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I'm pretty sure DgTm would be a better choice for speedrunning than the caster backgrounds, and probably As too - due to what exactly Tm is, but I haven't really had the patience myself to try it out.

Good to see that he won it though.

I at least treat my adventurers with respect and feed them with whatever tasty (and mysteriously not inedible) junk there is lying on the dungeon floor, while most hoard this junk and keep the poor adventurers on a strict diet of disgusting, uncooked flesh chopped off their fallen enemies. and yes, ...

Abyss is really easy with Cheibriados especially not as your first rune, at least if you know how to deal with abyss and your skill training hasn't been really bad - since you'll be more than powerful enough to kill not-hell sentinels down there with relative ease. Slouch also helps against the one ...

Sif is an awful transmuter god, and I have no idea why people pick her on them.

And yeah, trolls of Chei are pretty solid. Transmuters of Chei are rather ridiculous, mix and match and you have a pretty good character.

The median (what the fuck is closest to the 50% line) of this curve is actually 36, in case you're wondering.
although really it's more like something in between 36 and 37 but it's not like it matters in this case

It really seems like most see this as some form of complaint about the indeterminability of combat, but that's not what it is. My complaint is that a character that is very obviously skillfully crafted into being ridiculous - like an ogre swinging a +6 gsc at 27 fighting/maces with 35 str - will hit...

Dying to an electric eel zombie as a DD still stands, however.

The absolute maximum damage has a chance of 1.97e-7% of occuring, or one in twenty million to be a bit imprecise.

It would require implementing http://pastebin.com/iyDhWHLX into the whole mess, but otherwise it shouldn't be too difficult. We'll see the next time I get a spark of productivity. By the way, ever wondered what would happen if the stat bonus was changed to be a static +(2/39)% to base damage and dam...

hi xuaxua i see you are new around here

http://anydice.com/program/548d Here you go.

gammafunk wrote:Let's be honest, the real cancers of humanity are the youtube "let's play" and "MiBe guide" people.

MiBe guide: watch qw play and then pretend you're qw except run away from hydras instead of attacking them with non-flaming axes

it's that easy, folks

that's because before the internet you couldn't show off your huge e-peen by showing the world how much of a nerd you are

i am a huge nerd but at least i lift so i guess it's ok

it looks like monsters with weapons sum three dice (1d(weapon damage) + 1d(slaying) + 1d(monster damage)), thus conveniently making extreme damage rolls less likely for e.g. ogres. Well if we're to out from this, then this is how things look: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63152810/Screenies/d...

How will you ever live without Webtiles Caught In Action?

I went ahead and did the insanity that is making an anydice model of how player melee damage is rolled in DCSS . Suffice to say that is quite a mess. (Did you know that at 20 str with 4 lblades/fighting you have a 75% chance of hitting for 9 or lower damage (before AC/EV!) with a +0 long sword?) I'...

Because it's actually another tile refit for the purpose but the ears looked too good to remove.

You can play arguing games all day, but it won't change the fact that melee damage is a tad too wacky at the moment.

Crawl being that random is big part of fun in this game, this is why we need all those escape options and panic buttons, and managing our resources. The most random part of the game is the part of the game where an adder can bite you three times in a row and poison you on every single one of those ...

Crawl being that random is big part of fun in this game, this is why we need all those escape options and panic buttons, and managing our resources. The most random part of the game is the part of the game where an adder can bite you three times in a row and poison you on every single one of those ...

A very 0.11 long time ago, I rolled a SpTm^Chei and I was wrecking the game with my 60 EV and monstrous damage, and I happened to almost die to a hill giant that hit me thrice in a row for 30+ damage through all that EV. Not that I really mind the spikiness of combat all that much myself, really - I...

I'll just quickly chime in to say that I like where this is going.

Well yeah, the real solution is changing enemy stats so that early enemies don't have EV values that are as high as (or higher than most of, as it is at the moment!) the later enemies, while giving the latter higher EV values than they have now. But that's a big undertaking that actually requires pl...

It's a straight-up buff, but the reasoning behind it is that your accuracy barely improves - whether from stats or skill training; You have a 40% chance of hitting a spriggan (18 EV + Little) at 12 lblades/fighting with a +0 longsword (16 str/12 dex), and 53% at 27 lblades/fighting - which is a tiny...

I'll make sure to remember fixing that when I eventually get around to messing around with monster stats, although the latter part is going to be very future-unproof.

I have bad memories about fighting with giant spiked clubs. What I propose: instead of rolling for meele damage and AC one time, do it 3 times and average the results. You might notice that I've done exactly this in my little minorly tweaked custom build. I really like it, especially in conjunction...

I'm not kidding when I say that I can't stop going fast.

we need a Speedrunners Anonymous section

Humans are extremely endurant, great at recovering from wounds, cunning as fuck and very good killers that are also capable of mind-boggling skill.

yeah clearly they're just average jack-of-all-trades sure
(why the hell do you think they got to the top of the food chain in the first place)

Bloax, is there a reason you chose not to give AC rolls the same 3dX/3 treatment? Mostly because I know people really like the spiky combat of crawl for whatever reason, and I don't really mind it as much as I mind these other things. @bloax: sorry for the derail. I haven't tried your mods, but I k...

... and if you don't want to use fsim, shoot some dudes with each bow and see which seems to work better. Except this doesn't really work well unless one bow is doing like double the damage of the other. Yes, not only because humans are generally awful at noticing small differences - but also becau...

It's a joke about how most high-winrate accounts aren't actually the person's original account they started out with that has all their early splats.

it's like thankscumming except even more sinister because now it actually lets you swing around your e-schlong for real

fuck

I also forgot to give them beaks.

FUCK

Hello and welcome to a new brave new world, where not only hp/mp regeneration exists - but also player accuracy!!
Yes, you can have fun hitting things now. Hooray.

Implement bloaxcrawl . Because player damage spikiness, the lack of player accuracy and hp/mp regeneration sucking massively are all terrible, terrible issues. I mean of course you could compensate by making enemies a bit tougher, but that means going through a lot of enemies which sounds like a lo...

Pereza0 wrote:With those defenses you will probably have trouble taking enough damage to make the vamp one worth it.

The less damage you take the more useful vamp is, because the easier it is for it to keep you at max hp at all times.

Deep dwarf without a healing god - it's been done. Not sure if I'd say it's fun, though. It's very tense, and I liked that. It's certainly not something everyone likes as you can witness by the amount of people playing DD^!Ru/Makh/Trog/Ely. --- As for difficulty settings, then I wouldn't mind setti...

Im curious why Qaz is behind Fedhas in the Pan/Hell/Tomb Tier. He may not be great in extended, but at least he doesn't need corpses to do anything . Not looking for a hugely detailed analysis here, obviously tiers are very hard to structure within Crawl since everything is so circumstantial. Proba...

Chei makes good combos amazing and bad combos absolutely terrible, with some variations depending on exactly what kind of character we're talking about. (He's much better for early melee than for early conjuration guys if only because the latter benefit a lot more from being able to run away.) Once ...

Keep the chainmail; +5 slaying on a VS with a quickblade is incredibly good, especially when your str+dex is >= 49.

PDA at 11 ER reduces your stealth by 80, which is equal to 9 levels of stealth for an ogre - who gain 9 stealth per level of stealth skill; stealth[2/7]: Base stealth is 3*dex + stealth*spf. spf is: Troll, Ogre, Centaur: 9; Minotaur, Draconian: 12; Halfling, Kobold, Spriggan, Felid, Naga, Octopode: ...

The more important spell to get up is Borgnjor's Revivification and not Necromutation, since statue form will do "alright" at protecting you from torment while still allowing you to chug a full heal should you direly need it.
(oh and death's door would be pretty cool, too)

You should really get some more spellcasting. The amount of investment into statue form of this character is indeed rather silly, considering that it's basically only useful as a torment shield with this character. If it had less amazing items then statue form would certainly be pretty useful for ex...

Killing most enemies in a single hit is much better than vamp with mediocre damage, simply because the fight will be over very, very fast.
And getting out of trouble with Chei is very, very easy.

In terms of damage output, yes - but unlike cheibladehands it also melds everything that isn't jewellery instead of just your gloves/shield. (And thus it's not really that much of a "weapon", is it now.)
of course this is less of a concern for a Dr

Cheibladehands is pretty much the strongest weapon in the game, so there's no reason to even consider using anything else.

Step from time is quite different from temporal distortion, because it can make large groups of enemies go away - but it is also not instant like temporal distortion is.

What makes someone an expert, by the way? mikee_ has won 166 times in 396 games (41.92%): 4xDSFi 4xMDFi 3xDDCK 3xDDEE 3xHOPr 2xDDHe 2xDDNe 2xDSBe 2xKeAE 2xMfCr 2xMfSt 2xMiAr 2xMiBe 2xNaTm 1xCeAr 1xCeAs 1xCeBe 1xCeEn 1xCeFE 1xCePa 1xCeTm 1xCeWz 1xDDAs 1xDDCr 1xDDHu 1xDDTm 1xDENe 1xDEWz This is wrong...

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