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Saturday, 31st August 2019, 21:23

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - MfGl^Oka - switch to chei?

Replies: 2

Views: 1356

Re: CIP - MfGl^Oka - switch to chei?

Welp - that didn't work out. Switched to chei and promptly died to oka wrath on crypt 2. Got too greedy.

Saturday, 31st August 2019, 14:51

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - MfGl^Oka - switch to chei?

Replies: 2

Views: 1356

CIP - MfGl^Oka - switch to chei?

So my initial goal with this character was to cast dragon storm so been building intel & summoning most of game and finally got the spell via scroll of acquisition in V5. But.... also on V5, just found orange crystal plate. My strength isn't terrible, but not quite good enough either. I have glo...

Wednesday, 21st August 2019, 19:38

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - MiFi^Xom - My Fastest Win

Replies: 3

Views: 1545

Re: YAVP - MiFi^Xom - My Fastest Win

Yeah, I've had luck with Xom. Initially, I thought, why would anyone want to play like that. But once I gave it a try, found it was pretty fun. Can be pretty helpful confusing monsters, summoning guys for you. At one point, I probably had the following from mutations +6 AC, +4 str, +2 dex, clarity, ...

Wednesday, 21st August 2019, 03:22

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - MiFi^Xom - My Fastest Win

Replies: 3

Views: 1545

YAVP - MiFi^Xom - My Fastest Win

This was a pretty sweet run - found Xom early. With a tanky guy, that god is a lot of fun. Had ridiculous set of good mutations from him for good chunk of game and he gave me some sweet plate armor that carried me most of game. Switched to fire dragon for Zot just to have the two levels of rF+. Ran ...

Sunday, 18th August 2019, 03:18

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - 15 rune with 1 zig

Replies: 1

Views: 1326

YAVP - 15 rune with 1 zig

Had a pretty good run with this guy. Probably a little glass cannon. Basically played the entire game with archmage robes including zig. Was afraid to give them up because spell power boost with fire staff and the robes seemed to be pretty substantial in terms of killdudes. AC was under 20 pretty mu...

Saturday, 14th July 2018, 01:21

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Replies: 6

Views: 2905

Re: CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Thanks for the advice all. Switching to Jivya was the right call and got me my 4th win in a row. Would have never thought of that. Abandoned Fedhas for Jivya with the alter right outside slime & let the slimes eat my extra stash on L2 to pretty much get instant full piety. By that time, Jivya ha...

Friday, 13th July 2018, 13:40

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Replies: 6

Views: 2905

Re: CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Wow, didn't think about changing gods, that sounds better than wandering around abyss. It turns out there is actually a jiyva alter right outside slime so I don't even need to go find the altar. That idea sounds fun cause Jivya can be a little hard to get sometimes. If I go jiyva route, do I just co...

Friday, 13th July 2018, 04:10

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Replies: 6

Views: 2905

CIP - MfGl - Bad Mutation

Currently playing a merfolk gladiator of fedhas (first time making it anywhere with that god). This is game 4 of my current 3 game streak so really want to be conservative & try to win. Got mutated to have teleport next to monsters. Got 3 runes & cleared Z1-4 and all of crypt. Clearing crypt...

Monday, 2nd July 2018, 17:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

Replies: 5

Views: 1993

Re: Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

Well, finally did it, finished first full zig. Had a lot of fun control blinking towards monsters, casting discord then blinking away while all the baddies turn on one another. Bailed a little early on a pan lord floor (after one of them started fire storming me) but mopped up most of the pan lords ...

Saturday, 30th June 2018, 06:58

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

Replies: 5

Views: 1993

Re: CIP - GnWn - need weapon/armor suggestions

Update - switched back to one handers + shield & got all 15 runes. Feels way more powerful with shield. Going to clear some of Zot & try to do my first zig. Gotta figure out armor situation - can't get a configuration that gets great resistances all around. Probably going with PDA & ring...

Saturday, 30th June 2018, 04:35

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

Replies: 5

Views: 1993

Re: CIP - GnWn - need weapon/armor suggestions

Well, i decided to rock the big axe for a bit because yolo. Definitely noticed a downtick in defense with no shield. Then I switched gods to shining one for extended, not realizing that he disallows use of all the spells that I wanted to use. Facepalm. Re-jiggered the spell load-out and grabbed some...

Friday, 29th June 2018, 01:43

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

Replies: 5

Views: 1993

Now YAVP - GnWn - first full zig

So this Gnoll has been a pretty cool build. My start as wanderer gave him 12 apt in axes from the start of the game & then found an axe manual. At this point, I have an abundance of goods and am not sure if I should change up gear. I've got 2 runes & cleared depths 5 and vaults 4. Build I've...

Friday, 19th January 2018, 07:39

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP now YASD! - DrFE - advice for powering up

Replies: 4

Views: 1471

Re: CIP now YASD! - DrFE - advice for powering up

Argggg!!!!!!! really salty about this one... I meticulously collected 15 runes. Completed tomb for first time without controlled blink. Character was feeling pretty strong so I went to try and complete my first zig. Was going well, then I land on a pan floor and first two pan lords I see both cast s...

Tuesday, 16th January 2018, 12:42

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP MiFi^Hepl: First win in a LOOONG time

Replies: 5

Views: 1750

Re: YAVP MiFi^Hepl: First win in a LOOONG time

congrats! yeah, medium weight can be really nice if you have good dodging. Shield helps a ton too.

Monday, 15th January 2018, 15:05

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP now YASD! - DrFE - advice for powering up

Replies: 4

Views: 1471

CIP now YASD! - DrFE - advice for powering up

Been on a dragon kick lately & decided to go with a more wizard route on this one. Character is doing OK in that I have 7 runes down but I'd like to get all 15 and maybe try a zig (furthest I've got was 26). The build has wandered around a bit as I've experimented. Firestorm was supposed to be m...

Thursday, 4th January 2018, 19:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Tm mid-game/defenses?

Replies: 9

Views: 2992

Re: Tm mid-game/defenses?

I was having same issues with transmuter. Finally got a win with one. The things that worked for me were: 1 - training dodging & fighting as was previously suggested. Dodging really seemed to really scale EV in scale in spider form and that was good enough for many fights 2 - use spider & ic...

Thursday, 4th January 2018, 05:10

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP! First 15 rune! Unarmed DsGl^Chei

Replies: 4

Views: 1643

Re: YAVP! First 15 rune! Unarmed DsGl^Chei

Congrats. Taking a few levels of a zig while carrying the orb - on first attempt at 15 runes?!? Hats off to you sir!

Thursday, 4th January 2018, 04:48

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP now YAVP - Acid Dragon Stompy

Replies: 2

Views: 1403

Re: CIP now YAVP - Acid Dragon Stompy

First successful run of 2018 and first successful transmuter. Got 8 runes then got bored of extended & went for the win. Overall, really fun character. It was a blast changing into a giant dragon & stomping all over everything. 27 fight + 27 unarmed + dragon form is a lot of damage output. A...

Monday, 1st January 2018, 22:11

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP now YAVP - Acid Dragon Stompy

Replies: 2

Views: 1403

CIP now YAVP - Acid Dragon Stompy

This is one of the funnest characters I've had in a long time. Finally got a transmuter up & running long enough to find dragon form. Got the spell by choosing book on scroll of acquirement. Now I'm a draconian that transforms into a giant, acid spitting dragon and absolutely just wrecks stuff. ...

Thursday, 16th November 2017, 18:42

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Re: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Yeah, I thought about that this morning. I had probably stopped flying because I was getting airstriked somewhere else and never started again... Ah well, was getting a little bored with the character anyway.

Thursday, 16th November 2017, 05:54

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [YASD] TrMo ^Qazlal - incredible

Replies: 3

Views: 1492

Re: [YASD] TrMo ^Qazlal - incredible

Abyss is really tough with Qaz - there just isn't a way to rest as stuff keeps coming at you. Often have to bail & start over if your hit points get too low & you don't find vault. Troll probably makes this less of an issue.

Thursday, 16th November 2017, 05:50

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Re: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Well, this was a pretty epic game with my adventures in gargoyles turning to late game wizards... Actually ran into my last guy who died in Dis to a hellion after killing Dispater - knew how strong he was so quaffed a bunch of stuff to take in him out. Played around with blowgun a bit and had some s...

Sunday, 12th November 2017, 02:23

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Re: CIP - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

So the slaying is getting ridiculous. Found another great ring with +4 slaying & some other stuff. Think this character is +25 slaying on ranged weapons & +21 on melee. Used the bloodlust amulet in vaults & random rage isn't too bad given all the AC. Killed mennas & took his sacred s...

Sunday, 12th November 2017, 00:22

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Re: CIP - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

OK, update. So cleared the lair branches minus slime & orc & dungeon and didn't find much of note. Focused on just building up some fundamental skills + throwing. I thought blowguns would take advantage of the slaying, that really sucks that they don't - probably too deep into throwing now a...

Saturday, 11th November 2017, 17:29

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

So this character is turning out to be kinda interesting. I just got some boots with +6 slaying, ring with +4 slaying, archery gloves (which I think are +4 for ranged), ring mail that has +2 slaying & I also have amulet of bloodlust that gives +6 slaying but might kill me. I've built up some thr...

Wednesday, 8th November 2017, 19:39

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

Replies: 8

Views: 2454

Re: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

Agree with previous poster, focus on getting lower level kill dudes really reliable (good spellpower & enough MP) and shoring up some basic defense. Deflect missiles is branching off in totally different direction that will eat up XP that you really need to get into your fundamentals. I don't fi...

Wednesday, 8th November 2017, 18:18

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

Replies: 8

Views: 2454

Re: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

People say it isn't necessary to do level 9 spells before extended, I really like firestorm, it is a lot of fun to blast stuff with it, the earlier the better. With De aptitudes & maybe some enhancers, it isn't too bad to get, just realize it is still a LONG way off. I say go for it if you enjoy...

Tuesday, 7th November 2017, 13:40

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CiP : GnSk^Ash, chose a weapon

Replies: 5

Views: 1747

Re: CiP : GnSk^Ash, chose a weapon

Can I ask, how did you stab the hell & pan lords? Do they just hang around sleeping and can you just creep up on them while sleeping? Blink next to them? They always seem to just come at me.

Tuesday, 7th November 2017, 13:34

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD - GrFi - Blasted in Dis AFTER killing Dispater

Replies: 2

Views: 1147

YASD - GrFi - Blasted in Dis AFTER killing Dispater

This one really stung. Was going along pretty well having made a transition to a hybrid melee caster. Just killed Dispater & was looting the vault when a hellion showed up and blasted me. Probably could have done a number of things - #1 being just casting shatter as I think it was killing those ...

Thursday, 2nd November 2017, 20:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD : NaTm^Cheibriados, the Cheimorpher

Replies: 10

Views: 2959

Re: CIP : NaTm^Cheibriados, the Cheimorpher

I would also make sure you keep up on UC. That continues to scale. Your AC isn't that great at the moment so need to be able to kill stuff very quickly.

Thursday, 2nd November 2017, 19:25

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP: DgIE with summons- third rune?

Replies: 6

Views: 1968

Re: CIP: DgIE with summons- third rune?

Too bad you died. For sake of argument. I would have tried to clear U and C before getting 4th rune. Use those to get more xp. I personally wouldn't focus on weapon training. Instead, I would trade more dodging as your EV is pretty low & you have good dex. You could probably get EV in the 30's w...

Thursday, 2nd November 2017, 19:03

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: MiBe^Trog, first ascension!

Replies: 4

Views: 1808

Re: YAVP: MiBe^Trog, first ascension!

congrats on the win

Friday, 27th October 2017, 15:33

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [YASD] DsVM ^Veh - just wanted to show-off....

Replies: 11

Views: 2983

Re: [CiP] DsVM ^Veh - just wanted to show-off....

That is pretty sweet set up for mid-game.

Friday, 27th October 2017, 15:32

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - MiFi of Gozag

Replies: 0

Views: 922

YAVP - MiFi of Gozag

First win with Gozag and first streaked win. Always had problems with Gozag & going hungry before I could get a food store. Didn't have that problem. This time, don't think I even needed to purchase from food store. The gear was very good to me this game - most of my end game stuff was not even ...

Friday, 27th October 2017, 14:47

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: MuWanderer/Qaz

Replies: 3

Views: 1618

Re: YAVP: MuWanderer/Qaz

Congrats on the win. Qaz is a lot of fun. Slime in extended isn't too bad with Qaz. With high evocations, you can just nuke all those jellies. I managed to get 5 runes once. Abyss was really tough, no way to rest. Took 11 dives in to get the rune. Tried some of the hell's but just couldn't make it d...

Sunday, 22nd October 2017, 22:30

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Should I...

Replies: 10

Views: 3061

Re: Should I...

Yeah, I would pop those scrolls right away. I would do for armor & hope you get boots or cloak or hat.

I would also go for trove - that isn't a steep asking price (two enchant armor scrolls) & very easy to replace. Troves are fun.

I wouldn't switch weapon types at this point.

Sunday, 22nd October 2017, 22:23

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Replies: 13

Views: 3599

Re: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Update - YAVP! Played Zot5 pretty carefull. Summoning a bunch of hydras killed everything but OOFs. Ended up memorizing dragoncall to deal with them. Never got it castable by itself, but had 8 potions of brilliance. Just burned one of those each time an OOF showed up, casted dragon call, and let the...

Sunday, 22nd October 2017, 20:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Replies: 13

Views: 3599

Re: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

OK, took some advice, trained up more long blades & enchanted the demon blade & found the abyssal rune running around as bat form. Made my way to Zot to get some more exp killing draconians. I found a book with summon hydra and learned that. My guy still feels very under powered for where I'...

Friday, 20th October 2017, 23:42

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Replies: 13

Views: 3599

Re: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

How does Yara's make discord safer? Haven't heard about that yet? Do you blast guys after you cast it?

Tuesday, 17th October 2017, 02:48

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Another CIP- MiFi of Fedhas

Replies: 2

Views: 1036

Re: Another CIP- MiFi of Fedhas

A couple suggestions You have some scrolls that are un-identified. I would read those to figure out what they are. Could be an acquirement scroll you could use for a weapon or to brand that flail. With fighters, i keep focusing on armor, fighting, weapon & dodging for a long time. I aim for 20 i...

Tuesday, 17th October 2017, 02:24

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Replies: 13

Views: 3599

CIP - VpEn - handling late game

Hey there, looking for some advice to end the game with this character. Probably looking at 3 runes. I have 2 runes now & have cleared elf, swamp, spider, V1-V4, & most of depths (haven't fully explored U5 - too many nasties I can't beat). This is first stabber that that I've gotten this far...

Friday, 13th October 2017, 21:36

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mid-late game banish effectiveness

Replies: 4

Views: 1863

Mid-late game banish effectiveness

Trying out the AK background & been having fun with banish ability in early / mid game. Just wondering if it continues to be effective later in the game if you keep up with invocations? How high should invocations go to keep effective. I'm playing a hill orc so with inv at +3, it is pretty easy ...

Wednesday, 28th June 2017, 04:12

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - DsGl

Replies: 8

Views: 2182

Re: CIP - DsGl

Thanks for the advice. I ended up going for the transformation and trained some dodging while trading down the lighter armor. Went with the quicksilver dragon armor as it had most AC & significantly less ER than anything else lying around and hadn't read moon troll recommendation. I was actually...

Tuesday, 27th June 2017, 19:34

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - DsGl

Replies: 8

Views: 2182

Re: CIP - DsGl

I spaced on that anti-magic axes, was too focused on figuring out how to not die. Will keep that in mind next big battle. I'll try training up dodging & try some diff armor. Have moon troll but that seems too light. There are some randart scale mails lying around. Also a few quicksilver dragons.

Tuesday, 27th June 2017, 05:13

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - DsGl

Replies: 8

Views: 2182

Re: CIP - DsGl

Yeah, I do see how those could look weird. I guess I was thinking for the long game since all the melee skills at -1 apt felt like they required a ton of experience for each incremental point. In any case, spent some time clearing crypt, Zot 1-4, getting abyss rune and fire hell rune (very nearly dy...

Monday, 26th June 2017, 03:09

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP - DsGl

Replies: 8

Views: 2182

CIP - DsGl

Hello, have a decent Demonspawn that has 3 runes at this point. I'd like to try and do some extended. I'm not sure what to skill going forward. I'm really noticing how slowly they skill. I've been putting some points in evocations because lamp & fan & horn are kinda cool when powered up. It ...

Sunday, 25th June 2017, 04:59

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - HaFi of Qazlal

Replies: 1

Views: 823

YAVP - HaFi of Qazlal

Decided to try and rock Qazlal and a halfling - both things I wanted to try. Got a decent build going and set a goal to level invocations to max to see how crazy disaster area gets. Spoiler, it is insane... seemed like firestorm, but bigger - basically hits every single visible tile multiple times. ...

Friday, 23rd June 2017, 20:03

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - BaFi of Chei

Replies: 2

Views: 1043

Re: YAVP - BaFi of Chei

I didn't find it all that useful. Mostly because I was killing stuff so fast with that sword I didn't need it or I'd forget about it, or if there was serious danger I'd summon forest & shadow creatures. I also had +3 cloak of the Spider Nest {+Fly MR- Regen+ Dex+4} that I found in a treasure tro...

Friday, 23rd June 2017, 18:51

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - BaFi of Chei

Replies: 2

Views: 1043

YAVP - BaFi of Chei

So, first time a rolled with the new Barachian, I wound up winning. I really, really like this new species. Hop is great and all the favorable aptitudes give you a lot of variety & flexibility. Towards, the end, i was just tossing skills at whatever. A couple cool things... Maxwell's thermic eng...

Friday, 23rd June 2017, 18:35

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Cheibriados

Replies: 46

Views: 14380

Re: Cheibriados

I would recommend the new Barachian. I won with BaFi of Chei the very first time I tried the race ( http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/biffMalibu/morgue-biffMalibu-20170618-214420.txt ). Granted, it was 3 rune, but the character felt strong enough to go on. I dabbled in Pan a bit before getting scare...
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