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Yeah, cursed items are pointless right now; with every one of my non-Ash worshippers who've made it reasonably far in the game, I have used exactly one detect curse scroll (specifically, to ID it) and ended with 15+ remove curse scrolls in my stash. I have had two games where curses have had a signi...

I have a few new questions: What is the skill required for a non-elf to have no casting penalties from a medium elven shield? With Mutation Resistance 1 and an amulet of resist mutation, what is the chance of being mutated on any given attempt (Neqoxec, Shining Eye, etc.)? Just how good is Piercer (...

If you get Fireball down to reasonable levels of hunger, it can take you most of the way through the midgame (i.e. Vaults 1-7, Crypt 1-4, Elf 1-4, Swamp, Snake). Also, you might consider picking Freezing Cloud up at some point (purely on Conjurations and Air); it's a very nice spell to have and it m...

After forgetting to identify my scrolls until D:6 -

Read one of 4 scrolls labeled GHEFUDOU PLOU?
It was a scroll of recharging.
- Hey, cool! 4 recharging.

Read one of 5 scrolls labeled WUET ZUTARO?
It was a scroll of blinking.
- ...

"Hm, I wonder If the one demigod in this entire dungeon could possibly be a doppelgänger?"

I like this revision much more than the original, but some races would have a distinct advantage over the others.

As a berserker, I took the welcoming party out by going down, stairdancing some vault guards up (next to a wall so only five could be next to me at a time), slaughtering them, and repeating. As a HOPr, I took the welcoming party out by stairdancing them up into the middle of my loyal army. As a DEFE...

Looks like kenku have just been removed, too, to make room for another race. An astonishing choice, really, although admittedly there would be too much conceptual and play-style overlap between kenku and tengu to keep them both. I suppose the nod went to the challenger because 'kenku' is a D&D-...

minmay wrote:You could, but they get erased after a few turns.

When I tried it in wizmode I couldn't even find the card in the first place.

Serne wrote:You can totally do it, just be EXTREMELY careful of Orbs of Fire as with only 1 pip of Rf they can hurt you BAD.

...or just wield the Elemental Staff.

The rF+ rC+ rPois on randart gold dragon armours is actually just the rF+ rC+ rPois they have naturally; the only actual randart properties on that GDA are +Lev MR SInv, so it's not that much better than a regular gold dragon armour, and possibly worse if you have a lot of enchant armour scrolls. I...

pratamawirya wrote:
Xavi wrote:Ok, so do you think that you could start as a Healer and stay with Elyvilon for the entire game?

I'm not sure if that qualifies as a real challenge since Ely is very powerful.

Okay, then start as an OgHe and stick with Ely the entire game.

This one's a challenge because, you know, ogres. 8-)

AtT wrote:What welcoming party?

O_O Some of those clouds are dangerously close to you.

Fire Storm makes for a fun Vault:8. That much is certain.

Un67 wrote:I actually have to go without Crawl for more or less the whole month. It's NaNoWriMo and I can't get distracted while writing my novel

-can't get distracted-
-said on a forum unrelated to NaNoWriMo-

You may have already failed. :wink:

It's a really really bad idea to stop playing in a moment of non-obvious danger. I just opened up one of my recent games, and found that I was slightly under half health and hungry; a few moments later, I remembered that I had just killed Harold before quitting. So I ate, rested up, and went down th...

I've got a character who has a cursed helmet, marked {SInv}. What does the abbreviation stand for? In addition, my DEFE is suddenly going through food like it's nobody else's business. I don't see anything that would contribute to this, except possibly burdening. Does this contribute to a character...

Once Ice Storm and Controlled Blink are castable, fighting and dodging become a lot less important. I would suggest turning those two off now and just training Spellcasting, Conjurations, and Ice Magic through Blade and Crypt (do Blade and Crypt, by the way; there's some nice XP in there). You shoul...

Have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker?

What skill levels do I need to get ice storm castable? Pretty much as low as you're going to get: 20 int, 20 spc, 20 conj, 20 ice, worshipping Vehumet, using wizardry, Ice Storm is at Great. With 30 int, 20 spc, 20 conj, and 20 ice, you can reach Great without Vehumet but you still need wizardry. W...

Learn Shock, Lightning Bolt, or any sort of AOE spell. Stand next to a wall. Aim at wall. That beam is likely to hit you. Playing an Air Elementalist is annoying when I have to constantly confirm whether I want to cast my spell. There are also other situations when this happens often as well. On a ...

Did something change with monster actions between .9 and trunk? Taking out Hydras at range on low AC chars is generally a good idea. That, or running. Letting them get close to sticky flame them is a rather bold move. In my one victory, a DEFE, I did it to seven or eight hydrae through Lair and nev...

I love it when you enter a vault full of mindless creatures with Conjure Flame available.

I would be willing to moderate (I read every thread and am capable of reviewing them all) but I probably lack the Ideal level of experience and seniority.

Wands are your friend. If you have any good ones. Also note that hydras are very fast in water. The times it's happened, I've had no good wands and was in the Lair with no water in sight. My hydra-slaying technique in the past with FE (the class I've been losing most to them) was to sticky flame th...

Hydrae love to take double actions and hit you with every single one of their attacks while you're pillar dancing them.

I've lost three or four characters to them recently, just because they're really really good at hitting you while you're trying to run away.

Also, most of my Felids are named Santa. For obvious reasons.

(claus=claws)

Thanks. Who manages the Wiki, by the way? I've noticed a few errors, and wanted to pass those along. http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=badwiki The chaosforge wiki, while useful for some things, is not to be relied upon. If you notice errors, feel free to correct them (it is a wiki, after all...

Borodin wrote:Would a dagger of speed affect movement, or (as is more likely) speed of attack using the weapon?

Just attack speed.

Giving Yellow Draconians rCorr would make no sense at all, and having them grow a slimy field, etc. would be entirely inconsistent with the rest of the Draconian colours; they are not Demonspawn to get a ton of bizarre mutations. Draconians should not expand at all beyond scale colour as far as muta...

Taking Snake right after Lair after finding a spellbook with Ignite Poison seemed like a great idea until Wiglaf said "lolno" on Snake:3. Hit him with Mephitic or Poisonous Cloud and then ignite the cloud. Or stick him with a few poison needles and then cast Ignite. Unless he's pulling a ...

I've experienced the fire-and-ice demons vault before (two mostly-completed circles next to each other, one with lava in the center and fire demons, the other with water in the center and ice), around D:23 or so. Just barely, though, I saw a similar vault on D:5, with a single imp on one side and a ...

On D:4, I just found a buckler, Bullseye, and a dwarven large shield, for all my shielding needs ever.

I've always used High Elf Conjurer and played as a Melee-Spellcaster combo. But now that I look at it, Kenku seems a better choice for this. I played a run as a Kenku Conjurer and I did pretty well (finally died in a Bailey against an Orc Warlord; apparently Berserk Rage doesn't QUITE do the job ag...

Being able to handle the monsters of a branch is no guarantee that you'll defeat the uniques in that branch.

Taking Snake right after Lair after finding a spellbook with Ignite Poison seemed like a great idea until Wiglaf said "lolno" on Snake:3.

I'm always happy to see a red or white draconian, especially when playing a caster of the opposite elemental school. -2 aptitude (+2-4) is not terrible, and it's intriguing to be able to effectively train fire and ice alongside each other. As for resistances, one pip of fire/cold resistance is excel...

So its okay to cut dwarves but a terrible crime to cut High Elf (the ULTIMATE stereotypical Tolkien race?) Actually, High Elves, along with Halflings (the other stereotypical Tolkien race) are very high on the list of potential candidates for being cut. They have been saved thus far because their n...

I love it when I roll up a TrEE, planning to work up to Statue Form, and find a book of Earth on dlvl 3, right after thinking "It would be cool if this book had Statue Form in it" I love it even more when that same character dies to a hydra who managed to step towards him and attack on the...

Here's an idea that might make it both less crippling for melee builds and more present for magic-users: Make berserk trigger upon taking damage, not giving it. Stage 1 could be, perhaps, 1/4 of your HP in a blow to trigger it, Stage 2 1/8, Stage 3 1/16 (or some other ratio). Not only would this be ...

Runes you've picked up don't show up in your inventory; press } to see which ones you have.

62 AC, 58 SH ... O_O

Those are some pretty nice defenses.

Vehumet is extremely well-suited to a coniurations-based build, with guaranteed access to the good attack spells, powerful wizardry bonuses, and the other advantages. The only downside is that he is an exceedingly boring god to worship with only quiet passive abilities available.

After playing a Hill Orc Priest, I can say with certainty that while the new traps are a lot more interesting, they also mean that an upgrade to ally AI would be a very good idea. As it was, despite my detection of just about every trap, I had allies stumble into them and set them off. It usually wa...

That sucks; my HOPr just died on Zot:5, so pretty much the same thing. Congrats on getting so far with him, though.

I love it when, playing a Demonspawn Chaos Knight, I get Demonic Guardian 3 by level 6.

Ever seen a friendly executioner beat up on Eustachio and Menkaure before?

Can you honestly say you would play a Hill Orc over any other race if you didn't want to go with Beogh? Beogh is fun, but there is no other reason to play a Hill Orc. Most of those aptitudes you listed don't even go together that well. For one thing, HO has +2 Stabbing, but they also have -2 Stealt...

I think getting rid of MD is a rash decision. HO is a strictly worse MD that only has Beogh to differentiate them from other races and give them flavor. Minotaurs, even with these new changes, still aren't as good at being super tanks like MD (they can't equip helmets for one thing, and their Armou...

AtT wrote:I thought Mara was a chick

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=gender

How are rods w/ hunger? Terrible; their hunger cost is not nearly as easy to mitigate as spells; the only thing that affects it is evocations skill, and it doesn't do enough. Highlevel rod spells are not a good idea for most fights, but they're very useful in a few fights. Trunk is the development ...

If you have a scroll of vulnerability and the spell Polymorph Other, you can usually change the Royal Jelly into a Titan, a Gold Dragon, etc. in three or four casts. Can be useful if you don't want to deal with its spawns (and also if you want a Gold Dragon Armour made from the skin of The Royal Jel...

Recently, I had a TrBe die from wear-IDing a Ring of -3 Intelligence without Remove Curse available (a stupid death, I know, but I play TrBe to wind down, not to win). The cause of death was listed as "forgot to breathe." I laughed, moved on, and later thought...what about Grey Draconians ...

I'm doing a haunted forest Crypt:5 for the first time after doing that island in the middle of the water one with all the secret areas OVER and OVER and OVER again. I'm the opposite. In the four times I've reached Crypt:5 (I know, not many), I've gotten the haunted forest three times and the island...

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