrocution. Even with rElec you can still take significant damage, it's a pretty dangerous thing to wield. I actually find OOD pretty good even in corridors; one or two might hit the walls, but nothing can dodge it when it goes ...

I mostly die too cause i take 2 more turns after seeing a monster, in other words not paying attention. Though recently i keep down SHIFT button as well, so i cant move with a monster close. But it makes me move more squares though lol. And i wanna see Pan too! It's one reason why autoexplore is so...

I specifically remember getting on Elf:1 where the entry had deep water blocking the entire level! Not sure how you'd get around those situations without Recall. Let's see: ⋅ Do nothing, this part can't be done with allies. Perfectly fine up to a couple of levels, not acceptable in D, a b...

Grats man, i know the feeling. Every next character does progress a bit further and further (well, not every, but every x chars :D). And it feels so good :D. Its an addictive game, i hope it stays that way after 1st win. Yep, after the 1st win you want to start seeing Pan / Hells which is what I'm ...

What should be done is that, unless you tell the minion to wait. It should eventually follow you down a stairway behind you after you move off the stairway, remove the micromanagement and tediousness involved in the shepherding of minions around. You already get punished a lot by not getting the XP...

Since my first win with a Demon Spawn wizard I've been determined to do with same with a Deep Elf, I love the high magic aptitude and range of spells that are potentially available to this class. I was also testing out the new skill system on 0.9 trunk and this being only the second character I trie...

The only thing about removing Recall is that it's useful for creating an instant meat shield, even just from zombies and skeletons you might have on the level. This is actually what I dislike the most about recall. Or getting to melee range, recalling and have the enemy instantly surrounded. It wou...

This all sounds eminently sensible. I wanted Dig for that purpose but I'd only found it in one shop book at that point and didn't want to burn $900 for just one spell when I knew it'd turn up sooner or later anyway. Actually now I have a book but still one spell slot short. The only thing about remo...

Well, HEAE of Oka seems like the way to go for me. I died to mara at lvl 17 due to me not knowing several things about him. Learned that he can still mislead and blink while silenced and the image he creates is not a player ghost so it will follow you up stairs, also that I cant heroism while silen...

In my current game I was experimenting with Twisted Resurrection for the first time. It's a very cool spell, and I ended up with at one point 9 or 10 greater horrible things that helped me clear out a large chunk of the early game right up to Swamp:5, where they started getting mangled quite quickly...

The problem with adding new attacks or AoE is that it would necessitate a dramatic change melee mechanics to keep the game balanced. As it is melee are quite strong once they survive the early game, and giving them shiny new toys, while adding depth, will skew the difficulty of the game in the wron...

You're actually at the point where options really start to open up for how to deal with all kinds of threats, but it massively depends on what spells and items you have available. If you're exploring a dangerous area you should try and have buffs activated at all times. In shoals, Swiftness + Flight...

Prices always vary a little from one shop to another, this is normal. Just like in real life, you have to hunt the bargains

Unless anything has changed with the recent price reforms...

I should add that there was another game where I got Fighting 1 very easily quite early on. Maybe it's just harder further down the line if you miss that early opportunity?

That was one issue - it took me a seriously long time to get Fighting 1. I'd cleared Swamp before I got it. I will increase the frequency of exercises, so it will be easier to gain it. What was your aptitude? DEWz, so -2 aptitude - char dump is in my post above, you can see I finally gained Fightin...

That was one issue - it took me a seriously long time to get Fighting 1. I'd cleared Swamp before I got it. Couldn't understand why it didn't happen - kept meleeing stuff for a while, then earning XP, just didn't happen. Finally got the level when I killed Margery and I hadn't been doing anything pa...

I'm pretty sure you could have taken on Swamp for a 2nd rune before going that deep into the dungeon, it's usually much easier than Elf! Nice character anyway, just don't let your health get so low

Focus skills would be great! In gereral that's exactly what I want to do - work mainly on specific skills, but still let a bit of Exp trickle into other areas. My second character on the new system (DEWz) has reached Vault:7 and is frankly walking through it, thanks to high Fighting / Dodging / Shie...

I'm playing my first game on the new skill system. I'm wondering, is there any chance that it's affected Sif Muna's piety gain? I found a reasonably early temple and joined Sif. Now I'm only at ** piety at XL:10 - I'm feeling like normally I'd be at around **** by this point. It could be my imaginat...

Shaping up pretty nicely, some nice items and you found a few nice spells there. You might want to work Tloc up towards Phase Shift for some extra survival ability, and if you find Swiftness you get an extra speed boost with Flight. Poisonous Cloud is great for clearing groups of enemies in Lair and...

It's funny that octopodes can't wear any armour. Octopuses can squeeze into anything! Wearing boots or gloves would not make much sense. But body armour would. Maybe replace the amulet slot with a body armour slot (and perhaps the mishapen-body mutation)? I think the problem is that most armours on...

Ninja'd, I was about to post the above, but additionally: - Hive:2 is a great stash and usually slightly more accessible than Lair in the later game. I assume that's where you found all those royal jellies? - Lair:2 is advised over Lair:1 (although the chances of anyone messing with stuff on Lair:1 ...

They both get rid of the hassle. Automatic mode isn't victory dancing, nor it is pre-battle dance. I see what you mean though. But I believe this is one of the things that feels weird for now, but will feel very natural once we get used to it. If anyone has a better idea for the mode names, I'm all...

RFHolloway wrote:I didn't attack directly as I was worried about giving it more heads - how worried should I be about that?

If you're attacking with a bladed weapon without fire brand then extremely worried.

i just want to point out that a few weeks ago you were dying to Sigmund and now you're dying to margery. This is a huge improvement. You will claim the orb! ^ This is very true. Uniques get easier and easier to deal with as you can learn specific tactics and weaknesses to exploit. I'm most often no...

Congrats - the first win makes a big difference

Pretty much all my characters now easily get into the mid-game, although I haven't had a second win yet; I start getting too overconfident and careless once my character starts looking like they're capable of winning!

Except you haven't been mulling, you have spent the last few turns killing a lich. So that message wouldn't make any more sense than just gaining a level of T&D without the message. You're saying your mind never wanders onto something completely different to what you're doing right now? ;) But ...

The only way that i could see dual wielding working is if the secondary weapon didn't provide additional atacks, but simply provided resistances, stat effects and protection. you might go as far as making swapping between the two held weapons as a quicker action than a normal switch. It kind of mak...

Also; I kind of think people are looking at this a bit too hard when they say it's confusing to see a skill gain message for a skill they weren't immediately using. In a lot of RPGs you gain arbitrary skills every time you level up. This is no different conceptually. Maybe the message can just be tw...

I really like automatic mode; good job on that. However, it annoys me that using some skill just once inevitably forces you to gain a skill point if you didn't have one before. Especially since useless skill points sap some of your experience over time. Could someone look into disabling autotrainin...

I think the main point of Ring of Flame is to be used in conjunction with Fire Storm. I'm not sure about it's usefulness on its own. BTW; Ring of Flame is a fantastic spell all on its own. It has a great balance of utility and destruction for a high-level spell. It gives you fire resistance and let...

Being a newbie, I would say A, but only with two brothers in arms. F might be Way Too Dangerous. Was your wand of fire throwing great bolts or small puffs? If it was throwing only small puffs, then using it against a hydra is a Desperate Step. not sure but i managed to knock it into the yellow afte...

RFHolloway wrote:e) scroll of teleport on this unexplored level as nothing can be as bad (not sure I had one, but didn't check)

This would be the right choice, if random teleport didn't have a 99% chance of landing you adjacent to the eight-headed hydra that's elsewhere on the level.

With bouncing, Lightning Bolt does more damage than Lehudib's Crystal Spear. It was severely nerfed in 0.9 a little while ago, though: it is now impossible to hit the same target more than twice with a single bolt. Yeah, that's kind of a shame; I loved the mini-game of setting up multizaps. They're...

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