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This is likely coming a bit late now, but here goes. 3) Vitality is definitely the ring of choice in the ones you have. What you wear on the other hand is really just a matter of preference right now, personally I'd keep the magic resistance one on as it's something I'd forget to swap into and end u...

An update! After some really close shaves in snake (turns out a spirit amulet isn't the best when you don't have the 1 mp to invoke blink to escape a nasty constriction stack you got from tabbing. Oh while we're on constriction, it seemed to tick for the full damage on every single action, even real...

Heya, someone feel free to correct me if this is bad advice. 1) You should probably actually put away the executioners axe for now and use something a bit easier to wield for now. Any of your battleaxes would be fine. The reason for this is your axes skill, where it is right now you're swinging it f...

So I decided to take a break from making necromutated conjuration storming death machines (naga ones are easily the best by the end) and decided to try out a few different types of gameplay. Melee characters are rubbish. And I kept making them. I was just looking for some advice with this KoBe I've ...

If you're switching to TSO for the extended lategame you're probably going to benefit most from putting your holy wrath enchant on a great big 2 handers, a triple sword or executioner's axe in your case. Not sure which one will work out better after the holy wrathing here. This is because shields do...

Probably totally redundant to say this but my favourite build is definitely a deep elf wizard. The starting spellbook, particularly mephitic (my spell checker recommends syphilitic for this) cloud and conjure flame gives you very potent tools to safely deal with most threats up to lair and pretty mu...

Probably a dumb question but do you have 8 Bows skill or more? If you have that Oka should start doing arrow gifts at 4-5 stars of piety.

Rings of regen are fantastically useful when in lich form, I think they give 0.4 hp a turn or 2 every 5 turns which will roughly double your regen speed. (If someone wants to break out the maths to show me how wrong I am feel free). They're probably my favourite kind of ring overall. Honestly I woul...

My crawl play hours fluctuate wildly, I usually don't play more than 2 characters in a row and if I splat them I play something else. Usually takes around 20 minutes as I am wildly suicidal most of the time and only shape up my play after at least 5 near misses. If one gets off the floor I will play...

The abyss should have exits that just exit you back to the abyss. Fooled you! Let's have the Abyss have multiple levels, 27 for thematic reasons. You can only find the rune on level 27 and portals randomly put you up or down 1 level and going up from level 1 spits you back out. Banishment puts you ...

Congratulations, and I echo the post above, a very entertaining adventure to read

I've certainly seen a shaft trap in the Shoals. It didn't really register to me how silly it was though or I would've waited around to see what happened when some water got near it. Oh well...

Just had to show off this ring. It almost resists every element possible and has slaying to boot :D If you ever take that ring off your finger, you're playing Crawl wrong. I actually never put the thing on. Found it in a Zig and already had pretty much every single resistance pip I could ever want ...

My second 15 runer! Used exactly the same tactics, spells and race as the first, maybe I should try other things for the extended lategame but nothing seems to compare to that heady mix of good apts, hungerless channelling and orbital strike like firestorm. I was toying with the idea of going for 27...

Just had to show off this ring. It almost resists every element possible and has slaying to boot

I'll try my best to answer some of your questions, though I don't have much experience with Chei at all really. Sadly I think most of my replies are going to be filled with I don't know much about this disclaimers I think :p 1. I think all branches of hell will be quite a challenge for this characte...

Hey all, I've been messing around with casters again after a few melee ascensions and have went Kiku for an easy necronomicon as necromutation is so amazingly game changing for a caster. Having read the wiki I am planning to get my necronomicon to learn necromutation and then fill up the temple with...

I would definitely get swiftness, it's always a fanstastic spell to have, being able to outrun a lot of threats in the game makes your character last much longer. Apportation can also save you a lot of grief grabbing an item you'd like from somewhere dangerous, but only if you remember you have it! ...

Thanks everyone for the replies, you made this frankly utter beast of a character possible :D First 15 runer! Also cleared 3 zigs with the guy, he was like a goddamn train. Had 41 cure mutations in my stash, ended up not needing one as this guy was pretty lucky even when I decided to play the roulet...

Thanks for the advice guys, I went for haunt and did Tartarus and Slime pits, had one slightly shaky bit in Tartarus where the hell effect paralysed me but thankfully no shadow fiends were around at that point. I'd heard horror stories of multiple shadow fiends being spawned at you at once by the he...

It's a shame he died, it looks like things were going pretty great up to then. I know how annoying this sounds, but stop and check your inventory when something life threatening is there, you also had a wand of invisibility and a scroll of fog along with the card, which may have just enabled you to ...

Hey, after a few 3-5 rune ascensions I've really been itching to get a 15 runer done and I think this guy might be the one for it, but I have never actually set foot inside a few of the places where the runes reside and so I have a few questions about them so I don't go in blind. I've had some prett...

Oh interesting thing with fire orbs, might be a bug. If their path is blocked by a mushroom, you can attack thing with smite targeted skills (such as airstrike) and they will just glare malevolently at you and do nothing at all about the mushroom blocking them. True its not a very easy thing to set ...

I had this happen to me a while back, it was before I'd seen past the lair on any character. Had no idea what a sphinx could do to me in melee. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.2 character file. 7757 Hreiss the Frost Mage (level 11, -2/77 HPs) Began as a Naga Ice Elementalist on Mar 23, 2011. Wa...

My first character to actually survive the dungeon! Most of the game was spent running around trying to split things up so I could kill them with poison arrow and get my mana back in peace. The best part of this game for me was probably when I finally eliminated the hunger cost for poison arrow, it ...

Thanks for the suggestions and advice everyone. Saying that I mostly disregarded it, acid blobs didn't cause me much of a problem, poison arrow 2 hit them pretty reliably and deflect missiles prevented their throw acid from hitting most of the time. The royal jelly I ran after hitting and whittled i...

I've only been the the Abyss once before (and died pretty quickly) and I've never been to pandemonium so I'm kinda apprehensive about subjecting myself to them, don't know what to expect.

Messing about in the slime pits with dig right now. No wall is safe.

Thanks for the replies!

Would Airstrike be any good at killing them? Considering I can make enough butterflies to avoid most of their attacks. I'm sure I have a book with it in somewhere.

Hello, I've just gotten my first character into the realm of Zot. He's a level 27 SpVm of Vehumet. Most of the enemies here I can deal with without too much trouble, but the orbs of fire I simply cannot take down before running out of mana and have to doom a lot of poor poor butterflies to escape. I...

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Re: Some advice for the Zot floors please!

Re: Some advice for the Zot floors please!

Some advice for the Zot floors please!