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Sage card with power level 0 indeed boosts a completely random skill. So now I have a FeBe with Necromancy:4.0. Luckily Trog didn't seem to mind.

Kobolds in Nethack teach newbie players the lesson that you shouldn't eat everything you kill. It's almost certain that Linley just took kobolds from Nethack to Crawl.

What I've been thinking is that amnesia scrolls might be too common overall. I typically want to forget something like 2 to 5 spells in a game with a spellcaster and there have always been enough scrolls. So it's always "Ctrl-F amnesia" and select the nearest one, never "I need to fin...

Well, the title is "Best/Worst Artifacts"...

+1 for replacing Throw Flame with Burst of Flame (Flame Burst?)

Training Stealth might have prevented the death, though...

WolfgangIronjaw wrote:As for Trog, glad to hear for a 3-Rune win, I don't need to switch from him.

Just to make it clear: You don't need to switch from Trog even if you go for 15 runes.

Is there some spreadsheet with exp needed for every level of skills with respective aptitudes? I've been using this (first column: skill level to reach, first row: aptitude, sorry about the formatting): +5 +4 +3 +2 +1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 1 21 25 30 35 42 50 60 70 85 100 119 2 42 50 60 71 84 100 119 14...

Don't fight very large slime creatures (or bigger). When you see one slime creature, expect there to be more outside your LOS. They can't shout, so let that one creature come to you and kill it. Rinse and repeat until all slimes are dead. If a very large or bigger one approaches, go behind a corner....

Grandiloquent Gentleman wrote:Also haunt does shit all against OoF need a better strategy for them.
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There it is?

Thanks to everyone, I think I'm keeping the GS amulet on. I'm training Fighting and UC at the same pace. Now I'm wondering how much to train Evocations, since more MP means more HP. Originally I thought just to train about 5 levels Evo for the evokables.

Also, change Sanctuary to Lavatory.

I had a pretty intense Orc:1 experience with a FeBe. Granted, I played it far from optimally, but when you enter the Mines and there is a huge crowd with several priests etc. it can be interesting.

Is it stupid to wear guardian spirit instead of faith as a FeBe? Lack of HP makes guardian spirit attractive, but faith would let me spam BiA more. On the other hand, I'd rather kill things myself instead of reverting to BiA too often. (I was already at 6* piety when I stupidly wear-id'd faith in La...

Well, I didn't find it painful at all. In fact, I don't usually do any kind of remapping of keys for abilities or spells. I also never use tab (but I do use 'o' all the time).

In my VpVM game (5-runer) I never used bat form once. I found a ring of invis quite early and had evoke invis at 'h'. Bottle blood was at 'i'.

Dungeon, because it offers a nicely increasing challenge in the early game. Later it is a reasonably safe place to gather experience and equipment for the more dangerous parts. Then Vaults:5, because I love the challenge and layout. Then Zot.

Having started up a FeBe for the first time ever, I realised that they can train only five skills. Has anyone maxed them, and then what happens? You're forced to start training Spellcasting, which Trog won't appreciate?

Vaults:5 has always been for me the single most interesting and fun to play level in Crawl. With the introduction of wardens, sentinels, convokers and preservers it became much more dangerous. Before I always used to stair dance to kill the welcome party, but stair-locking changed it so that now fig...

Am I correct in that the only effect of Dodging skill is increasing EV? So after gaining a point of EV, training more Dodging does nothing until you get another point of EV.

Well, I'm not surprised if no one replies to my YAVPs, if I don't pose any questions or something else that would expect a reply. If someone reads the YAVP and is entertained or gets some idea for his/her own games, that's great. One thing that was funny in that game was that at least three times I ...

Vaults 5 WITH the outer corridor is regularly more dangerous than Abyss (0.13 Abyss at least). And even Slime can sometimes be easier. The rune variety is already there; the dominating mentality that V:5 is always the 3rd rune needs to go away. Seconded. For example, for my latest 5-runer VpVM of A...

The only reason for doing HoB would be to get the experience, which I think you don't need. Elf 1 and 2 should be ok. Probably the optimal solution would be just to go for Zot, though. (I try to always do HoB, Elf and Crypt because I find them fun, but they are risky business and not recommended if ...

I really wish I had more time to play; it took me nearly one month calendar time to play this one through! The plan was right from the start to go for five runes. After consulting the Tavern I went for abyssal and slimy runes, which were definitely the right choices. For a stealthy vampire of Ash, b...

Zammy wrote:
duvessa wrote:You're ready for new V:5 if you have ctele or shatter, otherwise you're not, pretty simple.

So you say it's impossible for FoBe to be ready ever since it can't use either.

No, FoBe just has the additional requirement to be able to deal with Trog's wrath :)

I quite regularly swap on rN+ gear (usually rings) if I'm going to fight a shadow dragon.

One of the key issues is Crawl is learning to use consumables and other available resources before it is too late to use them. You can't develop a dead character.

Unless I'm mistaken, Sentinel's Mark is unique in that it's coded to always fail if you have enough magic resistance (I think the exact number is around 185+) rather than just have a very low chance to stick. If this is the case, I would like Crawl to display the numeric MR value, so that I don't h...

Not very useful Slime loot:

Code:: 170577 | Slime:6 | Identified the amulet of Shruti {Inacc Hunger}

Better Slime loot:

Code:: 170672 | Slime:6 | Identified the amulet "Xaosimeu" {rMut Str+4 Dex+2 Int+4}

Slime was surpisingly smooth. I stabbed quite many jellies, blobs, oozes and slimes. What I couldn't stab, I iron-shotted, freezing-clouded and just hit with my sabre. TRJ got the Freezing Cloud Treatment as well. Digging wasn't needed at all. Magic-mapped the first 5 levels. As a bonus, I found an ...

Vaults:5 is absolutely difficult enough in 0.13.1 as it is. There is no need to make it more difficult. If something really must be done, I'd suggest just adding some more monsters to the outer rim.

"The Beginner's Guide to Dungeon Crawling"?

OK, I think being un uncannily stealthy vampire of Ash is probably one of the easiest ways of doing Abyss. Stealth + Ash monster detection helped avoiding as many enemies as possible. Visions of gates were handy. Scrying revealed which vault had the rune. Passwall was very useful too, even though th...

I'm tempted to try Slime and Abyss as suggested, because I haven't done them for a long time. For Slime, I could get LRD or Control Teleport to get to the vaults. I guess I want rC+++ for azure jellies (I guess I have a ring somewhere)? I also have a ring of invisibility to use with the cloak of pre...

VpVM of Ash. I've got 3 runes, but I want exactly two more. (Since I returned to Crawl I decided to go from 3 to 15 runes game by game. Now it's time for 5 runes.) Which ones should I try to get? I've done everything but Zot:5, Slime, Hells, Pan and Abyss. The problem is that the only part of extend...

I thought the old gnome-with-a-wand-o-death situation was something we were supposed to AVOID in DCSS? Well, I'm not advocating adding wands of death to Crawl :) But I don't remember a single situation where my character has died due to a wand of paralysis. So if it has happened, it has happened to...

Siegurt wrote:What would probably be nice is if fsim was just available in non-wizmode, even more optimal would be if you could 'Compare weapons a and b against a given opponent using my current skills' and have it just tell you which was better, (Preferably by what percentage)

This would be awesome.

Hell effect paralysis should be removed. Otherwise things are fine as they are, IMHO. I don't mind if paralysis is removed from random spell sets, but an adequate solution would be just to show right away whether the monster can cast paralysis (i.e. show the actual spell sets in the monster descript...

There is only one level of poison resistance, so yes, rPois+ is enough. You can try the first level and see what it feels like. But do the whole of Lair first, if you haven't yet. If you go to Spider, leave the 5th level until later (do more Dungeon first).

Get out of the Elven Halls immediately, it's dangerous. I usually do Lair (including rune branches), Vaults 1 - 4 and Dungeon to 20 - 27 before going to Elf. Elf:3 is much more dangerous than the first two levels, but you also won't gain much from Elf:1 - 2 so it's best to leave it all until later. ...

5% speed, [...] 2.65% mutation, 2.65% lignification (slowing), 1.8% cure mutation In this case, it seems that the clustering illusion for me was in that I thought slowing is roughly as common as speed, when speed is in fact almost twice as common. Now that I see that slowing is as rare as mutation ...

I thought before that potions of slowing were pretty common. Well, in my current game I cleared D to 23, Lair, Orc, Shoals, Spider, Vaults 1 - 3 (and partly 4) and on Elf:1 found a brown potion. With great expectations I identified it, ... a potion of slowing. Only cure mutation, decay and experienc...

Siegurt wrote:
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Clearly D:17 is too easy compared to other levels, something should be done about it

cerebovssquire wrote:Lair and almost everything beyond Lair is ridiculously easy.

It's surpisingly easy to die in a game that's ridiculously easy

(IMHO D:1 is fine as it is.)

By the time an unspoiled player sees a unique cyclops, he or she should be well aware that uniques in general can be really dangerous. But go ahead and change the description if you think it helps.

New spell: Sticky Form

Code:: The blink frog gets stuck to you! The blink frog blinks! You blink with the blink frog!

I know I don't need to keep the dagger cursed. I just like to stay fully bound with Ash. I guess it's a kind of a role-playing aspect. As you may have already seen, I tend to burden myself with extra challenges and not go for optimal play. Also good point about summonings. However, in this game I'm ...

...but I won't be switching to the staff, because I want to keep my dagger cursed in my hand. But it may well be I will learn Iron Shot anyway, I'll leave that decision for later.

Oh yes, I totally forgot they resist cold too. I wouldn't like to take Iron Shot, because I've invested in Air (although with Ash that would be possible). Is OoD good for killing OoFs? Surely it misses a lot? Maybe I should just not try to fight them (if that moment comes). I will definitely train m...

The problem is that when I sneak up on a group of monsters and start stabbing everyone to death, invis wears off at some point. Now I would like to finish the remaining monsters immediately without having to retreat, wait for the contamination to go off, go invis again etc. This is why I think upgra...

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