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You can swap weapons when you really need like when fighting orbs of fire.

Seriously, DD of Makhleb with vampiric execuioner's axe is the most broken combo in the whole game.

A mistake like not leaving the whole entire branch back to the early dungeon to rest for 1000+ turn to get rid of the contam? (Seriously it feels like you have to do that). If you have no other way of killing things except invisibility, then yes, continuing exploring is a mistake. You can press 5 s...

A single cast of Invisibility cannot give yellow contamination so it is never suicidal unless player made a mistake (like casted the spell while having some contamination or together with haste)

Oops, the game is more fun than I expected. I am adjacent to entrance to Ice Cave and wondering Rupert is 3 tiles away from it on the opposite side. Probably I should not enter Ice Cave as I don't have rC+ but have low HP. Optimal play is to read scroll of blinking I think, but it is not fun :( Dung...

Attempt to stab minotaur. The minotaur bellows! You hit the minotaur but do no damage. Space bends around the minotaur. You grab the minotaur. The minotaur is lightly wounded. You constrict the minotaur, but do no damage. The minotaur hits you with a double sword of freezing!!! Ouch! That really hur...

Dagger has the lowest base damage in the game, it is very bad without electro/distortion/venom.
As High Elf I usually go for Long Blades, it crosstrains with Short Blade also.
Don't train staves for staff of wizardry, it is awful weapon.

dowan wrote:Will FO get blinked and teleported by a disto weapon?

No, it won't. Even Abyss cannot teleport Fo.

Play Op/Dr, you get one less skill to train and you don't need to choose lighter body armour for Spectral Weapon.

I checked action table before posting.

Code:: Cast: Lee's Rapid Decon | | | | | | | | | 12 || 12 Invok: Sacrifice Essence | | | 1 | | | | | | || 1

and no throwing items at all

I believe constriction does not stop monsters from blinking, I will pay closer attention to be sure.

Main problem is lack of ranged attack. It is impossible to avoid multiple mutations in extended without ranged attack.

Yes, Int 25 is low for level 9 spell. Not sure why you are saying that it was a waste, you can get all 15 runes with Tornado now

A) It's not an interesting vault in terms of terrain or threats at all, I just need to spend a lot of time on the level hanging out near the stairs. B) It means I didn't get the hell portal vault. A) Not sure what you mean. Open terrain is the best when you can be attacked by fast monsters and mons...

Yes, you have low Int, wear wizardry. AC+4 is worse than Tornado, especially when you are EV-based anyway.
AC is overestimated

Edit. Enchant the shield, or are you still hoping for steam DA?

Arrhythmia wrote:on the other hand you made the frog pond lair ending, and that is a sin whose debt must be paid for in hell

Why? It's one of the most fun and dangerous endings.

Well, according to your dump file, you got Deterioration 2 from potion of mutation, not from mutagenic glow. Though I guess Frail 1 was not pleasant either (not sure if it stacks with Hepl's penalty, was it Frail 2 Felid?) Edit. You seem to get mutagenic glow very often. Now I see why you came with ...

It's easy to calculate MR, 7 * XL + 40 for the hat. If you are XL 27, then it's 229, above MR+++++(200).

Permanent Haste is too good.

I meant to curse the rF+, AC+ ring. But maybe you should replace that robe with one of rC+ and replace the rC+ ring with wizardry. Then Tornado will be castable I believe.

Why don't you curse another ring? It will help with Tornado a lot.

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As suggested by dowan I am trying Gozag with normal speices i.e. non-Mu and non-Sp. Selected OpWn for the challenge and random start. Was very lucky : OpWn set off with: a book of Battle, a potion of curing {!q}, a +0 spear, a bread ration with corresponding skills. Glowing quarterstaff on D4 (stave...

Is gourmand useless with Gozag? I am Op of Gozag and it is not displayed gray

I believe it can be considered wasted work indeed. We can theoretically assume that it is possible to create a new Pakellas which is perfect and devs did 20% (or 40% or whatever number you want) of required work and then abandoned the project.

I don't love when I "play" a wizard mode game where I delete all monsters after entering a new level and gather consumables (trying to fix a bug) and find pearl dragon hide on D8.

A hybrid is a character who is equally comfortable with killing dangerous monsters both with spells and without them. Something like http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Sandman25/morgue-Sandman25-20141024-122804.txt Also heavy armor is overrated by some players. AC 30+, EV 30+ is more than enough to win the...

Some neighbor thread has a character with rF+/rC+ buckler so I am sure it still exists.

Yes, I wrote recently, Ash is bad because you can use lots of spells but you have no spell slots

Edit. That's why I prefer to play stable.

genericpseudonym wrote:You can press control-E to slow your autoexplore movement to the speed of your slowest ally (also useful on necromancers).
It probably shouldn't be necessary to do this with hep though.

Yes, I know, thank you. I was a Felid so I didn't use autoexplore on new levels.

Also, I think you're over estimating what an Ancient Lich can do. Silence just makes them faster in that you can be less careful but not easier in that it changes your success rate for killing or dying to them. Have you actually tried casting Silence vs them? Because I don't understand your comment...

Another way to explain what a "win more" is in Crawl: it lets you handle multiple enemies at once, quickly, instead of killing them the easy/slow way by pulling them with stealth into 1 on 1 fights. Right, there is no spell "I am DD of Makhleb in GDA with +9 vampiric executioner's ax...

I bet you don't play hybrids often. Silence is amazing vs half of crawl monsters which are more dangerous as casters than as fighters. It is a huge advantage to be able to choose how you want to fight a monster. Met a Hill Giant - cast some spells, met an Ancient Lich - cast Silence and kill it with...

Gozag is worse that Qazlal IMHO. Try Ru next, it's fun and every game is unique.

There is no penalty for ancestor's death.

snow wrote:I never said it wasn't. I said it's underused because if you can win with it you can win without it.

That's bad criterion IMHO, it is not too hard to win with 15 runes as DEBe without abandoning Trog. Does it mean all spells are underused?
Silence is amazing in Elf, Vaults, Zot and especially Tomb.

snow wrote:One possible solution is to make some spells easy to cast in armor and some spells hard to cast in armor instead of adding 4000 clauses and side effects to a spell that MIGHT confuse a monster.

Such mechanic already exists, it is failure rate and spell levels.

Silence is amazing spell.

crawl throws excessively dangerous monsters at you all the time. 'oods' are not actually rare, and many common monsters (the d:1 gnoll!) may be too tough for some characters. it is a core dcss skill to be able to recognize, 'this situation will kill me if i stay in it, and i need to flee immediatel...

The value is determined by just spell power and MR of the monster.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/MR#Saving_throws

I see we have 3 clear "leaders": Beogh, Ely and Nemelex. Nothing surprising I guess.

What is the problem with DoT? I always assumed that DoT spells are similar in power to direct damage spells. If anything, it is easier/safer to kill monsters with Poison Arrow or Bolt of foo and those are not 3 school level 6 spells.

genericpseudonym wrote:This isn't Sil.
The only time you have a serious chance of being caught between two enemies in a corridor is against Robin when she throws her pal behind you.

I am not sure what you mean as serious chance but I am sure it is greater than zero unlike with Swiftness in the open.

duvessa wrote:The fact is, Pakellas added nothing new to the game.

Except reliable way to get a rod and wands which is a huge deal.

When you target Hex spells and Petrify, you can see exact chance of success in the targetter. Something like Aim: anaconda (67% chance) Edit. I agree with you about numbers, unfortunately all devs disagree with us. When you want a spell castable (no matter if high level or not), train corresponding ...

Another bad thing is presence of high power banishers in Elf, I always make sure to check "?/mdeep elf sorc" before entering Elf.

Penalty for Air/Earth training has been removed several versions ago.

Yes, anacondas can be very dangerous, especially to EV-based characters. Have you tried petrifying it?

It is pretty cool, which is why when the battlemage remembers that they have a lajatang and rushes past you to engage the enemy in honorable melee combat (blocking your line of fire, of course) is kind of the opposite of cool. And that happens pretty much all the time! Also it's pretty funny how a ...

fr: remove all evokables except wands and rods.

This is why you cast it in a corridor and then swap place with your summon. Now there is a butterfly between you and your enemy, and even if they kill it immediately you've still created 1 tile of space which you can use to safely exploit staircase mechanics. If the enemy misses or doesn't oneshot ...

Wow, Erolcha, Psyche and Sonja on the same level, the worst uniques for me at "Reach Lair" stage...

I love Freezing/Poisonous Cloud, especially for Sp/Fe and especially for Elf. You have both reasons in your game

Edit. It can be castable in no time with your Conj/Air and Ash.

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