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I'll admit handing out Ignite Poison in the VM starting spellbook fixes the problem that you almost never have a character with useful poison and Ignite Poison on the same run. I think most of the other arguments in this thread are good to, but if nothing else, I support this proposal for this reas...

This shadow step strategy might get you into the orb chamber, if you are lucky enough to have an uninterrupted chain of sleeping enemies. It's not guaranteed you can do this in every game though. Once you were in the orb chamber, your strategy wasn't really anything new - it was just "try to t...

It's possible to pose my original question without any particular preconceptions about infinity. I don't hold opinions, I need my hands for holding my brain. (I am a brainholder, it's like a beholder but retarded) Well your question depends pretty heavily on the preconception that infinity is a spe...

Wielding a potion **should** do something. Think of Nethack where the carafes are always getting broken over your head. Though I suppose before long you'd get tired of kobold peltasts throwing potions of mutation at you to spoil your bucktrollish good looks. ELI5: why can't swinging a potion or a l...

What? People don't want to use passwall as a ghetto magic map. They just want it to mark the too-thick-to-pass walls so they remember where they are and don't try to pass through again.

the +10 rapier of Causality (weapon) {elec, *Rage Str+4} (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon) This was on a GrFe, found alongside some other pretty great stuff like a D:2 Akashic Record. It was pretty amazing, allowing me to oneshot or twoshot most of the early Dungeon enemies. Sadly because I'...

If you're not a naga and you're not wielding an axe you should absolutely always retreat to a 1-wide corridor before fighting groups of enemies.

If you are a naga or you are wielding an axe (or both) you should still probably retreat to a corridor.

ydeve wrote:You use IE??? Do yourself a favor and stop.

doesn't he also use some weird non-vikeys layout for movement

basically he's wrong at everything

* The spell should, at the very least, totally not have a "that is not a passable wall" error, unless maybe you're trying to go through an obsidian statue or something. Rock, stone, crystal, metal, transparent crystal, all should pass. I would say even the indestructible walls near the Or...

new players aren't getting their first wins with swiftness anyhow, they're winning by going heavy armor trog/oka and tabbing their way through the game without bothering with spells. I got my first win with a really sloppy SpAK game where I used a bit of everything: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdat...

Letting people cast conjure flame, swiftness, call canine familiar, blink, sticks to snakes, etc. etc. at XL1 is a pretty huge buff to book backgrounds. But they still need spell slots, MP, and a decent success rate, all of which cost XP to get. I doubt most characters will be able to use level 3 s...

Going for a rune on A:3 instead of 4-5 is basically trading tedium for safety.

for phones, and also just good in general: downwell, hoplite I'm not a huge fan of downwell on phones. I don't like the way its control scheme uses touchscreen "buttons" in a real-time game, especially one where you want to see the stuff that your thumb is covering up every time you jump....

duvessa wrote:
Sandman25 wrote:http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Property:Monster_experience
This is badly out of date.

There are approximately 0 people editing the wiki, mostly due to the unfortunate policy of "you have to personally email the admin to get an account".
It's too bad.

Silence doesn't make you more likely to win if you take the right actions. It goes from 100% to 100% and thus is a "win more" in that sense. Mystic blast is bad because, even though there are better things, it lets you mindlessly press tab with little consideration of resistances or tacti...

The decisionmaking is also more warped by permanent allies. If your ice beast dies you're just out 4 mana. Either you recast it or you run away and try again later. If Garbeogh the orc warlord dies you lose a lot more. So even if the player himself is in little or no danger he has to constantly worr...

Having more weapons with min-delays other than 0.7 could also change the relative value of brands like elec/disto/pain more. Currently it's just "0.7? elec good. <0.7? elec gooder". It might be nice to have some longer-delay weapons where elec is actually noticeably worse than e.g. freezing.

-Trogs hand, literally broken, Orc priests are literally free kills now that you can pop 2 MR whenever you want, Although obviously the rest of this guide was 100% accurate and perfect, smite does not check MR so trog's hand isn't that useful against orc priests. You're likely to get kicked off you...

It felt very annoying to pause autoexplore as Felid and wait for ancestor to catch up but I think it can be a huge buff for some species. When you run away from something dangerous and meet another dangerous monster you will benefit a lot from having ancestor nearby, with current mechanic you will ...

Reposting my old suggestion: make wands stack like in dcssca (for all characters, not just pak worshipers). Then instead of giving you recharging, Pak just gifts lots of random wands. Sometimes you will get extra charges of paralysis/haste/HW but those will be much rarer than the current system, whe...

Terse posts like "gargoyles are weaker than demigods" or whatever strike me as opportunities to derive the reasoning on my own. Sure, I could have it explained to me, but it's a much richer, more fulfilling experience if I embark on the rollercoaster of abstract learning myself and soon I...

players should be able to beat it unspoiled, but probably not on the first try otoh i bet it's pretty rare that somebody reaches Lair on their very first game and dies by immediately entering an S branch, but it's still flawed reasoning This post was actually inpsired by seeing a new player post on...

This isn't Sil.
The only time you have a serious chance of being caught between two enemies in a corridor is against Robin when she throws her pal behind you.

i can't believe everyone here forgot the REAL reason to play tome on steam: the one thousand three hundred and six achievements to collect and share with your friends! Some of those achievements (according to the tome website) have only been earned like 6 times. But it doesn't really count as 1300 ...

Summon spells still use random placement and depend on terrain so they are not 100% safe unlike swiftness. Many monsters often ignore summons and continue attacking player. This is why you cast it in a corridor and then swap place with your summon. Now there is a butterfly between you and your enem...

In general, having a god who runs entirely off evocations skill and makes all those items stronger seems likely to cause problems - it's desirable for evocations skill to be a reasonable investment without the god, so a god just focusing on evocations ends up making that one skill doubly effective....

Wouldn't they make more sense in the bottom of D

and then put slime in U or something

basically their current position exists entirely to kill new players who haven't consulted a spoiler about branch order.

Currently "monster is confused" and "monster hasn't noticed you" share the same question mark icon, and paralysed/sleeping share the same zzz icon. (I think the question mark is used for distraction stabs as well, and maybe other stabbable statuses.) This doesn't really make any ...

Wandering Pan; find the pan disco hall, leave through a portal to another region of pan in the disco hall; come out adjacent to a daeva in Holy Pan. (the two non-guaranteed non-standard pan floors back to back). According to knowledge bot disco pan is a one-occurrence-only vault. Well yeah, that's ...

2. Training air to get utility spells like swiftness and repel missiles is fine. You just wouldn't want to invest in things like Fireball or Lightning Bolt when your LRD works just fine. And yes, you can start training air as soon as you have an air spell memorized. It's similar to how you can only ...

Is it generally recommended to use a shield as a Troll? I have a TrMo going right now that found an early GDA, so defenses have been okay. Using a shield means you lose the offhand attack, is that a worthy tradeoff? The offhand punch is generally not considered important/strong enough to be worth g...

Inner Flame on FE seems pretty pointless Why? You innerflame enemy, then block path with conjured flame and then explode everything! Also you can innerflame say yak and then sticky flame it. When you retreat, first you move, then sticky flame ticks and then yak moves. If Yak die due to sticky flame...

Does the bite do 12 or d12 damage? Nearly everything in crawl (including VS bite) does d[foo] damage. Weapon damage is d(base damage) x some multipliers. If you have a +9 weapon it adds d9 damage to every attack. I'm pretty sure the bonus damage from most brands is a random number between 1 and the...

civilization collapsed when mountain dwarves and stalkers were removed 8-)

Inaccuracy is the only remaining strictly-bad amulet (so it mostly exists as a scroll tax and a base item for the amulet of the air). Harm technically has an upside but its downside is dangerous enough that players almost never want to use it. SOOOO, I suggest combining them. The Amulet of Recklessn...

He's not disagreeing with the statement that Tzitziwhatevers are "stronger than executioners in all respects (except speed)"
He's saying "yes, but the fact that Executioners have higher speed makes them more able to kill you".

How do you get inside as a non ee? Random tele, I would imagine. That vault's called spin cycle and it was initially designed when teleport control still existed. The middle area is supposed to be a relatively safe area to rest up, since the rest of the level is typically so brutal. As far as I kno...

Instead of removing ammo, give a random chance to spawn traps under arrows to discourage players from picking them up again.

*Rage and -cast are fine as long as they are IDed on equip and they don't commonly come with stickiness. When a spellcaster finds a nice +2 cloak with -cast they might have to decide whether it's worth it to spend a ?rc to get +3 AC. Of course scrolls of remove curse would probably be less common or...

dynast wrote:Why not just make every piece of gear that isnt supposed to be swappable *fragile at this point?

Because they're supposed to be strategically swappable, just not tactically swappable. Faith/harm are the exceptions here in that their downsides are semi-permanent things you can't cure by pressing 5.

FR: all trees in swamp are actually enemies who drank !lig. Using quicksilver/purple drac breath turns them back to their true forms so they can attack you.

I still don't really understand when I would want to know apportation. Is the idea to just yoink every item you discover while exploring to you instead of walking to them, because that's marginally less risky since a monster could see you? 'cause hoo boy that does not sound fun I guess for yoinking...

or maybe we can just eliminate the "misc" category and let users toggle individual items Huh? You can already autopickup specific things with settings in the rc file. You can have autopickup_exceptions ^= <deck to pickup anything with "deck" in the name it doesn't mesh well with...

Ah, so what would you guys recommend as god choice for fairly new player playing a troll UC? I haven't chosen yet hahah took a break to eat some Ben Jerry's chunky monkey!! I wouldn't mind taking a god choice that didn't up the difficulty too much in other subtle ways, but works well with the troll...

how is FE better than IE or even AE Easily after getting level 3 spells online. Conjure Flame allows to escape, Sticky Flame rules when you enter a new level and find an adjacent Elephant, Fireball allows to kill packs in the open. IE is better on D:1 of course. Probably I am still a bad AE player,...

It's also a cap based on damage per player action, not per aut, so you can't be oneshot by sleep or paralysis either.

How does the latter change increase differences? It seems like you'd just find every conjurer doing all conj, instead of focusing on one element. Spells were changed too. Fire Storm is pure Fire in that fork. I think at present magic in that fork is horribly unbalanced/OP, at least if you play as a...

i prefer my ice beasts hairless tbh

It still a bad idea to train both because they do the same thing, like training two different weapon skills. Train something else On the other hand now that they don't have to be "opposites" we should add some fire+ice or air+fire spells like "steam blast" or "dust vortex&q...

12. Remove the amulet of harm. I wasn't going to say it at first, but honestly. My D:1 venom mages already have enough issues doing exactly 0 damage to monsters and taking half their max HP in damage in return. It sometimes feels like just another little annoyance desperately trying to keep the ite...

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