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Follow Zin or Ashenzari, wear the amulet for the missing defense

Giants. Think ogres turned to 11+felids+draconians. You can't use armor, conventionally one-handed weapons, rings, decks, wands, etc because your hands are too big, but you can use any 2hander with a shield. Scrolls are kosher, but you are not accustomed to reading such small writing, and begin with...

Gourmand is very potent on a zerker. Not only does it permit liberal use of berserk (I've starved on quite a few conventional zerkers as a newbie in 0.8), but it also puts multichunk corpses to more efficient use, which means faster BIA/gifts. Of course Mi/Mf/HO/Ha are all stronger options once you ...

Kobold berserker - stay with maces (unless outstanding drops merit otherwise), berserk lesser threats, run/BIA vs serious ones. Probably the easiest combo to see your first rune, if not for the first win.

cerebovssquire wrote:
fyi, I have a life
(seriously, I do)

Your life for Aiur!

Early on, your conjurations should be raised to equal your fire magic. They contribute equally to all the relevant FE starting spells and your apts are the same, so train whichever is lower (and thus cheaper). Don't get more early spellcasting than you need to learn both conjure and sticky flame at ...

We need mimics to leave behind corpses, too. Then we could have a plausible infinite progression of **** corpse mimic corpse mimic corpse mimic.... for the occupant of a single tile.

Alternatively, the dungeon is in one of the parts of the world (like the real-world Middle East) where the right hand is used to eat and the left is for wiping. Given the shortage of clean water and utter lack of hand sanitizer, offhand butchering would guarantee nausea/sickness.

Larkin is often very good. He missed out any mention of spriggan druids making trees attack you, though. The trees are reaching to attack And strangle you to painful death. A spriggan druid cast a spell, And animated them to fight. Is there a chance that you will win Against these trees? No, you ar...

This is probably very obvious to the more experienced players, but red draconian breath is incredible in the early-mid game. If you position an enemy between yourself and a wall, you get to place a Conjure Flame *under* them even if the breath misses. This kills just about anything not fire resistan...

It feels refreshing to be stumped by the technical lingo and not by the Russian for a change

Use cmut if you have four. You will be unable to drink them if you die first.

You're fighting those semipowerful foes, which does not work out well for a character with a limited set of tools. Pretend you're a berserker, except run away or teleport when you would berserk if you actually were a berserker.

J - the +23 crystal plate armour of Analysis (worn) {god gift, Str+3 Dex+2} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 7 of the Lair of Beasts) It affects your strength (+3). It affects your dexterity (+2). Not only is it incredibly overpowered, but the strength bonus facilitated its immediate use (rather t...

Sweet merciful crap. Pain is indeed incredible.

So, I've cleared out Orc and all of Lair save for the ungulate vault - Death Yaks and Catos are just too resistant to bother with. The weapon is better than anything I can reasonably expect to pain-brand (unless a quickblade falls from the sky), so I'm thinking of taking the Necronomicon for Haunt, ...

Dealing with hydras as an enchanter, I found something neat: casting Ensorcelled Hibernation on enslaved low-intelligence monsters does not break the enslavement. Given that enslavement lands with a much higher frequency, this permits fairly safe casting of EH without the hydra eating your squishy f...

Do multiple sources of wizardry stack?

That mutation set makes me weep. Was the axe your only source of rF in the entire run, too?

Addendum: Donkeys rapidly lose all their gold when worshiping Nemelex.

That's a beauty of a run. Nice speed, too.

I now see the light. DDEE is an amazing combination. I simply had played it poorly for many, many attempts. Earth magic with a bit of conjurations and spellcasting goes a long way. Makhlebite demons are amazing for breaking a difficult stair - summon on the other level for safety, then let the 1 wip...

would be acceptable.

is more likely.

What failure rate do you consider "castable" for those spells - 10%ish?

Skill progressions are fairly obvious on pure melee and casters - min delay, low failure rates, respectively. How do you manage the initial (pre-lair) skill progressions on those weird characters in the third column: skalds, transmuters, enchanters, stalkers? What about assassins and necromancers?

Moccasin on D2. Probably worse than a centaur =/

Wow, I can get a whole story out of these. defenestrate: Tater Defense - Defeat Enters - Fated Entrees - Fate Resented - A Dense Fetter He delved the very depths of Zot To guard the Sacred Taters, To slay the fiends that Hells begot, And mollify the haters. Alas, he'd stolen every rune, And all the ...

AC is all the more valuable because you are evasion based - your marginal returns on AC aren't that bad yet.

Theoretically guaranteed suicide at full hp on any living character without rN: pain mirror + sceptre of torment.

Gastronok. I am slow and wouldn't mind devouring my enemies to take on their powers.

Level 10 HE skald, actually working out quite well for a change. Shafted to some vault on D14 with a shadow dragon and multiple hill giants. No blink scrolls. Read a scroll of teleport, died in two turns. This is after about a dozen earlier YASDs on skalds. I can't seem to get a hybrid past mid dung...

"- Eating well. Eating permafood, or "positive" chunks (carnivore/saprovore/gourmand) provides a (5000 / nutrition value) chance of a piety gain of 1." This practically begs for scumming on a kobold/troll with spells but minimal spellcasting skill. Just spam at the wall till hung...

Kenku->Tengu->Pkunk imo

Try turning most of your skills off. I would be hard-pressed to get past the temple on anything but a berserker if my xp was spread across every last skill.

Discard that abortion of a hat. Save the enchant armor scrolls for GDA or maybe even regular dragon armor. Turn shields off. Rage is not worth bothering with when you have finesse/heroism, especially this deep in the dungeon. It's generally good to toss any rations in excess of three and most of you...

Kimchi.

Lynch is a better worldbuilder and wordsmith. Abercrombie has some of the best characters I've seen outside of ASOIAF. (I'd probably stand by this even if I didn't share Glokta's hatred for stairs :lol:

).

BSC relies on a lot of backstory (and emotional investment in one of the central characters) from the trilogy. I doubt I would have enjoyed it nearly as much if I had read it first.

I strongly recommend the First Law trilogy and subsequent standalone novels by Joe Abercrombie. Even GRRM will seem comparatively gentle with his characters after this

There are three things (that I am aware of) that you can do as a melee class breaking into V:8 1) Repeatedly stairdance on a V:7 downward stair that has three or more (6, ideally) adjacent squares of wall. 2) Read a scroll of fear after dancing the first batch of guards. 3) Start a teleport before g...

I've run it on XP, 7, and whatever recent MacOS my girlfriend uses. It lags on all three with Chrome. (7 is the worst, but it is also running with the crappiest Internet connection of the three).

Find Nikola, chug the potion of resistance, profit.

Permanent pain mirror with Yred on a beefy species.
Indefinite slouching with Chei.
Indefinite cleansing flame with TSO.

I slacked. It seemed a decent plan, A mystical, strategic purge Of horrid beasts that threaten man. The victor's hymn becomes a dirge, The ceiling and the floor converge; A gelid, pallid fear enthralls Within Procrastination's walls. My frantic labors I began. When finished, my employer calls: More ...

Melee mummies are surely the worst. No berserking, no potions, awful aptitudes all around, and negative fire resistance to top it off.

Erolcha can be as deadly as Nikola, depending on spell set. Aizul, Gastronok, and Nessos may also merit being on the list. Maybe Menkaure for weaker builds.

Run away when you see death yaks. The only characters that can comfortably face them at appropriate levels are zerkers (BIA), most summoners, and anything with good kiting abilities (spriggan, centaur, a venom mage with swiftness).

I had around 700 games before winning. Granted, I mostly played KoBe, which had considerably better survivability back before the fighting nerf.

Edit: only found runes two or three times before the win. You're just about there

No, you can wear an amulet of stasis, a ring of controlled teleport (though this will make you glow and is a pain in the ass when the levels mainly consist of narrow corridors), or chug regular mutation pots and pray. If it's late in the game, you can worship Jiyva or Zin (will need a lot of gold fo...

A bit of silliness came up watching someone's webtiles. The player in question was having a blowgun duel with Sonja. He was able to use his blowgun in spite of getting nailed by curare (and thus having the yellow breath status). Is this a bug or a feature?

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