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Don't change weapon types without a very special reason. You can't get speed from a branding scroll - you do have the chance of vampiric, but you're probably best off sticking with the elec. You might get a speed lajatang from a Trog gift, or an enemy. Shaolin is better than either of your other rin...

Snakebite is very good, I'd just use that.

There used to be an option for auto_eat to make ghouls work. It was removed with rotten chunks, so I made ghouls work by default (seriously it was so annoying to have to manually eat with them). My view is that if you care about doing these things optimally, you would not have auto_eat on in the fir...

Depending on the stairs situation skipping spider:2 is likely doable with no risk of Louise. I would probably do Elf - Vehumet should let you blast the banishing elves, especially if you can manage their line of fire and use lightning bolt / airstrike to hit them. Vaults is scarier than Elf with ter...

Using a buckler on a naga is much is crazier than the amulet of harm. Upgrade to a large shield VAMPIRIC BARDICHE!

The cloud spells seem pretty quiet, too.

Does just giving them Death Channel work?

I consider harm an awful design because the only way it makes sense is if the default damage values in crawl are too low. Think of an amulet that does the opposite: all incoming and outgoing damage is reduced by 20%. Is this something that would belong in the game? I really hope your answer is no. ...

+10 CPA is just too big for me to just ignore. You have one MR ring to help, reasonably likely to get some other source, and if desperate you could switch to Ashenzari for clarity - unsure how lethal Okawaru wrath is at this point though. You do have many teleports available.

I will always have dozens of anti-deathcob consumables while only a handful (or even zero) haste and might potions that I'm likely to want for safe orb of fire melee.

While I think ?blink is needed, it seems reasonable to take a step or two with rCorr - if you get hit significantly, then blink. (looks even better if exh will end in that time, then you could power leap out). I'd learn bolt of cold (training only spellcasting and Ice for a bit) then pick up freezin...

I did it once on a CeSk in 0.17 stable (haha stable) and died in like 3 turns or so, probably would not recommend it. Or is "Feinting" a new status in trunk? it's in stable - Fainting is the point at which you can actually para/die (500 nutrition?). Before it was added you were more rewar...

Eating non-ration permafood helps a lot. You can also melee while Starving - when you get to Fainting, eat again.

Bring wand(s) of paralysis to Tartarus (sadly Zin won't appreciate polymorph) for doom hounds. Zin powers might work well too (if there's just one and you are not yet howled, Imprison and move on is probably best). For Gehenna there is no fire-themed tier-1 demon so a single rF is fine - more is OK ...

I'd have gotten short blades skill instead but at this point it's probably not needed (that rapier will kill things up to and including orb guardian, and Ru greatly rewards sbl skill with the stab openings). What are you getting the Fire/Conj for? at this point you desperately need Fighting/Dodging ...

I used it for Vaults:5 on a 58AC Naga. It felt like a positive effect but was very dangerous and I think regeneration would have been better for me. Especially elemental attacks that I didn't resist - lightning/draining - hit very hard and caused even more resting to be needed.

I would use the eveningstar with an amulet of clarity if one exists. If not, probably still use it and manage berserk with hunger, or see what I could make of other demon whips / eveningstars. Your plate is plenty good enough to win with - a gold or storm dragon armour might be reasonable but only i...

Eat all your non-ration perma food. I generally drop fear at this point as well, I like item slots, and fear is less useful in depths and onward. Disagree with both of these. Keeping a large stack (or two smaller ones) of non-ration food will get you out of trouble from death cobs or just exploring...

They're in Tar - but when fleeing with Howl Depths can quickly be infested. The only solutions seem to be killhole or Tornado or something. A single hound on Tar:7 is worse than Ereshkigal if walls are undiggable. The low MR doesn't work because you miss once with your poly wand, then get howled, th...

Sar wrote:Weapon IMO, ditch shield if it's a two-hander (it hopefully will be). Wands is also an option, /hasting would be fantastic.

If you get a decent onehander I'd say shields are much better for DDFi^Pak.

I agree with weapon though.

Sadly, this is an intentional change: http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... f19684448d

chequers wrote:blink frogs feel a bit like a nethack monster, especially how they heal from distortion

Wasn't that removed aeons ago? Granted being immune to distortion isn't amazing either...

It should be 81 = 3 * (3*3*3) though, not 72. 72 is a base-10-centric joke that is rude to mathematicians and foreigners.

Shadowform is good at making you not die, and sometimes useful for sneaking.

but how much armour skill does one need to have it stop causing misses? 45. Since you can't get 45, you live with the penalties from armour. Training armour skill will help with them, it will also give AC. You'll deal with the accuracy penalties between that, getting more fighting/weapon skill, or ...

i assume you checked for "ring of fire" as well? You can swap to that for orbs of fire, and you even have the rC to help mitigate it if an ice dragon or something is around at the same time.

I would post a character dump, but for some reason I can't find it. Been a while since I've played so I'm probably just looking in the wrong place. EDIT: Version 15 something for what that's worth. Press # in game to get a dump. It might tell you where it goes. If not, search your filesystem for di...

It's mostly for combos. The biggest one I can see is using it before an Upheaval as a Stormbringer worshipper; especially since the noise you generate by worshipping Qazlal will summon every enemy nearby anyway. I suspect that this isn't worth the turns/xp but it sounds cool: it might let you save ...

I feel like you're overthinking this a lot. Basically any of those options will work pretty well, and a +10 qblade backed up with spells will get you everywhere. Personally, I'd forget Meph and Ignite, and train summonings/fighting/dodging. at some point getting some more hexes/stealth would also be...

Incidentally I think you played very sensibly to be paranoid without a known remove curse.

All I can say is I look forward to your finding a use. I've learned it a few times on characters using Hexes and not figured out when it was useful.

archaeo wrote: but most of the time, it's just not really necessary if you're playing the game normally.

Of course it's not necessary - if it was, you couldn't win without it. But if you have it, you can make a lot of things easier, by using the abilities more.

For OgNe of Ash I liked getting around 6 Necromancy and a little Spc/Charms, get all the spells in order (putting off Regeneration), then train melee. Later spells will just depend what's available, Ash will make getting anything L5 or below not that bad. I'd often even go for L7s, which will be a b...

I'd suggest Tomb first. You won't care as much about rF/rC there.

Leaning towards QDA until you start getting scrolls for GDA. You do have Trog's hand, but it's convenient to have MR+++ without it.

That also handles Throwing the same way.

an item that you haven't seen before is more likely to be useful to you. I don't believe that to be true. I would say an unidentified bit of equipment is less likely to be useful, and an unidentified consumable is approximately as likely to be useful (possible more or less likely depending on what ...

Antique shops sell you IDed items for a massive surcharge, and unIDed for very cheap. I feel this should be reversed - if you don't know what's what you have no choice but to pay whatever they ask. This is better flavour, but also better gameplay: an item that you haven't seen before is more likely ...

just train armour, fighting, and weapon until things are looking good and/or you are done with those manuals.

Ru's good for pretty much any character, practise should help. Looking again at your log I see you took -eye, so cloud spells would be even better. With -skill, getting so much evocations along with your melee looks worse. If you're using long blades and haven't sacrificed Stealth, carry a dagger to...

Overtraining a little is OK, but I wouldn't be in a hurry to do it. Freezing Cloud seems like a good idea. I wouldn't buy the lamp since it puts you farther from buying the 3 ?acq, only buy cheaper things if possible (is the wooden ring a randart? try that). You'll probably find a lamp sometime anyw...

byrel wrote:Crypt should be straightforward. Just be wary of curse skulls, and know that jiangshi can move quite fast.

You can LRD curse skulls directly.

I was also thinking it was similar to monster conjure flame, which admittedly is only on ghosts and Natasha right now. Red draconians (if they miss). There's also that holy fire attack. In all of those cases I'm pretty likely to walk through if I want to reposition. With Thorn hunters, cutting thro...

I'd actually use those boots, but you need to play much more carefully than I usually do to make it sensible :)

Currently on a small streak, I've been choosing a random race or background but then choosing the other half to be OK, while also not having been won by the AWBW group. The RNG has been nice, as Mu (MuVM) was followed by As (SpAs), Fi (TrFi - lol), and this one as HO. An XL:1 shaft to an ecumenical ...

Yeah Maxwell's can be good, but having +10 plate makes it not worthwhile.

I'd just keep on with fighting/dodging/armour for a while. None of those spells seem worth getting yet. Keep your eyes out for a longbow. crossbows do more damage per shot, but bows are a lot faster. I'd suggest reading your scrolls, you already know blink/tele/recharge, so the only one that might g...

mixing ranged/melee is fine if you want to, but since you also want to Qaz that's a lot of things to be doing, especially with the -3 Armour that you have to deal with. That's why I'd pick one or the other here.

If you're not committed to ranged, I'd start the character as CeFi (maces or long blades). Start with weapon/fighting, then armour/invocations as you see fit, then more weapon/fighting, then shields, more armour and 27 invo. If you really want to do it as hunter, then the same thing (bows as the wea...

there's definitely a compromise position there - use ozo armour and melee things in a robe, with ice beast / fprism support. When you eventually find bolt of cold or refrigeration you can unleash death that way too.

What would your second skill be? Spellcasting, dodging, and fighting all seem reasonable and you might not get a third, judging by those games in the other thread.

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