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So we have: ⋅ A blink frog buff ⋅ Submerged mechanics on land. ⋅ A harmless tree opponent that takes forever to kill. ⋅ A water-bound Giant Snail. ⋅ A bat that punishes you for not chasing it around. ⋅ A host of enemies which effectively te...

I'm imaging something like Starbound's Floran, but I'm too weary to cruise the seas of google's r34 image results to find something that won't get me banned.

If I didn't mess anything up, the difference between a minotaur and troll at 27 shields/+0 shield/20 str/9 dex is 1 SH, 18 vs 17.

To me its always the defenses that end up doing me in. The lack of aux slots, most armor types, -2 apts, usually a weapon slot, and the slight reduction in EV from being large makes trolls usually a low AC/low EV class with a harder time getting resists. They hit like trucks, but pretty much anythin...

I usually play trolls under trog and just level them like I would any other zerker (minus much in the way of early defensive skill training), but I feel like they fall off quite hard in late/post-lair compared to most anything else built for the role (and some not). Compare this to being hands down ...

no i honestly do suck at trolls, you didn't sound like that, no worries

at least I have confirmation that I suck at trolls

Draconians are cool because of the dragonesque breath attacks and the fact the maturing comes in early - it can influence the direction you'll take your character. The fact they change colors at all is awesome too, but that's only part of the equation. I don't necessarily think that trolls changing ...

New, before curse scrolls spawned naturally for everyone, ashen didn't create them.

Trolls should mature into rock(ac+hp)/iron(ac+resist)/deep(ac+mr+spellcasting) at a later XP level like Draconians. I'm thinking more of a mid-game thing (~Orc), not pre-Lair, though. They seem kind of boring after the whole "i am sigmund incarnate" thing wears off and one of my favorite f...

This is neither common nor a major issue, but when a unique (or in this case, a unique and his unique summons) stand in the tiles below the player, the names cover part of the HP bar (and possibly other features). http://i.imgur.com/ePwObIW.png The easiest solution is to either make the names always...

Been playing with Bloax's build. Eggggh -4 apts/+5 XP is kind of weird, it's like a terrible troll. You can get massive HP ball rolling almost immediately - hitting lvl 4 on D:1 is easy. In that way, the first handful of floors are pretty easy. On the other hand, you can get practically nothing onli...

I've found that low skill/lowtier gear ranged combat is really terrible outside of the whole kite-forever thing it has going on, even ignoring the ammo issue. With 9 skill in Bows, my centaur would regularly have popcorn walk across my entire LOS without taking any meaningful damage. The worst was a...

I do agree that making Orc more interesting for post-Lair characters does make it so Orc isn't usually viable for those who'd otherwise do it before lair, but I have a feeling that not many players do so. all before hits the nail on the head, though - the problem is that branch (and dlvl) selection ...

The Orcish Mines currently feel like three levels of almost entirely effortless genocide followed by one level of reasonable difficulty. This is partly due to most players going for Lair before Orc, but is a problem nevertheless. The only difficulty a player is likely to face in the top three levels...

Yes. My heart flutters merely thinking about how convenient this would be. I know there are some of you (particularly those who know their way around the interface+rc file) who'd get limited use in comparison to what you're already capable of doing, but for players like me who simply memorize a few ...

Challenging, yes, certainly. Mummies are not much fun to play, though. Usually you can kind of simulate fun on otherwise boring races by just making them good at whatever boring trait they excel at (see: Mi/DE/Hu etc). Doing well can be fun. Mu are kind of the odd ones out here, being both boring an...

That's currently the way opponent HP bars work. I thought about it, but it seems that if you had extremely low HP, it might look like the HP bar has completely disappeared. This also happens when you're at full HP, so it could potentially confuse someone.

Problem: It is difficult to see the position of the HP bar when you are at red HP. Reason: The red value used for missing HP is too close to the red value used to indicate low HP. Fix: Darken the value used to indicate low HP. Current vs Suggested http://i.imgur.com/MRwQyDC.png http://i.imgur.com/wR...

A case can certainly made for Iron Shot being a fairly lame spell name, but I don't really think that most people would automatically correlate it with a shotgun/pellet. The first thought that came to me upon seeing this spell was that I was literally shooting someone with iron. The second though wa...

I consider plate with a decent brand better then FDA, but like KoboldLord said, getting branded plate is not anywhere near reliable. You might not find one all game.

..i try, but cockiness kills me more often than hydras XD. big question: how much armor skill or shield skill should be trained at the beginning? I usually don't train it at all until Lair unless I'm going one-handed. Just get enough skill for the best weapon you can find. After that, I do 10 armor...

graffen69 wrote:I suspect it has to do with cleave?

Yes.

Well jeez, I said use the trident first and you told me no.

Deimos wrote:+0 Trident -> +0 halberd.

Indeed, the worst part is that I've done the same exact thing before and the result was the same.

Okawaru.

no, legit, i can tell by the pixels

A XL27 DEFE should not melee a Tentacle Monstrosity.

Ugh, what a waste of a char. Melee'd one earlier and took him down no problem; next one killed me without taking much at all in the way of damage. Tried to escape, but he had me.

Selective realism, apparently.

It might be because they are balanced around not being able to wear anything at all, I don't know. Why do you think they should be able to wear hats? I don't see that as making the race any more interesting or fun, it's just a buff.

Yea, currently they look pretty weak. A couple things probably need to go; I'd lower down Blurry Vision a notch, get rid of Berserkeritis, and possibly even go for Carnivore 3. I do think with a little tweaking this could be more interesting then Felids, but that's mostly because felids are a boring...

I'm crossing my fingers for the day Sigmund confuses someone on the orb run and gets them killed by a panlord spawn...

I love it when I don't think about adding a spell to deal with fire immunes, then find myself up against a horde of Hell Knights with nothing but OoD.

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*Be won't be hard regardless of the race. I've done pretty well as a DEBe before, and I'm not even a good player.

+1 for MuCK. Random instadeath, anyone?

1. I don't really do the whole emergency berserk thing; I decide before the fight even begins if I'll need to berserk, and if I do, I'll berserk as soon as I'm in range. It might mean I'll berserk on encounters I didn't need to, but I never have any problems with permafood. Gourmand isn't exactly ra...

Your skills are pretty bad. 0 dodging, fighting, or traps? I've got to suggest at least 10/5/5.

No, his job is not to die.

I'm just a scrub, but I'm thinking the battleaxe will be better for the vast majority of what you'll see.

I'd go as far to say that shields are just as good as 2hers in a 3-runer. You might be a little worse by the time you get to zot, but dear god do shields trivialize the midgame. Granted, good 2hers can do the same.

Here's what I think: First, tedium is never fun. Ever. Let's get that out of the way. I can't think of one instance where I'm having a fun in a game purely because of the tedium. Secondly, tedium is not a bad thing. "Why not? You just said it's not fun." Right. However, it opens doors to t...

Yea, I'm willing to bet you got a Lair and Lair sub-branch mimic. It happens.

Alright, wait a couple floors, then Trident.

+0 Trident -> +0 halberd.

The scythe will kill you.

I got bored, started rolling silly names. This is the one that got through. GrimmCantSmell came close, though. Interesting stuffs: 63AC, 345HP. Almost died on the D:1 upstairs while carrying the orb, because I am a silly bad player. First Ds win for me :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-786...

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HNNNNG

The game is punishing you for not playing optimally.

Read those scrolls, champ.

I think the plain black field comes up whenever you try to use the printscreen key on a fullscreen program, so that's probably unrelated.

Pain - Clouds of Ecstasy (Bassflow Remix)

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a shielded slinger with makhleb support

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