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Just wanted to say thanks to whoever made the Oki "Armory" vault. Its very cool and thematic with some half decent items (even though the randart FDA was typical Oki crap lol) as a bonus. The arrow room, the sling room all very awesome. Just wish there was a rack of Javelins up in this bit...

Gave the US server a try, but its not much of an improvement over the Euro web tiles

Input delay makes it unbearably unplayable for me. Appreciate the effort in getting it setup though.

Usually I find that I have enough money from scumming Pan by the time another Zig pops up... unless you get really unlucky and just keep getting stuck with the 5k+ cost.

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 dif...

Once you have imps online Mu is a bit of a joke... Hungerless casting makes a huge difference when you can constantly surround yourself with Summons. This also removes any problems you might have with confusion. Rpois also makes a difference with casting Meph willy nilly style.

Oka through the end of D. TSO for extended and the weapon, then Makhleb after. He gives more hp per kill on average than TSO and by that stage of the game his wrath was a joke... Also I think Makhleb protected me from TSO wrath a lot.

The thing about maces in particular is there are more different mace types than there are other weapons, even after you exclude the ones that trog/oka don't gift. There are 8 giftable maces, 6 giftable polearms, 7 giftable long blades, 5 giftable axes, 4 giftable short blades, and either 2 or 3 sta...

What Tiber said, too. Also... eat more chunks... even the brown ones. If you eat at Hungry nausea won't be a problem. rPois is also a great poor man's gourmand as a lot of the poisonous chunks are white when you have rpois. If you eat chunks you'll have so much food you won't know what to do with it...

Okawaru and trog are pretty unlikely to actually give you a demon whip. The only onehanded maces game I did with either of them was with trog and I got not a single demon whip gift all game (I did find a demon whip of venom in lair:8). Generally if I am trying to go one-handed I will use long blade...

I think he meant to say Swamp.

I recently won a Zig with a MiFi. I did have spells, but no attack spells. Just Swiftness, Haste, Phase Shift,Regen and Silence really. Swiftness and PS didn't really do a whole lot for me.. I didn't rely a whole lot on Regen either. Haste was nice, but I could have probably done it without and main...

Wow... I usually keep ~8 breads on me and thats more than enough. I rarely lose any at all to harpies and when I do its only 1 or 2. If you know you will be somewhere with harpies just don't take so much food. Outside of Shoals and Vaults you really don't have to worry about them.

Grimm wrote:FYI God names are restricted to one per letter of the alphabet, plus TSO (= 1) for a total of 27. "A" is already taken by Ashenzari. At least one of the other letters is already spoken for as well - G is for the gold god.

Changing the name ruins the joke, though.

I believe that regex work in those fields; have you tried adding a ^ to the beginning to denote start of line? That should resolve the issues with Prince Ribbit and stuff.

Boots of Lev are permanent lev until you take them off. Regardless of Evo iirc...

Pretty excited about this guy. Completing a zig was the last milestone I had to make and I've lost quite a few characters attempting them. Escaped with the gear I wore most of the time... Ended up swapping in the +Dam Plate armor and Large Shield of Prot when I took down Tomb, Hells, and the Zig. I ...

But...it's already pretty much like that. He doesn't object to you training your weapon skills. And I'm not convinced "slow" is a stronger theme than "slow walking." Turtles (Chei's power animal) are known for moving slow, but they can strike quickly if the need arises. http://w...

So I had this dream last night where my current MiFi - who has been farming pan in the hopes that I can actually beat a Zig for once - went to Swamp and got killed by a giant fish

Anyone else have Crawl dreams?

"Steven Tyler could have been talking about him"

Grimm's is better.

I'd have just gone with "His face was androgynous" or something lol.

I think this is something that has both changed several times and has been changed recently. Last time I went Pan -> Zig -> Abyss I ended up back in the dungeon but since then I've seen a change log that says this isn't how it happens any more, you should end up back in the Zig level you were banis...

Grimm wrote:"I say, according to his application, this fellow won Crawl five times in one day! We must accept him immediately!"

"Here, here... but thats nothing old chap. He won Crawl in an hour and 8 minutes!"

pratamawirya wrote:??

Once, I was in a Zig in Pan and got banished in trunk, and came back to the same Zig level.

This is how I assumed it would work.

So I know that it was removed where you go back to Pan after escaping from the Abyss, but apparently if you go Pan -> Zig -> Abyss you go back out to D. Was this intentional? Kinda sucks since I lost some items I left outside the Zig.

XuaXua: In wizmode you can cycle through the possible beam paths, but not in normal play. I don't quite see why that has to be relegated to wizmode, other than some sort of programmatic concern. You have to test several squares if you want to optimize your beam path, and people are already asking f...

SITUATION 1) If I want to hit a target (A), the beam (o) looks like this : A##### .ooooX ...... Since SITUATION 1 obviously involves some sort of hook-shot It doesn't. The dungeon grid is just too low-res to show all the places stuff can be; they're big squares with a lot of room in them. In your e...

God of Health Likes * Sacrifice Regen - Large piety boost for sacrifing items that grant regen * Illness - Piety increase for each turn you are affected by a status ailment (Poison, Rot, Sickness, Glow, etc) * Taking Damage - Piety increase for damage taken. Damage / 20 piety. * Payments - Can sacri...

danharaj wrote:I'm still not sure any of these suggestions make "warding more useful than walking away.

A similar argument could be made for just about every item in the game.

KoboldLord wrote:I'm also morbidly curious now as to how Shatter is abusable for 'stealth tricks'. It's about as stealthy as the Kool-Aid Man smashing through the walls and running through the room

Best post ever.

I would think that god choice would also make a difference, as would your available escape options... My mifi os tso will only rest in pan until he can tab again.

I always thought it would be neat for this mechanic to be included, but I have to agree with crate that this would be a pretty lame way to die. If it was just the one specifc tile that got filled in it would avoid the insta-death, but maybe have each adjoining lava/water tile have a % chance to spr...

I always thought it would be neat for this mechanic to be included, but I have to agree with crate that this would be a pretty lame way to die. If it was just the one specifc tile that got filled in it would avoid the insta-death, but maybe have each adjoining lava/water tile have a % chance to spre...

Do you ever just get so frustrated with early deaths that you wizmode up a true beast and just mow down the dungeon?

minmay wrote:I'm referring to explore_dammit, the vault in rchandra's post. Granted it is still an exaggeration, it's more like 10% of the plants, but still...

Ah, my bad thought you were referring to the one the OP was talking about.

I would rather address faith by making the other amulets suck less. Usually you don't even carry warding, spirit, rCorr, or clarity, and stasis' uses are extremely narrow. Gourmand and conservation are mostly sought after because people hate the mechanics they soften. Guardian spirit is one of the ...

Not to mention that you also get boosts to useful skills that you might not have already trained up... Throwing for extra closing damage Dodge/Armour (whichever you didn't train) Additionally, its one of those things that could be seen as having helped you get to the late game. With that said, I'm h...

minmay wrote:I don't find killing every plant in Lair fun.

This is a bit of an exaggeration isn't it? At least as it relates to the topic. The vault in question is fairly obvious and requires only 1 or 2 shots be fired at the trees.

Getting phat lootz

minmay wrote:Usually D:2.

Proof that minmay is a masochist.

@galehar, are you saying that if the hidden property is 11 and your T&D is 10 that you will never find it?

Also, loot should always be mandatory

Can't speak for everyone, but I found the item on my own... I was all, weird place to have some trees.

Good point, KL. i forgot all about those pesky priests.

So a Gram is given to "small" actors? Peter Dinklage must have a kilt worth!

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=62291#p62291 Is the post that really started the MUT+ conversation, my first reply is a couple down. And apparently it wasn't a bunch of folks, just CS lol. If nothing else, the link gives some additional feedback on MUT+. I still thinks it makes every...

You have to consider gear drops as well as experience rewards. I agree nausea (and eating in general) is tedious but I just wrote a script to do it for me as I explore (now my "o" key butchers, eats, prayers, rests, and explores). All I can say is... learn some LUA and 99.99% of the tedio...

Funny, I mentioned a couple weeks ago how +MUT is pointless and got jumped on by a bunch of folks saying it isn't a problem.

Either of those last two ideas would make it worthwhile. I'm guessing making something resistable that is currently unresistable would be seen as too big a change to overall game balance - that unresistable stuff is there to make sure even badass characters have to keep on their toes. Ya, but even ...

% reduction against otherwise unresistable sources. Hellfire, maybe torment, etc. Wouldn't be too useful early game but would be pretty strong for extended. But it would serve the purpose of "warding" the wearer from harm and give another useful end game option.

Yes, I think the article I read was cheating a bit about kilts and skirts after reading more about kilt weight on Wikipedia. Heavy kilts weigh up to 620 grams, probably they were comparing that with some light skirts (either the fabric was light or they are about as mature as I am when it comes to ...

I always wish for an Amulet of Faith when I'm playing melee. Oka+Faith -> TSO is awesome. You get plenty of extra gear before you do the switch and at that point its pretty safe to remove the amulet. Same with Veh if you're trying to get spell books, then remove it once you've gotten the ones you wa...

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