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Sif is usually recommended for mummy casters because of hungerless channeling, and since felids have innate gourmand (not sure if there's a difference between that and carnivore 3 anymore*), it's basically hungerless for them too. This character couldn't fully enjoy the benefits of Sif because it wa...

it was removed just because to annoy players who played mutation roulette Probably just to annoy every player who tries to go for more than 3 runes. And slightly annoy everyone who can make it to Zot:5 too. Yes, the game spawns enough cure mutation potions but the annoyance of having to respect an ...

I don't love it when i spend time and resources to access isolated dungeon areas and find nothing inside.

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Mummies and other undead can't cast anything while silenced though.

Just bring that early dungeon vault with fake runes and Orb of Zot back but make those items real.

I'm a pretty slow player myself but i use in-game annotations and shopping list instead of an external text file for this stuff.

Malevolent wrote:...When I'm tossing OOD after OOD at a single tough enemy. It always makes me feel like this.

Apparently, Yoda was wearing an amulet of reflection.

I wouldn't mind having branded ammo. Dealing 25% (?) more damage is pretty good.

... i meet a hydra and it always 1 or 2 shots me and i dont know how to deal with it. It runs faster than me, resists all of my wands, and chopping off its heads with axes of flaming gets me killed before i get two shots in... Even in spider form it kicks my ass, and i thought the evasion would hel...

You can try out DrTm, it's not as hard to start as OpTm because you get some armour and a breath weapon. You can potentially become a dragon too, that's fun. It's hard to come up with a build that doesn't use the tab key or blast dudes with spells though (besides a stabber one). If blasting with wan...

LJFCAT wrote:Starting with shields; should one unequip?

minmay wrote:i mean i don't really have an elf fetish since i don't feel sexual attraction/arousal at all. but if i were straight, or gay, or lesbian, or bisexual, or anything else, then yes, i would probably have an elf fetish

Well, that escalated quickly.

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Vulnerability + Banish.
How come nobody asked OP what was his Evocations skill at?

It totally looked i don't know how to use the Swiftness but i just never remember to do so if i learn it mid-game. If it gets used by non-AEs, Swiftness should be in a good spot balance-wise. We could give Stoneskin the same treatment and make it decrease AC after expiring. This doesn't sound like a...

On a related note, do people actually use nerfed Swiftness with non-AE's?

There's not only a wand of hasting but Haste spell too. You would usually just find that. Especially with Sif Muna, of all gods.

I've actually had some food problems (to the point of acquiring food) on my last caster of Sif because i spammed that channelling ability like crazy. The thing is: if you assume food is irrelevant then channeling instead of pressing 5 is the "optimal play" in those high HP, low MP situatio...

Yo momma so stupid magic dart makes her starve.
Yo momma so ugly she terrifies even Gloorx.
Yo momma so fat she falls through dungeon floor.

If you really want to kill Khufu for some reason, just drag him to a staircase and go up/down if he ever summons stuff so that they disappear. Bring a wand of disint or digging to make sure he doesn't try to heal up with his tomb. Well, that's the Tomb:3 guide for me. I decided not to risk fighting...

The second MuBe is not as lucky as the first one and had some serious weapon problems until Lair:2 which gave it a +9 quarterstaff of freezing randart. In fact, its dps was so bad that i had to steal minotaur's loot from the lab and leave him running around Lair:1. You might even argue that a charac...

Well, i found a way to kill this character: teleporting from a few very ugly things on a barely explored floor of Depths into a whole bunch of more dangerous crowds of enemies. No idea why i didn't waste a few fear/blink scrolls or tomahawks of dispersal instead. Mistakes were made. Very novice mist...

You can just sit outside bolt of fire range and let a bia kill it. Yeah, seeing as i would not tab even an ice dragon, with a fire one the plan would've been something like BiA-disintegrate the door-blink scroll. The question of whether that'd be a good risk to take remains open. Anyway, the fire d...

Well, it's been 3 years since i splatted a bunch of MuBe's (the most successful attempt being this one), and i'm into this again. The very first attempt started with finding a +1 hunting sling of evasion on D:1 and continued with running away from a bunch of uniques on later floors and yaks on D:5. ...

Meanwhile my naga found the lightning scales at Vaults:5. It was her only barding the whole game and she couldn't wear it because Chei. #1 Chei unreason right there.

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Ring of permanent cTele + Blink.
IDing legendary decks as non-Nemelexites in attempts to find Elixir.
Silent digging for Passwall stabs (could still be awkwardly replicated with Silence + disintegration).
Enslaving a giant eyeball to paralyse TRJ.

The RNG gets a lot of opportunities to be unkind -- it's rather normal for such events to be realized multiple times throughout a game. Especially if you habitually give it extra chances to do so. (also, it's not clear to me that OP never got any MR gear; the tone of the OP makes it sound like he w...

To be fair, the RNG was rather unkind to OP. He got an ogre mage enemy who had the one exact spell list, decided to cast paralysis out of all spells in it, won his 15% roll and got a maximum duration paralysis. All of that plus he didn't have an MR ring after Orc:2 as a Gozag worpshipper. His positi...

Formicid of Qazlal in just two hours. That's actually very impressive.

I don't have an exact breakpoint number for you since i haven't played with Makhleb since 0.15 or so. Normally you'd want somewhere around 10—15 Invo with most Invo-based gods uncluding Makhleb. The number you pick mostly up to personal preference/XP budget and should be a bit higher if your god has...

Or you can just stay in one of the tunnels so that you'd have only three non-wall tiles adjacent to you, buff up, summon a couple bros to occupy spaces except for one you leave for TRJ and then just bash it and it everything it spawns one by one with your good dps. Don't fight the thing in the open ...

But ranged is basically a polearm which reaches the entire screen ...which by itself is incredibly, incredibly powerful. So I don't really know why you're saying it's absurd to think that it's better than melee. I called the statement "seemingly absurd" because you don't see people runnin...

Things that would help you deal with Saint Roka include Makhleb's demons/conjurations, potions of invisibility/might/haste/agility and curare needles. However, you absolutely don't need to go to Orc now, the branch is normally done after Lair. And, given your circumstances, you might even want to cl...

It's nice to see someone other than myself finding felids interesting. It feels very rewarding to survive/win with such a restricted race yet the limitations are offset with extra speed/stealth/lives just enough to make felids viable if you play well. Plus they are cats, isn't that awesome? I can't ...

The masterminds of Tavern™ would tell you that ranged is superior to both melee and conjurations as long as you have enough ammo. I can even recall this seemingly absurd quote by one of them: the lengths people go to in order to try to prove melee in crawl is good compared to ranged attacks, or that...

Also I hope you're aware that standing in water negates most benefits from invisibility, even for octopodes/merfolk . Wasn't this fixed back in 0.12 or so? I couldn't find that commit in the changelog but my invisible wizmode octopode gained +50 stealth in water and didn't receive the "don't e...

Yeah, thank you. I was really dubious about everyone saying do abyss over vaults but I thought maybe it's just 'cause I didn't know enough? Although it's a lot less true in .17 or below when you could still ring teleport. But in trunk I won't even look at the abyss (on purpose) unless I'm level 27 ...

kuniqs wrote:Try out hydra form. It's lots of fun in shoals!

Literally the last words of my DrTm who should've just lived his life as a statue.

Vaults:5 is usually done after Depths, if at all. If you're familiar with the Abyss, it's much easier to get the abyssal rune on a vampire with 27 stealth: you turn into a bat and fly away from just about everything until you find a rune vault on the third floor. That place is known for killing inex...

CanOfWorms wrote:Well the situation is better since now you don't actually need ?vuln due to shrikes not being rPois.

That's a bit, ahem, confusing. Are you suggesting using Mephitic Cloud with 1/7 chance of success? Alistair's won't work on them since they are animals.

Haste + !Resistance + ?Vulnerability + mass confusion = cute little birdie xp in the bag. Not tried discord, but that might be even more fun... Unfortunately, we're not allowed to have a good AoE Hex spell anymore and are supposed to spam Shadow Creatures instead. That's more "interesting".

Iron giants have 2 EV, so it's very hard to miss them. Bolt of Inaccuracy is the best tech against them. On a related note, recently i learned juggernauts are so fast that they have 10 EV despite being giant. Bolt of Inccuracy pretty much never hits them. The same thing goes for quicksilver and sto...

Outside of weird cases like this one, does the rune lock on vaults have any impact on the way anyone plays? Does anyone get one rune, go clear vaults 1-4, then go back and get the other lair rune? Would people do vaults 1-4 before finishing a lair branch if they could? Even without need for crossbo...

So, i wanted to try out a ranged build in modern Crawl and and picked crossbows because i like penetration/silver brands as well as the high base damage they deal. As it turned out when i searched for xbow discussions on the Tavern later, even bows have superior dps and throwing is the unarmed comba...

Passwall should work too and it won't require extra spell power.

Make a unique kraken monster with a siren on top of it.

So, i switched to a +5 FDA for Zot and started walking around with a staff of wizardry in hands and fighting only with BH up. That and having no crazy regen was a bit inconvenient, plus to my surprise, i couldn't use Ozocubu's Armour anymore (i never pick that spell up so i thought it'd work with me...

MTLA is better than +4 FDA unless you are in zot or gehenna. +8 FDA probably a wash. It really depends on if you want a level 7/8 spell. Deflect missiles and aura of abjuration are both solid pickups. I was recommended against DMsl, don't want Aura of Abjuration and shouldn't need cBlink with 12 sc...

I think FDA will give you more AC, but if you don't think you need the resist fire from FDA, I'd stick with Moon Troll- the spirit shield and regeneration are pretty good. Though if you do switch to FDA, consider just wielding a Staff of Wizardry for Haste and Blade Hands instead of training spells...

Having +4 FDA to swap to is probably worthwhile for Zot since you never know when an Orb of Fire will show up, but I'd wear Moon Troll instead for any non-Fire locations of the game. I wouldn't worry about Silence unless you're doing Tomb, and I'd definitely train up Fighting and ignore Dmsl. I thi...

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