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Apportation, the only level 1 spell, is pure utility which many players will rarely, if ever, want to use. It's not even in the starting Translocations book, and rightfully so, because It's real main use is grabbing runes/Orb. If you think this is the main use of Apportation you aren't casting it n...

FR: for followers of good gods, change the level 27 Axes skill title from "Axe Murderer" to "Axe Saint".

FR, give Sif Muna a "cast from library" ability, expensive piety cost of course.

Apportation, the only level 1 spell, is pure utility which many players will rarely, if ever, want to use. It's not even in the starting Translocations book, and rightfully so, because It's real main use is grabbing runes/Orb. For a level 20+ character, It hardly matters what school a level one spe...

The reward for training a spell school to a high level is a strong spell. That's kind of the whole point. You train a skill. You get a good thing in exchange. Normally you get other good things to reward your training along the way. In Earth, Sandblast --> Stone Arrow --> LRD --> Iron Shot --> LCS ...

Siegurt wrote:if warpers are bad, just remove warpers.

Warper is a fine start if you don't fall for the trap of training translocations heavily, as if it was the main skill of most book starts.

If Translocations school was removed, I would still want to keep Warper as a background.

Hellmonk wrote:I think either way DCSS should be looking to cut two schools' worth of spells minimum; there's an extreme amount of redundancy esp. among damaging conjuration-like effects. Adding more damage spells is not a good way to go.

I thanked for this part.

Why? I'm not suggesting dispersing them all to the same school. adding, say, C.Blink to a different spell school drastically powers up said other school(s) even if it's expensive. Make it level 9 and tri-class, then. Or remove it from Crawl, whatever. I am not sure why unlimited blinks is considere...

crazy unbalanced to disperse any of it's good skills to other schools. Why? I'm not suggesting dispersing them all to the same school. People complain about teleport other a lot, but I think it is pretty strong for a level 3 spell. It makes the monster go away, it's the most important spell in Wr's...

Nothing wrong with that. Undead players can wear it too. It's the same for them as a +X robe with no affix.

FR: change the level 27 Axes skill title from "Axe Maniac" to "Axe Murderer".

By which I mean, remove the spell school, not all the spells in it. The game doesn't benefit from having a school which boils down to "train this for unlimited controlled blinks, otherwise ignore". I would remove Apportation, it's only for cheating runes and ease of use, like a substitutio...

Multi-book spellbooks were essential back when they used inventory space. They are still helpful when it comes to most fixed spellbooks -- you want the player to get a bunch of spells that use the same school, to justify skill investment. But, as you point out, randart books seldom have good combina...

Stealth is already pretty strong.

as an octopode:

Code:: j - 1622 gold the +17 plate armour of the Will of the Gods {*Contam MR+ Regen+ Str+4}

Also DKA

That robe is pretty bad.

Train more fighting

Tmoiy wrote:if the spells whose success rate I care about span 3 or more schools.

That's a pretty bad if.

That's good info, thank you! Still, when you care about mitigating both types of shield penalties, could it make sense to train more Shields than weapon or spell schools? No. Shields skill will never make you better at spellcasting or better at fighting. All it does is remove part of the penalty fr...

If you're in love with the shield, you could swap to demon trident.

You've badly overtrained shields, regardless

I had no idea nets worked on Dissolution. I assumed he would melt right through them. It seems like an bug that he doesn't.

Still, nice work.

For starters, go get sack of spiders and box of beasts. Geez. https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/bitnick/bitnick.lst Then go back, haste, might, take stairs. Hit him until he moves adjacent. Then go back upstairs. Then spam sack and box a few times. Then kill him. If he summons eyes, kill them with ...

Get some MR and go do Elf.

Stairdance elf as much as possible. Make some noise to draw them out rather than wandering far from stairs.

Since this is the advice thread...

I've never taken sac courage.

Spoiler: show

Should I try it?

svendre wrote:I wasn't having much luck playing it as a caster or stabber or hybrid of any of those.
Finally, I decided to play it like a plain old (handicapped) brute and things went much smoother

This applies to about 25 races.

amyqute1 wrote:Something's wrong with Jiyva.
I just went to 200 piety and she didn't gift me a single mutation.
Really needs a fix as to how and when she implements mutations to be more static.

What race?

Rast posted a morgue above, which probably falls in the "game randomly kills you" category. Here's another simple scenario: a hobgoblin on D:1 gets a few good rolls and gets you down to 2 HP. You have no consumables, so you have to pillar dance. One of the monsters generated awake finds y...

If you are doing extended and a holy broadaxe/battleaxe is available, it is almost always the right choice.

A big improvement to Hep would be to slightly refactor the ranged autofight function so that it prioritizes enemies which you can hit without hitting your allies.

One thing a lot of players don't do is check item drops for improvements.

Example: You are wearing crappy old boots of flying, but on Elf:3 there are "runed boots" which might be boots of running.

duvessa wrote:
bel wrote:The rationale is simple: early game randomly killing you has no point. It's meaningless and should be eliminated.
It's already been eliminated.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/rast/ ... 042719.txt

It doesn't matter what you planned.

Sling and quickblade fill the same role, except quickblade is rarer and pretty much better. Keep rocking it until you find an endgame weapon.

j - the +3 pair of gloves "Zaosies" (worn) {Str+5 Slay+3 SInv}

nagdon_arrival_double_spiral

Dart slug showed up immediately and pinged me to death.

!lg Rast D:1 -tv:<T0:x0.5

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/rast/ ... 042719.txt

Don't think I had any possible way to kill it or escape, besides starting a background with a ranged attack.

Hellmonk wrote:If you kill a monster under Gozag and its gold pile would be destroyed, you actually get the gold directly. It never drops on the ground at all.

Fr: do this for all Gozag gold piles.

Yeah but then you lose the gozag flavor. FR: gold piles should slowly move towards the player on their own.

I suggested the Clark Ashton Smith vine stalker flavor text.

As it's the only crawl change I'm responsible for, it's automatically the worst.

Huh, TIL.

The vial is still good for the free water elementals.

You should teleport away.

If you insist on fighting him, quaff haste, hit him with phial, then acid a few times, then sack, then a couple boxes, then maybe back to acid or sack. Keep him in the water surrounded by spiders and shit, let them do the work.

I'd like it if there were two autoattack buttons: One that only works when between 70%-100% HP, and the other which works when between 30%-70% HP

Followers of Ru should have the option to sac "wealth". This would set current gold to zero, and make it impossible to gain or acquire gold in the future. The sacrifice would be worth less piety if the character had already spent a lot of money at shops. The character would never be allowe...

Mods please move this thread to GDD. It's a serious suggestion.

Put the hat of the bear spirit back on. Fencer's gloves are better than simple +3 STR gloves. The ring of Bate is bad for you. It will make you go blind get you corroded to death, and the third dots of resistance are pointless. Wear the +5 ring of evasion or the ring of Dogma {+Fly rElec Str+6 SInv ...

ITT: elite crawl techniques that are definitely not bug exploitation.

Half movement speed is horrific. -2 would be fine, and lose any kick attack.

Is there a listgame query that will tell me what my win % is on games immediately following a win?

What about on games immediately after winning two in a row?

Picking up and dropping items should take 0 time.

I am OK with a vault that is cool flavor 99% of the time, and 1% of the time it has a slight reward for a player who can get Shatter castable by labyrinth.

I'm assuming those are ordinary quality items and not, say, artifact jewellery.

Though honestly even that would be OK.

I think Wn is fine, especially week one.

Just speaking as someone who managed to lose at exactly XL5.

^ But some of those things were fun.

It's been back up for a few days now.

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