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How many tiles? Does number of tiles pushed scale with spellpower? Is placed pushed to reliably opposite direction of spellcast, or does it have some variance with where you can land? Force lance can miss the target. Can the pushback miss? If you get pushed back into a wall, do you take damage? If y...

Wind Blast is not castable by the player.

Are you implying the problem with these two abilities is the lack of conservation of momentum? (edit been a long time since physics)

I don't see a proposal in this post. Edit: you are now proposing to add a self pushback to force lance.

I don't actually get what Makhleb is supposed to be the god *of.* Makhleb is the god of invocation based summon demon, invocation based conjurations, and a heal on kill. Three of his abilities are fine, very strong. If Major Destruction wasn't a bad ability this complaint isn't a thing. I almost ne...

Proposal: Reduce Minor Destruction's range from 7 to 5. Increase Major Destruction's range from 5 to 7. Mahkleb's Major Destruction is a bad ability. It has a range of 5 and casts a spell from the following list: Bolt of Fire, Lightning Bolt, Sticky Flame, Iron Shot, Bolt of Draining, Fireball, or O...

I would recommend playing Makhleb, so you don't get too worn down in big,pitched battles. Once you have him, train invo to 4, and then never train it again, it's a waste of exp. Use minor demons to kill hydras, but that's about the only time you should use his active abilities since heal-on-kills i...

It used to be great when you could use the starting book to unlearn your magic spell on the first turn of the game as Troll. They removed spellbook amnesia though. edgefigaro's handy guide to Tr 1) UC alone to 6 2) Add fighting, take UC to 10 3) Add Throwing Other a) When you find a shield, start tr...

The title of this thread is three words too long.

Its actually rather nice that LCS is range 3 on most characters. Monster LCS is less dangerous that way.

Re: Shields What does a staff user use in their mainhand? The artifact with the most absurd +int bonus? At least artifact bucklers are rare, there are large amounts of trash 1h weapon artifacts with good mods. These aren't IDed presently if you have a relevant magical staff, but moving the staff to ...

A couple Hypotheticals: HuFE Str 9 Int 18 Dex 14 On D3 it kills Yuif and gett a +4 Quarterstaff of Chaos, Edward on D4 and picks up a +2 Dire Flail of protection, and picks up a Staff of Fire, and a hex wand +1 by D7. Has 2 ?enchant weapon scrolls. Does the FE commit to a melee weapon here, and whic...

Enhancer staff melee is decent under the following conditions: You have reached the point in the game where you (1) have not committed to another weapon class,(2) would like a melee attack to deal with trivial monsters, (3) have evocations trained, (4) have the relevant fire/earth/ice/air staff for ...

I want to give some props to Sublimation of Blood. Its frequently a great spell on characters who use allies to kill things and who have plenty of health. It is also in necromancy, where regeneration and vamp exist for health, and there are plenty of spells for allies. Its also great on summoners, b...

So the point of throwing is needling pan lords and being too lazy or incapable of swapping weapons?

Hell and Pan specifically were more fun with more tele in the game.

If crawl has gotten hard enough... maybe its time to remove food?

So I watched ddubois's tomb 3, and i have more pointers. Frequently, there aren't alot of greater mummys hanging around the first time you take the downstairs. You can descend and first turn spellblink and improve your positioning. You want to get into the doorway as quickly as possible. Fighting st...

Summon (greater) demon was better when there was more tele.

I miss the tele ring, tbh. Hell and pan were more fun.

I shatternado'd tomb with TSO and it was easy. That probably isn't helpful. Abjuration is very much a worthy use of auts. Good use of blink (lvl 2 spell/evokable) will save you turns. ?Fog is useful, ?Blink is useful, ?Immolation is useful but I've deathcursed myself to death in zigs by blowing up t...

Branded battleaxes are readily available in D and are a viable endgame weapon. Dipping into Hall of Blades is also a thing. Invis pots are great for a HoB scouting mission. If you are having that much trouble finding a good axe, you can dip depths for frost giants. I'm not sure if this is ever a goo...

As a robe caster, you train armour when you get 3~4 aux armor slots for the pip of AC. If it nets you a half a percentage of spell success, who cares?

I have no reason to believe all crawl species have common ancestors. That's very much an earth-centric model.

There is no way humans and elves are related.

Silence's interaction with spellpower is odd. It lasts longer and is bigger on high int caster types. Bigger is unquestionably good, but lasting longer? Maybe silence behaving in the opposite direction would be good? Like, the ring slowly gets bigger, spellpower determines speed of ring growth//star...

Challenge: Pick Oka asap. Win the game without ever hitting 6* or abandoning oka. If you ever hit 6* you fail the challenge. When you get a win, please post the number of times Heroism and Finesse were used from the dump. Fun Prediction time!! From won games: Whats the average number of heroisms cas...

I usually only do abyss on characters that I'm intending to 15 runes on, and so by the time I get to abyss I'm completely and totally overpowered. Since pan often gives you an exit to the abyss instead of a real exit, I'll often run pan first, then exit to the abyss, and get the rune then. So by th...

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Gameflow interruption- ID Game in Zigs. What a pointless frustration.

I've finally started on the hellcrawl, and well done +1 very happy person here.

Thank you!!!

Sounds like you actually want to remove food.

3 OoF will roast most characters regardless of rF. Alot of that damage is irresistible. Besides, you at 3 resist pots at time of last dump.

Dieing to 3 OoF is a failure to disengage or buff rather than any gear based trouble.

An early demon blade drop on a kiku stabber is a great pain brand. Usually you want to pain brand the moment you hit 6*, so pain branding a demon blade isn't relevant.

A full dump would be more useful. You are well equipped to take 2 runes, Vaults 1-4, and Depths, though there are certainly marginal upgrades to be found. Your mutations are really good. You can probably clear the rest of the game with this equipment, assuming you find a source of rF, but it will be...

Boots of Assassin are the best boots in the game.
MR Plate is a good armor if the enchant is decent. It certainly isnt worse than rF Plate.
Please post a dump if you want detailed advice.

Stop training Armor if you have 20 in armor.

IMO a vampire should try to run as bloodless as possible. Only quaff when you need to regen. You need to regen if your HP is <96%.

Step 1: Learn Sticky Flame Step 2: Cast Sticky Flame Step 3: Walk Away until yak is no longer flamed. Step 4: Cast Sticky Flame again. Step B: if you need to reset, blink and staircase. Sidebar: Sticky Flame is the spell you rush to. It is the spell that stabilizes FE. Conjure Flame shenanigans are...

Step 1: Learn Sticky Flame Step 2: Cast Sticky Flame Step 3: Walk Away until yak is no longer flamed. Step 4: Cast Sticky Flame again. Step B: if you need to reset, blink and staircase. Sidebar: Sticky Flame is the spell you rush to. It is the spell that stabilizes FE. Conjure Flame shenanigans are ...

Monk start has always been hilariously bad. +0 robe, no items, no items, no spells. Compare this to -any- other background. A few Wn starts can be worse, but on average Wn is probably better. New monk is probably a buff over old monk. Monk remains a fun and understandable class to play. Monk could b...

Rmsl is also on the Amulet of Air and as a t3 scales facet.

1) Watch good players play, esp starting chararcters. 2) Pick (consciously choose) where you fight every battle. Playing summoners helps your understanding of terrain. Fight in explored territory with an escape route. 3) When in danger (HP<50%), Swinging a melee weapon is generally the least effici...

The battleaxe is probably better than the executioner axe for the moment, but I would have to see a wizmode to be sure. I would say bows to 18 is top priority. That bow is game winning.

I also hadn't considered that mage characters should be building defense during the lair branches. Don't generalize this. OoD online before Sbranches is probably a mistake on this character (fireball and lightning bolt is sufficient for the threats in these zones, OoD in Snake is nice though) and h...

+4 EV ring is good, put it on as soon as you leave Snake. Swamp is generally considered easier than Snake. Fighting and Dodging and way to low as previously mentioned. All the XP from one Lair branch and maybe half of the XP from the other (and a buckler to 4 if you find one). In this time get enoug...

Important: Use the outer wall and terrain features to decrease the amount of monsters that can hit you/be in line of sight. /Important Zigs are much easier if you are willing to skip troublesome floors. The easy way to know which floors are exceptionally deadly is dying to them. ?Immolation is reall...

When I play a Hu, Ds, or Dg I appreciate the meaningful decisions of flat apts. I really like rolling trolls and ogres sometimes because sometimes I want to shread things wand sometimes i want to club things with a brute. I'm not playing every character to experience meaningful weapon decisions. The...

I thinking Baseline, Straightforward, Unusual, and Tricky. Baseline contains only human. I moved a few species around but then got tired of doing that, and mostly just copied duvessa's columns. Welcome, . Please select your species. Baseline Unusual Tricky a - Human g - Halfling q - Deep Dwarf h - K...

1) This character has everything it needs to win the game. Staves of Heal and tele, plenty of attack staves. +7 flaming broadaxe and +5 art elec axe, good shield. You will find upgrades in a few slots, but you mainly just need some boots. 2) This character looks like it is still awkward. Mostly an i...

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Vamps are great at extended. Torment immunity and bat form steals all rune.

Yes, a kit that comes online during sbranches and is effective vs vaults (including v5), elf, and depths gives you no way to prepare for zot with all that experience. /sarcasm Poison builds into the endgame very well because it destroys the midgame, giving you plenty of surplus XP to either prep for...

I really feel like players that request high level poison spells have never really explored the space that Poison Arrow, Poisonous Cloud, and Ignite Poison inhabit, as well as how efficiently poison builds transition into lategame if that is the player's desire. I'm all for a new poison spell, but I...

That +2 robe on the troll is really powerful. Try Ogre?

Crawl isn't about becoming strong, it is about becoming kitted. Does this character have everything it need to defeat every threat in this zone? The next zone? Zot? Will you be able to use the xp in the current zone to be ready for the next zone? Sometimes you have really bad characters with bad equ...

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