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Why would you try to Torment? And !resistance was useless as well. I am glad it worked out for you, but still...

Huh. I would have sworn that in 0.10 I had that happen to me- often enough that I preferred a non-elec dagger over elec. Strange.

So in response to the original poster : switch to short blades if you are playing a stabber, get a really awesome short blade early,(+2 short sword does not count, more like+12 cutlass of flaming and rF++), have a lot of slaying, or have abyssimal aptitudes for everything else (and this last bit is ...

Yes, the "new" zero hunger staff of energy seems kinda like a no-brainer for a lot characters, even over enhancer staffs. The old one was still good (0.33 hunger)- it certainly seems inconsistent to have rod hunger still going strong. BTW, reading a scroll of recharge will recharge a rod f...

Thanks, did not catch that!

Do you have silence? Since you already have some air that would allow you (mostly) painfree acess to the golden rune/Tomb. Otherwise good old blade hand/transmutations, though these loose a lot of their apeal in extended.

Cutlass of Elec is an optimal weapon, I am always glad to see Nikola just because of his weapon. Elec has not been nerfed, still same amount of damage, since some time even the noise is gone.

As a rule of thumb never change to short blades except in certain very special circumstances, none of which you encountered. Staves/Lajatang is a solid choice, low skill investment, but has the lowest damage of all end tier weapons. You'll have to make your own enchanted/branded though, they are kin...

Looking not to bad so far, but you definitly want a lot more fighting! Not only more Hit Points but also more damage on weapon. At least get even with weapon skill- more doesnt hurt either. I would do that now, delaying the bowtraining. You did orc, not a single branded Plate Armour? You can cmd+f f...

I got the same feeling.

Abandoning Ash on a charakter already in trouble is not a good idea. Can you live with semi-permanent drain of -4 to all skill levels? Thats pretty deadly on a char as diversified as yours. Have you considered visiting the Ziggurat? First 5-6 levels should be alright, and you might get !cMut. If you...

I am pretty sure weapons of holy wrath have a problem with Necromut. (and Ash)

Book of annihilation has it, thats why I am recommending it. I too was long sceptical about Parrow, but its seriously awesome, and on an Ash-octopode its worth trying out.

My akrasiac scoring page lists also the ones lantea, but I am using the same login on both. You have a nice character going, but may I recommend having a look at poison arrow? You have a lot of Conjurations already, and some levels of poison should be excedingly cheap, especially with Ash. It has aw...

Invo makes shadow form last longer as well.
Rod of clouds is a "bad" item for Dith.
I do not think that shadow creatures are forbidden, but am not sure.

Koboldlord put down quite nicely what I wanted to say- before the change it was kinda possible to get conjurations without having to sort your decks if you did not mind the occasional ensuing chaos. Now if you want to have conjurations you have micromanage again. Since I strongly disliked that I was...

I found her to be pretty much ... useless? I wore amulet of faith and had plenty of decks, but because deck of destruction is no longer I was unable to get use out of her for offense. I wanted arcance mayhem, not some means of escape/really random summons/minor buffs. Defense still good, lots of esc...

Statue form on a chei-follower- is your movedelay 3? If so I'd definitly look into necromutation, you are slow enough as is. Though it _might_ be *FUN* to use statue form for higher slouch damage. (bad idea, dont do that!) Especially since necro/transm are already really high. I dont see the Necrono...

Spellwise it is a bit hard right now if you do not wish to use bolt of lightning- seriously branching out into ice makes you a bit xp weak. Same reason why I strongly do advise you to try getting a great sword online! Tengu seduce you into meleeing, but have so few hitpoints that you are safer with ...

Which weapon type to go to depends on slaying and wether or not you intend to use enhancer staffs: Qblade of Elec is awesome against most stuff and useless against resisting stuff without slaying. All the other weapons mean you sacrifice your shield, a line of defense spriggans tend to need- esp. ir...

Jupp, its a fun (and relatively) safe way to do it. Things that can go wrong: not noticing "your time is quickly running out". Not being able to get out of sight of smiters. Running out of mana to cast either. Having extremely tough enemies that just wont die quickly enough (panlords). Get...

Kiku will allow you to brand a weapon with pain on full piety- a cutlass is preferable to a dagger, but a quickblade is even better. If you use your first acquirement for a weapon it gives you a decent chance to get one, which you then can brand. Otherwise play until its starts getting tough, (maybe...

Since you are playing trunk, you need to corrupt your scrolls of remove curse so you can curse gear- drop a few (not your last one!!!) on the ground, [p]ray and start cursing. The more different categories you have cursed, the faster youll gain piety- one category should be minimum. (weapon or buckl...

With "the stab did not go off" you mean you did not insta-kill TRJ and it survived your assassination? You were stabbing with a quickblade instead of a dagger. Up until DEX 30 non-dagger Short Blades will give you less bonus damage (and massively less stabbing damage) than any rusty dagger...

Silence and your melee capabilites makes Tomb easy, if Dragon call works through silence then its even less of a problem. Heaps of free XP. Afterwards just unlearn hexes and put into whatever. Really at this point its more about personal preference: do you like ninjaing? Get Shatter online. Want to ...

You can postpone strategic decisions for a bit, get up your fighting skill. Do not train hexes further, without the highlevel hexes 14 ist enough for most purposes ( if you can get silence, you are guaranteed the golden rune). If you really feel like Hexes are the way to go, consider getting a book-...

I did want to get advice, so thanks! Will post bug report. Thanks.

Hi, Had a nice SpEn of Sif Muna in Sprint going, wanted to kill a lot of monsters with Tornado/Death Door, got poisoned badly- and dead. Trying to quaff !curing yields "you cannot heal right now" - I did not want to heal, I wanted to cure poison. From the time Death door runs out to gettin...

With the change to always identify the wandtype after an evocation of an unknown wand, it is now optimal behaviour to immediately zap that wand. (And in if ones cares about noise, retreat previously because /fireball and /lightning). This is tedious and funtionally equivalent to generating all wands...

I am currently going trough a stack of old 0.10 high-level chars, and this one was an absolute delight! I had decided to try some thing unusual and go for a wyrmbane-melee-stab-spriggan. Worked really really well, polearm-stabbing is excellent, esp. in Zot with passwall, I have never had so much fun...

Wait, you had slime creatures, yaks and a hill giant all in view when you came up? Thats enough reasons to pop a scroll of teleport right there! And you even had a scroll of blinking... Pity.

Yeah, you want to put spells of the category "wrong cast can kill me" on a Capital Letter, so as not to press them accidentally. Oh, you cast Invisibility again on top of that lovely yellow glow? Here, have some mutations that go well with it! Stuff I do require a prompt/capital letter inc...

Yeah, that part is just brutal. I won the ten rune challenge after having played a char that was able to farm Tomb for experience (SpEn gone EE, Lees rapid destruction does so much damage with metal walls). Good luck next time.

Cold Vulnerability lets you take double damage from cold-based attacks, so you should have at least no negative pips. Strength is really not all that important, some minor bonus to damage, and it would help you with heavier armour. Since you choose to wear a mediocre chain mail thats no concern, try...

Wait, so the Vorpalbrand-name "Slicing" actually HAS an obscure effect other than the damage, namewise it increases the chance to "slice" of a hydras head???

I really like Rune mimics

No it won`t, s/he is playing DD. Mh, in most normal games there are enough Royal Jelly/!restoreabilities to last to the end, but only if you are stingy with them. I would say spam wands/mahkleb and use !curing more lenient.

Projectiles do not travel widest when thrown as high as possible; have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ideal_projectile_motion_for_different_angles.svg for comparison! As for the weight/height of members of the species Gigantus, lets remember the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_...

@Pisano: for future reference yes, most normal fighters do forfeit shield for two handed weapons. And even if they don`t, most train their weapon skill considerably highter than the shield skill at that point. As for Distortion, there was no need to unequip that axe. Only risk banishment if the char...

You have two mediocre weapon skills and (relative for this point in the game) high shield skill. Had you invested that in one skill you could now swing something better than a war axe. As for Orc:4, both Harold and Roka cannot see invisible, that would give you a slight edge, but not enough without ...

You might want to [I]nscribe whatever you are holding (staff of fire, channeling, randart with resistances) with !a ; you will then be prompted before attacking. I would not quaff !cMut, wait for worse mutations (or do, if you have more than three/four).

Zot:5 can have the secret door vault. :evil:

.10 was in the package-sources and as such easy to install. I never did update but plan as soon as all the old chars are done with.

Huh. I am playing .10, and see no such option in the start menu.

Hej, is there any way to scroll through the whole morgue ala hall of fame? There should be a solution that does not involve dying with a specific score to view parts of it...

Thanks a bunch.

A Spriggan in GDR IS absolutely hilarious, but they do get double the normal EVP from armour, so be prepared for -18 EV.

Minotaurs are able to one-shot a ~60HP SpEn immediately after an almost-killing stab; always test in Wiz-Mode if your stabbing is high enough!

Yeah, a good indicator that you should upgrade your base-type is if you are nearly starving in drawn out fights

Yes, being under Silence gives a stealth penalty. The idea is that with both Darkness and Silence all monsters which do see you are unable to shout. With only darkness and silence "per demand" one stupid shouting elf will wake up the the whole vault; thats really sub-optimal.

Do you have Darkness and Silence somewhere? With both of these sneaking the final Elven Vault is quite possible and rather riskfree. Cast buffs, darkness, silence; sneak+stab everything thats between you and the treasure; retreat and fight the helpless magic-dependent elves. Beware of Blademasters a...

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