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crate wrote:Why would you consider swapping away from a quickblade of electrocution? That is the best weapon you could hope for as far as a shortblades user under trog goes, except maybe for qblade of chaos..

Quickblade of distortion, maybe?

blue: glowing (brand unknown, maybe vorpal|slay foo also) yellow: flame cyan: ice brightwhite: elec red: drain purple: distortion green: venom brightblue/brightcyan: holy changing: chaos I'd rather not mess with other representations of colours right now, it should be both simple and straighforward...

Ascii extended is not a standard and it's pretty much a windows-only legacy stuff nowadays (some fonts are in the linux console but I think only me and other nostalgic know that). You have ascii or a nice representation of unicode, if you discount the DEC terminal standard (which worked nicely for m...

Why? Isn't unicode the default now? Is there any reason not to use unicode? No. Having recently started to play online console I met the basic ascii interface in 0.11. I had to tweak my rcfile to obtain unicode. I was used to use command-line options to get the same effect so it was new to me. If y...

Jabberwocky wrote:By the time I can kill a fire giant, I am confident in my ability to kill hydrae.

I won't be so sure. Killing a fire giant only takes some curare and some place to hide while it dies... hydras are poison-immune.

I'm not expert in windows but when I was playing on my netbook it happened all the time. I had to upgrade the video drivers just to not have the pc crash... then I moved to another os.

If you can survive hunger, TrBe is the way to go, man

You folk never use vi (the editor)

adamo901 wrote:Of course, you`d be aware only for non-levitating monsters that way. Ghosts, mosquitoes and so on would safely fly over the traps.

So will Mennas. It flies.

People who don't play the races, should not request to remove them. FeBe is so easy (at least in 0.10) when you know your limitations that isn't even a challenge...

What if there were a passive knockback shield ego? That is to say, sometimes when an enemy hits you in melee combat and you deflect it with your shield, the enemy bounces back a square? I dislike the idea of knockback weapons, because it typically moves the target you are trying to damage out of yo...

If I had to choose, I'd go for longblades as they crosstrain.

MiFi is still strong enough for a beginner to overcome initial shield penalty. Problem is when you play a fighter of another race.

Finesse and Heroism aren't bad, and maybe you can get lucky with some piece of randart armour. Otherwise if you like to go "exotic" you can try Chei or Nemelex. Ely and Makhleb can be a nice addition, the latter providing summons that you cannot get from Trog due to spellcasting. Ely makes...

spryler wrote:Quick blade or Sabre?

I think it depends on what brands are available. I would rather use a quickblade of electrocution, swapping to another brand for flying enemies.

In the tarball there is a settings/ini.txt. Try downloading it (I'll try to attach it here).
Otherwise launch crawl with --extra-opt-first easy_eat_chunks

njvack wrote:Even a buttload of rF, limiting your OOF encounters to one-on-one is wise.

I so much agree.

some12fat2move wrote:One thing I still don't get about fighters - they're designed to be the most heavily armoured background, and only get scale mail?

Going heavier with no armour skill is bound to be dangerous. Try in wizard mode. This is YACI (yet another crawl inconsistency)

njvack wrote:The dev team get to decide what fits those criteria, and adjust the game accordingly. It's totally subjective.

I hope you understood I was joking.

Why do people care about the overall difficulty level of crawl anyway? You can just do challenge conditions if you think it's too easy or use wizard mode if you think it's too hard. By this kind of reasoning I don't understand why nerfs exist at all. You can always play an Ogre caster if you feel i...

It being derailed, I abandon the thread humbly. I though I raised a legitimate question.

Yes, but sticking to D&D (which is a bad example here because it's not a skill-based system) you don't have to start with a shield and relative skill if you don't intend to use it. That's counterintuitive.

Shields are usually bad for fighters , and other backgrounds which play in a similar fashion. Also bow/crossbow hunters. Shields are excellent for conjurors, minion generators, Kiku hybrids, Lugonites, unarmed specialists, anybody who lucked into a fast electrocution/distortion/pain weapon, slinger...

galehar wrote:So, you can't overcome every challenge with a single tool, you actually have to diversify. And you consider it to be a problem?
It was a problem that you could, and it was fixed.

Nobody is nerfing Berserkers, so I tought it differently...

I think the problem here is that when you hit multiple opponents, reading messages is a mess. I think finding some visual feedback could be nice even on tiles. Others uses come to mind, like hitting invisible opponents. A crude method can be flashing the hit with a red star in console, and applying ...

(By the way you should try using decks of destruction sometime, they are very good) My complaint here is that now that you don't have summoning to back them up, you are going to burn decks of destruction pretty quickly. My current character has 13 Evocations and still is not able to one-shot standa...

crate pretty much covered it, yes. It is not a problem if you can no longer get by on nothing but Nemelex decks, and have to actually train a weapon skill or something. Of course I trained both a melee and a throwing weapon. Problem here is you're not using your tool of the trade as a standard way ...

Nemelex is still silly strong once you start being able to use his abilities. I like more destruction/less summoning a lot honestly, it's much more fun. Yes, Nemelex is still strong as a support. But when you receive only decks of destruction and decks of defence, you're going to lack the firepower...

galehar wrote:Yes of course, that was totally the point. They were grossly overpowered.

Of course they were, my point is that this is a nerf that affects midgame Nemelex artificer the most.

BlackSheep wrote:Directly, the frequency has been lowered a lot because the sacrifice value of corpses was lowered a lot. Indirectly, summons are less powerful because they require that their targets be within LOS of the player.

That's in 0.12. In 0.11 I think they behave the previous way.

I'm opening a new thread to talk about the reduced gifts of Decks of Summoning by Nemelex.
My opinion is the Nemelex play has been nerfed and even by making correct use of decks of destruction, you are left with less options. Maybe Nemelex was overpowered but I think artificers in general weren't.

You don't have to put a single experience point into invocations for Makhleb to be worthwhile on a Deep Dwarf and also this has nothing to do with whatever the point of this thread is. I know. My point in my original post was that I feel that the summoning deck nerf was a total Nemelex nerf. As it ...

a shielded slinger with makhleb support Yes, but not only it's the obvious choice for a DD, but it also means training Invocations when I start with a nice Evocation skill... This character worked like a charm in 0.10 (even if it depended on rod acquisition/dropping post Orc), but now you burn deck...

Nemelex gives fewer decks of summoning in 0.11 than in 0.10, probably this is what palin means. (That said DD of Nemelex sounds pretty painful in any version to me) So what path would you have followed with a DD Artificer? Trying to go caster would have proven impossibile (I found only a book with ...

Maybe I'm too late but I rolled a DDAr and followed Nemelex. I feel like with the summoning decks nerf, I'm no longer powerful enough (I'm in L4 now, fleeing from Elephants), I'm not in danger since I have plenty of decks of escape, but having to rely on wands since I finished quickly decks of destr...

Lightning Bolt is adequately powerful, its problem is the noise it makes. If you find a book learn Mystic Blast too.

IMHO AEs have a major drawback, that is Tornado not doing as much bang as Storms or Shatter for the buck. One example, It's fairly easy to dispose of Mennas with a Firestorm or Ice storm, even if it's close to you (just hit a teleport wand or evoke a blink from an artifact), while if you cast Tornad...

h - the +7 pearl dragon armour "Geof" (worn) {+Inv rF+ rN+} (You acquired it on level 6 of the Dungeon) It protects you from fire. It protects you from negative energy. It lets you turn invisible. Perhaps not that outstanding in the greater scheme of things, but gaining it on D6 as an OgB...

Jabberwocky wrote:Not everyone is as fond of challenges as you are though.

These people should stop playing roguelikes as soon as possible...

Turgon wrote:I'd like to add that imo apportation is another useful spell for a fighter in the extended endgame, sometimes allowing you to grab the rune without need to fight antaeus e.g.

That's why I think Runes should be Apportation-resistant like the Orb is. Apportating loot is OK, though.

Has anybody tried that with crossbows? Is there enough crossbow ammo at all for the whole game unless you worship Okawaru? I'd like to try a demigod with crossbows, as ranged combat seems to profit nicely from high stats, and there's only one species with +2 aptitude for crossbows (kobolds) and a c...

the +8,+8 executioner's axe of Xeusuph {god gift, speed, rPois rF+ MR SInv Stlth++} Gifted to me by the great Trog while playing a polearms character That's the most bad ass exec axe i've ever seen. Yes I would definitely have switched to it unless I was way into another weapon type (say over 15 sk...

I compiled 0.11.0 myself and I have the indicator like the first example. Maybe you have some leftover configuration file messing up something?

IMO the best way of recording your desktop is just using ffmpeg like this: ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1280x720 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -threads 0 video.mkv (change the the resolution from 1280x720 to whatever you want. In old versions of ffmpeg replace -preset with -vpre) That com...

Reading about your challenges to do this, I wonder if you would mind to write a short "how to do it", being a linux user with almost no experience in screencasts and video editing it would be nice.

sardonica wrote:Just curious if there's any reason or just because you say so?

SARCASTIC MODE ON

Because HE is doing the stuff and YOU aren't. If you don't like, you can always fork. It's open source, after all.

SARCASTIC MODE OFF

It seems to me a valid point too.

I play webtiles online and console local, but I tend to be confused by quick moving tiles a lot... so I'd prefer console.

I'm stuck with EE at the moment so seeing how to build one consistently without dying would be nice.
Maybe cutting boring sections in the video would help (sometimes skipping by hand is risking not seeing something good)

About this removal, how do this affect to some vaults that make use of these doors? Have they been removed as wll, edited, altered in some way ? Vaults can use secret doors, they are gone from randomly generated maps. For the original question, yes I'm sorry I messed up. With the release of 0.11 I ...

Ok false alarm. I think it was a starting vault since I've finally found a secret door. Sorry. Palin the Charmwright ▒▒▒▒ Merfolk ▒··▒ Health: 16/16 ======================== ▒··▒ Magic: 1/1 ======================== ▒··▒ AC: 3 Str: 12 ▒··▒ EV: 11 Int: 11 ▒··▒ SH: 0 Dex: 13 ▒··▒ XL: 1 Next: 0% Place: ...

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