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Very cool progress. One thing I forgot to mention before: be really careful with negative- and abyss-themed floors. http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Silent_spectre
These are quite a bother to deal with without active PProj or {penetration} branded ranged stuff.

It is melee range which limits its usage (this is good). But also keep in mind that a melee attack is faster than a spell cast. For instance, if you swing a weapon with 0.5 delay, you can get two confusing touches every 10 auts. So the chance to confuse a golden dragon per 10 auts is 2 * 0.8 * (24 ...

Gozag doesn't seem as strong for zigs to me. Gozag can be quite broken in zigs with the nuke spells you mentioned. Every kill becomes gold - and the more gold you have on screen, the more irresistible confusion you create. I remember a megazig video where it was almost like the player had honorary ...

There is a stone staircase leading down here. You climb downwards. You set off the alarm! A sentinel's mark forms upon you. You hear a croak. You hear an angry hiss. x2; You hear a howl! You hear a chilling moan. You hear a shout! x6 You hear a horrible gurgling sound! You hear a shout! You hear an...

So I have this character which just feels too strong. It's not really interesting to play. The only reason he's been >60% hp was due to torment. Tormenters die with 2-3 LRDs. He's a mage, but most of the time he can just bash stuff to death with a stick. There are 4 powerful bags of tricks he never...

I wouldn't call a MiCaster classic :) From what the dump shows, I would take a lot of XP to make CT useful - I've tried hexes on characters with much better casting aptitudes. The more quickly you can bring up the #s, the better. It is also made more difficult by your skilling, you have active train...

Could the idea of choosing between being a profane servitor and a angel act as a hook? Profane servitors would have different stats and aptitudes, vulnerability to holy, yet be able to wield evil items while also haveing a different set of mutations. @Inarius already made a species proposal with th...

... when boomscythe makes an early appearance :P 2394 | D:5 | Found the +5 scythe "Finisher" {speed, eviscerate} The orc hits you but does no damage. Erolcha closely misses you. You hit Erolcha. You blow up Erolcha! Maurice says, "Killing adventurers and taking their stuff. It's what ...

Your skilling doesn't look very hybrid-friendly to me. The overall versatility is quite low. First: you need a skill that raises MP (and your effective HP by extension). That means Spellcasting and/or Evocations. I would recommend Evocations first, because the assorted wands in the inventory can wre...

Which high level necro spell (infestation, revivification, death's door, necromutation) is the best? The more I think about this thread, the more unfair it feels to compare the four spells. The context and use is wildly different, to the point where no useful comparison can be made that one of the ...

1: Remove the Fighting Skill. 2: Remove Conjurations School of magic and move Orb of Destruction to Necromancy. 3: Remove the Charms school and move spells to their respective schools, for example Regeneration to Necromancy and Spectral Weapon to Hexes. 4: Combine Spellcasting and Invocations into ...

Yeah, the only reason I ever got Evocations for was for CBOE - but at this point I feel like I don't need it just yet. Plus I don't have a CBOE! But its cheap so I guess I could change a bit. Is it possible to passwall stab things which have already woken up? If so, how would I know where they are?...

Do folks save 3 of each of the scrolls in case of getting a treasure trove. Really hard to sit on 3 enchant weapon scrolls. Generally speaking, no. First of all, very few troves will actually have an enchanted weapon or armour as the entry price. The price can be anything from a stack of potions or...

duvessa wrote:Hydra Form is way more useful than Necromutation.

The idea that instead of ME moving forward sooooo slowly, I should just shatter in the beginning and let them come running to me and destroy them as they come. I think I'll try this. Although...i'm still skeptical. I miss my Hill Orc. malcoda Well, a great deal of strategy about naga games relies o...

Could you post a character dump? I don't think I can offer advice, but I'm curious what a megazig Naga character looks like. How do full-LOS spell combinations like Darkness+Glaciate, Toxic Radiance + Ignite Poison, or Ignition fare on ghost moth floors? Seconded, a chardump would help. Moths have ...

... when my items alone give MR+++ and a V: ancient lich banished my char, at a 1% chance. "Huh, that old trick actually still works. Enjoy Abyss:5 bitch!" Also, when a L9 spell works just fine with a 22%-43% fail rate but just waits for that moment you really need it not to backfire - at ...

H - the +4 cloak of Focus (worn) {rElec rN+} (You found it in a Gauntlet) F - the ring "Pimaq" (right hand) {MP+9 Int+4 Dex+2} (You found it in a Gauntlet) T - the ring of Greed (left hand) {*Corrode rPois rF+ MR+++ Str+3} (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults) From a recent s...

Your proposal has a deterministic base that triggers off success which you want to replace the stochastic base that triggers off failure. Completely opposite in concept, and likely in purpose. The problem with this approach is that you'd needlessly punish every caster background unless the char beco...

mollymolluskus wrote:The only power this unique artifact has it that it allows the wearer to concurrently wear two amulets. How? Don't ask, I don't know!

So, this in reverse?

I wouldn't mind having double HP or MP regen to play around with, personally. Or two juicy randarts at once.

I suppose it could work like chequers suggested. Maybe as an unrandart - amulet of the Felid lich (felich?) or something. One extra life, Felid-style, but some severe drawback (permanent -30% maxHP when worn or whatever). But it'd still be an unrandart, and not even generate in most games. Maybe en...

Splendid. I approve of this form of art.

Then, take the OotS solution instead - enough new heads and the hydra collapses due to shortage of blood reaching the brains. Additional XP for this kind of win, for the extra risk.

Because large rocks are not available for all chars. On the gaming side, because taverners would just go into long-winded rants about using immortal 1-headed remnants for some stupid gain in safety or piety or whatever, and then claim "oh woe is me with this tedium" or "optimal kiting...

you play merfolk wizard and you find wyrmbane on D2 you will then later on prey to your beloved RNG god to bless you with STR and you will buff manually STR as well and became warrior out from wizard? and you will get lots of success winning 15 rune or do some ZIGS? is this crux i am missing? STR g...

If you're giving up just because you can't get the "mage gods," you're suffering from a lack of imagination. Crawl is about adaptation. You may not get the god, the gear, the spells, the stats, the mutations that you want. You may not get the branches, or vaults, or portals, or uniques th...

Hey thanks much. For the last 150 kills or so, I have noticed that Vehumat has NOT ONCE given me any magic power back (e.g. I have never gotten "you feel your power returning"), even though I am at maximum piety and not in penance. What can cause this sad event? This doesn't make sense. C...

Why do hydras have this mechanic again? The myth from ancient Greece tells of the hero Herakles who fought the Hydra, who grew two new heads for each one that was severed. Herakles could not win cutting this way, so his cousin set fire to the nearby forest, and Herakles used burning tree chunks to ...

Good to know this bird is still up.

If the chardump was dynamically updated, you now have Glaciate and Chain lightning castable under 5%. Unless something extreme happens, I'd say this is a YAVP in the making.

The full tile glow doesn't look that good to me, but that's a personal preference. The dashed underline solution posted before it looks elegant and much less intrusive, while providing the same information. Having it not fully opaque is certainly a plus imo. I also think the full threat range should...

From the chardump, you already have most of the escape and stall routes covered. Portal Projectile is the spell to use the most, and in terms of divine support you could make the Okawaru->Shining 1 switch. You said you're not experienced with extended, so having an innate source of rN and on demand ...

So I start up the game thinking "too many caster builds, I'll go with a brute". Naturally, TrBe with a mace. D:1 smacks me upside the head with bottomless irony. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23.0 (tiles) character file. Game seed: 12490280441105373422 Istoc the Cudgeler (Troll Berser...

there are actually already similar icons present in the source tree which were intended to be used for this purpose (I know, because I saw the very same icons on another thread discussing implementing this feature). Personally, I don't particularly like the icons that are already there; they are po...

Also, if I survive this, would you recommend finishing the wizlab or just leaving ASAP? I usually never skip portals, but I'd really like to win this game. character dump in case of interest: https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordiaCSDC/petercordiaCSDC.txt If you survive this, I'd suggest to ...

Nice one!

You can freely drop the "noob" now, a win is a win.

About the branding scrolls, I think {antimagic} and {holy} (and {speed}?) brands were disabled because of divine gifts.

If a monster dies carrying scrolls, potions, or wands, they should be destroyed. Have a message like "With its last breath, the orc [rips a scroll of teleportation apart / shatters a potion of resistance on the ground / dumps a potion of curing into the water / snaps a wand of acid in two].&qu...

Definitely Ignition, also Orb and Vile clutch. Firestorm is pretty cool too, but getting it reliably castable is a bit tiresome.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Formicids need to make tunnels to survive - it's their greatest advantage and helps to compensate for their weakness, stasis. Since there is no limit on digging players can make the game easier but boring by making very elaborate tunnels and luring enemies to them. This kin...

Now, one could argue that people underuse consumables anyway, people play badly, etc. and I will agree with you. But the point is that if people could see some viable options in their quaff/read menu, they might just try the options before dying. Ideally, we want people to have options which they c...

I do not understand this post. You have a problem with melee ants following a different approach than magic or hybrid ants, as all three have very different tools to work with. Is there something critically important I'm missing here?

GrEE^Veh baby, yeeaaah. Quite a few firsts in this game for me: - first caster win - first win with Vehumet (obviously) - first Gargoyle win (in fact, first non-Minotaur) - first time defeating TRJ and getting slimy rune Also, tried a few spells for the first time: - Summon Ball Lightning - destruc...

First dance win! :D Where to even begin with this, the game was really fun! Normally, I'd say Qazlal gives the most high risk / reward plays. Uskayaw is definitely a close second. There were certainly some hairy moments where this run could have ended badly, but some liberal consumable use and reckl...

demeyt wrote:If I put most of my points in Str, having lower Dex is there any point to training dodging?

Short answer: yes.
There are areas in the game where you really don't want to get hit. With the aptitudes and bonus Dex of a minotaur, getting a respectable EV is not difficult at all. Train it.

What could I have done differently? 1) You had healing potions. 2) Blink scrolls. 3) Damage and summon evokables. Honestly, a YASD like this was in the making about 10-20 turns before the final hit. You stated your gameplay got sloppy in the OP. My personal preference in this situation would have b...

Yes, I agree that tension is a made up measure. To be fair, the "danger level" would also be some kind of measure based on enemy HD and character XL, with a bunch of hacks in the middle. The measure needs to be easy to calculate. The aim is to approximate actual danger as well as possible...

delarado wrote:Ereskigal done, Bone rune got.
a single LCS finished her. She didn't take any offensive actions at all.

Amazing.

That's what the damage-shaving part is supposed to mitigate. Anyway, I am not going here into whether DD should exist or not, or whether ranged weapons should exist or not. Those are separate discussions. As I say in the title, I'm aiming for a "better DD". Whether "better DD" i...

zardecil wrote:Yeah so trust the 60% wr player with 10k games to give meaningful feedback about new player experience. Good idea.

Well, damn.

My equipment choices were really bad, I'm pretty sure. I just didn't know what to do with. I got a great mace from Trog earlier on and used it most of the time until I got the demon whip and then the eveningstar, and then I wasn't sure about which to use. A lot of what I found said eveningstars and...

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