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Oh, I LOVED fulsome distillation! I still miss old transmuters. (Not in the sense that I think they should come back. Just in the misty-eyed nostalgia sense.) I don't think I used insulate much though. I felt like such a mad scientist, distilling toxic substances out of dead bodies and throwing them...

Ah, nostalgia! My first win was offline and I don't know what my spells were. My first online win: a - Haunt Necr/Summ #########. 10% 7 None c - Haste Chrm ######### 1% 6 None d - Animate Dead Necr N/A 1% 4 None e - Iron Shot Conj/Erth ########## 1% 6 None g - Lee's Rapid Deconstr Erth ########## 0%...

Hi there! To give the best advice we need to know what you're playing. I can give some general comments though. * Trog is excellent if you don't mind doing without spells. * Ashenzari is decent but a bit quirky, don't use Ash if you want to use a ranged weapon because one of the ways you get piety i...

I did it too! I'm embarrassed at my morgue file, it shows how crap I am at avoiding malumtations, as well as how generally indecisive I was: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/cjo/morgue-cjo-20180529-062801.txt I originally wasn't going to abandon Trob but kudos for Ebring for egging me on :) You wer...

cjo - thank you for your feedback! Conveying how it felt, what you liked, what you didn't like... is very helpful. yay! I wonder if you were subtly influenced by incorrect text that hasn't been changed to represent the correct flavour. That said, I mark this as a vote in favour of an alternative, c...

I tried this out a bit. I wanted quick games and I wanted the same background so I could more directly contrast divine effects, so I chose gladiator with polearms three times running. I'm not the best player and I was rushing, so all of these died before reaching L15. Game 1: manifested Qazal, then ...

Caustic shrikes are vicious! Still, if you did it once you can do it again. Good luck!

Right now while you don't have skill in anything, plinking away with that crossbow is a decent move and will help reward you for letting monsters come to you instead of charging them. I'd keep it until you have a decent amount of throwing skill, assuming inventory isn't actually driving you mad yet

Hmm... If you weren't using a shield I'd suggest starting with some evocations (5 in lair, 10 by depths) and then longbows. I like evocations because it's a handy way to disable some annoying enemies (like polymorphing electric eels) or to get some extra punch (wand of clouds.) Longbows have good da...

@Realz, where are you at in terms of wanting reactions to the divine abilities? How did you choose which abilities to work with? I noticed that manifesting most gods (Ru, Trog) doesn't require any of the game play adjustments that you'd make if you worshipped them normally, but manifesting Chei does...

@realz, I think this might be a neat idea, but I wish you had split it up. "Should this species exist" is the first step, and "should this species replace the current version of Demigods" is the second. I have a soft spot for species with random attributes. Draconic and Demonspaw...

I also had good experiences with Gozag--though in my case I converted to Gozag specifically because I saw Zephyr (a fantastic artifact bow) for sale and wanted divine help raising the cash. In general Gozag is a flexible and powerful pick as long as you don't want to liberally high hunger spells. Go...

the +9 quarterstaff of Annoyance (weapon) {crush, *Noise rN++ Dex+8 Stlth+}

Love the name!

Perhaps we could have a special altar-specific portal through which the player can sense the presence of an altar or gets some other hint. A portal taking a player near an altar would already be different than regular abyss portals.

I like this proposal. Crawl has very few 'gotchas,' but spell hunger as it relates to skilling is one of them. One of the weirdest experiences I had in learning to play elementalist starts is that the best way to reduce hunger issues was to train less spellcasting, not more. Overtraining spellcastin...

This has been a weird game. First off, I completely forgot that I wasn't playing Trunk and thus Dith's conduct would bar me from conjure flame. Whoops! I really, really missed conjure flame, especially early on in the Lair. I kept raising int on the assumption that some other spell book would turn u...

@cjo Also, I wouldn't be too worried about m dart, in I were you. =D The stuff I write is very unlikely to be implemented, simply because I can't code, and those who can are likely to disagree and/or have their own projects going. I enjoy the discourse, though. Oh sure, we're just spitballing here,...

I notice you made a suggestion for wizards but not for conjurers or venom mages. What's your suggested fix for the other two? About conjurer, I am not sure. About poison, spider form wouldn't hurt, and would work as a melee alternative. It is actually odd that poison mage doesn't get it, because ic...

Wizards: I used to have a lot of trouble with the starting book stalling out fast, but I picked up various tricks from the forum and other advice, and now it gets me a lot further than it used to. A lot of creatures can be coaxed to stand in conjure flame, for example, including black mambas and kom...

Well I died again. I had no solution for a dancing halberd of distortion that was apparently a random spawn on O:2. At the end of the second attempt of swarming it with allies, I was running away and would reluctantly forego the O:2 shops for a while, but it surprised me with the amount of damage a...

Congrats, and great writeup!

I love octopodes, but only when I'm in a squishy mood. Go team squid!

Hurrah!

Honestly, I'm at the point where winning every 26th time would be step up, which is why I didn't give you advice! But I do get the frustration of a long losing streak.

Nice writeup. Go squid go!

Congrats on surviving the abyss!

I'm a returning player--I've played off and on since .05 IIRC, however I've come and gone from the game due to RL stuff including some mild tendonitis. I love 0.20! I plan to switch to trunk eventually, but right now I'm having too much fun with the current stable version. As I've seen Crawl go thro...

stoneychips -- I think you're right that people won't agree. When do people ever all agree on anything, however trivial? :) However, my claim wasn't that D1 deaths never happen, but rather that I enjoy seeking a weapon. I'm not in love with running in circles around a pillar any more than the next p...

I'm no expert and have never done extended with a troll. I have seen Pan and Hell so I'll give you my non-expert tips: The first thing I notice is lack of resists. What other equipment can you swap in? You can adjust for every rune level. How about that GDA? It's hard to believe that your few spells...

You can "complete" it in a quite unsatisfying way, by picking up a cursed -3 short sword. That may extend your little mini-quest all the way down to D3 or D4, until you identify a scroll of remove curse. But I have to admit that it gives an even deeper feeling of satisfaction when you sur...

FWIW, I enjoy the hunt for a weapon on D1. It's this quick little mini task that gives me satisfaction to complete, and adds some variety to the early game. I wouldn't want to give it up in exchange for off-theme equipment that's the same every time.

Congrats! I almost never abandon gods after the very early part of the game, so it was interesting to see someone do it for Makhleb. Interesting game.

I'm so psyched - I just won my first Troll playing as a monk of Hepliaklqana, with a hexing ancestor :) I had great luck with gear and consumables, so I can't really weigh in on how to play a troll sans luck. However, I can say that Hep rocked from the moment I converted right through Zot 5, where m...

Sorry about the death. I feel bad about it because I suggested to remove cloak of rPois and then you met Aizul while being unable to quaff potions :( I am surprised you haven't trained a weapon, the gauntlets of war are not that great when you just cast spells. AC 32/EV 29 (after being drained!) is...

Alas, I met YASD in Depths, to poison of all things. Well, in general to not retreating fast enough. Aizul's poison did the killing blow though.

Yeah, I definitely had some great luck with equipment. (I got the gauntlets but nothing else--probably a mistake, but I was eager to play and feeling indecisive.) Lately I've splatted a lot of characters with good equipment *crosses fingers*

Siegurt wrote:For your hypothetical fire dragon scenario, use your lightning spire *with* the prism.

This worked like a charm against the no longer hypothetical fire dragons

I found OOD at the bottom of Swamp and am a happy camper.

I was afraid of melee due to DE hp being fairly low, but it's true that I got pretty lucky with good early armour. Maybe I can be slightly less conservative, but I don't want to tank anything nasty. Is Str/Dex to help melee? What would you consider enough int to be (if not going for 9th levels), an...

IMHO summons don't work great along with fire spells, especially fireball. I would learn lightning bolt, and you already have lightning spire. Also I don't see why you are afraid of melee, you have very good defense (and you will have even better one after you are done with poison branch and switch...

Majang, this was a hypothetical. I figured you'd say do both though :) I did post my current CIP just now so I can get specific advice, but that question was more about me trying to get a handle on when it is / isn't worth switching elements, for players like me who pick one 'main' element. I will s...

I'm in a bazaar and could use some advice on how to allot my gold. General spell advice or skilling tips also welcome. Tempting Bazaar Goodies: * Gauntlets of War--I'm trying to stay out of melee except vs very weak enemies, but it's 3 points of AC since I haven't found gloves yet. * Book of Summoni...

I've been watching this thread with interest, as for a long time I've never been quite sure how to approach skilling my elementalists from about the point where I hit lair. I used to just push elemental skills and take it on faith that appropriate spell books would show up, but after some IRC advice...

-Duh, I can't believe I forgot that I have to choose between bow and shields! Thanks for the reminder. -At the time I posted, I had found remove curse, but I had a bad streak of cursed negative rings, so I used them all. Thus if I didn't save ID, I had no ability to use any non-ID'd equipment until ...

I've gotten my Vine Stalker Monk of Yred to the lair, and I'm wondering what skills to invest in. Yeah, I know, I hardly have any skills so it ought to be simple, but lately all my characters seem to "fizzle," so I thought I'd check in with the forum. -I found a +2 shield of reflection, wh...

That's a really stupid reason for anything regarding a game. Scare away the more casual players so that the pros who do not have a real life can feel like heroes? If a game needs to provide players with external motivation like bragging in a forum or tournament badges, then chances are that it's ju...

Changing the description of the speed brand description for melee weapons from "attacks with this weapon are significantly faster" to something similar to "all melee attacks while wielding this weapon are significantly faster" (which doesn't necessarily include or exclude aux at...

IMO one major purpose of mutations in Crawl is to provide risk to players in a way that is sufficiently complicated that it's hard to optimize around. Because a handful of game-ending mutations exist, every mutation provides an indirect risk: if you have too many mutations, you won't be able to cure...

I tried Qazlal recently. -Qazlal is loads of fun to play! I realize that's not exactly the type of feedback that's useful for game development, but it still bears mentioning. I especially loved seeing the random clouds come and go. -The impact of being permanently noisy varied drastically based on t...

To keep this on topic: In Crawl the problem for a good player is made up of a few factors. - For a good player, the majority of encounters are boring which leads to low attention. This is a low tension situation. - A dangerous situation can occur unexpectedly (random generation is a big factor here...

Edit: wow, I did ramble on! If you want to see just my suggested change, scroll down to the last two paragraphs. Hi folks, Sif Muna is a long time favorite of mine. I know it's been covered but I want to recap why I like her and why she's pretty good. (I do think there's room for change; I just want...

I feel like Vehumet and Sif are pretty comparable. Vehumet gives offensive spells faster. Sif gives a diverse choice of spells so you will almost always get a variety of strong defensive buffs. Vehumet gives a mana refund on killing stuff. Sif gives channeling, which is great against that one tough ...

Feedback (including constructive criticism) might be more useful to mumra once mumra is actually working on this project... how much benefit is there in criticizing a project that isn't even currently undergoing development? Probably the only result here will be to make mumra regret sharing ideas to...

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