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Also, keep in mind that neither swamp or spider nest can spawn shops, or have good loot etc.. The best thing to do is to leave those two area until you're ready to get three rune and enter Zot. Even then you should just dive to the bottom (aka, descending on a deeper floor as soon as you find a stai...

Personally I'd stick with 5 int if you're going to do a 3 rune game. Just carry a couple of restore abilities pots, or a royal jelly and be extra careful around int drain monster. Bardiche are the best weapon for a polearms user, the -6 to accuray isn't a big deal - and training fighting gives bonus...

Uhm, agreed.

Yes, mines are a good place to explore now. Be careful against Orc High Priests, Sorcerers (use Trog's Hand against them, your MR is low) and other big buddies. If some foo summon a nasty 2, retreat to an upper floor and wait till it disappear. Probably the artefact glaive is better than the demon t...

Psieye wrote:Go with Bardiche over Glaive. The fact the Bardiche is anti-magic is a big plus. Carry that artefact glaive around as emergency rF++ and emergency SInv. For example, you switch to that glaive while retreating behind a corner to lure a fire mage and then switch back to Bardiche to kill it.

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I hope 0.12 is going to be released soon, because I fear the time I'll waste to find next abyssal runes!

Nice grave-digging! Personally, after 11 months and various others Be won or splatted, I can only repeat that Trog's wrath is very plain and easy to survive. I don't know if it's coded, or I'm just very lucky, but I never had a BIA posse summoned in mildly-high tension moment, so I've never been in ...

YAVP, nothing hard with Ce master race Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0-9-gb634444 (webtiles) character file. 1761048 nago the Merry Centaur (level 27, 248/248 HPs) Began as a Centaur Abyssal Knight on Feb 9, 2013. Was the Champion of Lugonu. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Feb 10, 20...

No, Gods' blessing (TSO, Kiku, Lucy) works only on non-artifact weapon - so it can only overwrite a pre-existent ego (flaming, vampiric, draining, ...)

My Centaur AK is currently clearing elf:3 with relative low MR, because you know, with Lucy, banishment isn't so scary... Well, a demonologist has managed to banish me.... and guess what happened? http://i48.tinypic.com/wce921.png Yes, he landed me on the abyssal rune :o :lol: . I guess nobody has y...

I've read somewhere in the forums, but I can't find anymore, so here's my small question: is there a cap for Lucy's powers? Namely, does banish power increase up to 27 invo level?
And what about corrupt? What happen with higher invo? Larger radius or corruption? More monster?

As I said, I don't know the ia's with shatter, but no other foo in game use spells or abilities when the player (or his summon) is outside Los. Is jorgrun different or can I assume he won't track the player exploding wall and screaming "I'm back?"

The rule of thumb is to have t&d around 7 by the end of lair, and train up to 10 before entering zot/extended, but please note that a lot of good players postpone the training to much later levels or don't train it at all! Yes, zot traps (and blade one, in 0.11) can be nasty, but it's quite hard...

I had one move after he came in LOS. Clearly I could have ran away instead of engaging. I looked him up on learndb and thought "earth magic. Doesn't sound so bad." So I went for it. I didn't put together "earth magic + green walls = he can shatter them and do insane damage". Tha...

You probably know that, but this isn't a real unfair death: you could have survived this, if you acted differently. Firstly, your last actions were bad: if you lose 87 in one turn, no heal wounds can reliably save your life; instead it's a wasted action, because you'll almost certain suffer more dam...

Storm dragon armour isn't a common choice ... but, +12 and +5 dam? I'd choose it without thinking twice. Furthermore, with blade hands, 51 ac and 24 ev means you can easily shred to pieces everything the rng can throw to you - and you have only 10 armour and 10 dodging, if you raise those skills you...

And now the Winner! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0-9-gb634444 (webtiles) character file. 1723131 nago the Invulnerable (level 27, 275/275 (276) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Berserker on Feb 1, 2013. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Feb 2, 2013! The ga...

A win without entering any side branches that you enter via staircase. This means no Temple, Orc, Lair (or its subbranches), Vaults. Yeah, everyone talk about trunk's new abyss, new wonderful vault and other fabulous additions, but I still play 0.11, so I don't care. I don't care so much, I just ne...

So what's some of the MUST HAVE / DO's that get you atleast halfway to the bottom? Firstly, don't play demonspawn, but an easier race: centaur, minotaur or hill orc if you want melee, deep elf, high elf, sludge elf, deep dwarf or even hill orc if you want magic route. Please be aware that melee is ...

Thanks, I hope someday it will merged with the regular build.

Ice form floats over the water - only merfolk can get items in deep water (or maybe also octpodes and grey draconians, I don't remember) I believe at this point you're forced to forget hell runes' - you'd need Fedhas to get the Horn, but as you have already cleared living branches it would be diffic...

Mutagenic corpse drop rate has been lowered some versions ago, to limit mutation roulette - I think it's actually 1/3. I don't know how corpses are chosen when using kiku's ability - except they're appropriate for the branch and level. Anyway, considering its low piety cost you can easily spam it un...

In case the question is "how can the level map be forgotten?", the answer is: shift-x and then ctlr-f

I wouldn't use it: as enchanter character you shouldn't fight often, but rely on stab - and maybe avoiding whatever you can't easily kill. Using pda early would cripple your stealth, which is your first line of defence and offence, and also means you need much more hexes to get invisibles castable: ...

Every spell has three main value to consider: failure rate, spell power and spell hunger. You can see them pressing ! in the spell menu (z / I key). 1. Failure rate indicates the percentage the spell has to fail. Generally speaking, the lower the better, but for some spell (conjuration, translocatio...

Descend a Staircase, Ascend any Nearby Staircases on the new floor to see where they go (unless its a level vault with all the Up Staircases next to each other). If on previous floor the Staircase I descended was near another Down Staircase, go back to the previous floor and take that staircase. Wh...

That mace was a stat-stick. Not something to actually use to hit most things with in the long-term. Nago is right though, since you weren't under Trog or Oka, it was better to switch to a different weapon type than staves. I disagree. Just choose weapon with your first acquirement and enjoy your (m...

I haven't used transfer knowledge since 0.8, so I can't comment about it, but I eagerly suggest you to not abandon Ash: her wrath is the worst in the game and would seriously cripple your character (-4 of malus, plus lost bonus plus half xp gain mean you can dream about haste, min delay for weapon a...

Your skill management is a mess. Are you using automatic training? If that so, switch to manual, it's much much much better. Anyway, you shouldn't spread Xp on so much skills, especially early on: you should give priority to weapon skill until min delay with a good weapon. Fighting and armour are ok...

There are several reasons why shields aren't suggested for all character. Firstly, it's important to understand how they works: differently from AC and EV, every successive attack has a bigger chance to surpass shield's defence - overall, they work greatly against single opponent, or in corridor and...

Wrong forum, I suppose. Well, if you firestorm in Tomb:3 you should be ready to suffer a lot of mummies' curses and torment, but that doesn't mean necromut is strictly necessary. Actually, if you firestorm few mummies at once and you have some RN you should be able to clear the floor - although this...

More than laziness this death is due to descend order: you should have explored D, Vault, eventually Elf and Crypt before entering in Snakes. Actually, there's no need to enter in lair branches before having explored others and be ready to go in Zot, because they only guarantee a rune and are more d...

You made a big mistake: you were wearing a useless ring of strength and ring of rpois over MR. That mistake is tenfold bigger when fighting a foo like Ogre mage. Wear MR ring over str asap, in abyss there are lot of foos who cast bad spell and a better MR is mandatory. Regarding rpois: excluding poi...

What? Ring of invis doesn't cause miscast - it's true the contrary: if you have enough patience, you can reliably use it with 0 evo, at least outside dangerous situation. Probably magic contamination was due the fact you used to activate invis before the contamination you had was gone away: Invis is...

Yes, I knew that: my point is that if a character is training throwing is probably because he wants needles, as they are very rare (almost not existent, at least paralysis/confusion/sleeping) in dungeon, while darts are useless, javelin are good but up to a point (you can't carry a lot, and mostly t...

10 Evoc is quite low to use a Cboe "reliably" . I 'd suggest at least 15 to use it seldom - and clarity or a lot of !curing is a must, being confused for a lot of turns is really dangerous in most of extended.

While Cboe has a a not-negligible chance to drain ALL your mp, whatever the starting amount was, Wucad Mu can only drain up 24 mp in the most severe case of miscast (at least, according the Bot) So, it's possible it can drain all your mp but as minmay said, keep evoking it - it works well even when ...

I can agree it's another solution, as I can't believe they are very useful - except marginal use on D:1, poison before a blowgun is found and dispersal until enemies start to have AC.

I'm currently playing a HaBe, with the intention to play a needle - stabber build, but I'm currently puzzled by how needles gift are handled. First try: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/nago/morgue-nago-20130108-232417.txt (died stupidly) He was quite lucky with a early amulet of faith - neverth...

I don't know if it's a bug or what, but please note that confirm_butcher=never in some cases hasn't still an optimal behaviour: for example, a mutagenic corpse will be butchered before clean ones.

Bardiche is a better weapon than battleaxe. Vampiric is best brand in normal game, speed is a mediocre one (there are explanations of this scattered in forum). That battleaxe has +2 dam enchantment, while the bardiche can go up to +9. So no, there's no reason that battleaxe should be consider worth ...

Vampiric bardiche, without any doubt: it's the best weapon for a polearms user in natural branches. And think this character more as a fighter with support spell than a Wz as long as you can use it - you can easily end most fight with 100% hp. For Hells, Pan and Abyss you should vorpalize a plain ba...

Remember that an alive character lightly mutated is better that a dead character genetically pure.

Unborn deep dwarves and deep dwarves death knights can use it. Most of deep dwarves can't see invis so, invis+some noise in the floor is the best way to run away from a floor, when there are too many mirror injure shield active at once - when a dd activates it, there's a message like "the dd is...

Best weapon randart I've ever seen: the +1,+6 triple sword "Pnuple" (weapon) {antimagic, rF++ rC++} Obliviously, found by my OgNE, with already 22 in M&f and a pain Gsc :roll: Dammit, I should stop to identify potential awesome randart useless to current character, I'm almost thinking ...

Your defences are good (except MR,which is low) to enter and even clear all zot; the problem as you said is the fact you haven't a good and quick way to kill strong enemies. Anyway, you have a quickblade: if you train short blades to min delay and have a decent spell brand to memorize, you can easil...

Well, it depends on your evo skill: with 0 the success rate for a teleportation ring is about 70%. Considering the teleportation delay, using it to escape would have been risky but still a decent way to try to survive (at least, better than move away at 1.0 speed). Bat form could be a better way to ...

I've no direct experience, but I'm pretty sure that in bat form (speed:16) you could have easily escaped from him (speed:15).

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Your spell pretty much exists in the game and it's called Death's Door.
It has some nice drawback too.

Gauntlets of war are exceptionally good for a melee fighter, but as you said you're more a caster - so I'd use the unrandart one, rc+ and MR should be checked more often than the times you actually attack strong foes in melee, and rpois is also somewhat useful (poison arrow).

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