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Kobolds frequently spawn with blowguns.

I agree that adders are more common, and are very deadly if you run into them at XL1.

Going back to dungeon helped a ton. I guess the earlyness of the Lair entrance sort of warped my expectations of how hard dungeon would be if I returned to it. I was able to farm up heals trivially and get back on track. I also re-focused on Earth skill, since that's ostensibly my primary kill metho...

This isn't Lair:8. :( I'm getting chased off L:6 and it's cutting into my food reserves hard. The problem with greater servants is many: 1)They steal "my" kills, keeping me from getting the heals I depend on 2)They can spawn evil, and if the wiki is correct, it's a certainty they'll turn e...

I'm getting wrecked by death yaks. Even pulling them up a stair one at a time, I just get destroyed and am blowing consumables like crazy. I've dropped two or three permanent MP on wand of healing charges, despite getting HP-on-kill online very early in the game. I don't know what to do. My drops ha...

I just gave this a try on a 7" Nook and it's still a bit too hard to reliably press the action buttons you want consistently. And the little buttons that let you select which batch of actions buttons are currently on-screen are still way too small. Also, I haven't figured out how to Quit (which...

I like polearms, and ideally I'd go with it on that character as well, but I held off really skilling it until to see if the RNG would tell me to go something else... and did it ever! +3/+1 vampiric battleaxe, on a DD, a guy whose best aptitude in Axes. Booya! Then, 16 Axe points later, naturally , ...

Scroll of vulnerability is definitely too narrow and rare for it to change gameplay in the manner I'm thinking about. Like, I think it would be interesting if my Earth Elementliast had to decide whether or not to dip into Hexes for "Tashani" to keep Petrify relevant, or just unmem Petrify ...

ALRIGHT IM BACK CHUMPS LETS DO THIS!!!! LEEEEROIIIIIIIIYYY JEEEEEENNNNNNNNKIIIIIIIIIINSSSSssssss

and actually does nothing once you hit 3* piety, even if you later drop back down Can someone explain the rationale behind this mechanic? It seems really strange to me, and makes me feel like I'm compelled to game the system somehow. Like, with a Deep Dwarf Healer, for whom you have this very gnarl...

Lulero wrote:
You should be fine though. AC53, EV34

The orb run is about 50% harder: Instead of 'tab' and 'o', you hit 'tab', 'G', and '<'.

This is pretty cool. Not really playable on my Samsung Galaxy S II (4.27", 800 x 480) screen though. My fingers are having too much trouble consistently hitting the right tile/button. Maybe with a capacitive screen stylus? And sometimes my eyes literally go cross-eyed trying to focus on the tin...

8AC seems a lot better than going from rF+ to rF++.

There's two separate issues here. There's a clear distinction between the "big fruits" and the "little fruits", in that the latter, when it spawns, spawns in large numbers and makes Fedhas a more attractive choice (and also, that your 'luck' at getting little fruit is a major fac...

It's an un-resistable debuff that reduces magic resistance. It was important to land early in difficult fights (especially versus raid/boss monsters) to increase the likelihood that subsequent debuffs would be able to penetrate the monsters's magic resistance and take effect. It seems to me this is ...

I think it's worth noting that you put silly stuff like this in your options file: :if you.turns()==0 then : you.train_skill("Unarmed Combat",1) : you.train_skill("Fighting",0) : you.train_skill("Axes",0) : you.train_skill("Armour",0) : you.train_skill("...

I don't really get the point of training stabbing to 8 if enemies can see me. If you are like me, when you read hyperbolic's guide, you got the impression that you should turn off everything except stabbing until it hits 8. Based on discussions I've had in IRC, that wasn't the message that was tryi...

What about Mummy summoners? They're usually behind some pets and can throw 'em under the bus as they run away slowly.

But I'm having a bitch of a time getting these guys going. I tried following the guide , but relying on imps just hasn't worked out for me at all. Those fucking crimson imps won't stand still and fight, and eventually I run into an orc warrior or hydra or whatever that just tears through all 20 of t...

Holy son of a bitch, I'm still in Lair on 35k turns.

YAVP! My first online win. http://crawlus.somatika.net/dumps/ddubois/morgue-ddubois-20120907-070134.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-275-gc452a4f (webtiles) character file. 9143079 ddubois the Conqueror (level 27, 276/276 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Gladiator on Aug 23, 2012. Was the Champi...

Ok, I'm coming back to this character after playing offline/zotdefense for awhile.... http://crawlus.somatika.net/dumps/ddubois/ddubois.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-275-gc452a4f (webtiles) character file. ddubois the Conqueror (Minotaur Gladiator) Turns: 157509, Time: 19:14:27 HP 290...

I tried to stick it out for a bit, but quickly realized I just wasn't equipped to deal with smoke demons, so instead I took option #3: Switch to Lugonu, jump out, and immediately go back and beg Vehumet for forgiveness. I'm back to 5 pips already. So far I've been hit by Luguno's wrath twice: Gettin...

I'm standing on a Lugonu altar. For the most part, I'm actually holding my own with the inhabitants, but a hellion bullsmitted me to like 4 HP before I made my escape, and I really want to get the fuck out of here. (Having Flight memme'd has been super clutch!) So, convert or no? And if yes, stay wi...

Mutations: were you quaff-id'ing your potions? I used to do this all the time; I don't anymore. I save all early id scrolls for potions. 2341 | D:2 | Noticed Terence 2341 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You are dopey (Int -1). 2351 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You have a pair of small antennae on your head. 2...

I've cleared out Zot and everything else in the main dungeon except Crypt. I left it for a TSO conversion, which I'm no longer sure I want. Zin's protection against mutation was very helpful in ZoT:5; it saved my bacon like 20 times, since there is no "rMut anywhere in the dungeon. I'm thiking ...

Boring, I know, but I have some semi-interesting equipment decisions. a) Weapon: I'm not sure how many scrolls I needed to dump into a lajatang of speed to make it better than the artifact flame/+Inv/rF+ lajatang, but I'm pretty sure I have enough now. b) Armour: I need both the Str+3 from the ring ...

Grimm wrote:The guide says "Repeat step 3)" but the steps are not numbered.

Same thing with the FE guide. Dude needs an editor.

# time to swap in rMut force_more_message = neqoxec.* into view force_more_message = orb of fire.* into view force_more_message = cacodemon.* into view force_more_message = shining eye.* into view force_more_message = mnoleg.* into view force_more_message = pulsating .* into view force_more_message ...

KoboldLord wrote:
ddubois wrote:should I be filing a bug report on mantis, or... ?

Yes.

Ok, funny thing, the version I was playing was dated Aug 7th, and looking through mantis, I see this: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.ph ... 8#bugnotes

I think it's already fixed. Very good customer service here.

You can deal with the tedium of sacrificing if you are playing a recent version of crawl with autoexplore stopping on sacrificable items. Macro autoexplore to "pray, autoexplore", eg. o -> po. Hold down autoexplore and hoover all the things. You probably want to inscribe your stash with !...

I'm too much of a loot whore to skip Elf.

Wow, that game was absurdly easy. I just tabbed through everything. Titantic slime? Tab. Mara? Tab (OK, I berserked when I realized I was getting hit by myself, but that hardly counts, because myself was ridiculously OP). Swamp end vault with half a dozen dragon and more hydras? Bro x2 and Tab. (9 h...

I think an oklob corroded it.

Running a "lajatour". (Seems terribly overpowered; not sure if that's because of the vampiric lajatang, or if my initially-targetted lajatang of speed would have been just as effective.) Anyway, I'm not sure what to do with armour. I'm actually getting a decent amount of ?EA this game. I u...

Why Abyssal Knight? I don't understand playing a DD without any of Trog's Hand, Gain Health/Power From Killing, starting with Vampiric Draining in a book, nor Lesser Self-Healing.

Scumming is pretty silly in general ... if you are strong enough to scum abyss (pan) why don't you just go get your runes and win? Unless you worship Lugonu, in which case it is kind of not a bad idea other than boredom. I don't feel maximally confident that I'm ready to win. I had to run from Asmo...

Abyss scumming is a terrible way to prepare for the post-endgame. It's actually harder for a late-game farmer than Pan, on account of your resting hidey-hole being constantly deformed to let monsters in, and is likely to be less lucrative too. This is really dangerous advice. Pandemonium is way har...

I got a couple of bad mutations from an orb of fire, so I decided to roulette a bit, then drank a cure mutation (my fifth!) when things started to go bad. Anyway, long story short, I ended up here: You have a beak for a mouth.* You possess an exceptional clarity of mind. You are dopey (Int -4). You ...

That amulet!

If I'm going to switch to TSO, I should probably get my Staves up to 12 before I switch, eh? I don't want to be stuck without Makhleb's healing and without my demon trident of pain, being forced to farm piety with only Iron Shot/Shatter and heal with only wand charges.

I had sort of given up on staff of earth and started training Polearms some more, but I had forgotten about the big batch of loot at the bottom of Slime Pits. Actually, I was a bit scared to go into Slime Pits because of the wall damage, but it turned out to not be much of an issue. I memorized Dig ...

⋅ I have 14 potions of mutation and 4 :D potions of cure mutation. ⋅ I haven't been to abyss yet (which I play on 'o'/Tab'ing through for hours at a time to scum XP before tackling extended), so I haven't to deal with endless neqoxecs and cacodemons. ⋅ I haven't been t...

I was planning on fire dragon armour the whole way; the artifact steam dragon armour was a recent "unfortunate" drop in elves, and came after the skill investment. That said, it's freakin' hard to get enough enchant armour scrolls in this game. EW are a dime a dozen, but I don't know when ...

So, I got past my Negative Nancy phase, and things are going rather well now. I've upgraded to the perhaps the best sling in the game. Also, there's a $3006 Hat of the Alchemist waiting for me on Orc:4, but literally ten seconds after I dinged that amount of money, a shop on Vault:4 offered me a dem...

If I pump my Evocations, will these wands suck less?

Spell power for Stone Arrow is the average of your conjurations and earth magic, and spell power for Petrify is the average of your transmutations and earth magic. Trying to raise your spell power with more earth magic is comically inefficient here, because one more level of earth magic is more exp...

I was avoiding skilling weapons to force myself to play like an EE. My understanging was that I'm supposed to be killing stuff before it gets in melee range. Plus, I'm not sure if I will eventually go into demon trident, or staff of earth. (Basically I'm just trykng to put off that decision. Given t...

Does spell skill and/or power affects resist rates? Because I can't petrify these jerks, but like 10%. Stone Arrow is doing is doing less damage for me than Sandblast (with than stone, obviously; without stone that pos does as much as '.'), no joke. It takes an entire mana bar of LRD on a neighborin...

A vampiric short sword is unlikely to carry you through a three rune game, let alone a 15 rune one. Eventually you won't be able to dish out damage quickly enough and your leeching won't be able to keep up with incoming damage. Do you read the OP in which I said "I begrudgingly assume I'm even...

My feeling is, if I'm never needing Trog's Hand, and I don't really care about his gifts (I'm assuming I'm not lucky enough for him to hand me a vampiric demon 1-hander weapon), then worshiping Trog is a waste of half his utility and all of my awesome +3 Earth aptitude. Plus, I'd like to see extende...

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