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That's one of the best rods to find, honestly. Freezing Cloud will make your life so much easier.. especially on long narrow corridors. I'd definitely now train more evoc too (with fighting), it will greatly reduce the hunger cost and make the Freezing Cloud much more powerful (as well as the fans/p...

To be clear, I didn't say to train evocations now, I said "later".. to me more clear, I should of said, later when you find some cool evocables , training evocations is a good idea. And yes, evocations higher than 10 is a good idea for a Trog worshipper, especially. (since you won't be put...

nice find on the quickblade. Looking at your skills, it looks like you are making all the right choices. I would follow Sandman's advice here. Pearl Dragon armour is the best for your build, but very rare. Later I'd also definitely train up evocations because you will be finding the very useful lamp...

yeah i would use the demon trident (great 1h weapon type), and definitely the buckler.. you need rPois. Using a 2H weapon is sexier to some, but there is no shame in using a shield. The protection really does help. Yes, you should train armour to at least 7. A rule of thumb I use when training armor...

yeah in the tomb i was wearing stasis most of the time, paranoid about death curses slowing me. But for Khufu I decided to just trust Kiku and killed him while hasted ( I was near the stairs, so I could retreat while slowed if needed)

I've been testing this Korean server and it works great.. I'm an American in China, and it's much faster to connect here than to the US servers. I hope it gets official soon.

awesome, i look forward to testing it :-)

I agree, most darts are useless, except maybe at D1-D7. Except darts of dispersal, those are extremely useful. Saved my life from a 27-headed adjacent hydra when I was low in health.

I agree. It would make Potion of Resistance more valuable and worth the inventory slot. I rarely use these because usually i'm able to find the elemental resistances in the game very easily.. but finding MR can be much more challenging.

Never underestimate the power of darts of dispersal. Those things are worth their weight in gold, especially when you are low in health and about to die with a 27-headed hydra adjacent to you, with deep water all around. Those things were the only thing in my inventory with applicable use. Thanks to...

Update, I just cleared Elf:3 with just "very resistant" .. I did get banished to the Abyss once, but my character was strong enough to handle it, so I took that chance. Malign Gateway was fun vs the uber elves :-P Elf:3 didn't feel threatening at all, I really think people are overly scare...

yeah going into the Depths is suicide without resistances. You were lucky to make it as deep as you did, with all the dragons down there (not to mention what killed you) you should have at least F+ C+ .. (one each) before Vault:5 (preferably before Vault:1) or Depths or Elf - because that will preve...

Ok, I just cleared Tomb (my first time to clear it) and got my 5th rune. I did find a large shield of fire resistance so I will continue to train shields and invocations and swap my rF+ gloves for gloves of dexterity. Next I will convert to TSO and clear all branches of my former undead minions to g...

it's my understanding that nothing helps against Hellfire, and against torment, only Kiku, Necromutation, some player races help with it, and rN+ helps a little - 5% right. If there was some skill to help against them I would train it for sure. But I have not found the Necronomicon, so Necromutation...

Edit. Training for Large Shield may be not the best idea, you could get the same AC+3 by wearing a standard +2 helmet. I am mostly training shields for the greater SH (50 SH with large shield vs my former 15 sh with the buckler) With my higher skills skill now my bucker is at 20 SH if I wear that. ...

good point. then I will try to do Tomb first with Kiku's protection and Dispel Undead. If I can get the rune from Tomb with Kiku, I will switch to TSO. I'm a bit worried about Khufu and his minions, but I will try to use stairs/summons to try and separate them.. Also my evokables.. lamp, phial, fans...

OK, UPDATE cleared all of Crypt, then cleared Elf:3 - I used Malign Gateway, and never felt threatened in Elf.. but I was banished to Abyss 1 time, found and exit, then while resting on the exit got teleported to another region of the Abyss, found exit again. Abyss was very tame this time around. Th...

lmao.. I've not had sigmund follow me up stairs yet, especially not when he was asleep the turn before.. priceless..

look like a lot of fun.. I didn't know xom could make walls clear and confuse / inner flame them.. epic lmao stuff

Congrats on finding your Bardiche Draconians cannot wear any kind of armour? Not even dragon armour? Yes you are squishy, for sure. I'd train more dodging to at least increase your EV up. If you cast some spells try to get Phase Shift (+8 EV) or Shroud of Golebria. They really help in melee. Also yo...

Just a quick update.. I was mucking around in the Tomb and killed 29 greater mummies down there (mostly 1 at a time).. but then I ran into Khufu with an entourage of greater mummies. So, I will avoid finishing the Tomb for now, until I am stronger. I'm tempted to give Elf:3 a shot, but first I'll fi...

cool, you are getting 5 attacks per turn with finesse.. without finesse you are getting a little more than 3 attacks per turn.

So the wiki is wrong and the other poster is wrong. No need for dck to be unfriendly about it.

How about you play the fucking game instead of reading the wiki. Did someone pee into your cornflakes this morning? How about you listen to your mother and wash your mouth out with soap? This is a quote posted recently in Dungeon Crawling advice: Yellow... ugh. I often consider resetting when I get...

Code:: rElec hardly comes into to play more often than rCorr

According to the wiki, yellow draconians do not have rCorr

Well, in Crawl if you have LoS to something it has LoS to you, so that would just make pale breath useless, wouldn't it? I guess you never played with Ash. He is not asking for LoS, he is just asking for ability to see through the steam. Even just monster detection when steam is present, would be c...

Ok, I just cleared Vault:5 , also cleared the first few levels of the Crypt. Slayed some fun uniques like Boris and Mara.. Also took care of an Ancient Lich, thanks to a Silence scroll. I found some good equipment along the way.. but not the MR resistance that I need to clear Elf:3 without banishmen...

I'm just sharing insights gained from experience that I wish someone told me about sooner. If you don't find my advice helpful, then don't do it. Right now I'm playing a more challenging character that I'm not risking Elf:3 on , because my resistance is only "very resistant" and I don't wa...

I heard rumor that Beough is sending an elite ambush party your way, epsilon. :lol:

An easy solution would be to have optional auto-recast ability only take effect during auto-travel. I believe I read a post where a simple edit to a text file will recast Necromutation when you receive a warning it will expire, but only while you are auto-traveling. The advantage here would be that ...

well, that would certainly be a buff to the spell, because there is a hunger cost associated with casting it. And since you are hungerless in lich form, you essentially don't need food anymore, if it is permanent. Alternatively, there could be an automatic recast timer on it. I do know that there is...

Teleport Other is not a Hex, Mesmerize is not a Hex. If Mesmerize was a player spell, I'm sure it would be in the Hex school. The only exception would be Teleport Other. Because of this, Hex Resistance is still a better description than Magic Resistance. Magic Resistance would imply all the schools...

Hex Protection Charms - level 6 For a short duration, the effect could be similar to wearing a Ring of Magic Resistance or Trog's Hand. Duration can be similar to Shroud of Golebria or Phase Shift. This spell is to fill the void when the game is not generating MR gear. For example right now I have a...

update, I'm in an Ice Cave, and found a Sparkling Fountain. I just drank from it and was given the Clarity mutation. This is a first for me, I didn't realize that fountains can give you permanent beneficial mutations. Maybe the Crawl wiki should be updated, because it seems potion of beneficial muta...

doing more research, I see that the Tomb is easiest with Kiku, since Kiku protects vs Mummy Death Curses. I'm tempted to do it, once I have the Vault rune. Yes, at this point, I will just focus on the Vault and keep Kiku, using it's torment ability to help against the Vault mobs. After the Vault run...

Ok, I just killed Frederick and so finally I have a demon whip, unbranded though. I am tempted to get it branded with Pain, but I'm wondering how useful pain is at this stage of the game. I just found out that I have the Crypt branch this game, not Enchanted Forest.. I'm guessing the pain brand woul...

If Magic Resistance is going on the resistances page, I would propose that it gets renamed to Hex Resistance as it's current name implies that it provides resistance to all spells. Very good point cbkazl, I agree 100%. Hex Resistance is much more clear than Magic Resistance. Since what it actually ...

Demon Trident + Shield -- Demon Trident is one of the best 1h weapons in the game. And SH will be very useful for your character. At very minimum get a buckler and train shields to 5. If you use a regular shield you need shields at 15. You will be at minimum delay with the Demon Trident at Polearms ...

Yeah, training dodging more now. UPDATE - I just went back and killed the 27-headed hydra and took the Swamp rune. It was pretty easy with 1) summon corpses 2) invoke torment 3) cast dispersal (make adjacent 27 headed hydra further away) 4) go to 2nd corpse, invoke torment 5) invoke bolt of fire fro...

I personally think you are strong enough now to handle Mara. You just need to kill her quickly. Killing him will make him clone of you disappear (if he manages to cast that). You have rF+++ .. so his bolt of fire is not so scary anymore. Read the Wiki on Mara.. here is a quote "The real Mara do...

i'd love to see your character link, but pastebin is blocked in China.. I suppose i could use my vpn for that though.

Regardless, congratz on the win!!

I'm playing Web Tiles on a Korean server because I'm in China right now, and it's much faster to connect there. This is my first time playing a Gargoyle seriously, first time playing an assassin, and first time playing with Kiku. Right now I have one rune from clearing Spider's Nest. I don't have Sw...

Would you also like to see your exact XP instead of percentage progression to the next level? No. Why would I want that? I do, and at this point, I have no hope that you understand why I don't. If you really like spreadsheet games, try tome4. Now you are really overgeneralizing. Listen, I was a man...

We can do the same thing for Stealth: 0- 9: "Extremely unstealthy" 10-29: "Very unstealthy" 30-59: "Unstealthy" 60-89: "Fairly stealthy" 90-119: "Stealthy" 120-159: "Quite stealthy" 160-219: "Very stealthy" 220-299: "Extremel...

Right now I have a level 15 gargoyle that is still "somewhat resistant"... and have found no MR items even after clearing Lair 1-8 and Swamp 1-4 (and most of 5) and dungeon levels 1-13. I have only found one amulet too, which is strange.. (gourmand).. So right now I can die at any time.. a...

i think any of these suggestions are better than what we have now. I actually like number display more than bar. And 1/5th the number displayed is actually a good suggestion, I like that idea. MR of 30 means you are pretty safe.. Whereas MR of 2 you should expect to be paralyzed or confused or polym...

I didn't start a Gargoyle character because I wanted to torment things. I chose Kiku because I couldn't find Okawaru in the temple and I thought it could be interesting.. So far it is interesting, but I've been unlucky with MR items.. So I cannot even do Orcish Mines yet. Cleared most of swamp but 2...

well I only had 2.2 levels in stealth skill on my 10 rune win .. so really it depends on the build I suppose. When you are running around casting Tornado or Fire Storm or Chain Lightning, stealth becomes more pointless. Definitely stealth is more important for assassins and enchanters and lighter me...

omg Sar. I said it is not very helpful for the Elf 3 vault. I never said stealth is completely useless. What are you smoking? When I play Spriggan Enchanter, stealth is awesome. I love stabbing and using invis and all that. I'm just saying stealth is not so useful (in my experience) for Elf 3 vault....

yeah i revised my post about rF and Hellfire. My point is that the biggest threat in Elf 3 is from casters, and yes deep elf master archers and blademasters are threats. Their spells or ranged attack are less likely to hit you if you have higher EV, I prefer higher EV than 30 of course, was just giv...

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