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I think one of your main issues is that you are skilled in opposite spell schools for no clear reason. With 10 in Air and Earth you're a lot less powerful than you should be.

Also, Hat of the Alchemist is one of the best pieces of head gear in the game. I'm curious...why are you not wearing it?

Work me through this if you would.

GDR on troll leather is basically 20%. With 10 AC, damage reduction is capped at 5. Isn't that still a decent reduction in damage given no other branding issues? Especially for an Ogre who is going to take a bunch of cumulative nuisance damage?

crate wrote:Well generally a robe is better than troll leather armour also....

What about the GDR? I've always thought that leather is a good step up from robes for the damage reduction.

Congrats!

First win is AWESOME, huh?

Now you need to get your 1st 15 runer.

=)

I just won my first Jiyva game, 4 runes, and I have to say, it was a blast. However, I did want to go for more runes, but as a fire oriented WZ who had not yet found firestorm, I was haunted by the fact that the jellies were eating my books. If you're going to be dependent on any particular thing, I...

I'm a SEEE, and at level 6 of the dungeon with no temple in sight, I have my starting book and book of the earth. In a shop, are Power and Spatial Translocations, meaning that I have access to pretty much all my earth spells but LCS, and I can buy OOD, blink, and ctele. I had thought about going Sif...

I carry all of my chokos with me and never eat them.

I just recently found a Vampiric Battleaxe my NAIE was able to use effectively, and I have to say, cleave seems a bit OP. As long as the ego propagates to all of the effected creatures it just seems to have such a huge impact on gameplay...maybe this is intentional, but it does seem hard for a mult-...

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How exactly does that work? Could I plausibly have an elf in ring or scale with no cast/ev penalty w/o having to pump armour skill?

Your name is so appropriate for a Dark Souls player. I have never come so close to destroying my entire gaming area as I have while playing that game.

, I just press 5 and restore my hp for several turns. Sometimes I spam 5 button to wait for poison/sickness to go away. If by this you mean you literally mash the 5 key, that's a bad idea. You're begging for an ogre/hydra/whatever is scary to you to come round the corner and whap you three times be...

What about elves in elvish armour? Don't you get a significant reduction in EV and casting penalty if you're an elf wearing elvish armour? I don't ever really focus on this because the mechanics are opaque, but I would love to have my high elf caster wearing elvish scale or something w/o penalty,

Nice on the win and good call on banking it! Slime is, imo, either a moderately challenging or an impossibly hard branch depending on your preparedness. If you can reliably dig, have a few scrolls of magic mapping, have rC++, clarity, rmut, rCorr ideally, and stasis and you take your time, it's doab...

Is there anything I can do to help 'ol webtiles?

I love this game. I would be happy to kick a little cash in to support hosting.

One more tip on clearing the E:5 vault, maybe a basic one, but one that helped me a lot.

Go get one of your wands of digging and cut a few bolt holes around the end vault. What I mean is, dig some grids where you can lose LoS and pop a tele or drink a pot or whatever your emergency response is.

Thank you for the tips.

Ogres are hard to play! I've gotten a few going, but they tend to get bursted down so quickly it seems. I had Agnes kill me in 3 turns...

I'll see if this helps. Hoping for my YAVP OgWz soon!

Well done!

Hello all! I have a question on M&F weapon progression. Let's say I'm trying to make it work with an Ogre. I start as an QgWz with no melee. First thing I find is a club. Bash, bash, bash. Where do you suggest I go next, with the assumption that I don't find a whip of electricity or something? I...

Congrats!

Feels great huh?

Excellent on those proposed changes! I'm so amazed at the intellect people bring to bear on making this the best game ever. Thank you devs!!!! As for the first part, I'm sure you're correct that this isn't vital information for a win. I only really suggested it because I thought the (a)benefit to pl...

How about when you inspect a weapon it will tell you the weapon skill needed to "master" it or get it to its minimum delay? I don't think this would have any negative effects, and would save people a trip to the wiki when they pick up a weapon they don't understand. It might even save a fe...

If you think you MIGHT need to use hero/finesse, just use it. Piety is no use when you're dead. This! Ever so much this! It is possible to abuse consumables and lose because you run out. But the VAST majority of deaths are preventable if you just use the tools you have and don't panic or try to eek...

Good for you on all that fighting! Looks like a REALLY fun character to play. Doesn't that weapon make a godawful amount of noise though? I'm not sure the current state of the meta on this, but I was raised back in the ol' .7 days, and back then we never turned off fighting nohow. My (recently decea...

Really, really, nice touch devs.

i <3! this game!

I found out, thanks. Died to a yak at level 16. A Yak. #@!%% Welcome to crawl! Yaks are really, really, dangerous for young crawlers, and seeing on on level 6, while not out of depth, is certainly cause to flee. My first Yak death occurred because I was thinking "so, I've killed a Ogre, a Mant...

Gotta disagree here.

Use that whip until you find a demon whip to turn into a holy scourge. You will melt demons and still have a hand free for a big 'ol shield.

Yeah, I'm seeing that.

I managed to kill Purgy, Eustacio, and a few Ogres, so I can reliably cast Stone Arrow now, which is nice. So far it has saved me HARD when I got shafted from D:5 to d:8 into a bunch of gnolls, skeles, and a jelly. The dagger bought me some time to flee.

Ranged characters are sweet, but can be hard to get really going.

How is your ammo management going? Are you running out of bolts? If so, pick up a melee weapon and train that up well so you always have something to rely on. Your 8 in crossbows won't do you any good if you don't have any bolts...

Unseen horror is either a trivial nuisance or a murderous killer. I love them!

I never use it, but I've just been *ahem* invited to do so on a DDEE who picked up a glowing dagger on D:2. It seems wickedly powerful, and I can still butcher with a dagger, so I think I could credibly use this thing until I'm able to survive red glow or an abyssing. But overall, what do people thi...

The Crawl devteam has implemented a savage punishment for farming up 27 fighting/armour/dodging before tackling the hardest parts of the game. It's called farming up 27 fighting/armour/dodging. Hilarious! And KoboldLord is right, as he nearly always is. In Pan, you will never get randomly teleporte...

*phew*

Glad it's not just me =)

Or has my work gotten wise to my Crawl habit?

Come see me on Webtiles. Playing live!

=)

Totally worth it. 4 artifact helms 4 artifact cloaks, and boots of running.

Thank you!

danr wrote:What are thick feet good for?

I may be wrong about this, because they may be melding along with my boots, but as a merfolk, I'm spending as much time as possible in the water, boots melded, slapping fools with my feet/tail.

So, I have a great MfGl with 5 good mutations,0 bad mutations (super lucky mut roulette at level 5 gave me slow metabolism, fur, and thick feet) no rmut source, 3 potions of cmut, and shoal and swamp runes. The trove wants 2 potions of cmut to let me in. I really have no idea what to do. If I had a ...

Is it ever worth it? I really love a buckler, and I'm not opposed to getting skill 5 in it to reduce penalties. Will this still mess with unarmed though? Im a SETM, so it would really only be an issue when I'm not in a form (which is when I'm pounding on trash monsters), right? I just want another l...

Just to make it EVEN EASIER. Behold the, awesomely titled lazy newb pack. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 It as all the goodness you could possibly want. Also, dwarf fortress was in a NYTimes feature, which is kind of crazy. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brill...

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...

That's oka for you.

But then he turns around and gives you a randart demon whip of electricity with 4 resists...

Also, as a naga, get up on those shields! You can be using a large one by branch end time with no penalty.

It's hard to go wrong with a HeCr or a HeWz for a 15 runer. Great aptitudes in long blades, spellcasting, and air magic, good-ish hp, and great stats. I like to go Oka=>Tso with the build.

Also, if you find it, Shadow Creatures is worth learning for Zot alone. Helllooooo pet orb of fire!

Lol. Minmay and I have vastly differing viewpoints on abjuration. I think reasonable people can disagree on this, and I agree with much of what (he?) says, but I do think it's a very powerful spell, so here are my 2 cents. IMO abjuration is one of the most important spells you can learn, less so in ...

Okawaru is a great god for most any background. The gifts can be great, and Heroism is a nice +5 to fighting and dodging when you need it. Also, if you're playing a primary caster with a solid opening book, like the .8 AE or IE, you really don't need any more spells until the mid/late game. Sif tend...

Training invocations is useful before going to TSO if you want to use the abilities. Okawaru can help you with that though, especially if you don't care about losing piety. Victory dance with heroism until you get 7 or so in invocations and you're set.

Here is my 2 cents. I always try to use the biggest shield I can. Having a shield gives you an extra slot for resistances, and an extra chance at not getting damaged by attacks. I see you're in Vault 2; when you start seeing yaktaur packs you will understand the value of a shield. As for post Oka go...

Seriously, you all are awesome!

Quick question. How do I edit my config file for webtiles? Is that doable?

If you're going to use staves, why not?

If not though, channel you inner spriggian and weep for the glorious randart GDA you found on level 2 and move on.

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