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While I kinda agree to the decision to shorten longer branches a bit, I'm curios how are you dealing with monster spawn and experience. There will be more monsters for each level, to keep the actual balance, or a considerable experience reduction is planned?

Each player has his own preferences. My characters always train dodging even when they are wearing CPA or GDA. BTW, not casting spells in heavy armour is silly. Recently, I played a ghoul that found a CPA, and only needed 18 levels in Charms, ~12 in Spellcasting and wizardry to use Haste in CPA. Re...

Yes, but you're not considering two other points: firstly, OgWz, OgBe and OgHu (the three suggested backgrounds) have respectively 8, 9 and 10 in dexterity. With 27 dodging while wearing a robe you get a total of 19, 20, 21 EV. It isn't *so* bad, but isn't so great either. Secondly, Og usually tend ...

After I got a double sword of draining, one vampiric (fuck!) and two demon sword of mocking with my HoHe, yes I totally agree that acquirement should respect religions. Unless the very rare case you get a forbidden randart so awesome that breaks the game, I don't believe it's worthy to abandon your ...

This would make it surely useful even against a enemy right next you - but it would also made totally spammable and abusable (if we don't consider the relative low piety cost): a hydra right next to me? Better to spam aa until it get slowed! And so on... Anyway, a cooldown between successive invocat...

The post is totally offtopic, but: if I remember correctly It's a precise design choice, to let monster pick better gear (because orc knights and warlords aren't strong enough :P ) while don't let players abuse this behavior - it would be too easy to throw plate armor around and killing total defend...

Consider that a Ogre with 27 Dodging, base dex and a robe has 19 EV. With those basis, I believe it's much better to train spellcasting and traslocation, getting phase shift, blink, ctele, c-blink and maybe having some more spare experience points to put somewhere else. Or you can going chei, which ...

I was actually thinking to do a KoSt of Nemelex: pain dagger is good, but spamming legendary decks is better

So your only win with a stalker was with a Be who selected the wrong option in the starting screen? :lol:

edit: dpeg gave a better (aka less spoiler) answer

Oh, well... it's nice to just have a fan of Calvino here too

So, if If I passwall right next to a enemy, I'm sure he won't wake up, or is there still a sneak check?

How can dig help passwall? Should I use to break walls too tick to passwall, or what?

You can put [code][/code] to make things easier to read

edit: Ninja'ed by Cerebosquire, nevermind - and I've improperly thanked a message, but well..nevermind I should go to sleep

It's nice to have another italian on the forum, btw

I'd like to win with a Stalker, but I don't know what the best progress for the skills could be: I was thinking to get min delay with short blades, while getting some points in transmutation (until cast evaporate reliably) then training sneaking, stabbing and dodging (in this order). Could be this a...

Another challenge done :D This one has been freaky scary to do: play a mummy who stays rf- for all the game, aka resistances are highly overrated :D The solution to win this game was obviously to play a summoner: being behind a strong wall-meat solves most of weakness to fire - if you run away from ...

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I'll need to wait 0.11 release to play AK

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Has EW III changed recently? Because I wasn't aware of this addition, and the bot is neither - it still says that on ammo EWIII acts like 1d2 scroll of EWII, so it's better used on weapons...

cerebovssquire wrote:That looked more like 3 swings against Ignacio to me on the TV, though one hit did take him to the red

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All heroes magnify their deeds when telling their tales, why shouldn't I? :lol:

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B - the +18 crystal plate armour of Midnight (worn) {god gift, rElec rF+ rN+ MR Acc+3 Dam+4 Stlth++} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 22 of the Dungeon)

Hot damn... You can say it this time Grimm

Holy crap

. I'm sure the lucky character was a merfolk!

Ogres like other large races get huge EV penalty: without raising dex (and for you shouldn't never raise Dex with an ogre), with 27 dodging and a robe you would get 19 max EV - I wouldn't ever consider to waste all those xp on dodging! Personally, I'd try to find a whip of venom/elec or a mace with ...

Extended isn't that much of a risk. Especially since your char sounds like the kind of char who can do it with an antimagic executioner's axe and a holy executioner's axe and does enough damage to consistently produce !!!! messages if !!!! messages existed. I've just won with 15 runes and you were ...

When I started this character I choose it only because it's a strong combo, and I was hoping to streak with my last win. I never imagined a single melee character could find so much slaying bonus in a single game :o - for Crom, I've actually found more slaying in this game than in all my others comb...

Also, I saw your minotaur today on webtiles. :P Was going pretty nicely. Yup, but MiBe is a combo which is guaranteed to going nicely :D Anyway thaks for the answers, they'll be useful in the future - for this specific I'm not sure I need to use the fencer's gloves, as I've already cleared the spri...

A little question has just come to my mind: is there any situation where a slaying bonus to accuracy is better than one to damage? Hitting everytime harder is surely better, but decreasing the frequency of misses could increase the final damage output more than a simple +dam bonus. Is there a genera...

Furthermore, not all Gods' abilities keep the same strength from game's beginning to extended - and that I believe is a good design choice. It would be quite overpowered if a cheap ability like heroism (or Makeleb's minor destruction, or similars...) was extremely good in Pan like in Lair, wouldn't ...

About Yred: I've played only few DK, but I'd really dislike the dropping of permanent allies. Flavor and gameplay-wise, I fear he would became really similar to Makheleb and loose much of his content. The great part about Yred is that you have the change to build a powerful army that effectively hel...

If you storm as you as you notice it's a DD floor, especially if keeping most foes outside LOS (personally, I find this easier with Firestorm and Vehumet), they aren't *so* bad. But if some dwarves have the time to invoke Injury Mirror... well you're quite fucked up, and you need to wait the effect ...

Galefury has described quite exhaustively Ziggurats; I'd make only one correction: I had at least one time a mixed-themed floor, where there were silent specters, liches and Pan Lords at same times (so it was like abyss-themed like, only tenfold nastier). In this case you case, you have to maneuver ...

Congratulations for your first victory. I firestormed Orb of Fire a couple of time, I don't remember exactly how many time I had to cast the spell to take them down, but I don't think it was more than 4. Summoning ugly things is really strong in mid game - but isn't a real good solution to clear eve...

Yes I have not found an amulet of resist Mut yet. I was actually thinking of getting a summoning spell since I have some vacant spell levels that I forgot about after I hit lev 27. If you want a summoning spell, Shadow Creatures is easily castable and insanely strong in Zot (although creatures last...

Before I headed to Zot, I wanted to level a bit more to play it safe and so I went to the Crypt. The ancient liches were not as scary as I thought. But what gave me a heart attack was the angel Mennas. I didnt wiki him when I first saw him, which is what I normally do when I see a unique. Started a...

Thanks for the information - so in shorter term, Zin sucks :lol: (at least, for my play stile). For the record, I've just sticked with TSO, happily completing the game, finally beating my limit of 10 millions of score - except a dreadful moment with 1 (one!) hp left and Antaeus and 2 Ice Fiends in L...

Could the idea of a semi-infinite source of arrow, but with significant drawbacks in comparison of normal ammo, be a solution to help hunters? From my (little) experience, the biggest problem about ammo is that Trog or Oka are almost a necessity to have a guaranteed supply of ammo - I'm not saying t...

By default pressing ' will equip the weapon in slot a, unless it is already equipped, in which case it will equip b. it sucks when you play a game for 18 months and don't know half the interface And yet you can win this game in about 1 hour. May God helps the devs to balance the game for you, when ...

My currently living HoHe has the potentiality to break my victory record (under 10 millions, I'm a *sloooow* player), or to die ignominiously wandering in Hells or Tomb (I've already got all 5 pan's runes). To speed up things, I'm thinking to switch from TSO to Zin after I'll cleared Tomb, because I...

I believe I've just discovered what Draconians do when there aren't adventures around trying to steal the Orb of Zot: they love to take a sauna :lol:

Ranged mechanics: Counsellors' combat ring.

Holy longbow deals much more damage than velocity one (+75% against 30%) against vulnerable target, and if I remember correctly, AC may shrugs more damage of the latter than the former - but I'm totally not sure about this point, maybe some other player can confirm if it's true! Furthermore, you sho...

I can't wait to get teleportis 1 in exchange of a plain deck of summoning! As it has already been said, this tedium is worse, because you had to wait glow to disappear, or move an artefact to sacrifice from a pile of loot only to avoid glow and so on: I may agree that sacrificing all the items in du...

Animate skeleton is a lv.1 spell which can be cast by nearly everyone and creates chunks to eat - that's why is often found near ash's overflow altar.

"the +6,+11 sling of the Mushroom {god gift, speed, rElec rPois}" You're talking of this insane sling, right? speed is one of the most prized ego to have - it doubles your attack rate, lowering your damage only by 10%! I've never had the chance to try a sling with it, but on other launcher...

I'd acquire wands: as others have already said, wand of hasting is still useful for a wizard, and heal wounds is a must have. I suggest to NOT abandon Sif Muna: is wrath is terrible for a spellcaster - and waiting until she is mollified is really boring. Furthemore, Sif Muna is still powerful in ext...

The horror is blocked in by you and the beefier enemies. You can safely read a TP scroll and wait in place until it triggers. Just dive and clean up this level when you are stronger. The horror is blocked by you and the beefier enemies. You can reach other enemies and kill them using it as meat shi...

First of all, you should to train better you skill: two strong spell with high power are much better than five low level spells with ridiculously low power. Throwing, stabbing are totally useless to you, disable them for all the game; disable fighting, dr have a lot of hp, you can afford to wait lat...

Preservation save items 90% of times, so there's still 10% too much risk for very prized items like cure mut. Okawaru's gift are somewhat weighted by your skills: with your skills is high probably you'll get either short blades or slings as weapons gift - you may get a quickblade at some point. For ...

Nice job so far, I consider this challenge a real pain: I've tried some DDPr too, but the lack of knowledge of Zin (I've never worshipped him!) has usually killed my characters before Lair.

Why? Doesn't stab's damage increase according the skill value until 27? With 12-14 Stabbing you'll already be able to kill the majority of enemies, so investing exp in other skills is likely to be more beneficial. Oh, ok - stabbing disabled! Anyway, as I was eager to win with this character, I've p...

I'm the wrong kind of blue name, but your sling doesn't care what kind of armour you're wearing. Stabbing wouldn't be impaired much either. In a "fair" fight, you'd want some Armour skill behind you. So ranged combat isn't influenced by armour. Nike to know! How much enchant armour do you...

Haven't posted here in forever, but today I came across this: the -10 chain mail "Jafok" {rF+ rC+ MR} I was so excited to find a glowing chain mail on D6 for my DeBe, too... It's really sad when you find armour with good resist and bad AC. But sometimes, and only sometimes something good ...

I'm currently enjoying an easy character, hoping to do a decent streak this time. As Elynae has recently told me slings are totally overpowered, I've tried a HaBe - and, dammit!, he was totally right. I've tabbed almost every enemy in game. Name something (except Mennas and Boris, they're still a pr...

I think its guaranteed on Hellion Island, so if it spawns you could try clearing it... I've never had a problem clearing it myself since you can usually make it so only 1 or 2 hellions are onscreen at a time. Yes, it's guaranteed on Hellion Island, or in the vault with the two transparent corridor ...

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