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Grinder is a pain because you probably don't have MR that early in the game, and he gets off a perfect paralysis almost every time. Wand spam is a must. Menkaure is easy enough to run away from, but if he hastes himself, you better run... he hits as hard as an Ogre with much better accuracy. He's no...

How possible is it to ninja the Hell runes? I'm thinking, pop my head into the boss chamber, get everyone's attention, then teleport away somewhere. Then wander through the level and pick off the dispersed Fiends one by one, and with enough speed, lure the boss away from the loot chamber, run in, gr...

Do amulets of berserk help reduce Trog berserk effects, or are these separate types of berserk? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here, but I'm going to guess it's about chances of passing out after berserk? In which case, the only thing that reduces it is Trog piety (also having levels of be...

Well, I died in the Hive with 19/8/12 defenses. Well now that I know it was a bunch of mimics, I'm not so sad about my loss.

Cofusing Touch is not based on Hex ability, it confuses based purely on HD. The chance is (30-HD)/30 for natural monsters and (22-HD)/22 otherwise.

On D:2 on my casual Ghoul Gladiator, I found the greatest Xom vault ever... surrounded by unnaturally hard rock walls. http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af261/tormodpwns/Untitled.jpg Gear includes a glowing quick blade, some potions/scrolls, a runed mottled dragon armour, a large shield, a crystal...

Just came out from the trove, paid 6 scrolls of blinking. Got a bunch of potions, lol:

1 potion of gain dexterity
1 potion of cure mutation
7 potions of magic
3 potions of healing
4 potions of heal wounds
3 potions of speed
4 potions of might

Pretty worth it? I think so...

Yep, TSO is still top-tier choice for the endgame (for melee characters at least, I've never taken a spellcaster past 3 runes). Others say that Nemelex and Kiku are also top-tier endgame choices, but I don't really see their points of view. Sure, Nemelex summons are nice, but it really doesn't mean ...

2. What is the effect of wielding a lajatang with a shield? 2) Halved base damage. No bueno. Is it worth sacrificing 7 damage for a shield? I'm playing a Kobold and I found the Shield of Resistance in a shop. And I know shields come in very handy, I can't rely on EV forever. Or can I? I plan to go ...

For post endgamr melee characters i almost never go Trog because of te lack of spellcasting. Stuff like Flight and Repel Missiles is too good to pass up, and BIAs become obsolete amd do not last very long (i.e. one battle). I always go Okawaru for 3 reasons: 1. Non-risky combat haste. 2. Armour gift...

Draconians are basically one of the most versatile races out there. I agree, -2 aptitude isnt a big deal especially wen Conjirations is never affected. Your breath weapon provides a powerful and reliable backup, the best ones being Red breath (flame cloud abuse), Mottled breath (massive damage), and...

Two more questions:

1. Is there any effect for quaffing a potion of experience at Level 27?
2. What is the effect of wielding a lajatang with a shield?

Oh god, I died, and out of my frustration I played so many failed games afterwards that I pushed the morgue file completely out of my character records page. Just fyi, I was fighting Cerebov, and I summoned like 5 angels, but then he firestormed and they ALL died in a couple of turns. Stupidly, I fo...

Indeed, I used to never level T&D because it 1. I didn't feel the need to and 2. It was such a pain to level because of repetitive trap disarming. But now with the new exp system it's incredibly easy to train, and you should always have it focused so it takes 10-20% of your exp. I find that gett...

Thanks for the response.

From my experience, Divine Warriors take a humongous amount of piety to cast. 8 Angels x 6 piety each = 25% of max piety. Also, I was not aware that training weapon school increases damage... I thought it only affected accuracy. In that case, I better pump it ASAP.

Troll Wizard is seriously a good combo, just play Unarmed right from the start and pretend like spellcasting doesn't exist. Only later on, once you're comfortable in melee, you can start pumping your spells. This occurs in Lair or so. Always remember to pump Intelligence. I'm surprised nobody has me...

3 questions:

1. In which branches does Kiku not deliver corpses?
2. If you have rF++++, does that give you rF+++ against Cerebov?
3. Do enemies respawn in Zot:5 if you leave for a long time?

Hey guys, Here I have by far my strongest character ever: A level 27 Pale Draconian Gladiator of The Shining One. My next closest characters were a successful 3-rune (standard runes) DDBe of Trog and a failed 5-rune (serpentine, barnacled, silver, slimy, iron) Red DrGl of TSO. So far on this Pale Dr...

If you want to go for more than just 3 runes, you'll have to switch away from Yred. Luckily, he has one of the weaker wraths.

Yet another EXTREMELY stupid death... I was fighting an Ogre Mage in Orc:4 and I somehow got to 3 HP left, with the OM at purple health. I took a risk and managed to kill it the next turn, but I forgot that it had poisoned me with Sting... so I died to poison with 5 potions of healing left. But that...

Hm, I ended up equipping a war axe and casting Fire Brand on it even though I'm UC. Good thing I have a wizard background.

How does one go about defeating hydras with a UC Troll?

Alas, I died. And to a stupid mistake, too... FORGOT TO HEAL after killing Dispater. Then, while I was fighting a Fiend and I was coming dangerously close to death, I only saw that I had run out of potions of cure wounds, and I totally forgot about my Wand of Healing. I guess my death was deserved b...

Great, thanks for the advice, I'm starting to build up Spellcasting. Too bad I only have 10 base Int because I spent all my earlier stat points on Str and Dex (I didn't think I would reach 25 Shields and test the post-endgame). I cleared Vestibule of Hell, Slime, and now I'm working on Dis... except...

Hey guys, I have a Red Draconian Gladiator of The Shining One here. This is the first time that I've gone into the postgame, so... I would like some advice from the more experienced members here. I've cleared the standard stuff: Lair, Snake, Shoals, Vaults, Orc, Elf, Crypt, and Zot:1-4. I have a rat...

Hm, so I guess Okie would be more useful than TSO for Vaults:8 and Zot? I really want to try for some endgame runes, so I'm going to have to make a TSO switch eventually. I got a nice Demon Blade ready for blessing.

I forgot... for the standard Okawaru --> TSO switch, am I supposed to convert to TSO before doing Vaults:8 and Zot?

Right, I forgot to mention that. I'm a Draconian Gladiator with robe/Large Shield, so I have difficulty with spellcasting. I probably do need Abjuration from the rod of demonology, but I'm wondering if it's worth training up Evocations to increase the spell power for just that one spell... everythin...

Terence is deceptively tough - he almost always wears some heavy armour.

Hey Crawl community, I have some questions. Is it ever worth training Stabbing on a non-assassin-type character? Some characters get a lot of stabbing opportunities via confusion, stealth, or other means, but if they specialize in a weapon other than Short/Long Blades, is it worth my time to train S...

I have a Draconian with 1 level in Stealth, 13 levels in Shields, and a Large Shield. I am "fairly stealthy," so it seems that stealth is unaffected by shields.

I had the saddest death today of a VERY promising character, even with berserkitis 1 (2 for a while) and frail 2. While in an Ice Cave, I was being chased by two freezing wraiths, when I decided that I needed some help to win the fight. I drew from an ornate deck of summonings... and hit the 1% chan...

Hmm, I've never found them that early before. How strange. Anyways, I think the ally intelligence might have been changed...? My last HOPr was .7 or .8 and my orcs would always go for the weapon with the highest base damage (i.e. they were using battleaxes and great maces). The only trouble I had wa...

Finally tried out a Hill Orc Priest today. My last HOPr was all alone and fell in Zot:5. That was more than a year ago. I was all set to go into the Orcish Mines ad grab myself a massive army, but... I met some real trouble on Orc:4. I already had a nice pack of about 3 warriors, 3 wizards, a priest...

Will a Halberd cut off a Hydra's head?

Splatted in the Abyss. I had no source of MR the entire game, so an Ogre Mage banished me without problems. I was lacking in resistances everywhere, actually. One fun note: I blundered into a Zot trap on D:16 and picked up two mutations: rC+ and Dex+1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.0 characte...

Why has nobody mentioned pausing slimes in branch ends with Pray? It still exists, doesnt it?

So im guessing it should be:

1d(base dmg)(str and dex bonus)(skill bonus) + 1d(enchantment + slaying + 1)-1

Massive nerf on slaying.

So that's why rMut is so important...

LOL @ banana peels lying on the floor of Zot.

All right, just bought the demon whip, turned out to be a +1,+2 demon whip of electrocution. I enchanted it up to +5,+4 with the scrolls that I had saved up. I also used three scrolls of recharging on my rod so now it's a +5 rod of destruction (ice) [13/13]. Maces and Flails is really training quite...

And the only good thing about him cracking up after you die is when he says... "Don't play with my toy!" and revives you... with 2 HP. Happened to me next to some gnolls on D:4 or so.

Well, I wanted to stick with staves, for the sake of evocations. I guess I could switch to M&F... is it worth it? I've never used demon whips before, and I heard they got pretty weak in the late game. On a related note, I just found a vanilla lajatang. I haven't checked the enchantments yet but ...

All right, thanks for the help. Should I train staves until 12 and then turn it off? Or if I find a lajatang, turn it off at 14? Is it worth training past 14 just for the accuracy bonus?

Also, I have a couple scrolls of recharging. Is it worth buffing that rod of ice?

Hey Crawl Community, I need help with my Kobold Priest of Nemelex. I'm playing like an Artificer. I was rolling along fine (getting two Experience cards from two decks of wonder and reaching XL 5 on D:2 helped), just beating things up with a staff and calling on my decks in times of need. Then, in t...

If you don't win, I don't know what to say.

Minimum attack delay is usually half of the base attack delay. Every two levels of a weapon skill reduces attack delay by 10%, so to get the minimum, you need weapon skill equal to (base delay/10) weapon skill.

Edit: Dont quote me on this.

Is it worth training Staves skill past level 14? Also, does a lajatang of speed have minimum delay of 35 or 50?

Haha, decided to use the lajatang. Turned out to be +5,+3 enchantment, and I've got quite a few scrolls stored up. The combination of crosstraining and turning on the skill focus allowed me to train up Staves incredibly quickly; I gained 25% experience from killing a vanilla orc, and gained more tha...

ElectricAlbatross wrote: Point still stands: Blade Hands is worth it, although it does only marginally more damage than when used by a Sludge Elf.

Trolls have massive STR. In the mid game, 24 strength gives +6 damage on top of Blade Hand's +12, and Dexterity probably gives another +3. Thats 21 damage over a base of 9.

Hey guys, I'm currently playing a level 10 Red DrAK of Lugonu. I have 8 skill in fighting, 8 skill in polearms, and 2 skill in Unarmed combat. I am currently using a +1,+4 Trident (base stats +3/+10/130%). I read a scroll of acquirement and asked for a weapon, and I received a lajatang of speed. I h...

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