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I don't know about it. Was there an announcement?

And, who on earth is Brom?

Just encountered this new Earth/Conjurations spell and wondered who coughed that one up. It seems to be entirely useless. ⋅ level 4 ⋅ max damage 2d11 (Sandblast has 2d20!) ⋅ extremely situational (needs empty space between player and monster, works only in the cardinal ...

Starting out with heal wounds identified but not in inventory would defeat the whole purpose of the starting consumable item (to provide an option to deal with unusually harsh very early game RNG), and it would introduce a new inconsistency. On top of Djinni mages being inconsistent for lacking a s...

Either heal wounds or magic can be the more powerful of the two depending on the player's build and the particular situation. If this is still in the context of Djinni - no, heal wounds is always more powerful, because magic is indeed absolutely useless to them. Remember, they don't have or use mag...

As a compromise, Djinni could start out with heal wounds identified, without actually having that potion. That would already be a significant advantage, without being too unfair with respect to other species.

Sprucery wrote:Doesn't it do that already? With the targeter for ranged attacks and 'x'?

Yes, with a circle around the summoner.

Now, really, it would be good to see some win-rate comparisons to previous tournaments to get an idea what impact the most recent changes had on that. I suspect that win-rates went down somewhat, but that's just based on my experience. Tournament results would give some hard data.

Rough. Did Xom have a hand in that?

Happened to me, too. There was quite a long succession of versions where read-IDing scrolls was basically non-perilous, as long as you stood on stairs and out of sight of monsters. Now you have to pay more attention.

All in all I'm in favor of the change, because it put a stop to much of what is called "optimal game play" in this forum. This not only is tedious, but it also keeps players from using different and more interesting strategies for winning the game, such as conjurations, Chei-based characte...

And now Natasha killed me on D2 with a brandnew Wand of Roots. The recent trunk update makes it sound as if bad wands in young hands are a thing of the past. But now it seems as if any low-level unique may be one shot away from killing you.

Robin just killed me on D2 with a quicksilver wand - how am I supposed to prevent against that? Reminds me of Ijyb with his/her nasty Wand of Acid...

zdzichorowerzysta wrote:Can't invoke - am silenced

Right, that was silly advice. Sorry for the end of that run - it's always frustrating when it happens so close to the Orb. Good luck next time!

If you get out of this, I definitely will want to know how you did. I don't see what you can still do to prevent your death in the next move. What I would try (without any hope) is to kill the dragon with Major Destruction, which would give you some HP from Makhleb, and then try to get to the Telepo...

You can use steam dragon armour without any armour skill. If you can fully enchant it, you'll have considerable protection.

And as far as I know, there's no other spell that does different damage based on the distance to target, so it's unique too! Chain lightning, at least, also scales its damage with distance to target, but this spell is on the other end of the spectrum from sandblast on so many levels, that this one ...

"I prefer" and "zero attraction" do not exactly move a discussion forward. At least they don't help your opinion being heard. Can you add a little bit more substance to it, so that we can engage with your contribution?

Yes, Nebbu's experience is exactly what happened to me here. And it really sucks. I guess I still could have saved myself by reading a scroll of teleportation before grabbing the Orb, because I survived surprisingly long afterwards, given the opposition. But then who knows where this teleport would ...

On the plus side - being able to grab the Orb so quickly gave me the third-level "Graceful" banner of the tournament - something I would have always thought to be out of reach with my playstyle.

mopl wrote:Guess what ? I'm playing Op !!

That find turns you into an extremely powerful glass cannon - I guess you would have hoped for a few more pips of AC in the stash.

Just lost a very promising MiBe (converted to TSO), because my first step down into Z5 brought me two tiles away from the Orb of Zot - is it right to have a teleport trap right on the arriving stairs? Well, I thought I grab the Orb and teleport away, but I only got as far as grabbing the Orb. Then I...

Thanks for this information, which is extremely helpful. It somewhat confirms that accumulating masses of Stealth pips is quite a trap that makes the cloak-and-dagger stabber so untenable as a strategy in dcss. You can have a bloodless Vampire with full Dith piety and insane Dexterity and Stealth ma...

I like that it has a fixed range - you know exactly what tile gets hit and what doesn't - which is very different from many other area-of-effect spells.

n - the ring of Seriskef (left hand) {rF+ rN+ Int+6 Slay+5} (You found it on level 3 of the Dungeon) [ring of intelligence] Int: It affects your intelligence (+6). Slay: It affects your accuracy & damage with ranged weapons and melee (+5). rF: It protects you from fire. rN: It protects you from...

Do stones really qualify as throwing ammunition? They are badly needed for the Sandblast spell, and have been rare enough already in the early game. In any case, so far I can't confirm that abundance of stones has gone down in my games.

Now what does all this mean for shields and magic? Do I also have to go up to 27 to remove all interference with the success rate?

Not that I have an answer. In fact, I'm still struggling to understand what the shield change really does. Can someone elucidate here, not just wrt Nagas?

sanka wrote:Tavern wisdom is that level 9 spells are sometimes useful with Vehumet (in a 3 rune game), but Vehumet is a weak god, so overall they are considered to be on the weak side.

Everything you just said is wrong. (Star-Wars Wisdom)

For them, MP doesn't exist, they spend HP instead of MP, and therefore no game mechanic that involves MP is relevant for them. This is self-evidently false. They do interact with mechanics that involve MP, including but not limited to spellcasting, invocations, Portal Projectile, and gloves of infu...

You are missing the point of Dj as a species: For them, MP doesn't exist, they spend HP instead of MP, and therefore no game mechanic that involves MP is relevant for them. That is how they are designed and defined. Your suggestion would certainly make playing a Dj easier, but it would completely ov...

What's wrong with hailstorm? It is actually quite powerful, particularly if you have it together with IMB, which you will when you start out as a conjurer.

blueeyedlion wrote:It's not realistic

That in itself wouldn't be a valid argument in a game that features flying pigs, among other things.

You are comparing apples with oranges. Sticky flame applies damage over time, whereas airstrike applies all damage in one not-so-fell swoop, depending on the dungeon layout. There is no way to come up with a formula for all level-four spells that uniformly applies the same damage, because these spel...

There is no connection whatsoever between optimal play and re-start. By re-starting each game that doesn't go as you expect, you lose. You pile a big load of manure over your win-rate. That says it all.

Now what, precisely, is your point?

I understand that it is frustrating to get a character up to the end game to then find out that it is not suitable for clearing out the new hells - particularly if it was a character that was able to do so before. And it even pains me to hear that Cheibriados no longer seems to be a god that makes i...

Definitely learn Passwall. It is currently at 14%, just based on your SC skill, and it will get you through a single layer of wall, which may be just enough to get you out of trouble. If you train earth and transmutations for just one or two levels each, it will be totally reliable and even more pot...

Capacitive Coupling doesn't take longer than two or three turns, which makes it excellent against single fast-moving opponents. But it is entirely useless against summoners, as you are more likely to hit that little demon next to you instead of the dread lich that called it.

To be more precise, Spellcasting affects failure rate 1/4 as much as the average of the spell schools; so for a single school spell, train Spellcasting if it costs 1/4 as much as the school; a double-school spell, 1/2 as much. (If your only priority is to get that spell online, that is.) Right. But...

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.

I had this terribly strong Ghoul Fighter of Okawaru, who was steamrolling the game so far (after stabilizing during the first few levels). I made it to U1 and felt strong enough to enter the Vestibule of Hell. No problem there - I had a potion of attraction, and that kept Geryon in the range of my a...

There are a few exceptions to this, for example the demonic-guardian mutation.

Almost all damage spells are inhibited by summons and other allies. A damage-caster therefore has very little use for allies, as they tend to be in the way of things.

Bozobub wrote:Hats and amulets make *two* exceptions, actually.

Last time I checked, amulets qualified as jewellery.

Scarves are absorbent and would fatally dry out an octopode through their semi porous skin. Hats, with less material and leather bands don’t share this flaw. So in other words, you admit there's no *real* reason not to allow this. Gotcha. That's a misrepresentation of what Ebering said. The "r...

I knew there would be a good reason.

Press 'a'. That only works when the ring is on a finger.

Clear case: Siegurt's experience is unquestionably coincidence, whereas OP's and Sprucery's is caused by dark and sinister forces trying to take control of the game in the name of Eternal Frost.

If you don't want to face them all at once it is usually better to throw stones at them.

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