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How should I build skills? I focus on Unarmed, and leave fighting on, and at 10 unarmed, I also turn dodging and stealth on. You mean that you train Fighting from XL 1? 3 or so, but I don't turn it off and I leave it at unemphasized, and I leave Unarmed emphasized in the skill menu. In the early ga...

I found an old thread here that concluded that there is no good program for these replays. Is this true?

Firestorm is not useless. Only 55% of its damage is fire, the other 45% is non-resistible physical damage. Unfortunately, this is a two-edged sword, and it means that Cerebov's firestorm will also hurt you a lot, even with rF+++. The easiest strategy is to lure C out of the castle, teleport inside, ...

Wait a minute. Rot can be cured with a wand of heal wounds, no? Or that does not work for mummies?

Also, with a mummy you should always wear clarity amulet, otherwise confusion will kill you.

If you have iron shot, it is OK. No need for crystal spear. I guess you should push your Conj+fire a bit further, so you won't need the wiz ring. What you might need: -a few (5-6) levels of stealth, to surprise your opponents and not the other way round -some summoning spell to cover your escape if ...

Cynry wrote:Edit: It'll be Tomb, Mennas is down.

How is firestorm right now? I see you have 20 average in conj and fire plus wizardry.

Sandman25 wrote:If you cleared Elf 3/Forest/Crypt/Vestibule, then I would go to Pan. It is much easier than Hell and does not block cBlink unlike Abyss.

I risk the statement that with a firemage Cocytus and Tartarus are both easier than Pan.

XuaXua wrote:How should I build skills? I focus on Unarmed, and leave fighting on, and at 10 unarmed, I also turn dodging and stealth on.

You mean that you train Fighting from XL 1?

Do you have a staff (or ring) of wizardry? With that, it is much easier to put firestorm online.

Cynry wrote:All I really lack is firestorm

Typical Sif Muna. She gifts you all the spells, except the one you really need.

How did you do the Tomb?

Vault guards are not much of a threat if someone has 30+ EV and 30+ AC, even if they surround you. Apart from this, I think the best tactics is stairdancing: drawing them up to V:4, cutting yourself out and retreating to a corridor to finish them one-on-one). This minimizes the noise you make on V:5...

Blade hands for tough and medium opponents. If the opponent is soft, it isn't worth it

I like your skilling.
Are you sure you have the best armour available? No boots in the whole dungeon? No cloak, gloves, helmet better than 0?

I found that Tengu are great for a blaster-mage. They have great aptitudes (+3 conj, +3 air, +1 fire, you just have to stay away from earth and ice). One of the greatest features is flight, which is also a built-in boot of running (plus extra EV). Being quick is great, and continuous flight also mak...

Do the tomb first, then get the two easy lair runes?
Went with Chei because you wanted an easy win?

I am flabbergasted.

I say the best short-term plan is to stop training fighting, dodging and spellcasting, and train only UC instead.

I guess ice form was a bad choice. You had AC 5 and EV 20, way too small for this level.

Also, with a guardian serpent attacking you, you should not cast ignite poison, because guardian serpents are immune to it. You should have used blade hands against it (although your UC was too low for my taste).

duvessa wrote:My average time for recent wins is 3:36:06, of course this is inflated by idle time.

Compared to this, my fastest win is 8h55min, and my slowest is 34 hours

I think next time you should start as a wizard or as a conjurer. Those backgrounds are much better for your game plan (summoner/conjurer of Vehumet).

Nice win. Any reason for still playing .11? Thanks. I tried the 0.12 and 0.13 versions, but I do not like them. I think almost all changes (new Abyss, Vaults, Crypt plus the Forest) just made the game more annoying. To be fair, there is one major change that is very good (getting rid of nausea), bu...

WalkerBoh wrote:I'm using an amalgam of # of wins, win rate, % of games with # of runes > 0, and avg # of runes per game. Oh and max streak length.

Where do you find this data?

How did you kill orbs of fire with the spriggan? Melee?

I think your first priority now should be to learn Invisibility. That's an amazing spell, it makes 90% of all monsters totally easy. I usually do it earlier, because the Lair and Orc are much-much easier with it. Normal orcs don't see invisible (but high priests and sorcerers do, so be careful).

Edit: sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Sorry.

I think Elf 1-2 is not difficult, certainly easier than Zot 1-4, especially if you have Repel missiles. Not much XP, sadly, but the elves frequently drop good bucklers, robes and light armour, and there might be shops there, too.

I guess Zot will be easier than you think. The most common denizens are draconians, and they can't see invisible, so they're dead already. Shadow creatures is perfect for dealing with creatures who see inv. It is strong in the Vaults and insane in Zot. As for attack spells, do you have Airstrike? It...

It is interesting that you wear no cloak, even though you killed Crazy Yiuf. Previously he was guaranteed to drop a cloak, was he changed in 0.14?

I'd like to join in as well.

This is the first character I played after the 15-runer DEWz, and another win! Wow. This is probably my luckiest character ever. On XL 11, Sonja banished me, but I found the exit fast enough. (I was helped by a little stealth I had, and also used Spider form to outrun things, but a huge amount of lu...

This is why I said that this is a very weird combination. A ranged fighter who cannot kite (because of Chei), cannot blink or teleport away (being a formicid), and on top of that, refused to train melee despite meleeing a lot. I still cannot see how one can survive with this.

Felid resurrection puts you to a random place? Isn't it supposed to put you somewhere safe?

Wow, this is the weirdest combination I have ever seen

Congrats for making it work, though I can't imagine how you do it.

Deep Elves teach you that you can train a ton of magic skills at once, and that training spellcasting is both easy and important. They teach you that mana pools are basically infinite, but that getting into melee combat will kill you. Many people seem to learn from them that they shouldn't train sk...

Oh, and I forgot to say thanks to Ahmad (BountyHunterSAx) for his Octowich video series, they were great for inspiration.

I'm just curious, what terrible and bad habits do Deep Elves teach to players?

First 15-runer, 10th win overall. The theme: a firestorming, lichform deep elf annihilator, with dragon summons as bodyguards and backup. This was my 4th attempt in extended: a SpEn shatterninja was killed in Tomb, a holy MiFi was killed by a Pan lord, and a DEWz was killed by Dispater. I played slo...

headcrab0803 wrote:personaly i will never use crystal ball while in lich form because one confusion can kill me in a very frustrating way

But an amulet of clarity protects you against confusion, or am I wrong?

I copied the whole folder from drive C: to drive D:, and now it works. Weird.

Thanks for the help, anyway.

I waited for an hour, I guess that should be enough, but no.

Maybe trying again and again will help somehow, I keep trying.

Okay, I guess I noticed a problem. I did not uninstall the current version of crawl, simply downloaded the 0.11 one, which did not overwrite the other version, simply created another folder. Is this a problem? Do I need to uninstall first? If yes: if there a way to keep my scores?

Update your graphic drivers. You need proper OpenGL support. Well, the 0.13 version is running on my computer, so why not the 0.11? Why don't you want a more recent version btw? This is offtopic here, but in my opinion the 0.11 version was the best, and it is not even close. This is surely subjecti...

Well, I guess it is not as easy as that. I tried the tiles version, but whenever I start the .exe file, it reaches the "Loading databases" phase but then it freezes. That is why I think maybe some components are missing, or maybe some tricky installlation is needed.

Please help, I'd like to download the 0.11 version. I found a link on the homepage that points to http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-r ... up/0.11.2/
but there are 6 different files there to download, and I have no idea how to proceed.

Am I right that you were not invisible? Why?

Hydras cannot see invisible, they are sitting ducks to a stabber.

Oh, and gratz on the first win! And with TSO, wow. A rare combination.

What is the lowest ever EV on a winning character? Is this close?

Whelk wrote:Nice job, and Go Team Magic-Shunning Gargoyles! I just got my first win with a no-magic Gargoyle Fighter of The Shining One. Mine was a newer one though, with flight. What did self-petrification do?

Yes, I am just reading your thread.

Self-petrification: I never had enough courage to try it

Hello all! I was away from the game for 5 or 6 months, and restarted crawling for the 0.13 tournament, but my skills are more than a bit rusty. My main project now is a transmuter, but I also tried a gargoyle berserker run for fun. He was very promising, but a gang surrounded and killed him on D:20....

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