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BlackSheep wrote:Mesmerise can also be broken in numerous ways, and is far less debilitating than confusion.

I think mesmerise has put me in a dangerous situation all of once.

I find this thread sans comic.

Yeah, train dodging with something like FDA. Further advice for future runs "a +6 ring of protection" is really good and far better than see invisible. Use these when fights are iffy: b - 5 potions of speed, e - a potion of might.

Don't run toward unexplored territory if you can avoid it.

You were an underpowered MiFi because: Level 9.1(7.8) Armour, Level 9.0(7.7) Dodging and you were wearing sINV instead of any of y - a +5 ring of evasion H - a +4 ring of protection L - a +0,+8 ring of slaying M - the ring of the Three Tales {Wiz rC+ Dam+1} (for haste if needed) And you also had low...

Code:: ??almost dead Still entirely capable of obliterating you.

Well, I agree to an extent with raukolith in that I almost never do elf, but if I do it's right before I do Z and especially Z:5 if I'm short on resists or something. That's mostly so I can ROFLSTOMP pretty much everything there and don't waste time and turns and don't have any significant danger.

Gold acquirement is absolutely worthless unless you're a) looking to buy something in a shop or b) looking for Zig money. Literally every other type of acquirement is better barring the previous sentence. Well, maybe not food, but at least you can use the food for something immediately.

Sandman25 wrote:Congratulations!

ZoT5 is usually done when going for the orb.

No it isn't.*

*I mean it is, when you're going for a 3 runer, but I believe that generally when people go extended that they also do much of Z:5 and then go on to extended. A chacun son gout.

I think something should be done about forest because water zones are infested by elemental wellsprings that never stop summoning elementals, there's a walking tree that summons killer god damn bees by the time you're doing vaults (berserk by a queen or not they're still killer bees and the rare wa...

Another solution would be to summon dangerous monsters instead of popcorn. This isn't really a good solution either, because then basically you just keep retrying the fight until the summoner decides to not summon things (because why would you ever choose to fight the summoner + dangerous things wh...

I feel like I'm playing a different game than some posters here. People think that MiFi can't cast spells, that DEFE shouldn't melee things. I'm not even a great player and I just got a LOIE to D:27 and should have won but I fat fingered. Yeah the early game was a little harder but not significantly...

Where's the neither option? For the record, I seldom did old crypts either.

Iron shot is not a bolt spell and while it's more powerful than OOD, it's probably not worth skilling too since it's inaccurate at lower power levels.

congratulations, you can write a guide now Lol The guide is simple. DsFi can be more powerful than DsXX because an average player can survive to D8 where he finds CPA and uses it to reach Jiyva's altar in Lair. I wondered why my DsFi runs never won. It's because I never made it to D:8 where the CPA...

Yeah, that's how it has been nerfed. You can't get duplicate portals to the best of my knowledge.

And that's different from 90% of IE how? The only difference between LOIE and any other IE is that you lose out on the best spell in the IE book. Someone online said that LOIE was terrible and unwinnable. It's not (even though this is now YASD). Fat fingered near some deep trolls and shaman and ende...

Steam is so useful that I love when I'm hit by the pale dracs in Zot. It is also one of the reasons that fulsome/evap is gone.

Like forever, which is what I put in my first post.

Do we really need another thread for this?
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While not terrible ideas, they seem to have little benefit for non-trivial amounts of work. You can already look and see when your character is Full or Satiated. You also get a message when food has rotted. There is also an overabundance of food in the game for a Ghoul who can eat more types chunks ...

While interesting, I'd like to see something along the lines that LO have when they get heated up and can't use scrolls. Maybe Yeti get conserve potions but each potion takes 2 turns to drink instead of one, or you only get 50% chance of quaffing it or something like that.

This character is still slowly rolling. I'll probably finish up this weekend. Vaults has been a little tricky and I ran into Boris on V:3 although he didn't see me, so I decided to dive a little deeper in the dungeon. Besides my awesome D:18 which I now found out also has Mara, along with his buddie...

I have never seen an ass demon. I'm now quite worried what the devs have been doing in trunk.

Dungeon has been nerfed. I had a game where I didn't even do any serious scumming and had 3 bazaars, two labyrinths and a wizlab. And if you have flight, you're probably also undervaluing the power of the water card.

jejorda2 wrote:
Amnesiac wrote:I've forgotten my bottles in an ice cave this way, once...

Once you enter the ice cave, type !YPotions! and you'll get a a Y/N prompt that mentions potions before re-entering the level the ice cave entrance was on.

That's a good tip.

HO are way better spell casters IIRC. -3 spellcasting is pretty annoying.

Coincidentally I analyzed source code for invisibility yesterday and I hadn't noticed any changes from 0.12. Aquamancer should not have noticed you indeed, it does not see invisible so it had 0 monster awareness score (see http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Stealth). Invisibility in water is perfect vs en...

You can also create multiple users. The bots in IRC will allow you to map your nicknames together for stat tracking purposes.

Be aware that sometimes you're better off closing with a ranged attacker right away rather than trying to get to a corner. It's a judgement call but for example, I had a centaur warrior in a recent game wander unaware near me and rather than risk it seeing me as I moved away, I instead took a step c...

Updated slightly. Trained up dodging and fighting to deal with the tougher mobs in the teen dungeons and went down to D:19. On D:18 are Nikola and Saint Roka (and knowing how uniques get placed, probably more) so I high tailed it out of there and didn't fully explore it. Unfortunately it looks like ...

You were claiming that waiting for monster gen to stop was boring. I was pointing out that it is not boring if you try it. You can also try MuCK to enjoy XOM while you wait.

It turns out that it is possible for Erica's invisibility to wear off at exactly the same time her emergency teleport kicks in. Coincidentally, it is also possible for all this to occur at the same time your teleport happens and for her to wind up adjacent to your new position. I imagine the odds a...

Ugh, lost my reply by pressing reply button after quick reply instead of submit. MR helps protect against very specific things in crawl and it doesn't work at all like it does in NH. You can see your MR at any time by pressing @. It doesn't protect against any elemental attack like you were seeing f...

I was typing this up, but then remembered someone already did the hard work

Henzell wrote:Good targets for polymorph wand: killer bees, jellies, boggarts, harpies, electric eels, wasps, brown ugly things, and well-equipped monsters (e.g. orc knights).

Recall recalls your most powerful orcs. You can stop recalling with "ab" as soon as you have your tactical strike force. You don't need to bring the whole crew every time.

Elocution makes a lot of noise. It's comparable to pressing "tt."

Why even do that? Isn't it's boring? The game is made in such a way that you usually can manage to clear D:1-2 quickly and have enough power for the next level. That is also true for later levels when you become better at this game. I'm actually grateful for the out of depth monsters who urge you t...

Beat me to using disint on Sonja and other low MR mobs.

There's any easy way to unlock every door in the game and it's called LRD.

Oh and here's my action log. Getting IMB on D:2 was definitely helpful ; Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 || total -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++------- Melee: Whip | 27 | 1 | 36 | | || 64 Hand axe | | 142 | 110 | 155 | || 407 Short sword | | | 54 | 16...

Someone said that LOIE would be a tough combo. Other than not really knowing what I'm doing with Ash, I haven't found that to be true. The very beginning was a little hairy due to low power on Freeze combined with the "enhancer" to fire spells causing the power to go even lower. Once I got...

In mid game, there are tons of edible corpses. Secondly, getting high level conjurations up early allows you to branch out earlier into other things that will keep you alive like fighting and dodging.

They are better conjurers than HE but sturdier than DE. They also have flight and inherent swiftness + dodging boost when flying. They also level up much faster than HE do, so at an equivalent dungeon level you'll have similar HP until later in the game. With all that said, I also want to like Tengu...

Lucy is short for Lugonu :?: Lugonu used to be called Lucy, and some people (mostly hipsters) still call it that. It was renamed because lucy suggests that the god is female, and gods do not have genders in crawl. I am not a hipster, it's just that Lucy is easier to spell that Lugonu. I always have...

nago it's interesting that you feel that way because I'm leaving toward playing mostly .12 too. I don't play nearly as fast as most of you guys, but after winning a game in .13 I went back to .12. Partially that was to win SE and Pr but even after that, I played a few more games. While I like not ha...

It's often advisable to just avoid fighting mottled dragons unless you have a disable (Mephitic, Confuse, Paralysis), appropriate defenses (rF+, Conservation/no scrolls), or can kill it within a turn or two of it seeing you (Stabbing, Big Damn Conjurations). Similar tactics are often valuable when ...

Jamaican jerk chicken

Scythe envy.

Are you sure you hit the cap at 10.5? It might be that it's at low fail then. I honestly haven't played Lucy that much but I was able to banish things with OK (60s) MR pretty easily with 14 but some uniques (Wiglaf who killed me when I went kamikaze) were able to laugh in my face.

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