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I am wincing extra hard in sympathy, because I lost a DsDK of Yred on Zot:5 this morning myself! Go figure. It stings to come so close.

Regardless of their power, humans play a key thematic role in the game as the race with no mutations. I think it is important to have such a race exist. I don't understand the desire to cut them, actually. I have in the past heard people suggest that they be a purely hypothetical reference point, bu...

galehar wrote:Sounds like a great patch, it's likely to get accepted. Post it on mantis, there's a category for patches.

Galehar, it's on mantis: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=6579 ,but I posted it as a response rather than as a separate entry. Should I repost it?

Hi folks, I'm hoping to find someone to review a patch submission. It displays monster spells when the monster is examined using the "xv" command. If the monster has multiple books, the message says that the monster "has mastered one of the following books" and lists the spells i...

I will instead offer you some generic advice: ID more of your stuff. Start reading your scroll stacks. Identify is probably the 7-stack or one of the 4-stacks. Beyond that, I'll note that animate remains and recall cost food but no piety, so as long as you're well fed you should use the animate abil...

Hello fellow crawlers! Hello! Standard caveat about how I'm not an expert, etc etc... The first thing I notice is that you're L15 and haven't trained dodging and fighting. I would raise them both to 8, maybe more. Not sure if 8 is enough, but I would hate having none. Spellcasting can come up event...

I say if you're trying to wean yourself off of berserkers, go whole hog and play something radically different. A lot of melee starts are going to feel weaker than a berserker for a big part of the early game. Instead of missing that early power, why not instead shift gears and plunge yourself into ...

If you get pan runes before abyssal rune then you can leave pan through an abyss portal and then get the rune. It's slightly easier to find an exit that way I suppose. I already have the abyssal rune, but I'll happily take an exit to the abyss once I find one. Abyss exits spawn pretty fast once you...

I like the Hall of Blades thematically, but I rarely go there because the risk isn't worth the reward (for reasons other posters have already explained). I'd like to see it adjusted so it's more worthwhile. Since the major reward of the Hall of Blades is the chance to get a branded weapon, I think i...

The only part of Pan that I don't like is the part where I have all the runes but have to slog through an indefinite amount of Pan to find an exit. Have I overlooked something about how to get out?

checked new abyss for the first time today (didnt play since .11). playing trunk so maybe its cause of that but it was among the worst crawl expiriences i had so far. i spent 90 minutes searching it. like 15k turns or more. most of that on abyss:5. didnt find anything, the abyss levels barely chang...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2124-g4073216 (webtiles) character file. cjo the Sorcerer (Gargoyle Earth Elementalist) Turns: 113007, Time: 18:15:20 HP 231/231 (236) AC 26 Str 16 XL: 27 MP 49/49 EV 25 Int 25 (26) God: Ashenzari [******] Gold 1302 SH 32 Dex 17 Spells: 19 memorised, 2 level...

Bummer! What nago said, plus I notice you took some hits while eating. In tough places, it pays to make sure you keep your satiation level up. Go in full and retreat a little if you need to eat more. If you do accidentally kick yourself into a state where you need to eat ASAP, go for something small...

I was training spellcasting to lower the massive hunger costs my spells had . Since I had nearly eliminated hunger costs, I was planning on turning it off once I got it to level 13. I was training invocations so I could rely on it more. At low levels of invocations, I only regenerate like two or th...

Regardless of metaphysical discussion, they are awesome. However, although recharge scrolls are plentiful yadadada, you still have to make a choice with them and if you have haste, tele and heal wands, you're going to have to choose which one to use the scroll/s on. Therefore, I would perhaps like ...

I really really love these new items. They are a ton of fun. What I like: -they are useful at 0 evocation, but substantially better if you have skill -the effects are all distinct from each other, but all similar in that they summon elementals. It makes them feel like a nice themed set. -the slow re...

This character does raise an issue for me; with the new conjurer it's hard to know when to train an element, because you don't know what future spells you will have access to. I would probably have put points into fire , but that then becomes non-optimal if you end up finding great ice spells and n...

That's a nice looking character :) I don't have much advice on skills. Like hxy said, swap the ring and pick up some defensive / buffing spells if you have them. You might already know, but in case you don't, I will say that swamp is extra fun with bolt of cold. It creates freezing clouds when it cr...

Hey guys, Have recently started playing this game, and really enjoying it, despite having never got past level 6 so far! I'm currently doing a game using a spriggan enchanter, only because it seems to be something a lot of people pick. Playing it, it seems quite easy - most stuff stays asleep as I ...

FWIW, the octopode ice elementalist I'm currently playing really struggled with ranged attacks until I moved from a buckler to a regular shield. I think next time I'll make the transition sooner.

Alright, so I have splatted quite a few characters and seem completely unable to create a melee necromancer. I tried a hill orc necromancer, a hill orc gladiator that worships Kiku and a lot of Sludge Elves. Does anyone have a build of sorts that an idiot like me can try to follow? (Not a follower ...

If you don't mind another random piece of advice, I will suggest that you turn off spellcasting for a while. You already have zero hunger for all your memorized spells and loads of spell levels free. Instead I would train a little dodging, at least to around 5. Are you going to memorize fulminant pr...

crate wrote:
My favorite is rescuing spellbooks from Trog. It doesn't come up much, but whenever it does, I feel so smug.

have you checked the contents of those spellbooks recently
you might find it amusing to do so

No, not lately...

Apportation is pretty specialized, but it's not 100% useless in the early game. -rescue a spellbook from being destroyed by Trog -snatch loot from near an oklob when you're not tough enough to take it on -ditto for various statues -ditto for loot near electric eels, if you're not up to tangling with...

Many of the complaints here seem to be about the interaction between LO movement speed and the heat aura. What about inverting the movement speed's relationship to temperature, so Lava Orcs would start off fast and become slower as they heat up? This could easily be justified by your legs turning p...

I've been getting a kick out of the new tiles, and I LOVE the new vaults. Vaults really feels like a set of vaults now, with an interesting mix of guard-type people. Even the ugly* feel like they're there for a reason, like maybe they're pets or "guard dog" critters. (That's projection on ...

Cursing a single amour piece is useless, Ash requires more than half armour slots to be cursed before it can earn any piety. Dr has 4 armour slots so I would need 3 cursed items. I have 1 :( For the same reason cursing buckler but not weapon is useless too :( That's right for armour, but I'm pretty...

Sorted wrote:l - the +2,+10 longbow "Piercer" {velocity, EV-2}
(Trog gifted it to you on level 5 of the Lair of Beasts)

I recently had a game where I bought that bow on something like D10. It is downright amazing. Absolutely it's worth training for.

About that LRD+ petrify thing, I should mention that I don't get too much use out of it. I'm not saying it's useless or bad, just that I find it kind of fussy, and therefore haven't assessed its strength. If I'm in a corridor, I can just cast LRD and I don't need petrify. Even in the lair, I can oft...

Maybe you need more int? Or more practically, some melee skill, since you're probably stuck with 20 int for now? I dunno, I liked LRD a lot but I don't recall exact numbers. I know I used stone arrow for a surprisingly long time, too. I don't think I forgot it until pretty close to when I was going ...

One nice thing about LRD is that it is smite targeted (assuming you have a conveniently positioned wall, of course). I found that it combined really well with animate dead. Presumably other summons would work nicely too; animate dead just happened to be what I had available. LRD also does extra dama...

I've been playing a lava orc and having a good time, but I don't think I have any especially insightful feedback. I started as a necromancer. On the one hand, roasting my undead was a little frustrating, and slow movement made it harder to lead stuff back to them. But on the other hand, those skelet...

I like the fluff that surrounds them. When given the choice to make a character who doesn't suck, or a character who I find to be neat, I generally go for the second option. My current D&D character is an ogre wizard. Not someone from the ogre mage species, but an ogre with wizard levels trying...

Conjure flame is pretty good against Unseen Horrors: they walk through it with impunity, so if you can place enough of them in the places where the horror is likely to walk, it will die quickly. Imps can help cut down the number of tiles it could stand in. Also, the horrors have relatively low inte...

mopl wrote:I don't know for the original poster but I wasn't myself able to use it correctly and usually don't memorize it (with my Wz at least)
Them blinking around is pretty annoying

I love call imp! Imps can handle a lot if you cast enough of them, and they can help with hallway escapes.

I've killed TRJ with iron shot and summon butterflies, after first circling the outside to clear out the other jellies, and then fighting him in the center corridor. The butterflies reduce how many other jellies, etc, he can spit out by filling up spaces. I don't know how reliable that is, though. I...

I like having a mix of species with even weapon aptitudes and ones with uneven aptitudes. It makes the species feel much more different than if they all had even aptitudes. It also gives some species-background combos a lot of early game power, at the partial expense of later flexibility, which I as...

I followed the advice here and brought home my first 15-rune win :) Major congratulations! It's a great feeling, isn't it? Have you tackled a ziggurat before? If not, this may be your next challenge! Thanks! I've never been in a zig. I found one in pan this game but didn't have the gold for it. And...

Congrats!

I thought these threads had some good advice. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6369&p=86221&hilit=transmuter#p86221 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5968&p=80241&hilit=transmuter#p80241 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&am...

This was a really timely thread for me; I was thinking of posting a similar question but probably wouldn't have gotten around to it. I often want to bull on ahead instead of slowing down to ask questions. I followed the advice here and brought home my first 15-rune win :) I was playing a MiFi of TSO...

Those things can be brutal if you meet them in the open. As a wizard, I find that sometimes summoning a bunch of imps will give me a clue as to where it is, then I have a better idea where to target the mephitic cloud so I can confuse it. (Of course, fog is better if you have it.)

crate wrote:
(Another forum tip that helped me: the first one you cast will have much higher duration than subsequent ones.)

I'm pretty sure this is a lie.

Technically, not a lie, but nonetheless wrong

Thanks for the correction.

One thing I don't like about freeze is its abysmal range. Speaking of which, how could other spells for Ice Elementalist be useful? Throw Icicle takes time to learn, and is only 1-target spell. Throw frost is ranged, but it's also 1-target spell as well. Ozocubu's armor and condensation shield is u...

I was clearing the Slime Pit. Facing off agains TRJ things got hot, so I pulled back, just in time. Low on HP, hungry and out of food, I wanted to get back up to my stash. So what does mr smart guy do? Lets take a short cut by digging through to the stairs. Walls here do damage, you moron. I wasn't...

If I start as an elementalist, I love all three of fire, ice, and earth. I never got the hang of air elementalists, but hopefully I will someday when I'm in the mood to stick with them long enough to figure them out. If I start as a wizard, air is great and synergizes with charms and ice for a fanta...

prozacelf wrote:Uhhhh....what? Ogres get fine spellcasting...only spriggans and deep elves have better. They just suck at all the schools.

D'oh, I'm embarrassed that I got that backwards! :oops:

Kay, I'm trying ogre necromancers now, and I was hoping for a bit of help. What I've been doing: Put almost all my points into necromancy, with a small amount going to spellcasting. Maces/flails and fighting get turned on once I have my spells at a acceptable power/failure rate, but they get turned...

I'm seeing a vehement argument for buffing Jiyva and Ash and can't help but feel I'm being trolled. It could also be an argument for removing the boring gods. The reason I'm saying this is because my characters that worship Veh or Kiku have significantly longer lifespans than the ones that worship ...

This is a trifle off topic for GDD, but relevant to the OP's concerns, so what the heck... Prior to this post, I'd been on an ogre necromancer kick, and had a grand time with learning just a little necromancy, then shifting over to training M&F up to fairly high levels, often with Ash as deity. ...

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