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Should Chei slow allies? Should their HD be raised to compensate? applying slow status would be too harsh, because that would halve their attack speed. slow + might would be more reasonable (i think a monster that is both slowed and mightied does same damage per turn as monster that is neither). i ...

Sprucery wrote:But I agree, felids should go back to not being able to use wands.

how many felids did you win before they could use wands, or at all?

I just assumed that all claws are treated like having a stabbing bonus like felids. Also I didn't know that Felids can stab with claws for the longest time, I learned it by pure chance. its a recent change. i'd love all races to be able to perform dagger tier stabs with unarmed combat, or at least ...

you should be able to do first 8 floors of depths ziggurat, good loot to be found there, good chance for rmut amulet too, i wouldnt go past that, you might end up on -ctele floor you wont be able to handle

if you die it will be mostly because of the armour you are wearing, throw it away

ololoev wrote:Gong is great in zigs where noise of blocking is not that important. But I cannot imagine a good way to use it somewhere else.

it works everywhere you can dig killholes that means i shouldnt wear it in vaults

Sprucery wrote:
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- Level 17.4 Maces & Flails + Level 7.7 Polearms

With that much invested in M&F, you were going to switch?

b - the +10 demon trident of Gromua {god gift, vamp, *Rage Dex-1}

yeah i wanted a more tabby weapon for where itd work. not optimal but i didnt care

Why? i just splatted a cool VSSu of chei who managed to find and cast monstrous menagerie before lair but i noticed that chei doesnt grant piety on ally kills. could that be changed?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (webtiles) character file. 326788 kroki the Warrior (level 21, -14/144 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Fire Elementalist on Feb 12, 2015. Was a High Priest of Trog. Killed from afar by an ogre mage (35 damage) ... with a crystal spear ... led by an ironheart preserv...

that you didnt put exp into polearms

just kidding, id go for a weapon

To be fair, the 32 EV is including an !agility buff, here. But yes, the slaying and that plate are definitely exceptional. With those stats, I would have learned some spells, though. That's why I don't like quaffing might/agility before escaping. That EV 32 was closer to 20 in most fights. i am sor...

I can play photo realistic games fluidly on my pc but WebTiles? Oh no, we can't have that. It's not even server lag, just the game itself is much slower online, every action needs several seconds to be executed, auto-exploring takes minutes, as does casting or attacking or just anyhing else for tha...

you spent 29 hours on that character and quit at zot:4? i just dont know anymore

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (webtiles) character file. 4337734 kroki the Conqueror (level 27, 199/199 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Venom Mage on Feb 11, 2015. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 7 runes on Feb 12, 2015! The game lasted 04:55:30 (99829 turns). k...

Any species can "snowball" or whatever when they get good loot. I mean I had a MuNe who liberated an enchanted demon blade from Maud in Lair, pained it and tabbed through a lot of the game without much trouble. Does it mean Mummies are strong? It probably doesn't. Does it mean good loot i...

felid are challenge (shit) species This I do have an issue with: Fe are actually very strong. All species are stronger, except Mu, Fo, Op. Any objections? op snowball stupidly fast once you get statue form or just some good rings and fo make excellent abyssal knights. the true shit species are huma...

celem wrote:Nice work!

Spent a lot of time trying to win Mummys myself but never really considered a berserker.

Congrats

edit: no spider rune? what happened there?

good question, i think i didnt like the spider ending, decided that slime will be easier and after that forgot about spider

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-3972-g91ea21f (webtiles) character file. 1522520 kroki the Slayer (level 27, 187/233 HPs) Began as a Mummy Berserker on Feb 1, 2015. Was a High Priest of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Feb 11, 2015! The game lasted 04:51:40 (87505 turns). krok...

comebackshane wrote:Mercilessly massacring everything in sight in an unstoppable blood craze and ritually sacrificing the corpses... is as evil as it gets

its not massacring if its in self defense

Since we're on the topic of long-declared impossible game adjustments, ignoring G&G, I think the best compromise for dual wielding that the devs might conceivably accept would rip off the boardgame Descent : instead of making multiple attacks, off-hand weapons simply added modifiers to the main...

Has this ever happened? 15 floors of dungeon and I still haven't found the altar of Dithmenos. Nor in the lair or orcish mines. How to proceed? you sure you autoexplored every floor from d1 to d9? if i remember correctly all altars except for jiyva and lugonu have to spawn either in temple or from ...

I found this easy way to win with Trog: 1. Tab till Trog gifts you a vampiric weapon 2. There is no 2. I just started a MiBe relying on this tech, I'm standing on the dungeon entrance tabbing for 2 hours but still no vamp weapon... Any thought ? On topic : using some Tm require heavy invesment, if ...

Well if you meet orbs on any floor that is not Zot:5 you can just tele and it will likely put you into an orbless spot. You don't need to fight it. Yes, all you need to train for DF is "some transmutations". Statue does not give you rF, anyway, only some HP. Trog's wrath includes paralysi...

thats great unless you meet orbs on every zot floor and run out of consumables to fight or flee them, this actually happened to my first febe that made it to zot and simply couldnt handle orbs and what accompanied them all at once. what you are proposing is a gamble, what i am talking about is a saf...

How is that more straightforward than staying with Trog and buffing and killing oofs because you have like 27 UC and do a shitton of damage? because as a felid your only source of rf is jewerly and if you dont find more than rf+ you shit out of luck, and even with rf++ youve got a tiny hp pool that...

it is the most straightforward and easy to execute strategy, especially considering starting as a Be. both dragon form and statue form exist in multiple books so theres a huge chance player will find at least one of them before zot.

febe^trog is fine all the way to zot, but if you arent comfortable with killing orbs you should switch to makh and go dragon/statue form. its what i did on my only felid win

the only thing id change would be damage on cold themed monsters such as big ugly white things, azure jellies and simulacras all of them are a bad case of not doing anything at all to you until they get an above average roll and suddenly you get blown the fuck out within two hits from full hp. and m...

Dual Wielding: An oft-repeated idea that has consistently been shot down as 'never going to happen in Crawl, ever.' See: "Ideas that will never happen in Crawl, ever." And then, Gyre and Gimble was added. its not dual wielding, just a weird "quickblade" that attacks twice a turn...

i used wiki a lot (and still sometimes do) to look up monsters. for anything else you better ask on tavern or ##crawl. worst thing you can do is to follow the "guides" on wiki, they are really bad.

Cyan consumables are always good, no amount of dice-rolling will get you a purely bad result (potion bene mut, scroll acquire) unless you get wild magic and suddenly your bread and butter spells become uncastable and you are more or less fucked if you can't cure it, or horns that make your randart ...

i was thinking for a good minute and couldnt come up with one good reason to wield that thing

duvessa wrote:Is there an actual compelling reason for very ugly things to exist? Surely 6 different regular ugly things is enough.

for them to turn white and 2-hit you from full hp even though youve got rc+

Dodging is even more key because EV is worth more than AC to your DD. This again because he cant heal, rather evade outright than damagesoak. Looking through your character this is about the only skill-training difference from my i don't agree, id rather have control over how much i get hurt than t...

you will most likely die with zig just skip it

I consider Ratskin cloak to be one of these, honestly. Obviously it's not super powerful but early on I will always be glad to get both rPois and rN in the same slot. I've never seen the cloak but early on rN is only very marginally useful (draining attacks are rare). I would probably wear it if I ...

Since its related, what about Jewelry, or Evocables that will give alot of temporary mutations Pretty cool, make it work like wretched star pulse, but weighted towards good mutations (scaling with evo), add contamination cost to prevent abuse. Maybe it could have a chance to malmutate adj monsters ...

id name him Mogglaba the Devourer, God of Gluttony. otherwise seems kinda cool, even though he wouldnt work well in extended (not that i like extended in its current undead/demon infested form)

Code:: Starved to death ... while paralysed

thats hilarious

much worse. only daggers get flat damage bonus to stab, and its a huge one. id macro "wa" to 1 and "wJ" to 2 and switch between them

dont intentionally mutate yourself if you plan to win, if you do well - you will be marginally better, if you fuck up it will likely kill you

MuBe is solid choice even though you cant berserk. careful play and proper usage of brothers in arms will get you a win.

but its not going to be fun until midlair atleast

oh they are behind glass, now i feel stupid

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xentronium wrote:For instance, the qw bot won 5 of its 250 games in the 0.15 tournament (wtf...very nice job coding that bot).

So if your winrate is less than 2% you're not human and somewhere above that you start being a filthy scummer

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Smelly: makes you smell like an animal. +Stealth in Lair, -Stealth everywhere else. I do like the notion of unrandom artefacts having unusual and unique traits to make them stand out from just being Rather Nice Random Artefacts, but I'd like them to be a little more distinct or practical than just ...

unless you want to farm zigs just stick to veh

It seems pretty clear to me that the existence of long streaks and high winrates disprove your "helpless" claims. Actually, it should be clear that the existence of streaks amongst such numbers of deaths more likely proves the influence of randomness. Randomness almost guarantees streaks ...

is this real life

good troll thread i enjoy

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