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I'd just like an alternative to Lair. Maybe turn the Bailey portal into a full size alternate branch? Where instead of wandering through hordes of beasts you're trampling through several levels of fortifications helping to defend access to the branches that might contain runes. You could have some ...

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Queen Cassie wrote:Sex can get really complicated for certain people. Like, super complicated.

That's why twelwe is simplifying it for them.

Noooot exactly what I meant.

Sex can get really complicated for certain people. Like, super complicated.

I like it! The inherent silence would seem to preclude turning it into a full caster build unless you can find a source of Wiz to offset your innate -Wiz. (Would that work? I think it should, yeah?) The lack of strength means it's not really the best at pure melee either. Seems like a hybrid, possib...

arandomperson12 wrote:How do you get inside as a non ee?

Random tele, I would imagine.

the -12 large shield "Keskeupn" {*Corrode rPois rN+} Clarification: I didn't find this, I was watching Demise AU's videos and saw him find this gem. Here's a shield that can nuke your SH and, if you fight long enough, your AC as well! Clearly you should use this for Spider so you can have...

My favorite. You know, I totally didn't realize it was a disco hall when I saw it in my MiFi run. It just looked weird. And now it clicks that it was totally a disco hall. How I didn't get it, I dunno. Maybe because the flashing lights were really freaking annoying. But it even has a disco ball! ht...

BabyRage wrote:My favorite.

You know, I totally didn't realize it was a disco hall when I saw it in my MiFi run. It just looked weird. And now it clicks that it was totally a disco hall. How I didn't get it, I dunno. Maybe because the flashing lights were really freaking annoying.

DS of Xom is surprisingly fun. You have claws for feet. You are completely covered in large bone plates. (AC +4, SH +4) Your flesh is heat resistant. (rF+) Your demonic aura causes spilled blood to erupt in flames. You resist negative energy. (rN+) You are powered by pain. You are somewhat able to ...

Sar wrote:Seems like an OK weapon for a GrEE...

Well I don't need it because I've got spells. And also a staff of energy. Though I guess I could use it at some point if I feel like going extended, which since this is the furthest I've ever gotten with a pure caster, I probably won't.

I'm not really sure the game needs more branches or runes. A big part of what the devs have been doing these past few version updates is lowering the number of floors in branches and outright restructuring. Back when I used to play, the dungeon had 27 floors and there was no such thing as the Depths...

I'm not about to buy it since I'm playing a GrEE^Veh but that's pretty funny artifact. Since there's no anti-foo brand in this game, it lets you fly instead so you can go whack the giant in the face. :lol:

Yeah, you'd get all the bonuses at once. Making yourself weaker in the short term for long term gains is usually a bad idea in crawl, but if you start out with a species that's strong initially and gets weaker later on (like Tr) it might be ok. My issue with it is that you'd have to be a pretty str...

MainiacJoe wrote:I'm trying to work, "Klaatu barada nikto" i here somewhere but I've got nuthin'

I think that'd be more of a Kiku thing anyway. Gort here is a generalist and doesn't care what spells you use, so long as you're using them.

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'...

So would you get all the bonuses at once if you had ****** and you left? This sounds very much like a "Super High Risk, Incredibly High Reward" kind of god. But also one that would be much more beneficial in the early game than in the late game or extended. Particularly in Extended all tha...

I'm loving the idea of this Gort god. Dowan, does this mean that you would also lose piety if you equipped anything with *Rage? Or I guess, if they're against weapon use in general, then perhaps that could be a penance action. I don't think Gort should dislike wearing unenchanted robes, because unle...

Plus, doesn't reflection steal away XP?

Sprucery wrote:Just a note: Evocations skill has no effect on wands of heal wounds; they always heal 9+3d28/3 HP (formula from wiki, not source, hope it's correct).

Ah. My mistake. :oops:

Thanks for that, I haven't tried extended as I'm just trying to get a few 3 rune games under my belt and in my opinion if you go trip there is no reason to really use wands That's fair, that's fair, but I still recommend using wands. Evocations can be even more powerful in the short areas you'd be ...

Why not go over 20 skill levels as a Mi, if you have fighting, Melee, armour and diving at 20 and your not using invo/evo then I don't see why not See that's what I thought too, but it has to do with how how much XP it takes. It takes more XP to get from 20 to 27 than it does to get from 0 to 20. h...

Try not to use it in the Tomb either, if you wander in there.

You'll want your morningstar at minimum delay as soon as possible; that should always be your first goal as a MiFi. Go ahead and bring M&F up to 16. I believe it says in the interface now what skill your weapon reaches minimum delay. That Ice Dragon Armor isn't bad but you should find yourself s...

Pastebin Link because the morgue alone was over 74000 characters: http://pastebin.com/bpdtf1JD Oh my gosh. I actually did it! So I ended up finding Haste in a book in like the very next Pan level right after Lom Lobon, and got it running without too much effort since I'd already put 20 levels into C...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles) character file. Bullseye the Impregnable (Minotaur Fighter) Turns: 104955, Time: 09:30:28 Health: 246/246 AC: 44 Str: 24 XL: 27 Magic: 45/45 EV: 23 Int: 5 God: the Shining One [******] Gold: 9914 SH: 29 Dex: 22 Spells: 5 memorised, 24 levels left rFir...

Needed the Abyssal Rune, all it had was a bunch of gold, a scroll of fear, a shortbow, a lamp of fire, and an artifact ring with Wiz and Dex +6. I'm playing a MiFi.

I get gifted two amazing artifacts, easily defeat the Royal Jelly, and then the game crashes and I have to redo all of that. And everything is a lot harder. And I don't get the great artifacts.

Gotcha, makes sense. I didn't see you had rCorr.

Out of curiosity, why did you go for Slimes instead of Vaults:5?

ichbins wrote:
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ring "Zouluzug" {*Contam +Blink rPois rC++ Slay+4}

OMG, it causes contamination when I take it off!

"There is no Zuul, there is only Zug Zug!"

I don't love it when I run into Kirke in the Lair. Like seriously Captain what are you even doing there jeeez. You're bad enough when I run into you in a Lair BRANCH.

Thanks for the advice, didn't realise it wasn't that great a weapon. (I went splat quite quickly from stupidly taking on a bunch of bees outside a corridor though) Bees are great at that. I'm pretty sure they're responsible for a LOT of people's deaths. (I've lost a character or two to them. I alwa...

Okay, those are things I didn't know. Thanks. I'll probably stop around there then. Good to know.

I'm trying.

You went to Extended without Haste... again? This time you had the spell, but it is not even close to castable. Putting it online should have been top priority (instead you wasted a ton of xp for very small gains, raising Fighting to 27). So, what, stop Fighting at 20 or something? I don't get how ...

What did you do when you first saw them? A good first move would have been reading Fog, and backing up a tile or two so the fog blocked LoS. Then hasting yourself. I sent my daeva after them while I started to back away, then hit a tele scroll. As I was trying to run they kept hitting me with damna...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles) character file. 750679 Cassie Out For REVENGE the Conqueror (level 27, -2/273 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Fighter on July 22, 2016. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Killed from afar by a Brimstone Fiend (27 damage) ... with damnation ... in Pandemoni...

Code:: +10 morningstar of Sulphur {freeze, *Corrode Fragile rF+++ Str+4}

So close there, Crawl. So very close.

I'm sorry, friend. That's the way this game goes, though. Leastwise you've learned enough to try again and succeed next time?

Code:: +4 triple crossbow of Gikeproh {flame, Int+3 Dex+2}

This seems like a pretty decent ranged weapon.

The big thing to keep in mind, is that the player is vastly more powerful than monsters. So there's a lot of monsters who are "weak" against the player, but once you normalize the playing field, they can go toe to toe with most monsters. Also: excited for Avadon 3? Will deffo keep that in...

Personally, I'd want all three of the mentioned skills to be somewhere between 15 and 20 by the time I do this branch. Roughly: Evocations should be a lot higher, a lot sooner. I'm running a similar character, and he has 18 evocations in V:5. Box of beasts, sack of spiders, and the elemental evoker...

Code:: -1 pair of boots of Taekhlotu {+Fly rF+ Int-5}

Paid about 300 gold for this, put 'em on to ID 'em, and promptly fell over, twitching brainlessly.

You were really imposing an extra challenge for yourself by not doing Depths even before V:5. Any particular reason for that? I... have no excuse. To be honest I figured I could get away with it. And I mean I did, but it was way too close too often. You had 7 dodging, 10 evo, 13 invo, and no spells...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles) character file. 630522 Ayla the Conqueror (level 26, -20/266 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Fighter on July 21, 2016. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Killed from afar by an ancient champion (46 damage) ... with an iron shot ... on level 2 of the Tomb o...

Congrats! Watch out for the different Vault type monsters. They've all got nasty tricks. Wardens especially might be your undoing if you have to run away in a hurry, since they can seal doors and stairs.

The unique Pan Lords can follow you into other Pan levels? Not only that, but you can meet them during the orb run as well. Lovely. Oh well it doesn't matter anyway: I died AGAIN. Ran into a random Pan Lord, thought I could handle him, he exploded me. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1 (tiles)...

I'd say at least poke your head in Shoals. Also I think you might actually be okay for the first two levels of Elf at least, but I'd go for Shoals first. You could always poke your head into the Vaults and the Depths too, if nothing else but to just see what kind of welcoming party you've got. (I li...

Maybe I'm wrong, but for me player stats (str/dex/int) were always the least important thing when choosing what gear to use. In your case if you remove the ring you will have 26 int, which is more than enough to cast any spell in the game. You have all your core spells at 0-2% fail and hungerless; ...

BabyRage wrote:Int/dex/sinv ring seems pretty useless, I would better get some resists instead of it.

Mmm, it's helping to offset the Int loss from the amulet. Though I suppose the quickblade does that all on its own.

Still, you're not wrong. I'll probably replace it so I can at least have some rF.

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