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Don't pick Yred. Veh is fine if you use throw icicle. Don't put any xp in stealth please. Freeze can kill lots of things. Before you get to Lair you should have one or more of these 3 things: summon ice beast, throw icicle, good polearm skill. The thing(s) that you trained should let you deal with e...

There are usually easier branches after Zot:4 than Hell. As for their difficulty, it's the same thing you said about 3rd rune: it depends on character and gear.

First you must explain what is broken.

Anyway, do non blastermages ever go vehu? Does this player exist outside of a newbie, in which case it is just a trap for new players? I picked Vehumet with a HuWr and had iron shot castable before Lair. That was the only time I picked Vehumet with a non-spellcaster though. Part of the "proble...

I sometimes wait with reading acquirement when I want to increase chances of a good wand. I don't really need a wand of hasting or hw immediately if I still have potions of haste or hw that make a wand of the same thing not very useful (useful only if you need more hw than what you have in 1 fight).

If you play online you get a page with your scores, wins, characters played, etc. You can also query information about any game you played using the IRC bots. For example if you every wondered what's the lowest level at which you got a rune or how often you enter the Elven Halls, you can find out. Y...

It has none of the problems of fulsome distillation and evaporate though...

But not a good idea because it's called burn book, that means fire, good flavor for Trog. Not "make magical stuff come out of book".

Warrior-mage.

There are many suggestions for making Abyss not waaaaaaaaaayyyyy harder than anything else you would ever encounter at the same level, but they never get implemented. I rarely get banished, and you could probably get banished less often too. But that doesn't mean I don't think the punishment for get...

I never thought of shields of reflection as mirror shields. Not the same thing.

It's a nerf.

Try using a default rc file.

What does this change add or improve about the spell? I don't think I've ever cast it, so I'm truly curious. Right now it affects the player too, but following some weird different rules or something. In any case this makes it unusable. This proposal makes it usable for characters with ranged attac...

It's sometimes good to train dodging before Lair and before the weapon is at mindelay.

Given the abundance of teleport scrolls and other consumables in the mid-game, I have trouble imagining what an unavoidable death would look like. New players do often waste consumables due to poor decisions and may end up with few consumables in the mid-game. But that would not be unavoidable nor s...

Pan: Haste, the ability to kill tier 1 demons easily or run from them, a wand of digging, enough food, regeneration or Makhleb/TSO. rMut and sustain abilities are sometimes useful. I would list amounts of consumables but it doesn't matter anymore just bring all of them. There are probably some more ...

^There would obviously be a warning before entering. The locks would be on Lair branches, not on Lair.

The lock could be on floor 2 or 3 of the branch to make it less severe. I am indifferent about these locks btw.

With a few characters I've felt like training the weapon skill past min delay was the most useful thing they could train, for slightly better effectiveness against orbs of fire and ancient liches. If you're in doubt then don't do it I guess.

The main argument that I understand made that the game is 'won' by Lair or that the early game is the most difficult part comes from the fact that situations where the game is 'unwinnable' are only really seen very early (inescapable adders with bad rolls, autoexplore into banishment / multiple orc...

greedo wrote:Lastly, you're making a race that is essentially inferior to other races in the beginning but superior in the end. See octopodes for how that turned out

Turned out to be a fun and unique race? Not that I support this one.

-Smaller numbers for player and monster data. I agree with everything except for no summoning or necro even though I never enjoyed using allies in any game. But aren't the numbers already as small as they can get? Level 1 monsters have like single digit damage and hp. It's not like having 3 digit h...

Do not switch slings, +11 is too good. Replacing it with a +0 sling is horrible. Just swap the ring of fire when needed.
The choice between the buckler with +5 slaying and resistance doesn't matter that much in my opinion. Either one is fine.

Good point, but I think yesno's talking about all the women who don't post because of the guys yesno's pissed off at in this thread. Who knows how many people that could be? I'm not sure if you're sarcastic, but I'll answer seriously anyway for anyone who is seriously thinking about this. The answe...

It'll never stop being funny to me that people unironically think that the devs are some kind of tab-happy IRL Trog worshippers This is for the best; if they knew the truth that gammafunk actually plays summoners and recommends dragon form on octopodes, it would shatter their fragile minds. @both M...

If you're going to say "literally nothing wrong with these" you probably shouldn't immediately follow that by saying something that was wrong with them. And there are still two bear monsters left! What evidence do you have that Lamia was removed for being dangerous? I can't find anything ...

If you want a serious player, you do not get the newbies. You get the incoming person instead. If you are not wanted the player, there is no need to go simple. There is a need to go more complex. (Assume DCSS is a game. In fact it is a perfectionism Art.) Only simple game you need to go simple but,...

Goliath beetle - Various deep dwarfs - Boring beetle - Centipedes - Grizzly bears, maybe also Ancient bear - Stone golems - Pan - Some holy creatures - Shedu, Paladin, Phoenix - Lamia - Ravens - Unborn -Goliath beetles are ok because despite the fact that you can walk away from them, they can occup...

Analyzing poll results I see that Blade Hands is the most problematic spell, votes split almost in half (12 Yes, 15 No). Spectral weapon is by far the most OP spell in that list so you shouldn't take the results seriously. Blade hands is my 2nd pick though. It does puzzle me why according to the po...

I don't imagine it draining as much mp as you think. It's not supposed to make a character use only one spell. It's supposed to be like "3 spectral weapon hits = 1 bolt of fire mp cost" or something along those lines. The cost is small if the player uses only spectral weapon and nothing el...

To attach an extended cost to an extended effect. If there is no extended cost then we get typical charm problems like old repel missiles (the current rmsl is also bad). If more spells that last more than 1 turn had extended costs, it would be very easy to balance them (see mp drain thread). Probabl...

Spectral weapon is OP for a lvl 3 spell. Make it higher level, increase the defenses and hp of the weapon, make it drain player mp a little on hit.

The strongest transmutation spell should not be level 5.

Storm dragon armor is better, it's pretty good to finish the game with.
Your chances of doing both portals are much higher if you do volcano first, but like others said it has worse loot on average.

One of the best options I've changed in the crawl ini is to disable focused training. skill_focus=false

acvar wrote:But is this even desirable? Do we expect long blade users to use their scimitar vs popcorn and only pull out their tripple sword for the real threats?

This is exactly the intended design for ranged weapon users.

I use teleport other and find that it's very good for removing threats. Wouldn't mind if it was improved of course.

I prefer ability to create altar -> pray at altar to bless weapon. But this is fine.

Clouds only appear around lava. There is also a warning before they appear, though the warning is rarely useful if you're not going to use a scroll of blinking. I think there is also a minimum time between two eruptions, but this is just based on observation. Using these rules I rarely (lately, neve...

He is obviously talking about killing faster. Edit: sorry after rereading each post more carefully I wish I didn't post this. That's what I get for reading posts in a random order. I think bringing up resting time and limited mp is moving the goalposts. But I completely agree with the limited mp pro...

I should have said "When you're pre-temple, actively working towards a goal that can't be attained pre-temple is a bad idea". I know you still disagree but clarifying the meaning is important. I don't agree either btw.

Jiyva is always worst choice except few races that are strong in early game. Because Jiyva doesn't nothing in pre-Slime:6. Surely killing any enemy in one hit is just a tiny bit useful. The random mutations alone are probably more useful than Ashenzari and TSO. Summon a jelly ability is more useful...

90% of my apportation uses is to pick up items from out of enemy LOS. Often statues, but sometimes sleeping ogres or uniques. This is a fair use.

also you only get half ac from boots

But is it really less AC if your leg that would've been protected by the 2nd boot is now gone, and therefore can't take damage?

LCS averages 65 raw damage, 61% of the time, and firestorm averages 56 (both then reduced by AC). That roll is slightly low, but still kills an OoF in 5 hits. Whereas that LCS roll is slightly high, and will kill an orb of fire in a minimum of 4 casts, but a mean of 5.1. So, not only is the fire st...

Blade hands should be nerfed tbh.

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New spell proposal: level 9 earth spell. Hits all enemies on the screen for almost LCS damage. "Wow this is too OP" I'm not sure this is a good spell, but I really think fire storm (for instance) is generally a nobrainer. Take an Orb of Fire. Assume you have iron shot and firestorm castabl...

Note that if you're playing on Normal almost none of these problems are relevant.

I like it for the character building aspect. I like it as much as crawl but for different reasons.

Does it work on magic immune enemies? I think it shouldn't, and some enemies would have to be changed to magic immune and vice-versa (because right now magic immune and high MR are the same thing and are assigned with seemingly no logic). If it doesn't work on magic immune I think it's a good spell,...

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