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Oh hey, that's my bar graph! Regarding the discussion on black draconians, I should point out that my data doesn't give very strong evidence for them actually being the weakest colour. I did a separate long-winded post just on the statistical significance of the differences between draconian colours...

slowcar wrote:ancient liches are quite common in vault 8. maybe you triggered the timer in vault 7. if you assault vault 8 you should better be able to defeat liches, ancient or not.

What do you mean by the "timer"?

It's worth noting that you can't alt-tab out of fullscreen in Linux, and this is acknowledged as a bug. I personally find it quite annoying, and it's the reason why I boot into Windows to play Crawl. (I actually don't know if this is still a problem in the current release, but it was when I tried a ...

This is what learndb says about needlestab: Step 1) Worship Trog. Step 2) Get 27 Throwing. Step 3) Needles of Paralysis/Sleeping/Confusion, in order of preference. Step 4) Fire at Cerebov. Step 5) Kill anything (including Orbs of Fire, Ancient Liches, and the aformentioned Cerebov with impunity!). S...

Darts of distortion? Is that an actual thing? The closest I've ever seen are darts of dispersal.

I do think XL18 is probably a little early to take on the bottom of Elf, at least for a MdBe. If you were a caster with poison cloud and alistair's intoxication, I'd say go for it, but for a berserker it's worth waiting till you're stronger. I notice you hadn't cleared Snake, which I would say is ea...

What's shatter's range? In-game it's listed as "N/A". Is it equivalent to LoS?

akira: The behaviour you describe for summoners is called "killstealing". It does not apply anymore. Now we track who does damage to some monster. So if you bone dragon nearly kills the titan and you rush to get the final blow, you'll 50%, not 100%. On the other hand, if you almost single...

I think basically the way it works is every time you hit an enemy with a melee attack, you have a chance of training fighting. If you're killing enemies in one or two hits, you're not getting very many chances to spend your XP. Your best bet is to only stab threatening monsters. For easy monsters, j...

You can enchant your whip up to +9 with enchant I, II, and III scrolls, it'll probably just take a few tries. The more highly enchanted your weapon gets, the more likely it is that scrolls will fail.

Did you read the article on shields in the wiki? I think the first section has the answers you seek.

I'm not sure about the racial effects. The wiki says that elven body armour impedes spellcasting less, but doesn't mention elven shields.

Wow, that got quite thrilling at the end. Down to 4 hp on the orb run with (if I counted correctly) no lives left! Good thing you weren't playing trunk with the new and improved orb run.

The fact that this happened while you were worshipping Zin makes this all the more hilarious.

(But seriously, why didn't you pray the hunger away? Was it actually on cooldown?)

Wow, congrats! HuWn is a really cool combination to get your first win with. Humans' lack of specialization means they're often treated as a sort of "challenge species", and Wanderer even more so. I'll try to answer your questions, but with the disclaimer that I've only won a handful of ga...

I found the answer to my question digging through the commit log for godprayer.cc. Messages used to reflect actual piety gain until a patch from Kilobyte about a year ago: commit b69cef0dc5e8357407ed4378bd742ac448683286 Author: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Date: Wed Jul 7 14:21:02 2010 +0200 ...

Well gain_piety is also random (as long as the numerator isn't a multiple of the denominator). I don't know what values gain can reasonably be expected to range over, but let's say it's 350 in this case. Then gain_piety(gain, 700) will be equally likely to increase the player's piety by 1 or leave i...

It seems like the general heuristic for choosing a weapon is that base damage is most important, +damage is less important, and +hit is least important. This is one thing I wish my newbie crawl-playing self had known. If I found some +7+8 randart handaxe back then, I would have thought it was a weap...

This is a tiny thing, but when you go to drop items using d, you can see at the top "Press _ for help". When you press _, it opens the chat window. Is there some way around this? I don't know if this is the only place in the game where _ is used.

Do you mean you're not sure whether or not the code is behaving as I described or you're not sure whether or not the behaviour is intentional? If it's the former, I can point you to where specifically in the code this is happening (or seems to be happening). For example, line 578 in godprayer.cc: ga...

Galehar: 0.8 Daydreamer: I'm playing a Hill Orc. I'm also wearing a +hunger randart crown, so my metabolism is a bit above normal. I basically agree that the slimes eating items wasn't crippling. It can definitely be very hurtful though. Out of the elf:5 loot vault I got one amulet and a book. There...

I'm playing Jiyva for the first time right now, and it's not at all what I expected. What I was most excited about was getting a really good set of mutations, but my mutations have been, on average, pretty mediocre. In fact, I think they're worse than what I had before I joined her. It's not a probl...

Ah, okay, I think I get it now. So rotten chunks get a value of 1 and fresh chunks get a value of 4 because they reach the assignment on line 1657 along with Chokos, Lychees, etc.? I sometimes get mixed up with the falling-through behaviour in switch statements, since my first language is Python. If...

I've been looking at the code in godprayer.cc and noticed something strange. If you sacrifice a corpse/item to a god like Nemelex or Jiyva, and that item has, say, a 50% chance of giving 1 piety, then the game: - flips a coin to decide whether or not you get the piety - flips another coin to set rel...

To my surprise, my Deep Dwarf EE has sprouted a pair of antennae on her head. According to the wiki, this is a demonspawn only mutation. I've also done a bit of searching of morgue files, and I can only find this mutation on demonspawn. Is this a bug? I picked it up from drinking a potion of mutatio...

and Vehumet is less than ideal once you've gotten your book from him. I disagree. I think the books are far from the most useful thing about Vehumet. Extending spells' range and restoring MP on kills are truly awesome passive effects. Increasing offensive spells' success rate is wonderful if you're...

While I do like the idea of blessing a demon whip, I've already put so many points into axes. Ever since I learned that skill cost increases with total number of skill points, I've become really averse to wasted skills. I sort of want to brave out axes, even if it means being sub-optimal. I'm thinki...

Worshipping Okawaru, wielding axes with a bit of spell support (mostly berserker rage, but also flight, swiftness, and repel missiles - hope to possibly get silence and deflect missiles castable at some point). I've cleared lair, snake pit, dungeon up to 20, and possibly orc (I can't remember! I've ...

Something I cannot find anywhere: what do skeletons count towards when sacrificed? I assume summonings. This is correct. If you want to build your piety (and decrease your timeout by a miniscule amount) without giving too much weight to summonings, you can kind of juke the system by butchering ever...

How do timed portals work? Does the timer start when you enter the appropriate level (even for portals that aren't announced like labyrinth)? Or do they begin when you see the portal? Or do they start counting down from turn 1? And does the clock keep ticking no matter what, or is it only when you'r...

Galefury wrote:This is also related to the way I rationalize weapons, even twohanded ones, not having a casting penalty..

According to the wiki, weapons do have a casting penalty. Apparently, spell success is reduced in proportion to weapon speed for weapons slower than 120%.

Don't wands already exist to do just this? Doesn't seem like it fills any new niche.

Using a particular deck, and perhaps being gifted it too, will cause that deck type to have less weight when Nemelex decides to throw you a new deck. For example, if you don't want him to keep spamming you with Decks of Destruction, use em up as soon as you get em. Is this still the case? Was it ev...

I was actually doing quite a bit of meleeing, though that was partly because I wanted to get my fighting maxed. I debated using a staff of air, but I had cruddy staves and evo skills, and slashing with my cutlass during tornado was very effective (and melee alone could take out most threats, even up...

Still pretty torn up about this. Lost her 10 days ago and still too bitter to get back into the game :[ Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. 866575 Sissy the Archmage (level 27, -11/220 (225) HPs) Began as a High Elf Wizard on July 5, 2011. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Killed from ...

I hate to be a pain but most all of that spreadsheet is a waste as most all of it is already handled internally in Crawl[...] I think your approach is definitely the right idea, and I don't think it counts as being a pain at all: Grimm said in the original post, in reference to the process of enter...

I'm not Snow, but I'd guess he/she is referring to torment, smiting, and hellfire. In my somewhat limited experience with post-endgame, these have definitely been the biggest threats to me.

Regular mutagenic chunks definitely give the same chance as mutation potions (but are better for the player, since you can eat one at a time). I heard ages ago that rotting mutagenic chunks are more likely to give bad mutations, no idea if that's still true. I was curious about this too, so I check...

You can easily chain-cast it though. Yeah, you have to deal with single interstitial turns where the enemy can act, but that's far better than having to deal with what could be an arbitrarily large number of turns waiting for confuse, or mephitic, or hibernation to get past the enemy's MR. I use it ...

At some point you're going to have to decide what your main way of killing things is going to be - melee or spells. Once you get a staff of air, for example, you can cast all the lightning around you want because of the inherit rElec it has, plus the spell boost it gives on top of Vehumet will make...

I'm playing a HeWz of Vehumet, currently XL 20 and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the huge number of spellbooks I have on hand. I'm basically playing as an Air Elementalist (16 conj 14 air), working on getting my air high enough to cast Tornado. Right now I have three bread and butter destructive spel...

Maybe this is a well-known fact, but Alistair's Intoxication is good. Like, really really good. To the point of seeming kind of overpowered to me. Uniques that would otherwise be quite intimidating, like Agnes, Norris, and Saint Roka, become almost trivial in the face of it. It also affects the enti...

I've just got Orb of Destruction castable for the first time, and I'm enjoying it very much. However, I've noticed that my orbs sometimes seem to veer off course and hit walls instead of their intended target. This happens even if I have a clear path between me and the monster (i.e. I could hit the ...

I've been playing crawl for a while now, but something I still often feel unsure about is how to allocate my stat points on level up. Here and elsewhere, I've read a number of times that if you're planning on doing any spellcasting at all, you should put your points in int. Since pretty much everyon...

This seems like it must be a bug. When I go to bottle blood from a corpse while wielding a non-butchering weapon, the game switches to my Vampire's Tooth (unrandart dagger with supervampire brand), which shoots my thirst through the roof. There's no warning that it's going to equip a vampiric weapon...

Stupid question, but have you done ctrl+f rune? I always have a hard time seeing the swamp rune, because it's often covered by miasma clouds iirc.

On my mutations screen, one of the mutations is "(You are resistant to hostile enchantments)" but it's a fainter grey shade than my other acquired mutations. I'm not sure what this could mean. The mutation is currently not active? I'm a bloodless vampire at this moment... does my thirst to...

I want to make sure I understand item generation. If an item is glowing/runed/embroidered/etc. then it is likely to have an ego effect, or be enchanted, or be cursed, though it can also be mundane (like an uncursed -1 0 orc dagger or something), right? Is it possible for a cursed/ego/enchanted item ...

Does the electrocution brand make noise when it procs? I didn't see any mention of this in the knowledge bot or wiki, but I read someone say in an old topic:

I'm still using a +3/+3 sabre of electrocution (and a +4/+2 sabre of speed when noise/water is an issue

1. You really can't do without melee, especially early on. You can then worship Okawaru or Trog to get ammo gifts, which will likely solve your problems once and for all. Even then, you'll keep using melee weapons since they tend to do more damage, so when your enemies catch up to you, it'll be bet...

Thanks for making this! It's been incredibly helpful to me. It might be overly optimistic to hope for this, but I would find it really useful if it could also take into account the effect of stabbing. I'm trying to decide between two different sabres, one elec-branded and one speed-branded. On a mon...

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