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Just when I thought I'd seen it all.

Let me clarify with some screenshots (attached). Dear God :cry: Those dungeons are so beautiful they bring a manly tear to my eye. The upper left one is my faaaaaaaaaaavorite ! If my Zot looked like that it would be the absolute most epic experience, I really would feel like This Is The Final Battle.

Nightstalker + Iron Shot = freaking potent. Even as an Air Mage I will train up levels in Earth Magic just to get Iron Shot castable as an attack if I get Nightstalker. It's basically the badassest shizznit ever. Like me, you know.

you flipping won fifteen runes with an octopode gladiator o___o No words. No words at all. I am as appalled as I am impressed. Why not tell us about the game a little? What were the hardest parts and what parts were the most fun? With such an unusual and amazing character like this, you'll inevitab...

Jesus Christ. What's more impressive to *me* is that it's a Deep Dwarf Fighter. o_o You didn't just win, man, you pwned this game. Unbelievable. :) Props. So many props. Feel like going for more Runes now or what? ;) When you traverse the Four Hells and Pandemonium for the first time, then you'll se...

Whenever I perform a true Tier-1 stab I imagine sparkles and fireworks going off behind my character. Whenever I perform several in a row I imagine the fireworks getting bigger and bigger and a neon glowing Combo meter flickering onto the screen. :lol: Stabbing is fun . If you're going to play a str...

Mmmm... I have little knowledge about UC characters. Usually I'm going in with an elemental Demon Blade/Whip as a Demonspawn, 20 of my weapon skill, and about 16 to 18 STR and 25 to 30 INT with some Lv6 Conjurations (a Bolt spell of some kind, or Iron Shot). Even then, my weapon attacks usually take...

Fighting a pair of shedu - alternate between the two of them until both are almost dead before finishing them off.. otherwise you tend to find that the first gets brought back to life before you're done with the second. If you slay it quick enough, you will be fine, and honestly by the time you're ...

Damn, that is pretty cool. Hmm, perhaps there are other ways to play without meph? Any other low level AOE (area of effect) attacks that are useful? Go Fire Elementalist. Definitely. :) From what I've seen of your posts it definitely suits your style. The spells Fireball and Bolt of Fire with both ...

You don't get the exp, and the resulting slime is the "will swap places with you instead of hitting you and getting in the way" kind of neutral. True, but say you're in a corridor and you Slimify the first enemy in the line, and it becomes an Acid Blob, and then you back up and let that A...

"the Ring of Dishouour {rF+ rC+ rN+ Acc+5}"

This was a solid find. I was overjoyed, and never took it off that game.

Challenge accepted. Edit: It was all fun and games until I realized that I don't gain any experience in Sprint-Abyss and a bunch of hell hogs burned most of my scrolls. Hmm, what about Wiz Mode in normal Crawl? Make up a... say, XL 20 character of your favorite type, any deity you want except Lugon...

How about this for a solution? The ability to manually equip your Mercenaries or Beogh Orcs. When adjacent to them it will show up as an Ability, 'Equip Allies', where you then select the adjacent ally to equip (if more than one present) followed by a weapon or piece of armour from your inventory th...

Welcome to Crawl, and sorry your Warper met an end to one of those things. @_@ As I typically play squishy mages, I can really relate. Unseen Horrors are horrible. If you want to try out Vehumet, play a High Elf Wizard or a Conjurer! High Elves are fantastic at becoming hybrids later on, though you ...

Chei or Ashenzari might help you wear that, but don't even think about it right now with all the horrendous penalties. Depending on if you find other relevant loot or not, your character might benefit from a deity switch. But never decide to do that on a whim-- keep your eyes out for more signs to s...

My first reaction when I get banished is usually "Aw, well this should be a fun little distraction". :) My reaction is different if I have Shield of the Gong cursed to my hands (as an Ashenzari player). My reaction then is, " oh my god why would I do that " never go Gong in Abyss...

I LOVE special dungeon maps like these! Sure a lot of them are hard as hell, but exactly as wizzzargh put it, it does break up the monotony of the last few dungeon levels in the end game. One of Crawl's "fun little distractions" in other words. :) I'd be the same, too, spending a few thous...

Now, is it just me, or does anyone else get mutation-crazy? I see a potion of mutation and I just HAVE TO DRINK IT BECAUSE WHAT IF IT'S A GOOD MUTATION?! Especially with Ds. All. The. Time. You have an uncontrollable temper. Your vision is quite blurry. You are clumsy (Dex -6). Armour fits poorly o...

crate wrote:Calling them "ice facet" and "fire facet" is for convenience.

I thought only whippersnappers like me were allowed to invoke the power of convenience. :O

There are two fire facets and two ice facets; you can't assume that rF+ gives you hellfire (might be ignite blood instead) nor that rC+ gives you passive freeze (might be icemail). Hmm, badwiki strikes again, then? I was pretty sure Icemail and Ignite Blood were Tier 2 facets (Demonspawn get two Ti...

Here are my tips, from one Demonspawn player to another. *Unarmed Combat is great because it is not only powerful, but fast. But its downside is that you can't take advantage of having a ton of good boosts that a heavily enchanted randart weapon might offer you, or even something as simple as the +5...

Wonderful job on your first win! What's more, Deep Dwarf! That's amazing to me. :) I'm terrified of playing a Deep Dwarf because they can't regenerate through resting, so to see your first win as one, that means something special to me-- at the very least it shows you've got a lot more ballz than al...

I had a character that cleaned up his bad mutations with Jivya, then went to Zin to lock in his good set. I don't know if I was lucky or what, but I apparently had Zin's protection online before Jivya attempted a mutation-style wrath, and never got hit with a bad mutation the rest of the game. That...

I guess this is what happens when you use cBlink to bolt from a fight.

Edit: How much space does tornado need to do full damage? Does it scale based on amount of empty tiles around you, or amount that monsters are moved by the tornado, or something? I can't give you any math formulas, but as a rule, just try to Tornado in the widest spaces you can, since that's where ...

I don't get any of the formula mumbo jumbo. All I know is that "more = better", so the higher I raise my Crossbow skill, the more often monsters die with bolts in their bellies.

You could always rough it out, too. Ring of Sustain Abilities counters Deterioration, Teleport Control counters Teleportitis, Clarity counters Berserkitis, Stasis counters both itises, Ring of Sustenance counters fast metabolism, Boots of Running or the Swiftness spell (or any form of Blink) counter...

Don't polymorph Elephant Slugs.

Specifically, don't polymorph them into Acid Blobs that will gleefully proceed to destroy you within three turns.

I'm never using Crazy Yiuf's staff again XDDD

From my latest run. These are the greatest piece of lines I have ever seen in Crawl. The tree burns like a torch! The forest fire spreads! Crazy Yiuf says, "Oh, this is rather nice." Crazy Yiuf is engulfed in roaring flames! You kill Crazy Yiuf! REMEMBER KIDS DON'T BE A CRAZY YIUF http://u...

Webtiles isn't too bad. There is lag, yes, but on the other hand it does pace your game so that you don't rush into your death (because you physically can't). I have only played a few games on Webtiles, but the times I have, I have usually gotten very far compared to my usual games. I also enjoy spe...

thanks to both of you for replies I'm a bit disappointed that my stupidest death came to this character.. While trying to heal myself in Lair 1, had to hide from corner to corner to avoid fighting an unaware 8 headed hydra.. After the healing was complete I went into the general direction to hunt t...

Heavy armor casters are my faaaavorite. :oops: Eeeeee this thread is so inspiring!! As a High Elf I usually go as high as Chain Mail, and as a Demonspawn I had Fire Dragon Armor (which is like Scale Mail I think) and Ice Storm castable one time. It's been a while since I've done a Tengu, and I norma...

Hey, you love Statue Form, that's great! I prefer Fireball. Others prefer Necromutation or Blade Hands or Summon Horrible Things or Freezing Cloud or whatever . Hehe, and some prefer Trog front back and center! We all have our own favorite style and none of us should be judged for it, that's what I ...

I've always been taught to stay the heck away from early-game Jiyva, because you'll lose almost all potential loot you find, and for an early game character this can be too rough to play with the further down you go. But I guess it would depend on the character and background, mm? I have trouble see...

B: Inner Flame on a fragile friendly rat skeleton is a really fun way to get rid of tough/annoying monsters. I've never tried Inner Flame before but it sounds like a lot of fun playing a Necromancer/Fire spellcaster build, or a Fire Death Knight (Yred) or something. Specifically with Yred and Amule...

I partially agree with KoboldLord on that exploding darts (and sling bullets) need to be changed. I wouldn't say removed, but changed definitely. My proposal would be to make their explosion damage scale with Throwing skill, as well as give them a chance not to explode when hitting something, which ...

Oh come on now, you're an Ashenzari player. You should know why his altar sometimes comes with a spellbook containing exactly one spell: Animate Skeleton. That book even has a handy name like "Culinary Necromancy" or "Skeletal Cooking". Being perma-bound to a non-slashing weapon...

The demonspawn bonus for demon weapons is basically irrelevant. Your stats should influence your armour choice, which spells you want to get, how much you carry, how much Dodging you get, and the like. They should never influence your weapon choice, since they have so small an impact on damage that...

I was going to suggest switching from Sif to Jiyva to manage your mutations, or at least a little later once Sif has given you more spells, but you managed regardless. :) Well done! Note that a lot of players would probably not recommend switching to Jiyva on a moment's notice like that, but since I...

Awesome story, and good luck. Golden Dragons on D:14 seems a touch OOD, no? Glad you survived. Thank you, and they were actually Glowing Shapeshifters. Like, 20 of them. And some of them decided to become Boring Beetles otherwise I'd have nothing to worry about. It was poetic in how absurdely horri...

Have I got a story for you. :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. Mitzy the Corrupter of Planes (DsAK) Turns: 16919, Time: 01:09:38 HP 89/89 AC 26 Str 17 XL: 12 Next: 97% MP 27/27 EV 8 Int 14 God: Lugonu [******] Gold 355 SH 27 Dex 13 Spells: 0 memorised, 11 levels left ...

I've found that, playing Wizard of Vehumet, if I didn't run away from very many battles, right around Lair:8 is when I hit max piety and start getting my god-gift spellbooks. This means even if I didn't find ANY spellbooks in the whole game yet, then by D:12 or 13 or so, post-Lair, is when I get the...

Okay, I think I should have done Elf:3 before Slime Pits. :? I think my reasoning for doing Slime Pits was because Slime Pits tends to be one of the easier Runes for me to get (easier for me than Vaults by far) and I had just recently switched deities from Makhleb to Ashenzari (changing my character...

Today I equipped a +7+5 Ring of Slaying to go with my +6+5 Ring of Slaying. That's a lot of slaying. But you know what? It really didn't make much difference, and considering my sword was a +4+4 Sabre of Electricity, I think it would have been better not to go with a second Slaying ring or even any ...

Recently I had a really good character, XL 25, three runes and going for more, and through the entire game the only sources of rF and rC I ever ran across were one ring of each. No randart armor or jewelery to help, nothing. And the rings I had, Slaying and +4 EV (on an AC character), were much bett...

Jabberwocky wrote:you and minmay might get along quite well personally

I doubt that. :-/

I tend to feel like most oldbies at these forums don't care for me much. 'Cause I act like a kid.

Die in two turns on D:1 instead of the Abyss and then we'll talk. I think my record in D:1 is ten turns. The game began with a Ring of Regeneration RIGHT next to me , followed by a Kobold with a dagger. I proceeded to fight it and it killed me in one hit. Draining Brand! Gotta love being "drai...

Jabberwocky wrote:No, you get porn that only minmay watches.

Heyyy, not ONLY minmay!

Here's my latest game as DsAK (Demonspawn Abyssal Knight), from start to finish. Welcome, Mitzi the Demonspawn Abyssal Knight. The bosom of this dungeon contains the most powerful artefact, the Orb of Zot. Lugonu says: Take this gate or call upon me to unleash you onto the world, my servant! Press ?...

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