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Congrats, Damerell. I saw your post on Reddit and meant to reply, but I forgot.

I also killed Mennas and a bunch of OOFs and ancient liches with AZ in that game.
I was so satisfying getting Mennas. He'd almost killed me earlier and I spent quite a while avoiding him.

I one-shotted him with Absolute Zero during the tourney. 102889 | Slime:5 | Noticed the Royal Jelly 102891 | Slime:5 | Killed the Royal Jelly (Don't know why it took 2 turns. Maybe I took an extra step or something.) That left my squishy caster with a bunch of jellies to deal with. I hadn't consider...

I think I found a weird bug. In the Exploration category, I seem to have Wizlab missing, even though I did visit a Wizlab with one of my characters. You also visited: Ossuary, Ice Cave and Wizlab. https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/magipi/morgue-magipi-20200620-155323.txt I think it's because yo...

Or there is "Exploration". The definition is pretty ambiguos: players earn 3 points per distinct rune of Zot collected and 1 point each for distinct branch entry and end floor reached. What does this exactly mean? Do Zig:1 and Zig:27 count? Do Abyss:1 and Abyss:5 count? Do the various tim...

If you're going to dive Zot, don't magic map the levels because if you use auto-travel on the way back up it will take you through the unexplored areas. That very nearly got me killed.

I completely agree with Svendre. This mechanic leads to tedious play to try to work around it. Let's ditch it.

duvessa wrote:Please keep nerfing good stuff

You would say that. You and that brother of yours are a menace to innocent dungeon crawlers. All we want to do is come in and slaughter your friends with Lightning Spire and Borgnjor's Vile Clutch. Is that too much to ask?

Recently, several useful spells/items have been nerfed (or removed entirely) because apparently they're OP. That might be true for elite players, but for the other 90% of us this game is already hard enough. We need these little glimmers of hope in a world full of torment and confusion. Please stop....

When you win the game, what you get is pretty much the same as what you get when you lose, just with slightly different text. It feels a bit anti-climactic. I think it'd be nice if instead you got a special screen, visually distinct from the "lose screen", as a reward for winning. It shoul...

39. You can't wear a scarf and a cloak at the same time
40. Merfolk can swim in full plate armour, but humans can't swim at all, even completely naked.
41. Pythagoras has no power here.

I feel your pain. Dying on Zot:5 sucks. The only thing worse is dying on the orb run.

I've played Yred a few times before, but never even got as far as Lair. However, this time, I managed to get the win somehow: https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/MrDizzy/morgue-MrDizzy-20200408-125911.txt Yred is a lot of fun. I felt like the Night King, raising my fallen enemies to join my army. In...

133199 | D:1 | Noticed Istruok the pandemonium lord 133202 | D:1 | Dived for the entrance in slo-mo while clutching the Orb in one hand and flipping Istruok the bird with the other! 133203 | D:$ | Escaped with the Orb! (One of those lines may be a slight embellishment) The funny thing is, a very si...

If you've been unwittingly fighting unarmed, that would explain why you feel underpowered.

Also, use those identify scrolls on your potions, for Xom's sake.

Congrats! I'm impressed you were able to get the abyssal rune on your first win. Abyss is very challenging.

So, I rebooted this character... and died clearing Zot:5, which was the last thing I was going to do before starting extended. FML! https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/MrDizzy/morgue-MrDizzy-20200123-003335.txt I'm starting to see why The MeInTeam saved Zot for last in his game above. It was kind of...

Aaaaarrgh! Got 5 runes, but splatted in Zot because I stupidly went into a transporter vault... twice! (I escaped once and then went back for more). There wasn't even any good treasure in there. So stupid! I had heaps of consumables to use, but by the time I realised I was in trouble, I couldn't use...

This little guy has been an absolute champion: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.25-a0-424-g80bd347 (webtiles) character file. MrDizzy the Executioner (Hill Orc Berserker) Turns: 43836, Time: 03:34:35 Health: 254/254 AC: 41 Str: 30 XL: 24 Next: 13% Magic: 32/32 EV: 16 Int: 7 God: Trog [*****.] Gold...

Congratulations on a clean sweep!

Interesting that you did the hells before Pan. Based on what I've read online, I think most people do it the other way round.

Yes, except for the ones with red hair.

9. It's underground. There's no sunlight, but there are green plants, and even fully-grown trees. 10. Only monsters standing right next to you follow you up/down stairs. The monsters standing 2 tiles away presumably didn't notice you and all the monsters next to you going up the stairs and think you...

I agree they are very, very good, but I don't think they're new.

I finally did it. That was a looong game: 17 hours and 202k turns Picked up a tame orb of fire on Zot:5 via Bribe Branch. Unfortunately, he couldn't follow me out of Zot (which was unexpected), so I had to do the rest of the orb run on my lonesome. Not only is this my first win with Gozag, but also ...

There is a strong advantage if your preferred methods of destruction have a smaller range. Your spell library already has Iron shot, and between your Servitor and PC and Spire combined you can lay down an impressive amount of damage in very little time. I was somewhat doubtful about your advice to ...

For now, swap the ring in when you need rF+. More stuff will drop before Zot. You were right. I picked up this amulet with rElec, which means I don't need to get rElec from a ring anymore: the amulet "Bapnioschituo" (around neck) {Acrobat rElec rN+ Str+7} (You bought it in a shop on level...

Previously you had b - +8 rapier "Tacyces" {pierce, rF+ Dex+4} . Maybe just swap to that when you need rF ? I wield it all the time, but that only gets me to zero rF because I start with one pip of fire vulnerability (rF-) as a mummy. I do, however, have a scarf of resistance and a ring o...

Two runes in the bag now (serpentine and barnacled). What's a good time to use the Bribe Branch ability? Edit: Just found this hat: K - the +2 hat "Atipex" {*Slow rF+++ Str+4} (You found it on level 1 of the Vaults) It affects your strength (+4). It renders you almost immune to fire. It ma...

Those are pretty good resistances :) I'd prefer more rF instead of rC. Azrael almost did to me what the Mad King did to Rickard Stark. I switched down to a leather armour with rF and was able to defeat him on the 2nd attempt (it also helped that he stood in a place where I could double-zap him). I ...

Orc was quite challenging: Nergalle, Jorgrun and Saint Roka all showed up. It took several attempts to kill St Roka. So many times, I'd get to a point where he'd be almost dead, but so would I, and also out of MP, so I was forced to retreat. Elf has a lot more spiky damage than the S branches, espec...

Weird, I must've been looking at some other log (the one I looked at had was only at D:10 and orc was unfound/unexplored) You were probably looking at my in-progress game. I've just finished Lair, but it's my plan to clear Dungeon and Orc before doing the S-branches (I always do). And actually, I'm...

I wonder why you didn't get some more stealth. - Level 2.2 Stealth I usually don't bother with stealth unless I'm playing a stabber. I could see how it would've been useful in this case, though. How much is a good amount? Usually ?fear, but with what you had on hand, probably fan of gales (since yo...

I'm still on my quest to get a Gozag win. On my 2nd attempt with a MuFE, I killed Lerny and got the Swamp rune, but died in Snake. Came downstairs and got constricted straight away and couldn't escape, and had 3 snakes attacking me. https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/MrDizzy/morgue-MrDizzy-20191223...

Damn. Got confused by a tarantella and died.

I'm currently running a Mummy Fire Elementalist. My main motivation for this character was to try to get a win with Gozag. Mummy just seemed a good fit because it doesn't need corpses for food. I got lucky and found Gozag on D:2, and let me tell you, Potion Petition has saved my dry, shrivelled arse...

How do I tell how many games I have won? I genuinely have no idea. I think I have a couple of 15 runes (I remember a DEFE and a GrFi back when gargoyles were stupid strong) and probably single digits of single rune wins, but I honestly can't remember. I'd like to know though! Any standard games* pl...

It is a significant milestone, and congratulations on reaching it so quickly! :) Thanks, but I'm not sure it was really quick. It's been 2 years since I started playing this game. Is that quick? Is doesn't feel quick. Then again, I've been playing Nethack since the early 90s and never ascended, so ...

Nice! Congratulations.

Just won with a Demonspawn Abyssal Knight: https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/MrDizzy/morgue-MrDizzy-20191213-141954.txt This is my 10th win. I feel like that's some kind of milestone that marks my graduation from a state of noobery to just general incompetence. Most of my wins have been melee brut...

How do you pick stat upgrades on a hybrid, by which I mean, a lightly-armoured melee fighter with support spells? I've been playing a lot of that kind of character lately (specifically warpers, but I don't want to restrict the question to just that background). At first, I was putting most of my upg...

duvessa wrote:Can you tell me where you read this, so that I can use my +9 rapier of distortion on the people responsible

It's funny. I've been searching for the reference, but I can't find it. Maybe I dreamt it.

Alright. In for a penny, in for an eye.

duvessa wrote:yes

OK.Why?

With Ru, going from 5-star to 6-star piety doesn't give you new abilities, but it does strengthen your existing abilities. So, is it worthwhile? For reference, my character is at 5-star piety and has been offered Words, Eye and Skill sacrifices. None of them would get me to 6-star piety, so I would ...

Forget GDR, check total AC+EV and if the difference is small, consider resistances and other properties (slay+, stats etc.). I've heard the AC+EV rule in the past also. The argument for optimizing GDR generally seems to be that you avoid large damage spikes that way. I'm not sure what the argument(...

Some time ago, I read somewhere (maybe here) that on a melee dude the most import factor for choosing body armour is GDR, and that enchantments, egos, etc. should only be considered as a bonus on top. I've been following that advice and it's worked out well so far. However, in my current game (HuFi^...

Congrats! A tip: reading a second teleport scroll will cancel the first pending teleport. Thanks for both the congrats and the tip! I forgot to mention that I made a very bad mistake with TRJ that almost killed me also. I lignified myself, tormented TRJ 2 or 3 times, and then realized I didn't have...

Well, I did it. My first 5-run win!!!! I very nearly died on D:1 on the way out though. A pan lord appeared, so I automatically read a teleport scroll. Only then did I realize that I was actually only about 10 steps away from the exit. Unfortunately, I had no potions of cancellation and of course th...

So, my DDFi^Makhleb is currently standing in the orb chamber. I could grab the orb and go, but I've won with this combo before, so I'm going to try for my first 5 rune win. I got the silver rune as my third. I'm pretty confident of getting the slimy rune because I've done it before. However, abyss s...

Out of curiosity, are you actually interested in playing faster? If so, why? Yes. Pretty much for the reasons that TheMelnTeam listed. Reduce tedium. Try more combos. if players don't *need* to spend 10 hours, there must be something going on in games during those 10 hours that is not strictly part...

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