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Honestly not that surprising seeing as you have 3(!) dodging trained. Just turn on dodging and never turn it off as a 'pode. How do you even survive your first centaurs with so little dodging? Or basically anything?

You can test this yourself in wizmode via a locally installed version of crawl and pressing & to enter debug mode. This is what happens under Chei with Bloodlust: A red film seems to cover your vision as you go berserk! Cheibriados protects you from inadvertent hurry. You feel mighty! Eg. as you...

Getting stabs in on the Royal Jelly has become much harder in the last couple versions. The slime vault has been made transparent inside which doubles Royal Jelly wake up chances over the old layout.

Yikes, this looks rough. You are currently in the deep valley of "too much spread to do efficient melee, statue form not yet online". Stop UC training until you get statue form up, octopodes really don't lack for damage vs normal size enemies. As for your current troubles, I see a ton of c...

My main advice as exclusively melee 'pode player is to seriously consider shoals before snake. Why? Constriction doesn't work on most monsters in snake (naga are too big), seriously lowering damage output. Naga Sharpshooters WILL wreck your day since they ignore evasion. Being constricted by naga wi...

Thanks for blowgun removal! Stealth matters again for needle damage and not having to switch weapons is great for my Ashenzarites!

Dungeon first down to D:15. Swamp is the next and you should use a poison resistant form there. Poison gas attacks will hit you very very hard otherwise and you only have 6 !curing.

How many games have you won? The first couple wins take that long for everyone. By the time you are on your 10th-ish win you should be faster too. Lots of little things that add up: Not having to look up enemies. Not having to spend time evaluating items. Seeing at a single glance the situation on t...

I'd never wear this item over any other useful (rage/spirit/regen/acrobat/reflect) and I say this as a 99% Ash worshipper. If I'm weak enough to need good floordrop items I can't afford to take the hit in survivability. If I got enough good items to be powerful enough to cruise lair+, I don't need t...

Hi, can't really check. I changed to play 1Rune crawl a while ago and apparently have never won a full 3 rune gozaq game with Octopodes. Would be checkable for 1 Rune games but I don't know my way around Sequell querys. If you want to give it a try be my guest. I also should mention that my won Octo...

Sounds like you might be taking too much damage. My post-lair Octos of Gozaq have a surplus of food, unless they are exceedingly weak.

I still don't understand why all this super annyoing ringswapping is a thing in Crawl. For a game that boasts with its "no grinding/boring gameplay/nobrainer decisions" non-octopode player sure spend a lot of keypresses doing that. But yeah, +1 for big jewellry reform. Reduce number of mea...

Before that, can we please get perfect portal identification back? It got quietly removed without reason.

a - the cursed +10 great mace "Sin Sabb" (weapon) {speed, +Rage MR++ Int+4 Dex-5

Good old giant fortress in orc 2.

While I in general agree that your proposed change from instant heal -> slow heal makes sense, the following is a bad idea. Since it would be so much weaker in combat, you could buff the overall healing amount, or have a lower chance to consume mana, DD are incredibly powerful still, and buffing the...

Nobody knows! Its all a huge mess with lots of special cases! Isn't it !FUN! ?

Like zombies will turn hostile from immolation scroll but freezing cloud doesn't. I think. Even though zombies have only rC++ and so should still take damage from it.

Troves are very inconsistent right now. Octopodes don't get armour troves because its too easy to use them. So yeah, in a couple years when Trove overhaul is due this is likely going to be corrected one way or another.

Harold as unique is really misplaced and doesn't make much sense. Just remove him instead of trying to reform him. He was deadlier and a better unique before the reform. He taught you about the deadlyness of fire bolts before (prepares for orc sorcerers). Reasons to keep him: He adds net drops. Reas...

Demonspawn can get "nightstalker" mutation. It reduces LOS, thats what happened.

Its got a hard-coded 3-tile range of smite-targeted attacks. Other polearms can miss when reaching with text like "your orc zombie prevented you from hitting the centaur", this one doesn't have that chance.

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=7c2441aab438c0757e2ae8e228ae8990f621a7d8 Committer's Note: Rift is a +8 demon trident of distortion with a range 3 reach that's smite targeted demon trident "Rift" A small wrinkle in the very fabric of reality, magically bound to a shaft by s...

Rule of thumb is 2points enchantment=1 base damage. Gauntlets of War have +5 and also +3AC and are thus well worth the trade.

Engine is insaaaaaaane.

Spend a blink scroll and then go to D:12. War Gargoyles are crazy dangerous,(its shrapnel does 3d27!) and the Crystal Golem will frequently fire trough other monsters with its insane elemental bolt that also bounces. Unless you use ?Blink you have a high chance of dying.

In general I support this change, but there would need to be some sort of provision for non-armour users, felids/octopods. For these types of characters the extra damage reduction trough 3 pips is really important since there is no other damage reduction. Eating Fireballs at only rF+ sounds real bad.

Treeform in slime sounds like the worst idea ever. Setting your EV to 2 while you get pelted with acid from everywhere? No thanks.

Your char dump link doesnt work.

Dodging/fighting is always solid if you are happy with damage output right now. Do not go unarmed. If you want more damage go double sword. Shield is a good idea, if you dont train too much and dont use spells.

Also useable in conjunction with fear scroll. First reduce magic resistance, then read fear.

No, she does not consider it. We already have a god/dess with A) gifts and B) instant full piety mechanism. And Zins ability gets misused.

You mention the tradeoff one faces yourself: delaying extra magic training for piety gain has huge survival costs.

While this seems to include a meaningful choice in Abandoned Altar, here is a way to game it: Goddess abandonment wrath does not scale equally with level for each goddess. There are a number of gods that can be safely abandoned early game (Ely, Zin, TSO, Ash, sometimes Veh for example) and ones that...

Is this a trick question? dragonskin cloak & +12 GDA.

As for cloak, quote from wiki:

+4 cloak
Each time you take damage from one of [...] elements, 50% chance to temporarily receive one rank of resistance against it.

Shouldn't it be a large or regular shield? If you want the tasty MP you need to take a huge hit on spell success.

Get apportation and then shatter/corrupt the rune vaults. Should be fine, esp if you play carefully with self-banishment.

So the leaderboard actually made me finish a run! 10 minutes shaved! 1965622 svalbard the Conqueror (level 23, 197/197 HPs) Began as an Octopode Assassin on June 24, 2018. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 01:50:12 (44221 turns).

Hi, Currently autoexplore has inconsistent behaviour - it will travel to two explicit runed doors if the rest of the level is explored. Thats crazy yioufs vault and elf:2 hall of blades. All other runed doors you just get a notice and have to manually travel there. With the introduction of the new p...

In console everything but sirens are fine. (And since I exclusively play Octopodes, they dont matter, zero threat rating.)

As far as I'm aware, portals still spawn differently based on player species. A commit two years-ish back made octopodes not have armour troves, because "its too easy for them".

Generic advice: - use search (control+f) to find "armor" - either of gloves, boots, shield should have dropped by now - use ID scroll on scrolls - ring of protection from fire is a much better generic ring than See invisible Your questions: - Lightning bolt gets more accurate with spellpow...

OpWn shouldn't stand at 02:00 for long, I also did crypt+elf:3 that run. Not that anybody cares to run that, I only play crate-crawl nowadays.

No. Shop cost has the fixed rule of first shop always costs 800$, 2nd shop is 1000$ etc. Item quality is affected by character level however.

Manuals need a reform or removal badly anyway. As-is, their intended usecase is to find an "early" manual and let that influence the way your character goes. That almost never happens, t hey are much too rare early on. They are also too specialized , 90% of manuals stay unused due to not f...

AFAIK it does. Removing/putting a ring on is the shortest ordinary action possible at 5AUT.

Do I get extra points if I do this in Crawl 0.10 via Nemelex Shuffle card?

Also please remove hidden shield penalty! The only reason for it to exist ist "realism".

The guaranteed food vault "hangedman_pestilent_swarm" has caused me a at least two auto-explore deaths in the last week. In case you are not familiar with, it has a checkerboard-pattern of walls and monsters, after which comes a chamber with rations. The monsters are usually two hornets, a...

Strong disagree. Why ever would you want that? 99% of cases you want to have it work like its now. Cursed weapon and want to get it do min-delay? Just set the training target as normal. Non-cursed weapon and you want to get to mindelay because you want to be able to switch? Just set training target...

And everything works again! I sent a PM to CDO-admin Napkin and they fixed it immediately. Thanks Napkin!

Now all the CDO versions are down.

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Its explicitly only trunk, stable works fine. I made a mantis report for it.

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=11412

Do long blades users still riposte when successfully evading? If so, just play LB with the amulet.

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