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Teleportitis 1 is mostly just annoying. Blurry vision is much more likely to kill you. But 20% HP and rF+ is really hard to give up :/ Ya I dont know what to do. Was thinking going jiyva and getting rid of of the bad mutations then abandon, but Ill probably get hit by his bad mutation penance befor...

Aight i'll go with whatever sum total is higher. I got another question. For mutations I got +20% HP and rF+ which puts me at 310 hp, but I have blurry vision and teleportitis 1. Should I use Zin to knock out everything? I really want to keep the +20% HP because of smiting/torment bs, but teleportit...

Usually when Okawaru or I find a heavy armor that gives 4O/50+ AC I put it on but hover around 10 EV. Is it better to stick with my 28 AC and 22 EV for 15 runes? I get the feeling EV is more important since endgame monsters use more range spells.

rod of clouds is pretty good. Any rod I find I max it to +9. Its a nice long range weapon for melee who has evocations

Scrolls of recharge I burn right away on a rod to +9 Scrolls of enchant weapon I hoard and wait until okawaru gives me or I find the strongest single handed enchantable melee weapon Scroll of brand weapon I use on that weapon if I find or given with no brand on it Scroll of enchant armor im not too ...

Did elf on a formicid fighter with 64 AC 12 EV and 36 Shield, ran into Aizul and preceded to get owned and killed by poison spam. EV reasons Stupid reasons. Dropped all my scrolls and pots by stairs. Didn't want them to burn or shatter and figured nothing is a match for me on Elf 1 and 2 which is a...

Did elf on a formicid fighter with 64 AC 12 EV and 36 Shield, ran into Aizul and preceded to get owned and killed by poison spam.

GC/GSC?

Welp I found a reason - formicid with a claymore. Holy crap im roflstomping everything

Zin makes it super easy negating Hell's effects and gives 100% mutation res. I always switch to him for extended game.

I tried Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead and it really is a fun game and pretty deep being able to craft many things. The only problem is its so damn easy. I guess you can mess with the sliders to spawn more zombies and lower item spawn rate to change that, just doesn't excite me too much to only do that b...

While its not ideal to face more than one enemy at once, its unavoidable This is wrong pretty much all time. Even when it is not wrong, the advantage you gain from cleaving is incredibly minor for a variety of reasons. 1 or 2 damage is in fact much better than cleaving. More obviously, reaching is ...

Axes may be weaker than other weapons. but only by a little. While its not ideal to face more than one enemy at once, its unavoidable and with cleave you can hit up to 7 at once. This is way better than the 1 or 2 points of damage lost compared to other weapons. I dont see any reason to use any othe...

I just wish I used my +27 lear's haubrek more. 50 AC for the win!

This is the stupidest thread I've ever read in the Advice section. :D People are happy suggesting an endgame god for a character we know absolutely nothing about. Not necessarily. Unless your build requires an evil/chaotic God, zin really is the best end game God with Hell protection and mutation p...

Welp, so much for that. Was "o" - "tabbbing" for the longest time raping everything even 2 areas of hell. Went into gehenna and hellfire spam galore. Little did I know it ignores ac/resistance/etc resulting into quick death. Cool beans.

To quote duvessa you don't need rMut That said, Zin is a very good god for extended. Sanctuary is basically a guaranteed escape from any situation. Imprison is also a very strong escape tool, or simply a way to stop that guy from casting torment/hellfire for a little while if you really need him to...

As it stands, I played the mutation roulette and burned all 5 cure mutation pots I picked up. Thats right kids, only down beneficial mutation pots because random mutations rarely turn out good. All I have left is the extended game for 15 runes. I still need to do the abyss and slime pits along with ...

I also learn the hard way to STOP and think of every possible action I could take when im in a life or death scenario. I too have died many times stupidly when I had other options and would have lived.

Im always tempted so hard when I come across a pot of random mutation/mutagenic corpse and when you can mutate from sparkling fountains. I ruined my last high level char with bad mutations so I put the breaks on my current high level since I have 7 good mutations and 2 bad at the moment.

I agree, when you are very hungry/near starving corpses become a rare drop to butcher

Had an elephant graveyard in one of my games

It's funny. I know Nikola CAN spawn outside the Swamp, but he never seems to. I've gotten to a point where I just think of him as another swamp threat. ^^;; EDIT: Well, I've discovered something else myself - Orbs of Fire aren't as bad as I'd been lead to believe. Its fireball barely did a fifth of...

Sorry, but "1+1=5" has nothing to do with definitions. "I define X as Y" can never be false. Theoretical example: "I call 3 runes win a lazy/pathetic/normal/standard/stupid win". And why doesn't it? It certainly can. {I define "1+1=2" as "1+1=5"} - ...

I think by 'proving a negative' people mean like: You cannot prove there is no such thing as 'X', but you can disprove that 'X' exists in any given location. And I suppose even that's limited, so I guess you're right to say it's incorrect to say one cannot prove a negative, or I don't properly unde...

Yeah, that's true. But the statement of "I consider 15 runes normal" isn't objectively false. A normal game would mean a typical game. If he plays most games going for 15 runes, then in fact for him 15 runes is normal. If he said "In my opinion, the crawl community considers 15 runes...

Oh god, what happened here? I was merely being pedantic, saying that one cannot say a statement of opinion is objectively false. I also agreed that my 'normal' game is to attempt 15 runes. In DCSS culture, a 'normal' game is 3 runes. If you have a different definition of 'normal', you should make t...

Havent been far on melee been playing casters. Only hard thing I faced in Swamps was that turd Nikolai without rElec. I went at him three times fully buffed and almost got 2-hitted all three and decided wait until I got res. Shoals on the other hand is way harder, if one of those 5 nets that fly acr...

Sandman25 wrote:Monsters are generated randomly all the time (it's a simplistic description but true enough), not only when the level is generated.

So i see.

I have suffered many o' deaths from what seems to be perfect place/timing of monsters by stairs, corners, etc.. all too often and has left a sour taste in my mouth. These instances involved a previous room being 100% explored or a current room 100% explored yet running into a herd while regening hp/...

I think Xom can make Abyss very hard so I am not ready to discuss him. It could be useful to see dump for Tengu caster of Sif Muna, it has good movement speed and can run away if necessary. Were you trying to kill everything that had come into view? Usual advices about using melee weapon for popcor...

Sandman25 wrote:Are you a heavy armour character of Trog?

One character was heavy armor of Xom and my 27 was a tengu caster of sif muna which will be fun to run into the ghost of.

Im at the point now where I can clear the main game and basic vaults, but when going extended starting with the Abyss I get wiped out even on level 27 characters. How do you survive in there when its constant battles with no rest? Do you just keep running having 6+ enemies following you or what? I t...

Like a previous poster said, Xom is definetly better/best with mutations, I have 15 good ones and 1 bad one right now lol. Im on a minotaur instead of a demon spawn though so no 4 extra mutations =p

After dying countless times realizing its super easy to die. Once you learn that truth and get past early game with a heavily played/invested character, you'll think twice about being reckless as any corner you turn could = death and that means starting all over again. Unless its a character I know ...

If you enjoy DCSS and dwarf fortress I'd highly suggest Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Post-apocalyptic roguelike with zombies, great character customization (stats, perks, mutations - and skills you level up by using them, like in Ultima Online for example) and a complex crafting system (you can even...

I recently been playing and enjoying little known games like Dwarf Fortress and DCSS that have small to no budget, but still get updated and are intricate. Are there any other games similar to these out there that Im missing?

duvessa wrote:You need to either go up the unexplored staircase, or teleport.

Hah how stupid of me not realizing there are more than 1 upstairs on the second level :roll:

So im on tombs:2 and there is no downstairs. The wiki says theres a 3rd level and has a rune. Is it hidden behind a wall? If so that sucks because wand of digging doesnt work and I have 0 in earth magic.

Just tried demonspawn jiyva and died stupidly to a hydra, like the above person said the mutations are transient so jiyva kinda sucks for gaining mutations as they come and go. I still think he would be the best choice because you can eat as many mutagenic chunks/sparkling water/etc. and never have ...

Sar wrote:Xom will give your character a lot of positive mutations, but that would require playing with Xom.

Doesnt jiyva give mutations more often? I know jiyva also has exclusive mutations xom cant give.

I think the idea is Jiyva is supposed to be a late game god. At low levels, you need to worry about slimes eating items, XP loss from slimes killing monsters, and getting useless mutations. At high levels there's junk all over the floor you couldn't care less about, the slimes don't make a differen...

Since he spawns later in the lair or very rarely early, is there anyway to get him early like altering save files etc? Would be nice if he was in the temple

Just after making this thread nearly got raped by sojobo. Had to deal four twice on him, would have died if him or his buddy got one more cast off on me. Stealth keeps going up past uncannily stealthy, there is no cap that I know of. The only reason to raise Charms to 27 is for the awesome title. Tr...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. Shizmoo the Imperceptible (Spriggan Assassin) Turns: 56373, Time: 08:10:09 HP 61/117 (122) AC 10 Str 7 (8) XL: 21 Next: 20% MP 35/41 EV 35 Int 16 (17) God: Nemelex Xobeh [******] Gold 3811 SH 18 Dex 23 (26) Spells: 1 memorised, 17 leve...

But why did you take off your hat upon getting blinked closer by Roxanne? Was there not a better action to take? I was at full hp after blinked and the hat slows you. I was gonna run away after taking it off, but I didnt know she drops 60+ per hit. If I knew she did I would have did something diffe...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. 77368 Shizmoo the Destroyer (level 15, -17/72 HPs) Began as a Tengu Conjurer on Apr 6, 2014. Was the Champion of Sif Muna. Killed from afar by Roxanne (63 damage) ... with a crystal spear ... on Level 2 of the Shoals on Apr 7, 2014. Th...

If you go upstairs for the first time and end surrounded, then it's very likely that either you didn't explore the whole previous level before going deeper or you were in Orcish Mines with 50 HP. In both cases it is your fault IMHO. Also ?Fear and ?Blink could help so if you had such scrolls but ei...

I know how you feel trust me. This is game is just pure BS. What you call "BS", I call "inexperience". The beautiful thing about Crawl is that while it is a very challenging game, completely-unavoidable deaths are an extreme rarity. No matter how badly you feel the game has scre...

Kind of like elephant slugs in lair, no? Well I wouldn't call them popcorn, so I guess we are just using different definitions. This game obviously wants you to play overly cautious and only fight battles you have a 100% chance of winning no less which is a very lame. This bit of the crazy rant is ...

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