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The only things you need to be able to get a lot of EV really fast is to be not troll sized and to have not ghoul dex. I was curious about this so did a little wizard mode testing: XL 6 HuGl who raised dex, wears leather armour, and has level 10 dodging has 4 ac, 18 ev, and takes AvEffDam 2.9 from ...

normally generated potions are 23.3% curing, 11.5% heal wounds, 6.5% restore abilities, 5.3% poison, 5.3% might, 5.3% agility, 5.3% brilliance, 5% speed, 2.8% invisibility, 2.8% flight, 2.8% resistance, 2.8% magic, 2.8% berserk rage, 2.65% mutation, 2.65% lignification (slowing), 2.65% paralysis, 2...

Well, on a species with really skewed aptitudes and not great strength (merfolk, halfling, maybe others) you can quickly skill up a load of EV in a robe while your armour aptitude is so much worse that you can't skill up the AC very well and trying to will crap your EV. That's an unusual situation t...

One-Eyed Jack wrote:Armour skill doesn't affect the ac gained from hats or helmets.

wheals wrote:It does. It should be renamed Armour & Haberdashery & Cobblering & Knitting, though.

To be perfectly factual, because armour skill multiplies base AC but not enchantment, it does affect helmets (because helmets have base ac of 1) but not hats (because hats have base ac of 0).

good tactics to take enemies one at a time and blasting the shit out of them with IMB+battlesphere works pretty well, I think.

got some more good gear to think about... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. Shitbuster the Wrestler (Troll Monk) Turns: 60076, Time: 05:12:16 HP 150/223 (224) AC 20 Str 28 XL: 22 Next: 69% MP 27/27 EV 24 Int 22 God: Okawaru [******] Gold 7037 SH 25 Dex 20 Spells: 7 memo...

Unarmed is good, so good that you don't need claws and definitely don't need to check weapons (doing so tempts you to switch away when you really don't need to). And if you're looking for a good non-Troll species for this, draconian is pretty great.

Marbit wrote:Do armour obstaculizes attacks with all weapons or just with UC?

I know there is a tiny accuracy penalty for all melee attacks, but this is so tiny it is pretty much unnoticeable. For UC, attack delay is affected as well.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. Shitbuster the Brawler (Troll Monk) Turns: 15756, Time: 01:10:53 HP 136/136 AC 8 Str 22 XL: 14 Next: 2% MP 18/18 EV 14 Int 7 God: Okawaru [******] Gold 1020 SH 0 Dex 15 Spells: 3 memorised, 10 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : ...

If your piety drops too low with Trog, the game tells you can no longer regenerate and be protected from hostile enchantments. That kind of sounds like it makes you have Deep Dwarf hp. While it will become pretty clear to the player soon enough that this isn't the case, it can cause some temporary c...

My average time for recent wins is 3:36:06, of course this is inflated by idle time. Wow, the idea of ascending a character the same day as starting it is pretty mindblowing to me... To the OP: duvessa AKA minmay is one of the best players in existence, so don't take that as an example of a normal ...

WalkerBoh wrote:I'd like to keep the scope purely to players who are interested

I'd like to try this but I'm not sure that I fall into that category: I will probably forfeit all Deep Dwarf characters and maybe others that get boring. If you have no problem with that, sign me up.

Sandman25 wrote:Teleporting Shadow Dragons or blinking Ancient Liches are very annoying.

Those are annoying if you insist on beating them to death, but often good if you just want to get away.

Tab reaching works which is part of why reaching is not as bad as some other evoke thing might be.

But uh...does anyone have any suggestions on making not just sling bullets but also stones autopickup for characters that start with a sling?

Doh, why didn't I think of looking in program files! Thanks.

I saw this 2. File system -------------- The following files in the Crawl's main folder are essential: * crawl These start the game. (The actual name depends on your * crawl.exe operating system.) The docs/ folder contains the following helpful texts (all of which can be read in-game by bringing up ...

There is something I don't get about shadow action...it basically is just giving you +badass. How is this interesting? Or is it not meant to be interesting, just something to prevent the god from being underpowered?

damiac wrote:Meanwhile all attacks are at 1 aut GDD post: still open. Clearly only really bad suggestions are entertained on GDD

This is my favorite part

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Azrael wrote:Nope, stick with Unarmed Combat. Later on it'll hit just as fast

I believe great sword of speed will get to 3.5 aut per swing whereas max skill unarmed is 5.

For more detailed information you could copy the character and use fsim.

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Darts are great at waking up a single slime creature. Killing tends to make some noise so I try to lure it some distance away before killing it.

Look for bucklers and protection-branded weapons, these things are very helpful even if you rarely kill stuff with melee attacks. Of course if a good weapon presents itself you might prefer that since being a melee badass has its advantages. Ignore hunger costs and eat permafood if you're very hungr...

For all non-player entities in the dungeon, movement speed and attack speed are identical. Elephant Slugs don't just move very slowly, they attack very slowly too. (Slower than 10 aut.) Fast moving guys get multiple attacks in a 10 aut period. This is what duvessa and Siegurt are referring to. This...

I guess you could make the argument that it is bad that it can be annoying to figure out how many steps to take when trying some sort of hit and run using melee against certain enemies. But the fact that you need to take four or five steps back actually helps prevent kiting from being too good. If ...

If you are faster than the monster you are attacking, then you can melee kite with 10 aut attacks too. Or, y'know, with any ranged attack; not sure how those are any better. Those attacks are better because they are fairly easy to kite with - if there is distance between you and the enemy, strike, ...

Ah yes, you must be faster than the monster you are attacking in order to do that. Made an edit.

Well you can't kite an enemy that's dead, so it would be okay if that could be a short action. Or it could waste the turn. Wasting the turn would probably be better for its simplicity so that players could know that taking a swing always takes 1 turn.

Having melee attacks be faster than a turn results in the ability to kite melee monsters slower than you with a melee attack. This should probably be disabled because it is so tedious. So I propose that attacking at a speed faster than a turn always takes a full turn but will attack multiple times. ...

Could do a variation of dark since d is open. Darik?

I don't think that a Beogh Reform™ is what needs to happen; rather, I would like to see something be done about ally item use. Because the same problems with Beogh apply to mercenaries and Yred ghouls (though admittedly to a smaller extent). Sorry to say I don't have any original ideas for a solution.

Morgue.

Looks like the problem with the shield on this character is the penalty to spell success.

Go to vaults I suppose.

If you find bolt of cold, learn it (it will replace throw icicle). And grab a buckler.

diviton wrote:Life: Win American Ninja Warrior. I made it on the show last season, but didn't make it as far as I wanted to. Hopefully this season I do better.

I never heard of that show but it sounds like pure awesome

Crawl: ascend a no-stashing-no-backtracking-no-raising-strength deep elf mage that does not suicide due to inventory frustration

Life: don't ask.

TehDruid wrote:This topic needs more anti-Semitic references. 6/10

be careful what you wish for

Okay so you guys are saying basically: What seems like a sensible solution is to make heavy weapons be bad, compared to lighter ones, at zero skill, but scale better with training to become better. This makes sense and introduces decisions. Making weapon delay go linearly down all the way to 27 make...

I suggest that minimum delay should be reached at skill 27 for all weapons. This eliminates the breakpoints, or magic numbers, in the skill system that strongly encourage the player to know the formula and do calculations, which is a very bad thing (I think we all agree that magic numbers like this ...

A vampiric analog for casting is problematic. Allowing healing on ranged attacks is very strong, and allowing mana recovery on magic attacks is also very strong; unlike the vampiric axe, you aren't forced to put your body on the line in exchange for your added recovery. Also, unlike a vampiric axe,...

I may be wrong about this, but MDA seems to be strictly worse than plate as long as: you don't care about spell success or stealth and your dodging skill is not better than your armour skill. This character has no spells, practically no stealth, and more armour than dodging as well as a better armou...

Orbs of fire are cold resistant. freezing ammo + flaming launcher = plain projectile, unless that's been changed And no, I wasn't shooting OOFs with flame arrows, I used venom or cold arrows to overwrite the brand. But even against the draconians it was rather weak. This was with 27 skill with hero...

I'm pretty sure GDA with 12 str is not a good idea

It seems to me that this whole "posting" process could be automated, based on this, which would save a lot of people a lot of time. Well, every once in a while some add-bot tries to fulfill this wish of yours but the mods ruin it for all of us. It's really unfair too because you can learn...

I'm curious to hear what kinds of patterns other people see from certain posters siegurt/sandman/commanderc usually says something about formulas or code dpeg usually says something about flavour or theme NOPE usually says NOPE galehar/marvinPA usually says a thread is not following GDD rules brend...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.0 (tiles) character file. 19192335 Effigy of Badass the Invulnerable (level 27, 201/201 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Berserker on Dec 6, 2013. Was the Champion of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Dec 12, 2013! The game lasted 07:26:42 (79506 turns). E...

duvessa wrote:
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l - the +18 crystal plate armour "Baequwaist" (worn) {Dex+3}

That oughta bake your waist all right

- If you're going for extended, you'll probably be switching from Trog to TSO anyway. (and if not then you're going to have bigger problems than this decision) what is this I don't even To be absolutely clear: Berserkers never need to abandon Trog and it is almost always (if not always always) subo...

That is a cool list but some of that stuff isn't natural or has high MR. Basically your best targets are probably going to be ice beast, goliath beetle, crocodile, brain worm, and big kobold, since those are all natural, fairly common, and have only 20 MR. Dwarf is just as good of a target but quite...

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