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If you convert from one of the three good gods to another, some of the piety transfers.

I realize, but think, that these people exaggerate reliability of stealth. On the contrary. Whenever I do talk about stealth it is usually to say "stealth's not reliable, you will die if you rely on it to survive" For me - it's easier to kill anyone, that to run. Okay well that's basicall...

To quote duvessa you don't need rMut That said, Zin is a very good god for extended. Sanctuary is basically a guaranteed escape from any situation. Imprison is also a very strong escape tool, or simply a way to stop that guy from casting torment/hellfire for a little while if you really need him to....

Well, I don't remember Spriggan's aptitudes, but Trans 7 is really not that easy to reach. Spriggan Translocation aptitude is +4. That means that the skill trains at DOUBLE the speed of a 0 aptitude. This makes a level 7 spell very easy to cast. On top of that, you are a spriggan, which means that ...

Same story as anyone with a Sega Genesis really: the futile and endless quest to find another game like Toejam & Earl.

Gotta take Crazy seriously too

mortifying Why should I be embarassed? Are you telling me that taking crawl seriously is incorrect? If so, why is it incorrect? And why are you a registered member and regular poster on a forum dedicated solely to crawl in that case? mindlessly That is the opposite of taking something seriously. Ta...

And if you start as assasin and end up like enchanter anyway if you want to win... why theres assasins? Q: What is the most unique and difficult to replace aspect of Assassin? A) a couple levels of Stealth skill, or B) a Blowgun, a pile of poisoned needles, and a couple curare needles Q: Do poisone...

Invis is an extremely powerful ability, rendering the majority of the game's enemies entirely harmless. Invisibility is dramatically weaker than the two effects Grunt mentioned. Shadow Form is in the same uber tier of ridiculously powerful god abilities with Zin's Sanctuary and Lugonu's Corruption a...

Plutonium is the best weapon in the game. Possibly an astronomically lucky randart could be better, but I've never seen or heard of anybody finding one. The only thing that would make me hesitate even slightly would be some very powerful item that requires frequent swapping, which I don't see on you...

Ignore any XP penalties. I know you feel like you gotta get everything, but I promise you don't, and that attitude causes problems in Crawl. There's way more experience than you need, and losing some from pacification or summons just means your endgame character will have a bit less freedom to train...

You get 1 of Swamp/Shoals and 1 of Spider/Snake. I guess that screen just doesn't know it.

To that end, how is this different from picking up unidentified scrolls or potions?

Uh okay be totally unreasonable, put all items on autopickup, maybe I need to paralyze myself as protection against being forcibly berserked

wear salamander for style points

3. The argument was 'Vehemet makes things silly' by offsetting mana costs, and the fact is he would do that regardless of total pool. What? If you had 500 MP, Vehumet's tiny contributions would be all but worthless. They would have no effect on balance whatsoever. Vehumet does not offset mana costs...

Can someone just explain the ability to win the game purely through stabbing at XL10... Winning at XL10 would be insanely hard due to having no HP. It's not that En somehow wins with low skills, it's that Sp has really huge aptitudes in every skill En wants, so SpEn gets enough skills for the endga...

Wasn't marking Lignification potions as dangerous a change shortly before release? I think it was a poor one. Regardless of its situational-ness, it objectively has its uses. Unlike Poison and Confusion which are (almost) universally bad. I understand that it can be changed without much effort, but...

Nothing costs high XP for spen, they have everything they need to win the game at like XL10 and after that skilling is who cares. Iron Shot is just not a very good choice for that XP. The common newbie mistake would be the misconception that Enchanters need to develop high irresistable damage to suc...

Normal melee char can kill it for 10 autons, 2 turns, in melee range of course. Not 'normal' melee, at least not reliably. The most powerful uber melee can do it, sure, but in that case you are spending more XP than the guy casting Parrow. And it still has to be adjacent to things, so it is still i...

This is like a PSA against taking video games seriously good lord. If you don't take something seriously what is the point of even doing it? (Note if you respond the way I think you will remember this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mU3EXe9R5A ) Also I just looked at my first ever win Yes, that is ...

People keep stating that offensive magic is stronger than melee, but that isn't so clear to me. That might just be an assumption brought in from other games. Parrow can reliably kill a titan in 4-ish turns from anywhere on the screen. This is hugely powerful when you are in a crowded or time-sensit...

An interesting addendum to the original topic: I was spectating the bot qw yesterday, and it chose to do Snake intead of Swamp. It went Snake, Vaults 1-4, Depths, and only after all these it went to the Swamp. I wonder why. Character: GrBe. http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/qw/morgue-qw-20140417-210421.t...

It looks like you don't understand that a character with 3% Shatter does not need as high defense as a character with Mystic Blast as the most damaging spell. I am not sure why I am posting this, you seem to believe that everyone should play a balanced "hybrid" who has 17 Dodging with wea...

Here is how you fight ghost moths: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/thedefinitearticle/thedefinitearticle.txt That dude is very half-assed, I barely even paid attention (which is why it has zero HW potions lol), would easily be better if I had used planning or careful skilling or anything. The stat...

Oh awesome. And Burglary got even cooler!

Some call this prolonged death , but I think the tension and completely different approach to gameplay make that Abyss very worthwhile. (I also don't mind, and never did, actually dying in the Abyss. As long as you can run, you still have a chance.) The death is not the part of that which is a prob...

Shoals is about the best branch, especially now that harpies don't eat food and manticores are less harmless. Just need to get rid of sirens/mermaids (and make alligator snapping turtles actually spawn :twisted:

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the illusion that pure mages are supposed to be viable. Pure mages are "viable", they just have to rest a lot. Just like pure melee characters are "viable", except for where they have to do a bunch of dumb crap instead of just blasting that fool from across the screen. Crawl's d...

Have you fought unique sharpshooter pack? Easy? Slow movement. Automatically easy. Even in a head-on confrontation where you, being a crazy person, stand in the open and trade shots with them, sharpshooters are just weaker javelineers. How do you rate bone dragons and tentacled monstrosities (swamp...

Almost every race has +1 invo apt and the worst invo apt is -1.

Also starting game with chei and max chei piety requires wizard mode

If hydras are anything but harmless, you should not be entering Lair branches.

If poison matters, you are doing something wrong.

Half the reason Chei is awful is that he makes it almost impossible to escape danger. Because you know, walking is useful. Also Zin gives +9 stats, and protects you from almost every bad status effect, which is way better the other +6 stats chei gives. Basically Zin is better than Chei in every way ...

stealth is not reliable in crawl, but it is still very useful if you have a lot of it chei is awful, and he ruins a lot of minor advantages stealth would otherwise give you (and a lot of minor advantages almost everything would otherwise give you) good gods include literally any other god, even fuck...

tl;dr javelineers and aquamancers are easily the most dangerous things that can ever spawn in any of the 4 Lair branches. And there is a unique which is literally a large pack of javelineers and aquamancers. if your AC is low and evasion only decent, which is the case of most spellcasters. No it isn...

MP management is far and away the most interesting aspect of using magic, and you want to directly, significantly reduce that. Shooting fireballs at porcupines is faulty play. If you don't want to rest because you shot fireballs at porcupines, the solution is pretty simple. Don't shoot fireballs at ...

A hobgoblin will never catch you

yes they can

LackofCertainty wrote:Does a character's regeneration rate determine how fast they recover stats?

No. Except for the "slow healing" mutation, which does.

The wiki told me that this will eventually result in stat zero

The wiki lied. It has a tendency to do that.

Really? I already do exactly so. And thank you - it's a lot of fun to play Crawl. Btw, I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't get jokes. I can't tell if you're being honest or if you are responding to my joke with another joke. But anyway orb of fire is the toughest thing in Crawl so if you c...

did you know it's optimal to pick up every weapon and move it to the corner of the room

have fun playing crawl

Currently the good part of Crawl ends after collecting 3 runes and clearing Zot. And playing bad games is abnormal (I hope).

Yes Shoals is the hardest Lair branch and Swamp is the easiest.

As a "CASTAH" you should be watching your MP like a hawk, and carefully rationing it out so that you don't spend more than necessary, and more importantly, so when you get caught by surprise you have enough MP to defuse the situation. Guardian spirit takes away much of your ability to do t...

Yes it does. Staff of death provides an enhancer and rN and is 1handed, so you would be kind of crazy to choose a qstaff of pain. The better physical damage of the qstaff is offset by the lower pain damage, and if you're trying to melee a monster that has rN, you want something better than a qstaff ...

As was mentioned in the other Su thread, you want a race with good HP. VS does not fit the bill. I haven't personally tried it, but I see nothing about VS that would make them a good candidate for Su.

So-called "branchless" wins have been done many times by many players.

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/e ... 231602.txt

If a Tengu Earth Elementalist can do it I think it is safe to say any combo can.

Dodging skill is good. Though it is closer to 30 real EV, since agility+phase shift give him +13 iirc.

With all skills at 27 the instant you start the game, race and background are almost irrelevent. You obviously want Ely or maybe Zin, because lack of curing potions is the only thing likely to kill you if you are paying attention.

Sandman25 wrote:Yes, Sandman wants to reduce everything to mathematics because mathematics tells you that you don't need +4 ring of slaying that much when you get 90 as max damage at Polearm 26.

It only tells you that when you ignore literally dozens of variables.

Well, that's not entirely fair. A ring of slaying can be very good item if you get a good one early on. A decent ring of slaying is the best non-artefact ring you will ever get. Sandman wants to reduce every aspect of crawl to mathematics and yet doesn't understand the mathematical concept that inc...

ignore anyone who ever tells you to drop a positive slaying ring

I recommend the chain even though you will take slightly more damage generally, because rF is highly valuable in Zot, and rElec is no slouch either.

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