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I have actually done a little experimenting with mutations before. Most of what I have found here has already been said (as I was reading through, I wish I had been here in time to warn about jiyva's behaviours of adding mutations. They do tend to be good but my next point shows a bad flaw). Somethi...

I have also had a lot of luck with cheibriados. The slow movement can be tricky but he doesn't slow your attack speed, he just doesn't like you using speed increasers. Chei gets you some really potent invocations and his passive benefits cover a few weaknesses that are often left open in order to bo...

I find giant turtles the hardest to notice, until I lose like 30+ hp out of nowhere. This was in the .11 version and prior.

Yes but as that formula shows; spell casting is worth 4 times less and int is worth 6 times less than the equivalent average magic skill. Early skill levels in magic are fairly easy to raise even with terrible aptitudes. 30 int is worth 6 skill levels in each related magic schools and 12 levels in s...

Anyone else find unique angels mennasing?

Non ammo gifts from oka or trog always seemed to me as being a religion based bonus towards equipment RNG. It's simply an increase to the total amount of random loot you get to choose from. It's nice that they will only gift you things you can equip unlike the dungeon which gifts you with a bunch of...

If you are a character who is considering wearing storm dragon armour probably you can just kill electric golems without rElec (especially if you have the "pseudo-rElec" spell called repel missiles). I thought pseudo rElec was levitate, Repel missiles doesn't reduce melee electric damage ...

Have you found a cloak of preservation? That mixed with an amulet of resist corrosion or any other source of rAcid makes slime pits fairly trivial to a high level fighter. Take care with the royal jelly though he is pretty tough. Keep in mind that the only loot in the slime pits is at the bottom in ...

cerebovssquire wrote:Thanks for the pointer. Temporal Distortion blinks monsters next to you, useful if you are slow and want to hit ranged attackers.

****! Really?! Man chei really is the best god ever. I wish I knew that, thanks.

Storm dragon armour, much more importantly, is plate armour that starts out at -1 enchantment (basically) and no useful resistance such as MR, rC+ and rF+. A randart might be better than plate, since it can potentially solve both of these problems, but it is unlikely that even a randart with positi...

Nice guide, will have to try. One question though... What does temporal distortion do? The sentence was cut off (maybe that is what temporal distortion does...). I have won twice with chei (15 and 5 runes) but I still never could figure out what that power does. I figured it would accelerate the poi...

Just to point out: gold dragon armour which has 3 base pips in resistances is the 'heaviest' armour that has it's extra penalties canceled out at 27 str (-9 ev). Crystal plate armour has no base resistances but has the highest base AC and GDR out of any armour and it's extra penalties are canceled o...

I think the monster I use polymorph other on most often is orc warrior. For me, it's quasits. The problem with quaff-ID is that each time you ID something useful with it you waste a useful potion. my (un-popular) opinion on quaff-ID'ing potions is to do it. specifically do it in a safe situation wh...

heavy armour definitely will make it take longer to get higher spells cast-able to reasonable standards but its not out of the question. as a dwarf, dwarven armour give you less of a spell casting penalty and as you raise your armour skill your penalty will be reduced even further (correct me if I'm...

i really wouldn't suggest a scroll of random uselessness as a way to protect yourself from any ranged attacker unless you have no other options at all (including take a few hits while getting to/ up a set of stairs) The chance that it will spawn those butterflies is very low. a scroll of fog however...

Wands of polymorph are also good to use on jellies. They're bad to use on everything dangerous, however, as you can turn a somewhat dangerous early-game threat into a very dangerous OOD threat pretty easily. yes definitely though I have had jellies turn into some pretty nasty stuff (a yellow wasp o...

well one quick bit of advice: use any wands you find. later on many of them are fairly useless without evocations but early on almost nothing has any decent MR. polymorph works wonders on ogres, if an ogre is carrying a giant club or a giant spiked club, it will drop it after being polymorphed (this...

Bardings have an evasion penalty, but it's nothing whatsoever like the evasion penalty on body armour. It just reduces your EV by 2. No effect that I know of on spellcasting or melee accuracy. And 4 AC is certainly better than 2 EV. ah thanks for the clarification. I think I'll try making an armour...

Are elemental bolts not reflectable? I thought they were. For most of the other threats you list; getting your hands on stuff with resists is important for most/all styles of play, those threats are still pretty bad for two handed users. I never really noticed if it took very long to kill most monst...

Ack. I made this big long post before heading to work but was running late so I posted it then shut off my computer before running out the door. Must have asked me if I still wanted to post since some else posted while I was writing x.x Well the short and the long of it was: Thank you cerebovssquire...

-edit: somehow accidental posted the topic before I finished typing it, sorry for the casting of mass confusion. rather than necro another topic to ask a barely on-topic question: are shields of reflection really that bad? I understand how the blocking defence is reduced dramatically for every attac...

I'm pretty sure it's a good idea to equip a barding as soon as you find it, unless it happens to be something unusual like negative enchantments. why though? iirc a base barding supplies 4ac and -2 evp. if your going the dodge route for defence then the -2 evp doesn't help much at all and the +4 ac...

I'm pretty sure it's a good idea to equip a barding as soon as you find it, unless it happens to be something unusual like negative enchantments. why though? iirc a base barding supplies 4ac and -2 evp. if your going the dodge route for defence then the -2 evp doesn't help much at all and the +4 ac...

You still get an offhand punch if you have an unused hand and UC skill. However you are basically always better served by making that unused hand into a used hand--either get a bigger weapon, or equip a shield--instead of getting damage from the offhand punch. The only exception is that some UC cha...

(assuming you know that secondary attacks don't get strengthened by UC any-more) Nope, didn't know that. That will certainly make my playthroughs as a TeGl much smoother. When'd they change that? I'm not sure when it was changed, the information I have is from the auxiliary attack page on the wiki....

or if you have the money, grab a keyboard that has macro key recording built in.

The vamp brand only heals you based off the damage you do. The axe has -5 damage. Even with a decent ring of slaying it probably won't be that useful. The only half decent aspect of the axe I think is the Sinv I'll quote a better player than me: if the weapon is one you would use without a vamp bran...

Alternatively you could have gone with jiyva who is easy to gain piety with and doesn't eat your current gold. Jiyva will allow you to remove only bad mutations but your likely to lose a good mutation or two while you work up the piety. Or you could be lucky and gain a couple extra good mutations. W...

Str is actually the most important stat for all the launchers, but that's because slings, bows, and longbows get a quite large damage boost from str. Also ranged fighters end up relying on having a lot of ammo, really heavy ammo apparently especially if your lucky enough to find steel or silver ammo

I like to make high defence melee characters so I was pretty bummed when they took away mountain dwarves and beefy grey draconians. I know a good defence is not usually the ideal strategy in crawl but still. (I also think its strange that centaurs have a -3 aptitude to both dodging and armour, espec...

Actually, going back on topic...

Am I the only one who trout changing grey draconian a from melee powerhouses to sneaky stab era was... Strange? Was there some reasoning behind that? I would have assumed that role would be better for the pale draconian or maybe a new shadow draconian.

I got this one on my tourney win:

You throw the stone at the hydra, it hits!
you kill the hydra!
Cheibriados greatly appreciates the change of pace.
You level up!

Not only did I have 0 skill levels in throwing but I guess my god really did appreciate the kill

njvack wrote:You could train throwing a bunch and hit TRJ with paralysis needles, right? Looks like enchanting to-hit on the blowgun helps too.

but doesn't rPois make monsters immune to poison needles?

As I understand, in the mid-game weapon skills + appropriate weapon is much superior to bare hands (even with augmentations like claws) + UC. Late-game UC can really shine but the mid-game hurdle is high if you want to strictly never use a weapon. Mid-game UC is only recommended if you have transmu...

hey yeah! and we should make it so that once you get your 4th pip in say fire resistance, you end up at rFxxx. Then we could have monsters that hit you with resistance increasing attacks just to throw you off. we could call them orbs of excessive happiness. /sarcasm: the "so far into the negati...

As I understand, in the mid-game weapon skills + appropriate weapon is much superior to bare hands (even with augmentations like claws) + UC. Late-game UC can really shine but the mid-game hurdle is high if you want to strictly never use a weapon. Mid-game UC is only recommended if you have transmu...

I usually play beefier characters but I do think I have something that can help. Your not going to kill the royal jelly without taking some hits, stacking a cloak or preservation with your amulet of rCorr wont protect your items any better but it will give you an extra pip in rAcid (not show in the ...

Yes ork mines can be very bad, always be ready to run back to the stairs and to take a few hits going up them. some things are just unavoidable sometimes (shafts are fairly common ways to lose a good character in ork mines) One time I went down to floor 4 and the staircase was surrounded by a large ...

Here is an idea many people might not think about. Cheibriados Chei will get you very large boosts to your main stats at high piety which will make large rocks into tactical nukes as well as give you enough total str to carry a large amount of large rocks and javelins (this will make shoals a great ...

doesn't resist poison also make you immune to this spell? I seem to remember having a character use this spell often.

because i cannot edit my post, i'll stick this here. I did not know that about the slime pits. good to know.

reminds me of when i teleported next to a unique jelly in the slime pits when trying to get away from some other danger.

while not online, i lost a powerful troll transmuter around the third floor of the slime pits. if it were online i'd bet that would piss somebody off

danr wrote:There are a few options at nuklear power. Is this the on you mean?: http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/ ... ing-where/

yes, the comic itself is called 8-bit theater. it doesent look like much at first but it does get much better with time. the comic is 9-10 years long.

imho one of the best comics out there including incredibly long brick jokes. 8-bit theater.

yes its a sprite comic but its long, witty and complete (sadly)

http://www.nuklearpower.com

i'd like to point out that if you want to avoid feeding as a vampire, do not train unarmed. your bite attacks will drain blood and feed you.

iirc the exit is in a small to medium perfectly square rock area at the center of the metal area. i can see the confusing it might cause but it never tripped me up. getting through the maze as a troll can be pretty hairy some times o.o

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