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I didn't think any of those things were stupid. :'(

I think that is a good move to replace the ring. You're doing great without having to cast spells, so you can take your time raising your INT through leveling up and other means, and in the meantime cover more vital weak spots. You'll be thanking your rPois later when you bump into Aizul and he star...

In 0.9 whenever I got to the Shoals, I'd have to turn on the Super Mario Bros. music. In the new version, I have to turn on Legend of Zelda music. This counts as an improvement, so keep up the good work, Tiles artists. ^^ I can't/won't play Glyphs either. I don't like to have to read the game I'm lo...

I really like the fact that you're playing a Spriggan Gladiator. :D I'm a big fan of anyone that makes excellent use of "non-optimized builds", for example most players would go Enchanter or Assassin for Spriggans but you're all like "wuteva ah do wut ah want!" and that is awesom...

I've considered a Xom game from a strategic angle, thinking it'd actually be doable from beginning to end (though I'm not sure about Extended... then again I've beaten Cocytus including defeating Anateus in melee with the teleportitis mutation and no stasis or CTele , so there's proof that surviving...

Just thought I'd share this one. Oh boy. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. 152813 Mitzi the Fighter (level 17, -2/90 (91) HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Wanderer on Nov 17, 2012. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Slain by Cigotuvi's Monster (7 damage) ... in a wizard's laborat...

I still prefer starting out as Wz over Cj. I know HE can do better than that, I messed up my skill training by going both Air and Summons: all the high end air nukes really don't mix well with summons unless they're all lightning immune. I've begun to be spoiled by Wizard class as well. As Conjurer...

Oh nooo! :cry: Rest in peace Kuuki. You did amazing though. Seeing some of your descisions with the build I use has taught me a lot, surprisingly. I might decide to roll up one more HECj of my own and see if I fare better by following some of your example. (Let's hope I haven't been too spoiled on D...

If it were me I'd be saving my Large Rocks for other branches, making do with something a bit weaker. Flame Darts are an option for the steam, that's true. Got any Javelins of Returning? Problem solved right there! And of course, you can just choose to throw in short-range situations and where no de...

I say try Ashenzari. I use him with elven Conjurers fairly often, and really, being able to see enemies through walls is wonderful for basically any character ever. Ice Elementalist even more because with **.... piety and two Cursed rings you get Freezing Cloud running phenomenally faster than you e...

He probably just thought you were roughhousing, then got confused when you suddenly decided to take a nap in the middle of it. :lol: On a side note, rotting cloud mutation is freaking awesome. It does have that limitation around summons and making them mad on accident, but that's the challenge that ...

njvack wrote:If a spam bot falls in the woods, but doesn't make any spam.... uh.... was it actually a tree?

Everyone knows that spam doesn't grow on trees, silly!

Humans tend to lean on the side of omission rather than lay out essential details, because in most everyday social interactions, people are used to filling in the details (as there aren't many alternative interpretations in those situations). Unrelated to topic, but: as an Asperger, I struggle real...

Someone did a vault with an altar of lugonu and a bunch of Kobold, one of them had a qickblade of distortion. :evil: I've seen this one. It's awesome. If I hadn't had a fantastic one already of a different brand I would have pilfered those weapons and used them myself. Did you see the secret room i...

I don't think there can technically be such a thing as "good advice" or "bad advice" if nobody is maliciously trying to get another player killed. We all play our own style. Recently Psieye has been running a HECj, my preferred build, and updating us on how his game has gone, and...

You might do fine if you stick with Air Magic in your basic book. :) Give up on the late game spells like Tornado, but try and get Lightning Bolt running at a good spell power and low hunger, probably by raising Conjurations higher than Air Magic. This will set you up to get a Cloud spell of some ki...

Gladiators are more versatile. They're set up so that they can branch into either heavier armor or basic spellcasting fairly early-game, but their disadvantage is like you said, they don't start with either of those things. They also have higher DEX than Fighters so you could say they're quite a bit...

njvack wrote:Well, for optimal crappiness, you should really read teleport, torment, immolation, and noise in that order. Hopefully you'll make your loud noise while super low on health right after popping into a newly-discovered gnoll castle or something.

You forgot Vulnerability and Silence right after Noise.

Congratulations on your Demonspawn victory! I love Demonspawn. They're so badass, the mutations are very fun and also a bit tricky, since you have to decide what kind of character you'll play depending on which ones turn up (one time I had a +2 Helmet of See Invisible show up on D:1, but then I got ...

One thing I notice right off the bat is you were not wearing the +3 Ring of Protection, when you seriously should have been as an early-game caster, especially a frail Deep Elf. You don't need 35 MP to kill your enemies; as I frequently play a High Elf Conjurer (not as frail as a Deep Elf, but High ...

*raises hand* Question! What skills do you recommend for elemental-summoning evokables (such as Air Elemental Fan), and for Crystal Ball? I think I only ever got Crystal Ball to work decently one time, and sometimes even with > 67% of my remaining MP it would knock me down to 0 MP, and I eventually ...

Lovely so far. :) Good luck in the Swamp if you do that one next! Killed a Warlord and Saint Roka with ease, eh? Those ones always give me plenty of trouble, well done. 10 AC and 21 EV is enough to get by?? ._. Wow, I feel like I always die unless I have more than that... Also, how often do you evok...

Hmm, so you're using my build? I love it so far. :) You play very very differently than I do. I hadn't thought of using Bows before, especially since I usually run with Ashenzari and have a cursed weapon that needs to be able to cut chunks. I love your battles against the Bees and Unseen Horror and ...

I am all for the revamping of Hell Effects, not because I don't think they're a good thing as-is, but because KoboldLord's propositions sound a lot more creative and interesting. Some of them sound a little over-the-top though, particularly the Tartarus ones and the parts about ice floors. (I like t...

I've never dabbled into Earth Magic before, but today I scored my first kill ever with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, against a horde of Blink Frogs.

I feel so manly.

I adore Long Blades just because Demon Blades are so f*cking badass . :) Incidentally 90% of the time if I decide to train up a Maces character it's to use a Demon Whip later, for similar reasons. I don't play Trunk and have not seen how good Cleave attacks are, but even so, it scares me not to be a...

Also Skalds suck. That's why they are hard. It wouldn't be so bad if I had a sliiightly better weapon earlier on. I've run a couple Wanderers with a +2+2 elven Falchion or Short Sword and the Book of War Chants, which performed **marvelously** compared to my typical Skalds using all the same tactic...

i recommend faeries anyway, they're more petite Yeah but they're too energetic personality-wise and they probably wear me out. If we're going "preferences" I think I lean more in the direction of Arachne or the Sphinx, as they seem more dominating while possibly being maternal and gentle....

This might be a weird thread, but... In the past I have always played High Elf Conjurer exclusively. Then I've gotten two wins as that. So I started Tengu Monk, eventually grew to like it and got one win as that, then finally moved on to Demonspawns, which I had promised myself I'd try in depth once...

It was a hellion. The orc in a red shirt made it, along with one of the little ice imps and a few other little guys. It hellfired me to death. EDIT: lol, should I mention, due to extenuating circumstances (new baby, dramatic and dangerous birth, finishing long overdue masters in nanotech), that I h...

I met Mennas inside the innermost chamber of a gigantic marble temple filled with Angels and Daevas. I was playing a Hill Orc Fighter of Beogh and my army went in and heroically defeated them all, with many close calls along the way! I never thought I would enjoy an angel-themed vault so much. (Thou...

As for conjurers dealing with Sigmund..I have no idea how you can get meph cloud available as early as D:2. Perhaps training conjuration from the beginning might work (I always tried training spellcasting first, but realized it might not be the best case). All I need is to be XL 3 and I can instant...

After breezing thru lair and getting all your main skills to their respective maxes, and then breezing thru orc mines and rampaging into the last fort, berserking and hewing your way thru the guards to slaughter the high priests before berserk drops, DONT try to run away from the hellion, even if y...

A good rule of thumb is that if your HP falls to half or lower, start to play defensive or evasive. Perhaps even earlier than that, depending on what you're fighting. I also say, always assume you "can't beat" Orc Warriors without an assist from something the first couple times you meet th...

Fire Magic vs. Ice Magic: * Go with Fire Magic if your style is to blast the crap out of everything in sight. * Go with Ice Magic if your style is slower, more tactical and defensively oriented. I tend to prefer Fire myself, but sometimes I'll go with Ice if I roll a Demonspawn character with ancest...

I would never temple-dive just because I don't want to miss out on the Sewer or Pyramid. Especially the latter, which is a GREAT early-game boost in scrolls and potions and can help you use-ID almost every basic and intermediate potion you have yet to find. Truthfully it's not really that important ...

Lair has been cleared out.. A +0, +1 bardiche of venom was lying around D:8, but I figure the halberd is still better unless some scrolls are put into it. Orc might have some decent polearms around, but I've had some bad experiences with the last floor so I may not complete it entirely until more o...

I have found a Bow of Chaos before. Courtesy of Xom. I had no idea launchers could get the Chaos brand. Apparently neither did Crawl, because the game crashed three different times while I was firing with that weapon. Seemed to have a low, random chance to crash the game whenever a chaos arrow was f...

The Desert Lounge. Really helps me zen out. My Crawl games are better with this as opposed to my "loud" music.

So instead I built this museum for it. I architected it myself, kind of like some weird giant body with the Orb at its heart, and various other wings leading off where the lungs and other organs would be, to house various other knicknacks I picked up along the way to pick up the thing. Of course, o...

It'd be even funnier if the spiders are Confused, Berserk and Hasted no matter what when they first fall.

Better yet there ought to just be a Spatial Vortex summoning trap somewhere. Maybe a mid-game Xom Altar vault made just for that reason, I dunno.

My tip: If you're fighting a long stream of enemies (too long for one Zerk to kill all of) in a corridor one by one, a Wand of Confusion or Paralysis make for excellent escape options once your Zerk runs out. Orc Warriors, Centaurs, Yaks and I think Ugly Things are fairly susceptible to them, so thi...

Oh god these things. :lol:

How about a giant legion of spiiiiderssss!!??

I only play human fighter because I like to roleplay a knight. That's cool. :) What's his name? Does he have a detailed backstory? I'd love to hear it! I roleplay too, but mine's with a female High Elf spellcaster. Anyway as for stat building, I personally never use Autotrain. Once per dungeon leve...

I have officially decided, I love your style of play. Things like Noise Scrolls in the dangerous boss rooms and Polymorph for bonus EXP and Torment Scrolls in Vault:8 like in some of your other games, yeah, you are a badass. You should call this the Merfolk Gladiator of Badass Madash. I'm probably g...

I recently did another Ziggaurat with an unbelievable Demonspawn Wizard, one that could stand up to an entire Pan dungeon filled with ANGELS (as a Demonspawn), and this one had Mass Abjuration; sure enough the Draconian Summoner room went down in about one tenth the time and damage as last time. Tha...

Eh, the forums are better than the wiki, 'cause I get real feedback from real people here. :) Feels more like a community rather than a cork board full of post-it-notes. Anyway, holy weapons are horrible and please keep them away from my Demonspawns ;_; I won't say they're horrible in Crawl but as s...

I prefer Reflection as well. :) For other elemental resistances I just load up on the randarts. Shields and only Shields will get the Reflection brand, you can't get it on weapons or armor! And since I like to use Repel Missiles a lot more than Deflect Missiles as far as spells go, having Repel Miss...

Grinder may appear in D:6 and later on, make a special appearance in D:8 :shock: It's hilarious when that happens. Sometimes enemies like to hop into a Shaft off-screen, and then you stress yourself out hunting it down when it's not there anymore, thinking oh god oh god where is that D:9 Sphinx hid...

Gosh how I love long and detailed stories depicting Crawl adventures. ♥ ♥ ♥ Going into Elven Halls at XL 13 was a fantastic endeavor. Glad you survived! I'm kinda jealous about your Silver Bolts being so powerful. I tend to use Javelins on most of my melee characters and I go with Steel, 'cause I ca...

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