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Siegurt wrote:If a monster is 11 tiles away and you could hear it shout, you could hear it shout regardless of where the noise that wakes it up originated
why?

Because that's the way the game works.

Mostly you should stack decks of escape. Blind drawing individual cards can be a life-saver in the early/mid-game, but it also comes with appreciable danger. In the later game, with plenty of piety, it's almost never a good idea.

I would prefer it if staffs in particular (and weapons in general) did not give resistances or defences. It clogs up inventories (staff of air is often the only serviceable rElec source around) and often leads to lots of swapping. I concede that the benefits are usually marginal, but sadly that does...

Pop the character dump into code tags, it'll make it easier to read for us. I don't follow my own advice, but if you want to use mainly spells to kill enemies then you should mainly train the spell-schools that kill enemies. In your case that would be conjurations to get the power on Searing Ray / I...

Mennas is one of those enemies that I avoid, if I can avoid. Reading teleport immediately for example. If it's an area I need to pass through, because the stairs are in bad places or something, then I throw everything at him. With this particular character I would quaff haste, then summon brothers u...

So, you haven't joined a god yet? And you are currently wielding a not so good distortion weapon? I see three choices: 1) Join whichever god you like & unwield. If you get unlucky, you'll go to the abyss, and you might die there. Your chance to survive this is pretty good by the way. 2) Join whi...

Code:: The rust devil is struck by lightning. You kill the rust devil! Qazlal accepts your kill. Your base Armour skill increases to level 3! You hear a shout! x24

In my view there's a big difference between sprint and the regular game. In sprint I die from difficult enemies and the occasional bad decision. In the regular game I tend to get in trouble because I lose focus, and then make bad decisions. It's like asking if you can have a gold medal for the olymp...

And all boots are galoshes?

To take it in little steps, perhaps there could be a maximum of 1 overflow altar on D:2 and a maximum of 2 on D:3.

Unarmed without claws or forms strikes me as bad. Weapon brands and enchantment make a big difference to damage output. Yes, unarmed gets OK at high skill level, even without claws or forms, but at what cost? As far as I'm concerned, two species should start with unarmed, if that is an option: Tr an...

A +9 demon trident of chaos is fun until it hastes an orb of fire or berserks an orb guardian. I plead temporary derangement of the brain.

Another option would be to just remove staff of energy. Although I would probably stop using higher level spells because the hunger management is just a little too annoying.

It's a shame that DD aptitude for bows is so poor. I guess overall you're still 'fine' on XP though, with Invo/Evo +3 and Armour/Dodging +1. Piercer will stay relevant for the entire game. Eventually you'll get to the point where you have another longbow with a damage brand, and ultimately better en...

Is there a staff of energy in the dungeon? With that you can just carry on casting whatever you want.

Try a few different gods. A lot of extended is much more forgiving with The One True God. Zin.

The first time you enter is different, because entering the first time only takes half the time, which usually means you get to act first. I thought first action was guaranteed the first time. Has this been changed? It's possible that I don't understand this correctly. I'm fairly sure it takes 7.5 ...

I wish CboE wouldn't randomly drain Int, or worse make you lose all your mana. This results in an enormous amount of pointless key presses.

That's quite unfortunate. Because of stuff like that I usually don't enter unexplored staircases of floors I've already been on. The first time you enter is different, because entering the first time only takes half the time, which usually means you get to act first. In a recent game I went down to ...

Some summons are actually fun. Lightning Spire is probably my favorite. It's predictable. It doesn't move. There's only one. It has many uses. Great all around spell. (Maybe a bit too strong...) Unfortunately, many summoning spells don't have all (or any, really) of those nice properties. I'm lookin...

I was just going to say, it's nice that Oka gifted you all this gear, and then I realised that you are with Qaz. Those are some solid items! I'm assuming you are killing most things with crossbows, and I think you should train a bit more crossbows and leave invocations for the time being. There are ...

Don't play while the cat is begging for food. It has a terrible effect on concentration.

h - amulet of Crawling {Reflect rF+++ Int-4 Slay-3 SH+5 SInv}

How extremely fitting, in multiple ways.

I think the staff hurts you every time you cast a spell. Makhleb can offset that nicely. Gourmand also works fine for managing vamp. I think it's 'only' 1 HP per 1 MP spent. Not exactly crippling, but still, it can add up in longer fights. I can't really answer the question about how much dodge/figh...

Well, generally speaking, that weapon is certainly strong enough for the rest of the game. And it won't cost you any additional XP! One of the nice things about Draconian, in my view, is that you get AC without encumbrance and without training armour skill. That makes Draconians excellent sturdy spe...

You could just give a (heavy) piety-cost ability to refresh the pool.

Do you not get access to cancellation?

Perhaps the best thing to do is to keep things simple. On conversion, you drop all wands, evokers, potions, scrolls, ammo (including thrown weapons) and food. You get punished for picking up those items, or using them from the floor. You can pick up and use armour, weapons and jewellery as normal. T...

You can then step around a corner and summon some allies, or go invisible, or use Trog's Hand or something. Except getting lucky with MR+ items or always having allies move in front (extremely tedious, but I do this sometimes), there's no other way to prevent explore banish without player chance to ...

Yes. I think recharging only makes sense if wand charges are actually scarce, but that just isn't the case.

With Heal Wounds and Hasting gone, and Digging having so many charges, what is a current use for the scrolls anyway? I tend to go with Clouds later in the game, or Hex wands early, but it never feels particularly necessary or powerful.

The issue is that you walked into the enemy's los. Yes, moving is more dangerous when your move speed is slow, but this could still have happened if your move speed was fast. If you are standing still when an enemy wanders into view you will (probably: there are factors at play here such as enemy r...

I support the sentiment behind this proposal. Reducing the number of potential inventory items is a worthwhile objective. That said, maybe this proposal is too radical for me. Starting with stacking (and reduced spawn rate) and trimming a few more wands, like Enslavement, Acid or Lightning, Confusio...

Solid gear, crazy defences!

Fedhas gives several very powerful abilities. In the beginning, of course, it's mushrooms. If you are a Fedhas worshipper, always walk around with a few mushrooms. There are some very tedious ways to maximise the returns, involving shouting a lot and counting attacks and so on, but it's not really n...

What happens if you just wait until stuff shows up and then start blowing it up?

Just pick a level of fighting or UC, then you will get a simple table that shows defence.

You could also pick levels for fighting and UC then you get a simple single output, including defence.

You better not start studying physics...

Fear might have been fine too. I might have used tele when I saw Agnes, instead of fighting her. Sacrificing scrolls is pretty bad, but love is likely worse. That's because with summons dangerous situations can usually be completely avoided. It's very slow though... I like that Ru restricts options ...

I find spark wasps quite scary, particularly without rElec. I was going to recommend evocations to you, but Ru got there first. That's probably the one sacrifice I find most scary, although it's a bit less bad now that heal wounds, tele and haste wands are gone. Still, wands of clouds are very good,...

I don't think this proposal solves the stated problem. There needs to be a bit more power earlier. Spellpower, hit chance, range, wiz, casting speed reduction or something!

VeryAngryFelid wrote:The point of Dex is extra defense, chance for stabbing and stealth which is not shown in those fsims.

I would be mainly interested in the EV. So seeing defence numbers as well as offence numbers would good.

If maximizing win rate is your true goal, shouldn't you be excited to get a real strong god like fedhas twice in a row? It's not a well-argued point, but in essence that's not how my brain works. For me there is an internal struggle between wanting to do everything I know will help me win and not d...

Only faded altars before D:4 is a good idea in my view. I wouldn't usually use them, unless I was really desperate, but I also wouldn't feel bad about passing on Fedhas or Kiku.

That's interesting. I never felt that my damage was lacking as Tr, although accuracy can be annoying. I guess you are right in the sense that you get something that's always useful for Str, while the returns for Dex/Int are more marginal. I should probably fsim a bit to see how much Str does and how...

I was never able to get reasonable returns on EV as a troll going dex + dodge, even when doing 2 runes + vaults 1-4 in a +2 robe. That game a few versions ago. I guess it partly depends on what you consider "reasonable". The difference even between 10 and 15 EV is definitely worth having....

I look forward to the implementation of your change. The god of purity demands, well, purity after all.

I would not be opposed to that, but it might be difficult to agree on the comparitive power levels of the gods.

Or you can use this opportunity to walk away before you die.

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