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I raised spellcasting recently to be able to learn Ice form and I kept it on, as I did nearly every fight (those with "yellow" threats) with spider/ice, increasing my hunger really quickly. but I've looked at the Spell Hunger table from the wiki, and I'll clearly stop training it as it won...

Well apparently, the advice is working. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1297-g3d87a2a (webtiles) character file. TomPliss the Martial Artist (Merfolk Transmuter) Turns: 16036, Time: 01:34:24 HP 59/70 AC 4 Str 11 XL: 11 Next: 25% MP 26/26 EV 20 Int 13 God: Makhleb [***...] Gold 585 SH 0 Dex ...

I though the Ice Form was too much a "pause" spell between Spider form and Blade Hands, but the bonus HP/AC and the freezing branded attacks should be a nice help to reach and clear Lair. About gods, I don't really like Makhleb (with StS I don't want to cast the destructions on my summons)...

Thanks for the advice, guys. I am tryinga bit more today, and my 7th Merfolk is doing good for now : Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1297-g3d87a2a (webtiles) character file. TomPliss the Martial Artist (Merfolk Transmuter) Turns: 10407, Time: 00:47:38 HP 59/59 AC 4 Str 10 XL: 9 Next: 33% MP...

Hey guys, I am currently playing transmuters. To be fair, I am currently killing transmuters. I can't figure how to keep them alive at the level 7-10 (or even earlier, for octopodes). My goal is to get a character with dragon form online and useful for him. I have been trying mostly Demo n spawn and...

Well, technically, ?acq are garanteed to be obtainable, given a great amount of time in the bayss/Pan ...

You may want to try the Abyssal rune. Abyss:3 is not much more dangerous than Abyss:1, and you survived it (as well as Elf:3 ?), so you clearly have your chances. You don't have multi-target damage, so Vault:5 may be hard for you. And Slime is really item-dependent : you "need" clarity, rM...

Well, looks like I won't have any choice to make, this time : Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1097-gc7db7fc (webtiles) character file. 448364 TomPliss the Acrobat (level 23, -12/187 (201) HPs) Began as a Merfolk Gladiator on Nov 22, 2013. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Killed from afar by a ...

About your weapon if you go "stealthy", keeping tridents is a good option (clubs, spears, tridents, demon tridents, trishulas are Tier 2 stabbing, as long blades), and you already have some skill and nice items... Let's not split Oka's gifts even more by skilling 2 weapons

Sandman25 wrote:Why did you train spellcasting so high

same remark here :
I know you can cast Fireball hungerless 8 times in a row, but what is the point when it is only at half spellpower ?

By the way, what is the "magic" link mutat ?

Little update : Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1097-gc7db7fc (webtiles) character file. TomPliss the Acrobat (Merfolk Gladiator) Turns: 73696, Time: 08:58:57 HP 189/189 (193) AC 24 Str 16 XL: 22 Next: 78% MP 30/30 EV 32 Int 11 God: Okawaru [*****.] Gold 2634 SH 0 Dex 22 Spells: 0 memorised...

brb farming boris

Well, I killed him once, I can kill him 25 times,as long as I don't get unlucky ... except it's Crawl ... :/

About Boris, do you get XP each time you kill him, or only the first ?

And before the Depths integration, there was roughly 25 levels where he could spawn, so getting 20 times his XP could be nice (assuming you don't simply die farming him)...

The "slowly deteriorating" should not force you to put a ring of sustain : the deterioration rate and the natural healing rate are pretty much the same (even if they are randomed), so it won't really handicap you. On the other hand, the "Frail" one, on top of the innate -20%HP of...

Well, mutation affecting gods also "gift" permanent things (and multiple times for some), and those are alright...

I would go for either Fireball or Hexes. I hadn't even considered Hexes -- I'm not sure I could pull Stabbing off without switching to Short Blades, which sounds like a serious XP sink at this point. Tridents are considered as Long Blades when it comes to stabbing (as Demon tridents and most pierci...

Moving away from Ash is a terrible idea, the skill penalties you take in wrath are pretty serious. I won't abandon Ash if I for with her. I see why you understood that, but in fact, when I was listing Ash as a early hybridizing / late-game booster and Sif as a late late game god, it refered more to...

I want to take an hybrid path. That's why Ash would be good, helping me using multiple magic schools quickly, and letting me use the scythe properly.
Sif is more late late game for me, getting more books when I already have some skills in magic.

Confidence Interval wrote:they can cross it.

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I think I'll visit some other branches before abondonning, now ... :/

Hey guys, I created my current Merfolk Gladiator (with polearms, obviously), with the idea of staying with Okawaru to get some gifts and the early fake charms, then switching to a more late-game/hybrid oriented god : - Ashenzari, for her hybrid-skilling boosts, because i'm used to her, and because I...

Sandman25 wrote:
Klown wrote:So you can do anything except enter the Vaults?

Yes. That's a new trap for new players I think. Crawl is cruel

Well, there still is the stair vault at the end of the dungeon ?
I mean, that's pretty explicit of the bump in the difficulty scale you'll have...

Staff of earth is an excellent melee weapon as well Well, its damage is reduced by AC. Is the reduction calcultaed separately from base damage (as rod of striking) or not ? Overall, I think the staff of earth is worse than staff or fire, as you don't get any resist from it :/ And yeah, LRD is only ...

It's still a roguelike, so I think it would be better to have some nice flavour text with a simple effect rather than cinematics. I know I'm going a bit off-topic, but have you played CogMind ? It is in full ascii but has really nice effects on its (laser/rockets/EMP) weapons... Roguelike doesn't m...

So I think the best answer is to not use autoexplore until the floor is at least partially explored, and just be careful to not keymash. Since I found out that with num-lock inactive you can use Maj + the numpad keys to "run" (go to a direction until something happens, as in auto-explore ...

Shock : Max Damage : 1d9 electricity That was your problem... I haven't played TeAE but, as Static discharge bat be risky, you may have to focus more on your early Conjur and Air magic skill as you need to be able to cast Lightning Bolt pretty early, in case of unique/OoD monster you can't avoid......

I'm a bit worried about doing Shoals. Evoking flight will cut into my food reserves, and it's annoying without flight. And there are Harpies. Vaults might stress my food reserves through requiring berserk/bia. I wonder if abyssal rune is a better choice than vaults or maybe shoals? How many ?Map do...

Tedronai wrote:I really like Hell Sentinels. They are universally dangerous to pretty much every race/class combination and really spice up the end-game

And they have one of the most badass tile.
I nearly see them like Pandemonium version of missile-launcher mechas, with their hellfire and high AC

Then I guess the counter doesn't tick while you're in the other portal level ?
That's nice, then ^^

With those high skills in spellcasting and conjuration, it auto-ID the book of annihilations, right ?
Are you training necro in case of Necronomicon ?

would there be any use ?ID it and focus on getting it online ?

As apparently throwing doesn't help that much for Large rocks (my dead Fo of chei only had 4.2 in throwing and still used them efficiently against hydras and as a bolt spell), it may not be that useful to train it when your nets are torn. And yeah, as the binary said, try to get a buckler as soon as...

- it's just that Fo provides a terrible experience for anyone daring to pick it. Unless they're into shafting themselves until they meet a water moccasin and die. Well, I had a great experience with all the Fo I played. Same here. Especialy ywith my formicid of Chei, who didn't get to walk away fro...

MDvedh wrote:I think Formicids players should know they have to think _before_ they engage.

Moreso when they have a +2 to stealth, by the way

Then I think we'll see many "has quit" looses next tournament, with a player waiting to get an XP potion...
If an idea like this one is kept, the available potion pool should be greatly reduced, I think ^^

I play on my android phone nearly every day, and I think my main problem with it is moving around. There is a port of another roguelike (an Angband one, I think), where you have access to the 9 directions (counting the '.' too) by applying a 3x3 grid on the map screen, and it's very efficient. I thi...

A simple thing would be to take the gifts away only when there are no monsters in sight. But then, players could simply keep a rat following them...
And not reclaiming the gifts when the player wears them would nearly keep them like it is now :/

I'm more used to Okawaru Fighters in slime, obvious having more than half their equipment artefects, without counting the useful resistances on things other than amulets ... :/
Anyway, 6 AC wouldn't have saved me from stupidity, in Pan

Well, it's the end. Won't LRD again in pandemonium. Dump : http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/TomPliss/morgue-TomPliss-20131121-122822.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-987-gc8002fa (webtiles) character file. 703294 TomPliss the Metallomancer (level 27, -26/176 (187) HPs) Began as a For...

I have those. But then I have to switch between the 3 amulets ... And about the loot, I was talking about V:5, where there was only the armor. It is good, but not THAT good. And as I have only 4 ?EA, I can't really do much about that ... After torment ? finish the Royal Jelly with large rocks/Iron S...

I did it on vault 5.
It was less beautiful, as vault guards have more HP and will not die everytime, even from 2 fireballs (Large rock and axe let me kill two of them in the same turn)...

My prefered situation to do this is against the Royal Jelly and his friends

EV is generally better than AC, so ... yeah ...
But wearing them when against a jelly might not be a bad idea

So, I cleared the Vault, and got that rune. The loot is not that good, but there was an artifact Plate armor with some resists and a good enchantment, and a shop selling the book of annihilation (for a future LCS). New character dump : http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/TomPliss/TomPliss.txt Dunge...

your metabolism is increased by 3 (twice that of the average character). This metabolism increase does not apply when you are at full health and not sick Less hunger/HP efficient than a troll hide, but just a little more regen than those. and the 15 bonus HP is really good, especially at low level,...

That would be similar to a "multiple monster constriction" damage, then ?

I don't expect to be the first. I expect to have fun, and get my second victory ever.

Yeah, mostly this. You already worship Okawaru, and you do'nt want to face his wrath. He should give you some nice armors, most of which will greatly impede your spellcasting. Moreover, your two books share no magic school (Leda's doesn't count, as it is too high level), and stoneskin is not as usef...

Temporal Distortion [...]also dispels toxic clouds And I never thought about that o_O Those crabs would have been so much easier, without their perma clouds... And I love how to work as a pseudo blink for most ennemies. And it being instant is the best part of the ability, as it lets you cast it se...

Well, acting 50% slower but with 50% increased damage is usually good, especialyl versus high AC, so ... this may let me handle the 27-heads hydras that blocked my from getting the swamp runes :D Well, that was enough AC for that hydra. So I got 2 more runes in 50 minutes (Swamp and Abyss) : http://...

rchandra wrote:When the boulder beetle is alone, dodging like a matador feels a little silly.

I would wear a -5 cloak if it is red-colored over a +3 cloak of preservation just to be sure that boulder beetle charge me !

the problem with the current poison vulnerability was that it gives twice as many poison levels (and doubling the initialy poison attack damage). It means a total damage multiplied by 3 to 4. Comparing this to the rF- or the rC- and their 50% increased damage, it seems too much... I think simplifyin...

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