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Robin's gimmick is pretty dangerous though. It seems that when he lobs a battle-cried goblin at you that goblin immediately gets a swing. An attack I dont get to react to that early in the game is rarely trivial. Like the OP I use him as a weatherguage, though admittedly i'm measuring myself against...

I quite like Mummies. I'll open this by saying that like you, havent ascended one. Killed a couple in extended or end of 3-rune however. My win rate overall is a fairly uninspiring 1.5%, but 50% (about 500 games) are MuXX and unwon. This isnt a direct reflection on their difficulty though, I learned...

Its also key to remember that Regen+ stacks. So you can have Regen++++ (and should, its awesome). On its own, a single pip of it behaves more or less as the wiki says, little survivability in combat, less resting down-time. Once you start to stack a few then its genuinely powerful. It might only be ...

Just thought I'd throw out a point on the last character, for future reference. You found a bunch of manuals, and mentioned using the fire ones at least. When following Ash you should probably use every manual you can find and then shift the XP once its burned out to somewhere you want it. I think t...

Good stuff. Zot 1-4 is still easier than V5, barring the possibility of OoFs spawning, but they are a pretty unique fight. When its time for Vaults 5 remember that you can very well go down that stair and instantly lose the ability to go back up, vault wardens can be in LOS from the start and will a...

For what its worth I found *corrode pretty much untenable, even with rCorr somewhere. Likewise *lifedrain. Both of these have a base 10% proc. *Confusion on the other hand has a 1% proc and is a meaningful and interesting choice. I cant ever see myself really equipping *corrode/*lifedrain in a slot ...

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celem wrote:Why does that site even have a species field on the profiles?

probably because it's a dating site for furries

See, I had to go look that word up. The internet is a far scarier place than I ever imagined. And some people are....odd.

I almost only fire Slow from wands to be honest, and even then I empty it quick and drop it. For a pure escape its better to speed yourself up if at all possible rather than slow enemies. 1 target vs many. I'd be more likely to use curare for a slow if I really wanted one since it comes with damage....

I've been using this formula to run my melee 'podes for some time now. Still to get a winner, but thought I'd point something out... You can no longer shadowstep to plants in the Lair (Trunk), infact I cant find anything whatsoever that you can shadowstep to, that isnt a sleeping creature. Statues a...

Congrats on the win. MiTm..masochist :p I find both VS and Tr very strong, both streakable candidates. That said Troll has the easier earlygame, the VS is by no means easy until the delay on whatever attack you are using comes down. Probably easier to break your streak in early-D on a stalker. Later...

VS will steamroll everything really, its a lot of fun. As said, fast weapons. If you really dont want shortblade then take fast versions of whatever you use. I did whip then dwhip because I found the vamp brands (and then elec dwhip for extended) All about the bite, its gotta go round the clock to f...

I'd probably read for wands until Haste. Even though you have the spell, because it cant fail, doesnt cost MP (usually) and can be zapped whilst silenced. Its amazing how often 'Haste as escape' becomes even better again because its not costing you your last 6MP. At that point I usually go for jewel...

I quite like the combination to be honest. You come down the stairs and let off some fireworks. Bang, whizz, welcoming party up in smoke. All the heavy-hitters nearby beeline the stair. THEN you tele out/blink and bail and life is simpler, because most of the nasty is now heading where you just were...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-1056-g838d5c0 (webtiles) character file. 1487645 celem the Acrobat (level 27, 193/193 HPs) Began as a Kobold Assassin on May 15, 2015. Was a High Priest of Nemelex Xobeh. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on May 17, 2015! The game lasted 11:27:15 (91276 t...

Code:: y - +3 troll leather armour of Poreajyu {rF+ rC+ Regen+ Str+4 Dex+3}

Nice set of resists on a TLA artifact, actually turned down Moon Troll Leather when it dropped to keep the above.

Plus Coccy 7 with a ring, man that sucks

I hop down the stairs to V:5 as a KoAs^Nem and draw my legendary Pentagram. I get a friendly pan lord. He casts singularity. Hehe, I wasnt sure how I was gonna fish the welcoming party. Wasn't the issue I feared. That guy wrecked the first waves. Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills) A golden drag...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-1056-g838d5c0 (webtiles) character file. celem the Slayer (Kobold Assassin) Turns: 81699, Time: 09:10:01 Health: 179/179 AC: 22 Str: 15 XL: 26 Next: 42% Magic: 37/37 EV: 44 Int: 9 God: Nemelex Xobeh [******] Gold: 3397 SH: 15 Dex: 33 Spells: 11 memorised, 16...

Rod of ignition you probably want. You were making good use of your lightning rod while I watched and Ignition is quite possibly the best rod. (it fires basically a bolt of fire that creates fireball AoEs each time it hits something.) Glad to see you stomping on the slimes, guess your Elf jaunt went...

Oh nuts, looks like you're actually in Seraph's vault there...

Back to Pan I guess, go for the runes there. Load up your rN if you didnt get that lichform you talked about. Its by no means an essential spell to survive torment. With smart play and management of LOS you could probably get away as low as rN++. Just watch out for the unique realms and do your home...

...the very first time I draw a card as a disciple of Nemelex.

Code:: 7636 | D:7 | Noticed a thrashing horror

Sigh, Lugonu Wrath card in my ornate escape deck. I also got slapped with glow.

Supposedly a vorpal or speed brand on the launcher will stack with the ammunition, otherwise ammo brands are used by preference. Edge-case where one is fire the other frost where you get no brand.

It got even nastier in Trunk now that !restore has gone away, SustAb or just dont bother.

Thats an unfortunate death TPV, can imagine how puzzled you were (stat-zero is not something you hit often, if ever, before you start wandering Hells/Tomb)

if it actually removed miasma, unlike fan of gales' policy of "move all the miasma clouds except for the one that's right fucking under you and would actually be useful to move", i would memorize it every game, because mephing myself all the time is too annoying Damn, I've been using fan ...

I probably wouldnt chase medium sized shields on a Ko just for {reflect}. resistance or maybe even protection, but not reflect. It doesnt actually add anything to your defenses, just gives the (admittedly nice) effect of sending some blocked physical shots back the other way. While its awesome to bo...

With DTrident elec you have a very strong one-hander that will do pretty much anything you want, so I'd probably grab 5 shield skill and train the buckler off rather than ditch it. Lots of poor options for next branch I guess. The Banishing Elves are fairly rare on 1, you might run that floor since ...

You've never done Tomb right? Avoid it for now, even with Kiku. Its a great way to get killed, especially since the nastiest guys in there are, like you, also pro summoners with strong abjuration. Silence is one way to handle them, that in combo with your elec quickblade would do the job if you deci...

Hell might be 'hellish', but with your maxed rC, rN, SustAb and {run} to top it all off I'd be tempted to go for bone and icy. Predictable branches with known threats you can handle. You could of course run Pan and just leave Cerebov if you are happy with losing the rune. But I'd be worried the RNG ...

Noted today in trunk that we seem to have lost the ability to ctrl-attack while confused, it wants us to use actual directional attacks complete with the stumble risk. Encountered this first in Orc right next to a deep water tile. Quite approved to be honest, de-trivialised the confusion. Remains to...

Spider doesn't have anything dangerous in it though, Really all it takes is one dangerous fast monster in a pack, and you cannot safely walk away from the pack, so it's as if the whole pack is fast. I have the opposite experiences in general with this mechanic. To take one of your examples... I'm i...

Why does that site even have a species field on the profiles? Some people just ask for this sort of weirdness.

The idea that this stone of tremors has somehow depleted all the other stones of tremors is also narratively strange. I'm not huge on simulationism, but this one does stand out for me. Anyhow, don't check to see if the player has one in inventory, check to see if one exists in the stash tracker. Ye...

+1 -tele faerie DA on a berserker? Ok.

Ballsy move, but nice EV, though its not like you used much of the armour skill, ought to have split that with evocations if this was your goal.

Congrats.

I've been trying to think of a very passive god that allows for casual advantages over time and encourages switching things up. God of exploration: Ash?... Just saying, first thing that occured to me on reading the outline. Also some of your rewards are fixes to problems presented by the branch tha...

Yeah im gonna dig that recording out actually. Its a worthy escape which has 0 to do with skill on my part and everything to do with screaming headless-chicken style shit and the RNG throwing me a rope right at the very very last second because I sacked up and dived to 2. Loved it. On my streak too....

Yeah the morgue link is good. I posted the same link in the post I then snipped due to redundancy. Its the same way Nago found your first, and this is the exact same link he posted in that other thread where this came up. I thought the akrasiac page covered all of the servers. Its may also be availa...

Well until recently they didnt empty together, so carrying many was totally viable and something I did a lot. I had a couple of winners that had 8-10 evokers on them (once 4 lamps, eat that antaeus). This is likely why theres not currently any note on them. Now that they discharge together (if you f...

By the way, why do morgue files make notes of such mundane events as "killed a yak"?? Why not "ate a chunk"?? You see 'killed a X' whenever you got a 'Noticed an X' event upon spotting it. And you got those 'Noticed an X' messages when you meet something dangerous to your XL. It...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-988-g8372725 (webtiles) character file. 1430202 celem the Acrobat (level 26, 201/201 HPs) Began as a High Elf Skald on May 9, 2015. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on May 11, 2015! The game lasted 11:04:05 (99707 turns). ce...

I went for it until Zot 2 where Oka cottoned on and coughed up

the +9 plate armour "Vettoup" (worn) {rF+++ Regen+ Str+2 Stlth-}.

Now if thats not a direct answer I dont know what is. So now I get the Ac minus 1, keep the movespeed and never have to rF swap plus Regen.

I actually just went and checked a few items I'd not ID'd and found +10 plate of ponderousness in Elf3 vault. Given that I already have the {run} to balance it and the massive boost to defences while knocking only OoD offline im sorely tempted. I can find the rF elsewhere (can make ++/+++ whatever t...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-986-gf45d1aa (webtiles) character file. celem the Spry (High Elf Skald) Turns: 86120, Time: 09:33:36 Health: 174/174 AC: 26 Str: 25 XL: 23 Next: 69% Magic: 40/40 EV: 31 Int: 35 God: Okawaru [******] Gold: 3038 SH: 10 Dex: 26 Spells: 12 memorised, 12 levels l...

Yeah I've started stashing on branch entrances. I try and make sure anything from lair/its branches or orc/elf ends up back on the D floor with the entrance. I dont move much in this fashion. Evocables I havent skilled for but plan to, books I might want depending on future offerings and so on. Orb ...

-snip- nvm. Above post contains the links you need. I bookmark both.

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Makes them even more dangerous to be honest. More of the branch is within shaft-range of the vault-floor. Infact since shafts can drop you 3, you could in theory enter Snake, take a step and shaft to the vault-fight. For the right character thats ninja, for the rest !fun!.

Been concerned about using Spectral Weapon since lately everything is firing bolts at me and I dont really want to eat double-damage. Does spectral weapon inherit your resists? Hate to eat 4 lightning zaps or something. Things sailing smoothly for now. Got my 2 Lair runes, finding short sword {elec}...

Hmm, if you can find amulet of clarity then Shoals is pretty safe at low MR, its just satyrs throwing a bit of fear since you cant be charmed. But with your HP the javelins would pepper you. Definately run some Dungeon. If you can do Dungeon 15 you can do Lair 8. Qaz in spider works ok, you get swar...

Code:: Bought the amulet "Heon" {rCorr rC+ Int+10 Dex+3 Stlth-} for 838 gold pieces

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