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You put food rations on your shopping list? Isn't it just as easy to ctrl+F that kind of stuff when you need it? Not that that has any bearing on your request, it just struck me as odd. With food rations specifically it is - just search "food" - but you can have many things that you kind ...

Combine potions sounds a lot like Gozag's Petition.

GDA used to be worse (more encumbering, maybe less AC?) than it is now, so there's some of that going around. When you find either of them early enough to enchant, or have a good randart to save scrolls, they can be good.

And please don't remove armour for more dirty dragonskins.

Makes sense. Yeah, I'd probably solidify a bit more here - finish Bolt of Fire and then turn on maces/dodging/fighting, probably getting at most 12 maces and maybe more like 6-8. You'll definitely find useful 1-h maces given enough time (can also crosstrain over to staff of fire) and that skill will...

and Trog doesn't even stop you from casting the spell, does he? Think of all the Kiku -> Trog games where you have DDoor/Borgs for emergencies, might need brilliance for that.

I'd definitely use the gmace, but no need to get 20 skill if you want to keep using spells mostly, just use your Discretion when attacking. I'm more confused about learning fireball / BoF here - pick a plan!

(For more excessively diverse plans, invis + assassin boots + Discretion should be fun)

A little extra spellcasting and you should be fine. Amalloy has some videos of a TeSu of Gozag, in which he shows that even paying less attention than you really should to it is fine.

If you are trying to be a more pure spellcaster, then you will want a more focused god.

Oh, Sp of chei got better? Hurray! (I've always liked cheitaur, but haven't tried spriggan as much)

I'm conflicted. Shield ogre is no ogre at all, but qazgong is pretty awesome.

e: you were probably right to seek shields with d:5 spellbinder

I would wield the scroll of acquirement, and read it. If none of your other scrolls are enchant or brand weapon, weapon would be a tempting acquirement. If they are brand, probably use the dtrident for now.

Get Ozocubu's armour from Frost. Not sure if icicle replacing IMB is a good idea or not. (edit: didn't notice the ring mail. I'm reasonably sure you're better off with say rF robe + ozos though) I like having a bolt, but Lightning can be noisy and annoying. But certainly I'd rather go for all the Ai...

If you find a bunch of scrolls ... even then it's hard for GDA to beat +9 PDA. I'd probably try to just get by with resistance potions.

You could curse the disto dagger, but personally I would swap between speed dagger and elec dtrident.

Time to lose CCF for mana viper?

And if you hasted it first?

Yeah, invis is not generally interesting from chaos. It also encourages you to pillardance the foe even if it would normally be quite safe, since berserking an invisible monster can get out of hand without you noticing.

In most situations dragon armours are quite awful until you can enchant them (and maybe train armour some). Here I'd definitely prefer a robe to mottled - unsure after say +4 mottled or so, but at +0 it's no contest.

e: rF leather might be better than the robe? or maybe not.

your CPA was a lot better than a +0 GDA.

Nor as good a weapon!

So that fsim is showing 2x damage, without even having mindelay (which would not have been difficult to get, or get close to, from the rest of lair after finding it)? That would have done it easily. Thinking about this more, I think you also needed to give up the amazing robe for a while and at leas...

Jellies can't eat your shots anymore, so just portal projectile em out.

Given that the arc blade does have rElec, it probably would have helped. Still since the sorc could have summoned a sun demon instead, so that's not as important. My experience has been that arc blade is a completely bonkers weapon (including on SpEn, the noise is not a problem) so it might also hav...

I'd say significantly less than 10%, since there's a portal near the start. Sometimes walls and abyss shifting make it hard to find.

I use "viable" weapons to enforce random starts on the hyper account (otherwise a character with weapon choice could be rerolled), and it's often annoying getting sbl (I think I got that on a Minotaur?). The Ko / Tr maces situations seem particularly bad, yes.

The justification is weak - if you have only a tiny chance of getting boots of running, the increase in survivability from branding a plain cloak or whatever could easily be higher. Especially so if these scrolls existed from changing brand weapon scrolls to brand item.

You can also probably use greater servants (and Mara's clone can't. Nor does he have anything that cares about MR). Just watch out for bolts of fire.

Those are definitely the most obvious strategies, but managing line-of-sight/fire can get you a long way with basically any god in extended. Then when that doesn't work, use a scroll of teleport (and don't be a formic).

Is there a way to change which items are auto-picked up in-game? Like saying, I already have rings which give me magic resistance, stop picking them? this auto pickup does what you want... once you pick up one of a certain type of ring <magic resistance, poison resistance, etc> it takes the rest of...

Confusion has always made wands useless. It's not something new. You cannot actually take useful actions while confused other than quaffing potions. This should also be clear from confusing wanded enemies, who would happily blast their wands in every direction ... though I think something about thi...

Sar wrote:
genericpseudonym wrote:I just autopickup everything with {god gift}

yes but then I would have to edit rc instead of pressing / and choosing an option like a casual I am

And wondering why you keep running everywhere!

(the command is \, for future readers)

I'm just glad that good older suggestions can be redone, and might get followed!

Folks keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Which word, "unbalanced"? I really did mean that. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is worth the same as Durability + Eye, 50-60 piety? I might only take it if it gave 120 piety which would clearly r...

That faerie dragon armour seems pretty useless, considering you have rF++ on two permanent items anyway. I guess you can't use your Dragon King anymore given you're using necromutation, but you'd have been much better off without that experience drain for one spell. Given that you're here now, do re...

Sacrifice "remove moths of suppression". Like sac exp/skill, I don't think I could take this unless it gave me an unbalanced amount of piety.

Oh yes tornado is the same way - of course the guardian will die to the tornado soon, but you can get cacodemon mutations pretty easily.

You mean you do tomb often as your third rune? Is due to self imposed challenge, acquiring more than 3 runes, or optimal play? Can't speak for duvessa, but I do it as 4th-5th (+ abyssal if that happened) a lot. It's often easier than V5 but rarely easier than slime, and lots of fun items to sort th...

doable in the rcfile. Mine autopicks them, I assume that's close enough - there's some other stuff in there like picking up enchanted items that might be better than your own, relatively easy to tweak: # autopickup by Medar, tweaked by rchandra { local function armour_plus(it) local plus = string.gs...

I filed a mantis about this, some good interactions with AE:

lightning bolt - no harm
freezing cloud - harms him, no anger
static discharge - harm, agner, warning
tornado - harm, anger, warning
chain lightning - harm, anger, no warning

and I think slouch was harm, no anger but couldn't swear to it.

duvessa wrote:Er...you don't need any of those. Except patience and stairdancing, you should have those. It'll suck with Qazlal, though - like the rest of the game.

Curious - is it possible for all characters to clear current tomb through patience, without MR? How?

I've had trying to abuse manuals with ash lead towards a death, since it weakens you during the process of using them. Not worth it - if you actually want something (say bolt of cold), then it'll be a lot better. e: even a weird thing like Minotaur with staff of cold melee and ice manuals worked OK ...

Get the trove if it seems feasible (so not the 2 acq unless I find two at once, or there are two for sale, etc). I once gave a trove every HW potion in the game up to d:20 and both S-branches (forget how many - maybe 16?), and was happy with the outcome (multiple HW wands, haste wand, etc). That li...

If you're going to be a coward and take makhleb (definitely stronger than qaz) why not just take Makhleb in the beginning? If you like Qaz then doing extended with em is a lot of fun and danger.

Until you have decent* skill, using the weapon with the greatest enchantment is often good. I'm happy to just put on a GC/GSC and forget about it as soon as I have a few enchant or brand scrolls, Og will get skill fast enough.

You can just use the dtrident, and press ' to swap to the eudemon blade when you want it (if they're in slots a and b, use = to fix that). If you use a brand weapon scroll, either the eudemon blade can't be rebranded or it will become a demon blade again (the latter is what happened when I tried usi...

I'd trade acquirement scrolls for healing potions usually, so that's nice. How do you normally assess whether a trove is worth it? I follow this rule of thumb: Get the trove if it doesn't ask for anything useful. Otherwise not. Get the trove if it seems feasible (so not the 2 acq unless I find two ...

For Veh spell damage boost: ey could give half of the amulet of harm for eir spells.

I like the changes overall, though I'd prefer panlords keep genders and I think changing Sojobo is very inappropriate.

Sar wrote:I always thought Air was really good, but I guess it's really bad. New meta???

Though with Air, perhaps the extra abilities are saving you for longer than the extra time it takes to kill things...

Removing loot from the main area is bad, one of the neatest things is considering how greedy to be when fleeing a dangerous floor. Can I apport that, the other, and drop something, and grab them all, then leave? If not, which items to not collect?

Long blades give you free shortblade skill for stabbing. Given the cost of 10 skill for dagger this probably isn't actually meaningful but I still like it if I'm going to be doing a little stabbing but mostly meleeing (light-armour Ru characters that didn't sacrifice stealth, for example).

On good stabbing characters I never bother to switch away from my quickblade/rapier to a dagger except for really big things like the royal jelly.

Is it possible to change the player glyph (console) in the ready() function? I want to change the colour based on current HP. Most ideal would be changing it to the current HP colour, as that is already configurable via things like "hp_colour = 70:yellow, 40:red".

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