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dynast wrote:Centaurs are one of the most easily winnable species

I find them very difficult species, as it is necessary to have almost angelic patience to not deliberately splat them and play something more fun. Centaur: a winner in a contest for the most annoying and tab-unfriendly species.

We already have enough monsters/uniques that can kill sub-120HP characters peeking around a corner in one turn. The other problem is that the list of completely safe juggernaut disposal methods has only two positions: escape or spam summons. The first is unreliable due to juggernauts' speed and the ...

Death cobs fair? They are unfair as hell. Have high EV/SH? Laugh in their face. Have average or better evo (you definitely should)? Laugh in their face. Have high AC, but low EV/SH and met two cobs in open space? Better start teleporting, because you will eat all your rations before you kill one cob...

Well, then I am either a very bad player or very unlucky player, because usually I have to fight an adder which I cannot even hit before I find my first remove curse scroll. So much fun, so little annoying randomness. The fact that current design basically punishes only monks (as elementalists/wizar...

Getting a cursed weapon on d:1 has a good chance of becoming a death sentence. Occasional "funny times" when character can survive with cursed -2 weapon do not justify killing the rest.

Thanks for these Fsim results - now I don't believe anyone! (TID's results are more favourable for unarmed combat) Your post reminds me of two things, though: - I prefer slicing/crushing over flaming/cold, because it provides the benefits no matter who I fight. I don't care if easy enemies become ev...

Some questions everybody might want to ask themselves are: How often do I enter lair with poor base type weapon? How often was it enchanted beyond +2? How often have I been swinging +0 great axe at 18 skill? From my experience, it is unlikely that at the point of reaching min delay a character has a...

Elec brand has a potential disadvantage in early game - sometimes it just doesn't proc at all and you are killed by an orc warrior who had probably 3 HP left. It might seem like a rare case, but most of deaths are caused by rare cases. Poison is your more reliable friend - put two or three stacks, r...

I confirm that OoD passes through monsters in 1-tile wide corridors. Most probably for the same reason it passes through monsters in open space (and not due to energy randomization). It would be more acceptable if OoD was less stable (i.e. turn more often), but current behavior is at least irritatin...

Monster blinking is overused and obnoxious. In particular, blink frogs, imps, phantoms and killer clowns do not possess any blink synergic abilities. Sporadically, interesting situations are created when blinking enemy blocks an escape way. Most of the times, mentioned monsters only encourage parkin...

Most people don't die to fire giants; resistances are overrated. AC/EV matters more. MR is really the only reason to wear this helmet, and outside of elf 3 can be dealt with by killing things expeditiously. You have LCS online. An ogre mage shouldn't have a chance to banish you. A fire giant won't ...

-1 on byrel's comments! It's a terrible idea to get rid of this helmet. +2 AC from enchanted helmet would have small impact on gargoyle's AC. In this place OP gains MR (which would be terrible otherwise) and rF+, which reduces a threat of being two-shot by fire giant's bolts of fire. I would also re...

I feel that you want to push a change because some people died to Jorgrun. If there really is a problem in Jorgrun/shatter, it lies in vulnerability of gargoyles, not in the shatter itself. Jorgrun is nota pushover for flying characters; if he petrifies you and you do not manage to escape, you're li...

Do not trust wiki.

From learndb:
If **** piety or higher, Kiku has a piety/600 chance of completely preventing torment damage, and a piety/250 chance of reducing it by 1d(damage-1)-1.

I personally do not trust learndb as well. If you want to be sure, you have to do a code dive.

Your stat cap is too low. Let me quickly show you: OpBe: 14 str Rings : +8*10str Amulet: +10str Dragon form: +10str Chei: +15str Potion of might: +5str Level ups: +9str Random level ups: +2str Total: 145str ...and it could be more, but really - who would ever need that much? I guarantee that more th...

Nago nicely explained current situation, but he didn't stress properly that if you do not find a decent launcher soon enough, you will have also ammunition problems (poor weapons will waste more of it, because you need more shots to kill a single enemy). If you aim at ranged combat from the beginnin...

[Offtopic] Am I the only one who finds snakes on par with shoals (or even worse thinking of stabbers / hex users)? Anacondas, shock serpents, even hasted nagas are faster than player. Guardian serpents are faster than players, too, and their blink encircle has a good chance to cut out an escape path...

I do not know if sequel can help. I don't feel a very representative player, but I checked my 15 last winning games I finished lair branches in one go 13 out of 15 times. In remaining two games I am sure (as far as I can be) that I would die if I had to finish the branch. I can't tell if different b...

I expect that most of the time we won't notice the change at all - correct me if I'm wrong, but I presume that most visits to a lair-branch end with getting a rune without leaving. The remaining cases have a good chance to transform into unavoidable deaths for a dubious benefit of creating interesti...

I do not think that lobster-trap is a good idea. It has a chance to increase the number of tactically interesting situations, true. It will also increase the number of painful, unavoidable deaths caused by sloppy difficulty curve, which is not good anymore. In a game full of randomness we need three...

http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Ye ... 100908.txt

Early game rarely provides opportunities to make strategically important decisions - esp. before the temple. In my case, there's a lot of automatization going on. We play early game so often, that eventually tactics apply themselves without involving a brain. If anything, patience and calmness are t...

They have low MR. Wands, in particular confusion / polymorph, work really well.

Poor accuracy of heavy weapons makes them actually bad on first few levels. Even if your average damage is better with heavier weapon, the swinginess might mean that you'll miss a monster five times in a row and die, whereas a single hit with mediocre weapon would kill it. You definitely should not ...

A disclaimer: I dislike frail species. I detest species that cannot use reasonably sized weapons. I hate stabbers. Combine these three and you should know what I think about spriggans. Nevertheless, once in a while I give bad things a chance to prove that they are likeable. I rolled a Spriggan Gladi...

Poison arrow it is. Only 6th level, great range, doesn't touch your HPs, silent, normally deadly and useful even against rPois.

http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/co ... 203350.txt
Sacrificing eye was unnoticeable, but I also used +11 quickblade.

Sandman25, I think you are getting it too personal and unnecessarily treat me as a kind of adversary. I have not assumed at any point that you suggest playing glass cannons. I do not say your character turned out bad. Generally I also do not say that there is insufficient experience to get level 9 s...

Lasty nicely worded it. There is sufficient experience to get level 9 spells, but more often than not it's just not optimal in regards to safety or unnecessary (the former when you try to get them efficient early, the latter when you get them around zot). The spells have also clear downsides: - fire...

You can see HuFE example earlier in the thread, it has Int 26. Do you think it's hard to get 6 Int from gear to get Int 32? Or train Conj/Fire/Spellcasting higher with 0/0/-1 aptitudes than with -3/-3/-5? Yes, I think it's far from granted to get 6 Int from gear without crippling yourself in other ...

Sphara wrote:Comborobin needs guys who actually CARE for the character! Not the drunken up assholes who don't have the patience to stop and look into the their inventory for 5 seconds!!!!!

That's why I stopped playing comborobin and returned to my own account. I felt bad about screwing someone else's job...

I like level 9 spells in 3-runner, but this character doesn't prove it's a good idea. If you get +10 int item AND wizardry AND worship Vehumet, casting lvl 9 spells is well-founded except not reperesentative at all. Spellcasting oriented character without wizardry source, +int source, enhancer or go...

I suspect it was tested against blademaster. My 10% estimation wasn't also that far from reality

Sandman25, I thanked you too quickly! Accuracy increase is different for different spells (again!) and you chose the absolutely worst one. Accuracy is: Lightning bolt: 7+power/40 Bolt of cold/fire: 10+power/25 Iron shot: 7+power/15 Throw flame/frost/stone arrow: 8+power/10 Poison arrow/bolt of drain...

It is not a problem of chain mail being a bad base type. It is a problem of this chain mail being bad. If artifact plate gave you only 40AC, it was bad, too. At this point of game you should have found at least several enchanted pieces of armor, artifacts or not. A +4 armour is an improvement over +...

I'm afraid that the result of this combat had little to do with luck. Deep Elf Blademaster, Speed 15, up to 2x 25 damage, not taking weapons into account. When berserked, this guy can hit for 6*25*1.5=225 damage :) Somewhat less in case of Chain Mail, but still formidable. This guy has a killing pot...

Showing maths or not, magic is overly convoluted and definitely not friendly to a new player. Some examples: - Cloud spells become more durable with spell power, but not stronger. Sticky flame damage can be increased. - There is very little gain from training spell schools > 20 lvl in terms of spell...

you don't need high Int or high skills in magic school, the difference in damage is minor due to all those stepdowns. That's untrue in the early game because stepdowns do not apply yet. Until you hit 50 spellpower, any training is highly effective. Eventually, there is hardly any benefit from incre...

I'm not talking about advice, but formulas and their explanation.

There's no easy formula. There is also no min-delay equivalent for spells. Low level spells have power caps which can be reached fairly easily, but high level spells have caps hardly achievable in a 3-rune game. Surprisingly, wiki has a good article about it: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Spell_Success

It has changed in the commit mentioned by Sandman25. + * If the player's strength is greater than the armour dodge penalty, return + * base dodge * (1 - dodge_pen / (str*2)). + * E.g., if str is twice dodge penalty, return 3/4 of base dodge. If + * str = dodge_pen * 4, return 7/8... + * + * If str i...

It surprises me because I've always been told to pick Dex on non-caster characters. Bad advice. Heavy armour penalizes gains from dodging. The penalty is determined from encumbrance and STR. Decreasing penalty might give you better results than increasing Dex/Dodging. Purely in terms of EV, a bette...

Theres a Demigod Transmuter sitting on CLAN, been there for days and blocking trunk. Anybody wants to finish it? I cant stand Tm. Two runes. It is dead now. Sorry. The eldritch tentacle claws you! Your hands revert to their normal proportions. Your +2 pair of gloves of dexterity {Dex+3} unmelds fro...

First, regarding mutations - I find teleportitis highly dangerous in recent versions, because the mutation tends to teleport you close to the monsters. In Zot:5 this translates to getting teleported into one of chambers. You should definitely get rid of teleportitis if you can. Even if you get new m...

I screwed up, I'm so sorry! I wanted to get an apostate title, but I forgot to abandon my god. Well, at least another combo is finished - DsSk, the Victor of a Thousand Battles.

The catch is - at the same amount of skill as counterparts in long blades / maces, they provide worse base damage.

Two people can play on the same server using the same account as long as they use different versions. I am afraid Sandman25 might be right. EDIT @Tasonir: I believe that EE is the only spellcaster that might consider statue form early in the game and early game is where it shines the most. I do not ...

•Damage Shaving - All damage reduced by 1d(2 + (1d(1 + experience level / 3)*(200/Piety Level) - 1)). You might want (Piety level /200), unless it's a god of segmentation fault at 0 piety. •Your Regeneration Rate (all sources, not just natural) is reduced -(Piety/1.6)% No regeneration above 160 pie...

You know that Elves hit hard, right? A deep elf sorcerer / high priest can kill you with two hellfires and neither invisibility nor high evasion will do anything good... Also with no fire resist a fireball can take a half of your HPs.

Consider seriously vaults instead.

their fire storm does less than 40 damage on average (72 max), has very low variance by crawl standards, and takes forever to happen stop being afraid of them Agreed, but this is why I suggested buffing their firestorm damage and hp - the design is fine, it just needs more damage. I'd start by rais...

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