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The dagger did most of the work (>80 % I think), thanks to Dissolution being netted. Edit: : Here's the complete kill-log: _A profound silence engulfs you. You climb downwards. Level annotation: Dissolution _Dissolution quivers. There is a stone staircase leading up here. The helpless azure jelly fa...

Well that was fun! :mrgreen: I first got the dagger of freezing, the sack of spiders and the box of beasts, as suggested. I then followed my original plan: quaffed haste, conjured flames around the stairs down, cast Silence, and went down. Dissolution woke up from this, but not the poor azure jelly:...

That sounds like fun. :) I do have an assortment of daggers to choose from. Among others: a +3 dagger of speed a +5 dagger a +2 dagger of draining a +2 dagger of freezing Any of those that stands out as particularly good? I haven't really used stabbing before... Does speed do anything for a single s...

This met me in Slime Pits:4: GnWz-Dissolution.png That's Dissolution strategically placed inbetween the three stairs. Here's my character dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22.1-1-ga44c0e56f4 (webtiles) character file. bitnick the Omniscient (Gnoll Wizard) Turns: 104582, Time: 1 , 16:47:17 Hea...

Hehe, I didn't know this was such a hot topic. :) Anyway, interesting to hear everyone's opinion, as usual! I might have to give these spells a second chance. nago suggested tanking for the zombies, but isn't that mutually exclusive to using them to slow down enemies? And if I don't tank for them, t...

Being a Gnoll, I've had around 11 skill in throwing while playing Spider. Thanks for bringing that up, since it's of course essential information.

I've been trying out Animate dead a bit. Those Zombies/Skeletons are awfully weak, aren't they? They haven't really been helpful. The Imps seem to be much more useful, if only because you can create a new one as soon as one dies. But perhaps I'm a bit too far into the game now for either to be reall...

Hehe, I just took a +2 scale mail of poison resistance and a +3 broad axe of venom from a skeletal warrior on D:11. :) (I wonder where he came from? I thought I had cleared that level...) Actually, compared to my +4 ring mail the above scale mail gives me {AC-1, EV-3, Stealth-1, +rPois}, so I'll jus...

I have two remove curse scrolls and am thinking of using them to switch out one of my rings (a +4 ring of dexterity). Available choices are: * +2 ring of protection {AC+2} * +5 ring of slaying Which would you choose, and why? Or should I save my scrolls? Also, this is my first character that casts s...

Thanks, I don't know how I missed that table. I guess then that the bound levels listed there affects both the piety gained and the skill boost level at 2 or more piety.

I'm playing a game as GnWz^Ashenzari. If I understand correctly, the way to get piety with Ashenzari is to explore wearing cursed equipment. The Wiki says " You have four equipment categories: armour, weapon, shield and jewellery. A category is considered "partially bound" if more tha...

Thank you! Yep, it was my first win.

Wohoo, I escaped with the Orb! Using the X + [ and ] trick on the stairs, checking the route maybe three floors ahead, made the Orb run a piece of cake, really. Thanks! Now to decide what to play as next. Some kind of spell caster, probably. Felid and Octopode seems interesting, too, but I think I w...

I'm standing next to the Orb of Zot! :D The thing that's come closest to killing me so far in Zot was a Storm dragon (together with a bunch of Draconians, but I think it was the Storm dragon that really hurt). An Electric golem hurt me real bad too, despite me having rElec! I kill the Moths on sight...

I guess there are many ways to "skin a lich" - which is what makes this game interesting! :D I haven't been bothered by the lack of rPois so far, but cold attacks hurt more than I'm comfortable with sometimes. I'm playing a pure melee character, so Wiz is not useful (all spells are 99-100 ...

Heh, so this is a bit embarrassing. I was watching Ultraviolent4's playthrough of Zot as an HOFi and he says that he wants to find a cloak of magic resistance, and I went "Why would you want a cloak, you couldn't possibly want to replace your +12 gold dragon armour with that!!" I mean, isn...

Wow, lots of interesting advice there! Thanks svendre! ... and of course I should have told you that I'm a newbie and aiming for a three rune game. Gotta start somewhere! :) But I will get back to the rune four and rune five advice in a later game, no doubt. Anyway, emboldened by the advice I went f...

Character dump . I haven't had much time to play lately, but now I've cleared all of Depths. I've still found only two MR+ items in the entire game, one of which is a +0 scale mail so not of much use. So what now? I'm really hesitant to do Vaults 5 with only two pips of MR. What about the Ziggurat?...

Even if the gloves don't make much of a difference, the reminder of the existence of thrown weapons were welcome - I've missed having a ranged weapon since I picked up the vampiric broadaxe. I found a few javelins of penetrations lying around so I picked them up; they will be interesting to try out....

Yeah, but it's complicated a bit by my vampiric broad axe which costs food (about 2 rations I think?) each time I equip it. I haven't found any other branded or enchanted broad axes unfortunately. And no brand weapon scrolls.

Sprucery wrote:I would acquire armour as well.

I got a pair of +1 "Archery" gloves (+4 Slay for ranged weapons). Oh well, it was a nice try.

Sure, here is the dump.

How much evo do I need to make the phial and sacks useful in Depths? I know I tried a sack of spider earlier in the game and it didn't really do much, I think I got two spiders who died pretty much instantly. But that was probably at 0 evo...

Not a single MR+ item in all of Elven halls... :( I did find some nice things: * the +9 fustibalus of Saduypuc {flame, rF++}. (I have 8.2 sling skill - too bad the vampiric broad axe costs food to equip!) * a scroll of aquirement (What should I wish for? It favours unrecognised items, right? So I do...

It seems the staircase I first used to get to Elf:3 was right at the mouth to the end vault, which explains why things got a bit out of hand, I guess. :roll: For my second go at it I used another staircase and read a scroll of magic mapping to get my bearings: HOFi-Elf3-magic-mapping.png After that ...

Ha, I survived! :D I dug out of the room with the wand and was met by an angry buzzing of wasps and other flying things. Also a wretched star. Went back into the room which made a convenient "kill hole", and after killing a few of the wasps and the star an exit materialised! I'm still &quo...

So I went for Elven Halls. Floor 1 & 2 went fine (I skipped the dancing weapons fight). Went to level 3 and was banished to the Abyss before I had taken more than a step from the stairs (he had a 17 % chance to succeed). :roll: I'm still alive at the moment, albeit severely drained (seems to be ...

With MR+++ I would feel somewhat comfortable with both Elf and Vaults:5. After looking at Ultraviolent4's Beogh guide Vaults:5 doesn't look impossible (stairdance enemies up to your waiting pack of orcs, smiting any vault wardens that might lock the stairs) - the big problem there is getting paralys...

You know you can just walk or teleport away from monsters instead of fighting them. Yes, I know. - I could have walked away, but then I think all three orcs would have died (I'm not sure how fast an ancient lich is, but I doubt there would have been time for the multiple "retreat" calls n...

Phew, I survived, and the lich and its band are all dead. But it cost me: a potion of haste, a potion of might, my last two potions of heal wounds, a pip of piety (six smites!), and an orc warrior. Except the lich there were, among other things, a titan and an ettin (all three "sheltered from i...

@VeryAngryFelid: Great link, thanks! I think the highlights are these: ⋅ [A]t very low skill levels, the value of base damage and enchantment is approximately the same, but for skilled characters base damage is much more important than enchantment. ⋅ Weapon brands that use multip...

Lots of ways to handle an ancient lich apparently, which is nice. :) Thank you for your ideas and clarifications! I will update you once I have had a chance to fight it. Regarding my weapons: there seems to be a consensus that a +3 vampiric broad axe is (much) better than a +3 war axe of freezing. I...

I also realised while reading another thread here that Silence would probably kill my ability to smite as well?

And a more general question: would it be a good idea to exchange my +3 war axe of freezing for a +1 vampiric broad axe (and maybe spend my two enchant weapon scrolls to get it to +3)?

Thanks, I didn't realise those spells require LOF! That makes things so much easier. I'd rather risk an orc or two than myself, I guess. ;) Unfortunately I don't have any scrolls of Silence; I do have throwing nets though. But I think that ancient lich is already "too close for my liking"....

So I just ran into my first ancient lich (ever - I've never gotten this far before), on Vaults:4. It's got a 27 % chance to banish or paralyze me. I can smite it to death but I guess that'll take about 3 turns. Maybe use two turns to back around the corner, recall a few more orcish warlords (to hand...

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