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All of this said, using shields outside of these situations won't make you unable to win, it will just make your character unnecessarily weak. I've won many 1h+shield characters and for sure they were not weak. Speaking about shields, I started to play 0.18 a bit, and have one question: how does am...

Outside of comparing melee with(out) shields they do add something which I think is equally important: when you're not in melee. A shield will help you against yaktaurs, stone giants, liches, etc. Have reflection ego or amulet of reflection and see them killing themselves even when you haven't been ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-8-gdd0e5ea (webtiles) character file. 875676 Nebukadnezar the Grand Gadgeteer (level 27, -27/381 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Gladiator on June 6, 2016. Was the Champion of Pakellas. Killed themself with a badly aimed orb of electricity (62 damage) ... on level 1...

Good advice so far. When you have trouble with some (weaker) races: Get stealth if apt. is good. At *** I'm having most of the time the option whether I want to pick a fight or retreat when something enters LOS. It helps a lot. You didn't mention how many runes you want to get ? Here are links to 15...

1. Stealth Get enough Stealth so that you can make the decision whether you want to retreat or fight. A Cacoademon who cannot see you cannot harm you 2. Haunt It's smite-targted, so you'll have very good chances to block LOS even if someone noticed you. They can even kill things but most important H...

So Makh becomes more "optimal" than any other god at that point. Try and clear a Zig without Makh, it's just too dangerous. As for other gods, I've outlined the reasons why Oka is "optimal" in the early and midgame. Unless you address those, just name-dropping gods isn't going t...

Nobody has mentioned Fulminant Prism yet, which is a problem because Prism is awesome. The statistic for my FeCj lists it, a very nice spell, but I wouldn't advice it for players who have trouble surviving. The spell is loud. It will draw monster to your spot. Instead of dividing packs it creates p...

These are the morgues from 2 15-runes games: DeCj of Veh. and FeCj of Veh. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Nebukadnezar/morgue-Nebukadnezar-20151009-004159.txt http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Nebukadnezar/morgue-Nebukadnezar-20151105-205117.txt The history of skilling is there and a statistic wh...

Hurkyl wrote:The reflection ego is an offensive brand; doesn't do anything for your defenses. In particular, it doesn't give a repel missiles effect.

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ok, that would explain something, thx, didn't know that, I've always treated it as the same thing without further reading

But as you say, that number is just a guess; my expectation would be that the mimic's odds would be in the low single digits, although I don't know of an easy way to check this. Still, that's better than nothing, of course, but IMO, it's not really worth mentioning either. Yes, just a guess, I don'...

@Nago: Hall of Blades @Hurkyl: Let's say that confuse is cast with 40% and the mimic is 20% (just a guess). It happens once per 2 casts at max piety. Not confusing a target with 2 casts without shadow mimic: 60%*60% = 36 % Not confusing a target with 2 casts with shadow mimic: 60%*60%*80% = 28.8 % T...

Had nothing against acid blobs but OOD which is too loud. You have shadow mimic. Unless Dithmenos has changed, the mimic uses its own conjuration rather than duplicating yours; you can actually get decent damage out of using, say, Magic Dart to trigger mimics. Higher level spells trigger stronger m...

full morgue: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Nebukadnezar/morgue-Nebukadnezar-20151129-023936.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.0-28-g6e173f8 (webtiles) character file. 11725063 Nebukadnezar the Ninja (level 27, 164/164 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on Nov 24, 2015. Was the Champion o...

I got 15 runes but it never felt like an easy game. Most likely it was me having problems with this combo - never played a stabber/Spriggan before. Notable events: 1. My first blowgun came after dungeon, lair, spider, swamp, elf, vaults from a bazaar 2. was shafted into orc 4 (Ogre-ending) right nex...

I got the banner with a Gargoyle (poison immunity+relec).
Bad choice for tournament-points but it worked for the banner.

Except with Lom Lobon. Had to run away from him so many times. How do others go about seeing him off? Lom Lobon can ruin your battle-plan by healing himself or blinking around to the point where you find yourself without MP left or see your buffs running out. He can also die just like a random enco...

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Nebuk ... 020535.txt

A CeHu of Oka with 15 runes.
UC+throwing.
Fighting skills maxed out at 22 because of heroism.

byrel wrote:Orb spawning is disabled in abyss; it's actually quite safe on orb run.

So this was a situation where I felt threatened by seeing no exit and instead this was safest place ?

Part of the morgue: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.0-23-g0de4337 (webtiles) character file. 10929559 Nebukadnezar the Archmage (level 27, 297/297 HPs) Began as a Grey Draconian Venom Mage on Nov 10, 2015. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Nov 15, 2015! The ...

This is the history of the orbrun after getting 14 runes through tomb to get the golden rune (banner for tournament): It began in Zot 5. I made it to the stairs.... to depths...to dungeon...to vaults...when one of my spectators mentioned that the smoke from the orb was missing and also no demons cam...

There I was using mephitic cloud on orcs but a stubborn dog shrugged everything off. I know what this meant. Orcish priests have done the same but in the end they all had to give in. So all I had to do was to use more of the same. After I died I looked up in the wiki what's wrong with this 'warg'. &...

uh...this is ugly. I didn't get it that it was registered already. Disappearing games sound like a serious bug - especially for a game like this !

When I finish a game I got an entry very soon (max. 1 day delay) on the page 'Players Ranked by Total': games played 42, won 15.
My personal page will still show 41:14 for a few days.

The longest time for my personal page to update was 3 days iirc. It differs.

2. Always have a method for dealing with neqoxecs. Either kill them in 1 shot or rMut or a sizeable stash of cure mut. Or Jiyva I suppose. summon butterflies + airstrike against neqoxecs worked really well when I had to scum the abyss for a book with 'haste'/scroll of acq. (took me 10k turns to get...

11 of my current 12 wins are 15-runers: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/nebukadnezar.html It depends on what kind of char do you want: a) My melee-fighters were mainly melee (where I stopped skilling early after getting things done) with strong magic support (haste, ctrl-Blink, silence, Ab...

Melee most of the time with support spells + tornado for Extended: Gargoyle of Okawaru. Get the basic fighting skills ready and stop there (like Mace+Flails to mindelay). Then go for tornado (with silence on the way) + abjuration. Switch to ZIN for Extended, he helps a lot with casting (Vital.) http...

Most of the time I've used only 2-3 warlords. You can see who was recalled by looking at the level of their equipment. The pic before leaving trough D1 is just for showing how many orcs I got out of the dungeon alive :) Wyrmbane warlord: yes :) He upgraded his artifact alone. The very high turncount...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1-51-g6203257 (webtiles) character file. 10633961 Nebukadnezar the Executioner (level 27, 220/264 HPs) Began as a Hill Orc Fighter on Aug 2, 2015. Was the Champion of Beogh. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Aug 10, 2015! The game lasted 1day 18:37:59 (1...

Following Zin seems nice, I actually ran a FoFi of Zin before doing this character (got splatted, but even at low invocation zin's recite helped a lot). I'm concerned about Oka's wrath though... teleportation doesn't work, wonder if this character can survive it by fighting or running away on foot?...

ZIN would be an excellent option for a Formicid for Extended: Sanctuary is an escape option (if you have some means to get health back and/or f.e. passage of Golbubria) Okawarus Heroism is very nice for early game or mid-game but when I look at your INT it is most likely that you won't cast any spel...

Beogh will provide an never-ending stream of (plain) tomahawks+bolts to your orcs as soon as your orcs get the blessing 'ranged armament'.

dynast wrote:I was trying to make a priest army, so i was trying to get as many orcs.

You were hoping to get an army of smiters/summoners ?
I always lost my priests very soon because they tend to see themselves as melee fighters.
In this case a polearm would have been a very good gift for them ?

@dynast: Most of these orcs are nothing more than fodder when you recall them. That's one way to use them. I've tried to train my orcs, relying on a stable of very strong warlords and keeping the others out of harms way somehwere in Lair or whereever my stash is. It is not difficult to replace a war...

Petrified in DIS 7. I didn't want to abandon my Orcs, so I stayed instead of teleporting. Later I read that I could have used a Potion of Cancel. to stop the process of petrifying (is this true ?). Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1-51-g6203257 (webtiles) character file. 806273 Nebukadnezar the...

While immune is a bit of a stretch, I'd say with your defenses the chances of an OOD/Iron shot/etc doing decent damage to is < 10%, and possibly < 5%. Usually my Gargoyle is under the effect of 1-3 torments (in the type of levels described) after some turns and not at full health. Hell Sentinels/He...

Mutations: Before switching to ZIN I started with a potion of mut. and the few potions of benemut I had at that time. Then whenever I had enough pot. of benemut. I switched from ZIN->TSO to drink them. (Piety for switching back to ZIN was regained without donating money because I wanted to check Goz...

This is not easy to answer. In Mega Zigs you'll see every tile filled with a monster long before the max. diff. at zig#13. What increases is the number of dangerous monster. Those who have seen me playing have noticed that after clearing roughly 1/3 up to 1/2 of a dangerous level (Pan, chaotic, demo...

The discussion in this thread seems to be about getting the most impressive stats on a char which I think is misleading. (I've done 18 Mega-zigs: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17020) The term 'Mega-zigs' implies an infinite number of (completed) zigs where imo the main pri...

The following stats are *without* Vitalization (which is always on in a zig) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1-30-g34a7ffa (webtiles) character file. 5172895 Nebukadnezar the Bringer of Law (level 27, 258/258 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Fighter on May 24, 2015. Was the Champion of Zin. Escaped wi...

Died in Coc 7 to.....airstrike !! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1-51-g6203257 (webtiles) character file. 1265650 Nebukadnezar the Executioner (level 27, -12/250 HPs) Began as a Formicid Fighter on July 5, 2015. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Killed by the air ... invoked by a blizzard ...

In my 5 long games I had killed the # of ghosts:
4
8
8
3
5

Pollen_Golem wrote:
Are GrumpD and I just unlucky that way?

No, I killed 5-9 Ghosts in my 15-rune games

I've never seen them together

(Happened after I've come back after waiting for a mark to time out.)

Then there's the friendly fire trick - i.o.w. Sentinels not casting their Hellfire when it would harm an ally (of theirs). Does this still work in trunk? And when exactly? I've kept this one in mind - since avoiding Hellfire is always a good idea, but haven't quite gotten the hang of it. Stormcalle...

Sorry about destroying the fun, the bugs were fixed after my report . Don't die on next mummy floor. That's absolutely fine :D I'm a programmer. Anything which is a bug and not wad should be gotten rid of asap. (I probably wouldn't have reported it because these are my first posts in this forum) Ac...

'few words' part 3 Tormentors, Hellions, etc. + undead: The undead are important here because ZIN doesn't give Piety for killing the most dangerous demons. So I can treat this level exactly like a mummy level with 1 exception: After 2-3 Santuaries there won't be enough 'piety' concentrated but they ...

I see. Bug with killing neutral holy beings with singularity is cancelled by bug with casting Tornado/Singularity while in Sanctuary :) I don't understand why you move 1 tile away from sanctuary (if I got it right), does recite trigger penance when used from sanctuary? I've started playing DCSS wit...

Thank you for the detailed description! In big Pandemonium levels there will be holy beings somewhen. If f.e. my sing. kills them without them having seen me (so they are still neutral. Singularity even kills outside of LOS) Zin will put me under penance (happend more than once). I think this is a ...

'few words' part 2: Mummy levels: 1. Sanctuary 2. Tornado / Singularity It is possible to do a lot of things while Sanctuary is active :) Sanctuary will blast everything in LOS but it will not always clear a tile for you especially when you get hit with slow: new monster will move into empty tiles o...

Since this is still an active game I could show a possible way of dealing with megazigs (without necromut/Makhleb) if there is interest in that. Can you please describe it with a few words please? Each Ziglevel (I'm only talking about zig-levels where everything is covered by monster) is entered wi...

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