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I lost a Transmuter to Paralysis in Hell. I never knew who or what did this to me, since the only Enemies on screen were Dispater and a fiend.
Needless to say I was very pissed and feel your pain.
Helleffect Paralysis sucks.

speciesxx wrote:Damn so i lost it for not reading the options i think . Does it say if you try to teleport? Since i could only select the visible tiles .

???
Usually you can teleport anywhere with ctele. Even into black spaces.
If you try to teleport into a wall it will be a random tele instead.

My favorite race by far is Demonspawn.
Got my only wins with them and leveling up is much more fun with the mutations.
And with their apts they can be pretty much everything. Only takes a little while longer ;>

XuaXua wrote:Right, that sort of thing should only be saved for Memphitic Cloud confusion.

thats on the nerfing list already.
at least for intelligent monsters.

So like trampling for the player .. I like it.
But you shouldnt be able to push someone in lava or deep water .. would be too abusable.

Trolls get really difficult after Lair .. I would suggest a Minotaur Berserker. Maces and Throwing. Soften things up with javelins, then kill em in melee. For harder foes you have Berserk and Brother in Arms. Do Lair before Orc. You dont need poisonresist for lair if you are a bit careful. Orc:4 is ...

I am new here, loving the game immensely. Maybe even a bit too passionately, as I might not have gotten too much work done in the past few weeks - haha! Anyways let's cut to the chase: My newest most loved FeTm has recently gotten his first rune (boy, these felids are fun but pathetic!). As it just...

Hey Guys. Just finished my first 15 runer =) After my 3 Runer DSWz i tried a Berserker that died in Zot:5 and a Transmuter who died in Hell. So I went back the magic route .. and it went quite well. RNG wasn't to nice to me though. My mutations were pretty crappy for my char .. Rn+++ was redundant w...

Hellion Island

http://i56.tinypic.com/34sl9ps.jpg

Always fun to take a portal and spawn right next to 16 hellions and a PanLord

Un67 wrote:I would use the buckler until you get to skill level 15, at which point you should switch to Bullseye.

nagas need only 9 skill for medium shields.

was fixed in latest trunk release. no more needles on undead or demons ..

With the new system, though, wouldn't it be better if I just pull it out to get some initial experience into the skill and then let the experience filter in slowly and automatically until I can use it without penalty? yes, with the new system it's better to raise your skill first and then wear it. ...

Zicher wrote:A wand of fire can destroy both Sigmund and Grinder in five charges total.

It can also destroy YOU in one or two charges. Im looking at you, early Gnoll who picked up the Wand from the floor.

Slightly more flexible than a TrBe (more options with the decks) but you do lose Brothers in Arms. Decks of Legendary Summoning are a real good replacement. Nemelex is great, but for me it's a bit too much micromanagement. It would go a long way to replace the plain/ornate/legedendary with only one...

well I would turn UC back on since it has such a huge effect on your damage. Pan is a mixed bag, when i was in there it varied from super easy, to threating a couple of times, to dying to hellion island (my own stupid fault). Hell does these random nukes to you that are really annoying. Increased F...

Hi! I'm doing quite well with my Demonspawn Transmuter. Got 5 runes so far .. the hardest by far was slime, where I was shafted into level 5 and only survived through B.revivification (cost me some HP though :/) Killed the Royal Jelly with HauntSpam =) Summonspam was the way this character killed mo...

I love it when it's tomb time, and I worship Kiku.
Death Curses? What Death curses?

i've looked everywhere but can't seem to find an answert: Will casting Shatter while in Statue Form hurt myself?

yeah i noticed the same with a DSTm I actually had to disable UC and dodging and even fighting for half of my game to get the forms castable. But Lair was still quite easy with Iceform and 2 Unarmed with 2 Dodging. Hybrid characters generally got harder, but hybrids with bad to average aptitudes got...

what happens if teleportitis triggers in a -ctel area while wearing a ring of teleport control? can I cancel the teleport or will it teleport me right into the enemy without asking?
have a really good character .. just this stupid mutation and no cure :/

All WizLabs are concentrated evil and want to you to die a horrible death.

teleport other cast by a Naga Mage on Snake:5 is no joke ..
or let's say it that way: teleport traps or teleport other on any branch end is an adrenaline kick.
have to find me some stasis ..

yeah, maybe they are not too hard. Killed them by spamming Sticks to Snakes.
Much like I do with Hydras.

Maybe they just feel more threating because they are new ;>

Weapons could have a line stating how fast is the respective weapon skill allowing you to attack, e.g. "Your skill with axes allows you attack at top speed with this weapon." - "Your lack of skill in attacking with axes hinders your attack speed with this weapon." Literally the ...

I had the same experience. I think they are too hard for Lair:2, where I found the first one. L:3 and L:5 each had another one. Seems to have replaced Hydras, because I havent met a single one. One problem is the dustspam. It uses the calcifying dust nearly every round, much like a transmuter ghost....

I don't think the "main cost" of developing new skills before was XP or hunger. I think the main cost was having to use methods that didn't work. When you find a demon trident, but only have short blades trained, you do more damage with a sabre than the trident. So the yaks would kill you...

Anyone in favor of nerfing early Playerghost Transmuter/Wizards? If you dont have Poison resistance when you meet them, you just die. They chainspam Mephclouds/potion of confusion .. and even if you are lucky enough to slurp a healing potion in a break, they just spam you again. The last ghost decid...

XuaXua wrote:Yes there is a potion of XP.
Yet another reason why I stopped quaff-id'ing potions.

I thought they would be more useful early on.
8000 Exp in early game is a lot, in the endgame not so much.
Or do they scale with level?

Every deck has to contain risky/bad cards. You are welcome to come up with better ideas than shuffle. (An old idea, by the way, is to only take some part of Int, say, and move it to Str.) Risky cards are ok, like self-banishment or unfriendly summons. But you can work around these. Shuffle is just ...

Hey Guys! Have to whine for a bit. This is the last time I worship Nemelex. Yeah he is fun, but there is one thing. I am not talking about accidentally banishing yourself with an escape deck, although thats very annoying too. I am not talking about having to spam plain Decks all the time, in order t...

First time I got Tornado castable and now I have a question:
Does Tornado Damage stack? So is it useful to cast it more than 1 time, when it is still active?
Or do I wait until the Tornadoanimation is gone until I recast?

Does the "of electrocution" brand make noise? Will it hinder my stealth/stabbing successes if I wield it? It doesn't hinder your stealth and stabbing, but when you hit a monster and get the shock effect, it makes a lot of noise which can wake the nearby monsters. So you won't be able to s...

Does the "of electrocution" brand make noise? Will it hinder my stealth/stabbing successes if I wield it?

Hi!

Just a small thing, but it seems kind of silly:

Statue Form:
"You turn into a living statue of rough stone"
Then a basilisk gazes at me:
"You have turned to stone"

So i am even stonier after a basilisk looks at me?

greetings

Victory Dancing for a SpEn depends on food-find luck in the beginning. before lair/hive I normally only victory dance spellcasting until I can cast Hibernation Sultana/hungerless. You dont need much more than Hibernation and a high stabbing skill until D:15 or so. Just kite, put em to sleep, stab. W...

oh man I feel stupid right now. I always thought you could only learn 11 Spells maximum (the one row on the right in tiles layout) .. until just now, where I "accidentally" learned a 12th spell and a new row appeared. wow, my previous games could have been so much easier. *smack head on ta...

If it's so evil, why do I want it? What's my character's motivation in this scene? I always wonder that happens after the Character leaves the dungeon with the Orb. Will the Orb spawn new guards while he is in the town pub victory drinking? Will the demons follow him out of the dungeon? Who would w...

Does wielding misc Items count as Unarmed Combat?
Example: Wielding arrows as a Transmuter .. if I attack monster while wielding arrows, is it the same as not wielding arrows? Or do I get a penalty?

But the main difference is in primary casters. Fewer ranks in the Spellcasting skill means fewer magic points, fewer available spell levels, reduced success rates - they're just generally worse at everything during that part of the game. Especially for characters whose casting aptitudes are already...

dont play around with the "grey disc" in narrow corridors. Self-Killed my XL15 Spriggan with 1 use

Should have checked the CrawlWiki first ;>

- Lack of corpses in the post-end game seriously harm the viability of some gods and species (as just said with Fedhas, but that's not the only god). Could easily be fixed by having at least some demons leave corpses. Yeah, thats my biggest dislike too. All Gods should have viable endgame-options. ...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:You'd be surprised how many "it was only five minutes spent" you can go through when the RNG gives you a nasty streak by killing all your new characters.

My favorite is Kobold with Frost Darts right behind the first door.
Yay, dead after 30 seconds =)

early wand of polymorph is ok.
but terence on D:2 with a wand of disintegration is a tad bit unfair. one shotted me without any possibility of escape ;>

Don't spam a deck of wonders with a Spriggan Wizard. Having 5 Int thanks to shuffle is unawesome.

galehar wrote:shafts cannot drop you by 4 levels. It's either 1, 2 or 3.

just looked into the morguefile and indeed, i fell from 4 to 7.
my bad.

minmay wrote:5.5 to 5.7 is what I'd expect from that XP at that stage. There's nothing wrong.

ok then i imagined things. I just felt so weak at this stage.
XL8 and Spider Form barely at Good with Unarmed 3.
Seems like DSTm has a hard beginning ...

Orc Warriors can hit for 21 dmg.
I knew they were tough, but thats just an obscene amount of damage ;>

is there something wrong with Demonspawn Transmuter in 0.9? Im at XL7 and victory danced nearly all of my XP into transmutations an I am still only level 5. Am I imagening things, or is does it take way longer in 0.9 than in 0.8? edit: there must be something wrong .. i just victorydanced 150XP into...

Maybe balance the shafts too. In my recent game: Fell in a shaft during autoexplore .. D:3 to D:7 .. that was a death sentence, landing right next to an icebeast and sky beast. Later on 4 levels do not make such a big difference .. plus you have enough escape scrolls and spells. But early on a 4 lev...

Tab-Spamming to get rid of the green rats in lair is convenient.
It's less convenient when there is a 8-headead hydra lurking around the corner that you fail to notice.
3 free attackrounds for a hydra = YASD!

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