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Spellcasting should count, and probably does, but Sif's piety gain seems kind of wonky / slow at the moment. Probably needs to be tweaked some more to get balance right.

Cool, sounds like things are going (at least a little) better. Regeneration and animate dead are both very worthwhile. Regeneration is good for in-combat use if the battle looks like it might last a while. It is also useful after an encounter, to decrease the number of turns you spend at low HP. Hel...

I'd learn IMB because with so much conjuration it will be a dependable way to kill cheaply without needing to train up anything else. Even with sif I'd get sub of blood if you are training necro anyway, and I would on this character based on books you currently have. (If there are other books availa...

Conjurations is plenty high for a long while. I'd learn iskerendun's mystic blast [IMB], swiftness (only 2 levels and might come in handy), sublimation of blood, bolt of draining, and dispel undead. You only need one more spell slot for that — dispel undead can wait until you gain another character ...

The heart wants what it wants

Does anyone have tips and tricks 4 picking up girls? Trying 2 be alpha but I don't have enough arm strength and I just end up dropping them on the ground and then they get mad (no 2nd date). Expand and display your neck frill in order to gain attention and establish dominance. Then initiate the mat...

I guess it would be nice, if you explain how you evaluate monster danger before the list, to avoid confusion for some people. That's already in the OP, though? I mean duvessa didn't provide a comprehensive and rigorously outlined set of criteria but, you know, this is the joke subforum of a compute...

Post a dump for specific advice, I'd say.

If you already have p. arrow memorized, then training some poison magic so you can actually cast it with good spell power is probably not a "waste."

I'm not sure that's the best way to think about it, Godmorgan. Basically, you should learn blink if, at any given time when the spell is available to be memorized, the cost of getting it online seems reasonable for a particular character. In practice, you will be faced with situations where (let's s...

Strongest, most powerful =/= most dangerous.

Yeah, late game enemies have bigger stats and have more stuff to throw at you. But by that point you have consumables, high piety with your chosen god, etc.

Usually, a switch to Jiyva happens lategame rather than as you're going through Lair. Mostly because the Jiyva altar doesn't show up except at the bottom of Slime (and you really don't want to go in there prematurely). Yes but this game I got "lucky" and the altar appeared in the Slime en...

There is a pretty good chance for a Jiyva altar at the entrance to Slime, in the Lair. Indeed, this was the case for the OP!

You are right that the only guaranteed J altar is on Slime:6, though.

Agree with polymorph being a problem for essentially the reasons laid out in OP. Encouraging luring to another floor as well as keeping track of a floor's monsters sounds really annoying Agreed. One possibility would be to make polymorph of enemies work more or less as suggested in OP, except based ...

Trog's punishment is pretty consistently bad. If you really just want to worship Jiyva, roll a TrHu and choose large rocks. Worship Fedhas, Ely, Yred, TSO, or nothing and swap after Lair. Ely and TSO won't punish you for switching to team jelly. Fed and Yred will, but their wrath is not nearly as in...

Broadest definition of these and some related tactics would be something like this: Stair dancing: tactical use of stairs (mostly, but potentially hatches as well) to give player an advantage in fighting Kiting: maintaining a certain distance against foe(s) while still dealing damage or otherwise se...

Not that hard, actually

Ooze is no longer slow, it is "normal" (speed 10) same as rat. , However ooze has much more HP than rat and can hit for more damage. Neither can use weapons/wands, so both are less dangerous than kobolds, hobgoblins, etc. @ CypherZel: duvessa brings up some of the criteria in the post. The...

Related problem: has message-spam from plant destruction (perma-allies and Qazclouds being common offenders) been dealt with? That also interrupts resting. In general the message box leaves rather a lot to be desired. You get messages about enemies wielding distortion or holy wrath mixed in with hun...

Yeah, seems about right. Good thinking re: taking polymorph possibilities into account.

Does anyone have tips and tricks 4 picking up girls? Trying 2 be alpha but I don't have enough arm strength and I just end up dropping them on the ground and then they get mad (no 2nd date). Expand and display your neck frill in order to gain attention and establish dominance. Then initiate the mat...

Variations on a theme:

Ring of the Colossus: STR +8, DEX -5, HP+15, immunity to constriction, you can throw large rocks
Ring of the Spider: DEX +8, STR -5, you can shoot webs at the cost of breath (range: 4)
Ring of the Conjuror: INT +8, HP -15, MP regen+++

nago wrote:How the fuck he did grab the orb|runes without apportation? ?blink?

Probably. Also some creative Passage of Golubria abuse, too, I imagine (used 17 times).

In any event, an incredible achievement, made all the more incredible by lack of apportation.

I think the god needs a little more going on, but I like the basic idea. A few tweaks I would suggest: I think a "weak" version of link (for player and monster) should be passive and scale with piety, and always applies to all enemies (non-targeted). This has a built-in drawback / conduct ...

Yeah, thinking about this more, it is difficult to make Vehumet actually useful for a wide range of characters, unless you fundamentally took the god in a direction away from "god of conjurations." On the positive side, tweaking the spell gifting seems to have support, and there's plenty o...

The reason that was on the "won't do list" was in order to avoid (further) tedious micromanaging of allies. Beogh has had more additional "affect one ally at time" micromanaging added over time. So it is arguably an implemented feature of "won't do list" in word, but I ...

{Harambe} :) Character looks good. Not surprised about the banishment though, you have low MR. That ring from the Trove should help. Do Vaults 1 to 4, don't go to 5 yet. I would keep airstrike but training some more spellcasting for enough slots to memorize iron shot would be reasonable. Bolt of Mag...

This is like asking, "How does a MiFi kill OoF? A +0 flail or longsword isn't going to kill it fast enough." The fact that people worry about and plan for OoFs on like D1 is really, really silly. (And I say this as someone who doesn't like "uber-resistant" enemies and doesn't qui...

If you just want to cast level 9 spells before too late in the game, worship Vehumet, who will also give you the high level spells so you don't have to rely on luck of the drop. Chei gives a big boost to all stats. The type of character really supported by Chei's boost is not so much "cast leve...

Oka, TSO, Zin, or Makhleb from Oka. Trog and Kiku are good too, but Trog is similar enough to Oka to not be worth the wrath, and you're probably not going to go heavy Necro at this point (and does torment resistant from Gr stack with Kiku?). Lucy could be good for escaping by sending yourself to th...

There can certainly be games where, based on the situation, you start with a book and have higher priorities than training a weapon until after Lair. There can be specific games where doing that is, if not "optimal" (whatever that is), at least "a reasonable choice." But if you &...

Topic has been split, please discuss consumables specifically in the new thread:

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=21439

Just give fast movement, or maybe swiftness as spell if you want something a bit different and less dangerous. Better (but imperfect) ability to sense player might be interesting. Early uniques that make you skip a level if you aren't sure you can handle them are good . Forces you to dive and then m...

you can estimate based on pretty much the same factors, raw hit points and resistances. A monster's HP is completely irrelvant for whether they will walk into miasma. Monsters will only walk into miasma if they are immune to it, they are berserk or insane, or they are already in a harmful cloud. Ot...

This is way too general. Give us a dump. In general: C gives you more Int and thus higher spell success and higher spellpower to blast them. Also, higher Dex means higher EV, so let them come. I also hope that this is not the "pure caster" challenge again. Chei + another challenge conditi...

Interesting character. Not everyday you see an evo-focused Ashenzarian. Sprucery's advice is good. I would upgrade magic dart to airstrike, train a bit more air magic, and then you are good to go offensively for a while. So then I would recommend throwing a bit more experience toward dodging and fig...

Kiku makes an instructive point of comparison. Kiku can turn any character, regardless of int, starting book or lack of it, aptitudes, etc. into a decent necromancy caster. Part of this, it has to be mentioned, is the general mechanical superiority of necromancy -- little or no spellpower dependenc...

If Rupert didn't chase you down a flight of stairs or a hatch, then he must have fallen down a shaft. Uniques (like other enemies) can fall through shafts like you.

slay boots, definitely

Summons can get in the way if used without forethought, but they hardly "make all those skills in Conjuration/fire wasted." Shadow creatures could naturally be picked up on the way to servitor (and amnesia'd if unwanted without any real wastefulness). Even with 40 int and vehumet's help, f...

Ok, so animate dead is a very good idea (as mentioned above), passage of golubria can be quite handy although it takes some getting used to (not for everyone). Shadow creatures is still a bargain at level 6 imo, and after you've invested in summoning skill to get shadow creatures, the spellforged se...

Yo, why the hell are people inventing arbitrary definitions for "pure caster" that serves as nothing but threadcrapping? I think that what OP means by "pure caster" is quite intuitive - a character that only relies on spells to kill enemies (not counting things like tabbing a gi...

I don't think Diabloization of item properties in Crawl would be a good idea. In theory it creates interesting possibilities for equipment, in practice you increase cognitive load and clutter and still do not care about ~80% of the bells and whistles most of the time.

PleasingFungus wrote: therefore, logically, we can conclude that: crawl is insane

(In all seriousness though, this has to be a bug.)

Are you allowing yourself to use weapons at all? To equip them? Just not to train them? Set your challenge condition explicitly. But first understand that you are setting a specific restriction / conduct, not "building a pure caster," which do not actually exist in Crawl. (My bad if someon...

For melee, you could display in xv based on current status, skills, and weapon. You could also show in parentheses the percentage chance to hit after an attack in the messages. (Eg, "You hit the foo (42% to hit)" "You missed the foo (42% to hit)" Note players receive some nonspec...

*Rage would be cool, if it weren't broken, but it is broken. Moreover, it is actually hard to fix it without making it a lot less cool. For instance, if you fix how it triggers (to something not based on melee combat, eg, damage being received) so you cannot cheese it, then that removes several of t...

Eh, if you imitated all scrolls, you'd just read them outside of LOS hoping for ?acquirement or ?enchant foo, if you limit only to tactical scrolls, then it would still be a scroll of random uselessness, in practice. Or you would read them in an emergency (in the early game at least), hoping for bl...

How's this species a less cheesy version of felids when it doesn't have fast movespeed, or multiple lives, or no body armor, or anything that defines felids? I think OP meant, "This is a beast species, like felids. But unlike felids, this species is not cheesy." The only point of comparis...

If everything can berserk, transmute, etc. (not sure what is in this "etc." — teleport? quaff? regenerate HP by resting?), then a number of species would have to be removed or changed, because not being able to do those things is a part of what makes them distinctive. I disagree. These re...

Everything should be able to berserk, transmute, etc....I don't even quite understand what the counter-argument is. If everything can berserk, transmute, etc. (not sure what is in this "etc." — teleport? quaff? regenerate HP by resting?), then a number of species would have to be removed ...

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