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hxy wrote:Use the Blink scroll and head as far south as possible, then use the Fog scroll to cover your back, then run as fast as you can

Isn't E:5 no teleport control? Uncontrolled blink sounds much riskier than fear.

Can use it to kite melee mobs if you don't have swiftness I suppose, also couldn't you use it in Pan to teleport lords away from their runes.

If you can't wear an item type it will spawn 1000% more often.

You cover ground slowly.

Pretty sure it only affects movement.

Jessica disfigured me with a faster metabolism recently too, along with level 2 deterioration, and of course I didn't manage to get rid of it until after I'd gotten 4 runes and switched to Jiyva which was 98k turns later

I ran into something similar in a vault, iirc a "moon moth" that was invisible AND drained mana on a hit. Ghost Moth! They're the reason I don't go into spiders nests without sInv anymore. They're an absolute nightmare if you're playing a caster even with sInv if they catch you with other...

I'm pretty sure they flee when they're low, so killing them without sInv or trapping them is pretty difficult.

You've got multizap and swiftness. I doubt you'd need much more early-game.

The unseen horrors near to the pulsating lumps are an absolute nightmare and usually my downfall if I'm playing something other than Naga. :cry:

I still haven't tried wizard mode even to test stuff :lol:

, and save scumming seems like you might as well just turn wizmode on and be done with it.

Oklob Farms > Mummies
Tomb is something Fedhas does great!

I think that guide is a bit outdated, you should keep shortblades on until you reach the skill needed for the minimum delay of your weapon then turn it off, pretty sure it is 8 for quickblades, 10 for knives and daggers, 12 for short swords and 14 for sabres.

See which Orc ending you've got? It looks like you haven't finished it. Most of them shouldn't be too hard with swiftness and rmsl. You might find something nice to spend your 2k gold on if you clear it.

- the +6,+9 crossbow "Hellfire" (weapon) {flame, rF++ rC- MR} On D:5 Then a staff of energy coupled with a book of clouds but a few floors later. My NaVM went from pure caster, to a Quickloader of Okawaru, a steel bolt slinging monster now with added poison clouds covering the whole screen.

The exp pool cap is gone in recent trunk versions.

The win Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5639-g69987a2 character file. 1341347 Eisblumen the Middleweight Champion (level 27, 171/234 (235) HPs) Began as a Red Draconian Transmuter on Mar 11, 2011. Was a High Priest of Ashenzari. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes (of 3 types) on Mar 12, ...

A zotsplat and a win! I've been playing almost entirely draconians lately, and it's been quite a bit of fun! The splat. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5764-ge02b43a character file. 524782 MDK the Slayer (level 27, -9/245 (254) HPs) Began as a White Draconian Berserker on Mar 16, 2011. Was...

I struggle horribley with most pure casters too, but only after the earlygame, always end up getting near one-shot and dying in rune branches by a big uniques spell , yaktaur zinger in the face or I will miscast at some important moment and doom myself. Only spellcaster I've ascended was a transmute...

Get some EXP and go hit a plant to at least get level 1 fighting, incase anything manages to hit you :!:

It was pretty low, about +1,+2 , and of course I'd just used all my enchant scrolls I'd found up till then on a stack of arrows just before I found it.

After spending about 80 minutes in the Abyss trying to get out recently, I defiantely support more exits or some message hinting at the location of one. It definately the most boring thing I've ever done in Crawl, especially when the teleports thought it would be funny to kick in 3 or 4 times when a...

This game was not that much fun, probably because it was so easy! I should of tried hells or tomb again, but I really wanted to escape with the Royal Jellies rune for once, since he had claimed my first promising character. I had been trying to get a character skilled in M&Fs to the point where ...

This game was most enjoyable and Fedhas was very fun. Wandering mushrooms were all that got me through the early game, and even some of the mid and late game! Their confusion/meatshieldiness was awesome!! And Oklobs oh man don't even get me started, while I only used them a few times, these things p...

I dunno how early you met her, but she's usually trivial whether I'm playing melee or caster by the time I meet her. Just don't leave the animated weapons alive if you're gonna stay near them, pretty sure Terpsichore herself does little damage.

I was going to dump Sif [...] This was the first time I'd ran out of spellslots too and I really had no idea what to drop to get some of the other spells I wanted towards the end. You dump Sif and Her practically free amnesia... before fixing your spell list? 0_o As for being hard up for slots, I w...

vintermann wrote:You flighted and swifted yourself before seeing Mara? Normally that would be the sensible thing to do, but in this case, it explains why your illusion caught up with you.

Had no idea it copied temporary effects, could explain why I got hit so many times going up the stairs!

:D The best I've done with a caster so far, I got a little bit too brave after I killed Boris on the same floor without getting hit, and so I went to tackle Mara round the corner too. I was expecting the illusion so I had haste flight and swiftness on, and made a dash for the stairs as soon as I saw...

One of the biggest points of transmuter is blade hands, which is based around unarmed combat skill. So you probably should of gone unarmed instead of polearms. You should definately play on trunk if you can, but I have no idea about linux so can't help you there. I wouldn't reccomend playing when yo...

Kylearan wrote:Is there any reason why disintegration works on orange crystal statues, but not others? I always found that a bit frustrating.

I'm pretty sure it one shots the silver statue, dunno about ice statues because I still haven't been in an Ice Cave, and Roxanne is a unique so it makes some sense there.

Congratulations! I'm jealous of the combo you won with! Demonspawn and Jiyva are two things that I really like and can never get off the ground with. I always have huge issues getting melee orientated DS out of the early-game unless I find some sort of spellcasting, and I always find Jiyva altars af...

I get the Ogre vault 90% of the time, feels like one of the easiest ones.

Congrats! Glad you had fun with SpEE, and that you won with it

. How was Sif? Did you get any use out of the MP for hunger ? Or were the books and miscasts protection all you used?

Quaff them all at once and never look back!

You should probably exaggerate on exactly what happened, I can only really tell that you probably aggroed too much and got mobbed from the final view of "You could see a siren, a snapping turtle, a manticore, 2 harpies, a centaur, the friendly Argrim your orc knight, the friendly Olfrun your or...

Tried out another but didn't get quite as far, went with Vehumet this time and the MP return on kills made for lots of continuous LRD'ing and Stone/Iron shootering range increase along with the books was nice. Earth definately felt like it trained much slower with no Ash bonus, and I really missed t...

The 3 or so times I've done Elf : 5 Master Archers have been the most damaging and scary things by far as casters and a heavy armour fighter, but the summon spam can sometimes pop out something scary too.

Probably the Zot vault with the moths of wrath behind glass and about 70 trolls and ogres.

Least favourite are bee rooms, always encounter them really early and either die or have to leave the floor.

I killed the RJ with potions of speed to run around and a spear of returning, I think I lured some of the blobs upstairs without the RJ when there were too many to do anything safely, and killed them seperately on the next floor then went back down.

Don't give up! If you can get out of the harsh early-game you can probably rock the rune branches now that you've cleared them and know them somewhat. I also lost a character destined for my first win to jellies after killing the royal, and have been avoiding it ever since which worked out on my HaB...

Encountered the Lernaean Hydra swamp ending for the first time, and then got eaten by it. I pressed wait instead of move by accident ( I was kinda tired.. ) and it one shot me. I was REALLY enjoying this character too, and felt well on my way to my second win despite not finding shatter. Spriggan is...

Finally! After billions of characters lost pre lair, and too many lost in branches afterwards I have a victory! I couldn't of done it without the advice from IRC, and the advice from forums when I was playing my deceased characters. But most of all I want to thank Trog for showering me in tiny silve...

All this could be irrelevant since I just found a wizlab and jumped into it, turns out it is the one with the orange statue and my wand of disintigration is empty! At least Abjuration is keeping the summoned monks off me for now, but I'm pretty sure the way out is behind him, and I'm pretty sure the...

This is probably the best I've done on a character with a decent amount of training into casting, and I have no idea what I should learn, or what I should train really. I'm assuming I should keep bashing away at necromancy until I can cast Necromution since I picked up the necronomicon off Kiku, but...

On the subject of missile gifts, are throwing nets a possible god gift? All I seem to get is needles and javelins with throwing, and would love some nets once in a while since they degrade so fast.

Well Boris was definately a no-go, because poking around his level I found Mara too! I ventured into the Abyss and ran around for a while but was running out of ways to heal so had to leave before there was any hope of a rune. So off I went to brave the slime pits, that were in fact rather easy prov...

Elf 5 turned out to be almost empty, apprently I'd killed most of them earlier. Then I went to try and finish the Crypt but had a little bit of trouble with one of the skulls outside the final room, when summons ended up EVERYWHERE I had to teleport and leg it. Hoping to find more loot and levels I ...

Is there a chance you've thrown javelins at jellies? cus they would gobble them up! I don't think so, unless the mighty morphin-green-ooze-things count. Also, just got my first ever rune! :D I'd been sneaking around Elf:5 pulling out the scary casters in the cache in the middle one by one, but afte...

As a one-time user of enchanted steel javelins myself, I can assure you that those javelins will last you pretty much the entire game, unless you throw them into deep water or lava by accident. I'm pretty sure enchantment increases durability of javelins. I had 5 of them at +8 and I'm down to one n...

You found Lehudib's Crystal Spear? Let me know if it's actually any use, I have a feeling it's still probably weak (was tempted to boost it to +8, +8 just to match the spell's level). It doesn't feel nearly as accurate as my +8 steel javelins, but I have no idea how throwing is calculated or whethe...

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