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Following the recent removal of ammo enchantment, I've decided to give ranged combat a shot. The AM doesn't appeal to me so much, but doing a tloc-focused archer seems great, what with good escapes, Portal Projectle, and tele-kiting. I've been rolling HEWrs, going Oka, and picking up a bow from the ...

With that in mind, it seems like a stun/confuse effect with M&F would lead to a huge number of stupid player deaths, especially early on.

Perhaps if reasonably high evocations is required for a good rod-casting success rate, it could also mitigate the hunger effects a bit. Currently the food cost of rods seems way greater than that of spells and invocations.

I just found an Ashenzari altar vault that reveals which Lair branches will show up. "You have a vision of the Shoals and Snake Pit!"

Did OOD monster generation get tweaked? I just ran into a D:8 draconian.

I think I might have found a minor bug with Okawaru piety gain. I'm killing monsters with a randart hammer {drain, rElec, rPois, rC++} and often don't get the "Okawaru accepts your kill." message. At first I thought this might be related to the draining effect but it seems to happen equall...

You can't wear the amulet of stasis while doing this because without Haste/Swiftness you will die. The spacial distortion is a liability, but so is not being able to outrun Cerebov. Keep on Haste, Swiftness, Ring of Flames, and Deflect Missles. Use Flight too if you need to fly over things. You can ...

Pan's a lot easier? Maybe I should have done it. The difficulty in returning kind of scared me off, but I guess it's no worse than the Abyss, huh?

Here's my first ever win, 6 runes with a Demonspawn Wizard of Vehumet. The RNG was pretty good to me this time. I got the protection from freezing clouds mutation quite early (just pre-lair), and found the book of clouds around the same time. The indiscriminate Freezing Cloud spam this allowed took ...

IronJelly wrote:That's why we can have FeFE, HOMo, DECK, and a few other funny named combos.

That would have to be a DECK of Nemelex, right?

IronJelly wrote:That's why we can have FeFE, HOMo, DECK, and a few other funny named combos.

That would have to be a DECK of Nemelex, right?

Basically, he'll occasionally drop a couple enemies, usually various types of warriors and giants near you until your penance runs out. You should be able to kill a good portion of them, but keep some solid escape options around at all times in case you get a titan or the like.

Kiku gives different books now, it seems.

Hey, so if skill gain is faster for low level characters, is it worth occasionally zapping yourself with a wand of draining to improve skill gain? That seems off.

While playing trunk, I noticed that Makhleb's abilities take HP now instead of MP, and, to my dismay, Deep Dwarves still pay the full cost. This seems to significantly nerf his abilities, as they can no longer be spammed without endangering oneself. However, some builds might be able to turn this to...

I suppose we roguelike fans tend to get a lot more used to the first one, huh?

Nice! Not dying a few times early is quite impressive -- I die the most then too. If you escaped with the Orb, though, why is the thread titled YASD? Yet Another Successful Dive?

I've never gotten any runes before, or made it past the Lair, for that matter. Something must have just clicked in this run. Anyway, I'm really excited to have gotten this far, and am going to close in on Zot once I get some better spells and items. Wish me luck! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.1...

I just made the switch, and naga speed has never seemed so fast! Heck, I can even move during combat.

Cheibriados was really good earlier in the game, but now that I have higher spell skills and Carnivore 1, I don't need the +Int so much, and Slouch just doesn't hit as hard (comparatively) as it did on D:10. Plus, I keep getting into frightening tight spots due to extreme slowness and inability to l...

Update: I'm XL 21 now, still with Chei. I cleared the Elven Halls, finding a Staff of Wucad Mu, a fan of air elementals, and other such goodies. There was also a potion shop on Elf:5 that sold me a potion of cure mutation, so I no longer have teleportitis! The main dungeon got brutal around D:21, so...

Update: Grabbed the Barnacled Rune of Zot! My first rune ever!

Hey, I was thinking of ditching Chei once I don't need the stat boosts so badly. Perhaps I would take Kiku and get Dispel Undead and some protections before the Crypt. Good idea?

Here's a Naga Wizard of Cheibriados I've been running -- currently my most successful character so far. I started out as a pure caster, but when I started to get decent of HP, AC, and EV, and simultaneously found myself constantly running out of magic, I began training up Long Blades and taking a lo...

After some experimentation, I think I'm wrong in my above post. The real problem might have more to do with the lack of good available Fire/Earth spells in starting books.

Having to choose between opposing elements would work better if the choices were more interesting. Fire is basically an all-in for Firestorm and Ring of Flame. Conjure Flame is good but requires virtually no Fire training if you have Conjurations, which most casters do. On the other hand, Ice has a ...

Argh! YASD to an ice beast and spear trap. Oh well...

I just found the entrance to a ziggurat. Is it better to put it off for a long time or to raid the first few levels early? How tough is it initially?

Here's a Deep Dwarf Earth Elementalist I've been playing. The plan was to start with Earth Magic and later branch into Necromancy with Kiku in order to have a broader range of spellcasting options than the standard DDNe. It's worked pretty well so far -- I was lucky enough to get Carnivore 1 early o...

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Trying a range-focused High Elf Warper build

Re: Long Blades, M&F effect brainstorm

Re: Rods

Re: Feedback on Trunk deployment (.11)

Re: Feedback on Trunk deployment (.11)

Re: Feedback on Trunk deployment (.11)

Re: CIP - DEFE

Re: YAVP: DSWz 6 runes (First Ever Win)

YAVP: DSWz 6 runes (First Ever Win)

Re: Complete list of species/class abbreviations

Re: Complete list of species/class abbreviations

Re: Under penance for the first time ever - what now?

Re: Feedback on Trunk deployment (.11)

Re: Nemelex start challenge

Makhleb Casts from HP

Re: YAVP - DEIE: easy challenge completed *my first streak

Re: YASD - DEIE: easy challenge completed *my first streak

[CIP] First time getting 3 runes

Re: [CIP] Chei to Ashenzari?

[CIP] Chei to Ashenzari?

Re: [CIP] NaWz of Chei, XL16

Re: [CIP] NaWz of Chei, XL16

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[CIP] NaWz of Chei, XL16

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Re: Rescale the Magic Crosstraining Penalty

Re: [CIP] DDEEof Kiku, trapped outside Lair by killer bees

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[CIP] DDEEof Kiku, trapped outside Lair by killer bees