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Treasure troves can be so random... I don't think I would rush that. Although you can probably deal with Vestibule a tad sooner than usual if you have lots of resistances? Nothing particular to 15 runes, but when I've done Vestibule: I usually just go there sometime after Vault 5 and do fine. Geryon...

Maybe, if you must, play new characters tired - for just a little while (or if you really don't care).

Hopefully you fall asleep before you meet Sigmund, Menkaure, etc. 8-)

It might be fun if these items appear more frequently than (maybe on a separate distribution from?) other randarts. I'd kinda hate to lose a very limited number of drops on "power" items you can often only use once. It's bad enough that only a few of all the items fit your class as it is. ...

I like Lab. As it is, you can sometimes get layouts with mini-vaults (or at least small treasure hordes) and other monsters. And like many optional areas, nothing is forcing you to go in there if you know the minotaur is probably not your speed. It doesn't even have a rune. You can also lure the min...

Of course, the one with Ignite Poison would have to grow up to be a White draconian...

Nothing is ever simple. :evil:

Heh.

Ah, yes, here's another drac wanderer. +2 hand crossbow 22 bolts Wand of random effects (15) Almanac of Venom (Sting, Ignite Poison) bread ration ("honey oat?") Str 12 Int 14 Dex 10 2.6 Crossbows 3.0 Spellcasting 1.0 Earth 1.0 Necromancy 1.0 Evocations 1.0 Stealth May have to try this now!...

Can a Wanderer start any of the "rare" low level spells? (The few that don't appear in start books). Confusing Touch, Ignite Poison, Sublimation of Blood, Recall First two could be interesting in a start; other two are just useless early. It looks like at least some are possible: I just r...

Having some fun with Draconian wanderers lately. Somehow got two in a row with spellbooks, although the second one was a total mismatch of skills (3 in bows, but not carrying one). Book of Minor Magic and one small Sif book with another school can be fun. Also have had a couple start out with +2 han...

Aren't dwarves of Makhleb fun when they get going? 8-) I was surprised you did so well with a Hand Axe, then I saw ohh, electrocution. Wow. Nice collection of scrolls, too! I bet you could have gone further, but it sure is nice to win to begin with, too. :) Maybe later, try raising Evocations on the...

Oh, and Airwolf thanks for your post about ghouls in extended. Had been thinking about them, but it helped inspire me to finally go serious melee with one.

Thank you!

Had no more shopping for food, but I did see/eat quite a few raiju during my short stay in the Abyss this time.

I do worry about the funniest things? Abyss was quick this time. Dove into the first area that looked like a vault not too far along level 3, blasted catoblepas and friends while flying over lava, found rune :) Got pursued by another pan lord casting (what else) Freezing Cloud, plus high-level summo...

Is there enough to eat down there (in chunks) to get it and get out? I'm thinking it may take quite a while to find it, no?

So, have 11 meat rations... Place your bets; could this character get the Abyssal rune and ascend? I've managed Abyss 1-2 with the aim of escaping before with strong melee, but have not gone rune hunting on Abyss 3. Zot 5 has been mostly cleared I think - except for the random respawns. Not sure how...

Now up to 14 runes! Visited Cocytus. Actually used the Amulet of Air for flying around, after all. Landed on little causeway facing Antaeus' minions, not sure if staying or leaving and didn't see an ideal time to switch off the amulet (about then would probably have been good?), and somehow had put ...

Is this still going? Elf 1 trove. Ticket price: +5 fire dragon armour I didn't get around to stacking up the enchant armour until the Ghoul monk had 10 runes already. Most of these are not especially useful to my build by now (have the resistances, Fly, Blink and have had most since Depths)... But I...

Cleared Tomb without too much difficulty, combining many of the suggestions. Thank you for all the help. 8-)

Made a lot of use of Portal Projectile. Which was amusing, since I'd sort of kept forgetting I had it up until then.

Disc of Storms was very nice, too!

I'm pretty sure gourmand is useless to ghouls as ghouls can eat chunks whenever. Ha, that's funny. As you can tell I haven't played ghouls much. I have been eating often too, I just went off wondering if I'd missed something on the food front... Chalk it up to posting before dinner time! :lol: You ...

My most advanced character to date, the Ghoul monk left over from the tournament. Found an early chain mail +7 and has had a very good run since. With the exception of putting down bolts of penetration somewhere in Pan and forgetting them, that is. Ha. Runes yet to go, if I can keep the food situati...

"Too modern" is my first thought on the new one, too. The shiny is nice (maybe to a point??) and the new take lettering is interesting, but for me it does verge on the highbrow minimalist side of sci-fi vibe or something. And it's a rather dark game, at least unless you're always playing T...

Given the amount of artifacts I was swimming in every game I'd swear item generation became much more generous for the duration of the tournament. Not sure about artifacts - had some nice ones early on too, but... I was thinking my games were sometimes even more jam packed with shops! Again, was th...

... Also, I think that due to most of players being spoiled and paranoid about juggernauts, they do not get a share of kills they deserve. Spoiled usually suggests people are being gifted things they didn't necessarily earn. Paranoid could suggest they are being unduly fearful, or it might be taken...

"Muahaha I am invincible again!" (for you veterans)

Or, "Muahaha I am finally invincible!" (for the rest of us)

... "Doh. Ooops. NOT."

Smacking down hubris is so characteristic of Crawl.

Where are people getting trounced by these juggernauts generally? I can only recall seeing one or two in a recent handful of games running to Depths/quick ascension. (Unless I count a shadow juggernaut called up by a ghost crab in the Swamp. Barely noticed the shadow one; it might have just been cro...

My first online win. 8-) Loving the pearl dragon armor. Wow, someone needs to make more pearl dragons. Hehe. Was so busy zipping out of the Dungeon, I didn't notice the malmutation. Ha. Oh well, have potions for that. Had about 5 more MP when first cleared Zot 5, but spent a few on healing recharges...

You can also use a large enchanted shield to deflect a lot of the damage, if you're going melee. I made it down to Zot with a Shield of the Gong :lol: on a centaur once, and further with a shield of protection. With work, they can train mediocre dodging or some armor but it takes time. You usually g...

I went with the plate+5, boots for rP and rF+++. Kept running into stuff in Depths that could see invisible anyway (troll shamans, elf and vampire mages, giant brains etc.) Was a bit of a slog without enough teleports to bail with. Finally got overwhelmed by a quicksilver dragon, giant, and yaktaur ...

Oh, I see you morbid, it's just a paste job with the Code tags then. Thanks.

Hmm "code tags"; do you just hit the "code" button and paste it all inside? For Oka, my understanding was higher Invocations makes Heroism etc. last longer. No? Could get plate with rF, but have found no other torso armor with rPois (didn't want to ditch the free ring slot for re...

Thanks to that now long spent Nemelex's Choice, this is as far as I've ever gotten with an elf fighter sort. I'm new at this forum, so sorry if the gear outline toward the top doesn't come out tabulated. I'm not clear on how to get that format yet. The Boots of the Assassin, Cloak of Invisibility, a...

Hey, Dharmy I went ahead and added you as captain. I play on CAO as loopi.

Have not played much online and have only won several out of many offline, but keen to give it a shot. 8-)

Phantoms can seem very scary in the very early game , and player ghosts can be outright terrifying. But you should be able to run away much of the time, if you turn back as soon as you see them. Even if a skirmish goes badly for a round or few, the phantoms will still blink away periodically if you ...

As a pretty amateur caster, I've been frustrated by Veh more often than not. The range is nice, but unless you have massive Spellcasting already it's easy to feel like the gift spells are impossible choices around Lair. I would end up getting spells in schools not yet trained, or giving up spells I ...

Humbug. Just gave one 14 scrolls of teleportation. I could sort of-maybe afford it, also carrying 11 charges in tele wands and 5 recharge scrolls at the time. Plus another 4 tele scrolls left over, and numerous healing charges... I knew it was a dubious move, but I have so rarely been able to get in...

I've only played spriggan a few times (usually enchanter), but Sif seemed like a fairly natural choice for them to me? High spell power aptitude, low conjurations aptitude, but quite a few schools of magic they can potentially use. And they can only get so much punch out of Oka with the few armor sl...

le_nerd wrote:
Use axes or other AoE effects, rods of lightnig, spells etc

Ditto. A good bolt wand/rod etc. when you first see them. (Wiki recommended.) Takes resources but with high evocations, really works.

Otherwise, anything to minimize the LOS!

Old thread, but yes Nergalle... I used to find her an enormous pain, but then I started poisoning her on sight (Sticky Flame also works). Now, the fights never seem to last very long. So I am wondering: Does Death's Door not stop damage over time effects? Or does she just never cast it in those situ...

So I've been playing for a while, but clueless about Tomb, Pan & Abyss. Just not into them yet. Usually I worry about defense. Unless there's an uber weapon in hand, I try not to go into an area until I'm shaving off much of the damage. Generally, back out if the deeper levels of a branch are wh...

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