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With all that choice of spells, it can be hard to decide what to do as a beginner. The secret is to keep focussing on one or two spell schools that you have a good aptitude for and pick up the spells that relate to just those schools (with maybe a little from other schools if it bolsters spells rela...

Depends on your character and the particular threat. If you have high enough AC, EV and HP, you can probably just tough it out (not sure what it's called, but there's a particular vault in Zot that generates with half a ton of yellow draconians, acid blobs etc., and I managed to stairdance it withou...

Here's my ascension with a MuWz: Click . It was my first online win. I picked Mu for the hungerless casting and undead immunities (and for the challenge), Wz for the high starting intelligence, and Sif for the free mana. I would probably have picked Ash in retrospect for the skill boost and clarity ...

I seemed to use Slow quite a lot in levels 7-9 with my SpAM (I chose that particular bulid as I was going through a phase of having builds that spelt words), but TBH I can't remember why. I think I tended to use it to make doubly sure of getting plenty of sling shots on tough / fast dudes (hill gian...

Here's my 2 cents worth: 5 tips to avoid YASD

Basically: Don't get cocky, don't panic, know your enemy, learn from your mistakes and play very carefully

Hi My MiGl was just slashing his way through the shoals (with an exec axe of freezing and +7 slaying from equipment) when he came across Wyrmbane. I've never found this unrandart before and wondered if it was worth switching to it - the wiki and some tavern posts seem to think it rocks. Here's the c...

Bad luck. Nothing worse than dying on your orb run!

And you're right - singularity rocks!

Some more points about noise: 1) Different branches have different ambient noise - the higher the ambient noise, the less noise carries, e.g. Lair has high ambient noise (due to all that baa-ing, croaking, hissing and snoring?), so noise carries less, whereas the tomb and crypt are deathly quiet, so...

How very enlightening.

Well done! It's a great feeling getting that first win, isn't it?!

Maybe try for 15 runes next time?

Hello there I hope I'm not being too cocky calling myself an ex-noob, but I've now won with a variety of races and starting backgrounds (including 3 out of my last 5 characters), so although I can't call myself an expert by any means I think I can safely say that I've graduated from noob school to b...

I'm going for the same challenge myself, with an OpIE^Dith at the moment, and I can thoroughly recommend this build, since: a) Shadow mimic is awesome as you can cast low-level spells (freeze, throw frost etc.) and get a free shadow shard thrown in 50% of the time at max piety, allowing you to conse...

This is the main reason you died: <Snip loads of attack messages> You feel less exhausted. <Snip more attack messages> You die... i.e. you went berserk with a dangerous unique, a death mage and an annihilator in view (and whatever else waiting in the wings). Risky at best. Another thing was that you...

Well done - the first one's always the sweetest!

I ran out of mp and was stuck in a very long corridor so I diecided to risk it and charge him, because if I kept running away, I would have definitely died anyway from his magic attacks. The sensible route would be to use the heal wand and keep running but I panicked. Some tips: 1) Rule number 1 of...

Cheers for the replies, dudes

Hi there Here's a link to my winning DDNe: Click Not saying I did it perfectly, but my spell learning went animate skeleton -> VD -> control undead Basically, you want to use the weight of the game against itself: can't kill undead? well let them work for you instead! Also, I switched everything oth...

I'm better at analyzing synergetic combinations than I am at actually playing the game - I haven't even got a rune yet. Not being rude, but try getting a rune first before you even think about "analyzing synergetic combinations", let alone trying to write a guide! It's like a trainee mech...

Hello fellow crawlers This is my first time out with Dithmenos. As far as I can see he/she totally rocks as a god, turning my flaky OpIE into a killing machine. So before I die of hubris I thought I'd better ask a few questions: 1) Does shadow mimic always use shards if you use conjurations on a tar...

if you're told about a timed portal, throw caution to the wind and find it all costs - there is such a load of experience and treasure waiting for you that you just can't afford to miss it...

2) Don't make any special preparations for your orb run - if you can handle Zot:5, Pan lords will be no problem Is it really bad advice? It was for my FoFi of Ash. I must have come across 10 pan lords on my orb run (3 at a time at one point, 2 of them very fast and fire resistant and one with LRD -...

My 2 cents worth of advice for melee dudes: Rule number 1: **The fewer the number of enemies that can attack you at once, the better** Rule number 2: **The fewer the number of enemies that know you're there, the better, unless you actually want them to come to you (which you often do)"" Wi...

I agree. I won with a SpAM recently, and I was SpAMming iron shot by the time I got to the vaults - this became may mainstay while I built up TLoc for singularity and Hexes for discord (both of which rock)

1) Don't give any respect to monsters on the first few levels - they're just popcorn and you can tab your way through them. 2) Don't make any special preparations for your orb run - if you can handle Zot:5, Pan lords will be no problem and you probably won't see any anyway. 3) Player ghosts are noth...

My 2 cents worth as well... 1) Qazlal tactics Qaz is *very* noisy, so you're effectivly taking the completely unsubtle, "come on then!" approach - i.e. the monsters come to you rather than the other way round. This can get you in a whole load of trouble if you start attracting more than yo...

Tornado-ing TRJ out in the open seemed like such a good idea... ..that was until my tornado ran out when TRJ was almost dead and surrounded by about 20 almost dead spawns that had been liberally sprinkled around the screen. No cTele, no HW, no way to hit TRJ from behind wall of spawns, no HW, no cha...

I wouldn't say you're screwed up at all - you've got a lot of spellcasting and a fair amount of conjurations which are useful all-round schools for a spell caster. You've obviously got a little of most elemental schools, but this is not a big problem (as long as you focus on one or two schools from ...

Congratz! It's a great feeling when you get your first win! You might want to try a SpEn for a change of style, or possibly a blaster-caster of some sort (DrCj, possibly, since they have high HP and in-built AC) P - +8 executioner's axe of Flawed Execution {vamp, MR+++} That's got to be the most iro...

What a run! This build was inspired by a 10-rune win I had with a HOFi - the only things that could touch me were brimstone fiends and Gloorx Vloq, with their combination of torment, high HP and and unresistable spells. Which made me think - I could do that, with agony and OOD / firestorm. So I trie...

Not sure if this is the right place, but I was just wondering how you configure your rc file so that you can click on the minimap to get to places, like you can on the offline version?

I tried "mouse_input=true", but this didn't seem to work...

Cheers

Sprucery wrote:Didn't want to exit through Abyss?

Can you do that? I thought if you went to the abyss from Pan, you come back to Pan when you leave it?

Code:: T - +17 plate armour of Day {rF+ Slay+4}

Woo-hoo!! With the kit and skills I'd built up, I probably could have gone on to the Hells and Tomb, but I'd had a few close calls with this character on the way (esp. Brimstone fiends in Pan) and I really didn't want to risk throwing it all away. Plus I'm going for an all species challenge, and thi...

Maybe someone else has better ideas but I would probably cast Blink. It that succeeds and you're still alive, the rest depends on where you land and with how much HP. Possibly heal wounds with ?fear. It sucks to die with ?acquirement, and you don't have hasting... If I remember correctly, blink cou...

Dudes I'm afraid I allowed myself to get a bit carried away in Zot, and now I'm probably about to die. I tried some stairdancing to clear quite a heavily guarded entrance to Zot:2, thinking I could slash my way through it all and /or ?blink my way out if things went pear-shaped. How the hell did I l...

Thanks for the advice, dudes. Just got my exec axe of flaming blessed and absolutely tore up the abyss with barely a scratch, which was fun. The only (!) things I'm scared of now are torment and hellfire, of which there is quite a lot in extended. I think I'll go for Zot 1-4 and vestibule next to bu...

I think it's a great armour for this character. I dunno why'd you need Abj or Recall, CBlink is neat I guess but one can do without. Haste is good but Haste can be cast in GDA by this character. Recall is for bringing back divine warriors who have gone wandering off on their own private crusade, an...

Yo crawlers I was just slashing my way through Vaults:5, thinking I could do with some more fire resistance and MR, when I stumbled upon this: e - the +9 armour of the Dragon King (worn) {rPois rF+ rC+ MR+} At first I was like, "Wooah! Jackpot!!". But now I'm thinking, I was intending to g...

Hello fellow crawlers Not played for a few years - got to say I quite like version 0.15 except the lack of weight limits - it seems a bit crazy that my ogre can carry around 200 large rocks! Anyway, I seem very much to be on a roll with this FoFi. I found a beautiful artifact plate armour in a shop ...

Arachne, despite being a half-spider, can't be affected by ignite poison, unlike all the other spiders in the nest. It pays to check things like this on the wiki before you just charge in there like a naga in a china shop. It also takes 10 magic to invoke step from time, and 5 magic to invoke slouch...

You can also train transmutations which will help towards necromutation later on should you want it. Don't train up Transmutations for Necromutation. First, don't do it because Necromancy is a much more useful skill, and you need it as much as you need Transmutations. Second, don't do it because Ne...

If you're after your first win as a caster (as am I), I would seriously recommend a fire elementalist, since their starting book makes the early game so easy - you can just pile all your exp into spellcasting, conjurations and fire and you've got something that should get you to at least the lair ev...

I had almost exactly the same scenario myself with a mottled DrCj. I already had the barnacled rune, but as soon as I saw him went into a trance - "Aaahh... Maaaraaa... Ultimate challenge... Must kill..." Managed to take 2 Maras down, which I believe included the real one, but not without ...

IMHO: 1) Switch everything except armour off, since that has got to be the best GDA I've ever seen and your armour skill is next to 0 (which is why your EV is 0). 2) Pump armour to 15, 3) Get 22 fighting, M+F and armour (heroism makes them 27), 10ish T+D, 8 invocations, 15 dodging, and about 15 evoc...

Bad luck, dude - executioners are sods for low AC/GDR characters, unique ones with an executioner's axe of pain even more so. A few points: Personally, with that amount of piety, I'd have left one ring slot unbound and brought more rings with me. OK, you wouldn't have had so much of a stat boost, bu...

FilthyApe wrote:
Zargon wrote:Found this in the tomb:

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n - the amulet "Thonualo" (around neck) {rMut +Blink +Rage +Inv +Lev rElec MR}

That one is really ridiculous.

Yeah - trust crawl to leave it to my last floor before ascending to give me something decent...

Azrael wrote:He's cool and all, but if you're actually considering switching swords at the point, I have no idea how you made it that far.

I had a +7,+9 great sword of holy wrath and I thought his sword might be useful for clearing a Zig - it was!

cjo wrote: I followed the advice here and brought home my first 15-rune win

Major congratulations! It's a great feeling, isn't it? Have you tackled a ziggurat before? If not, this may be your next challenge!

I know others have said it already, but it's gotta be the badass daddy himself, Cerebov . (Not that I fancy him - I just respect him as a fellow badass) When you take him down, you get a real sense of accomplishment, and he even has the decency to give you a proper sword that gives everyone a good r...

Two combos come to mind: 1) DrCj. You've got the spellcasting background, but they have more HP and better fighting aptitude, as well as resonable aptitudes for everything else. They gain AC passively instead of having body armour, so you don't need to worry about getting hold of decent armour and t...

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