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By "not able to be killed on any given turn" i meant "not at risk of dying on every turn"

' Is this going to be another one of these threads where you repeatedly fail to understand what the discussion is about but nevertheless reply over and over again as if you're right about it anyway? you are also ignoring majang's argument (and other similar arguments in this thread) with your respon...

Part of what makes a good tactical position good is the availability of retreat options from that point. Autoexplore is (as bel said) prone to lead you deep into unexplored space with a narrow path back to safety bordered on both sides by more unexplored space. Once you run into enemies and make noi...

Do allies reanimated with animate skeleton/animate dead/simulacrum follow the same duration rules as summons--i.e. one of 6 possible ranges of duration? Is reanimated ally duration dependent upon the time the monster originally died or the time the monster was reanimated?

Arguably most vaults are 'bad' in the sense that they encourage accessing spoilers more than any other feature in the game. However, some are particularly egregious and encourage a) metagaming to an obscene degree or b) they impede the playability of the game. ITT, post the vaults that could be remo...

3. !Brilliance sets all spell failure rates to 0%, no power bonus lol potion of firestorm the most dramatic reduction to inventory clutter for the lowest cost to gameplay would be the removal of all types of damage brands/resistances. this would hardly impact tactics/strategy and would prevent the ...

By splashing do you mean "piles of items spread out across the floor until every pile has 1 item?" I have heard this suggested before by duvessa iirc and I think it is a better solution than the status quo, even though it would require some sort of 'corpses remain where they are' clause to...

"Hmm, I wonder if that pile of loot has a corpse underneath it. Let's gamble a turn and some MP on the chance it does." This is one of the most infuriating interface issues in the game. Before venturing into unexplored territory, it is optimal to drag every single item onto a single tile ...

They don't give xp or piety, and gold is gozag's piety, so... probably not a bug. It would be better if they dropped gold tho

I think blink is one of the best designed spells in crawl because it is so mechanically transparent (it's not perfect---im not exactly sure how blink works with odd terrain/clouds/traps) and I would hate to see breakpoints or fiddly spellpower considerations added to it. I personally don't think it ...

Fyi armor encumberance doesn't affect spellpower

I think there are too many spells that would lead to interface screw/would require weird special casing for this god to work. 'just dont learn the spells' doesn't really excuse the problem. Even if it worked, it would realistically end up being just another ally god. That being said, a capstone abil...

Alternately, is the safest unexplored place to go always the least dangerous unexplored place?

Crypt is notorious for being a pretty chill place to bide time/gain xp. There are some dangerous monsters (alich and curse skull), but even considering these rare threats crypt 1-2 feels roughly as dangerous as V 1-4. It is definitely safer than depths, and you can clear it after depths if you want....

What is the question here? I don't think you've chosen the most effective way to ask what you are trying to ask, unless your underlying question is "how will people respond to the question asked in op?" Will people change a habit for money? If it's a lot of money, yeah. Conversely, people ...

Wa randbooks are weird. They [tend to/always] have two spells, one lv 1 and one lv 3. I don't see why they can't have lv 2/4/5 spells. Also, because the spells [tend to?] contain one mutual school there is a disproportionate chance of getting meph/ignite pois in any given wa game.

Having spent the better part of my adolescence in a particularly terrible labyrinth, I came up with a pretty ingenious idea (if I say so myself) to make labyrinths a nicer fit in the game. For those who aren't aware, many players (such as the venerable crate) have voiced dislike for these mislabeled...

If you can kill everything w/o apocalypse, don't use apocalypse. Definitely don't try to get a bunch of monsters on screen to maximize its power. Apocalypse is one of the best panic buttons in the game though, and is worth using against anything you need dead asap, even a single target. The drain is...

This is a tangent but hellcrawl's inventory situation is worse than regular crawl's due to the lack of stairs. You have to pick up every single item you could conceivably want and then when your inventory fills you are stuck making the same trivial decision btwn probably useless items, except you ha...

If you can get discord castable w/ brilliance it is a cool but rarely optimal way to clear lair branch endings.

Why 'commit' to a melee weapon if you can kill anything by getting your spells online?

Vehumet lets you build a certain type of character consistently (if your background is appropriate) and this type of character can steamroll the game at a certain point. In a streak in particular where after the early game u are mostly playing a game of 'don't fall asleep while driving,' vehumet is ...

It is worth noting that zzxc and elliptic's streaks made use of vehumet, an oft memed-on god, probably due to availability/character synergy. Is it a bad thing that players might have to make the decision of taking a decent god early vs an optimal god later? I think balance is good, and sif for exam...

Distortion is super powerful but so annoying it is hardly worth it. In zot you will banish some things and kill a lot of things w/ the xaxe's rediculous base damage + disto's electrocution-esque irresistable damage. However, you will also blink enemies into the path of your retreat and teleport hard...

The ?/ function is nifty, but flawed right now. It is inherently spoilery, in the sense that you can't use it unless you know what you are looking for. Plus there's a ton of absurd names in crawl: getting attacked by a summoned invisible monster? Good luck looking up Leuryocrypa. The solution to thi...

FWIW I don't mind that silence is a spell, but I get the argument that if silence needs special-casing to not break the game's balance and special-cases are unintuitive and already excessive in crawl, maybe silence just shouldn't exist outside of consumable form. I also think that the typical hexes ...

Lightning rod is weird b/c if you use it 3 times you are incentivized to use it once more against nothing so that it can recharge.

If silence is bad from a game design standpoint, its strategic power is irrelevant. It could be a lv. 9 spell used by almost no one or a lv. 3 spell that everyone picks up and still have the same gameplay issues that it currently has: it single-handedly neutralizes a portion of enemies in the game (...

tbh i have no idea what strategy is the best, but https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23669 seems like it has some decent advice. my plan is to streak if possible, probably starting off with easy combos before they become worthless. also i might spectate teammembers' games if i'm...

Celesta, you're in. It doesn't matter which server you play on. As a reminder, I'll be playing as bazoo. Right now my rc is

Code:: # TEAMNAME Corpulent_Orb # TEAMMEMBERS Chobophobe Pedant cerealjynx Salix

cool, added

njvack wrote:All I can say is wand of clouds with 20 evo is baller as hell

...and with 15 evo...and 10...5...0 (although it's basically cloudcone meph at that point). It's true tho that corrosive clouds are nuts, as are negative energy/thunderstorm against enemies that can't resist them.

cerealjinx/stickyfingers, if you want to join my clan I have two spots left. Right now the roster is bazoo Pedant Chobophobe [bottomlesspete]

If anyone else wants to join a team, I'm starting one.

Corpulent Orb is the team name. I play as bazoo on cbro and I will be the captain. Respond below or message me if you are interested; players of all skill levels welcome.

edit: for reference, clan sign-up is open until 6/2

Fr: split evolution into two abilities, grow mushroom/grow oklob or whatever. Oklob comes online later & costs more piety. The only cost for either of them is piety: no preexisting plants are required and accordingly the corpse praying mechanic gets replaced w/ usual piety on kills. Oklobs/mushr...

Yuff. Rhymes with "duff."

How do you deal w/ teleportitis in Zot, specifically Zot: 5? Assuming you are out of mutation potions, is the best bet to farm a safer area until you can remove the mut?

Apport is xtra broken in abyss.

Abyss is miserable in general tho. It is unpredictable and therefore more dangerous than vaults or slime, it is likely to mutate your character, and it deals real world sanity damage via tedium. Lucy makes it safer, but would not recommend regardless.

It's worth noting that there's no rush to get ice beasts online. It's a powerhouse through lair branches and remains good in vaults. Lightning spire remains powerful even longer, but it doesnt carry you the way ice beasts can in the midgame.

Ice beasts resist pois and regardless could be an effective means of killing rpois enemies. Ice beasts + spire are quite powerful, but so is a good melee weapon at mindelay or evokables or a better set of defenses. One of the best things about crawl is that there are different ways to build characte...

I think nem was changed to use invo for lore/consistency reasons. But your confusion is understandable: decks are still evoked.

You should always train the thing that gives you the most value (benefit/cost) relative to your current circumstances. So if you have a bunch of ways to do damage but low hp, fighting becomes more beneficial. Blink, summon butterflies, animate skeleton > swiftness > regeneration, spectral weapon, co...

Does invo increase card power? I don't think it says it does anywhere in game (whereas ^^ specifically says that piety increases power), and nem has active abilities with fail rates which is sufficient reason to have invo as a trainable skill.

It's a tedious facet of the game that seems to exist only as a nod to flavor. Different amounts of unique launcher ammo is not going to change which launcher you use; all it will do is make the player unduly suffer if they don't come across arrows/bolts/sling bullets for some reason. The existence ...

Sounds like the out-of-depth timer. Did you spend a lot of time on the level? Otherwise it could be a particularly nasty vault, but that seems unlikely.

Humans who have flat aptitudes and no mutations to bias their character development one way or another can (and often must) be played adaptively. 100 different human games played to win will probably be more varied than 100 tengu games, because tengu have lopsided aptitudes that discourage them from...

Learny isnt that bad. Tele if you see him, or destroy him w/ evokables. This char looks pretty busted and shouldn't have any issues w/ either branch end. Stop training axes and keep using the battleaxe. Maybe later you could use the exe axe if you have the scrolls to pump it, but that battleaxe is e...

Teleport/banishment on hit is also item destruction, which is pretty tedious to play around. Imo disto should be removed or seriously reworked (maybe merged w/ chaos and stripped of the most annoying effects)

I enchant whichever piece of armor I have the lowest chance of upgrading. I almost always use the scrolls immediately, but if my aux slots are +2 and my body armor sucks, I may wait to use them until I find an armor more suitable in the long run.

Although it is better to grab things w/o entering unexplored terrain, and you very frequently find items at the edge of los that you can't grab w/o entering unexplored terrain, this benefit of apport is so marginal it does not matter. Unless you are speedrunning, how often do you not clear a floor e...

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