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Think twice before taking Ru on a blaster, because her panic buttons have a high MP cost and chances are by the time you've figured out that you need her help you've used up most of your MP.

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The only transporter vaults I dislike are the ones in the early dungeon that have an altar of the god I wanted to worship.

Use [Ctrl][F] "abyss" or "pande" to find the portal, and then go there from the search results menu just as you would to an item.

I used immolation on a orc warlord band in Orc:1 just yesterday! I even got hit by a couple explosions to no great harm. I'll be using that scroll more often now.

edgefigaro wrote:Strong gods are strong. Fe^kiku is strong. Fe^Makh is strong.

Sif is the obvious choice for Su.

Whoa, I thought Sif was a Bad God. What makes it good for Su? Doesn't it take just as long to help you with that background?

Here are results from the two 3-rune spreadsheets that Siegurt kindly posted. 2000 runs for each branch, except that S-branches are 1000 runs each. Vaults 1-4 is an estimate, made by subtracting the Vault:5 data from the Vaults overall data. BRANCH MEAN STDEV MIN MAX Dungeon 1100.8 215.4 592 2791 Or...

Grr, this particular character died in the Abyss after being banished by a dancing weapon at XL:17. I feel good, though, that I survived through 9 ?TP and 4 ?Blink and didn't die until I had no escape consumables left. I'd still rather win of course.

Thank you! Now that I've had a chance to open that file I see that it is as close to the answer to my question as I am likely to get. When I get a chance I'll compile stats into a forum-readable chart.

I only need 400 for Wyrmbane, so that's pretty much a no-brainer in this case. But I also have Necrnomicon available for $1500 and a nice rElec + lots of attributes artifact ring for $600. I've done spider (VM) and have Swamp, Vaults, Elf, Crypt, Depths left. I'm probably not going to do Abyss. I wa...

Hello, I'm curious what the rough amount of gold in each branch is. The impetus for this question is a character which has one rune and is wielding a spear of pain, who has found Wyrmbane in a shop for 2100gp. This seems like the ideal weapon for this character for rN+ enemies, but since I'm aiming ...

When you encounter the gnoll castle in the mid dungeon, it has orcs instead, including a warlord

I submitted a bug report, but wouldn't be surprised if this is intended behavior. In any case, I have used tranference to leverage this, but that seems to be something to do after the ally has been stupid instead of an intentional tactic.

I am playing an FE^Hepl and I'm dismayed to discover that my buddy is quite happy to stand in conjured flame and immolate himself. This is quite frustrating!

Recently I saw Charly of all people nuked to death from very near full health by a Pan lord that had Shatter. He was in Statue Form and the shatter did 200 damage. Was he complacent, or is there still no way to tell what abilities a pan lord has?

From what I've gathered, you ought to use a combination of telling them to "wait here" and recall until you have a few buddies that are knights or warlords, and then try to keep only a few such for the rest of the game.

So what are the reliable ways to kill weenie orcs?

Perhaps hijacking the thread a little, but whihc are the situations in which you would want to wear "Harm? What comes to mind are high-AC characters with fast weapons.

I beat the lair. Didn't see Kirke, probably killed Josephine, easily dealt with hydras(My entire squad had maces, lel). Tab? At the end of this, I've found an entrance to the depths, cleared lair, didn't find orc base, have 2 warlords, a bunch of knights and no priests. Found a death knight tho, ki...

This lair thing seems like a breeze for now. Beogh seems to be ultra happy with me, he just told me to burn all the non believers. Also, I found the swamp. Not gonna enter it until things get to difficult with the lair. Some things to watch out for in Lair: ⋅ Hydras will grow heads if you...

I don't think so, nor is spectral weapon.

thevogonpoet wrote:Yah, gnolls are fun and not very hard, but make comparing weapons even harder than normal, without fsim.

I've had trouble fsim'ing using 0.20 fsim because it doesn't turn off the cross training for gnolls and it's a real pain to get the skill levels to match the actual character.

WTF OMG!

The thing with sacrificing love is that alllies are one of the strongest things in the game. But you rightly pointed out that you don't currently have access to them anyway. I have found no gear of note besides the starting Transmuter book. Sticks to Snakes is a strong summons, and a felid isn't us...

That's an excellent start!

You don't really need to get the swamp rune for a 3-rune game. You could get the silver, slimy and serpentine runes and get into Zot that way.

pa ---> yph: reduce its spell level to 5? That was the main reason I was suggesting changing VB

I don't think that exists, it's probably worth adding. Up until now I think most reasons you'd have to search for handedness are already handled by useless items being filtered (e.g. search as a Sp), but yeah, this is something you might want to search for on a Gn. Yes, or a Ru worshiper who is con...

Why not just give Venom Bolt some unresistable damage, and perhaps a better return on higher spellpower, and get rid of PA?

PV is a smite-targeted killing machine through Lair. It often kills orcs directly, that is, you don't need to kite poisoned orcs because they're already dead. Adders are almost always dead in two strikes. Since it is LOS smite, you can kill orc priests behind their buddies, and you can poison two-he...

I discovered recently that the slow Invocations growth has an impact on choosing a gnoll's god. I had a D:2 Makhleb altar, usually a no-brainer, and then a couple floors later I realized I wouldn't be getting safe major demons until S-branches at the earliest I'm guessing. Now Makhleb is strong enou...

What do I Ctrl-F? Thanks.

Well if "The Game is Won By Lair"™ then nuGnoll sheer survival is not an issue. Even I can get a Gnoll to Lair consistently.

I also suspect the problem with the 'gimmick' of gnolls as-is is that they're too similar in terms of skills from one game to the next (once you've played a gnoll, the second, third etc. are more similar in terms of game play to each other than two of another race would be), and has nothing to do w...

Update to my amnesia thoughts from above: I've decided that the best plan (absent Sif) is to only memorize spells you'll be likely to use for a large chunk of the game. So my GnVM found Callings one level above the Lair stairs. Even though I could cast Imp now and Canine soon, I waited and just lean...

mrob wrote:Just make all monsters immune to Catoblepas petrification. There's no longer any incentive to keep them alive, and they're still interesting in confined spaces.

This would make them easier for anyone with allies, unless you make allies subject to petrification in some hand-wavey way.

Oh yeah, Crazy Yiuf's quarterstaff can banish you. I won't think of him as a free cloak anymore!

I have noticed that gnolls don't cross-train. If for instance I start with some Long Blades skill from my background, I am expecting based on my experience with other races that my Short Blades skill will always be a little bit higher than the other skills that started at zero. I don't think gnolls ...

How does distortion interact with id? Since monsters who come at you with distortion weapons are identified as having that brand on their weapon, it's pretty much restricted to wield-ID of "runed foo". IMO as long as you don't pick up random weapons for a skill you haven't been training, ...

Another reason Gn would be a good beginner race: it is very powerful early, meaning that new players get to see more of the game before their inexperience catches up to them.

I think these gnolls are fun. I've also discovered that while they are indeed an "easy race" for beginners because there are no skilling decisions, also makes the import of the one decision you do have that affects skills, background, all the more important. So to satisfy my curiosity I co...

This may just be me being badplayer, but my latest gnoll really wanted more amnesia than I had as I kept finding books and I think I might want to try Sif next time.

UPDATE: the moral of the story is to be more selective in what you memorize. Sif still is SOOOO SLOOOOOOOW

Preventing +AC when hitting anything the player created would go a long way. Sure, you could still bring a weak monster with you to the stairs etc. This could be handled by not giving +AC if the monster HD is lower than some number based on your XL. Personally I still think that the protection bran...

Maybe I'm fooling myself, but the "incredible" sacrifice of Skill to Ru to put my aptitudes from +8 to +7 feels like I swindled her. Update YASD, not gnoll related: two shafts, and then an orc band where one party went invisible. I did not pay attention to the details, because orc wizards ...

This soundded neat so I rolled up a nuGnoll on CAO. I'm finding that the skills are not all ascending equally, but it doesn't seem to be like autotraining because my long blades for instance has gone up a level, but polearms is still 0, and in the interim I've wielded a club and a hand axe. I get th...

IIRC miltizap is capped at two zaps now.

As you point out, they are a "tactic spoiler" they actually prohibit what are "usually good" tactics (aka fighting in a corridor) which IMHO makes them one of the more interesting things you are going to encounter in the lair, at least. To me, this raises the question of "w...

While I disagree with the OP, there might be ways to make the brand more interesting/feel less unfair. What if, on each hit, you got a stack of translocational energy. 0-2: blink or damage. 3-4 stacks: blink, tele, -player tele, or medium damage. 5+ stacks: blink, -player tele, high damage, or bani...

I think you're ready for Spider TBH, and mainly because of your Evocations: ⋅ The wand of enslavement is good in Spider, because when you get an ally with a venom attack, the other baddies are rPois-. ⋅ The wand of digging is good to make killholes, because Spider is usually easy...

WingedEspeon wrote:Hall of blades will not have a good 1H polearm, as Hall of blades does not generate demon weapons

I did not know this. Thank you.

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