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Man, i should stop messing around with pure melee characters when bored. By the laws of Crawl, this should only double the boredom! Anyways, i started yet another silly named MuBe expecting to die really quick, but with some luck and care it survived till Pikel dropped his elec whip. With that weapo...

why bother go to Z:5 if you aren't going for the orb yet? Well, i still have these bad habits of clearing Zot (as well as almost all branches) in one go and fearing the orb vault less than extended... I'm pretty sure that with proper care and build the great majority of characters who come close to...

mrmoltar wrote:my +4 xbow takes things out quite well

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Ehm, i don't get it. Ranged weapons (besides slings) are supposed to be terrible when used with shields, aren't they?

Screw tabbing, at least with default autofight_stop value. Deaths due to reckless tabbing happen so often, it's not even funny.

That's probably obvious, but don't forget about evocable Blink on the glaive. +Blink all alone is a reason to carry any weapon (except distortion/vampiric) around as a berserker. And you've got that sweet ring of cTele as well.

Well, it's just another easy character i started in between much thorough runs. Pretty much your standard MiFi of Oka->TSO expect it's a naga. But, thanks to RNG, this run turned to be a bit more interesting than i expected. — My first objective was to obtain a demon trident, and i met it with the h...

They keep yellow draconians for the great mission of being a source of annoyance in Zot. The question is: why do yellow ones need to be so boring and underpowered as player characters?

Xom would find this death hilarious. Seriously, how often do Crawl players see Erica's confusion being threatening for non-mummies? To be honest, i can't even recall her knowledge of that spell despite beating her quite some times. Being hit by a confused ally in the open might have been somewhat un...

When you see lich summoning a 1-tier demon, especially Hell Sentinel, and you can't abjure it or smash it with +9 executioner's axe of holy wrath in no time, you'd better run like a coward asap. Or kill the lich as fast as you can and then escape, but clearly not waste time on powerful summons. Grat...

Oh, it's just me being too sleepy... Well, you can paste your morgue into a code tag. If it's too long for a forum post, you either cut it into two posts or upload it to some text hosting like pastebin.com and post the link here.

Welcome to the forums and congrats on your first victory! It didn't take you much time. Your question is answered in the online FAQ ... Q2. I can’t find my save files, morgue and character dumps? Where are they? On Macs, they are now stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (...

Well, people would somewhat care about an offline speedrun if it'll be uploaded to youtube. Yes, Jiyva provides rCorr equivalent to the amulet. But the main reason for a Jiyva worshiper to carry stuff instead of leaving it on the floor is hungry jellies. It's still possible to make a stash in Temple...

The game lasted 02:50:25 (66530 turns). Nice turn count and such a great time! My slow congrats go to you. How did you manage Jiyva's stat shuffling so well? The trick is to keep your inventory light and wear a robe, right? I finished an all-rune monk worshiping Jiyva today, and he ended up with te...

Well, offline doesn't count anyways, but let me brag about my generic MiFi of Oka->TSO (and ->Xom on the orb run). He managed to grab the abyssal rune in 19 turns! But escaping the Abyss took him more realistic time: 106465 | Abyss | Entered The Abyss 106484 | Abyss | Got an abyssal rune of Zot ... ...

Psieye wrote:I'm at the point where I can go wherever I want and if things wake up, I just walk (bat) away and come back when everyone is asleep again.

Wow, https://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=muen+guide is coming true! How many turns does it take for monsters to become bored and fall asleep?

Hmm, you probably have some alternate weapon to use while you build up TSO piety, then you can convert that demon trident into a trishula. You have evocable invis so that should help out with Trog ambushes (though Naga Warriors will still see you of course). TSO prevents turning invisible even for ...

Yermak wrote:One note: vampiric unwielding has no hunger cost.

Oh, of course, fixed that in the post.

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I know this is sort of over already but I see someone up there suggesting Sif to a Wucad Mu character, for channeling, because using Wucad Mu with Ash would be bad. I mean, come on people, seriously, we were all newbies once, but if you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, at least don't emb...

WARNING : by "speedrun" i imply beating the game in the least turns possible, not tabbing it in an hour. This run started as an attempt to dive to D:4—5 and gain easy XP by abusing curare on something like ogres. Eventually, it turned out that i'm very uncomfortable with running from ever...

Vehumet and Sif are stable options for a DEFE, providing needed conjurations via gifts and guaranteed ways of restoring mana, with Ash and a Wucad Mu staff, on the other hand, you're risking not getting needed spells in time and being screwed by channeling failures. So, if, as you said, you really w...

My only regret is that I never did find a Necronomicon, so I still have never cast Bjorgnir's or DD. Don't regret it, vampires can't use these spells anyways. It's disappointing how undead species are generally good in Necromancy but not able to utilise the most powerful spells from this school, ex...

This is untrue. The timer only ticks down while the stat is at zero or below. While the stat is above 0, the timer ticks back up again, and you lose the Collapse/Brainless/Clumsy status once it ticks all the way back up. Quaffing a potion of might/agility/brilliance (as long as it brings you above ...

After such a title, I expected to see a DE with frail 3 mutation and ridiculously low max HP. Instead, here is a character with 2 str stat, which is still outstanding and challenging. And yeah, switch to manual skill training; probably the reason behind your inability to succeed with any god besides...

Congrats on your victory, it's all good if you had fun. Have you not found the staff of air during thw whole game? It would have been useful for boosting Chain Lightning/Tornado spellpower somewhat. Also, air magic school has the best spell for Tomb, namely Silence. Yes, resorting to melee when you ...

I'm not sure if my current Throwing skill is good enough for needles of Confusion to be worth carrying around (or if a blowgun is worth it at all with my Large Rocks/Javelins) All needles apart from poison/curare ones need not only to hit your enemy but to pass a check of Throwing skill and blowgun...

Thanks for clarification, KoboldLord. It's fairly obvious that the mummy had very small chance to survive such a severe effect for 90 turns. But now, if i was in the same situation, i'd try to teleport to a safer place, then put on stasis in case of success and pray for not getting confused by mana ...

I've done some calculations assuming that damage from the dagger hit is 4 and 7 from the sabre: stab from the dagger is 4*[(14*(12+1))/5]*mult=145.6*mult stab from the sabre 7*[(14*(12+1))/5/2]*mult=127.4*mult where mult depends on type of stab (sleep, conf, wandering) and stabbing skill which don'...

thejasper wrote:I'm in full out hero mode

You can't actually tell that since you haven't turned on Oka's Heroism ability.

Don't bother with that anti-magic demon blade, it will leave you with 15 mana which is not even enough for 2 tornadoes. And katana is a strictly better base weapon type than demon blade (Dam 14 Acc +3 Delay 12 vs. Dmg 13, Acc -1, Delay 13), so it's an okay end-game weapon actually. Speaking of gods,...

Crystal ball - never used it (this is my first serious caster!). It looks risky to me (assuming wiki is right?!). At max. evocations still has 11% chance of confusion or stat loss?? The chance of suffering a divination miscast is actually 9/(Evocations*6), which is ~5.6% for max Evo. Otherwise, the...

Recently I decided to take a break from my usual melee hybrids and build a good conjurer. Out of all level 9 spells, Shatter is not very effective against many post-endgame threats, Tornado was my previous choice for casters (after some tries it ended in a post-Zig splat in Gehenna due to hubris cou...

I love it when Pan gives me a free last rune and an exit on the same floor.

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YASD MuBe: when one gift changes everything

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Re: YAVP - My first win - SpEn of Ash

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Re: YAVP - TrCK of Xom-Makhleb-Jiyva (4)

Re: CIP - SpFi - DavionFuxa is a Lucky Bastard

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Re: CIP: Octopode of Trog. Should I go for more runes?

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YAVP SpAs of Trog, semi-speedrun: it's under 40 thousand!

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YAVP: fiery cat fools those damn mummies!

Re: CIP: Extremely Frail DEWz of Ash

Re: CIP - Halfling Air Elementalist (now YAVP)

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CIP: FeWz of Vehumet, or Even dead cat can Fire Storm a zig

Re: VpEn of Makhleb - Not sure what to train

Re: YASD MiFi Okawaru

Re: CIP - Halfling Air Elementalist

Re: CIP: DeCj, 3 runes done, where next?!

YASD MuWz+YAVP FeWz: Fire Storm vs Ziggurats,ninja vs Tomb:3

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