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So...vaults. Often some of the best parts of any level; sometimes huge, sometimes tiny; sometimes easy, often remarkably difficult. What are some you've found that you've really enjoyed? I've had quite a few awesome ones with my current character, starting on D:3 (by far the earliest I've found a co...

Well... you could let him build up the bonus on it and then let him get ganked... OR enjoy your shiny new warlord of DESTRUCTION. He got ganked when we raided D:27 early and now there are several dragons sitting on his corpse. Granted, what pissed me off more was killing the Golden Dragon, moving t...

I love it when I leave the Slime Pits with only the mutations Str-1, Shoutitis 1, and Rugged Brown Scales.

...playing a melee character who couldn't care less about Str-1 or Shoutitis 1.

HOPr is a very fun pure-melee build; your axe can take care of most enemies and your followers can usually defeat the rest. Smiting is also a pretty powerful early-game tool, useful for defeating Sigmund, et al. Berserkers are great for their early instant-win berserk button; they're a lot easier to...

I can't say I'll miss them, but their absence does create a bit of imbalance with three subspecies of elves and only one of everything else. It might make sense to remove/reflavour one of them. High elves already are very similar to merfolk without the added flavour of water travel, and they're the ...

Here's a fun one: hallucination.png Playing a Hill Orc Priest, I came upon this bizarre phenomenon while traversing the Orcish Mines. Some strange witchcraft of the developers turned many of my followers into rare-looking items! unhallucination.png ...except when it didn't. This happened every other...

It would also be reasonable to argue against bolas degrading; instead of tearing yourself away from them, you would just disentangle your feet. It would be a very nice alternate option to nets, I think.

One thing that's been remarkable while playing my first HOPr in Trunk: Polearms. Sure, they're terrible weapons for you , but if you have a couple of knights or warlords following you around adding to your damage output no matter what the terrain, almost anything will fall. ...including hydrae. ...i...

That 6-headed hydra that you didn't quite manage to kill with an edged weapon? It's now an 11-headed hydra. That 11-headed hydra that you didn't quite manage to kill with an edged weapon? It's now a 14-headed hydra. That 14-headed hydra that you didn't quite manage to kill with an edged weapon? ...h...

I laughed when I saw this shop. What are the chances?

I used to play only stable, but Trunk became too tempting to resist after the changes to staves and transmuters; I started it for those, and now that I've seen the new Crypt tiles I can never go back.

Okay...where do you find the options files offline? I want to add some autotravel stop messages but can't find the files to do so.

Also, I know this has been asked before, but can god weapon brandings (i.e. TSO's holy wrath, Kiku's pain, Lugonu's distortion) override regular brands?

http://i54.tinypic.com/s6oew7.png I thought this wasn't supposed to spawn outside of Slime? It only spawns very rarely outside of Slime. In my last game, I had two altars to Jiyva besides the one on Slime:6 - one on D:13 and one at the entrance. Anyway, I had this ... interesting ... sight in the O...

Woohoo! My actions had an effect on something! :D Congrats on your victory; Summon Dragon and Fire Storm really were made for each other, with the dragons acting as a bodyguard while not getting too much in the way of Fire Storm. Seems like fun to take them into the extended game. Also, Summon Drago...

You're making a bit too much of a song and dance about Tomb if you're saying it's very hard on a MuFE (as Galefury pointed out: rTorm). This might apply for nearly all melee characters (bar the undead, basically) but for one who has 1) one of the best spells to clear Tomb and 2) one of the best per...

I quite like the Abyss now. If you're cunning about where you run, you can lose pursuers in the morphing. Obviously this can go both ways ;) I am terrified by the Abyss now. The change makes it a lot harder to sit somewhere and heal up, and a lot easier to get in over your head. That said, it's def...

I don't think it's much of an issue; by the time you're strong enough to grind those areas safely, you'll be close to having all the skill points you'll ever need. A slight reduction in late-game permafood could help if it's deemed to be an issue, but other than that, the areas would need a drastic ...

Anyway, I wouldn't despair about your Crawl prowess. You made it to four runes, which is more than many people ever do. I've gotten five runes twice, and won with one of those; I got two runes once before accidentally killing myself; I got one rune in an online game that I haven't gotten around to ...

This is an odd problem: I am playing a MfWz and have 4 runes, and as an ice-specialist with rF+++ I decided that Ghenna would be a good rune to get next. But I have no source of levitation. I cannot get into the end vault, across the lava. I have an amulet of cFly, but no way to lift off... If I se...

okay, news flash: The new abyss is actually scary. And I foolishly didn't realize there was a new abyss. A fiend caught me when I had already been taken down to around 50 HP, and I didn't really have any good escape options. :/ After that death, and the moments leading up to it (fairly close to dyin...

I didn't realize the Vestibule *was* more dangerous than Vaults:8; if I had, I would have approached it with a lot more caution. :oops: Such are the perils of going further than I ever have before. I have found no distortion weapons that I know of, unfortunately; Psyche spawned with Chaos and Sonja ...

The Vestibule was nice and relaxing, and by relaxing I mean oh shoot oh shoot I'm being surrounded no I'm out of MP why won't these demons leave me alone teleport teleport oh hi Murray gottagetoutgottagetout down to only 70 HP okay cool it's clear. :D EDIT: oh my goodness, the Tomb is scary. I'm luc...

lerugray wrote:heres what my options are reading, am i doing something wrong?

##### 4-g Travel and Exploration #################
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# travel_delay = 20
# explore_delay = -1

explore_delay = -1 means that you'll have instant exploration, like what you're describing. Change it to a higher number should work.

I've never used the storm spells, but I have cleared Tomb and Hells. Let me put it this way: You're immune to torment and cold. You have no hunger costs, and can channel infinitely. You can instantly respond to summon spam with powerful AoE's. You've got pretty much all of the biggest problems solv...

Also, a summary for those who don't want to read the blow-by-blow: I'm a mummy dual-elemental caster (Fire and Ice, with lv.9 nukes in each), currently with three runes and wanting to try for 6-15 runes. I've only won once before, and I've never touched Pan or Tomb, nor cleared the Vestibule. Any an...

You should tab Vault:8 now. :twisted:

so...funny story. After my DEFE win, I tried some other things; the farthest I got was mid-Lair with a SETm. I had tried a few mummy casters, but their terrible, terrible early games scared me off. But I was bored, and I hadn't played Fire Elementalist in a while, so I decided to roll up a MuFE desp...

I found another artifact with an awesome name; un-ID'd, it appeared a a crystal spear, so I thought, "Cool, LCS." I didn't bother ID'ing it; instead, I just wielded it to make sure. It sticks to your hand! E - the cursed spear of Xom's Righteous Fury {pierce, rN+, Str+1} Guess Xom got bore...

I just had a thought: can you use the crosstraining with reskilling to get cheap skills? For example, Ogre has Maces and Flails, learns Axes, and transfer knowledge from Axes to Armour or something? Ooh. Good thought, but it doesn't work like that; crosstraining raises apts, not skill points like m...

[regarding IOOD] oh my goodness this attack is so awesome. I never got around to learning it until just barely, when my MuFE discovered iron and crystal golems on Crypt:5 with no way to counter them, and... :shock: :D :twisted: It is ridiculously fun to splatter necromancers across the floor and de...

ElectricAlbatross wrote:I find spiny frogs (like many other things) to be basically trivialized by Ice Form.

I find spiny frogs (like many other things) to be basically trivialized by Sticky Flame.

So...how exactly does Boris's respawning work? I've never killed him yet because he's always been conveniently out of the way, but it seems like a good idea to know in preparation for the day when I *do* have to fight him.

Dig and IOOD have incredible synergy.

What are some good (3-4 hit KO) spells against Orbs of Fire? Uh, assuming you've maxed out all three relevant skills, have a good int score, and are wielding a staff of cold, Ice Storm will just about do that. Probably Fire Storm and Crystal Spear, too, but you'll need archmagi robes as well as the...

I love it when I find a trove of jewellery instead of random junk for once. Netted me four randarts and 8 other pieces of jewellery, none of which I had identified. 8-)

I just found a pretty sweet randart spellbook in a Wizlab: Nikola's Handbook of Destructive Flight a - Shock b - Repel Missiles c - Swiftness d - Mephitic Cloud e - Insulation f - Lightning Bolt g - Silence h - Conjure Ball Lightning Mostly I just like it for the awesome name. The spellbook next to ...

AtT wrote:Could an enchanter corona or at least invis itself repeatedly to play mutation roulet ?

If you like bad mutations, which glow has a 4/5 chance of giving (the rest are random), then yeah, you could. Corona's blue glow is different from other glow, so no mutations there.

A few more questions: While levitating or flying over deep water/lava, can a purple Draconian breath dispell your levi/flight buff? Does it also affect Kenku flight ability? That would be instant death. :x I've been playing aquatic grey Draconians and noticed that I still fumble while fighting in t...

The most beautiful thing about Trunk right now: 5 MP Fireball. With Vehumet's -1 MP for expensive spells, Fire Elementalists get a 4MP nuke to slaughter everything with. I mean, I know everyone says FE is the weakest elemental class, but needing a grand total of half the starting spellbook (Flame To...

That layout's basically a giant middle finger to anyone who doesn't have rPois. /Tried it without rPois. //Died ///Was more because I made too much noise than anything. I was a mummy with poison immunity , and it was still terrifying. And awesome. The noise I made was a major issue, because they ke...

My small question is: Why does natural mana growth cap out at 50? It seems like a strange way to penalize the magically inclined races, since at high level they end up with less health but equal mana to a less 'magical' species. It was determined way back that unrestricted mana pools were effective...

I love it when I find an incredibly difficult spider's nest with a horde of 12 giant centipedes and a similar amount of scorpions guarding the entrance, plenty of tarantellas, jumping spiders, wolf spiders, redbacks, and trapdoor spiders, and a couple of demonic crawlers and emperor scorpions for go...

Okay, I have some manual-related questions: 1. If you find a manual with a skill you have a cross-training malus towards, how would they affect each other, or, in other words, which would have the greater effect? 2. If you find two manuals for the same skill, can you study them simultaneously? (I'm ...

choosing which skills to invest in is a strategical choice. Skills have mostly an effect on the tactical level, except T&D which also has many small implications on a strategical level (nutrition from resting the trap's damage, item lost, mutations and banishment from zot traps,...). And, as po...

The various body shapes of zombies do get special tiles in the tiles version, which is very nice. Speaking of which, a (very) little bit more differentiation might be helpful. It's slightly disconcerting to be facing draconian zombies in the Crypt that look identical to the orc zombies you were mow...

"-" allows you to customize your character doll in tiles. :D ...maybe not entirely in the spirit of the thread, but it still made me ridiculously happy when I discovered it. As for a proper lesson...just because you've taken down an Orcish Warlord in melee doesn't mean you can fight Gastro...

All this proposal seems likely to do is make item destruction more arbitrary and illogical; strategic item destruction may be inconvenient, but saying "This scroll can be burned but this one is safe" would be worse. The less radical alternative sounds like it could be nice, although you ca...

tormodpwns wrote:what exactly does acquiring Misc items give you?

Decks of cards, crystal balls, discs of storms, boxes of beasts, bottled efreets, etc. It's never really worth it.

So, funny story. I opened Crawl, intending to play a mummy caster like you guys suggested, but I saw a game of mine with a lv.1 Sludge Elf Transmuter that I had started on a whim while I was unsure what to do. That lv.1 SETm is now a lv.11 SETm of Ashenzari, working her way through Lair, and I'm hav...

Or Ring of Flames.

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