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Why do most people complaining about shafts claim they've started disliking shafts specifically after those were made exploration-based? I mean... I refuse to believe all of you have ACTUALLY been using exclusion carpet lol.

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Immolation is not supposed to be used when surrounded. The perfect setup for immolation is when you're looking into an area full of monsters through a single-tile entrance. This way you'll only get hit by 1, maybe 2 explosions. You can go even further and enslave the closest monster to avoid self-da...

Should be reported as a bug

I hope you realize some of those things were pretty bad and were done by dynast just for fun.

I mean, I explicitly described it as "goofy".

If you're choosing Long Blades with Riposte in mind (Riposte isn't strong enough to make any decisions based on it), then NaFi is probably one of the most anti-synergystic combos in the game - due to 4 base AC -2 EV from barding + lower shield requirements + naturally high strength Nagas are leaning...

Just learn Toxic Radiance and go Spider for a cakewalk rune

A bit late, but this one from the tournament:

Code:: 45650 | Shoals:2 | Identified the cursed -11 large shield "Otzer" {+Blink rCorr} 45650 | Shoals:2 | Noticed Louise

Louise clearly fell for the fancy tile...

You have 13.7 Evocations. If there is a scroll of vulnerability in your game, go pick it up and then just paralyze Mara

Sticks to Snakes is listed twice in "level 2" section with different "best" values. Thanks for hosting the poll, lvl 6 results are truly a mess for both best and worst.

I was in the middle of my Erolcha cosplay run, which my Santa challenged me with, when I got mesmerised by a merfolk avatar who displayed 0% chance on Mesmerize and then I died mere 3 turns later. I'm too sleepy now, would double check this in wizmode tomorrow, because I was very surprised this bug ...

Whoops, sorry if my challenge comes as too hard chequers, but maybe I just expressed myself poorly (English isn't native for me). I didn't really expect you to eventually go all the way to 27 Fighting, rather just as much as you can get before getting bored with the challenge. FYI, on my test run I ...

1) Newbies can learn how to use consumables from a start What exactly do you mean by "from the start" here? You can already get a handful of consumables in like 150-200 turns. Do you want to specifically give new players the opportunity of trying out what their scroll/potion does on turn ...

Ru indicates that your awakening is complete.
You reveal the great annihilating truth to your foes!

ZoFy wrote:Oh, and also, felid is a good race.

Congratz!

The chain mail you used prior would probably still provide the best raw defence among all 3. You can stay with it and keep Trog's Hand up whenever vault sentinels/ancient liches etc. are around, or you can swap to Gehenna plate if only for the sake of convenience. That eveningstar is superb and defi...

Looking good! I've trained Armor to 15, am training Dodge to 15, and am training Evocations to 10. What do I do after those are done? Go back to increasing Armor and Dodge? Turn on Fighting? Shields? I've never really considered what's an appropriate end game build. Yeah, after that you can turn Fig...

My Current Game Plan: Clear Orc Mines. Clear Shoals, get rune. Clear Snake Pit, get rune. Clear to Vault 4. Clear Depths. Clear Vault 5, get rune. Clear Zot, get Orb. Escape That's a reasonable plan, only one small remark: Snake tends to be noticably easier than Shoals on about any character. Havin...

X - amulet "Opimotau" {*Corrode +Blink rF+++ Regen+ Slay+4}

aaand another one

H - +5 hat of Gatyipno {Slay+6 Stlth-}

every minotaur wet dream

I don't think this is a good suggestion. Look, there are fast enemies, who can kill you in a single turn by attacking multiple times. There is random energy, which can make normal-speed monsters act twice, possibly even entering LOS and landing a killing attack at the same turn. And most importantly...

Dagger of training: Acts as a manual. For axes.

Apply the same to all short blades, finally a buff we deserve

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/NeonDemon/morgue-NeonDemon-20180425-092344.txt 3 runes (and not entering other rune branches) + full Zig. Had a lot of spare time at work for the past week and a half. The only problem is when I play from there, CUE takes like 2 seconds to process every button pres...

Based on Shtopit's idea new game mode suggestion: you get max-piety Halo from TSO, mutation immunity from Zin, Ely's protection from harm, Clarity from Ash, water walk from Beogh, +15 to stats (without slow movement) from Chei, max-piety Shadow Mimic from Dith, walking and shooting through plants fr...

How about wrath lasting until you get a rune from a branch you haven't entered before abandoning? Would probably require some sort of exclusion for Jiyva though

Maybe I am not very familiar with Sif, but why do you want 6* piety? Why it matters if it is slow to go from 5* to 6*? You do not get any new ability. 15 out of 21 gods using conventional piety system (not Ru, Gozag, Xom or Uska) already have no 6* abilities. You still want piety after hitting 5* b...

Yeah, after thinking for some time about how this conduct should be properly described, I decided to stick with the classic "no damaging or affecting monsters with anything else". As much as I want to have Para/Poly wands and nets (for example, with no Poly you actually need to dig a perfe...

Oh it just came to my mind that Sanctuary would invoke holy word and very likely hit some ancient liches, which probably breaks the "not dealing damage aside from headbutt" conduct

You must be a masochist :P Maybe I am, love these kind of things. 8 hours playtime may trick someone into thinking the challenge is extremely tedious, but in fact that's only ~1.5 times slower compared to how I often play casually. Plus CUE is laggy for me these days Why did you abandon Chei? Well,...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-293-gc9362ec4a2 (webtiles) character file. 272366 NeonDemon the Slayer (level 19, -4/140 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Gladiator on Mar 22, 2018. Was a Priest of Elyvilon. Slain by a vampiric battleaxe (22 damage) ... on level 2 of the Elven Halls on Mar 24, 2018...

Do you retaliate against any melee attack, regardless of if it was a miss/dodged/shield blocked? I'm giving this a shot and it seems like I'm blocking a decent amount of attacks and not getting many headbutts. Could just be bad luck, though. You don't retaliate against blocked attacks, but do again...

The corrupted version of Temple does generate, but it seems to be pretty rare. I had it in one of my recent Trunk games, so can confirm it's a thing. It featured Jiyva altars and regular altars approximately 50/50

While I like the whole idea of species being innately unable to use some of the game natural features, I don't think this could be realistically done with scrolls without it getting too complicated/hard to balance. While most potions are simply buffs (haste, might, agi, brill, invis, berserk, res, i...

+10 flail of the Endless March {speed, Dex+4}

Maan, if only it had a better base type...

Sure, if you're doing it right as long as you're having fun

Oh, my bad, I never worship any of the good gods and always forget about those stupid restrictments. TSO won't inflict wrath at you though cause he is "good" though and it's not like TOO late to switch at this point... If you really worry about your piety, switching to Uskayaw is a decent ...

Is this a request for me to elaborate or you being mad about me answering "C" when you asked "A or B?" Anyway, I'll do the former. Wyrmbane is out of question for a long time ahead because you've already lost a good chunk of early XP on swapping from m&F to long blades. Zealo...

Neither. What you should really do is go pick up Leech and use it through the whole game

Magipi wrote:If you just want to win a centaur, then I recommend CeBe obviously. For almost every species Be is the most straightforward and user-friendly option, the exceptions are Fe Op DE Sp Fo Mu and Gh, I hope I did not miss any.

FeBe is pretty legit

Out of all three I'd say Sigmund surprisingly was the most manageable considering you had 4 curing potions ready. All you need is a large enough pillar to kite him around when he goes invis or comes in melee range. Also, although it probably didn't have any impact in this case, you shouldn't end up ...

While it may be correct to go with a weapon if you find something very high end (and vampiric is definitely tempting), I always felt like unarmed and transmutations was a clear winner for gnolls. Since the downside of using transmutations is that you have to train roughly 3 skills instead of only 1...

Ok, I find your approach to playing Troll (including Troll^Chei or even specifically TrNe^Chei) rather questionable, so I'm gonna comment/critique on this. I'll cover the flaws I see in order of appearance in your post. As you've probably figured out yourself, fighting a hydra with an untrained morn...

Damn this looks impressive. I've only started becoming interested in turncount speedrunning during this tournament and I see majority of better players doing Gnoll speedruns. While I know the basics about how Chei is ironically well-suited for turncount and how people abuse Passage of Golubria, play...

Whoops, my bad. Advice on the jewellery is still valid though

Any reason you're not using these 16619 | Lab | Identified the +10 broad axe of Mefell {drain, rF+ Int-4 Dex+3} (You took it off a minotaur in a labyrinth) 78182 | Trove | Identified the amulet "Taogrohu" {Reflect Dex+5 SH+3} (You found it in a treasure trove) 101253 | Vaults:5 | Identifie...

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