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crate wrote:You know that IE can move, right? Ogres are no problem unless you are a naga, but then you have this other thing called poison spit which happens to be extremely good against them.

I do not understand this. In what sense does moving help in defeating an ogre?

Mankeli wrote:
Code:
a - a wand of teleportation (3)
in your inventory...

Well, teleporting takes several turns, doesn't it? Furthermore, teleporting away blindly while getting petrified isn't a life insurance either.

Magipi wrote:I bet the ratio of tiles players among all players (and not just forum members) is closer to 100% than to 90%.

An interesting stat from the tournament:

Proportion of players using webtiles: 71.7%

This is much lower than I guessed.

So STR gives you HP? The bots do not mention this.

nordetsa wrote:I've been only playing either 1)melee or 2)pure-caster, and I find in both cases dex tends to be get ignored.

I figured out that in the case of melee fighters you probably raise STR. But why?

some players choose Chei for OpTm in temple and still win. On the tournament I have seen a player choose a Felid Fighter (!), and won with 15 runes (!) with (drumroll please...) ... with no god. Anything is possible. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/DEFINITELYNOTLAINIW/morgue-DEFINITELYNOTLAINIW-2...

Sandman25 wrote:I would go for Bolt of Fire and Fire Storm, it's the easiest level 9 spell and you are guaranteed to receive Fire Storm from Vehumet because you have a book with Shatter.

This is 0.11, the good old OldVehumet, so he is guaranteed to receive Fire Storm, period

Oh, Chei. I missed that one, I am sorry. Octopode of Chei, that sounds truly horrible. Self-challenge? Well, I am not sure. I thought that was a classic combo. It is very powerful in middle and late game. I tried SETm several times also but died too fast. A classic combo? Now I am really surprised....

Oh, Chei. I missed that one, I am sorry.

Octopode of Chei, that sounds truly horrible. Self-challenge?

The character was unlucky. There are 4 level 9 spells which Vehumet can grant and he grants 3 of them. So the chance to be unlucky is less than 25%. If you find 1 of the 4, Vehumet will grant you the remaining 3. It happened to me, I was really glad when my Fire Magic character found Shatter before...

I do not understand your tactics in this last fight. Correct me if I am wrong, but the message history suggests that: You were fighting multiple opponent simutaneously, instead of retreating to a bottleneck. You were fighting in octopode form, not spider form. You changed to spider form when you wer...

Yeah, and I also have poison arrow. Prob is, I was trying to go for 15 rune as a caster and without firestorm I'm wondering which spell I should go fo. I obviously can't go for icestorm. Go for Vaults5/Elf3/Crypt 5 and you can find Fire Storm there. So NewVehumet is giving you all the spells you do...

minmay wrote:ijyb is the most dangerous unique in the game but any D:2 unique can get disintegration

he is however the only D:2 unique that can get fire/cold which are sort of bad

In the message history of that morgue:
No unsafe monster in view!
No unsafe monster in view!

What is that? I never played v0.10.

khalil wrote:Put almost all my points into necromancy, with a small amount going to spellcasting. (...)

And what do you use to kill dudes? Pain?

I usually use wands (fire, cold, draining) against hydras. A wand of cold is very effective against the Lernaean Hydra, it is cold blooded, so it gets slowed and dies surprisingly fast.

Reading this forum it is hard to see that the 0.12 tournament is currently on its way. Even CIP and YAVP posts are mostly about offline or 0.13 games. And very few of the forum's big names are found in the tournament (although they might play under another name, of course).

If you do not use spells, why not a plate armour?

First tournament win, first online win, second MiBe, 6th overall. I was surprised (again) how powerful this build is. Trog rocks, hats off to him. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.1-15-g081f9d1 (webtiles) character file. 1565617 Magipi the Invulnerable (level 27, 245/245 (249) HPs) Began as a M...

Why did you choose short blades? Are you stabbing?

Sandman25 wrote:I have

Code:
dump_message_count = 100

It greatly helps with analyze. Default is 20, hardly enough for Summoner.

Thanks for the tip. These little things keep popping up, it turns out that the default setting is almost always wrong somehow

Sif Muna sucks. Really. She never gave me what I wanted, the Summon Dragon spell in the entire game. I still managed to clear Zot:5 with abominations (with no SustAb it was terrible), got the Orb. I was killed on the way up, by a Blizzard demon's airstrike and a Hell Sentinel. I still don't understa...

If I am standing on a big pile of various things, how can I see the list of them? And also, how can I pick one of them?

Wow, that is tough. For me, the transition from the downloadable tiles version to the online tiles version is tough enough.

Is there any way to see where a staircase (already explored) is going to take you on the next/previous level?

The spell Slow (Hexes school): Slowing down an enemy is the same as hasting yourself (one on one encounters), but you can do so near the start of the game - many many levels before haste is available. I've heard people recommend Slow before, but I've never understood it: first, Slow needs to pass M...

I may be wrong, but I think that octode transmuter is a terrible combination. If you transmute yourself to any form, you lose 6 of your 8 rings. And if you stay an octopode, you suffer because your inability to wear armour.

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Gratz for the win!

Code:: a - the +5,+3 giant spiked club "Lifebane" (weapon) {god gift, crush, rElec rPois}

Wow, the first useful Okawaru gift I've ever seen

Thats it devs, look at yet another poor misguided soul. It's time to bite the bullet and change the name of "Unarmed Combat" to "Fisting" so as to avoid any more confusion. And will it help, even a little bit? The whole situation is illogical, and merely changing some names won'...

I knew I had "force_more_message += It hits you" in my init.txt for a long time. But obviously it wasn't present, I wanted to replace it with "force_more_message += ^It hits you" but just commented instead. Please, can you explain a bit more slowly what happened exactly, and why...

I knew I had "force_more_message += It hits you" in my init.txt for a long time. But obviously it wasn't present, I wanted to replace it with "force_more_message += ^It hits you" but just commented instead. Please, can you explain a bit more slowly what happened exactly, and why...

Congrats, this is an awesome achievement.

tcjsavannah wrote:(...) then probably off to another goal afterwards.

"All the species", probably?

I wonder if anyone ever used Metabolic Englaciation.

mopl wrote:Now, trying again CeHu/HOPr/MiFi !

Why not MiBe? That is the easiest and most straightforward fighter-type.

And gratz, of course.

(...) while being vegetarian makes me do silly things to avoid Haste/Invisibility/ spells with hunger. That's why my SpEn always dies late game :) OK, but this is a huge overreaction. There are tons of vega permafood in the game, and spells like Invis or Haste (that are cast only once per fight) do...

My suggestion is: play without wizard mode. When you die, post the character morgue in here (in "Code" tags), and then you can get some useful advice. I can get character dumps without dying (by "#") and you can glean what happened before that from the recent messages / I can te...

My suggestion is: play without wizard mode. When you die, post the character morgue in here (in "Code" tags), and then you can get some useful advice.

A felid with Chei? That is doubly impressive.

Please, show us the dump, and talk a bit about how the game went so far.

D:1, right next to the point where I entered the dungeon: a 5x5 vault surrounded by transparent stone. In the middle, there is a 3x3 lake, with a neutral kraken. On the shore, there are various monsters: octopode, minotaur, draconian, felid, ogre, spriggan, vampire, naga, orc (only playable species)...

To be honest, you shouldn't die once you have cBlink online and don't forget about it. ...unless you are at the last floor of Hell. Or at the last floor of the Elven Halls. Or at the last floor of Zot. Or you are anywhere else, but meanwhile some monsters have spawned on the previously cleared area...

Thanks, that's a very useful Zin guide.

adozu wrote:zin (...) keep you from starving (not as efficiently as lichform ofcourse). in that sense it's kinda like a holy version of lichform.

http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=vitalisation
"Gives a small amount of nutrition, but won't go past Full. " Is this what you are hinting at?

TSO can also work well with summoners and enslavers, which is where he shines for the pre-extended game. Understandably, he's more favoured for extended but he's not utterly useless before then. Can you explain this? I have no idea what are you hinting at. Zin is the holy equivalent of lich-form as...

If you are playing Webtiles I generally doesn't stop no matter what you do - even if you press a key. In downloaded versions of the game, generally pressing any key will stop Auto-travel. I wonder, why is the web version such a terrible mutant? Is there a deep reason against using the downloadable ...

Great, now I'm completely satisfied

Wow, really. I overlooked that. Sorry.

If stealth + invisibility is the combo that's winning the game, why play a berserker? A self-made challenge? Or a bet?

I think this is great. For the sake of beginners, a bit more explainations would be good. For example, explain what is "kiting". Or, for example: explain weapon delay and min.delay. Also, do you plan to expand this into a series? I think you should :D About some generic but fundamentally d...

You don't know where the manual is? Press '?' in Crawl. Tricky answer, because the quote in question is not in the manual. (Or at least not in the 0.11 manual. Or at least I could not find it there.) Instead, it is in the FAQ section of the homepage: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/faq#religion_ ...

Who told you he was for beginners, and why did you believe them? ... Thought I mentioned it in my initial post. I will quote it for you: ... I read all the new game instructions, and saw that Xom was recommended as a fun god for beginners. ... And minmay knew where it was exactly. Yes, Minmay knew,...

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