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Of course you could just use a wand of digging or disintegration, which is more common. cTele will almost never be a determining factor on Slime:6.

It damages you, yeah; it damages the other dudes more though.

Probably not good on a deep elf or spriggan, but a ghoul can take -23 HP twice or thrice.

For those who don't want to read my wall of text, the whole thread in conclusion: Staff of Dispater with 27 Evocations is literally the best thing in Crawl. Ever. Including Tomb of Dorokhloe and old Haste and 0.8 Tornado. ;) I started as a Ghoul Artificer because it's basically a Ghoul Monk that sta...

This needs to be stickied somewhere for all us noobies. That would do more harm than good. It's just XuaXua's personal branch order and it would be a bad idea to follow it exactly (in particular most 3-runers should stay out of Slime, run through Zot:1-4 instead of clearing them, and Snake/Shoals:5...

Awesome! Glad to see someone fared better with archery than I did. Long live slaying!

You may want to skip Haunt on DDNe and just go for melee, since Makhleb doesn't heal on collateral kills and you won't naturally regenerate the severe statloss from it.

Consider that the weight of corpses used has a big role in the strength of a large abomination and not just the number. A yak is heaver than an orc.

1) A short blade's damage may still be pitiful against demons.
2) You are with Kikubaaqudgha. You don't need any further ways to protect yourself from torment. Also, for future reference, Statue Form slows you down in all your actions so it is mainly a melee spell for damage, and not defensive.

A long blade with freezing unskilled sounds terrible as well. Just to spell it out: your current melee is incapable of doing anything more than scratches. Use Tornado or ninja the rune. 8 Translocations should be enough, yes; when in doubt just check your spellpower. Could always go back to Dis:7 la...

Dispater has rHellfire. This means he will fully resist fire. So whatever you do don't fight him with the staff of fire. Sabre against 40 AC is a bad idea too. Just ninja the rune or use Tornado. Killing him with it isn't too hard, though some decent melee would help. Luckily you have Abjuration. Al...

I also never knew you could get bows of holy wrath - what about crossbows? I can feel a MDHu coming on in the near future... I think it's TSO-exclusive but sure, it works as well. But are you sure your MDHu wouldn't be better off with an executioner's axe of holy wrath and steel bolts with a crossb...

Level 13 isn't terribly early for Orc:4 especially as a Summoner. Next time, try out Vehumet, maybe. Not only would you have had stronger summons and better casting chances, but also reduced casting costs and, important in Orc:4, Abjuration, a spell that send 'em (the summoned demons) back where the...

Thanks, everyone! The spell Flight was at something useless like Fair or Good - raising Summonings to a level where Shadow Creatures was Excellent was more important than boosting Charms - the aptitude is -4 too! So the amulet had to be worn. Luckily I didn't need rMut that much in Zot since the sum...

@slowcar Faerie dragon armour is a form of mottled dragon armour and thus EV -1. If you mean pearl dragon armour, that is EV -3. Glad you mentioned holy wrath. I wasn't sure if TSO would enchant a bow. Good to know :) Yeah, he does. I can give you a MiHu log of mine if you're interested. I wasn't lu...

A longbow of holy wrath with decent slaying is still good. Krishna is definitely inferior to your longbow. Go TSO. Get better armour.

(only three runes this time) I started this since despite Troll's not-so-great apts for casting spells, they are quite good casters in the end since they can basically spam all their spells due to being carnivorous and able of eating rotten meat. Poison Magic seems a good fit for this, since you'd g...

KoboldLord: I am under the impression that Mephitic Cloud conjures up a cloud of chemicals resulting in confusion. It doesn't take out the oxygen from the air and uses some radiation from the Orb that isn't mentioned in the game and doesn't make sense to seed nausea and hallucination. Mephitic Cloud...

A simple wand of enslavement can be used as well; just lure them into a corridor and enslave the bee at the frost. Especially considering the killer bee's vulnerability to poison and their low MR, this will quickly bring a pack down. You'll only be fighting a single and hopefully poisoned bee at the...

Congratulations! Your spellset is so nice with the exception of translocations. Not finding any of these spells is just so mean. You could also just rest off Okawaru wrath next time (not that I believe it is that dangerous at XL 27 with the exception of them spawning at a really bad time), optimally...

It's not that the ability is weak, more that it costs far to much piety to actually sustain you continously.

Thanks! I had permafood problems as well, ended up scumming Pandemonium for food so I could do Tomb. I couldn't have survived there if I hadn't been hasted all the time, and that costs food... I would have been really scared of Hells myself if I hadn't been with Zin; Coc:7 is a place where I have sp...

It's certainly possible to get a better quickblade than that; freezing, vampiric, or electrocuting quickblades would be in that category.

The amulet of conservation didn't do anything, that's true, and I was wearing that by mistake; but rCorr was covered by the cloak and rMut by Zin, so that wasn't much of a problem. Optimally, I should have been wearing the amulet of Descent [+Rage, rC+, MR] for even more MR than I already had, I gue...

I started this off more as an experimental game, wanting to play an old-school Paladin with a race I hadn't won yet. Since Priests have decent Invocations and can switch freely to TSO, I took one (a centaur) as a pseudo-paladin and converted to TSO in the Temple. He didn't really help that much, as ...

In baseball, your team can win the World Series just by winning about two thirds of your games: you can fail a third of the time, and you're still a champion. You'll be in the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest batters ever, if you just get a hit one third of the time: you can fail two thirds of t...

So you can calculate that yourself in future, weapon delay is decreased by 10% for every two skill levels you have, and minimum delay is half of the weapon's base delay (e.g. 200% for an executioner's axe).

Extended endgame is really not hard with a transmuter. I played a HuEE using that style, and the melee damage output he had with Statue Form was enough to compensate the loss of any high-level conjurations. You also don't need to have these AoE destruction spells to allrune since you don't need to k...

+Rage is absolutely not the same as Haste and does not replace it, since it doesn't speed up spellcasting and escape options, is often really silly thing to do in certain fights where you might get swarmed or need to escape (powerful summoners, etc) due to the extreme restriction in your actions. Su...

To equip a meat ration, press w, * and then select the meat ration's letter. Personally, I've always found it easier to walk up and kill Mara as soon as possible. If you want to fight him with the ration strategy, bring rF+ at least since the bolts of fire will still hurt. Also, try to keep track of...

ah, true, sorry, i messed up there, you have agony not when you start as a dedicated necromancer, but when you become one by means of kiku. i actually have little experience with it, but it reliably gets rid of anything in lair with the possible exception of packs of death yaks or elephants (which ...

Vorpal is not that bad. The bonus is small, but it's completely irresistible. And like all of the level 2 branding spells, any extra bit of damage that you can get at that stage of the game can help prevent an early splat. Maxwell's Silver Hammer is neither in the Crusader/Skald or the Earth Elemen...

Charms 12 should have a higher priority than anything else right now. The most useful charms are probably Swiftness, Flight, Repel Missiles, Control Teleport and Haste. You'd get that skill level easily if you did Crypt and Zot now. Probably even enough to add Translocations 14 on top, which would a...

How does pacify work? I looked at it for my last DDHe, but I never did figure it out? Pacification attempts to give a non-mindless enemy the "indifferent" status. The chance that it works is determined by the type of healing (Lesser/Greater) used, your Invocations skill and the type of th...

From your last char dump, you don't seem to use any ranged weapon. You really should learn Slings. Silver Bullets would make your life much easier in Zot (they destroy the Fire Orbs). Orbs of Fire really don't have that many HP, "only" 150. A Berserker with rMut and at least rF++ can mele...

This is fantastic, and a great read after all the 15 rune HeWz I keep seeing. I keep wanting to try a DD healer and branch to earth. This motivates me. Personally, I'd prefer to start with DDEE and then go Elyvilon. I had "only" 13 Invocations and could use all self-buffing/healing abilit...

I just completed a 15-rune HuEE of Elyvilon in the 0.9 trunk version on CDO. Was a really fun game, and I think I have a new favourite god! Since humans have good apts all round, I decided to do a hybrid-style character with Statue Form and melee. So I raised Earth and Conjurations to 14, Transmutat...

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