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Also it is unusual to see unidentified potions on such a lategame character. You should try to identify them, and then probably quaff a potion of mutation to try and get rid of blurry vision and frail. If there are no nasty potions in your list of unrecognized potions (see Unrecognized List with ke...

That does not prove they are killing monsters while you are on another level. As far as I know no activity happens on other levels except Jiyva eating items and there is special code that does it. True! Since I've had such a bad streak using Bend Space to got out of the action, I now feel more comf...

Corruption should be used at high HP/MP (optimally at max) so you can use Bend Space and take some damage while trying to run away. Don't leave the level (shafting included) as I believe it stops attacks of the neutral monsters. I used Corrupt in O:2 for a Ghost vault after the rest of the level wa...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:... Why? Is there a book with Animate Dead in a shop?

No just one with BVC and not enough gold yet since I had wasted ~2000 gold on a Runed Fire Dragon armour for it to only be enchanted to +1. sigh

In vault:3 with only MR+++ as resistances and injured by a tough encounter with a Fire Giant, my FoAK is about to finish off an Ice Dragon. Nikola jumps in the action, blinking in right behind the Ice Dragon. Having only one potion of resistance and not found any rElec yet, I wrongly decided to Meth...

confirm_action += Corrupt The way it is implemented is way too annoying. Every time I press 'a' for the list of abilities, before letting me see the list it blocks at: "Really use Corrupt?" forcing me to press N ...when all I wanted to do was Dig another killhole. So I've resorted to my o...

When using a scroll of acquirement later in the game, I hate getting armour that is already lying on the dungeon floor. So I've been trying to think of a new option for the scroll specific to: Artefacts One idea is to have the option: (i)random artefact It would provide a completely randart or unran...

If your goal is to get second 15-rune game, I'd suggest to use another species, Fo is arguably the hardest species in extended. Thanks for shattering my dreams of using Shatter soon! :lol: If you are going to stay in light armour, probably put bonus stat points in Dex and train Dodging. Thanks, I d...

Thank you for both of your comments; they are very helpful. Here's a concrete example that I'm currently experiencing (char dump is at the bottom): I've invested in INT on all 3 offers (even though I have no book yet) since STR 17 & DEX 10 seem more than fine from my long experience as a caster....

Please keep in mind: - My experience in the last few years is mostly starting as a caster; and - I've written this post so that it could also be instructive to greener crawlers also :mrgreen: I've started about a hundred FoAKs with a spear (since I love Polearms and Conjure Flame), and more than hal...

On a FoAK at ~50% HP with just a few more weaklings left after killing almost a dozen, I wanted to Conjure Flame using the keys: zc but instead pressed: ac that triggers Corruption in a 2-wide long hallway. Didn't even have time to shaft myself. RIP FoAK#93 Lesson learned: reassign Corruption to key...

RIP. Have you considered using Corruption? It is a great way to deal with swarms. I've used it, just don't feel comfortable yet using it on a lower level. Sometimes, I get knocked around too much by it and I've resorted to shaft myself. Any idea if the Corruption will have dissipated if I use it on...

After V:1-4, I attempted the Depths. All was going well until I went down to U:5 with a Bazaar in reach but with a mob swarming. I made it to the Bazaar with almost $2K in hand, only to find nothing very valuable except for a scarf of cloud immunity for a measly 70aug! After I exited the bazaar at f...

My FoAK made it out of Spiders with just one scare that required 1 Potion of Heal Wounds as a precaution while they were all burning thanks to a Scroll of Immolation in the rune's vault! I totally see Hellmonk's point about concentrating XP on a few skills as I still don't have mindelay on my triden...

... (arbalest of speed is really good) and pick up pproj, looking for either heavier armor or to find ozos eventually. I can see an argument for just mindelaying the trident and killing everything with spectral weapon distortion trident instead though. I would probably train defensive skills after ...

I've cleared Orc & Lair and now have a weapon conundrum since I've found/bought so many artifacts this early on! I've mostly been using the first two with the war axe finding limited use due to Animate Skeleton providing such a great defensive buffer. the +3 arbalest of the Everdark (weapon) {sp...

Doh!

lol
I guess I've been playing mostly Normal sized races until very recently when I went all in trying FoAK with only sporadic success past Early Game.
Thanks for the detailed lesson.

What about changes to Shields? (I'm guessing that change happened after the Blog post.) In 0.22-a0-608-... I just noticed a buckler only requires "Skill to remove penalty: 2.4" Seems strange to me since it the first time I recall coming across a "Skill to remove penalty" that has...

Here's the latest Trunk ChangeLog update up to release 604:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/9281fa2407993a3a04f5560b6e3d9cf83585df06

Thanks gammafunk!

After you're done with both V5 and E3, you'll be able to do Slimes now that you have: the +5 faerie dragon scales {rF+ MR+++ rCorr Str-2 Dex+2} But that's a topic for another post if you've never tackled the Slime Pits before. (Hint: I usually prefer to do it with a Phantom Mirror to create an ally ...

The amulet of Acrobat seems to deactivate when using stairs and escape hatches. (I haven't found a shaft to see if it has the same effect.) Or maybe it is part of a larger issue described in: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=11436 :?: Although this is consistent with how Ozocubu's Armour ...

As a HuWn with 4 random spells, finally something I can use...and it is sweet:
- the +5 robe of Fortification (worn) {rPois MR+ Slay+6} (You found it on level 7 of the Dungeon)

the -6 hat "Lefeb" {+Blink MP+9 Str-3 Int+3} ...another Acquirement scroll wasted :roll:

A WizLab with just body armour ...for my DrIE. :roll:

Feels like I've been XOMed! :evil:

I will be making one in the next week. The release tournament will probably be in August, so there will be an announcement about that some time afterwards. Can't make any promises about monthly update posts, but hopefully we can get a few more of those in the next cycle. Development often happens i...

I have a handful of 3-4 rune wins but keep in mind my first 15-rune win was last month with a GrEE by following the player guide on the Wiki: " Majang's Disquisition on the Nether Reaches (0.20) - extended game walk-through " I'm looking for recommendations on anything since I've never mad...

tasonir wrote:
johlstei wrote:Healing is the domain of the gods.

And also potions. And Deep Dwarves. And the 5 key.

...and a random unexpected Mutation (just to throw in the evolutionary perspective) :geek:

+12 arbalest of Leimmar {venom, rC+} (You took it off an orc priest on level 1 of the Orcish Mines) for a OpVM^Kiku already wearing a +4 shield {AC+3} with Shield skill of 8.1 and rising...sigh! Look on the bright side. You already have venom, so at least the brand is redundant. It'd be worse if it...

+12 arbalest of Leimmar {venom, rC+}
(You took it off an orc priest on level 1 of the Orcish Mines)

for a OpVM^Kiku already wearing a +4 shield {AC+3} with Shield skill of 8.1 and rising

...sigh!

Thank you all for your feedback.
I am especially grateful to all those who wrote more than 6 sentences.

Cheers!

Thanks KoboldLord For clarification, I'm not expecting at all for my potential proposal to get implemented. But I also don't want to spend time putting together a formal proposal that will be ignored because I happened not to be aware about current and future development trends. I just find it ironi...

New item: the Iron Rod, which fires a spray of shrapnel in a wide arc. Extremely effective against agile, low-AC enemies, but ineffective against armoured enemies or at a distance. from: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/trunk-updates-17-november-2014 After reading the description, I had to think h...

Game Design Discussion Although the central place for this kind of discussion is on the CDO wiki, some may find it helpful to discuss potential requests and suggestions here first. Discussions no longer take place on the Dev Wiki. See the middle section "Link to a Discussion Thread" on pa...

I'm still feeling a bit triggered by this post being moved from "Game Design Discussion". (I don't mean for this to be a rant but it might end up being one.) FYI, I am working on a proposal but since this is my 1st one, I find it challenging to figure out if it goes against current and fut...

I don't see how my Q was not a "Game Design Discussion"! ... especially considering how outdated the dev wiki is on this topic: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:monster:uniques:player_ghost Footer: dcss/brainstorm/monster/uniques/player_ghost.txt · Last modified: 2...

I feel maybe a screen capture of the original scenario could be beneficial.

After a very long and good thread (https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14180), I get a feeling a lot of crawlers don't like Player Ghosts and those who play locally/offline usually delete the bones files. I'm wondering if there's any talk of changes to come relating to Player Gho...

Great feedback! Thanks Obviously the combo is the most important, since it is the character that is "viable" for the early game; backgrounds and species on their own cannot be "viable" (and therefore the "Viable" option should be deactivated when a background or a speci...

The reason I would submit an issue on Mantis is to hear from a dev who knows the historical context of Xom's powers as to why it might be a feature and not a bug. Ideally, a dev would write a very informative response in the issue's Note field, which you could then provide a link to in this thread. ...

When selecting a background before a species, the "Please select a background" screen (in v.15.x) doesn't offer any indication as to which backgrounds are innately much more difficult/challenging than others. Berzerkers are often referred to as an easier background especially for new crawl...

3105 | D:3 | XOM: summons 3 hostile demons 3106 | D:3 | Noticed a sun demon 3106 | D:3 | Noticed a ynoxinul 3106 | D:3 | Noticed a ynoxinul This is from my current game. It is 0.15, to be sure, so that might have changed in trunk.[/quote] I would file an "issue" on Mantis stating that it ...

If you want that starting chaos brand weapon, Chaos Knight may be viable if you're playing a stabber character such as a Spriggan, selecting the Shortsword to start. I've been playing Chaos Knights much more lately but I'm not experienced enough yet to determine which are good CK combos. During the...

After thinking about those who wrote constructive feedback , I now realize I'm focusing on patching something that may not be an issue for some. So let me share my overall perspective as it is (since it has evolved from what it was 5 days ago when I started this thread): From versions .12 to .15, I ...

Thank you all for your feedback. As my signature states, my main concern is with the new crawler offline experience In the early game, apart from a few Uniques like Sigmund, I find there is a huge challenge for new crawlers when they 1st encounter their own Player Ghosts and I am thinking that this ...

Since Death Knights (DK) have been removed from trunk as a starting background, I thought it might be fun to start creating Ghost files (aka Bones files) for species/backgrounds that are no longer possible at game start. The attached .zip has 21 bones files for all the species that can start as DK i...

If it's working now, can you let me know if you can access the "Read Me!" via the help menu on the following post:
see: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14217

Crawl Tiles 0.14 worked, but 0.15 seems to depend on "fonts-dejavu-core", which isn't in the Debian Stable repositories (only "ttf-dejavu-core" is in the repositories). Is there a simple fix for this? Did you follow the following steps for v.15? http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress...

stickyfingers wrote:Maintenance.

if it was not announced ahead of time, then it seems like it's emergency "maintenance"! aka: crash

In the Dungeon Crawl Help (?) at the top of the List of commands (??), it mentions the keyboard movement via the number pad (NumPad) and the vi keys (non-intuitive on QWERTY kb). In crawl-tiles, what do I do on a laptop if I don't want to always access the NumPad by pressing the Fn key? I'm just sur...

As a new non-dev contributor, I'm still trying to get to grips with the whole structure & process. I am now getting familiar with the "DCSS - Code and Docs Wiki" https://crawl.develz.org/wiki . I've noticed that the 0.16 Development Plan seems like it isn't being update. Q: Is there so...

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