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That still sounds like MfGl could be pretty easy. Polearms->dodging. It should be easy as antiskill games go. It's been done once already btw. You can have Polearms maxed way before you reach Lair:8 and Dodging will be very high after you got 2 runes. I'd go Fighting as 2nd skill but it's certainly...

There's XL 15 GrSu of Ru in CSZO trunk that has cleared Lair, Orc and D:15. Clearing things solely with Ice Beasts and Shadow Creatures. - Summonings at 22 - Staff of Power to have even slightly tolerable amount of MP - Some decent melee for weaker shit and good evasion from rings - Sacrificed: Armo...

Rough doing snake with low MR and without rPois and digging tools. Still kinda surprising event, that chain-ally-blinking. Now I know two places where you have to be careful with Death Channel, Snake:4 and Elf:3 Even though the final turns weren't a topic of this post, your death scene was absurdly ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOoXwxqeVzg Taken to extremes, one could say that you could've avoided that death by simply not playing crawl in the first place. Haha. That was a bad movie. Even back when it was released, that supercomputer's design was already 100% campy. *sorry 'bout derailing bu...

Mnoleg's rune vault is an open area and it's dangerous to fight him there. You'll easily get surrounded because he's got 3 different Summoning spells. Luring him out from his vault has always worked better for me. And about giant eyeballs.. You do not spend a one turn on Mnoleg's level while you hav...

I would train only spellcasting for now at least to 10 points. Fire conjurer needs more MP than 27 especially when not worshiping Vehumet. Other good ones would be Fighting, Dodging and Invocations. Also why haven't you learned Fireball? It is loud and compromises your stealth a bit but it also clea...

OOF's are manageable with only rF+ as an Od with good tactics.

Doable, yes. But the tactics better be damn good. Especially when we are talking about Trog character

With trog as god, +9 antimagic GSC and that ice armour, MTLA really isn't your best bet. Saving EA scrolls for gold dragon armour would be a pretty good idea in this case. Using that +7 giant club with MTLA would give you more HP, both rC and rF and also somewhat higher evasion in a cost of antimagi...

Okay...but how about this? the +10 ice dragon armour of Summertime {rF- rC++ Int+2 Dex+5} Just got this on Elf:3. The enchantment alone makes it worth to ditch the Moon armor right away, isn't it? Choosing armors always leaves me so confused.... That's a great piece of armour if you can overcome fi...

Why Ru and not nemelex with Evo being the first skill? Now that I look my actions with Ru compared to what I sacrificed... Power Leap | | | | 1 | | | | | || 1 Apocalypse | | | | | | | 2 | 3 | 5 || 10 Draw Out Power | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 || 4 ..then I gotta say, yes, Nemelex would have been better.

Btw with antiskillrobin is allowed to use things you don't have trained skill yet (like tab?) Yes. I remember Sphara won a VS of Nemelex with Evocations recently. It was VSAr of Ru with 2 maxed stats (Evo and Fighting). Got lucky with loot, labyrinth being the turning point: 3316 | D:3 | Identified...

One addition to these good advice above: avoid berserking against enemies that can blink. Orc wizards, crimson imps, phantoms and the unique wizard Eustachio are the first monsters in the Dungeon to do so. They blink away from a melee range leaving you raging against thin air and you will end up bei...

It was very likely Dis hell effect. You have 2 turns left to remove the petrification status by drinking cancellation before you turn to stone. Another little downside of lichform there, that you need to terminate it immediately to be able to cure petrification. There is also a tiny chance it was ca...

Te is the race I really want to like but I just can't because it has -20% hp. They'd make such great monks if they didn't just randomly die ;) You get speed and evasion bonus with flight at XL 5. That EASILY lifts tengu out of the bottom four. Mummies are the worst for me for the reasons mentioned ...

I have found Crawl associated lyrics in lotsa rock songs but that verse just sounds like a typical Friday night in my neighborhood. Gotta admit, I don't know any other Therapy? songs than 'Screamager'. There is a good line for playing DCSS in that song: "I've got nothing to do, but hang around ...

That's not confusion. Monsters get DISTRACTED every now and then when your summon hits a monster. It means it is not confused but is somewhat more vulnerable to stab damage. I don't know if distracted monster has lowered EV but that would be pretty logical to me.

I'm forced to start a long Crawl hiatus. Certainly not worth of a public announcement...

...but I just thought comborobin players should be informed since I've spent considerable time for this 'dream come true' project

Godspeed to you all! Make it happen!!

Pinch me if I'm wrong but weren't shrikes nerfed already right after their introduction? Both caustic and shard shrikes. Both are very nasty monsters but do not break the game imo. You don't have a way of dealing with Menkaure or Rupert earlier? You escape from them if it is humanly possible and pre...

I don't see why this should be on CYC.

The voyage back to D:4 temple seems completely pointless to me. Haven't given this a thought before I saw this post but at least I don't see a single reason why it could not be changed. Well, other reasons than so-called roleplaying aspect ts mentioned.

Ditch the shield, dTrident, crossbow and bolts. Use antimagic glaive and that bardiche. If you find enchant weapon scrolls, use em on that bardiche. If you have a scroll of brand weapon you should re-brand the bardiche after 5 runes (maybe even before abyss trip). Freezing, flaming, electrocution an...

There should have been 4 of them and preferably wearing hats too.

Also, hey, is Corona ever useful - or more useful than another action - except as See Invisible?

People good with numbers should explain HOW useful it is but I do cast it on every monster on D:1 and they die faster as consequence.

Magic Dart --> Searing Ray --> Prism/Dazzle --> IMB --> Battlesphere I don't see either how this set of spells makes early game luck dependent. As you said, Magic Dart does little damage but you get SRay just when you hit XL:2, which almost always happens on D:1. All the damage you need to deal befo...

What Sar said. Finding early Kiku altar will enormously reduce early game difficulty once you get to the first star piety. Receive corpses + animate = good. Just remember to train Necromancy if you go that route. You get stronger corpses with higher skill and most of his spells are better with highe...

Well, I do not know how other people here play venom mages but my first priority is not getting Venom Bolt doable. With a mummy this is true even more so because of it's crappy aptitudes. It would mean you would rely on Sting longer than it is healthy to do so. And this especially if I do find a goo...

Don't try to fight orc wizards or Sigmund unless there is absolutely no other chance. They have confuse and throw flame which makes them deadliest monsters in early game for a mummy. This cannot be overstated. Fixing fire resistance and getting magic resistance are your top defensive priorities. If ...

HONESTLY! I thought you were trolling again, trying the get more and more hits at your post and get people commenting your choices as they were insane. So I fell into that. You got me. But if you are serious, I'm serious about one thing: You have no idea what certain actors/actresses strengths are. ...

You really pulled these names out of the hat PG, right?

Suggesting late Michael Jackson portraying Makhleb is outright hilarious. Only one I could agree on some level is Tom Green playing Xom and that's only because I (and most other people) hate them both.

Fun brainstorming, though.

Attempting another TeAE transitioning into XBows; and I find this: http://i.imgur.com/nXvupPY.png Welp; I guess I should start raising Armor and weapon skills. Also maybe go Bows since they scale off Dex better than XBows and I'm more likly to find them. The only spells I planned on using were basi...

Good question. If someone has really died for this, it should be worth of being documented. I mean this unique is so low with hitpoints that a XL25-27 character dying to him has probably just been hitting arrow keys and then got finished by something else. If Menkaure has directly killed someone dur...

10% chance for banishment means you have 1-0.9^N chance to banish at Nth strike, with N=6 it is 0.47. So you have 47% to banish monster after 1.5 turns (assuming target does not blink). Including teleportation we have 1-0.8^N chance to get rid of the monster, it is 49% after 3 attacks (0.6 turns). ...

Had a similar Hanne recently. Several ghosts on the same level. Multiple very hard uniques. Just one of those crazy games where you're never in control. Found +9 randart ice dragon armor on OgAK pre lair. I either got shafted or had to escape to uncharted territory. Died not long after finally gett...

Ok. DEHu is now played at the point where full spellpower sandblast and ice spells kill everything. And even loot started to look decent. I mean MR ring and MR leather is good, right? But nothing very good showed up before the Lair. Bows can pretty much be forgotten since this guys shortbow is laugh...

Ah what the hell.. I'll take the hatch challenge.

Really messy DEHu going in CXC trunk. Struggled the early levels with that shitty starting bow and +0 dagger of venom. Near-death battles on every level. Hill giant on D:5. Ugly thing and a player ghost on D:6. I went Vehumet coz i found it before the temple and kept struggling. Gave me sandblast so...

What are those decent arguments for skipping Elf altogether? I've found that a prudent character can clear Elf 3 without too much difficulty, by clearing all but the vault and then digging out a killing hole and luring. In general, I do not find it that difficult if I do have MR+++ for banishment, ...

Sar gave some pointers I absolutely agree. If I may add some.. With 16 points of stealth, going for TSO is just an awful decision. No matter how many runes were you after. Zin would've been 1000x better choice. You lose most of the stealth you have with TSO. Losing 16 skill points for a bad god swit...

Even formicids have easier earlygame. Are you serious here? Fo have very easy game, they don't die to opening a door, for example. Shafting, kill holes. Not many characters have known potion of haste or scroll of blink/teleport at this point and even then there are not many of them to survive sever...

"and there isn't much fire damage early on other than a chance that an orc wizard puffs you." This is pretty much the thing that kills mummy characters. That and confusion spell. Oh yes and no potions! It is the worst race to start. Even formicids have easier earlygame. Jesus fucking chris...

Just play a fucking mummy. You do not need a background to understand.

At least you guys got one of the most annoying combos outta the way. I hated it every motherfucking second I played it.

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Comborobin needs guys who actually CARE for the character! Not the drunken up assholes who don't have the patience to stop and look into the their inventory for 5 seconds!!!!! That's why I stopped playing comborobin and returned to my own account. I felt bad about screwing someone else's job... I'l...

Jesus FFFFF christ, I thought I could play this game drunk and make it a winner everytime. WRONG! One the most overpowered melee vampires i've ever played.. I managed to get it killed against Nikola. My drunk thought was "I'm gonna drink that potion of resistance after stabbin him".. Appar...

I guess it is an option but I wouldn't try to deal with torment that way. I have had one easy fight with Cerebov because I got 2 mana vipers (don't remember if i hasted them) next to him and started bashing. The trickiest thing is to actually get them next to the tough monster because they are very ...

le_nerd wrote:Theres a Demigod Transmuter sitting on CLAN, been there for days and blocking trunk. Anybody wants to finish it? I cant stand Tm. Two runes.

It is dead now. Sorry.

CLAN DgTm is now strong as hell. Only concern would be MR++, otherwise it is pretty much unstoppable for 3 rune game.

Too low STR unfortunately to start building for that CPA although I would go for it if I'd happen to find some high +STR items. Vampiric demon whip is a nice weapon but I'd still wait for Trog to give that 'inevitable' lajatang. And where is that rCorr, rC randart amulet because it sure as hell is n...

Combination of low encumbrance rating, MR and moderately high AC make it one of the best armours in the game. Period.

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