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Hi guys! Been a while since I've posted here. If anyone's seen this Reddit thread , they'd know about my self-set challenge of 15-rune-winning a High Elf Wanderer before the release of Crawl 0.20, since High Elves-- my original main race-- are being removed from the game at last, and I want to send ...

I got a Tengu Chaos Knight all the way to Vaults:4 a few days ago, when Xom decided to switch my +8 randart Chaos Dagger (which was a Xom gift earlier) with Saint Roka's cursed -2 Longsword, and then teleport me across the dungeon into a vault filled with Giants and Tengu Reavers a few turns later. ...

My Hill Orc Fighter of Okawaru just found this in a labyrinth: the +10 Storm Dragon Armour of Beogh's Outrage {rElec Slay+4} The moment I put it on and leave the labyrinth I am ambushed by an elite orc mob, complete with a Knight and multiple (normal) Priests and Wizards. And as one might expect, I ...

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I love it when I am SWIMMING IN MANUALS HOLY SH!T

Ignite Blood should ignite different kinds of clouds for different enemies. Ice Fiends should bleed freezing clouds. Nagas should bleed poisonous clouds. Shining Eyes should bleed mutagenic fog. Also, zombies should bleed Negative Energy clouds and Jellies should bleed acid fog. Also Ignite Blood sh...

On the subject of Jiyva shuffling your mutations: if you go Jiyva->Zin, and amass piety with Zin really quickly , it's possible to keep over a dozen great mutations and zero bad ones, including the Jiyva gift mutations, and lock them in place forever thanks to Zin's passive, 100% perfect rMut at hig...

How did you manage to run out of food? Did you spam high level spells? My only two spells that caused hunger were Controlled Blink and Disjunction. I did use them a fair bit, yes. I spent a fair amount of time resting from battles too, 'cause I try to kill everything. Also I did not have Fast Metab...

Wow, talk about a clash. Hehehe

I died. I ran out of food. I don't think this has ever happened to me. I ran out of permafood halfway through sweeping HolyPan, had to rush out with barely any health left while Very Hungry and Glowing, then on arrival to the next Pan floor a pack of Demonspawn and a Balrug with an Elec Demon Whip f...

Unseen Whorers are the worst. Though, they are actually somewhat harmless if you're playing a plate-armour melee character, their hits are fast and numerous and practically undodgable while they're invisible, but not too strong per hit, so if your AC is super high they can only barely scratch you ea...

I believe it will, yes. But you can do just fine overcoming the accuracy penalty with high Weapon skill, especially if you've got a source of Slaying and/or a highly-enchanted weapon in general. If I had that Ring and didn't have anything clearly better, I'd totally use it. Not worshipping Dith/Yred...

Hey Aule, welcome to Crawl. :) You seem pretty dedicated. I am certain that if you don't give up, you'll win one. I just get the vibe that you have that kind of fortitude and passion for this game. It's nice to see someone like that. ^^ I'll keep my eyes out for a victory post from you one day. I'll...

Wow Qaz sounds awesome :shock: Qazlal is amazing . Just, you can't have ANY Stealth at all, EVER, if you're with Qazlal. Those storm clouds you generate automatically are LOOOUUUDDD And in places like the Abyss, having everything ever swarming you from all directions on an infinite dungeon level is...

Bone dragons, hm? You know... what if, they started out as a slow, heavy-defense monster, we're talking like Speed 5 slow, and boost their AC even higher than it already is. But the gimmick? As they take damage (or alternatively, a % of the time whenever they're damaged), pieces of their skeletal bo...

I think those removed monsters could have been revamped rather than removed. I like Holy-themed enemies and would like to not only see more, but see them more often! Ophanim are fine as-is, but make it so that the Blessed Fire clouds die down quickly once the Ophanim are either destroyed or no longe...

... Did somebody take one of my posts from a different thread and split it into a seperate, CYC thread?

Maaaannnn!!

You can fight and cast just fine in Scale Mail if you worship Ashenzari and are fully cursed. He gives some huge bonuses to almost all your skills at high piety, and if your items are cursed; combined with the high Spell school levels and the high Armour skill, your failure rates will drastically dr...

The bots might be outdated, considering D:16 and onward no longer exists. The main Dungeon now stops at D:15, and enters a brand new branch called the Depths, which is kinda like D:21 to D:27 all put together and made even harder (as in, Dire Elephants and Emperor Scorpions are now normal enemies , ...

I'm so mad. Why the HECK can't I win with a High Elf Chaos Knight??

I don't have much luck with Tengu Artificers either, which brings a TEAr to my eye.

Hi guys! I need the help of the forums for this one. I have a wonderful, XL27 High Elf Warper right now, the best Warper I've ever played by far, and it means a lot to me because I've wanted to play a successful Warper for ages and now I finally have. I would like to win a full 15-Rune sweep this ti...

Hi After 1 or 2 years of NOT playing DCSS,I decided I'd like to give it a try once more.Problem is,I have no ghost files,I am playing offline and I am such a good player that I die so seldom that I probably won't produce any(lol) So,my humble plea.Upload your ghost files for me please!I will love y...

Even something as simple as beginning with extra Interest, much in the same way the Amulet of Faith does so, would be fine. Let me point out that the bonus piety is probably not why a player would choose a Monk at game start. They'd choose a Monk because they intend to play a bare-fisted character, ...

Xom should stay the way he is. Xom is meant to be the god of absolute randomness. I would love it if there were better ways to get Chaos weapons though, probably not through Xom at all. You know about the Disco Fortress of Pandemonium, a special vault that can show up, and the Red Devils there are a...

I've currently got a high-level Warper (inorite!?) of Dithmeinos, who's very skilled in both melee (via short blades via a +8 Cutlass) and Bows even moreso (via a +9 Shortbow). Between the two, the Bow gets MUCH more mileage out of the shadow attacks damage wise; the shadow downright fires a second ...

Without going into the wider topic of defending duvessa's statement, if you are training any significant amount of Fire skill, Bolt of Fire is better than Magma. Basically Earth skill has to be much higher than Fire skill for Magma to come out on top. This makes total sense. I almost never play Ear...

I love it when absurdity happens and it's just the worst. crawl_DegenerationCardHolyShitMoment.png You draw a card... It is Degeneration. The vault guard evaporates and reforms as a ghost moth! The vault guard evaporates and reforms as a fire dragon! The vault guard evaporates and reforms as a great...

I've got a new one. Daggers do not cut off Hydra heads. :) I'm playing an Elf short-blade specialist who found a really good Dagger early-game, but later got an even better Cutlass. I'm SO GLAD I kept the Dagger as an emergency backup weapon, during Swamp. It helps too that one of my randart Rings h...

When I read the thread title I thought this would be a discussion thread of which is the best bolt spell in the game, and I was prepared to be snarky and answer "inaccuracy". :p But I guess I can be constructive instead. Iron Shot and OOD have fantastic synergy, but then again, you are a T...

It's true that the Resistance rebalance would make dragon armours of all kinds more straightforward and less gimmicky. I suppose I approve. There is one thing I would like to say about Pearl Armour, though. It ought to be changed to offer rHoly , not rN. It should be the only item in the game to off...

My beef with the "t" "a" methods of having allies attack a target is that even if all you've got are your Called Imps as a Wizard for example, you have to "shout" and potentially wake up a bunch of guys just to kill one Adder for instance. What about this: Using any of ...

We could always buff Mummies by giving them the death-curse ability like their enemy counterparts. Whomever kills them gets death-cursed. Seems like a reasonable buff to me.

I support the notion of buffing the Labyrinth Minotaur! Giving him a 100% chance for a Wand or Rod is a good idea. If we're going to buff his HP and AC or whatnot, why not just make him a Unique? "___, Guardian of the Labyrinth", where "___" is a randomized name in a similar fash...

A lot of people are saying the shop generation is useless, because you have to spend a ton of gold for the slight chance of something you want showing up in it. So, how about this idea: each shop you open up is generated with better and better items, using an offshoot of the Acquirement algorithm. S...

I wouldn't mind a buff! Maybe a few more AC points and a Speed 7 instead of 6. More than that though, I'd enjoy seeing these guys as foes more often in the dungeon. Even if you give 2 or 3 of them to Jorgrun as pets, sorta how like Azarel has his Hell Hounds and Fire Elementals. (Oh but that would d...

damiac wrote:They also have a 2% chance to fall down any staircase, causing 1 permanent HP loss.

Don't joke about this, some of us have this inherent mutation in real life

Boulder beetles are basically practice for when orbs of destruction start showing up later. New enemy idea: Emperor Boulder Beetle. Can curl into a boulder and home on on you Orb of Destruction style. Another possible idea: Avalanche Boulder Beetle. Can curl into a boulder, and then while he's roll...

I've been having fun with my new friend The +7+7 Singing Sword lately. For those of you who don't know, this is a Fixedart Bastard Sword that frequently chats to the player, but when you get into battle, it starts shouting at the enemies and lightly damages every single enemy in LoS every turn. (The...

So basically everyone is using dith wrong? ;) Possibly. I got the feeling right away from even using him a short time that he's not "the stealth/stabber god", but rather an all-around god with benefits that revolve strongest around EV-based characters as opposed to AC-based ones. Just lik...

Dith is pretty okay. I killed some nasty uniques using Shadow Form and my Wands and Rods (which still function at full power) with like 15.0+ Evocations because I was playing a "gadgeteer" with stabbing capability. I never even knew that Shadow Mimic ability existed until quite later on, a...

Okawaru recently gifted my HESk a randart cutlass, that was Distortion. I swapped out my +4+5 Dagger of Venom for this thing and the enchantments were only +0+1. It wasn't actually "cursed", but jesus criminy.

Nets have saved my life against early Gnolls and Ogres more times than I can count. Beyond that? Not as useful. Spiny Frogs and Black Mambas break out and continue their ferocious assault too quickly for me to do any decent extra damage. Nets are also great anti-unique weapons though! Even mid-game ...

Here's a good discussion question! Which Crawl deity do you think you would follow in real life, to any degree? By "follow", we can say anywhere between outright "worship", or something as small and simple as thanking him/her for stuff. Whichever applies to you, since we all inte...

I love it when CORRUPTION crawl_HellOfAPartyInHere.png I mean yeah it is a typical Touch of Corruption situation but something about this scene just screamed picture-perfect. Look at all this chaos! :) I'm going to save+quit this crawl match just like this and come back to it several days later just...

Ashenzari is always good. Even though I main Ashenzari and can confirm that she is great for spellcasters and hybrids alike, I will say that Chei is the #1 deity for multiclassers in terms of pure, raw effectiveness (and I place Ashie at a close #2). Chei is gimmicky though, you have to play the ga...

So I was in D:12 with an armored Orc Fighter of the new weather god Qazlal, and encountered a gigantic pack of like three dozen Orcs and Yaks, right? And on-hand I happened to have a spare Scroll of Immolation-- the NEW kind, which casts Inner Flame on everything in sight... Was pretty potent. crawl...

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Pokemon Trainers are better in case you're trying to decide.

Crap, there's two Stone Giants in Orc:4 this time. Good thing Nemelex has granted me the cosmic powers of BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER

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Sorry boys, but your Life Points are OUTTA HERE

Sorry to hear about you losing your chance at the Ponderous Hat, OP! That really sucks, and it has happened to me once or twice. On the other hand, you're sure to find an even better hat later on in the game, probably via Acquirement Scroll if you ask for Armo(u)r. So, don't sweat it, keep your eyes...

The Obsidian Axe is the #1 reason I would use the Axes weapon skill.

On that note, HI I'M BACK

CBL will be a Level 6 spell instead of Level 7?? You know what, I like this a lot. Orb of Destruction is Level 7 and IMO it's superior to CBL in terms of power and safety, so when offered both I always pick OoD over CBL. This minor change makes much more sense. (It's kinda like when they changed Fir...

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