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Thanks for the quick reply. I was giving a Ogre hunter a whirl before I made my post. I realized I can't play him like a troll Zerker, hahaha. What god do you think is goes good for a Ogre hybrid of range + spell, with melee as backup? Makhleb. He gives a great 'power after killing' ability which w...

Hi there, Found out about this fantastic game about a week ago. Been testing it with various species, and got as far as D10 I think with a troll Berserker. I've always been a huge Fan of Monstrous Species in any games, especially the Muscled brute with a brain (Jon Irenicus anyone?). So i'm really ...

roguelikedev wrote:I think they've always started with a tiny amount of skill in it... did you pick a race you usually don't? One with very good stabbing aptitude?

Well, I tested it with the classic Spriggan Enchanter, with absolutely no difference in 0.9.0

I made a Deep Elf monk in 0.8 and somehow he performed better than most of my Minotaur monks. Was a fluke though, I think.

When I went down the staircase, there were 4 of them close enough that when I tried to run 1 hit me on the way up and 2 followed me. SMITE from 2 of them was too much for me. Yea, that's one of those impossible to overcome situations that ends a character prematurely. Only thing that could've saved...

When? That's not in the current trunk version as far as I can tell.

I've died to the minotaur before. He had some kind of artifact weapon in his stash, which he wielded and proceeded to beat me to death. He'd probably picked up an artifact weapon from the cache. They do that depending on how the end vault is situated. Usually, they pick up the item worth the most g...

:o I really love Iron Shot. Its damage is great, it can take several end game monsters with few shots. 9d18 isn't good enough? And the accuracy really isn't that bad, imo. Unless we are talking about some things with crazy EV. I dont even know if its accuracy is worse than Stone Arrow, really. I kn...

I am currently in the mines now. Still no resistant poison however I have learned the spell. Maybe I should ask somewhere else but I do not will not to start new topic. The point is I do not understand HP of my character. It is 45/45 (65) - what is the 65? Why I do not have full health points. I ha...

If all 3 stairs end up in that entry vault, well, may Xom have mercy on you... In that case, just bring a few upstairs with you at a time and hope you can take them down. Greater nagas usually like to hang back, so you can clear most of the warriors/mages/guardian serpents this way pretty easily an...

My last character to pick up earth magic ended up learning Iron Shot eventually and found it horribly worthless next to Stone Arrow. I elected to only use Iron Shot once or twice on tough enemies and then spam stone arrows. Iron Shot is even more inaccurate than Stone Arrow as far as I can tell, but...

I just wanted to poke in and say that I prefer Invisibility in the Hex school, so I can actually cast it on my early stabbers.

I have cleared the Lair 1-6 and do not know what to do now. I think I will go down and clear the whole Lair and then Orc. I actually can feel I can win (everybody needs to have a dream) so I will go for three runes Clear the rest of the Lair and then clear the main dungeon down to the Vaults. If yo...

widrox wrote:By the way. Do you know how to place my character info in the post in that way that it could be seen without downloading? I mean a drop down menu.

Use the Code tag, and then just paste the contents of your morgue file.

Francis wrote:Is it worth learning? How does it compare to Ozocubu's Armor?

Condensation shield is great if you prefer 2-handed weapons (if not, just use a regular shield).

As for comparing with Ozocubu's Armor: Don't compare it. Use both

Just bought:

the ring of Koniag {Wiz +Rage +Inv rPois rN+ Acc+2} for 848g on Dlvl:12

Ah, no wonder I got seared by it on my high elf ascender (he had a beak).

Thanks.

Only way to avoid smites is high magic resist, and/or a boatload of hit points. I'm not sure magic resistance works for smiting, but I do get the occasional 'You resist.' against orc priests.

Silver items don't appear to effect player ghosts. Something I am missing?

My second win. Friend of mine made the character and had me play him. Quaffed 6 potions of mutation in the early game, all of which were beneficial and that carried him until he got turned into a rotting hulk by Orbs of Fire, at which time he was ascending anyway. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0....

I'm sure this has happened to everyone, but I thought the goblin holding a magic staff AND 1-shotting me was worth a post. Image below.

I walked down the stairs to a new level and saw a water moccasin (fleeing). It was severely wounded. I can't find what hit it. How could it wander into a blade trap before the level is generated? If it was wounded when it fell through a shaft, it would be in the same condition when you arrived on t...

Try a Merfolk Crusader

Having this effect at all is redundant. If you can stab something, you can kill it with an actual dagger stab, and killing it is better than confusing it or whatever. It isn't redundant if you're not a stabber by profession and prefer maces and flails (ogre, for example). Besides, dagger stabs don'...

I love the club's stab effect.
Any chance that some other maces and flails can have the same effect (even if they are rare)?

Haste-- gives too much glow for normal use, does too little for emergency use. It gives just enough glow to ensure that you'll only cast it once per fight, rather than spamming it. If you survive that fight for awhile, you can still use it to escape without getting a mutation. After you escape, jus...

joellercoaster wrote:Kirke porkolates one of my summoned imps!

Imps are immune to polymorph, so Kirke really is a cheater and needs to be removed from the game.

Yeah, ettins got beefed up. You can get hit for more like 100 (assuming that each of their weapons tags you). They have around the same hit points though, so just be careful about closing on them unless you have really high shield/AC/evasion.

Go downstairs a different way. Possibly skip the level until you are:
a) more powerful
b) have poison resistance
c) both

More shields. The ac may make you take less damage, but the shield skill will prevent that same damage completely on block.

Lots of nasty stuff can appear in the orc mines (Agnes, Kirke, Saint Roca, Terpischord to name a few). I would never recommend clearing the mines as soon as you find them.

Very nice

Teleport before he starts silencing. Annotate the level and move on. Come back when you think you can take him out.

Doc Brown wrote:I'm wearing the ring of sustenance while stabbing with the ring "Miowkas" {Hunger rF+ rC+ Stlth++}, because I assumed that it would cancel the hunger effect. Wrong assumption on my part?

No, that's right. I missed that tag on the weapon. Good on ya

Disintigration will break the statues. Digging will not work and nothing short of Shatter (level 9 earth spell) can break the stone blocks, as far as I know.

Yeah, you definitely need rElec to fight Nikola. I was surprised to learn that about Chain Lightning as well.

widrox wrote:Hi
My 7th level Deep Dwarf has came recently to the Ecumenical Temple. He has found 5 altars of Lugonu in there. Is it normal in 0.8 or is it a bug?

That is an intentional setup. You can do the same sort of thing to the temple with your the Lugonu 'Corrupt' ability.

FlyingPants wrote:are you sure that ring of sustenance does anything?

The sustenance ring would not provide any effect in that case.

No, I don't think so.

Level 4-6 spells seem to be the best cost per MP in the mid-game. Norris is one of the tougher uniques though, so you're expected to empty your pool on him and/or buff up for some melee. You can very easily benefit from chain-casting 2 MP spells on common monsters though. Tougher uniques tend to hav...

I've seen a setup like that that has a shop past the deep water. In a lot of cases there is a malarious mermaid, a siren or nothing at all though.

I haven't seen descriptive messaging on weapons like this anymore. Perhaps it is not handled now in the same way as it was?

Probably d:2 then. But definitely early. No joke.

hxy wrote:Vehumet altars tend to come with some barriers... I've come across ones with flames on it, guarded by some statue that prompted auto exclusion, surrounded by deep water, etc... Does he not want to get new followers?

He wants his followers to cleverly make use of spellcraft.

Blink scrolls won't work. Distinigrate or fireball works. I'm assuming that fire does as well. MAYBE flame? Casting blink works, I think.

I just had that exact same situation with my Mummy Earth Ele. I got in (way later than I should have) with a fireball wand.

All you need in Crypt is Dispel Undead. Except for the occasional unique, EVERYTHING in there is undead. Crypt 5 is usually guarded by at least 1 ancient lich. For Hall of Blades, just know Mystic Blast or Airstrike and you'll be fine. No runes in there, just tons of experience and maybe a new weapo...

Yea. My spriggans often find artefact gloves, helmets, and boots on Dlvl:1. No joke.

mrbobbyg wrote:1 of them shiny

wht?

Centaurs die a lot.

I'll admit I am a noob, and I've asked before if I have just done skills wrong, but I'm doing Hive *after* Orc3 and Lair8. If there's some glaring errors I'm not catching, lemme know. That's pretty standard. I sometimes find Hive before Lair and will do it first if I have rPois, but nearly all of m...

XuaXua wrote:And mutation cannot affect the digestion of either, right?

I think I've gotten mutations on both Spriggans and Trolls that effect their metabolism. I cannot say that I have proof though.

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