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As a pretty poor player who tries to hybridize MfIE's early (i.e. skill Polearms before the L4 spells), it's not obvious to me why DrIE should be so good. Is it the higher HP and AC that Dr start with? DrIE is good because Dr is by a good deal imo the strongest race that isn't DD or fast. Great def...

hence, mf is marginally better than hu! on any IE (except trie I guess, but trolls are all trolls) I would learn at least one of summon ice beast/throw icicle before I trained any nonmagical skill Again it depends on playing style. I have not summoned ice beasts in that game either, wandering muchr...

minmay wrote:
prozacelf wrote:I'm failing to see where the tedium comes in.
have you ever butchered something big and then pressed o

IMO make autopickup pick 2-3 chunks depending on your hunger, and drop rotten ones instead of removing burden.

Why shouldn't choosing what players want to carry, and how much they carry be a strategical decision in this game? There is a careful balance in carrying different stuff depending on what character you are playing, and it requires thought and decision making. I would hate to see that part of the gam...

I've had a poison spell idea that I've been mulling over for a few days. I'll lay it out here just to get some feedback and see how poorly thought out it is. Spell: Tainted Gift (I'm thinking Lv 6-8, but it can obviously be changed) Description: Dark legends speak of foul mages who sought to gain c...

I did a couple VM runs recently, finding either envenomations or other goodies. For me, one of the most entertaining aspects of crawl is the concept of adapting, and making use of what you find, so I pretty much always skill up for some form of mellee combat on magic backgrounds, as well as dabbling...

First of all choosing to use or not to use a spell in a playthrough, and not in a specific position is a strategic decision, not a tactical decision. And choosing not to use a spell that is worse than other options available to you, and doesn't synergise with the schools you are training is a no br...

The thing is, poison already has a very useful array of tactical spells in form of both mephitic cloud and poison cloud, alistair intoxication, ignite poison, summon scorpions as well as spider form. People would like a reason to train poison magic more than up to lvl 10 (because there is literally ...

That's one of the plenty, plenty of reasons to ignore this spell. Like, why not choose any other bolt if you go conjurations. Why dabble in conjurations and necro at all. Why lose experience on kills you don't need to lose experience on. Why waste precious brainpower having to think and make tactic...

So I'm gonna assume that the xp penalty doesn't matter because you've played throughout a game using a weapon of draining and didn't notice the difference. If noone notices the difference, then why not just remove the experience penalty? It's irrelevant, it's just a minor annoyance of an already rat...

Here's another suggestion: Lower Bolt of Draining's damage, and its spell level to 5. At 6 it is definitely not worth the xp investment, especially since it actually reduces the xp gain (unlike any other bolt spell) and necromancy/conjuration dual school has no other spell in it. By the time this s...

I'm not sure if an amulet of running slightly faster is a good idea, but amulet of CFly is definitely a relic from the past and should be removed. Whether or not we need new amulets is another case altogether.

No, you should realise that inhaling the smoke from smoking the cigarettes is what is poisoning you, which is indeed as if you were injesting the nicotine, and god knows what else. Also, I hate your comparison because I'm in the process of quitting and I love(d) smoking. On topic - none of the sugge...

I'd definitely train evocations with this set of rods if you don't want to use other forms of magic. That rod of freezing clouds is worth a lot (clears elf:5 fast, and anything not cold resistant as well).

Or outrun her.

TW2 is far more linear than the elder scrolls gamesl. There's lots of stuff to do, but at some point you have to do the current chapter's main quest and move on to the next chapter. Also (if you're into that sort of thing) the roleplaying aspects are far more limited. You are playing Geralt, not so...

If you want to play Skyrim, but haven't played Witcher 2: Assasins of kings, you should do that instead. The game is insane. Easily beat both dragon ages for me in both story, character development, script, combat and pretty much everything apart from inventory management.

I'd be extremely sad to lose growth, I think for what it's worth it's got some utility and is a great tool for generating oklobs. It's a good power.

Permadeath is the one thing that keeps me from spending more time with roguelikes. The cycle is: 1. Remember what rich gameplay some roguelikes have, forgetting how they only lead to pain 2. Fire up one of my favorite roguelikes 3. Play until one character does particularly well, then dies from bei...

AtT wrote:Why are all these creatures trapped in two dimensions?

They aren't, they can move up and downstairs!

Yet another idea (remember that some of them should be rare rather than usual) d) Pavise : It is a very large shield usually carried on back to be placed in front of an archer or crossbowman. Basically it is a portable obstacle to allow shield protection against ranged monsters while you are also s...

I don't recall any changes to oklob cost since Fedhas' creation, I believe it was always piety for mushrooms and fruit for oklobs. And 2 fruit to neutralize any threat dungeon can throw at you is doubtly a high cost, especially since when the hive got eliminated RNG seems to give out more food, and ...

(while i risk to repeat myself...) In addition, Fedhas prayer damages zombies (necrophages and ghouls also?) but not the incorrupted vampires. Sunlight should be a good option here to specifically damage vampires... fedhas prayer turns zombies into skeletons (not sure if that's exactly damaging bes...

2 things from me.

1st you should have used the blowgun to kite the same speed orc warriors/melee baddies and

2nd, the 2 posters above me have it right, with a whip of elec, heroism and stair dancing you could probably deal with anything at that point in game.

How would permabuffs work?

Maybe a minor effect on the undead could fit in here, but I'm not completely in favour of this. If we allow vampires to transform into bats, they also should be burned terribly by sunlight. Sunlight also should petrify trolls. This game blends plenty of fantasy cliches already, with races such as h...

In my recent win with MfHu I was about to die to starvation at zot:5, I've bought every piece of permafood in the game without going into extended endgame/slime. I've got fast metabolism mutation and berserkertitis (which made me consume a lot of permafood in the mid game). I don't think this would ...

I think the health of the mushrooms is based on your invo, and yours was only 10 so that may be why they felt so squishy? Sunlight is an AoE corona so it does reveal invis (great for early horrors). I've still not won a Fedhas character, but I've splatted some pretty late (after doing tomb with Okl...

If playing online the game always asks you if you want to change into the latest version of crawl, if one is available.

Otherwise it seems you would do so only to benefit from some nice changes.

Either way it's completely up to you. Do you consider it scammy yourself?

I read somewhere that Int was much more valuable than the other stats on anyone who casts. Is this correct? It is thoroughly correct. I cannot think of any situation where I would prefer to raise another stat. Melee with haste benefit more from other stats when they get haste to excellent, at least...

To make a long story short, I had no luck amassing early piety, even though I truly did try to stick to low level spells as much as possible. I had stellar luck with early spellbooks, but nonetheless I died on DL10 with only one * of piety to my name, to a situation which I could easily have surviv...

I've just ascended a MfHu of Fedhas and here are my thoughts on the God: ** is way too early to be able to create oklobs, which can deal with pretty much anything up to late dungeon levels on their own, especially early melee powerhouses, oklobs so early absolutely trivialise them and I believe they...

This is my 3rd victory, the other 2 being considerably easier (DSCK of makhleb in heavy armour 0.6, and KoBe of Trog in 0.8). This one wasn't difficult because I chose fedhas (only slightly more so in the endgame) but apart from a good early game I've had horrible luck throughout the game including ...

I think Vehumet spellbook gifting should be revamped in a way, or his piety loss over time reduced. It is currently a major nuissance to not be able to get the book of power when you are facing death yaks and hydrae on regular basis, and the first book he gifts (conjurations) is rather useless for m...

I'd like to point out that I play, and was playing this game for the last 3 (or 4, don't remember) years BECAUSE of its difficulty. I believe it is one of the goals of the game, an original and ambitious one to make the game ridiculously difficult, but very rewarding if mastered, and that is exactly...

2. Subpar breath weapons. I don't think I'm understating when I say that a wand of frost is probably the least powerful offensive wand in the game by several magnitudes. Well, this is basically all a white draconian gets when they mature. The knock back against flying targets is laughable, the very...

You could also just make the affected monster immune for the next x turns after the effect of first confusing touch wore off. Like, if you charge a lot it lasts longer (only applies on the first hit) but it's impossible to confuse the monster for the next 50 turns or something similar. You would get...

Dex penalty is totally negligible, but no extra resistances/+1 sucks.

But isn't 3 running with chei 'doable but annoying' too?

Thanks for all the advices, I'm not planning on shields, and since I already started training dodging I'll stick with it and hope I can overcome terrible mi casting apts (Or I'll just give up halfway ;) ). Btw I'm hooked on polearms, but since this char looks so promising and has found elec brand by...

KK About bardiche of freezing = I'm asking if I should start training polearms to grab it later on, I could as well start now. I do know about the weapon base types + delay.

Thanks for answers, mate.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Sealer the Cleaver (Minotaur Death Knight) Turns: 11294, Time: 00:37:48 HP 83/83 AC 7 Str 18 Exp: 10/7166 (1630), need: 3697 MP 17/17 EV 13 Int 10 God: Lugonu [*.....] Gold 51 SH 0 Dex 10 Spells: 0 memorised, 9 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See ...

scrolls of Torment are also very useful against The Royal Jelly

Actually smiting adds a lot of strategy in game. It's an eye opener, early on it is deadly for any character. Later on it is dangerous if not kept in control. It really makes prioritizing targets much more important.

Yeah the best advice is definitely: know when to stop.

I did end up with a speed 1 regen 1 human at some point, but I also did end up with hunger 3 berserk centaur.

Know when to stop, and if you're good with your set wear rMut for mutaters
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It's guaranteed in trunk, or so I hear.

I can agree on one thing, and that is:

Minotaurs are too plain.

ClawlessVictory wrote: Also, I think there are a few races that could be excised without being missed much, namely the minotaur, ogre and mummy, about a tab that keeps a running total of the monster types you've killed?
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Elaborate.

Thanks for the replies, I'm interested in playing trunk but I really don't want to play a game that feels half finished or broken. Nothing in trunk feels half finished or broken. If anything, it feels like an improved version 0.7. For a great example of this: Heavy armour that in 0.7 feels useless ...

Shapeshifters?

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