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Snake Pit - No treasure vault.
Slime Pits - Has 4 treasure vaults on the bottom level. One of them has the rune.
Shoals - Has more loot in general than the Snake Pit and Swamp.
Swamp - Not much loot in general, which is part of the reason why most people dive for the rune.

Try a SpEn of Nemelex. Only sacrifice corpses for decks of summoning. The sheer cheesiness of that combo should get you an easy win. Mid-game: Explore the dungeon, until it feels too difficult. Then, explore the easier branches, except the bottom levels.

The ancient champions' vault, all the wizlabs (except for Iskenderun's Mystic Tower), and the small vault with the controlled teleport square leading to a treasure room.

0.8 feels slightly easier, but it's significantly more fun than 0.7 imo.

Air miscast, Fedhas ability. Also a card from the Deck of Dungeons (forget what it's called). water card creates water tiles (deep water too) instantly around u but no rain clouds :) I tried that method before. I used 2-3 high power Water cards, but the Royal Jelly didn't drown. It'd be easier to j...

Although, going from sling to arrow, you give up steel and silver branded ammo, don't you? Yeah. Does SpHu start with a bow? Also, are there arrows of penetration? I have never actually seen this brand in game. SpHu starts with a bow. I don't think I've ever seen the penetration brand on anything o...

Without any fighting skill the endgame becomes terrifying, since every attack can instantly kill you. I managed to ascend a DEWz without training fighting or dodging, but it was quite nerve-racking.

I never got anything useful from a volcano.

You used to be immune to miasma with max life protection. Now, you need rotting resistance.

I won with an OgWn once and nearly won with an ogre online on my 1st try (1st Zot:5 death as well

). I think ogres are fun, because they're an interesting challenge.

I find the progression of Chei's two main abilities really nice - Slouch is cool when you get it and useful for a fair while, then it sort of degrades in usefulness just around the time that Step From Time becomes a) reliable and b) important. I still think Bend Time could do with changing somehow ...

Players tend to only remember the worst things that happen to them or exaggerate. IIRC banishment only happens 10% of the time. I once had to unwield a distortion weapon several times in a row for it to banish me in Pan.

1. Monsters respawn slowly. Lingering too long on a level causes tougher monsters to spawn, until monsters eventually stop spawning.
3. Yes, check your saves folder.
4. Latest stable release - http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads and Development Builds - https://crawl.develz.org/trunk/

It's been awhile, since I won with Lugonu. I used Corruption in branch ends to make it easier to steal a rune. A distortion weapon was useful for getting monsters out of my way. And I used blink for victory dancing.

Does anyone use darts in the endgame? No. I use darts all the time. What else is a kobold berserker going to use to soften up big things and more importantly cut down those annoying slime creatures that keep running away. A big stack of highly enchanted steel darts is a must have. The only darts wo...

I am a Demonspawn Wanderer of Kiku doing Necro/Melee. There is a Jiyva altar on L8 at the entrance to slime. Is the easy rune and loot worth a god switch? How bad is Kiku's wrath? Which god is better for an extended game? - Switching to Jiyva lets you walk into the Slime Pits and get a free rune. D...

- Ashenzari's wrath isn't too severe, but it lasts the entire game. Monsters' A.I is improved - better tracking, never forgets you, and more likely to find you while invisible. - Stick to Ash, unless his exp boost was already nerfed. Otherwise, Okawaru is a good choice. - Train spellcasting. Learn s...

I like ogres the way they are.

@Chilly - I would just stick with Lugonu at this point. - rF++ and rElec are the most important resistances. - Get rid of Condensation Shield (sucks), Dig (unnecessary), and Ozocubu's Refrigeration (you can't cast it well). To be honest, I don't understand why you're focusing on stabbing as a transm...

Weapons = decks of destruction
Armor = decks of escape

I don't Nemelex gives decks of war or defence as gifts.

szanth wrote:I like Nemelex, but I don't like relying on summons. The half exp really bothers me. So Trolls are still a good idea, considering they can eat essentially everything and never have to touch a lick of permafood.

Even if the summons are ridiculously powerful and can beat most of the game for you. ;P

You can never have enough evasion. Ever! Also, seeing this and the FeBe thread, it makes me wonder - the two characters can more or less do the same thing - berserk, regenerate and summon powerful allies. But i've been wondering - which one would people recommend? Trog's brothers in arms or Makhleb...

Yeah, dying as a pig is one of the funniest deaths to have. Fixed. :P I wonder which one has a lesser MR; I would assume Duvessa, since she's less a magic-user. Though it would really depend on if her berserk goes off when she kills him. I kill Duvessa first, always, because I want to avoid her ber...

Let's Plays seem to be popular, so here's a list of (completed) Dungeon Crawl LPs. Screenshot LPs * LP on the GiantitP forums (3-rune run/funny) - The epic tale of Meepo. * LP on the Bay12 forums (15-rune run/informative) * LP on the touhou forum (15-rune run) - v0.6 with touhou sprites and all mon...

You're not supposed to be able to kill everything, let alone kill everything easily. If you find a monster that's likely to kill you, don't try to fight it; escape and come back later when you're powerful enough. Also, be careful with skill management. Dodging and Stealth on a troll will eat up a t...

Lol, ok: I already know it, I only say that for a beginner, a Monk, it's easy cause it doesn't take problem on armor/weapon choose: you don't have to use them! No armor (only robes) and no weapons, simple and easy for a beginner. A felid berserker is as simple as you can get. No armor, weapons, wan...

Why am I always auto-picking-up needles of curare? Because curare is so dangerous that you want to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Keep them and drop them in the temple or chuck them in lava. I do this with distortion weapons and any other particularly hazardous item that could be used ag...

1) Flight, Phase Shift, and Mystic Blast are good spells to learn.
2) Staff of fire.
3) You can add the ponderousness brand to all armor, except artifacts.
4) Train invocations, so you can use Chei's abilities reliably.

Earth elementalists are much easier now. I won a MDEE on my 2nd try. I regretted my god choice (Chei), but other than that, it was a good combo.

I haven't won with an unusual combo in Sprint. I think someone won with a mummy in Red Sonja, but I'm not sure. There's a small practice LP of Sprint here (OgCK of Makhleb):

http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/sh ... tcount=106

You can meet them on D:3, but not on D:1&2.

Ogres pretty much flat out suck at everything. The high hunger makes them iffy spellcasters and the inability to get good armor OR dodge makes them crappy fighters. Thes best compromise I can think of would be giving the current ogre build gourmand, which would still leave them as a "challenge...

When I went downstairs an altar of Lugonu appeared out of nowhere with a manual of spellcasting. Apparently, Lugonu was trying to tempt my Trog worshiper to switch. Too bad my dwarf was killed shortly afterwards by a wand of paralysis.

Worship Okawaru or Trog for ammo gifts. Save up your plain (+0) and steel bolts for enchanting later.

Statue form is pretty awesome with haste, swiftness, and flight (along with other buffs). It's definitely more powerful than blade hands. My statue form-user cleared Zot:5 without taking much damage, since everything died in 2 hits (without any slaying or strength boosts).

This a great writeup on the subject. Quite helpful but I over in the SA crawl megathread we have seen several powerful Sludge Elf EE's using the staff of earth to kill everything. That character needs to grind up earth magic, evocation, and staves to get that damage output. These three skills don't...

Why blade hands as opposed to a more strength-oriented transformation? Laziness. :P Blade Hands is powerful enough to kill Cerebov pretty quickly (I don't fight Antaeus at close range). And I start off with it, so I just use it. Statue form is ridiculously powerful, but I couldn't be bothered to gr...

Mahkleb is the most useful god for a DDNe. You get free healing and can summon powerful demons. Kiku gives necromancy books and a pain-branded broad axe is extremely powerful in a 3-rune game. Or you can get the Necromonicon and learn Haunt.

For a 15-rune game with a transmuter I usually stay in lich form, unless I'm fighting a demon lord or any monster with dispel. Then, I'd switch to blade hands.

The lantern also shrinks your LOS. I don't use it often. It's useful for surviving in the Abyss. I once used it in Zot:5, but I prefer fog scrolls.

Chei is useful for casting in heavy armor and spamming slouch. I played it because it's a weird combo. I thought to myself, "Deep dwarves don't heal and Chei makes you slow.. sounds like fun!"

Fast and sneaky. I just dive down to Zot:5 and teleport randomly, until I land near the Orb. Then, I kill the guardians in my way and grab the Orb. I sometimes do it the slow way (kill everything), but I think it's boring.

(Fe/MD/Mi)Be, MiGl, and HEWz. CeBe is also surprisingly easy. Pretty much any combo that can survive D:1&2 with no problems has a high chance of winning if played well.

Deep dwarf necromancers should have their own thread! It's one of the easiest combos in the game. Great for players new to the game. DDNe is my 2nd favorite combo behind SETm. I won with them a few times and wrote a (very short) guide awhile ago. I like to worship Makhleb and Chei. Apparently, a DDN...

njvack wrote:I was under the impression that Mislead is purely cosmetic.

It is.

I've used most 9th level spells, except Ice Storm. Level 9 spells are very useful for 15-rune games and clearing ziggurats. The storm spells are overpowered, especially if you have a method of fast channeling. Shatter is nice outside of a ziggurat. Unfortunately, the most powerful enemies in the gam...

The crypt, elf:1-4, and vestibule should be doable. Phase Shift and Extension don't go well together. Use phase shift in combat. I've used Passage of Golubria before... its uses are pretty narrow. Simulacrum is very nice if you have abundant corpses. Alistair's Intoxication is useful against orb gua...

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