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I guess an important theme that applies to a thread like this is that very new players will not have a clear idea of what constitutes something like a very good one-handed weapon, just like they won't know whether or not they should be using armour X or armour Y or even what to do with their skills....

Hold on, if a fighter shouldn't be using a shield, then who the heck should? The logical answer is people who benefit from using one-handed weapons or no weapons at all. You might benefit from one-handed weapons for instance because you don't do the majority of your damage through melee, or you hap...

I would probably be wearing the plate, but armour would also be my highest or second highest skill, and I wouldn't have trained any dodging at that point. This is just all things being equal - I haven't looked at your character, of course. You usually shouldn't be using a shield on a fighter, at the...

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LIX wrote:What would you do differently?

Maybe something like this:

DgAr->DrAr
DrCK->TrCK
DsAK->FoAK (I guess)
FeFe->DgFe
FoGl->MiGl
GhDK->DsDK
HEIE->MfIE
MfTm->NaTm
MiBe->FeBe
TrMo->GhMo

Could just make all backgrounds start with a scroll of remove curse. If having ?rc identified for everyone is a problem (which I don't think it is), make it a "vial of purifying water" or whatever, that only ever generates in your starting inventory. Or maybe expand the concept of giving ...

Why do these 'experienced' players have to nitpick everything! Why can't they just respect my opinion already?

As a new player who has never played crawl without energy randomization, one of the benefits of energy randomization is pedagogical - you get to learn really early on that planning on doing extended pillardancing simply doesn't work if you have the same speed as the enemy and they're too close. Onc...

Hi, Jeff. Nice to see you again.

duvessa wrote:

The best part is that they're 13 years old.

Most players - not just beginners - have a limited understanding of positioning and use their turns inefficiently. Improving in those two areas and applying what you've learned is what I think is most helpful for improving your chances of winning, not kiting a gnoll or whatever around a level for an...

it has a demonic rune

I think probably the most painless way to play this challenge would be a spen of ash - it'd be just like a regular spen of ash except with a bunch of wasted xp, but lol who cares. Possibly a merfolk would be better than a troll if you do want to be punching things with all of your skills on.

Objectively, the best race for streaking is DD, but what's most important is what you're comfortable playing. ddhe would not be good for you unless you are familiar with playing healers, as it would add the difficulty of learning to play he to the existing difficulty of the game. What to do, what th...

How to write for the wiki: 1) Find out about a crawl mechanic or feature, preferably from word of mouth or reading another article; 2) exaggerate the importance of that mechanic or feature while applying it to a hypothetical in-game situation; 3) add weird slang and figurative language to hide what ...

Well ddoor + berserk is not effective at dealing with anything, as you can't berserk during ddoor. But anyway, the problem with this idea is that ddoor and borg are so strong that the idea of balancing one of them as a racial ability with a hostile summon is pretty ridiculous. You mention that they'...

I feel like you're only half saying a lot of things. Am I being an anti-number snob, or is my opinion of the chart anti-number snobbery? Is my ability to give advice impaired by the fact that I no longer remember what it's like to be a new player? My original comment in this thread is a response to ...

Well if you're going to position yourself as the receiver of advice, then I can tell you that in effective learning environments, there's a reason why the teacher plans the curriculum and not the student. This is not to say that interest doesn't play a role in education or that your interest in the ...

I'm all about suppressing the very high cognitive load generated by stuff like that table. I just shudder when I look at it and I don't really know what the application of it would be for me. What would I do, add up the xp value of all the monsters that I kill until I get to 630, and then I know tha...

*nom nom* what's something mean i can write in lowercase letters? *nom nom* this post is gonna make me fatter than e.e. cummings

A) You're on a wide open level and you see an orc priest at the edge of your LOS. As you walk towards it it smites you twice, and you lose approximately 60 hp. You leave, mash 5, and come back until this doesn't happen. B) You're in a room with an orc priest and you have 1 hp. It can't possibly kill...

I noticed that there have been some attempts at collecting good general advice for new players and that these attempts were unsuccessful. Instead, how about some bad advice you would give to your enemies if they started playing crawl? Possibly I can compile all of them and add "don't" to t...

I guess I'll answer my own question. Some people are crying out for social justice of some kind, specifically that females are free of different kinds of verbal abuse in gaming communities that they receive simply for being female. Cries for social justice rub certain people the wrong way - I don't ...

WHY ARE PEOPLE TALKING TO IMAGINARY WHITE MEN?

I am sorry for being blunt but I can hardly believe someone would be so brainwashed by politically correct propaganda. Why can't people just acknowledge that black people make better athletes on average and there's nothing offensive about it. I am white as flour and I wouldn't get my panties in twi...

Gaming communities have fewer females than males for a number of reasons, but the primary reason is an idea, which is often unspoken and therefore not confronted, of what is normative in those communities. Most people's image of a hypothetical 'gamer' is probably a male, which influences how they be...

What is giftdropping? Does anyone know an article I can read to learn about it?

If you watch the ttyrecs of those games you're citing, you're probably going to see something disturbing and common to all of them. It's why they were excluded in !tv shortcuts at the time.

Here's one that I find kind of interesting: the more that you give names to the phenomena that you're talking about, the more likely your reasoning is to be wrong. This is most obvious with certain slang, and you might notice that generally the game's most knowledgeable players never talk about mele...

holy word, silence (but it's bad), vulnerability, recharging (sort of), magic mapping (sort of). Scroll of noise used to have a tactical use, but I don't know if it does or even exists anymore. I've also seen tactical enchant armour, but that's obviously really bad. Anyway, the main reason this prop...

Generally speaking, if you have little to no weapon skill, the best weapons for you are ones that do most of their damage additively rather than multiplicatively. This means fast weapons that either have the elec or pain brand (or disto but I'm not going to recommend that) or just happen to have a h...

It's inefficient to train multiple elemental schools, particularly to use conjurations from them, and this holds true even for like a deep elf up until the point where you have so much xp that it doesn't matter what you do (i.e., through extended and zigs). This is not to say that you can't win whil...

Probably it would have been more thought provoking to word it, 'why should you ever, ever, be doing that'? That might have also avoided the predictable reaction of someone angrily going, Why, I do that! Because XYZ.

The intention was never to make a god that only characters that stab can excel with. Shadow mimic is the tool that can most overtly appeal to a variety of characters, while not being that impressive for most enchanters. You might try, for example, an ogre of dithmenos that gets shadow attacks with a...

LackofCertainty wrote:From what I hear, Dex starts to have diminishing returns after 24.

Like pretty much everything, dex starts to have diminishing returns after 1.

While ponderous in general is a really bad ego that should in fact probably be removed from the game, scaring this guy into taking it off this early in the game was most likely bad advice. A simple disclaimer or something would have been fine. He had 21 AC on d:2. Wow.

can there ever by enough damage? No, especially if you consider the way crawl rolls for damage. Still, maybe more protection is more valuable at this point, I don't know. I think it's better to weigh these options in concrete rather than abstract terms. Would you wear a +6 ring of slaying over a +6...

I think TSO heals your divine bros when they kill evil stuff, so that's covered (if I am misremembering how TSO summons work I beg your pardon, been a while since I played TSO). Extension and growth make summoning more like the perma-allies that other gods already offer. Actually, three of these ab...

The only thing I could actually remember about oozes is something that probably should be fixed. It's sort of understandable to die to them but for the wrong reasons: ooze hp varies extremely for a d:1 monster (9-24!), so some random oozes will take way more hits to kill.

What are some problems that caused the Forest branch to fail?

Food wasn't an issue in linley's dungeon crawl either; contaminated chunks worked the same as they did in dcss not that long ago (they gave a delightful debuff that stopped natural health regen, just an annoyance unless you use curing). Instead of food vaults there was hive, which had 999999 food it...

Well those are lair skills. Even as a mummy, your skills in spider will be much higher, unless I guess you jump into spider as soon as you find it or something.

I'd like to apologize to the player Bart. When I told him to die, I think people didn't realize that I was actually using German for 'the'.

The benefit of spoilers in Crawl is in no way similar to Nethack. You don't need spoilers to figure out that it is better to do lair before orc, although I do think that their depths should be changed. I don't know what else I can tell you; I know you don't want to believe me.

Fire, Conj, and Spellcasting at 10. Charms at 8. Fighting and Dodging at ~5. And that's it. Mummies don't get a lot of experience. Try something like this: Fire/Conj: 8; Spellcasting: 6; Charms: 0; Fighting: 6; Dodging: 12. Even if you choose not to train a weapon by lair, this should cost less xp ...

I've been playing for about a month and a half, and what I've learned the hard way is that 1) the notion that you can play this game based on the information that it gives you, without outside help or spoilers, is just not remotely true. and 2) autoskilling is apparently some kind of prank by the d...

To me, "caster" means "don't reply."

Does aggression serve a social function?

Well I don't want to go into statistics very deeply, but it might be worth noting that the sample size of 0.14-a is roughly 10 times that of 0.9-a and 5 times that of 0.11-a, so I'm not sure how telling those are. On the other hand, the single biggest change during that period that made crawl easier...

Maybe we should start signing our posts with our real names in capital letters.

-AHMAD

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