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Probably experimental branches should guarantee specific gods in Temple. It is not fun when you find Wudzu's altar on D:9.

It does not change much IMHO. You already should get offense and defense before charms. Currently charms are a bit OP so they can survive the nerf.

goodcoolguy wrote:The point is that you can never hit the target reliably.

That's fine. If you have time to cast a buff before hill giant approaches, do it. If the hill giant is already adjacent, just hit it. It should probably make you happy as you will not need to cast the spell often.

I think what the "just rewrite it" folks miss, apart from the sheer workload, is the core problem: so you want clean combat formulas (for example, to give specific damage feedback like in Brogue). On the other hand, you want to replicate, or at least closely imitate, the current gameplay ...

Yes, please, more negative effects on equipID-ing mundane items, please! I love the identifcation game and carrying stacks of unindentified items of various kinds with me! Sorry for the sarcasm, but this already annoys the hell out of me with amulets, I really don't want it to happen to rings as we...

Yes, piety increase power of cards indeed. Why do you need cards as DD with vampiric weapon?

Ok, I was joking mostly. Clearly it is optimal to clear Elf/Crypt now, even if you are already at full piety.

CypherZel wrote:I don't, I got nemelex on like D3 and I lived long enough to find vamp so I just kept him

I mean why do you need piety now? Just go and clear Vaults 5

All current traps encourage player to retreat and restore HP/MP, recharge wands, quaff cancellation for contamination/mark etc. and this is boring a bit IMHO. As a person who dies often while trying to reach a timed portal I think we can bait player into fighting monsters so that he/she can overesti...

Another benefit of OP is that it naturally solves problem with too many buffs active at once. You cannot just cast Haste, Regeneration, Spectral Weapon, quaff might etc. and start fighting.

Why do you need Nemelex if you are DD with vampiric weapon?

If rings of fire/ice are too powerful without the penalty (probably they are), then we should just discourage swapping, this way player will not forget to swap them off. For example, give them *Draining and remove amulet of Harm.

Last time I checked nets had about 50% chance to land on Ancient Lich with Throwing 0, that's too much IMHO.

I.e. monsters use HD to determine spell power and spell power determines damage etc.

why tele? tomb can last quite a long of time, literally hundreds of turns. so you can heal to full hp, buff, then use digging or disintegrate and kill them all, it's called "tombdancing"

fim vs adder: plate armour: AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpeed | AvEffDam Attacking: 3,9 | 13 | 38% | 1,5 | 105 | 0,95 | 1,4 Defending: 0,5 | 4 | 57% | 0,3 | 76 | 1,32 | 0,4 +1 chain mail: AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpeed | AvEffDam Attacking: 4,1 | 13 | 3...

XL 6 VSFi who put both stat points into Str has AC 11, EV 3 in +0 plate armour and AC 9, EV 5 in +1 chain mail. With points in Dex instead it is AC 11, EV 2 and AC 9, EV 4. XL 12 VSFi, 2 points in Str and 2 points in Dex: still AC 11, EV 3 and AC 9, EV 5. With Armour 6 and Dodging 6: AC 13, EV 7 and...

FR: It should be supported by Portal Projectile so you can bring in melee range that summoner who is hiding behind its summons

duvessa wrote:I'd rather have contam than constant recasting

Do you mean you are always hasted when haste is castable?

I am surprised that some players find contamination fun so I am wondering how common the opinion is

Frequently, on this forum, the vault warden combo of monsters if hailed as a well designed school of monsters. Each of their abilities on their own is not incredible, but a pack of them, combined with different monsters presents interesting challenges. There are opportunities for good game design b...

Many players dislike Flight/Airstrike on Tengu interaction because it means you have to pay attention to otherwise popcorn monsters like spriggan air mage and spend a turn to stop flying. When spriggan air mage dies, you have to activate flight again because it increases your EV. I would dislike to ...

what I said about gda applies to cpa even more. You didn't see the god-gifted CPA. (You also seem to persistently labour under the impression that I've asked for advice.) Ok, I suppose it was not plain +0 cpa so my advice does not apply then ;) (sorry, this is a public forum. I realize you are not ...

Shard1697 wrote:Ogre, to see how strong the advantage of not having to wait for enchantable hides is

It's very powerful, I have troll with AC 17, EV 17 after clearing Lair, Orc and main dungeon. That's with Level 10.4 Dodging. http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/ ... dman25.txt

I think the problem with durable summons is that a nontrivial number of monsters you fight in the course of normal play are "OOD spawns" that appear before you've actually been on a level a suspicious amount of time. In other words, the effects of this system that's supposed to address a ...

Shard1697 wrote:Neither poison melee nor spiny prevent incoming damage, they both just let you kill things quicker.

with poison melee of UC troll I one-shot things pretty often, monsters die on their turn due to poison sometimes. if I was optimal player, I would just retreat after poisoning them.

Shard1697 wrote:As good as spiny 3 on a troll? I doubt it.

it's just a different concept, defense instead of offense. spiny 3 does not prevent incoming damage, 5% chance to evade attacks and poison melee does. also sacrificing empty slots means I got some AC for free.

I am not sure. I sacrificed gloves and boots for Tr who cannot use them anyway and I see that 5% chance to avoid attacks and poison melee are very useful too.

I guess you might change forum username if 500 tabs is already enough

Winning with very low level character requires good luck, definitely, but it also requires a lot of skill, patience, and creativity (compared to a non-challenge win). Doesn't seem fair nor sporting to imply that pedritolo " just got lucky," though perhaps that is not how you intended for ...

Anyway, the point is that you don't need resists or great equipment or whatever. Of course people (rightly) still like to have those things, because they increase your chances to win and let you get away with somewhat looser/less careful play. yes, you don't need anything to win a lottery, just kee...

and into wrote:Are you suggesting that pedritolo "just got lucky" or something? What the heck?

yes. orb of fire or electric golem can kill the character with a single attack. being lucky is the point of speedruns, otherwise they would have 100% winrate provided how good players they usually are.

orbs of fire were very nice, died to +9 antimagic double sword without serious problems and gave me only 1 mutation: 100993 | Zot:4 | Gained mutation: You are partially covered in rugged brown scales (AC +1, +3% HP). [an orb of fire] Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles) character file. 14...

about transferring: i'm not sure if i understand it correctly. I thought the transfer is calculated on base skill, so an usual transfer from positive aptitude to negative ones don't gift anything more than the conventional training of the negative and vice-versa (not considering transfer fees, 10% ...

entered trove for 1350 gold (a book), got some amazing items like +7 storm dragon armour of Dishonesty {rElec rCorr}, +4 robe of Augmentation {Str+4 Int+4 Dex+4 and 'amazing' like +4 cloak of Modesty {rN+ Dex+5 Slay-6}, +0 cloak of Apathy {MR+}, +1 ratskin cloak {rPois rN+ Int-1 Dex-1} and 0 cloak o...

one issue I see if you are trying to replace food with doom clock or something is that it will make autoexplore a very bad idea and it would mean that some players like me might stop playing crawl. I see it in my current SpBe game where I don't berserk much, don't wait for full HP before autoexplori...

BabyRage wrote:I'd just use Gyre and Gimble for the sake of it, because I've never got to use it.

I used it many times. It was extremely fun/OP with VS

CypherZel wrote:I will prove this by winning that combo with trog

I am not saying it is impossible (viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12446). I am saying that it is much easier to win if you are going for Vehumet or some other gods who don't punish your main method of killing things.

by the way it is easier for readers if you use [ code ] tag (without spaces). sorry about the character, good luck next time (and train more stealth)

edit. I hope you were going to transfer knowledge from short blades, it does not make much sense to have them above 14.

I can buy +5 pair of quick blades "Gyre" and "Gimble" {pierce, Dex-3} so I did some fsim and found that the weapon is better than +9 demon blade of freezing vs stone giant with my skills (including +3 ring of slaying) though the difference is not large enough and I am more worrie...

CypherZel wrote:Nah he was talking about throwing rocks and enemy shielding and stuff, what he should have said was go trog

If Trog maximizes your chances to win deep elf fire elementalist, I have some bad new for you

I don't berserk much, trying to save food. Invok: Berserk | 4 | | 3 | 7 | 11 | || 25 I suspect I will have to abandon that troll leather armour later due to hunger, I am depleting food and I see no eatable food in shops. Comestibles h - 33 fruits But other than that it is very easy game, ac 9, ev 36...

That won't prove anything IMHO provided how crawl mechanic works. You can be lucky and avoid dying despite having low HP/AC/MR or you can be unlucky and die despite all of them having relatively high value. Just look at famous pedritolo's game https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t...

I guess it was aimed at me. Well, last week I won unarmed HOMo of Makhleb who was unlucky with MR items and didn't have any. And then it found the ring "Peups" {rElec rPois rF++ rN+ MR-} (You found it on level 3 of the Crypt) and started using it, no big deal. So yes, you don't need MR wit...

trolling game, acquired +3 hat "Wioz" {-Tele rPois MR+++ Str+2} in baily and could have mr+++++ before orc (it would be stupid to die with six scrolls of blinking so I didn't wear the hat), then butchered mottled dragon hide, enchanted it to +5 and then found +2 troll leather armour of Day...

duvessa wrote:It'd be best to not have piles.

Are you suggesting to nerf fighting in kill holes by removing all loot from previously killed monsters when another monster dies in the same place? I agree.

It is not that different from current crawl.

Code:: There is a staircase leading out of the dungeon, spattered with blood here. Items here: % :: ? [[[[ |

you still need to press either ',' or ctrl+x to see what those are.

I am not sure what to do. +4 quick blade {venom, *Confuse rF++ rC+ Int+3} and a plain buckler or +7 demon blade of freezing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles) character file. SpBe the Unseen (Spriggan Berserker) Turns: 17075, Time: 00:59:15 Health: 67/67 AC: 6 Str: 17 XL: 12 Next: 93% M...

SpBe 15524 | Lair:6 | Identified a scroll of acquirement {!r} 15525 | Lair:6 | Got a translucent quick blade 15526 | Lair:6 | Identified the +4 quick blade of Ufeenl Daina {venom, *Confuse rF++ rC+ Int+3} (You acquired it on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts) *confuse is too bad? no way ;) 9347 | IceCv ...

i would stop training armour, probably forever. train dodging, fighting. you can use ashenzari's transfer knowledge to train maces and forget transmutations.

Also, no gda has generated yet, leaving me with only a +1 fire resist plate after having completed s branches, elf, crypt, depths, slime, and vaults 1-4. Only 2 gold dragons have been found, and only 1 left a corpse, which yielded no hide when butchered. why do you need gda? I have just finished a ...

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