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I entered a trove where the loot was behind translucent rock walls and some wands of digging were provided. Unfortunately, my character had sacrificed artifice to Ru. (In retrospect, I could have checked whether I had passwall in my library; as a melee troll with bottomed-out int and no casting skil...

I would go for books if I have Transmutations or Earth as my highest spell skill and haven't found statue form yet. Or gold if statue form is in a store.

I doubt I would train unarmed on an octopode without going for transmutations at some point, though.

As a decent but not great player (offline, winrate somewhere around 20% through greaterspecies run), I think it's felid. The entire game demanded maximal vigilance even with statue form online. It's plausible that felid is better than octopode in the midgame if spell drops are really poor for both, ...

Your only big remaining clump of mutators is in Pan, so with eight mut potions, it might be worth it to try to get rid of frail.

You may as well pick up Infestation if it's available.

Success! Thank you all for the help. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-254-gaf95ca0 (tiles) character file. 1311399 SoloCat the Spry (level 26, 195/195 HPs) Began as a Felid Transmuter on Mar 30, 2018. Was the Champion of Ru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Apr 22, 201...

If you're finding nothing for fire, you could plausibly train up Transmutations for dragon form (which you have found) and get rF++, rC-. You also have rElec and rPois from statue and inherent rC when formless. This sets you up pretty decently except against foes/packs with mixed elemental attacks. ...

Went with health, and hand was the best option on the next one. This has me at four pips. The third offer is drink/stealth/skill. I'm halfway tempted to reject at this point, as the fourth pip was the most valuable. But what would be safer? Arcana (as long as it skips transmutations), courage, maybe...

I got a FeTM off the ground with very favorable RNG (Ru on D4, several spellbooks featuring Confusing Touch, Confuse, Petrify, and Lightning Spire on D5). The first sac options are Health (-5EV, 2 pips), skill (1 pip), and hand (3 pips!). Health is a very good one in the long term, as EV will eventu...

Having a background with some kind of ranged option (casters, artificer) will suffice to suffer through the early game. I consistently get slaughtered either in the rune branches or vaults, though. God choice - I opt for things that shore up my weaknesses. Ru seems solid for the added defenses. I've...

Though your tournament ranking is waning,
Don't play drunk for the combos remaining,
As in Soviet Ru,
Drink will sacrifice you!
(Xom still finds this result entertaining.)

Feel free to recycle lines 3-4, as they deserve a better limerick.

Maybe an unrandart amulet that gives you a gnoll-like aptitude boost with forced training in all skills, as well as some kind of hefty malus. (It would be utterly broken if found while worshipping Ashenzari, though).

Courage, Eye, and some of the Purity stuff would be ok. Arcana if it doesn't touch Summons/Tmut/poison. Maybe drink (certainly safer than words, and Ru's ability does what the better potions do anyway) And I have an amulet of faith on, for lack of anything better.

I took the hit to skills, and made it to lair. Still no further interesting gear pickups. Poison is about as far as I want to take it, starting to train up fighting/uc/transmut little by little. I also had to reject another sacrifice on the way wherein all options were crippling. Now I have the opti...

I started up a FeVM following along with Ultraviolent's series. D2 yielded an altar of Ru. The first sacrifice was a no-brainer experience over two crippling options, and I'm sitting on two pips. Now on D:5 I have Skill (which seems very rough, but gives another two pips of piety), Purity - Screamin...

Downloaded the new version after half a year's hiatus. Made a Formicid fighter with an appropriately silly name. Took a trident as my starting weapon. After clearing a few floors, I was inadvertently playing as Buggery the Poker.

We have max hp decay, we have stat debilitation, so why doesn't the same mechanic exist for mana? It could be placed on something exclusive to a few endgame areas - maybe as a greater mummy death curse and a hell effect. Some sort of moth (as in Perdido Street Station) would be a solid candidate as ...

u - the +4 ring mail "Suucs" {MR++}
(Okawaru gifted it to you on level 5 of the Spider Nest)

Which does indeed suck for a GrGl wearing

the +14 crystal plate armour of Luifed (worn) {Int+3 SInv}
(You bought it in a shop on level 5 of the Dungeon)

I'd like to join a clan. On first game, MiBe with one rune so far, promising if hubris doesn't get in the way. defenestrate on cao

+7,+8 triple sword "Piratebane" {holy, rF++ rC++}

Gifted by Trog on the end level of the Spider's Nest. First online game I haven't ragequit due to lag or sloppily splatted and the RNG is extremely kind =)

Train a melee weapon. It is not a pure caster, more of a skald with some ranged offense at the start. Animate Dead beats the crap out of Control Undead, at least in the early game. Early splats happen once in a while. You should probably wear leather if you don't have a special robe, though - the sp...

Level Earth exclusively until it exceeds your other magic skills. Acquire staff. High likelihood of a staff of earth, which is way better than a random weapon acquirement. Most of the other possibilities will be useful as caster enhancers, too. If you plan on sticking with ice as your primary means ...

Dungeon Crawl: Bauxite Boshintang

All the good B rocks were taken already

Scroll of vorpalize eigenvector?

Wouldn't Trog be a strong option, if only for the nearly-guaranteed antimagic weapons?

Sounds like it would be more promising in Sprint.

Also, Augean Stables should be a super Sewer portal with a giant living fecal (brown ooze?) endboss.

edit: moderated pottymouth.

If you're losing a fight, use an escape mechanism. Scrolls of TP and bat form come to mind. Don't use weapons of chaos. They can shaft you, among other bad things. Use your ID scrolls on potions. Read-ID your scrolls. Zap-ID your wands, first on a wall, then on yourself if still unidentified. You ha...

Spells only via Vehumet gifts then?

Do you have a decent weapon swap for Crypt? TSO does not take kindly to demonic weapons (until blessed).

Uniques:
Crazy Yiuf - Space Dementia
Gastronok - Creep
Joseph - Any Dream Will Do
Kirke - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Nikola - Bloodrocuted
Saint Roka - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

You should have a polearm of pain and maybe some kind of bardiche or demon trident for a swap. It's a sin to neglect your melee on a merfolk. Dispel is perfectly sufficient for liches and the like.

Just use it and run around with your weapons uncursed. Your piety's maxed, you have the weapon skill already, and you can always swap for rF or stronger casting as needed.

Swap faith out, you have no use for it anymore.

Wear your resists. Your offense is already huge without the slaying, but you WILL die trying to slither up to an orb of fire. Get translocations. cTele and blink are mandatory; cblink is great if available. Shadow Creatures is a very powerful spell in Zot. It's a gross waste to crawl around with les...

Search through the dungeon for some fire resistance gear, pick up swiftness and controlled blink if available, clear Zot out for experience, and reassess whether your character can survive extended.

You have no rF as is. I'd use a rF++ ammy with just about any modifier (except stasis, or guardian spirit on a caster) in that spot - conservation is just icing on the cake.

How would you imagine doing the Elf 3 vault on a level 13-16 character? Ely or Fedhas?

Whichever you find first, or whichever is more enchanted. If you somehow pull both simultaneously, CPM if your strength is <27, GDA if your resists are less than stellar.

Plate/medium dragon armor with working charms and translocations will give you more survivability, though.

I think you needed some dodging badly, even with medium armor and a crappy apt.

Give Skalds a +0 sling with 20-25 stones. The stones (and lack of launcher skill) would make them a notably weaker ranged start than a hunter/AM, but their plight would be somewhat eased.

I've cleared the regular game excluding Zot and Slime. No rMut so far, one cmut stashed. No wizardry of either form, which means all that exp invested into firestorm was probably a bad idea. I'm not sure how to deal with Orbs of Fire - should I pick up Shadow Creatures as a crutch or just run the he...

Fog -> teleport if no nearby cover, fog -> retreat if you can engage on safe terms. Blink away instead of fogging if the situation is immediately life-threatening. Unrelated, unsolicited advice: Trog is much, much easier than Okawaru when you are starting out. Read-ID your scrolls as soon as you cle...

Guaranteed clarity for mummies. If you play cautiously, a big perk is the auto-ID of enemy weapon brands *before* you get hit, invaluable for distortion (and holy wrath if undead/DS).

Strategically: do Hell last, except maybe Tomb. Your exp allocation is quite bad. You should train dodging, especially since your EV penalty isn't that severe and you took dex on levelups. You shouldn't train unarmed combat at all unless it's your primary mode of attack. You shouldn't pump melee wea...

For SpEn of Lugonu, do you go godless in the early game or eat the wrath later?

I've been settling for a lot of 3-5 rune victories recently, and decided to give extended a shot for a change. Ashenzari+shatter+apportation is a very potent combo. Not only were the rune grabs generally easy (except in Dis), but being able to bypass half the Tomb through selective shattering greatl...

Train fighting? Seriously, 8-10 levels are dirt cheap by midgame.

Edit: and pick up rMsl/dMsl and haste if available.

It's crazy to dive Snake that early. Do orcish mines, which should supply sufficient piety for a pain brand (on a sabre or quickblade if available). Then D to 13, then Lair 8. Reassess your skill investment. Since you're not primarily a stabber, you need a ton of dodging, some fighting, and your wea...

Vitality+slaying. You get rapidly diminishing returns on EV past 30 or so.

You were going to die in Elf with rF- anyway

If you're three-runing, there is no obligation to finish vaults at an early level. If you're stuck, clear D as far as you can do so safely, then do the easier lair branches and elf before coming back. If Vaults is still bad with the new experience and gear, you can always do Abyss for your third run...

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