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Sprucery wrote:You had 12 potions of mutation left. Why didn't you quaff some to get a nice set of good mutations?

Partly because I'm a halfling and partly because I forgot. Ahem.

Do shining eyes still have malmutate?

No, Polymorph, but I haven't fought a post-change shining eye yet.

Hmm, so in a 3-rune game you probably won't face any malmutators? How do potions of mutation work in Stoat Soup, are they the same as in DCSS? In almost any game; Mnoleg is unchanged, but neqoxecs get paralyse and cacodemons entropic weave. I think we basically agree with the Goons that malmutate i...

And now look what just happened to Nebukadnezar's CeAE : Entered Z:5, immediately was teleported, char died and 7:45 hours of game play were lost. So I'm no great fan of explore traps, but "lost" doesn't make a lot of sense to me here. I enjoy playing the game; if I die, the time I spent ...

What's the powerful magical force warping space?

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220409-015352.txt It's been a while - my last win was in January, and I've splatted a wide selection of characters since - but this HaBe got home; it's my first win where I've switched gods en route, other than very early game good god sw...

chromat wrote:Ah, ok thank you so it is known issue.

I didn't say that; I have no idea if this effect is one the developers are aware of.

So, i was playing an octopode transmuter and got a lucky early scroll of acquirement and picked mask of the dragon. After equipping the mask and first time i cast beastly appendage spell the mask melded! Now i read the spell and it says it melds things on affected appendage but as an octopode i got...

Grats on the 2 streak. Especially re some of what you said re Usk... I still haven't tried Usk in any playthroughs and need to give them a proper go. One thing about Usk is that (while this win was melee+slings) they're not oriented around melee in the way, say, WJC is. They don't care how you do t...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220123-003717.txt http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220130-151148.txt Another twofer - but it was a two-streak, they both did Tomb excessively early, and I don't have much to write about the VpVM. The VpVM was ...

The frequency of Pan levels with runes increased at some point after 0.18 - getting a bunch in a row is unusual, but they are more frequent than they were.

I'm pretty sure they're too good, but at least you don't have haste there. I think I might argue the other side of the question - how good they are has been pretty steadily eroded away since the first implementation. You save turns, of course, but it's hard to get Shroud back up in combat once it d...

For what it's worth, I've mostly got nagas home by spitting poison at everything.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220103-212354.txt Oh, wait, no. That's a Merfolk Fighter who I got home with Qazlal, but didn't have much to write about; I got a demon trident off an Orc:2 room of bastards with demonspawn, so unusually (for Merfolk) went 1h+shield. I di...

On slingers I inscribe stones "@Q1" and bullets "@Q2 !t" then macro '1' and '2' to 'Q1' and 'Q2'; the scheme extends in an obvious way for throwing ammo.

Sprucery wrote:Mentioning GrSu brings back memories. The only character I've had killed during the Orb run, and on D:1 no less (Pan lord with Ice Storm).

My one Zot/orbrun splat is a TeAE who forgot to check for fire resistance before fighting an OOF. :-/

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211225-214847.txt What, a sludge elf in 0.23? We'd been talking about maybe putting them back, but then reproduced a vanilla bug that let you get removed species (whose stats are still in the game for savefile compatibility purposes) from...

Sprucery wrote:After splatting a SpBe with 6 runes in Pandemonium (Cerebov's level)

I've had a couple of high-hubris splats recently, most obviously a GrSu who cleared Tomb 4th but splatted to Asmodeus. Well done on playing it safe and getting this one home.

I think you could quite easily pick up the Spellcasting / experience levels to get Orb of Destruction without amnesia-ing anything. I am a big fan of IOOD; while it takes a while to arrive (and is no good in corridors) it does huge globs of damage and can't be evaded, and is hence very good against ...

I think you can increase your success rate for CL quickly by adding a few levels of Spellcasting, where you are still very low, and where adding levels is currently much cheaper than adding the spell schools. To be more precise, Spellcasting affects failure rate 1/4 as much as the average of the sp...

wizard44 wrote:Should I buy the amulet of magic regeneration from the jewellery shop? Or am I better off with my current amulet of regeneration?

I think if a Veh worshipper with two rings of MP+9 is considering needing more magic regeneration, something is badly wrong. :-)

Am I correct in thinking that the artefact amulet is useless? I have two artefact rings that give rPois, and my acid dragon scales cover rCorr. That leaves the amulet’s main function as a method to turn invisible, but the Contam attribute does not seem to make the amulet worth it. I would not use i...

This is perfectly fine, and completely different than the issue of conflicting demonspawn mutations, because there's no hard limit on skill experience gained, so if you're willing to put in the time and effort, you can eventually make up any disadvantage from atrophied skill experience. Well, yes a...

But, you and I are looking at this general issue completely differently. You're looking at it like, "Okay, it's not the best but it's still better than nothing, so I'm happy with it." And I'm looking at it like, "This is underperforming and I had to give up some other mutation line t...

I'm not sure I get most of these. Yes, claws and demonic touch don't go well with weapon+shield (and demonic touch should clearly work with a main-hand attack), but what's that got to do with mutations that give bonus SH? Bonus SH is good whether you use a shield or not. Unarmed fighting is perfectl...

I knew what doom hounds do, but they're still pretty horrible: http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/dame ... 125003.txt

"No worries, I'm immune to torment... oh"

Assuming I don't have some specific god in mind (eg when I was approaching polytheist I'd, obviously, hold out for a god I hadn't won), I ask myself - have I found a god that's good for me? Take it. Have I found a god that's viable for me? If so, how likely am I to die if I keep going in search of a...

Yes, but perhaps not one that made sense from the point of view of just winning the game; I like to play gods I haven't played for a while, and I haven't played Vehumet at all since winning a GrFE in April.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211114-000648.txt This was a bit of an unusual game. I went Vehumet on D:3 without knowing any spells; I knew Veh would provide soon enough, and nagas' generally good (if boring) spellcasting aptitudes would mean I could use whatever I go...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211022-230905.txt I'm still playing random combos, playing each one at least until I hit Lair and maybe then until I'm fed up. I managed to get killed in Tartarus on a MuEn, and then the RNG handed me MiIE. As we'll see, I went Chei which...

I think drain is tuned to be too weak now. Even heavy drain doesn't reduce max HP by very much (like, 5-10%, maybe?) and clears up quite quickly. The effect is so minor and so temporary that I've stopped paying attention to it entirely. I'm wondering if others feel the same way, and if so, I'd sugg...

After a 2 year break, I decided to start trying to win with a few combos I never finished. So I was running a Demigod Wander and doing ok. I was level 11 when I ran into a tough fight. There was a good bit of deep water in the immediate vicinity, but I thought I would be clever and quaff a potion o...

Post a dump for questions of this kind.

I don't recall changing gear all that often to address spell failure rates as Hellmonk mentioned, but I see it could be possible. I think the issue is more that Hypothetically Optimal Man would rest in armour with an EV intended to guide their stats the way they want, which might not be the armour ...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210801-130725.txt (Well, secretly, since I wrote my last YAVP, I did a 4-rune centaur with Okawaru: http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210619-121149.txt but there wasn't much to write about that even if the 4th ...

I used the OCPA on a HuGl^WJC. For a while I was just using it as a +8 CPA, but I did eventually get to use Isk's Battlesphere and Irradiate in it.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/dame ... 151535.txt if you're curious.

Have hats been removed? I never found a single hat?! https://cbro.berotato.org/morgue/Drazool/morgue-Drazool-20210612-004400.txt is a very recent trunk hat-wearer. The Abyss took 3058 turns, which seemed a bit long time. I wish Lugonu would reveal the location of the rune to her loyal worshippers :...

Are there shops in Hell or Pan? (Yeah, thought I would ask anyway.) No, I've never seen one. http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Shop#Supply is accurate AFAIK (and I wrote it). Also, looking at your action table: you summoned 6 angels thus far, which is strange. You should use much more angels, 1 in every ...

Sticky Flame and OTR will basically murder everything for a very long time Did you consider adding Ignite Poison to the mix? Loads of fun. Btw, what's a broadsword in Crawl? I gather Ignite Poison has changed since the 0.23ish I'm playing, but I might try it out. There's the usual problem where you...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210529-013003.txt VpFE. Another doomed combo, thank you RNG, with Vp's -3 Conjurations and -2 Fire Magic. I killed two in the early dungeon, but then one picked up Ash on D:3 and it seemed like if I could get the Ash skill boost rolling i...

Congrats, 7 runes with 4 from Hell is impressive. I'm just curious, was a quick blade of _protection_ really your main melee weapon? Yes. Seems odd, doesn't it? But I branded it once and got protection; it was the only QB in the game; the main purpose of a QB on VS is to let your bite bite faster; ...

+10 STR is of course nice, but a +0 robe is not so nice AC-wise... Especially without a shield! But I had 43 STR overall (4 from a scarf, 3 from gloves, 10 from rings) and the approach of just trying to flatten everything before it could hurt me worked surprisingly well. It helped that I had 21 Evo...

Autoexplore is by far the only reasonable way to play the game and it is more or less what the levels are designed around. Roguelikes without autoexplore often have maps that are 1/10 or less the size (e.g. Nethack) FWIW, NetHack's maps are 80x21, 30% the size of Crawl's 80x70. They just seem small...

Went for the classic +9 bardiche option on a merfolk, I see. I was quite pleased with the one who finished in a +0 randart robe with +10 STR, just to do even more horrible damage with the bardiche.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210513-023032.txt What, another one? But for a change I'm going to write an ascension report without too many words. The streak breaker here was a FeWr, but I gave that combo another go and got all the way to Lair:6... VSBe, all the Hell ...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210428-011424.txt What, another win with Tomb done early? This avoided being a 2-streak by the RNG handing me OpCK, where I got collected by an entropy weaver on Lair:5, which I guess is pretty good going for an OpCK. GrFE seemed a bit mo...

ebering wrote:I for one look forward to the imminent dckrawl release.

You're always level 1, and every enemy is a duck.

Hello, fork discussion. We (Stoat Soup) are lumbering towards getting 0.23 out...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210418-132000.txt Hooray, won again - after a dry spell of about two dozen deaths, none of which so much as got a rune. (Indeed, the last time I died with a rune seems to have been... 2019, which is good, I guess?) I'm not sure I really d...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20210219-055858.txt This is my third Tomb rune, and the first one I've got without special protection from torment; I've done one as a ghoul, and one when worshipping Kiku. Of course, a Gozagite with a lot of gold in hand is also very stron...

Clearly the RNG's been sending my scrolls to you. I'm currently taking turns playing DCSS and Bloatcrawl (absolutely love it, even though it isn't updated anymore). The only thing from DCSS I'd like to get into Bloatcrawl is the new acquirement... I found porting new acquirement into our 0.23ish wa...

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