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Casters are more powerful both early game and late game but they are less forgiving because of limited MP, bad AC and typically low HP both from species (Na and Dr are exceptions) and undertraining Fighting compared to melee characters for whom Fighting increases weapon damage also.

ZoFy wrote:If you play slowly, you should consider combos which actually require you to pay attention.

Why? Playing 20 hours with easy caster instead of 9 hours is even more boring. "Speedrunning" GrBe is better IMHO

But Ozo works vs ranged attacks too and you are still faster than normal speed monsters with Ozo.
Felid is the best species to use Ozo IMHO, especially Felid with ranged attack.

You are Felid with 65 HP and 30 MP. 3 MP is irrelevant at this point IMHO, +N AC is not.

Edit. Even 61 HP.

Sprucery wrote:It made you waste a bunch of consumables, including a scroll of teleportation and a scroll of fear which could have saved you from the killer bees.

No, I almost always read-ID unknown scrolls anyway.
Also I actually had a scroll of teleportation when died (I felt lazy to read the scroll

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FR: Add "amulet used" to action table in morgue file, then we can analyze how often each amulet is used.

You obviously don't understand what advice is. Really? IMHO it is better to have a way to deal with ranged attacks or when surrounded than to slightly enhance your chances in situations where you already have easy time i.e. when you are attacked by a single monster whose attack can be blocked. I ho...

Why isn't that set to false by default? I can't be the only person who has used an axe before, or experienced the other ways the game can spam you with MORE messages. It's a little unfair to fault the user for missing a message buried in spam, after all. Because players are supposed to read all mes...

Regarding 0.1 move to reposition: if this is the difference between life and death for you, your mistakes were probably on a much larger scale than wearing an item that gives 0.1 to move speed. The same can be said about using +6/-6 ring of protection, +6/-6 ring of slaying, +6/-6 ring of evasion e...

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I use AC+EV total as metric except EV below 10 is not that great. Maybe I am wrong, the best way to see what's better is to use fsim vs different monsters.
Just to clarify, I am not qualified to write GrBe guide either.
I am sure I am annoying

I'd also learn Ozo Armour.

GDA and CPA are often optimal indeed, but not when they are just +2. +8 plate is much better with typical GrBe stats and skills.

To make it clear there is nothing wrong with wearing FDA either. It's just +4 FDA is worse than +8 plate unless you have no way to get rF++ otherwise.

I've found in general that I don't like and often forget to swap, similarly to how I don't like Ozo's because I'm always forgetting to cast it. I expected that, I have the same problem ;) But when writing an article about how to win you should describe optimal play and for GrBe optimal play consist...

Random Blink means it is fun to use (blinking in the middle of orc pack, for example) and requires some tactics (use it immediately after closing a door, turning around a corner etc.) while Swiftness is boring because it works all the time and in any terrain. Also you can cast Swiftness just once an...

+3 plate with rF+ would be better than any of those 3 body armours, I suppose you also might enchant it more instead of dragon armour

You seem to have used plate armour a lot instead of those "bad" body armour in all 3 games. What ego and enchantment did they have?

In 2 of those games you have 5 potions of resistance, don't you use them vs OoF?

I don't think shield is that useful for character with AC 32/EV 21, those defences alone allow to win easily. But yes, it can be good now provided Shields is already at 11+.
Still I would go for battleaxe of course

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It's XL 18 MiBe who has DWhip at min delay and end game Fighting/Armour/dodging. Obviously it is a good idea to train some ranged attack or battleaxe.

I liked 12 gold dragon armour "Kiemush" {-Cast rPois rF+ rC+ rCorr Dex+3 Stlth+}

Increasing its level to 3 will achieve nothing because RMsl exists and I doubt devs will increase its level by 2.

If they were not relevant you wouldn't post that occurrence in this thread! It was relevant for my emotional feeling, I got scared. But it had zero impact on the game. Maybe the ring should teleport player every 50 turns or so to be always relevant and not luck-based. I still was able to reach stai...

Axes crosstrain with M&F so it is very easy to have both battleaxe and demon whip at min delay (as far as I remember it takes 0 M&F when you have 20 Axes with most species) so I would drop that buckler and go for battleaxe. Don't train Shields above 4 for buckler, you can check x-v screen, i...

And people say curses and identification minigame are irrelevant! But they are irrelevant, I didn't die because of that ring and didn't have to use any consumable because of that ring (being SpTm with Sticks to Snakes and Spider Form at low failure rate because of ring of wizardry and +3 aptitude i...

Oh, I am wrong, +2 buckler is great. XL 1 DECj with 15 Dex vs Yak. AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpeed | AvEffDam Attacking: 0,3 | 3 | 68% | 0,2 | 100 | 1,00 | 0,2 Defending: 8,6 | 18 | 56% | 4,8 | 100 | 1,00 | 4,8 +2 buckler AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpee...

Shard1697 wrote:I would say even a plain buckler is worthwhile, once you're past the earlygame. Very cheap, extra defenses, can be used with enhancer stave.

Not before the character has 10+ Fighting/Dodging, weapon at min delay and the whole starting book online. That's more like end of Lair or something.

Not with reflection. rF+/rC+/AC+3 can be useful depending on your resists.

You get one AC for every {total base armour of all armour pieces you are wearing} / 22 skill level in Armour.
With robe (base armour 2) and cloak (base armour 1) you get (2+1)/22 AC per skill level in Armour, that means you need Armour 7.4 to get a single AC, that's not efficient training of course.

q - a shiny golden ring Ok, the chance to get something bad is quite low and I have 9 different scrolls, one of them must be remove curse. Put on which piece of jewellery? (? for menu, Esc to quit) You feel slightly jumpy. Oops, that ring feels deathly cold. q - a cursed ring of teleportation (left...

Only one of those characters uses a good body armour, I think it can be a good idea to win harder characters before writing such a guide. GrBe forgives almost everything.

I was talking about previous post Obviously I could use ID scrolls on amulets, but am I really gonna use ID on amulets when I have potions to ID? When it's only a 10% chance of being harm? It just feels like such a waste when 9/10 times it's something I'd be better off just putting on. With my sugge...

There is another solution to "ID amulet" problem - equipment has 10% chance to be destroyed when equipped without using scroll of ID first.

We need a new race which can be as hard as speedrunning.
Something like Monkey:
-5 aptitudes in everything, -20% HP, -10 % MP, forlorn 3 (unless I am mistaken this is name of "slow piety growth"), deformed body, no potions, stasis, slow 1.

I approve

Resist corrosion does not stack, you can throw away the ring of resist corrosion.

You can already create a gap between you and the monster using that one weird weapon trick. I don't see why swiftness is so different that it needs to be special cased to avoid this. That trick is not widely known (I didn't know about it during several years and still refuse to use it). I don't see...

But the monster did get to hit you when you cast swiftness, so it wasn't entirely free. If you were going to eliminate being able to escape upstairs, you might as well eliminate the spell entirely... 99% monsters cannot one-shot PC and you can always get to 100% HP before casting swiftness. It even...

Sprucery wrote:I thought that's the whole point of Swiftness.

On-demand boots of running for everyone who goes for Repel Missiles anyway?

Edit. Remove the spell instead. Original version of the post. Suggestion Stairs cannot be used when having either Swiftness or penalty from Swiftness active. Reasoning Swiftness makes escaping via stairs too easy. You can walk 100+ tiles to stairs with adjacent monster, cast the spell 10 tiles away ...

I guess people have in mind species like HO/Mi/DD when talking about speed penalty being irrelevant. I doubt it is a good idea to use ponderous as HaHu or KoFi.

Arrhythmia wrote:Like, if you did an extra 100% damage but took an extra 5%, that'd be a really good item, IMO.

I wouldn't use the amulet with many combos, crawl is "balanced" around being able to one-shot Fe and Sp. It is better to retreat and try again.

God gift, first normal enchantment is generated and then Trog/Oka can add more.

Harm is fine. It's niche, but so are lots of amulets, and serves two worthwhile purposes: (a) it's worth wearing if you have great defense but bad offense (b) it can make for interesting randarts I kinda wish harm just reduced your max HP instead of making you take more damage, but recognize balanc...

Sprucery wrote:Well, the idea was that you could only do that as many times as you have scrolls of remove curse. They are a limited resource anyway.

They are not as rare as brilliance and I imagine dealing +30% damage to hydra and alike can be better than what brilliance can do.

That's dumb/funny but when I met that vault for the first time, I was really disappointed with the empty wand. I expected the skeleton to belong to a person who starved to death while walking to the wand.

I don't mind the effect of harm (although I haven't used it ever), but I dislike the draining effect with unequip. It is just annoying. If the draining is supposed to prevent swapping, a better solution imo would be to make it autocursing. That's not enough. You might easily use the amulet to cast ...

What is current mechanic for harm? 30% outgoing damage, 20% incoming damage? We can check how often characters with any amulet die while attacked by a single monster and how often by multiple monsters. Assuming monsters are equal in damage to player, if two equal monsters deal +20% damage each, play...

Sounds like somebody is bad at luring and splitting packs :^) Why? Packs are bad with the amulet, most monsters are trivial 1 on 1 even without the amulet, singles which are dangerous and where the amulet would help should be avoided instead. I played Tr today and it missed quokka 7 times in a row ...

Harm is bad because it is good only in situations when there is only one monster who attacks player. Player does not need help in such situations. Player needs help when it is surrounded or when it is attacked by a pack of Yaktaurs etc.

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