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I recently took a GrFi of Ru with 15 runes.

Think I did Courage, Resists, Stealth and no Conj/Trans magic.

Courage was interesting. It made me play a less reckless. But with Ru I tend to be more reckless so maybe I just played normal. Lack of resists wasn't a big deal.

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dynast wrote:(root, -tele, no EV, regen).

This looks like a really bad idea, especially -tele. Basically it means that you die.

it's basically tree form cons.

Can this thing wear armour at all? Wouldn't you need a way to boost AC like Draconians?

I think with Ru there's a sacrifice that you make in which you wish you could take back. But that's the charm of Ru and makes you play because you have those sacrifices.

Nice win! Ru is awesome.

Main way to increase spell power is probably INT then? I thought the spell school was at least far better than spell casting. Getting invis down to a good cast rate isn't a huge sink with a SpEn.

So what should Hexes be for a spen at end game? I figured you don't need more than 15ish unless you go discord. But even then is that enough?

I did Ru recently. Thought he was great in extended.

I've glanced at the guide. Didn't really care for it. Guides are annoying for this game because nothing fits into the mold. It's like spending the whole time pushing a square peg into a round hole. Even worse is people bring up the guide as justification for actions when there are CLEARLY better one...

I like Pan -> Hell -> Tomb.

Tomb probably easiest though with Gr and TSO. Go slow and bring mummies back to you like the greaters and priests. Mummies are slow anyways.

Pan be weary leaving certain levels makes it impossible to get back to them.

They have Injury Mirror and if you aren't paying attention it'll do a good number on your HP. Plus they usually have a two handed polearm so reach action. I think they are just bad news if you are inexperienced.

For what it's worth, I could swear that Death Knights show up scaringly early now, but I haven't found any hard facts that support this claim (because in today's world, nobody belives a thing if you don't wave a signed paper in front of their head). I've had to skip floors because of them. Oh well....

I learned it with something that is torment resistant like gargoyle or ghoul. Makes life easier.

"when I was bad at crawl". I don't think i'll ever call myself good :oops:

I used mixed up Invocations and Evocations. Oka is wonderful with high evocations....

Every snake rune vault has more or less the same problem, given that they're all packed full of giant, slow bags of hp that both take some effort to kill and take forever to lure back to a choke point. I just wiped out to 5 guardian serpents in snake:4. I never enjoy snake:4. I used to really hate ...

Yes

Which is what I'm not sure is worth the switch to TSO. Prolly just stick with Ru. He is fantastic anyways.

I just wanna know if I should switch to TSO and try extended, stay with Ru and try extended or just get the win. Game has been pretty easy what with Ru kicking butt and decent gear. The lack of resists scare me and I knew that going in when I took that sacrifice but I hadn't planned on extended. Wha...

OK I think I understand.

Being slow really doesn't affect the time before you actually teleport. However monsters get more actions than the player due to the slowed effect. But it's really the same number of actions for the monsters, the player just has less.

hmm ok

What about something like "slowed, very slow" in the @: list? Or does that "very slow" refer to something like swing speed at the time?

Would having the Slow effect as well as carrying the Orb make reading a scroll of teleport and actually teleporting take roughly 20 Turns? more? Less?

I don't have a lot of experience with Vlaada games other than GT and Dungeon Lords but I understand he loves this sort of thing. Multiple mini games in one big game. Dungeon Lords is huge on that. Love the game but it can be a brain burner with the mini games. GT is ok, it's fun watching other peopl...

Thats funny I just learned to play Castles of Burgundy last week. Good Euro!

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Nice! I found Ru to be quite strong. An early altar can make a huge difference. I've seen a few cases of players taking lots of small sacrifices, but that doesn't seem like a good idea. Get the piety up early to get help when it's most needed: early! It's not a good idea to take a bunch of little s...

Nice! I found Ru to be quite strong. An early altar can make a huge difference. I've seen a few cases of players taking lots of small sacrifices, but that doesn't seem like a good idea. Get the piety up early to get help when it's most needed: early! It's not a good idea to take a bunch of little s...

Oka is awesome for extended. Hero and Finesse continue to be fantastic abilities. Oka might even gift you something useful to

Hmm do you have access to resists? Nice to have a couple pips in rF and rC...and rN too actually.

Sprucery wrote:Well, you can find consolation in the fact that that hand axe was in fact not a very good weapon

Yea I meant to put 'good' in quotes. Mainly the *Rage triggered which I guess was probably inevitable? Stomp would have been a good ability. Oh well!

Quick Tier 1. Stupidly didn't inspect the minotaur. He had a pretty good weapon. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-301-gb6cdf32 (tiles) character file. 12167 Bots the Carver (level 12, -1/84 HPs) Began as a Halfling Fighter on May 30, 2016. Was a Believer of Ukayaw. Slain by a minotaur ... wi...

http://pastebin.com/xXN9azcz Absurd. While I did have a few close calls, this character basically tabbed extended. Even when Lob decided to follow me to another realm, simply use oka abilities, a few pots and everything goes down. This was inspired by the GhEn recently as a 15 runer as well. Thanks...

Ended just getting three runes and going for a win. While you don't *need* LCS and/or Shatter for a three rune, it is damn fun to get them and use them. I used Shatter mainly to goof around in Zot as it attracted so much attention. LCS was nice against Ancient Liches and OoF. Although Iron shot did ...

What about armor and the Armor skill? Does training it reduce casting penalities or should I just stick with leather/robes?

I did find Iron Shot finally. Should my end skills be heavy in Fighting/Conj/SC/Earth Magic?

Well, my first time actually getting past d4. I feel like i'm doing OK but it seems I need to think about skilling properly as I'm headed into the Lair branches. I dun goofed and lost Iron Shot from Veh due to not having enough spell slots and not having any amnesia scrolls. Which is odd because usu...

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