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sanka wrote:If acquirement is guaranteed not to give you a useless item then why can a mummy get staff of energy?

Staff of energy can also be evoked for MP channeling (recent change).

Guaranteed can still be striking. Still much better odds of getting something good. Even the second worst option (rod of the swarm) is far more useful than most wands. I'll try my luck with wand acquirement if I have a good amount of them already identified and I'm comfortable with how strong my ch...

Alright, I misused to the word "strictly", but the advantage of having a bigger pool to cast spells is only theoretical, I think. If you're in a position to lose most of your HP to cast a few more spells, without that being a guaranteed suicide, then you were never in danger to begin with ...

They add a whole new dimension to playing casters and caster-hybrids: can I justify my casting with an appropriate cost/benefit analysis of the results of this spell, which will include an unresistable reduction in health? The problem is that using your HP as fuel for spells is strictly worse than ...

I consistently keep finding Mara at the entrance of the rune vault of whatever lair branch I was planning to do first. I have no clue why Xtahua or Margery were removed from lair branch endings but Mara wasn't.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned air elementalists yet. IMO the best start for a melee-focused hybrid character, purely because you have guaranteed access to swiftness and repel missiles, the two best low-level buffs in the game. They help you early, and they stay relevant all the way to your 15th...

It looks to me like the viable solution when you encounter a ghost moth as a level 15 DECj is to escape in some fashion. If you have agility, might, speed, and a decent weapon and decent fighting skill you might beat it, but you probably shouldn't. Potion of invisibility, probably along with see in...

the cursed -5 pair of gloves of the Duke {rF+ rC+ Str+3 Dam+4} Yeah, fuck you too, Crawl. Well, the gloves could be useful to a character with extremely high AC like Gr in heavy armour. Unfortunately the dude in question is a Tengu Wizard who, at clvl 20, has 108 HP and 10 AC, so those gloves are a...

the cursed -5 pair of gloves of the Duke {rF+ rC+ Str+3 Dam+4}

Yeah, fuck you too, Crawl.

It was never particularly important. Some players started saying it was important, so other, better players started saying it isn't important. I remember when everybody, good players and bad players alike, considered GDR a big deal (which I didn't care about at the time because I refused to play me...

Was something about GDR changed recently (as in, the last couple releases)? Looking around a bit, I'm surprised the genral consensus went from GDR being the best thing since sliced bread to being so useless it's not even worth knowing about (see LearnDB entry).

Damage shaving formula: 1d(1+1d(1+XL/3)). It's a lot, and it works on every source of damage. Also, as mentioned, they get a free wand of healing. Personally I see the "Ne" part of DDNe as an early game thing for the most part: vampiric draining is extremely helpful to stay alive until you...

you flat-out can't get the best possible equipment from her and render irrelevant all the loot branch ends and scroll acquirements other characters depend on Okawaru gifting the best possible equipment? Equipment that renders branch ends and acquirements irrelevant? We must be thinking of two diffe...

Point taken. But in terms of harm to the player distortion is a galaxy ahead of vampiric. Vampiric will merely temporarily inconvenience you whereas a trip to the abyss at XL 8 is a death sentence. It's much worse actually. You're only taking into account the risk of wielding/unwielding them. When ...

Okay, but...why Okawaru specifically? Shouldn't distortion weapons also be removed from Trog and acquirement? Tbh it just doesn't make sense to me that gods (except for Xom, of course) gift you bad items (distortion weapons aren't bad items per se, but they tend to be for many Okawaru and especiall...

O - the ring of Reimbursment {-TELE rElec rF+ rC+ MR Dam+7}

So close to being the best ring ever

While it's true that another point of EV is more significant if you don't have much of it already, getting that next point is incredibly difficult if you are wearing heavy armour. Anything with an EV penalty of higher than -3 and the returns from Dodging skill and dexterity are so low as to be effe...

bobross419 wrote:Of course... I died long before I could identify any one of them lol

This means they were good.

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I found this to be funny.

I wonder what would happen if you took one of those stairs. Telefrag?

Are catoblepas included in the lair-themed zig monster set? I've gone through 2-3 of those floors in my current zig run, and none contained a catoblepa.

Congratulations on the win :) Something I do have a question about: What is the effectiveness of a Staff of Wizardry as compared to a given enhancer Staff? I had books with Tornado sitting around for quite some time before I was able to get my skills/int high enough to get it castable, during which ...

I'm currently playing a tornado caster, I started the game in a version where Tornado was at its most nerfed (the new cooldown/radius/etc mechanics and 6 damage dice) and I later upgraded to the latest trunk version. The nerfed Tornado seems pretty good for the typical 3-rune stuff. It seems to dest...

This would cause players to use artificial means of getting hungry (ring of hunger, spells, rods) in order to be able to eat chunks whenever they're available and avoid getting naturally hungry as much as possible. :geek:

However, I don't find monsters ranged to be a threat unless it's a purpose made ranged monster (e.g centaurs), possibly a separate issue to be addressed? It sounds like you haven't witnessed the horror of an Imp who found a bow and arrows :) In fact, I think the only difference between "ranged...

The very next turn after your last chunk goes rotten, you will go hungry. After extensive research, I feel confident about expanding on that basic law to create a comprehensive theory of chunk availability: 1. The very next turn after your last chunk goes rotten, you will go hungry. 2. While hungry...

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Oka, that ************ *** ** * *** *** * ********** *****, after spending half the game giving me unenchanted pieces of armour for slots I had already filled with something better and weapons I had never even picked up from the floor let alone trained the skill for, finally sees fit to give me a we...

I usually pick up a sling if I can find it specifically to deal with early jellies. While throwing stones does work, it can take ages compared to throwing stones with a sling. The risk here is wielding a cursed sling, so the best option (but far from guaranteed) is finding a monster who's using one,...

I would have really liked this in a recent game in which Oka gifted me a vampiric demon trident

Oka Is a pretty good god for all classes, as the armour gifts can be awesome for whatever you're playing as, so he should give you useful stuff sooner or later. Amulet of Faith helps alot with this! Gourmand > faith. Witth gourmand a couple yaks mean no food problems for quite some time, which free...

Unseen horrors are twice as likely to appear on open levels, especially OOD ones. Unless you can see invisible, in which case you won't meet one until D:18. I swear this (like chunks rotting the turn before you go hungry) is coded on purpose.

That's very true. If we show numbers, players think that they are significant and that they have to manage them. Skill level decimals are not significant and should be hidden. But at this point the only significance of 1-27 (besides its legacy value) is that certain "dings" in certain ski...

Keep in mind you don't necessarily need to negate the penalty completely in order to still be able to use your spells. Wizardry bonuses can help a lot there. I've had Deep elf spellcasters with around 17-18 shields skill who still used level 9 spells while wearing large shields. Bottom line, don't j...

We try to show only relevant information and hide irrelevant details. But this isn't irrelevant information at all. Even in the current system, where progress between levels does nothing gameplay-wise, knowing that clearing D:22 has trained your conjurations from 16 (10%) to 16 (25%) or rather to 1...

If we want to display more precision, I think it would be better to use decimals than a higher scale. But I keep thinking we don't need it. You don't need to know if you're at 7.5 or 7.6 skill level anymore than you need to known if your attack speed is 96 or 97 or if your spell success is 95% or 9...

The more vague sense of progress may or may not be a problem. Crawl character progress is already fairly continuous because you have not only XL, but all the independently increasing skill levels. All of these are discrete, but the combination of them can be considered nearly continuous. Equipment,...

How are you getting that much awesome gear every game? Crystal plates, GDA, multiple demon weapons, katanas, hats of the alchemist, dragon king... All by the mid-game... I've litereally seen GDA on the ground like twice in a couple years of playing this game (never with a non-caster, it goes without...

Do you mean the percentages? Ok, but why? What's so taboo about micromanaging numbers in a game that runs on numbers? I can imagine OCD types doing the silliest things to make sure not a single XP gets wasted, but, for us "sane" people it's useful to, for example, have a vague estimate of ...

It's absolutely worth it. To-hit enchantment is soon eclipsed by the to-hit bonus from your weapon skill (provided you have decent weapon skill), and hence generally considered not too important. -1 is also the smallest penalty (obviously), while +10 is a huge bonus. It would worth using even if the...

pre-nerf Makhleb: HD - 1 + 1d(HD) HP and MP -> 15-1+d15 -> 15-29 HP/MP, at least if the formula in the wiki is correct. in average 22 HP/MP There's no way in hell "old" Makhleb would have given you 22 MP for a greater mummy kill. 22 HP, maybe, but not MP for sure. It's probably more like ...

I think the appropriate response is 'all hope abandon ye who enter here.' Makhleb would be pretty rubbish now, Necromutate plus firestorm is the way to go I think, with access to channelling. an amulet warding and ignoring summons is probably the best thing to do, but I never got through one (altho...

<G-Flex> I picture oka as this old guy going through his attic and just discarding old junk as gifts D - the -9 crystal plate mail of Kekh {god gift, Dex-1 Dam+2} I don't think I had ever seen an item with a -9 enchantment before. I just hope my MDFi survives long enough to be able to switch gods. ...

Or is it a matter of taste and are there no bad combo's? Of course there are bad combos, a Minotaur Enchanter won't fare very well, nor will an Octopode Berserker. And 15 rune wins with no spells are strictly for Crawl masters, I'd say. One way i want to try the wizard again, cause i didn't see its...

It was my first time seriously trying to do a Zig. My character was a 170 HP DEIE with necromutation, ice storm, crystal spear, controlled blink and all that good stuff (but no DDoor or Borg). All was going well until I met mummies on zig: 24. I didn't stand a chance. I initially tried the typical T...

Surely glow would just mean characters stopped and waited for the glow to heal, then carried on with buffs enabled again? There are parts of the game that are extremely dangerous for a squishy wizard to explore without at least two or three buffs active. Either that or, as soon as I spot an enemy I...

Elec isn't that great of a brand either anyways. Hmm, no. Electrocution is great and doubly so on a fast weapon like that. Undoubtedly superior to venom even if you don't take into account the fact that rPois is far more common among monsters than rElec (and many of the monsters that resist electri...

As far as long blades go, it's a good one, but not the absolute best. The bot says that in 0.9 demon and eudemon blades had their base delay lowered to 13. I assume this means their minimum delay is 6, since that the case with all other weapons with 13 base delay. Is this actually the case? At the ...

Another thing that I think would work well in Hexes is a damage reflection spell - unless that's against any design philosophies. That would make Yred a less desirable god. I don't think a damage reflection spell overlapping with Yred's power would be an issue, there's many other cases of gods' pow...

Post your morgue file, please. It's not supposed to have 250, but I doubt it did. Having just finished clearing one for the first time, I can say that 250 is a conservative figure. I had to kill 281 :lol: Tbh I think it's pretty ridiculous, and also quite boring. It took me close to 15k turns (most...

The old system allowed you dump 500k XP into just fire magic* if you were so inclined, where now (If my understanding is correct), you can put significant focus on fire magic, but you couldn't dump everything there. Quite the contrary, actually. At least in manual mode (which is the one I've used a...

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