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Would you please refrain from personal attacks and discuss the situation at hand. I think that I gave you good advice which can be applied because I did it in-game after some thinking. Your situation is what almost every other (long-time) player has faced in the past, too. Some come up with solutio...

One of the most uninteresting ways to die in this game is being banished on the first turn in LOS with a monster. Such a death can occur without any input of keys from the player and the only way to avoid such a death is to have found enough MR to get the percentage chance of banishment to 0. This ...

I have several ghouls (background differs) with 15 runes, you can check skilling in the morgue in the link to my games below. Okawaru is very solid as always when it comes to melee. +5 from heroism counts a lot when you play a race which levels not that fast. I played Uska a lot but I wouldn't advis...

I would say that if you want a step below going for 15 runes you could do a 5 rune win and grab Abyss and Slime then go Zot and done, Pan and Hell are long and time consuming, The funny thing about the 4 runes from Hell and the 5 runes from Pan: they are the fast runes you can get :) 7k for 4*Hell ...

From your position:
3 hex east to daeva
1 hex n.e.
2 hex east to shining eye not able to hit it because daeva blocks it.

from the position of the shining eye
3 hexes west to 1 hex north of daeva
1 hex s.w.
2 hex west hitting you

Algorithm would be the same in both cases.

EDIT: same as Sprucery

HoAr, Lvl 9, D6, ** of Oka : 'You fall through a shaft for 3 floors!' The first enemy I see is a 2-headed Ogre (paralyze) and there are upstairs not far after. Sadly there is a PG on D8 so: down to D9 again where I meet Grum. Grum has a glaive of distortion and his wolves are faster than me. I manag...

Afaik this is not possible without time noone would be willing to spend (ip) and all you could do (if that option would be present) is banning an alias which can be created again and again. What you can do (it helped me when someone spammed things like "Your mother"+xyz ): - ignore him - l...

Buy it and check which one you like.
You might get the mutation 'mp-powered wands' and realize very lately that without mp you cannot use wand anymore. Did cost me a char once !

Hell then Pan 1. The 4 Hells are each 'specialized' the way danger is coming. Strong chars which are immune to everything might not notice but others can change gear accordingly. 2. Mutation Hell (Dis) has much less malmutation. So if you want to keep your set of mutations (whether they are good or ...

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Warlords after 15 runes:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17583&p=241607#p241607

Most of them have GDA and a few who got weapons (artifacts = resists).

Centaurs are mentioned but there are much earlier threats:
Orc Wizard
Orc Priest
Grinder
Natasha
someone with sling/tomahawks
slug
etc..

All of them have ranged attacks and will come very early.
Amulets are now a #1 priority to read-id and I'll almost always keep a scroll ready when I find an amulet.

GrSK:
Fell down 3 floors from 3->6
Made it back to 4
Fell down 3 floors from 4->7
Died to an Ice beast

"My turncount and game duration were also the best for this online account but still pathetic by good players' standards."

I think it is very impessive to get felids though the early game while streaking

Did 2*15 runes with Tr of Oka in 0.20. Tomb as rune #6 and #15. http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Nebukadnezar/morgue-Nebukadnezar-20170531-202920.txt http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Nebukadnezar/morgue-Nebukadnezar-20170603-010204.txt Statue Form, PoG, Aura of Abj, LRD, Silence Used LRD in ...

Can you identify the names of vaults you're talking about? If you don't know how to do this, post a screenshot of the vault. In 0.19: 6 rooms separated by doors. These 6 rooms have this pattern (undigable walls): xxx xxx The doors are not runed. The rooms to the left and right have something like o...

Statue Troll in Extended and no LRD or Shatter? I used LRD to break into Ereshekiels Vault from the outside (potion of Brill, earth magic = 18 (?) ) The problem was: a silent spectre was *inside* her vault and covered everything (but 1 tile from the outside) with his umbrella of silence. I've done ...

Wow, that's a tough one. Three that can torment, and everyone is awake. Exit portal back to Hell vestibule and then try going down through Dis:1 - Dis:6 and use a different stairway down to Dis:7? You might see that there are portals below 2 monsters adjacent to me, so at that time it looked like '...

Same run in Tartarus:
Permanent tp-trap and silent spectre !

Haven't seen this before

I like gods which forces you to change your play-style by forbidding items/spells.

If these things are now allowed for TSO, what is left of chivalry ?
I would have rather forbidden axes.

It is a low-risk investment to put your 8 scrolls into 4 items which max out at +2. It is a high-risk investment to put your 8 scrolls into 1 item which max out at +8. When you're sure that you want to enchant your body armour (plate mail F+ / dragon scales ?) because you know the branches you'll vi...

1. Stair dance. Buffed (hasted) this would work. The char has all the resists, high AC, high HP. If char returns to U5 he can even Cblink if something went seriously wrong, but: a) a quicksilver dragon and a purple draconian can both dispel all buffs. b) a cob can slow him c) Gold Dragon can push hi...

The first few levels are cheap so you won't miss the xp from the first...5 ? lvls. Add Heroism + 5 and you get somewhere. Just don't expect to always get good results from throwing. At 26 skill for mindelay (?) large rocks are slow. Monster might get >1 action when you throw them. A 10 skill (5+5) t...

Sjohara wrote: A single Yaktaur Captain would leave me half-dead before I even got to melee range.

1. a shield ?
2. lesser beckoning ?

Check your log. You should get "your GDA prevents you from hitting..." from times to times. Turn dodging off. It'll take some armour skill/str to get the most out of that exc. early GDA. Evo up to... 5 ? You still want a shield and throwing later, so that's a lot of skilling already to do ...

Throwing large rocks looks good when they hit but looks bad when they don't.
They will be slow for a very long time.
Don' use them with smiters/archers/fast monster around unless you know what you're doing.

This is a 0.16 game: no lesser beck.
I would have gone with support spells, too (already listed)

1) Watch good players play, esp starting characters. This has indeed been very helpful to me. I am not sure who are good players and who aren't, if I don't recognize their username from the Tavern. Whom do you suggest? You can check for high win%: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/best-players-tota...

c) You already have some of the (helpful) minor spells. I would add: 1. blink 2. lesser beckoning 3. passage of Golubria 4. song of slaying 5. aura of abj. With FDA *and* int 17 even 5. won't be a problem. I guess you didn't find the spells 1.-4. so far ? 5. will take care of summons. Most of my mel...

Noise thing means nothing in zigs once you start the combat in the floor. Noise only matters when the combat didn't begin (because everything in the floor notices, shouts and swarms to you when the fight begins) Noise/stealth matters at the start .... and at the end depending on Zig-Size. In later ...

You'll end up using fire storm/whatever level 9 spell much, much more often than you use iron shot in a zigg, but there's very little point to having both fire storm and glaciate and shatter. You'd be better off replacing one of those with an iron shot, bolt of fire, etc. I usually like iron shot f...

After:
Dungeon
Orc
Lair
Snake
Swamp
Vault 1-4 (Update: 1-5)
Elf
Crypt
Depths
Abyss

I'm still without wand of digging or wand of disintegration.
(GhAE of Uska, still running)

Update:
Finally after 5 runes and 52k turns I found wand of disint. in Slime

Is it better (18 UC) to
a) stay without gloves since base damage for UC would be decreased
or
b) get the +5 slaying (and AC as a bonus) ?

1. Apportation If you can cast any spells you want this spell. Runes can be grabbed even if someone is standing on top of them. 2. Sanctuary (ZIN) Sanctuary defines an area where noone can attack you. If someone is within your Sanctuary (couldn't get out) simply try to 'attack' him. He will make roo...

tasonir wrote:Does anyone remember that guy who did megazigs with Zin on a gargoyle? I know he posted a guide to how the build works but I can't seem to find it.

Morgue (0.16) with Link to discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17020&p=233113#p233113

I always do Hell before Pan.
In Hell I know what to expect if my resists are not able to cover everything so I can prepare for each Hell.
In Pan you know what to expect from the 4 rune floors but everywhere else you can get hit by anything.

1. skills: the high levels (>20) are extremely expensive for little gain (unless you have something in mind like mindelay for exec. axe) Your armour skill is at 25.6, dodging at 2.2. Stop training armour and skill dodging instead (focus) if you ever think about skilling armour again: - how about get...

Just died to a Boggart, Ice Dragon, Stone Giant, Frost Giant, Centaur Captain and what else was behind them in D9. There was a big building with several doors. None of them was runed. Version 0.19.5. All of them have strong ranged attacks and/or are faster or can even summon more ugly things. This i...

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=20409&p=275420&hilit=Ghoul#p275420
That's my GhCk of XOM (15 runes) and my reasons for chosing him

The weapon used mainly as a stat-enhancer (with SINV * and * INV ) is hard to top. +8 and freeze is icing on the cake. You don't even need much skill investment to kill with that weapon. Unlikely that you'll get such a weapon that early again in your next game ;) Your death: Developing a sense for e...

Your Garg was supposed to be a caster with a weapon used for popcorn/mopping up ? In that case: excellent weapon The resists/stat-bonus are very good. If damage output from a trident+8 isn't good enough: after shoals/depths you should be able to get a demon trident. Brand it - enchant it with all of...

I don't use 'o' and hardly ever 'Tab'. The players you mentioned I already like to watch, thx :) It'll take me a lot of time to get near that 50 K turns :D EDIT: I'm a pack rat who has to 'o' everything again after clearing an area and dropping the surplus in my stash starting when I've cleared a la...

Hellfire: keep a harmless monster adjacent to you which is susp. to hellfire (more on it in my mega-zig post). As long as a hell sentinel see this monster adjacent to you it won't fire (in almost all cases) mutations: Most of my chars have the freedom to acquire some ranks of stealth by the time I g...

I use silence a lot in tomb with my melee chars.
Therefore the wand is needed.
In normal 3 rune-games one might never notice its usefulness.

Started in 0.16 I've won 15 runes with all species, gods, backgrounds and never used necromutation: 114 games, 44 wins. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/nebukadnezar.html I added 'no necromutation' because at the time when I started playing it looked like a way to get around most obstacles ...

Good stealth helps with not getting mutated when you enter LOS. After that lightning is very good because it is immobile. It won't move on its own. Any other monster works, too. It can be your summons or charmed/enslaved ones. If that is not possible: use ranged weapons (good skill) or close the dis...

In my sig you can see 15-rune-wins with every good (except Hepl) and I've never used Necromutation.
(I wrote a post in a thread what can be done to avoid malmutations. )

IIRC there should be a 25% chance of being Abyssed (I take it you weren't with Lugonu). So you have about a 10% chance of having to unwield 8 times and a 1% chance of having to unwield 16 times... I started to think that I might have to unwield a weapon with higher base damage or that I might haven...

Dioneo wrote:May I ask what situation you were in where you were powerful enough to grab the abyssal rune, but still unable to just take a portal in the Depths?

What Eyesburn wrote.
http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.19/banners.html

Took me xyz tries to finally get into abyss (flail). I got 7 mutations from contam (1 good, 6 bad) while spending 1686 turns to regain health (2 sources of regen). Abyss 5: 328 turns to get the rune. I bet the next time I grab an enchanted weapon which turns out to be a disto weapon it will sent me ...

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