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Corpse Rot is most likely the most powerful spell early Necromancer can get.
You do get the warning if you're casting Corpse Rot under some other corpse not to get engulfed by miasma.
If a game-breaking spell does not make you happy when playing a necromancer, I'd suggest play something else.

Even monks from hell keep some amount of chastity when they make a satirical improvement suggestion. And for the love of god, this is not the worst new god proposal I've seen even though it's been made tongue tightly in cheek.

One way is to inscribe your weapon with something like "learn Iron Shot" or "stone giant near Orc:2 stairs" before saving.

crawlnoob wrote:How come nobody ever asks "When is a good time to put a few points into conjurations for my MiFi?"

Hilarious!

Five scrolls of blinking, over 200 HP left. No worries, mate! Blurry 1 or not.

EDIT: specifically, I would blink behind that top right skeletal warrior, run to the right behind the wall where Dispater is, pick the rune and get the f outta there.

For BaTm there is only one guide I would follow: build up anything that helps you kill the early enemies. For a transmuter is can very well be a Sticks to Snakes spell if you get to a XL2 and Spider Form even further. It may be the the dagger of venom or electrocution or anything you may wield. It m...

Sprucery wrote:
Sphara wrote:Starting a Barachian Monk is probably the easiest way to end your streak.

Nah, most CKs work better in that regard.

Really? Are you absolutely sure, dude? Good thing I did use the word 'probably' so it did leave some space for anyone shooting truisms like this.

If you close the door, you still have 4 wandering jackals. Just don't open the door and let them sleep until you are ready (xl2, for example) Also if they were close to the door, they could block it on the very turn you opened it, forcing you to fight them ' For mikee's pleasure, the jackal discuss...

BaMo is just about the weakest imaginable combo in my books to survive the first turns on D:1. Pillar dancing is out of question. but door dancing isn't ;) This is true but door dancing tends to fail quickly at least from my experience :D There are two reasons opening the left side door : 1) You ge...

BaMo is just about the weakest imaginable combo in my books to survive the first turns on D:1. Pillar dancing is out of question. You're slow and have very weak defense/offense. For trying to ensure the streak, the main objective here is to quickly find a tile where only one monster from a direction...

Sprucery: thank you for the link but it never did answer my question.

I finally died during the orbrun after 6 1/2 years playing this game :) I do have a question, though. What determines which monster gets the first action? Is it the one who is the closest to the player? Or is it random? Got double-teamed by Brimstone Fiend and glaciate-spamming panlord. The panlord ...

It is also worth noting that this bow has a potential for giving excellent HP-returns with Makhleb.

+5 stealth aptitude, poison spit, high hp and super-careful gameplay of a highly skilled player. To me it is painfully obvious that these four contribute the most in the dynast/berder streaks. NaWn probably isn't the worst wanderer even though I think I should not even try rate wanderers. Anyway, it...

Vehumet has the habit of showing up awfully late, and it sucks to be stuck with your Wz-limitations until you find Vehumet on D9... I'm pretty sure this is not accurate, majang. Or I would be at least struck down surprised if this is confirmed by some actual data. Only problems I have had finding V...

ADOM sometimes when I need a reminder that DCSS inventory system is actually pretty good. Angband on ironman mode sometimes. That's a good way of trying to learn how to drop semi-useful I-may-just-need-this-once-or-twice items forever and never look back. NetHack SLASHEM to remind me that I just sho...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:What is 'profane halls'?

This particular Depths layout

http://i60.tinypic.com/jz87lh.jpg

Airwolf wrote:Public PSA announcement: Lerny has bad MR.

I subjectively disagree with this. It has higher MR than Thorn Hunter or Spriggan Druid.

Titans owning Crypt:2 *horselaugh*

"start by using number pad"

I still use it.

But you're probably right there. I am obviously overestimating the intelligence of new players. So more hand-holding and less independent thinking is better.

micromanaging your skills isn't the first most important thing you learn as a new player, basic movement and how to attack stuff is. By enabling your skills, and turning on autotraining, a new player can start playing the game and get somewhat of sense of how much their skills are being used, befor...

Fantastic post. One of the best I've seen here, ever. I might disagree on some of these in some level but those would count as my personal preferences. One thing I'd like to ask. Conjure Flame is super-good spell as mentioned here also and famously good hydra-killer. However, I have seen hydra takin...

but I do tend to listen to a lot of downbeat, calm music, sung by women, from the 90's. I guess I have a type. Florence and the Machine (somewhat more recent) and Tori Amos (timeless) deserve a mention. Have to admit I have a soft spot for this sort of music. Co-incidentally now during the tourney,...

Thanks. Now I am proved wrong.

Every player that has 3 runes, has the same perfect chance of doing 15 runes with the same character.

This is what I asked for and this is what I got. I WAS WRONG!!

PS: now you try it!

Is it possible to get 0.18 tourney vs. 0.20 tourney splatratio? That would at least shut my mouth about this issue if the game has become universally harder. I'm pretty sure that is also what OP had in mind since Turgon does not play for 3-5 rune wins. johnstein's graph that duvessa published is pre...

Slime isn't guaranteed to malmutate you and there are things you can do to minimize the risk of taking bad mutations. Nuke shining eyes pre-emptively or block their fire on turn 1. Fighterdudes have it rougher in there since they have to rely on throwing or invocations to do the job, obviously, but...

0.20 Removing all the top wands make the extended (and 3-rune) game more challenging. Does anyone actually want to disagree with this statement? The new mutation system is generally praised but trying for consistent 15-rune winning, its just pain. As mentioned elsewhere, it very much reminds me of A...

I tend to put Zot powers work for me and use Control Undead on Death Cobs every time I see one and see how many dragons it alone can drop before turning into flakes. Those who have not tried this, I can tell you that a single shadow dragon doesn't stand a chance. Golden dragon can kill it if it gets...

Yeah, interesting :) Advil: You do have 4 point less conj skill than OP and bit less fire magic skill. But yes, there are similarities. I do admit I give advice based on experience, not actual numbers. Might have been wrong there. But 23 intelligence is LOW if characters main objective is to conjure...

I see you survived the tricky spot and got yourself fire storm castable. Clearly improved situation :) All what I said comes down to the fact that you had only 23 intelligence while you had trained for fire and conjurations over 20 skill points. It is getting your spellpower the harder way. 23 int m...

You have Orb status in every Zot level whether you have the actual Orb or not. Yes, it means all teleports are delayed, blinks uncontrolled and Passage of Golubria spell is prohibited. Afaik the only way of having any controlled translocation is now Barachian frog jump. Your character has some funda...

I would love to watch people who tell it's not dangerous, actually do Zot:5 with teleportitis. So many things can go wrong if you land in one of the lungs (and may I say that is very likely case when your +Tele kicks in). Especially now that teleports are delayed and PoG-spell doesn't work there any...

Why do you prefer Pabst Blue Ribbon to Heineken? I had to try PBR just because you so strictly told it was better. But it wasn't. In fact, it was probably the most water-tasting beer I have ever poured down my throat. Just look how your friend Ben drank it. He was being polite pretending your beer w...

This character should be more worried about electric golems than orbs of fire. Full fire resistance and no rElec. Fight with an Orb can last long though if you really have no buff potions left at all and no fully enchanted weapon. But to answer your Q with another Q. Do you have Malign Gateway anywh...

Leaving out god invocations and heavy conjurations, these things help if you do know to watch out for your illusion and have at least rF+ : Making a killhole. Weapon choice: antimagic, holy, electrocution, freezing in no particular order. Even venom brand can be surprisingly good if you do get sever...

Also, you're right, I don't often use evokable items. Should I just generally train them until I get a low % chance to fail, like spells? I assume for each type of effect there's easier/harder evoke chances. You start at 71 % fail rate with 0 skill points. So yes, it is pretty difficult to evoke. B...

I believe every player that has used Plutonium Sword has some wacky stories to tell.

My best one was polymorphing some monster into a Doom Hound when clearing Vaults:5. To get both Mark and Howl status at the same time on that level makes you feel like Harrison Ford in The Fugitive.

Learning to take advantage of the items you find is one key element of survival. I'll just point out two decision flaws here. You had an excellent +10 plate but only 7.8 Armour skill. Probably not the reason you died there but still, room for improvement there. The real reason is probably ignoring t...

Playing some old version when mimics became actual monsters, I cleared the centaur/x-bow Orcish Mines ending and I had two shop mimics and two food shops.

Some kind of claustrophobia penalty would have been good to fuck up kill hole strategy. Basically if you have 7 tiles of walls next to you and only one tile you can see, you'll get penalties. I kind of liked disint wand chopping one piece of wall no matter if I was making a kill hole or not. Just th...

I often polymorph shock serpents. Me too. In addition to Sonja and Maurice they are to me the main reason to carry polymorph wands. That'll work since there is less likely to be a worse outcome (guardian serpent could be in some situations) but for me, enslavement is a go-to wand against shock serp...

I said before there that the Seraph was buffed. But how the hell can an endgame character die on that holy level? You're gonna have to play out-of-this-world stupid to get killed there. If you want the seraph to be any threat, place it in the Depths or something. If you want to make the game better,...

Summoner already plays differently than IE.

Only reason adding Summon Demon into some starting book would be make players actually cast it. Oversimplification there ofc but its not among the most favorite spells, even for any summoner.

Compact one-trick ponies are quicker to win than hybrids. I dunno about the difficulty. Very hard to compare these because the difficulty is based on 1) starting combo 2) early encounters 3) early loot 4) later loot. I'm personally more fond of hybrids and very rarely seek for a gold dragon armor or...

If you think seraph today is weak you wish you'd seen the old seraph. I don't remember how many versions ago it was. Just an angel with little more HP, great sword of flaming and no abilities at all. A single daeva was more dangerous than the old seraph. During its existence, it had only one online ...

So its said Octopodes, the greatest race of them all, have the highest number of slots. 8 rings+amulet+shield+hat+weapon comes out to 12. Weapon slot excluded we get 11x6 slaying=66. As weapon, by that point you probably want to use dagger of speed/quickblade, but for maximum slaying wield a fully ...

So its said Octopodes, the greatest race of them all, have the highest number of slots. 8 rings+amulet+shield+hat+weapon comes out to 12. Weapon slot excluded we get 11x6 slaying=66. As weapon, by that point you probably want to use dagger of speed/quickblade, but for maximum slaying wield a fully ...

Necromut indeed would have been better when landing on a place like that. However, there was no chance of getting lichform at that point as Necronomicon was found in Pan (item history file doesn't have Borg spellbook anywhere). Starting to build up Transmutations skill with 10 INT in Pandemonium is ...

Just used borgs in zot5 lungs on a FoFi^Kiku (floorgod gift ) because 7 OOF's spawned in one lung. Three times. http://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20141012-101358.txt Here is an old game that had pretty weird Borg scenario. Teleported right into the middle of ...

Having played several Ba games with different styles (2-h trogger, stabber, necromancer) I can only state that Hop has saved my ass several times and saved me from using consumables countless times. Ba is not a particularly strong species otherwise but slowness is there for a reason.

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