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That being said, I can see how displaying the same bar for every spell and labeling it "power" is misleading. I'm sure there is something about this in the manual, which everyone really should read because it is very useful, so I'm not too bothered by it. Lots of players don't read manual...

crate wrote:some1: I think you should probably use tornado and shatter before you tell people what they are for.

Yeah I probably should. Edited in a sentence at the start to fix that.

What is the point of having Firestorm, Tornado and Shatter? Wouldn't one be sufficient, or is it to work around resistances or something? Well I don't have a lot of experience with Tornado or Shatter, but here's my estimation of things: Tornado's a buff, so you would ideally want to cast it before ...

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/zigrobin/morgue-zigrobin-20120708-160015.txt I always just leave them be until their mirror wears off, any reason why that's not always do-able? mikee was posting that as an ideal spell set. Oh, sorry. Thought the post was supposed to be making a case for summoning...

mikee wrote:http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/zigrobin/morgue-zigrobin-20120708-160015.txt

I always just leave them be until their mirror wears off, any reason why that's not always do-able?

LCS has an average damage of (23+pow)/2, which works out to roughly 60 damage assuming 27 conjuration, no earth magic skill, 40 INT and no enhancers. Shatter's formula is a bit more complicated: it does num_dice*(5+pow/3)/2 - target's AC/2, where num_dice varies between 1 and 6 depending on the mon...

No love for control teleport? Getting to wear 2 rings with cTele is pretty gravy but I guess we have to cut somewhere. I'll do a bit more scrutiny before removing it though. As for dig, yeah I guess the wand is a better plan, that I will cut off the list. I think I'll cut Mephitic Cloud too, since e...

I've gotten quite fond of DEWz recently, haven't won with any yet but gotten runes with a lot of them and they seem to make very effective characters. But one of the big problems I have with them is spell slots. Around the point where I've cleared the Lair and the Orcish Mines, I've accumulated lots...

If he/she/it follows me upstairs can I subsequently ditch it by fleeing back down? Enemies will follow you up and down any staircase if they are adjacent to you, but cannot follow you if they are not adjacent to you (however they will likely camp there). So if you had an enemy follow you upstairs, ...

I favor spells because of the weight issue you raised. I like to have one or two of the various tactical potions and scrolls, a cluster of wands and some food on me at all times. Adding ammunition on top of that starts pushing me into burdened. I'll keep a blowgun and some needles for kiting things...

1. Irresistible (you only need to hit the monster). Undead and natural monsters. You don't get any XP. Does slimify work on demons? Demons are neither undead nor natural... 2. You can wield anything you want. Slimify will only work when you land a melee attack (no ranged slimify). So this means you...

You should really just use fsim to test weapons since the way it does so is by actually using them. Also I don't have any idea what "base damage" means for ranged combat nor do I think most other people. Okay...well, what I really want to know is do you fellows think it's better to be a r...

1. Is slimify resistible? Does it work on everything?
2. Can you slimify a ranged weapon?
3. Can you be gifted a mutation during Necromutation? Will it rot you? What if you're an undead species?

At 3 str, according to fsim, in most circumstances the sling does about TWICE as much damage per time if you have steel bullets, and still much more without them. A crossbow does even more. With higher str the difference is smaller but a sling or crossbow with steel ammo is still much better than a...

XuaXua wrote:No advantages to IE?

Ozocubu's Armour is nice, and so is Condensation Shield for 2h weapons, but I think most would agree that Fireball and Sticky Flame are better.

Bows are lousy. Longbows are good, but spriggans cannot wield longbows. If you want to do a ranged combat spriggan you are better off with crossbows or slings despite the lower aptitude. But if you wanted to use ranged combat, I cannot imagine why you started as a Wz. I thought Spriggans couldn't u...

Allow me to rephrase the question. Would it better to use bows & Okawaru or attack spells & Vehumet? I was set on attack spells in the other game but now I'm willing to go with bows, and I'm wondering which is considered the better path for Spriggans.

That's extremely powerful and good, but doesn't nuke literally "everything in sight". You need Olgreb's Toxic Radiance or Slouch to do that. I would suggest NaVM of Chei to the OP. Now THAT would nuke everything in sight. OTR is utterly terrible and slouch isn't that great either (in addi...

FE, fireball + Vehumet is ridiculous and you get Fire Storm very quickly. That's extremely powerful and good, but doesn't nuke literally "everything in sight". You need Olgreb's Toxic Radiance or Slouch to do that. I would suggest NaVM of Chei to the OP. Now THAT would nuke everything in ...

I've tried Okawaru before with this combo (I use Okawaru for 99% of characters), but he wasn't as useful as I thought he would be. Probably because I was using various conjurations for damage when I had +2 aptitude in bows and a god who would gift ammo (inventory weight scared me off, even with flig...

Here's two more questions about Statue Form: does its action speed decrease stack with slow? And does it affect Slouch damage & piety gain on kills with Cheibriados?

Different enough from Minotaurs? depends, is the playstyle of your new MD significantly different from "grab the heaviest armor and biggest axe you can and beat the shit out of everything that moves" The prior aptitude for Axes with MD was +2, this proposal has 0. Also, the Shield aptitud...

Str 10, Int 5, Dex 1, (before the +2 is applied) Arm+3, Ddg-2, Sth-3, Stb-2, Shd+4, T&D-2, Inv 0, Evo+1, HP+2, MP-2, Exp 130, Fgt+3, SBl-3, LBl-4, M&F+1, Axs 0, Pla-4, Stv-2, UC-3, Thr-2, Slg-3, Bws-4, Crb+1, Spc-1, Coj-3, Hex-4, Cha-3, Sum-4, Nec-4, Trl-4, Trm-3 Fir+2, Ice-4, Air-3, Ear+3, ...

I didn't know about the 40% GDR and I have absolutely no idea what exactly it does. So statue form gives you great protection but does little with your damage output? I would describe GDR simply as an invisible increase to AC based on your body armour's base AC. So while +2 scale mail gives more AC...

cerebovssquire wrote:
minmay wrote:
Arkhan wrote:Get at least rF+

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i wouldn't underestimate these deep elf mages' fireballs, and don't forget hellfire!!!

I thought fire resistance didn't affect hellfire?

I know its not exactly the same, but I've played a lot of MiFi... Decided to give a HOFi (long blades because I like shields and wanted to try something that didn't use a trident) a try. First few D's were a tad more difficult, but about the time I hit Temple things have gotten to about the same di...

Minotaur headbutts are actually a pretty big deal. While Hill Orcs are superior in defense due to helmets and orcish armour bonuses, Minotaurs are better at offense because of all those headbutts. Pitting them against each other in a fight would probably see Minotaurs winning, but it would be close....

Since Finesse doesn't speed up movement or casting, there will sometimes be benefit to having both Finesse and Haste active - but for the purposes of attacking, do they stack or is only Finesse applied?

crate wrote:If magic dart misses it is a bug and you should report it.

A bug, huh? Well good thing I took a screenshot. I guess I'll report that then, thanks.

Subject says it all. I mean really, the spell says in the description that "it never misses", and yet it misses. Extremely rarely (I've only ever seen it once, and took a screenshot since it was pretty amusing), but still...why not just make it really always hit, or just change the descrip...

Does branded ammo cancel velocity, or are they both applied?

Heroism has the lowest non-zero piety cost in the game. There's no reason to be having battles without Heroism on. You will make that piety back during the fight. In fact, since Okawaru piety decays quickly during inactivity, and you have to rest longer if you don't use Heroism, odds are you'll end...

Well, one of the tradeoffs of Heroism is supposed to be about whether you train skills past 22...and if so, which ones and how far... If it was passive, you wouldn't have to think about that. Let's say that once you realise what Heroism does, you don't really have to think much about it afterwards ...

Well, one of the tradeoffs of Heroism is supposed to be about whether you train skills past 22...and if so, which ones and how far... If it was passive, you wouldn't have to think about that.

Danharaj, good point about Okawaru piety being a lot less valuable late game, and therefore the player can more easily spam Heroism. I suppose it's only fair that it gets weaker in exchange. However, it still feels like a dirty trick on the player because it never mentions in-game that it won't boos...

It's kinda ridiculous how Heroism starts turning into garbage once you get close to the caps. Particularly for 15-rune characters with one or two main skills (such as Hill Orcs pumping Axes to 26 for an executioner's axe). If Heroism could be used to surpass the skill caps then this wouldn't be a pr...

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