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I'd say that many other gods have the 'opaque' effect of increasing the strength of (some) of their powers according the piety level, e.g. Trog's BIA, Zin mut\hell effects protection, Dith's shadow mimic\smoke and so on, therefore the *5 capstone is kinda misleading, there's much to gain until 200 p...

That evening star is extremely good end-game material, for a 1-h user I'd say is 100% awesome.

As an afterthought .... I couldn't get much bang for my buck (or my 8MP) from the Infestation spell. Is Infestation best against popcorn mobs clustered near one another? I didn't start casting it until Zot, but being primarily a Summoner I wasn't doing a lot of burst damage to quickly kill the infe...

My chars usually can cast lv.2 spell on D:1 on xl2 while cannot lv.4 spell.

I guess some very strong race can skip poisonous vapor but considering how it is good and how sting sucks I can't think a lot of combo where I'd suggest that (except stupid things like TrVm)

Merged in this commit , thanks. This is obviously just a quick tweak and Pan needs more substantial work, which will likely include making the branch finite. Until then, at least people won't have to slog through so many levels (most of the time). Crosspost: image.png I really don't get it. It is a...

image.png I really don't get it. It is annoying to scum abyss to find unique lords' floors because because after surviving a dozen of its level it's probable a char can survive as many as he want, but it's reasonable and fun to made necessary to scum and clear a great number of floors after collect...

Thanks! With a melee brute, for V:5 I usually buff up and use an immolation scroll to wipe the welcoming committee. That won't work on this guy I think. He maxes @ 30 AC with Ozocubu's Armour active, and that spell will cancel as soon as immolation bombs start going off around me. So can you give m...

Plus, can you post a new dump? Depending on the enchantment and brand of that eveningstar, you could have already found your end-game weapon: TSO's blessing means the weapon get +2 to the current enchantment level (up to +9) and rebranded to holy wrath. However please note that holy wrath brand is a...

You should finish lair, then spider nest or swamp, then vaults. Don't do depths now and absolutely not hell, they're too dangerous. You don't have a good 1hander mace (you ideally want to rebrand a demon whip to holy scourge or use a eveningstar). Considering how strong is a Mi you may wait to find ...

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No idea if is true or still relevant though.

I'd say to skip, if you feel powerful enough to wait for full piety: going from 4* to 5* it's a good increase in Ru's power but not game-changing and not always worthy to take an heavy sac. Because sac resist is probably quite cumbersome for a felid and words very dangerous (because you lost some of...

A ranged user with strong defenses who has a reliable way to bail out of dangerous situation and somehow has the need to increase the damage of an usually OP form of attack.

I don't know, maybe a **Hu^Ru who has only mediocre fustibalus? Or a miserable CeHu who has only a shortbow?

Axe cleaving don't harm allies, however you should give polearms (possibly 1h such as tridents or spear) to your follower because two lines of orcs attacking together is better than 1 line, how good shield are for orc follower and how delay on weapon works on npc. Orc like any other branch always sp...

Good job, but keep in mind that crystal spear TRJ until it's in range then blowing everything with LRD works kinda well and could have been an easier way to get the 3rd rune (and you had several ?blink so you could have escape kinda well from a fight with bad rolls)

Yeah especially conjure flames was indirectly buffed by poison vapor

Many demons lost their poison immunity while back, most of them now are rpois+(up ++ or whatever monster can get) - so parrow isn't totally useless against them, just significant worse than any other level 6 spell against which a demon ins't immune. For all other things I agree like now ins't very w...

Gozag so you don't die before lair.

I'd go with weapon, there's a good chance you'll get a (possibly good) lajatang and you can reskill shield somewhere else, because staff of earth is bad as damage stick. Otherwise armor, you have already good aux as most enchanted but you could get something better, while it's hard to get some bette...

The only "quality of life" change I think was a major buff to player is item destruction (partial) removal, having a full stack of ?blink/whatever instead of a pile of ash because you didn't drop all scrolls for every orc mage is a huge difference

With tm you should train more UC, fighting and dodging (in this order) and less magic skills. Especially much less spellcasting at this point. With another God swithing/adding ice magic due that book of Frost could have been viable, but not with Chei so soon, as you have a char that when depletes mp...

Because curse works so well!

It was changed along with all other gods' powers requiring to pray at altars (TSO's, Kiku's, Lucy's, Zin's) when they were moved to ability menu

Is that a Deep Troll shaman or earth elementalist? In the latter case, there's the problem he's going to blow up some walls and corridors before you can lose him, even as Sp. And you won't be able to use a corner\dighole to kill the monsters when you find some good space. If he *is* a earth elementa...

It's permanent

A side question, is possible to add hellcrawl to one of EU server?

The ones on which is currently available have a terrible lag for me, and I really prefer to play online rather than offline.
I played hellcrawl only like tens versions ago, so I'd like very much to test all new changes directly.

For a tm your skill level order should always be: UC > fighting > dodging > armor (if using armor and not a melding armor form) > transmutation > other magic skills. Training UC does decrease delay attack and base damage, both in forms and with plain punch Except maybe up xl3 when getting spider for...

Am I the only person who almost died due to -Tele on weapon/amulet? I was fighting a pack of monsters, then some unlucky rolls and I needed to blink but couldn't. When you have more than 1 monster in view, you can be hit again after taking -Tele item off before you have a chance to read scroll of b...

I'm gonna play a Chei troll with short blades after this info

I guess this thread isn't for me, which is a little disappointing because streaking and the early game have occupied most of my attention while I've played crawl. I still don't completely understand what's on the screen. I think instinctively I don't like going right here just because the geography...

I don't open the door to the left because it might make a bunch of noise, and its just as easy to go around the other way and check for monsters first. I don't bother butchering the corpse to clear the right door (good idea tho) because I dont want to spend many turns here with no weapon, I'd rathe...

Now that's different. I typically go to Fighting first, since it both gives me HP and also helps my zero-skill weapon when I need it. But given the theme of your advice, I'm guessing that early Dodging is the most efficient way to increase one's surviviability? Yup I too always go with fighting fir...

Maybe my messagge wasn't real clear: it is only a supposition, but it should be checked via fsim.

I hypothesized that because arbalest have high base damage - so multiplicative brands get higher bonus - and high min delay - so additive brand such as elec are worse.

Yes (a normal +9 branded arbalest will probably outclass that eventually but for now it is by far the best weapon you have).

While frantically test-quaffing your unidentified potions looking for curing or heal wounds, the last one you see before you die is experience. There is something uniquely painful about it. Potions of experience are so vanishingly rare that they never appear at all in the majority of my won games, ...

Yes, indirectly when regen mut was modified

I believe it was a big nerf for them, now they are pretty bad during first levels.

I suspect the fsim of the OP is wrong too somewhat. And wtf are those images! Wanna more

Nice to see it got implemented, kudos

duvessa wrote: , and much stronger than the rest of the amulets for most characters.

Well it isn't hard to be better to something which does nothing

Plus nice name

You haven't made a investment in shield so heavy to ignore that sword

There's the specific topic for that! (I'm on Tapatalk so I won't search to link that sorry )

I'm not sure and some code diving user could check this better, but I believe the melee damage penalities for str < 10 are not total negligible.

However that shouldn't be really noticeable with an high damage output as UC+statue form (at least if UC was high enough)

I beat it fairly easily (after watching someone stream it for a while, so I'd picked up how a bunch of things worked already) and then kinda lost interest but it's definitely neat and seems to be updated quite regularly. It takes a ton of good inspiration from Brogue specifically. Which one? I play...

counterpoint: Qzlol makes all the monsters in the floor chase you as soon you enter. Pre Lair the passive aura is bad and after Lair the damage dealt to dangerous monsters isn't very good. Ru makes all the monsters in the level try to suicide or start wandering around instead of hitting you. However...

Yes, after it was finally moved from Wr's book to AM's

Impressive low turns for so many zigs

Id only add that you should keep count of your bolts because damnation destroy them always. Use melee/another arbalest when you dont need big nukes

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Always keep +6 slay.
Keep +3 ev ring and swap when necessary.

MR+ ring is nice but with a MiBe you can just use Trog's Hand.

Lucy doesn't give ally but neutral monsters, does she? What kind of allies gives Sif?

Anyway I'd propose the allies managment of Qzlol: everything you summon die the turn after.

An enchanted ring mail is a perfectly fine armour for a caster, unless having ozo armor, robe of archmagi or being a DE (as they have terrible str). A +9 ring mail is an awesome armor for a spellcaster, most probably you won't find anything better ever - considering that the rf- is freely offset by ...

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