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What would be the best centaur to try? Arcane marksman is probably not a good idea. I'm not leaning towards Be because Trog doesn't help with bow. I'm wondering whether to use a CeHu or CeGl and go with Oka be easier? Talking about skills, should I increase Dodge and Armour at all? I'm going with fi...

If not all of the orcs were immediately next to the stairs when you first met them, maybe dragging one or two upstairs first would have helped improve your chances (avoid facing the whole pack at once). They were. That's why I was complaining. The thing is I tried all 3 exits and got major bad luck...

I'm trying centaurs. I know I don't know how to play them but I wanted to try them anyway. I was in level 2 and these were the three exits to level 3 in the order I tried them: ⋅ the first one had Sigmund, I fled to the stairs and he pursued me and turned invisible ⋅ The second...

There have been many good changes for reducing inventory bloat: ⋅ Merging food ⋅ Merging wands ⋅ Creating the spell library I like Nemelex but I never play him because I loathe inventory shuffling. Currently, Nemelex decks take a lot of space and you always keep wond...

I have this on my init.txt for offline playing: chunks_autopickup = true auto_butcher = true easy_eat_chunks = true auto_eat_chunks = true I also tried commenting the following lines: chunks_autopickup = true auto_butcher = true #easy_eat_chunks = true #auto_eat_chunks = true But it doesn't work off...

Hi,
I think I have seen this around but didn't find it.
How can I setup my options for trolls to automatically butcher all corpses in autoexplore?

What a great guide. I wish this was around when I started.

Hard to comment on this without swearing.
Reminds me of Angand comics talking about Angand etiquette.

DCSS etiquette: You are allowed 1 minute of swearing after a Panlord has killed you with 200 or more damage.

What evokables are trash and should be discarded and which ones should I keep? I am on Depths, 2 runes from Swamp and Spider, V:4 done. No Elf because I have very low MR (I never was abyssed this many times before). My question is: what evokables should I keep and what skill is necessary to use them...

Rolled a new char and Oka came before Makhleb and so I chose him. What should I train? Should I train evocation or is -3 too much for the use I'll get from it? What evocables should I keep? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-538-gd16b88a (tiles) character file. Xuimm the Grappler (Troll Fighte...

Speaking of gods, Oka or Chei. Oka is fine ofc. Actually, his gifts will probably not help much weaponwise but he does gift large rocks. I fear Chei because of the slow effect and like Makhleb because minor destruction works pretty well as ranged attacks go and minor servants are also easily online ...

Given that I want to try a Troll win, what would be more advisable? Try TrFi again and push Dex? Try a more rounded up Troll and start a TrWz instead só it starts with a much higher int? Go for a TrEE hoping for statue form or somesuch?

Yeah. I should probably be improving int since the beginning in the off chance of wanting to use spells. Or Dex. Pushing Str does not make a lot of sense. A while ago (one year or so) I was under the impression that the best thing for something like a TrFi (or MiFi) for that matter, was to increase...

Yeah. I should probably be improving int since the beginning in the off chance of wanting to use spells.
Edit: Should I start using the large shield right now or wait till lvl 15 in shields?

Hey guys, I have several questions: ⋅ Is it worth going for statue form? If so how much investment would I need? ⋅ Should I stick to the shield or train for a large one? Should I immediately change to the large shield? ⋅ Any advice as far as eq or training? Dungeon C...

bel wrote:I am not sure if you understood what I said. I meant: make another account (say Zhorgal1, Zhorgal2 etc.) on the same server on which you play normally.

Oh, I didn't think you meant that. Sorry.

But wins would not be credited to the same account. So it's not exactly the same thing.

You just make another account on the server. There are not that many servers and the lag increases with the distance. I can understand the problem with having multiple characters per version. It has to be implemented, involves changing the interface and it increases the amount of storage used per u...

Am I the only person who plays in multiple servers or simply stops playing in a given server because you can only play one char/version/server?
Would it be difficult to allow several chars to be played?
That's one of the reasons I don't play online.
That and lag ofc.

Main question: what should I be wielding? I have enough scrolls for a +9 elec demon whip, have the weapon I'm currently using and a +5 holy morning star. Also, which shield should I use? a shield of protection or a large shield of protection? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0 (tiles) character...

Took stairs, Grinder and Ijyb are there. Got lucky and went up with two other monsters. Took another set of stairs. Two steps later Eustachio gets next to me (probably from a teleport trap). First thing he does is summon 2 mobs between me and the stairs. He has a poison rapier. Guess who decided to ...

They drop corpses instead of gold. This is a bug right?

I decided to finish a char that has been hanging around my hardrive for a while. The orb run was pretty uneventful. Vault: 5 was a cakewalk with a lot of disaster areas. Slime is also pretty simple. The orb run was uneventful. I really had no problems in Zot. I'm quite happy because I've been killin...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Don't train Hexes unless you have Invisibility somewhere. Train more Fighting/Dodging/UC. Stealth is low priority now IMHO.

I thought it increased the probability of sticking Hexes to mobs.
Thanks. Will do.

Hi, Got a bit bored with all my NaFi^Gozag and decided to try something completely different. Any advice related to skilling would be appreciated. Both deaths were due to stupidity. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0 (tiles) character file. Suamp the Covert (Felid Enchanter) Turns: 18544, Time:...

That guy died. How about this one. Should I create any store? Or reserve money for whatever appears (pp or shops) and for bribing? I haven't created any thus far and only used the free potion petition (pp). Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0 (tiles) character file. Idoam the Severer (Naga Fight...

Shtopit wrote:Remove spellbooks as inventory items, add all found spells to the M menu.

It would be better, but even in that case, my suggestion makes sense for spellbooks in stores.

Be able to see all spells that exist on the game. Right now, searching for spells will give you all spellbooks. But I want to see what spells actually exist and, when I select a spell, which books I know carry it and where they are.

What about armour? Scale lets me be stealthy and thus choose fights. But plate protects me a bit more.
I'm shying away from plate ATM and using scale for the protection.

Inspired in the streaking of NaWn I decided to try a NaFi. Actually, it has been several NaFi^Goz! Finally, I have one that has survived into the lair (well, it's not the first one but it is still alive). I only found one potion shop so far. Where to from now? Here are my questions in order of impor...

Use those scrolls of enchant armour so you have better AC outside statue form. With Chei you should explore very carefully to not get surrounded. I was stealthily going around and when Mennas saw me, he attracted all sort of monsters. The welcome party in V:5 was very easy to deal with and everythi...

Died to Mennnas. I haven't faced him enough and forgot he could silence. Statue form finished, couldn't teleport, invis didn't work, couldn't use Chei, morphed into a mushroom to see if I could have speed or something, died in desperation without anything to do. Should have teleported the moment I s...

Wimped out of wizlab, did everything from V: 1-4, went to Crypt but Crypt: 2 had Khufu and 2 greater mummy priests (at least) so I wimped out and finished Shoals. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0 (tiles) character file. Wefacierr the Wrestler (Vine Stalker Monk) Turns: 42289, Time: 04:39:41 H...

My game has a demon trident of freezing. Does it qualify?

I thought Na was supposed to have a very difficult start. Who is this amazing streaker?

The character can easily die anywhere. -Tele + -Cast + Chei + no healing is a nasty combo. Did you try removing Maxwell? I suspect Statue Form is already castable with that wiz ring. If you don't cast spells, equip a ring +9 MP instead of -9 MP IMHO. Also train some spellcasting, first few levels a...

I'm inclined to avoid it since I'm not a caster and I'm afraid of dying. Should I avoid it? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0 (tiles) character file. Wefacierr the Wrestler (Vine Stalker Monk) Turns: 36893, Time: 03:42:53 Health: 119/119 AC: 42 Str: 35 XL: 22 Next: 14% Magic: 23/23 EV: 19 Int:...

Can I haste with Chei? I didn't even consider it. I still have to understand Chei better. I know that people talk about VSTm but I should probably start with a easier Tm, maybe Mf.

Did Spider, Shoals did me in. I think I was in a position where I didn't know what to do next and decided on the wrong thing. Teleported from Ilsuiw to land near Mara, teleported from Mara to land near a bunch of other nasty enemies. In hindsight, I should probably have done the first 4 levels of Va...

What should I use to kill those pesky orb spiders?

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. I know that statue form will not be castable unless using robes but there are no nice robes (not even MR+). There are some fire dragon scales, steam dragon scales, troll leather armour, a leather armour of rpois and an artifact ring mail that is not identified y...

If I change into the robes, it is easy to cast the other forms. I was mostly wondering about the jewelry.
I just realized something that should be obvious: when I use blade hands the shield is melded and is not taken into account. That was lame.

My first transmuter ever to make it this far. Unfortunately, it is not an octopode or my life would be much easier. I'm using blade hands at the moment even though I can use statue form or dragon form (if I used the robes). What should I be using? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-125-gb00622...

I agonized with Ru for a long time thinking that Apocalypse would be very situational. Actually, it isn't. You just can't use it very often but shouldn't be stingy with it. Oh, don't get overconfident. It's very easy to get overconfident with Ru because of its power. There are several people who hav...

How many of you guys really hate inventory juggling? That's probably the thing I hate the most about this game.
I can totally see myself in gameguard's post, I don't hate inventory juggling, I fricking LOATHE it!

Why does swapping an amulet of faith for another remove piety? It has happened to me several times when exchanging a normal amulet of faith for an artifact with faith.

He means Minotaur. A spriggan berserker would be a challenge. Read this post https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23384 and the posts mentioned by One of the replies. It takes a lot of discipline to implement what it says there, in short: ⋅ each time you take a risk, yo...

rupo wrote:Welp, my first 3 runes win, tyvm for the tips.

Congratulations!

Wand of digging worked. And I have used wand of disintegration on things like hydras. I read that these wands were able to dig 1 square holes but I'm guessing this is no longer true.

And I did use one |resist. But yes, one of the problems was failure to disengage. I was trying to use wands of iceblast on them to check if they worked. They don't do a lot of damage to them.
It was definitely a YASD.

Roasted on Zot:3 to 3 OoF. I knew my lack of rF was going to be the death of me. Ah well.

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