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I've also seen guest spectators coming in, not saying anything, and leaving after 2-3 minutes, not responding when I say "hello" :/ When I first started seeing spectators in my game, I would always say hi, but most were anon and ignored me, so I just assumed they were using some kind of i...

Another question you could ask yourself is "Why do I spend 5-6 mana a shot on LRD or Iron shot to kill something nonthreatening when I could swing this cutlass for free" having the cutlass be effective would cost < 1 rank in spellcasting (Short blades are really cheap to get to min delay)...

Because it costs 0 mana, and the damage isn't as terrible as you might think. Cutlasses are never high damage, but with +10 it'll handle weaker things and not cost you mana. Don't use it on very dangerous things, but save mana on weaker things. Well, I don't know the difference yet between what is ...

No it does not make sense at all to train evo for something like that on a guy like this, nor does it to continue training spellcasting. Thanks for your input. Also you still cannot swing that +10 cutlass to save your life. Yes, that's correct, because I want nothing close enough to be able to hit ...

Okay, this guy found a legendary Deck of Dungeons. Worth pumping evoc? I'd also like to pump at least 9 or 10 to have zapping a wand have the chance to identify the number of charges, so at least that much is desirable for other reasons (including increased effectiveness of current wand usage), but ...

So it was a meanie comment. Thanks.

I went afk, no spectators when I left, zero on return, but a message:

Summer game

Anyone have an idea what that means?

Oh, and I officially hate acquirement scrolls. A sign of an experienced Crawl player! (Well, to be honest, just use them on wands and don't hate them (or food if Fedhas.)) He had every wand, already, and truly doesn't need any more. Food? I mentioned to Sar being a hoarder. Here's the current resul...

Monster LCS is based on the monster's hit dice (roughly speaking, their level). It is one of the highest damaging spells in the game, but no, it can't hit you for 250. Ancient liches deal the most damage with it, which is 3d48, so you can take up to 144 damage from it. It's reduced by AC, and can b...

Monster LCS can't be 250 but it can OHK your 130 HP dude on a really bad roll (and so can monster OoD). Hunger shouldn't be much of a problem if you only use LCS on really tough targets. Well, honestly, I'm a really stingy bastard about food, he has gourmand, and I'm a hoarder, to boot, so it truly...

Sorry to interrupt, but.. With no drama or fanfare, I got the Barnacled Rune of Zot. 3 runes! I could possibly win... Went back to vaults, and started clearing level 1. It's almost too easy, now. Shoals 5 was easy, too. I have no illusions about the Depths and beyond, though. I suppose vaults are us...

njvack wrote:Something tells me you're going to like 0.15

That's a pretty accurate birdie you have there.

Nice.

I didn't get the "everyone eats normally" part. Are they making everyone gourmand? That would be just peaches.

Those are just stone walls, LRD works fine. Also, the inside is no_rtele_into, so the TRJ-jellies won't spawn inside. If you can LRD a corner and enter it quickly before the noise attracts TRJ, then you are guaranteed to fight just 1 jelly, instead of 3 in the corridors. Damn, I tried LRD a few tim...

I'm curious what your method was to take out TRJ. I usually put the fight off on blasty types until I have some serious firepower at my disposal. Although admittedly I haven't tried making do with less. Aule played that game online, so you don't have to ask, you can just watch it. 1) join ##crawl v...

Congrats on surviving Elf 3! That's quite an accomplishment! Try fireballs against Harpies. Those things have more EV than AC and a couple well positioned fireballs might get a few of them at once. Fireballs are also amazing anti-elf and anti-spriggan tools. They also work pretty darn good against ...

MarvinPA wrote:This does indeed already exist in the pickup menu:
Item letters
Pressing an item's letter key will select the item.
Entering a number before the letter will only select that quantity.

Oh, so excellent, and thank you! I could not find it, even staring me in the face.

dck wrote:the solution pretty much is to carry your stuff in your backpack and be done with it.

Well, that doesn't work out so well for a character that starts with a 4 str.

Stash is a must-have.

I'll join the others in urging you to stay out of Elf 3. Elf 1 and 2 are not that bad. Elf 3 is about 20x harder. The master archer, sword master and annihilators can all trash your character very, very quickly. Not to mention the high priests and sorcerers can summon type 1 demons that will do the...

I strongly urge you to get out of the elven halls because there is nothing but death or misery or both waiting for you in elf: 3, or indeed at any point you meet any of the big elves. Shoals is one of the harder lair branches and particularly so for this character but it's a lot safer than elf: 3 (...

Hmm, well I had a pretty bad first experience on Shoals:1, so I'm ascairt. Aside from the ridiculous player ghost, I was nearly drowned by a siren, and then got mobbed by an intractable pack of harpies. Fireball seems to do little damage to merfolk and harpies, and even iron shot was weak against th...

Forgive me if the feature I am requesting exists, please, but I cannot find it. When you press ; while standing over a stack of one item, you are prompted for the number you wish to pick up, which is extremely useful. This feature does not work when there are multiple items on the square, though. Wh...

You were right. It wasn't as bad as I thought. Good old reliable meph let me pick them off and some selective stair dancing let me get them clear. Four useless shops, but the entrance to Elf, so that's where I'm headed now.

Recharge that heal wounds wand and probably haste one too. I use up the recharges as soon as I get them. THe last one went to Heal Wounds, since potions have been almost literally nonexistent. You got all sorts of potentially good rings in that trove (particularly dex and EV) that'll probably serve...

Here's where I'm stuck, right now. Dead end, but he's not dead yet. In Shoals it is stupid hard to kill things, Slime is suicide w/o rCorr and rMut., Vault was a madhouse of constantly appearing groups in thin air, and Depths are quite out of my depth. Oh, and I found a blink scroll, so I tried immo...

It should list both of those in its short description, IMO. But that's an even nicer surprise, that there are two hidden bonuses. :) So, two major milestones today for the DEWz. Reached XL 18 (previous record was 16) and... found one rune (serpentine)! We're on the way, now! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup...

Well, there were some pretty good shops on d:13, along with The Vaults entrance and welcoming party. Cleared it fine, and bought a few things, including a nice pair of Assassin boots. I was surprised that they grant antennae 1, since no direct mention is made in the mods, and it does not show up as ...

I went and bought the MR leather, and wielded the "EV" cutlass. New stats: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-26-g5a19342 (webtiles) character file. Aule the Thaumaturge (Deep Elf Wizard) Turns: 53121, Time: 09:09:07 HP 92/92 AC 16 Str 8 XL: 16 Next: 4% MP 35/35 EV 18 Int 33 God: Vehu...

Or well probably look for the pretty dress first actually. Or look for resistances, too. rPois is pretty important for one that relies on meph - especially one that blinks - and I figured rNeg could only help. The abundance of added food sources is also quite a plus. next would probably be wearing ...

The amount of EV that dex provides is dependent on the amount of dodge you have trained, and the EV penalty from your body armour (Which may negate some or all of that bonus), and a racial dependant bonus/penalty (mostly "small critters dodge well, and big critters dodge poorly") So it's ...

cerebovssquire wrote:It won't be a lot, I would guess 3 or so, why don't you just wield it and see?

LOL, becuz I'm nub and dint tink of it?

tyvm

The lingo is confusing me. I knew the +10 was to-dam, but when he said "+10 EV" I though he meant there was a cutlass that would add 10 to EV. Then, the name of the cutlass says nothing about EV, so I didn't make the connection. So how much EV would that cutlass actually add (presumably fr...

the +10 EV-giving cutlass is 4741 | D:5 | Identified the +7,+10 cutlass "Twumeut" {slice, rElec rPois Dex+3} (You found it on level 5 of the Dungeon) So is it the +3 dex that gives the +10 EV? I wouldn't have ever known that. I already had both rElec and rPois when I found that, and I cou...

Uh okay so I don't really know all the background on this character or anything but he has a +10 cutlass of EV and he is wielding a +4 long sword instead so that's something I'd take a look at. I don't see a +10 EV cutlass? Where is that? Although I am reading something about getting both storms so...

You have literally no Ice spells and training Ice Magic right now is a terrible idea. Getting Ice conjurations now that you have LRD/Iron Shot would be a terrible idea as well. I mean, you could be getting goddamn Haste. That manual is actively harmful to your character at this moment, the best cou...

Okay, thanks. I've continued playing, and some of that was being worked on. But I also found a Manual of Ice, which will allow training Ice without the antitraining penalty, evidently, so I'm going for a little of that. Seems worth the cost, since the elimination of -4 antitraining is like getting m...

XL15, now, and about to bottom out the orcish mines. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-26-g5a19342 (webtiles) character file. Aule the Thaumaturge (Deep Elf Wizard) Turns: 45680, Time: 07:45:58 HP 85/85 AC 14 Str 8 XL: 15 Next: 22% MP 38/38 EV 15 Int 30 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 2563 SH 23 De...

Okay, so #131 seems like it could be considered a possible contender for maybe a CiP, in a vague sense. :P Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-26-g5a19342 (webtiles) character file. Aule the Thaumaturge (Deep Elf Wizard) Turns: 33108, Time: 05:42:05 HP 80/80 AC 14 Str 7 XL: 14 Next: 31% MP 37/37...

I wish I could do that. Major grats!

How about taking on 5 boggarts on D:9? They were in the little room as I opened it, and immediately battle commenced. Success, but Whoa, Nelly! Great luck with spell books this game. Without them a trap of 5 teleporting boggarts would have been a death sentence. (He was only 9 when he met them.) Dun...

I just watched the vid, too (at the end), and I have no idea why the end was truncated. Last few turns, plus the char screen and such are all missing. I also viewed the morgue at the end. Oh, well. So one isn't expected to lay waste to a frost giant using Minor Magic, then. :P Well, I'll keep that i...

The medical examiners may now commence the autopsy. Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 11 (L:2) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 12 (D:10) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 13 (L:3) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 14 (L:4 + Ice Cave) Final status: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-26-g5a19342 (webtiles) character file. 26117 Aule ...

Thanks, Sar. I found a cache of ID scrolls when I finally got him to L:3 (he's 12, now), and ID'd all potions and scrolls. One scroll was acquirement (woot!), so I used it for a wand, and got a wand of fire (ouch). I have a habit of saving enchant armor scrolls for in case the trove asks for some we...

Parts 5 through 10 are now up, taking my 128th DEWz attempt through XL11 and L:1. Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 5 (D:5) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 6 (D:6) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 7 (D:7) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 8 (D:8) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 9 (D:9) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 10 (L:1) And the current status: D...

Videos of D:3 and D:4 completions are up. Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 3 (D:3) Dungeon Crawl DEWz Part 4 (D:4) And the current status: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1-26-g5a19342 (webtiles) character file. Aule the Magician (Deep Elf Wizard) Turns: 5152, Time: 00:35:16 HP 34/34 AC 15 Str 6 XL: 6 ...

*Rage can lead to situations (if you aren't intending to be "red faced" occasionally by worshiping Trog already) where you end up helpless to stop it and come out of it before your enemies are dead, slowed and exhausted and possibly starving. I am not saying its the worst property to get ...

Okay, here goes #128. You can watch his progress via live capture, raw and unedited. No audio, just guts and glory. (At least until I murder him.) Here's the link to Part 1 (D:1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rmqrXN4_jk And Part 2 (D:2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chsRwp9sydY The character ...

A wizard, eh? Ant = meph and several magic darts. Dowan and Duvessa, same deal. Even better if you had conjure flame and could lure them into a hallway. Terence is a sucker for the flame, too. You don't even have to confuse him with meph. The MP is a little lower than a DE, but you could boost that ...

Okay, noted.

I'm going to start doing this, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYgm2gyzlNU

but I'll have to improve the quality, I think. Maybe will improve by not playing full-screen, but a smaller window (but gawd I love that real estate - props to the devs).

There's one obvious strategic error in your skill training (apart from the most obvious one, that is training so many skills at once), and that error is training so many magic schools together. Ice! Earth! Air! Fire! Summonings! Hexes! Charms! ...what? Well, I didn't overdo Spellcasting. :) Also, y...

A specific tactical error is that Hydras resist poison, so they're immune to Mephitic Cloud. The vault guard would have been a better choice, to keep it from peppering you with arrows. Right. :oops: It looks like you were fighting a crowd -- a dangerous crowd given that it includes ranged weapon us...

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