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From you dump The vampire mosquito appears confused. You flicker back into view. The vampire mosquito bites you. You die... You weren't invis at the end. I wonder if you remember correctly, about the fact the mosquito chasing you hadn't the question mark: monster close to you can guess your position...

Upping this topic because I've just search for "Eos" and it's missing.

How would you rank it, Duvessa? Thanks

This is the last relevant commit I could find about gozag's shops, if something changed aftwerwards I don't know.

However yes my experience too is that there is a very high variance and shops called earlier may have some better gear than later one.

Howver, at least one case of passive hostile ally spawn exists: demonspawn demonic guardian - if this is has not been already addressed since the last time I've checked. You cast otr, something trigger the guardian, you may enjoy multiple hostile 1/2s addead to already bad situation. Obliviously I'...

Edit. I don't see why the exception should be done for OTR. There are lots of AoE spells including Shatter which affects everything as well. The main issue with Otr is that is a multi turns spell (only case existing for conjuration\damage spell?), so you can end with hostile allies if somehow you s...

Anyway, what is the reasons of permanent teleport trap specifically existing in zot:5, except forcing you to ctrl-f "-tele" if both of the lungs are blocked by those?

I think during last months, and it was published a couple of days ago. However, the sentence "Tiles mode lets you use your mouse but more so in offline tiles than online tiles." I believe means "webtiles does support mouse input, but the offline tiles version works better with it"...

ultraviolent4 has recently published a guide for DCSS.

I've only skimmed it, but it looks damn good barring some arguable minor advices.
I'd suggest to read to any new player to get the (good) basics of DCSS.
Kudos to him.

Here's the relevant reddit topic

* When you need more killpower - it affects every actions so you deal more damage, whatever you're using physical or magical attacks. * When you need to repositioning yourself before or during a combat and normal speed isn't good enough * Whey you need to get the fuck out a bad situation and ?blink ...

Premise: I know that the broken good power of Gozag is bribe potion and bribe branch is occasionally useful, but I'd also to get sometimes something useful from Call Merchants, instead of just wasting piety $$$. I also know that quality of a shop depend on a char level, so theoretically the latter t...

I've tried it with a Gn and it is hilarious.

Maybe not so broken with a normal race as nobody till today would have gone with earth/necro training but that not remove the design problems behind this spell such as is now.

Anyway handy icon is very cute would 100% cast again.

A very similar spell exist - the one of necromancer that creates simulacra of dead buddies - and actually is never seriously threatening. From what I get you're proposing a hex on the player, but for sake of simplicity I wouldn't add another weird effect on a rare monster in a branch already contain...

What should I train? Should I train evocation or is -3 too much for the use I'll get from it? What evocables should I keep? With a normal Tr the skill training is roughly UC>fighting>armor (when a dragon one is available) > throwing > everything else. You should train shield when a shield is availa...

Ignoring the interface problem, the tactical one is that moving around just to find a eventual body isn't usually a very good move when in LOS there's a monster with berzerk and paralyze. I'd make a simple suggestion as workaround: couldn't be possible to always put a corpse in top of items pile, if...

I can't understand if this post was written just for the penis allusion or not.

Really if anything it probably just shows that taking slow actions is perfectly fine as long as you have an accurate assessment of the threats around you, and the defenses to survive being around them for a considerable amount of time. Yes, this is kinda relevant: as long as you can stimate how bad...

Sometimes he already did so it isn't a big deal.

What the heck, remove food was the main topic in tavern for years and now that we're almost there no one wrote about? We are entering a new era of DCSS! Only generic ration and clean chunk are left! So much useless clutter is gone! Rejoice! If all proceed with this timing, for 0.26 rations and chunk...

Do you know that slow of statue form applies to attack too, don't you?

Their wrapping is fragile and can't sustain magic manipulation.

As someone who's won a sludge elf, it's basically exactly the same as a merfolk is now. Personally I don't think that statue form "has its own share of risks" unless you're counting 1) not finding it, or 2) the experience required to get it online. Except 10% hp less, which is kinda impor...

Cblink is lv 8 since some versions.

As holy damage from monsters.

Not dropping the shield while using at this point a untrained +4 long sword while realistically there are around enchanted great maces or battle axes is what most probably is going to kill you. Nobody forbids you to equip the shield again when you find a demon whip /evening star or even Broad axe or...

You have a +5 longbow and fedhas. Ranged combat is even better than usual as you can fire behind a line of allies or water.

>Netted monsters are top tier stabs like paralysis. No, should be similar to confuse stabs nowadays. In the end it doesnt even matter, if you can stab it it should be dead anyway. Yes the commit which semplified stab tier made net-stab weaker and same tier of confused. >What I can find on mulching ...

Venom is great before Lair, but you need to kite to take full advantage of that: kill dangerous speed 10 melee things (e.g. orc warrior, ogres) without risking to take damage but it's good also to other things like adders or killer bees because they have insane EV so it's hard to get multiple hits a...

As being a general topic, I'd like to address a possible issue with lightning wand removal: is possible to rework the vault(s) that require to burn down trees, such as the Lair one? Most of chars don't learn lv.5/6 fire\air spells, I don't think it's good to put loot behind "walls" openabl...

I'd distort either a dagger (even better a quickblade of course) or a scimitar depending on whether I'm in heavy or light armor respectively. While the rest is a quite accurate advice, this is not. EV has bad sinergy\return with risposte. You shouldn't prioritize LB over another weapon just in sake...

I'd distort either a dagger (even better a quickblade of course) or a scimitar depending on whether I'm in heavy or light armor respectively. While the rest is a quite accurate advice, this is not. EV has bad sinergy\return with risposte. E.g. from here The amount of damage that you get from ripost...

Just testing the waters so that it's too soon to make an assessment. I have a doubt, if I get any species and I set the skills to manual mode and I turn on every skill, wouldn't I be having the same "gnoll experience"? If I can replicate the same behaviour with the skill menu in a particu...

It's funny how far opinions on this have changed. It feels like not too long ago(a few years ago when I first started playing) "common knowledge" was that 1H and shield just wasn't worth it because of how base damage is multiplied by weapon skill and so each point is worth more than it lo...

I believe shadow mimic initially could trigger on things like Ensorcelled Hibernation or needle of sleeping, which is definitely a bad effect.

I can't find the commit but I'm pretty sure now it triggers only when its effects wouldn't be negative.

About archery: they are +4 slay to missiles.

There aren't other bonuses in the game provided by equipment that are better than +4 slay. Doubly so for missiles as you get usually get more damage before an enemy can retaliate.

Those randart gloves are good but nothing close to +4 slay.

Oh yes, I never meant the difference between a Su who kills everything with summons and a Su who doesn't isn't numerically speaking insignificant - generally speaking the former will be kinda underleveled from Lair or so onwards. However, I meant, especially for new players, that this difference ins...

don't worry about summons stealing XP. That is not a problem This attitude is somewhat inconsistent with the almost anal condemnation of multiple-skill training by optimal players on this forum. How can you be so maniacally worried about missing a breakpoint by a few dozen turns when at the same ti...

Summoners are advised to have a non-allies method for dealing with non-threatening enemies, so as to avoid needlessly missing out on XP This is not true. And if it happens someone suggest that, it's a bad advice. A summoner can kill things via only summons from D:1 to Z:5 fine, he will probably be ...

FR for 0.21: remove gnolls silly items detection, add "you automatically id weapons and armors" mut
FR for 0.22: make this standard for everyone.

Unrelated to the topic, but as you're here: could be possible to install hellcrawl on the new server? It is almost unplayable on the current servers due the heavy lag.

Sir, you're a real gentleman.

It is also mirrored by the fact that Tornado is more effective against flying monsters. I don't think this is true. By the way Tornado mades things fly so it would be more effective against everything by itself. Without this limitation, Shatter would be ridiculously overpowered. Its damage could be...

Perhaps it is a misprint, as with old nemelex you gained piety (so actually more deck gift) using card and that part of description was maybe never updated.

Robust 3 is excellent (possibly the only good significant muts along with wild magic) but teleport 3 is deadly on end vault - where dangerous enemies are grouped together - double so with blurry vision 1

Probably I'd blink behind those two skeletal warrios on NW hoping blurry 1 doesn't kill you. They should have enough HD to prevent other foes to hellfire and bolt dispel you, while being weak enough to not be able to kill you in melee (hopefully). Then ?fog then ?teleport. Then get the fuck out of h...

I still loathe new Nemelex because storm card and degen card fuck you so badly that the 'bad-deck-in-all-nemelex-versions' is at his lowest peak - aka you shouldn't almost never draw from it. And oh yes I loathe Nemelex because even in his last version he's so degenerate that I wonder how he hasn't ...

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Shard1697 has written some other secret beogh techs, you could search in his posts, probably he's the most Informed beogh player in the tavern

The reasons behind my single-line-joke is that wizards upgrade to sorcerers, who have decent damage\debuff abilities that works bad with other orcs around (as they block the line of fire) and they are on themselves very very fragile, so they will die sometime fast anyway while providing very little ...

right hand wrote:Can I ask these sorcerer's to stop using Summon demon?
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking?

Yes, let them die.

Difficult to say overall: repel missiles is very good, but also 4 AC - and actually a +2 cloak is more like 5/6 AC if you have a good heavy armor and some armor skill. What's more, most of ranged attacks are avoidable with good tactics (aka lure monsters to melee range) and rmsl isn't *so* good agai...

Or not use gda.
Or cast lv. 9 spells.
Or try to do both at same time.

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