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Intermittently up now and hooray for 0.10 ! And yes, as far as I can tell, 0.8, 0.9 and 0.10 are all available to play.

Has anyone tried going for an ogre warper with an eye toward using portal projectile to smite things with large rocks? It sounds pretty amazing to me, but I've never played ogres or warpers. What kind of god would be appropriate? I've found it better to just go Ogre Hunter and pick up portal projec...

So is Webtiles going to have 0.9 for the tournament which begins this weekend?

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...

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 ...

The problem I have with the anti-magic brand is that once you close the gap to any spellcaster, you've already "won the battle" so to speak. Casters by nature have to get you from afar or they're not going to survive long and any other ranged attack or brand will usually do the killing jus...

Exactly, some message like "you feel like you have lingered too long here..." would be a gentle enough reminder to folks to let them know to move their ass along or suffer the consequences. You're right though. I need to take my avatar's advice and just take it out on the next pack of kobo...

I engaged it initially because I honestly didn't think it was an unseen horror - I thought it was an Orc wizard that had cast invisibility on itself, because, you know, I had no clue the clock had run out on me. Like I said, I thought I was playing normally. I don't think I could have made it to the...

Resistances. Don't even consider melee'ing them unless you have three pips of fire resistance + mutation resistance. Then you need to either hit hard or hit fast, preferably both.

So I've got a decent early Ogre Hunter going. On level 4, I kill Edmund, but Blork is waiting for me, so I take an escape hatch down to D:5. In the middle of the level is a Gnoll castle. I battle most of the outliers, jackals and gnolls, then when I feel like I'm strong enough, I head back up to D:4...

ekolis wrote: of course, I also thought that you could read a scroll of "genie-o-cide" to kill off the "hobo-goblins", despite the correct spellings staring me RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE...

Which reminds me, the dungeon so needs a Hobo level or vault.

potion of see self-invisibility

I agree that human wanderers of Ashenzari are loads of fun. In 8 or 9. I've had a question about this for a while now after trying out wanderers. I rolled a Human wanderer - started with a 5 aptitude in fighting, which I thought was great, until I realized that I did not get the benefit of the HP g...

Also, a related side question: if I detect a non-randart item to be cursed, is it always safe to just assume that it's negatively enchanted and throw it away? Are Wight weapons (which I understand are frequently cursed) an exception, or do they tend to be lousy too? I'd say about three of every fou...

Swashbuckler?

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If you want cooking and cocktailcrafting, go play http://www.kingdomofloathing.com !

Actually, the pizza should slowly move towards you once you enter a level - when it gets you, you must tip (a gold or 5) to receive it. If it doesn't get to your location in 30 turns or less, though, it's free.

Nope, not you. I was on the lobby and saw the amount of players slowly dwindling down to four.. tried to start a game and it kicked me out.

Nice. Although I'm curious how late game (Pan/Hell) Transmuters fare who don't have a second school spell (Tornado) to pick up. After all, once you have Tornado I'd imagine you'd rarely have to cast another Transmutation again. As a Transmuter, sometimes you have to run away when the shit gets too ...

Nicely done! First wins always seem to have the most dramatic moments as well.. savor them!

I did not use a shield in my last game (DGTm 15-runer) because I was using blade hands a lot and that buckler would just get melded into that transformation. Once I got to the point where I felt freed up enough to train one, I just felt the xp was better used training other skills (specifically air ...

What are the general opinions on finding an early vampiric weapon? Worth it to use or stash until late-game?

In the early game, hordes are difficult until you get blade hands going (relying mostly on evaporate to soften up mobs or confuse them), then it's like a hot knife through butter. Necromutation's lich-form is just as good at living enemies, then tornado just picks up from there when you get into the...

My last two online wins have been with Demigod. My DGWz got 11 runes (two demonic) but didn't have the resistances needed to get anywhere in Hell. So I decided to keep riding the Demigod train and finally got a transmuter up and running. A great start had him necromutating by Vault, and then an earl...

I got the Assassin boots in my latest acquirement scroll lottery. I did have an open shield spot and equipped a random buckler before cashing in just to make sure I didn't get the random buckler to fill.

JeffQyzt wrote:Indeed. You might even say...you got shafted! *duck*

You know that Shaft is one bad moth....

Don't underestimate the damage a Kobold can do with a wand of lightning.

Ok, I didn't include the exclamation point.. works fine now. Thanks everyone.

Ok, I tried this and it still let me do it (with a blowgun) - I don't think the inscription would have stopped me unless it actually forced me to stop and think with the "Are you sure you really want to do this?" prompt.

Don't get too enamored with sticks to snakes, especially when you find that sweet Staff of Energy on D:5

I'm waiting for the first cat-on-keyboard YASD now...

I got my first spammer last night playing (baller) but otherwise it's been interesting. I do feel a little self-conscious once I know someone is watching, but I've had some good conversations about the game and met some good folks who play as well.

Weird - yours is updated but mine isn't.. and I put mine in around Noon. I hope it's not because I have a different password on CAO and CDO.

EDIT: I'm on now. Must have been some lag. GAME ON!

The clan listing on the tournament page says it is updated every four hours.

I'd like to join a clan for the current tourney, if that's possible still.. so any clan leaders desperate for a bottom to mid-level player, let me know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times (again, take the Wiki with a pound of salt - but that explanation is the one I've always heard. Besides, "It's better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in a chaotic period" just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.)

Always remember the ancient chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times."

Both levels have to be +6, but anything above works, so yes your +6/+7 blade will work.

So I've got this Mummy Wizard that has gotten three runes and cleared all of the dungeon, but now with literally nowhere else to go. Why? 1) Absolutely cruddy luck in spellbooks. No Swiftness. No Airstrike or Tornado. And this with *three* scrolls of acquirement burned on books. 2) A treasure trove ...

Rogue. I've never sniffed the amulet and I played for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCxpQ5sjo8s

absolutego wrote:(i'd say use CAO instead of CDO so you don't have to mess with the ssh-key.)

I had to specifically create one on CDO to work - my CAO account did not work when I tried it first.

I gave this a whirl last night on Chrome for Mac and, other than the understandable lag, it worked like a charm for me. Two daggers up!

All good advice. I think I'll save up the wands and good ammo and come back much later and snipe the hell out of it. Thanks guys.

(I resisted the urge to title this post the Randy Lerner Hydra) I've finally gotten this Swamp branch ending - but I'm playing a MDHu who's been relying on his crossbow up until now. I just got a flaming scimitar but my long blades apt isn't up to snuff yet IMO. Any tips on taking him down now, or s...

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WOOT !

I, for one, heartily endorse the Sigmund twitter feed.

So my first attempt at a 15-runer flamed out in Hell. Clearly my inexperience in post-Zot content cost me here. I got too deep without enough MP and didn't run from the Shadow Fiend quick enough. The learning curve for post-Zot seems very steep. At first glance it seems like you could never get a ch...

Ok, so I died in Hell. Tartarus, specifically. How the hell do you make it down seven freaking levels with Shadow Fiends on your ass every step of the way?

I found out the hard way with 0.9 that saves are compatible in one direction only... once I loaded up my 0.8 CeHu, for example, in 0.9 and played him for a while, I loaded back up 0.8 and that char was not accessible anymore.

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