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Completely independent of whether on not that finding on wikipedia editing is accurate: whether or not the person who leads a study on women is a woman is completely irrelevant. The simple fact that you belong to a certain gender does not mean that you automatically know about the preferences people...

Also, -tv at the end of any command like that in IRC means that you can watch the milestone on termcast.develz.org as it happened when the game was being played.

fucking dragonslayer still exists in AoRA as well

Yeah but Ao100

Yeah, I'm looking forward to a roguelike that's almost as good as Crawl, but can be beaten comfortably in 5 hours or less. That is easy. DoomRL. IMO DoomRL suffers greatly from the fact that a lot of playing it, at least at sub-Nightmare difficulty, seems to be standing in one spot and waiting unti...

+3 slaying is better than =regen in combat (consider that the slaying is 1d3 extra damage per hit and the HP regenerated by =regen doesn't come close to that). =regen's main use is regaining HP quickly inbetween fights. While your slaying means that your damage is high regardless of your low UC leve...

Int is relevant for spellpower and spell success. Since you are probably going to cast Transmutations and Charms, maybe Translocations, with this guy, spell success is more relevant since spell power is mainly important for spells that directly damage other monsters. Your int is already quite decent...

Ranged weapons are better than conjurations (they already were before ranged reform, which makes the gap between the two even bigger).

still needs 8 more EV to be diesel

If you are in a shitty situation in the elf:3 vault when you teleport - which is one of the main, if not practically the only, reason you would teleport to escape on elf:3, as situations that warrant teleportation outside of the vault are probably very rare - surely having a cointoss between a new s...

dck wrote:to worship the 2 god you must first find a way to bust him out of his crystal prison

and the 3 god is really 1 god but he's also 3 in a way and noone really gets it so monsters entering your los are confused

Vs. hydras, why would you wield a weapon you have to unwield afterwards (contam effect) when you could just use a wand or summon a brother? These options are safer and don't mutate you.

I don't think GDA is a great idea since your str isn't exceptionally high and your dex is quite good. You can probably achieve a better AC/EV balance in lighter armours (branded plate, or even that chain mail for now if you train some dodging). You also already have all the resistances you need, whi...

So the fact that a whole branch is composed of 1 group of sphinxes and 3 types of mummies, one of which is harmless and two of which are the same except one takes longer to kill, only accounts for 10% of tomb's problems? You must really hate death curses

A robe of rF or rC would be better than your current leather armour. rN isn't important, especially not at the point of the game where you currently are. Your +10 cutlass has rPois so that shouldn't be a factor in armour decision.

It won't be a lot, I would guess 3 or so, why don't you just wield it and see?

Deeper in the dungeon - if you haven't cleared below D:12 yet - is bound to be easier than the lair branches. Afterwards, Snake 1-4, Shoals 1-4, one rune from a Lair branch, Vaults 1-4, Depths, get 3 runes would be a good branch order. Whenever you feel strong enough to do orc:4 during that order yo...

The voluntary argument does apply here though, moreso than to some other features anyway. If there was e.g. a badly designed god who was a good choice for some characters, if you want to play to win, you have to follow this badly designed god during some games. If you are playing to win, you never w...

You have great earth spells at not-so-great spellpower so training earth magic makes sense, but why train fire on top of that? It doesn't do much earth doesn't cover - training multiple elemental skills means using exp to do two very similar things, and this applies especially if you have both LRD a...

Demetrius: "Villain, what hast thou done?"
Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo."
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother."
Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother."

gratz :). maybe i watched u play yesterday, if u were that naga with zombies in vaults 5. maybe i mix it up, also said hi.. and picked up some tricks (still dont know all commands to play so fast) cheibriados really seems popular here, maybe ill try it too.. but seems hard Chei does seem pretty pop...

I think the felid shirt is good but would look better if the writing wasn't shadowed.

i agree imo u should have skipped that dungeon. XL 12 is too early for ice cave imo.. his spell did 2/3 of ur HP.. u really need luck or be very skilled to beat this dungeon at that lvl XL 12 isn't usually too early to clear ice caves. It was with this specific character and layout, of course. None...

if anyone makes that joke about life being a terrible game with great graphics thinking that everyone hasn't heard it 500 times before i will realtime speedrun to your house and try to beat you up which probably won't work because i weigh about 110 pounds but the intent is definitely there

my life is a realtime speedrun

Digging is still useful to characters capable of defeating multiple earth elementals.

Slouch should kill holies pretty well.

Venom Bolt is a pretty good spell. It will kill most things in Lair pretty easily (including blink frogs), and will help you get further in D. Airstrike is rather bad as far as damage goes, which might be why you are having problems. Dodging would be more useful than more Conjurations at this point....

Doing a zig to about 10ish sounds reasonable to me; you'll get some !curemut, !experience and hopefully some other good loot. I think that without cblink or necromutation, zig:15 would be risky, unlucky mummy or pan lord floors could be very dangerous. However, I rarely have problems clearing zigs t...

Background: It is also unintuative that summoners, the token ally-play class, are left out of the fun. I think it is very common in videogames that summoners are characters who use temporary allies that expire after a time. That this is the case in crawl, while e.g. Beogh's allies (flavoured as lea...

I've beaten it now... I used the sword character on my winning attempt (with Holy, where the 2nd and 3rd powers are excellent), I think I just had enough practice killing monsters with the sword without taking damage at that point, which I was finding much harder with the rogue (due to dagger range ...

A good rule of thumb is simply that you want to have as high a total of AC + EV as possible, though this isn't accurate in all cases (e.g. 10/20 would be better than 0/35 - raising low values gives a greater return).

Vaults 1-4 is easier than Depths.

Almost all of the character guides on the wiki are nonsense. The one you are following seems to be particularily bad in this regard. A lot of the other information on the wiki is outdated or wrong as well. https://loom.shalott.org/learndb.html is better for information, otherwise I recommend asking ...

Training both fire and air magic is redundant (elemental schools generally don't do very different things for your character). Going for two level 9 spells is especially redundant - they both just do a ton of damage for very high exp investment. For the exp you invest in your second level 9 spell, y...

I also downloaded and enjoy the game, though I really suck at it. What character/skilling combination would be most beginner-suitable? I have been mostly trying the sword character with Holy so far but maybe there's an easier way. I tend to not die to individual mistakes but just attrition where I l...

tasonir wrote:So you could have higher ac and ev and keep the rPois with your +11 rpois plate.

yes gargoyles better watch out for their rPois

rockygargoyle wrote:Imo yellow draconians were hated because their bite (and spit acid) would corrode the creatures equipment permanently, but in trunk they reduce their ac, so they are way better now as a transmuter.

Why would permananently corroding monsters' equipment be relevant, especially as a draconian?

Bug reports should be posted on Mantis, that's why there isn't a Tavern board for them.

does anyone else think that Gender Neutral Demonic Snowball would be a great band name

If you want someone to be more melee oriented, you can't give them a starting book that requires two skills at high levels to fully utilise. Also, summoning by its very nature already encourages melee (since you can take damage when you are in melee range, thus allowing your summons to live longer).

All other hell/pan lords don't. Antaeus is a demon-titan-thing so he does.

I wouldn't switch from Okawaru. He is 5 "free" levels of UC, armour and doging, which means that you can invest a ton of exp into other, more useful skills like charms or translocations. Consider how much exp you need to raise a skill further when it is already very high. Finesse doubles y...

Yeah, I was assuming that one of the 3 randart shields has some good properties (resistances, maybe even slaying).

It's far too late for switching weapon classes to be worth it, especially for an executioner's axe (which would require 26 skill for minimum delay). Shields are not useless with UC. You lose your offhand punch, which doesn't contribute a lot to damage, and a random delay penalty to your attacks is a...

I certainly don't think "it's available from the start and you don't need to find a good weapon" is a big factor in choosing UC. It's based on the assumption that you might not find a good weapon, which due to weapons like great swords, dire flails, glaives, scimitars and great maces is vi...

For nearly all (self-defined) objectives, having maximal resources is going to contribute towards them or at least won't hurt. I don't think gameplay without autoharvest is torturous (though it would be if you were hell-bent on maximising the resources you get). I was initially disagreeing with Psiw...

If you somehow get surrounded, it can get you into a better position. But that shouldn't happen, especially due to your above average speed. Blink is really useful in its controlled/semi-controlled forms, and you can get the latter if you have a source of cTele. Uncontrolled blink is very situationa...

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