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Naga Gladiator of Chei. Pick the trident. Automatic reaching. Train Polearms. Sometimes less is more. I saw this post and now I can't help but play them. My first Chei worshipper found an amulet of faith before a Chei altar, and my god is piety fast. I'm level 9 and have 5 stars. Chei thoroughly ap...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. 18587 Tasonir the Thaumaturge (level 12, -2/59 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Conjurer on Feb 21, 2012. Was a High Priest of Vehumet. Killed from afar by Jozef (43 damage) ... with a bolt of poison ... on Level 3 of the Lair of Beasts. The game last...

Ouch....sorry to hear it. One thing that might help future runs though is simply don't ever step foot in the crypt ;) It's not a required area for a 3 rune run. General branch order for a typical first win: Main dungeon down to lair lair orc more main dungeon to 15-20, some vaults (not vaults:8), sw...

You absolutely want to focus your spell skills more closely than that. You should look at your spell list, pick the spells you want to use that are not yet at <4% or so failure rate, and train the skills needed to get them to 1-3% failure. For you that's going to be mainly spellcasting, conjurations...

Turns out, I wasn't so lucky. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. 33221 Tasonir the Spry (level 13, -6/80 HPs) Began as a Kobold Berserker on Feb 20, 2012. Was the Champion of Trog. Mangled by a four-headed hydra (12 damage) ... on Level 7 of the Lair of Beasts on Feb 21, 2012. T...

DDBe is probably the hardest I've won, most of my wins are easy combos. Managing piety was an absolute nightmare. I agree. Early on it's not a big deal, but in places with low piety/high damage taken like Vaults:8 and Zot, I found myself constantly at *** or lower, not enough piety to use BiA. Huh?...

They have an incredible aptitude for ranged weapons, bows/throwing in particular, so a hunter is a great choice. That said if you wanted to go melee just because they have a -1 for weapons doesn't mean they can't make good melee fighters. Unarmed is +0 so that's certainly an option, although you'll ...

Diving to the temple can certainly increase your piety, but it can be tricky to do unless you're on a very powerful combination, trolls, minotaurs, that sort of thing. I usually clear out d1 fully, because you're going to want to at least have a few levels. Especially for casters who are going to ne...

http://imgur.com/TBL9W http://imgur.com/TBL9W (not sure why the above img tag isn't working...ah well) I'm starting to feel like we desperately need Cthulhu to be added as a new god. Appreciates: You or your allies dealing constricting damage. Depreciates: The world's continued existence. Anyone ma...

Aye I decided to give the direct start as a transmuter a shot, and your offense is really, really solid early on. Not much will survive more than 2-3 attacks. Your defenses are a problem, but it's a little bit better once you get spider form online and get the EV bonuses. A lucky ring of protection ...

Alright, joking aside - they're going to be weak early on but once you get a good transmutation going, they can use things like stone form/stoneskin for incredible AC (for a caster! ;) ) while having *zero* armor melded to them. Early on spider form gives you some speed, and if you want to go melee ...

What I want to know is how he managed to set a speed record when he was in the abyss three times

how'd you get banished there the first two times? About how long before you got out?

So I'm playing my first ever octopode conjuror and I've found two artifact rings by dungeon level 4 (one was in the sewers)...But I'm really not sure how good one of them is: SustAb, MUT, +Lev, rElec, rF+, str+3 Obviously, the question is if I can handle MUT. At what level of glow do I have to take ...

Tried a troll who I got up to around level 15 before dying in the elven halls. I probably should have switched back to lair after finding a flaming long sword in elven halls, but I didn't. But of the 5 god gifts I got, two were weapons which weren't helpful and I got 3 cap/wizard helms. Two were +0 ...

I'm looking to do a more general melee character instead of a trog follower, and want to try getting some armor gifts for them. I'm somewhat interested in doing unarmed combat, although it does seem to be harder to start out with. All of the really good unarmed classes seem to be unable to use most ...

Sorry to necro up my thread, but I finally figured out what it was - I had disabled VI keys in init. I don't think tab should be effected by this, but apparently tab translates into ctrl + I? And then I is disabled...I could be wrong but is there any way that disabled VI keys could be improved to no...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 30375 Tasonir the Thaumaturge (level 13, -2/104 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Necromancer on Feb 13, 2012. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Slain by a five-headed hydra (6 damage) ... on Level 4 of the Lair of Beasts. The game lasted 02:24:43 (18615 t...

Have any thoughts for my next character? I'll probably take a break for a while and finish up some stuff on skyrim, starcraft, and path of exile, the other games I'm playing. But I think when I come back I'd probably try a merfolk berserker, or I could try to do a caster. Merfolks seem pretty easy t...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 1550903 Tasonir the Axe Maniac (level 27, 156/290 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Berserker on Feb 3, 2012. Was an Elder of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Feb 6, 2012! The game lasted 09:47:06 (85070 turns). Tasonir the Axe Maniac (De...

Fair enough...I really want to try it because I haven't been there, and I am pretty sure this character is powerful enough, but it's still a risk I don't have to take. Ah well. I do have 1 pip of res acid, and am now pushing 190 hp with 58 AC, so it's tempting. I have stasis which would prevent para...

I just came across the absolutely greatest labyrinth ever created! Loot: Poison resistance plate mail - sadly it's +0 and I have only one enchant armor scroll to my name, but still, I really need the resistance. +8 rod of warding, 12 mana - abjuration and deflect missiles are covered. +6 rod of ice ...

well, guess who's back, back again... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 28609, Time: 03:01:27 HP 134/140 AC 35 Str 29 XL: 16 Next: 10% MP 12/12 EV 7 Int 6 (7) God: Trog [*****.] Gold 2422 SH 0 Dex 17 Spells: 0 memorised, 17 l...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 230608 Tasonir the Executioner (level 20, 0/162 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Berserker on Jan 28, 2012. Was a High Priest of Trog. Slain by Tasonir's ghost (5 damage) ... on Level 4 of the Vaults on Jan 30, 2012. The game lasted 05:49:43 (54274 t...

Hunger issues from vamp: Still have plenty of food, I very rarely berserk and try to maximize eating chunks over permafood. Still playing on a local 9.1 copy, so I have the hive. I also pretty rarely swap, I will stay on the vamp axe for most floors, it does heal enough to make up for using a one ha...

Time to necro up ye ol' DDBe thread! I had been killing off a bunch of characters being careless and not really playing seriously for a while, and then I got skyrim, but I felt it was time to make a real stab at another DDBe run, so off I went, and managed to avoid early deaths for once! Ye dump: Du...

I haven't made any major changes, no...mostly just enabled easy eating of chunks so I don't have to confirm it for clean chunks...can't think of anything that would have affected tab.

I've seen a lot of people refer to just "tabbing" the first couple levels of the easy dungeon, or jokes about 'almost' tabbing the whole run...But tab doesn't do any sort of autofighting for me. Do you have to macro it to do something? I'm playing .91 with tiles on my computer, and it just...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 146050 Tasonir the Spry (level 17, -6/80 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Venom Mage on Jan 5, 2012. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Killed from afar by a dragon (26 damage) ... with a blast of flame ... on Level 20 of the Dungeon on Jan 6, 2012. The game...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Nimble (Spriggan Venom Mage) Turns: 24254, Time: 02:25:39 HP 58/58 AC 7 Str 8 XL: 12 Next: 84% MP 35/35 EV 28 Int 23 God: Vehumet [*****.] Gold 679 SH 11 Dex 16 Spells: 7 memorised, 20 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : + j -...

are they nice to have? Why are they mentioned? Can the walls close on you in some cases?

I've had two volcanos spawn in games I've played, and I have never gone into it. I have gone into every other portal I have ever found except for once a labyrinth on a troll ;) Just from reading the wiki, the need to levitate and dig to handle a volcano is just not something I ever have on early mid...

Well, it was close, but the orb chamber on zot 5 did me in... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 537518 Tasonir the Invulnerable (level 27, -8/282 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Berserker on Dec 29, 2011. Was a Priest of Trog. Killed from afar by an orb of fire (13 damage) ... with a...

they play a fair amount differently, but I'd recommend trying out your deep dwarven breathren. I've been trying out a string of DD Berserkers, and they are very, very hardy. Plus, they get intrinsic negative energy resistance! Only one level of it, but that still helps quite a bit :) if you want to ...

The deck is going to be Wonders, and you'll draw Shuffle. You'll find more identify scrolls. While you said this about a previous character, I just wanted to say this advice was great. I found an ornate deck of changes on my now level 26 berserker, and wanted to draw from it to try to get helix/exp...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 77673, Time: 09:52:42 HP 214/253 AC 56 Str 31 XL: 26 Next: 23% MP 9/9 EV 7 Int 10 God: Trog [*****.] Gold 4096 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 0 memorised, 27 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : +...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Impregnable (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 57561, Time: 07:23:07 HP 175/183 AC 53 Str 28 XL: 20 Next: 22% MP 10/10 EV 7 Int 13 God: Trog [*****.] Gold 2349 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 0 memorised, 21 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. :...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 41768, Time: 05:15:09 HP 116/160 AC 52 Str 31 XL: 18 Next: 28% MP 10/10 EV 6 Int 16 God: Trog [*****.] Gold 1042 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 0 memorised, 19 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. :...

Been messing around a little bit with ghoul/minotaur unarmed fighters, a couple more attempts at casters, and the occasional DDBe. The DDBe's are still getting the furthest, but I do think unarmed combat is really strong...if I can ever manage to win I might try that next, who knows. In any case, th...

Unless I'm missing something the only mutations I see are blurry vision and int + 1. The rest are racial. I don't think blurry vision is enough to warrant using a cure mutation potion over, but I suppose you could if you really wanted to be sure you had a 100% chance to read a blink scroll.

Any particular reason you don't want to win with a felid? seems like a fine choice to me with how far you made it...it wouldn't be my first choice but you seemed to be doing well. I realize you needed int for spellcasting but you might want to try to get at least some fire resistance before Zot, if ...

I've started up a troll healer; it seems pretty easy, but some quick questions/confirm these statements :) I want to use a large shield with shield skill 15. It's worthwhile to train some spellcasting for low level buffs like swiftness/repel missile if you find the spell books. Should I train str or...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. 181405 Tasonir the Executioner (level 18, 0/244 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Berserker on Dec 21, 2011. Was an Elder of Trog. Slain by Tasonir's ghost (22 damage) ... on Level 4 of the Vaults on Dec 22, 2011. The game lasted 06:04:19 (54563 turns...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 51764, Time: 05:44:19 HP 115/154 AC 26 Str 32 XL: 17 Next: 65% MP 11/11 EV 7 Int 7 God: Trog [****..] Gold 1256 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 0 memorised, 18 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. : ...

I'm blaming the loot god for this one - level 17, starting to get far, was considering posting a CIP here...But I just couldn't for the life of me find any resistances. No resist fire rings, although I did have a stashed dragon armor. Only single rings of cold/negative. I never once found any source...

What makes dragon form a good/better spell for draconians? They get bonuses in it?

Both my last posted as well as my next DDBe have both died today...Today's was pretty well geared, with full cold resistance and a CPA...of course mara uses bolt of fire, which I had no resistance to, and took 48 damage in one shot. Oh, and I had 48 health, leaving me nice and neatly at 0 exactly. I...

After a rather terrible night of losing level 5-12 berserkers yesterday, today I finally got one off the ground. The only notable of my deaths yesterday was one very courageous dwarf who just couldn't stop going on to the next level. Charged straight down, found a bailey, entered immediately. Came o...

well unfortunately this didn't take very long to become YASD...After clearing out the orc mines I had found a demon whip of flaming, 0/4, enchanted it up to 4/6, and enchanted the large shield to +3. Going back down in the main dungeon branch, at level 20, I walked directly onto a zot trap without s...

Didn't feel like continuing to clog up the forum with a thread for each of my DDBe's attempts at getting a YAFVP, so I'm going to post them all here. I still only post the ones that become established and go somewhere, of course ;) Mainly for self/historical purposes, here are my first three threads...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.1 character file. Tasonir the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 44944, Time: 06:48:37 HP 151/166 AC 31 Str 28 XL: 18 Next: 98% MP 3/3 EV 7 Int 7 (8) God: Trog [*****.] Gold 2096 SH 0 Dex 14 Spells: 0 memorised, 19 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. ...

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