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I imagine wand of fireball is pretty good against killer bees and blink frogs.

If the problem is isolating monsters, clearly what monsters need is a buddy system. Whenever a pack is generated each monster is paired with at least one other monster, and they are aware of everything their partners are aware of. Luring a monster upstairs also brings their partners upstairs, regard...

You can still get -4 cloaks, it's just body armour that get set to +0 because no one's going to wear a negatively enchanted body armour.

You mean the part where it says "Humans advance quickly in levels and have equal abilities in most skills." ?

Invisibility will carry you through Spider since most of the threats can't see invisible. However that's a bit overkill, for the lower tier threats you should still be able to put them to sleep, or in the worst case confuse them. Only demonic crawlers have enough MR that neither will work, so you ca...

Jeremiah wrote:Replace random altars with cans of worms

noooooooo

It's mostly any monster that doesn't have rHellfire and is high enough HD, but I don't think the undead ever qualify.

*Tele is technically different from regular teleportation because you can only get teleported near monsters. I guess it's even better now since vault rooms usually have a high concentration of monsters???

Edit: Come to think of it I do remember using one to skip the Tomb:1/2 stairdance.

*Tele hasn't worked in the abyss (or the labyrinth) for quite a while. (Note the 3rd paragraph in the commit message.)

If you manage to make a Dissolution perler I'll be impressed!

Just default it to unthank, like that people won't realize how to thank!!!

It has a failure rate if you have less than 130 piety (low end of 5*). Yes, I learned that the hard way too :v

Well usually at the beginning of the game claws don't have delay 1.9 and an accuracy malus.

TeshiAlair wrote:Maxwell's Rubber Armour:
Elec Immune, 6AC, -15 Enc, but no penalty for misshapen body.

This is still worse than the chain mail's 8 AC/-15 Enc for deformed body given how the armour formula works (the bonus is multiplied from the base AC, not the AC after deformed is added)

The only reason you know that 80 is better than 120 is that you have been informed of their meaning. A player looking at the screen does not understand that those correspond to costs, because they could correspond to a different scale (80 could mean you only get 80% of the experience compared to 100...

But it does not matter exactly how the game keeps track of skill points. Imagine that you go to some country and its currency is unintuitive, e.g. a candy bar costs 20 million dollars. You can still accurately manage financially by converting everything to a currency that you're comfortable working...

You can also press ctrl+x if there's a mass of monsters and you want to see what they're all wielding simultaneously.

But if that's all you know, that can lead you to play extra poorly. There is undue psychological reluctance to train a skill with a negative aptitude. If your armor skill is -1 and your dodging skill is 0, that does not mean you should build your char as a robe wearer. So the player should be given...

The most important thing a player needs to know is that if they see species A with a -1 aptitude, species B with a 0 aptitude, and species C with a +1 aptitude they immediately understand that A is worse than B who is worse than C at skill X. They don't even need to read the manual to understand bec...

Destruction also has Storm.

I'm not quite sure how to deal with the "passives" point. The improvements to the polymorph ability are all passive, and there are now four of them. However, I'm not sure that's quite the point you were making. I think you're saying there needs to be a passive ability that doesn't simply ...

Doom Hounds can only howl once and can't summon more Doom Hounds. Summoned Doom Hounds don't howl at all. Is that how they've been changed to work? Or is that a proposed fix? If it's a proposed fix, why not remove them entirely because they're just a pack of shittier reapers now? http://git.develz....

Most existing god abilities that spend piety don't actively make your situation worse. A lot of them do RISK making your situation worse though. Mahkleb summons come to mind. Perhaps I erred too much on the conservative side with my abilities. What if the polymorph ability was improved even more? S...

Doom Hounds can only howl once and can't summon more Doom Hounds. Summoned Doom Hounds don't howl at all.

Most existing god abilities that spend piety don't actively make your situation worse. There's also a better polymorph god: Nemelex.

What am I supposed to do here? You had 9 spell levels left. You knew the following spells: Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger a - Magic Dart Conj #### 1% 1 None b - Dazzling Spray Conj/Hex ###..... 24% 3 ##..... c - Repel Missiles Chrm/Air ##.... 28% 2 None d - Swiftness Chrm/Air ##...... ...

Armour Moulding is just the Draconian's secondary gimmick (natural AC in exchange for the body slot) except instead of being dictated by XL, it's dictated by floorgod (finding armours/enchant scrolls), and I guess you can get lucky with randarts/GDR has a modest impact. Armour Weighing is pointlessl...

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CanOfWorms wrote:No torment immunity???

immunity to negative energy

hmmmmm

Oh, I just read that as rN+++.

No torment immunity???

I would guess (in no particular order)

DD - start with wand of Heal Wounds
Sp - 0.6 move speed
Ce - 0.7 move speed
Tr - Claws 3, Robust 3 and Regen 2
Dr - Robust 1 and innate AC

You just need more Staves skill to get a lajatang to min delay. For normal lajatangs the min delay is 0.7, and speed drops that by 1/3. (so randomly 0.4 and 0.5)

Curing mutations is a strategic element of the game. Spells are a tactical element of the game. Due to MP regen, making spells a strategic element of the game will never happen since it effectively makes those spells cost 0 MP. That's why the Divinations school was removed, because all of its major ...

Vampires are also skewed from bat form, and for some reason some players like taking off all their armour before ascending????

No, shadow dragon armour has an ER of 15 and even if you invested in str in every future level up you'd still come up short on mitigating EV/spellcasting penalties. I mean, put it on right now and look at your AC/EV and spell failure rates.

If you go higher than mottled dragon armour the low str will cripple any EV you have. Ideally you either want troll leather armour or steam dragon armour depending on whether you want the extra AC or the Regen+, then use Ozo to get more AC.

Confused monsters are unconfused when they're revived by lost souls though...

It reduces accuracy for most monsters iirc. (Undead/Profane Servitors/Dith followers aren't affected?)

wizzzargh wrote:TSO is whiny baby ripoff of Mahkleb who cries if I accidentally hit a Devil-Zombie if it's distracted by its own evilness

TSO doesn't actually care if you stab demons/undead...

1) Remove Disjunction, a level 8 spell almost no one ever learns since for the same spell slots you get cblink. Actually, now that CBlink got moved up to level 8 I usually pick up Disjunction at the same time since you'll have the spell levels for it by the time CBlink is castable, and if Cblink is...

ydeve wrote:Yes, I'd take the half turn required to swap on the rMut amulet.

He's pointing out that if you're already wearing an amulet, it takes another half turn to take off the one you're currently wearing.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-425-gbbe2579 (webtiles) character file. 6091129 wormsofcant the Grand Gadgeteer (level 27, 207/207 HPs) Began as a Halfling Assassin on Nov 26, 2015. Was the Champion of Pakellas. Escaped with the Orb ... and 12 runes on Nov 29, 2015! The game lasted 11:37:4...

Train up some more Evocations, find a Disc of Storms and go hog wild in Tomb.

I don't see how Nem requires a lot of piety use. Triple Draw is the ability that's used most often, since Deal Four and Stack Five both significantly reduce the amount of cards a deck contains so using them will not only reduce piety, but the amount of cards you get from gifts. You can avoid invento...

Here's a simple solution: code the features you want in as a patch and submit them to mantis.

Don't cast high hunger spells, eat permafood, by the time you run out you can call food shops. There's usually a ton of permafood.

It doesn't really matter how many cards have been drawn from a deck; deck size is highly variable. Once I got a deck with 4 cards in it (I knew because it was as legendary deck of Escape I tried to stack) and I've had decks with 12 cards in them. The game also tracks usage/ID data for you so it's ju...

I upheld clan Edit-Nevermind Dead's reputation by losing a streaking SpEn on the ascent, an ascetic SpEn and a streaking HOGl of Elyvilon after clearing Zot:1-4.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.0-26-gececa24 (webtiles) character file. wormsofcant the Hand of Fortune (SpEn) Turns: 54715, Time: 03:12:18 Health: 89/89 AC: 7 Str: 4 XL: 17 Next: 10% Magic: 26/37 EV: 29 Int: 22 God: Nemelex Xobeh [******] Gold: 45 SH: 5 Dex: 18 Spells: 10 memorised, 18 leve...

Silence is also level 5, unless it was bumped up in trunk.

Yes, that's normal. Guardian Spirit prevents MP regen for Deep Dwarves. It even gives a specific message about it when you put it on.

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