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That would deprive you of one of Gozag's benefits, that is to dazzle your enemies with the gold lying around. Let it sit for as long as possible, and then take in your stash before you move on to a new area.

...and other good changes, too! I'm very happy about goldified manuals!

Vanquished Creatures 2 dread liches (Zot:5) 5 orbs of fire Mara (Depths:2) 3 ancient liches 2 juggernauts (Depths:4) 2 Killer Klowns (Zot:5) Saint Roka (Depths:4) 3 pandemonium lords The ghost of fasse2k the Phalangite, a veteran FoFi of Gozag (Elf:3) 7 curse toes 16 golden dragons 5 bone dragons A...

I learned the hard way not to enter an Ice Cave without rC+. But since the introduction of the gauntlet (or the demise of the Labyrinth), I lost a lot of characters there.
And I'm a lot less inclined to enter a portal when I'm trying a streak. Otherwise, I embrace the risk most of the time.

Fully agree with advil - abs 0 is well balanced now. Even before going into a fight with TRJ, Cerebov or an OOF, I consider how I can get the guy within range, without interference. Having abs 0 castable also means that the cloak of darkness becomes really valuable. So you get a guaranteed 1-shot so...

Usually, auto-explore is just fine for me, even on levels like that. But during a tournament my vanity commands me to want my name show up as high on the lists as possible, with even a high score on a combo (which I didn't get), and then these levels need to be done with as few turns as possible. An...

crazy level.jpg This may look somewhat interesting in an abstract sense, but running through it, you either lose half an hour of real time, doing it manually, or you have the game clock log several thousand turns against you in auto-explore. Either way you do it, you lose, for no discernable purpos...

Well, even in the late game you are forced to waste an equipment slot for the scrolls, because there is often enough stuff that you want to try out without wasting an id scroll. But I wouldn't call that an interesting decision, as it is in the early game.

Known locations for 'monster stepped on' traps at least allows for some counterplay, you can know what the monsters are likely to do, and position yourself so you don't suffer effects, sacrificing turns and possibly ideal positioning to get that advantage. There are some places with so many traps a...

Well, thanks to Petercordia I now have an excellent opportunity to brag - for the first time I took on (and succeeded!) the third tier of the tournament's Nature's Ally challenge, that is going into the Tomb and picking up the rune after picking up the Orb of Zot. But again I did that with my trusty...

How can you possibly enjoy it? I feel best prepared going in there with a Gargoyle, because of the inherent torment protection. The other day I made it with a DS, who was lucky with the otherwise useless Black-Hand Tier-3 mutation. In the Tomb that came in very handy. You are right, the most annoyin...

I believe the big reason for launcher ammo dropped off when item weight was removed from the game. Before that it was somewhat of a tactical decision how many arrows/bolts/bullets you carry around, but now you just pack all that you have. Not really much interesting decision making here. One could s...

I never did more than three, so beyond that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Majang, I don't like how you're implying we are being dishonest and just want to make the game easier. Yes, I think I deserved that. Please take my apologies. Your post is the first well-reasoned defence of summoning I've read so far. You are completely correct with all your assumptions about me. A...

Elementalist with Level 9 nukes, Death's Door and a good supply of Scrolls of Blinking, supported by Vehumet. Just make sure you don't get silenced, and you should be fine.

Please keep the XP drain, and just make it more public. Playing with allies is optimal play, but it is also the most annoying and tedious way to win Crawl. Those who now claim that XP drain has no impact know full well that it takes away up to half their experience, depending on play style, and they...

!attraction is very nice for melee Chei worshippers, who have less options to reposition themselves. But there will never be enough potions in the game, so they are forced to learn beckoning, which works just as fine and can be spammed.

I second your Potion of Peace. Good idea!

Final update - you still get a message when there is a monster in view, which is probably as it should be, and probably even quite helpful, as the screen often is quite cluttered after you are done with Ramparts, and you may not notice the new foe crawling in.

Majang wrote:No, if you are not healing up, 'o' now triggers a "do you really want to do this?" message. That's what I'm complaining about.

It looks like it's been fixed now - no more messages when you start moving.

andrew wrote:Is the idea that you're intended to just wait in place until it times out. If so, does 'o' do the right thing --- wait, then start moving?

No, if you are not healing up, 'o' now triggers a "do you really want to do this?" message. That's what I'm complaining about.

Ice spells have received some changes in the current trunk version. Previously, only Ice Armour fell apart when the character moves. Now it is also Ramparts. I can see why this was done, because as it was Ramparts was just too strong. I think the duration has also been cut somewhat, at least that's ...

I do find vane and tremorstones less interesting to use than the items they replaced (lamp of fire, wand of clouds/scattershot)... Well, lamp of fire and wand of scattershot were so interesting that in the end I never used them after the frustrating first trials. If you have no idea before using an...

The same with using Absolute Zero on TRJ - you need to have a plan for what he leaves behind.

Poor Xtahua, with all her inflated ego, is still a lowly Lair Larrikin. I will keep that in mind next time I meet her in the Dungeon of Zot, and perish with a condescending smile on my lips...

Siegurt wrote:Evocations doesn't increase your max MP in trunk: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e ... cc79fe60ee

Oh, okay. Didn't know.

Nekoatl wrote:There seems to be a similar issue with Trog worshipers setting training targets for Spellcasting, which they may eventually wish to do if they're using guardian spirit.

You can grow your guardian spirit (MP) by training evocations.

I agree with Siegurt on this. I like to play demonspawn. Although it always makes me groan when I get the demonic guardian again, or the black mark, I never quit. If I had the option that Nekoatl outlines, I guess I would use it every single time, and that precisely kills the species for me.

Update: I reported this on Mantis, and learned that it is not a bug, but intended behavior for those transporter vaults that do not contain ghosts and that are not on very early levels.

201111 snake3.jpg I'm playing a game in the current trunk version, and moving through level 2 of the snake pit I got shafted into level 3. After some heavy fighting I noticed a red transporter pad, and after killing Aizul and moving around a bit it finally dawned on me that I was inside the transpo...

I'm inclined to agree, but I think we need to get the EVM stack on the byte code so we don't run into a consensus fork.

What would have been different if you had not been autoexploring? It seems that the unpronouncable critter had you paralysed the moment you noticed it. Could have happened in any circumstances.

I think there is still Sublimation of Blood. And well-played, Vehumet can take you through mummy floors, provided you know Death's Door. All that said, I wish the Staff was still part of the game.

I don't mind as long as we'll have access to enough scrolls of blinking. They still seem to be around in all their splendid and predictable boredom.

I'm pretty sure that my character just yesterday learned Controlled Blink, but now I can't find it in my spell list. I do seem to have 8 new spell levels I didn't have before. Has the spell been axed by the devs?

sanka wrote:I personally would still wear the scarf on a character with Absolute Zero.

Well, unfortunately, even with Vehumet's help you cannot expect to kill everything with Absolute Zero. You need other spells to thin out the resistance, and for those -Archmagi is an impediment.

Fair enough. That's what I mean. Although "prepare to stab all monsters completely" sounds a like a very positive spin on things. The monsters you really want to stab are entirely non-hexable.

Rename it to Armanus, plural Armani. Entirely like humans, but all wearables, such as cloaks, hats, gloves, robes, boots, and all jewellery cost twice as much in shops, without giving any noticeable benefit. I guess that would be a challenge species.

I play only octopodes and with +4 apt its still worth it. You can't finish the game but you get enough incidental value that you don't mind the XP sunk. Eg. stealth is so bad that you need +4 apts to make it good. Luckily the species which need it the most do have good stealth apts. Stealth is not ...

Does anyone like the Scarf of Shadows (-1LOS, -archmagi)? -I feel like -1LOS is too little to be noticable. I'd still use if if no other cloaks wera available, unless I was using spells of any kind. with -2 or -3 I might use it, but again only on spell-less stabbers. I don't see why this item needs...

I stopped playing stabbers a long time ago, because it is quite clear that this game isn't really designed around cloak-and-dagger fun. It is a great way to start the game, but no matter how much experience you sink into your stealth and stabbing skills, you can't finish the game that way. As such, ...

Another idea might be to have the staff of energy reduce MP expenditure by half (rounded up or down, depending on chance). It would only do that if it had full MP before the first use of magic.

The page on the Abyss is still reflecting the state of affairs of version 0.16. Apparently (and so I do remember) controlled blinks were not possible in Abyss and in the Tomb.

On the other hand, I expect this "Zot clock" to be a lot of fun in the future, with many-many unexpected deaths due to interactions that we currently can't even imagine. I guess Zot clock related bugs will be with us until 2030 and beyond. I don't think so. Players have to be prepared to ...

vt wrote:They're merely arches.

Yes, nothing in there. These days you could crack this place open with Shatter, but it's not worth it. Don't even ignore it!

tabstorm wrote:"Hmm, I wonder what's going on with DCSS? I haven't checked on it in a few years..."
"Remove butchering and eating."
"It's over. It's finally over."

Got to get yourself a new avatar and a new tagline.

Now that there is the Delver background - is there not a legitimate use for popcorn monsters on levels 2 to, say, 7 to give delvers opportunities for some initial experience for their characters without having to go all the way up to D1?

I just started a new trunk game with the fancy new Palentonga species (whatever that is), and because it has a nice tail attack, I started as a transmuter. Now then there were some surprises with the spells from the Book of Changes, the starting spell book of transmuters. ⋅ I noticed that ...

Also, a secondary observation: I read a few posts in the past lamenting how mages had been nerfed and nerfed during the past versions, to the point that their weakness translated into tediousness. Would this change balance the game again? I like playing mages, and I believe this change certainly he...

archaeo wrote:Incredible. Food is finally over.

Well, that leaves a bland taste in my mouth...

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