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Yay! No more book carrying! I don’t play anything but 0.22 now because of it. Please remove more clutter concerning inventory management.

Can you simply summon some stuff, inner flame it and let it chase you in the middle of clouds?
You could add freezing clouds and let it chase you.

Actually, the best solution is probably to avoid it altogether. Lead it to the top, that small peninsula in the top middle of the map.

Iron giants too?
Damn.
Yeah, it can seriously mess your day.

What if you couldn't swap positions with summoned allies? Suddenly you don't have a safe escape in corridors, suddenly summoning too many allies can backfire blocking your path to retreat. Summoners will spend more turns telling summons to attack something, retreat somewhere etc. Won’t this just ma...

There's a post around of someone who streaked NaWn^Goz. It was a lot of Nagas. All trained only stealth until 8ish then used axes, big shields and Gozag. In the beginning use poison spit as much as possible and avoid difficult fights, recognize threats, teleport early, etc. https://crawl.develz.org/...

Nicely done.

On my current game:

Code:: 1595 | D:2 | Noticed an ogre 1660 | D:2 | Killed an ogre

Paralysis is a small-probabiliry effect that is irresistible. Getting paralyzed while surrounded by PanLords is the one really dangerous situation you can't prepare for in megazigs. In the floors filled with PanLords, it's best to fight in a corner, so as few as possible can melee you and to have g...

Zapping a two headed ogre with a wand of polymorph can be a very bad idea! Its probably better to use the wand on yourself.

Either use regular shield (protection preferably) or drop the buckler. You have 15 skill levels in Shields and don't need rF+++ when you already have rF++. The buckler just disables your off-hand attack while giving insignificant defense increase. Armour skill does nothing for Statue Form and is no...

So, nine runes now. I fear mutations. I don't like the hells and especially the tomb. But I do have all the tools I guess. Any advice? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-402-ga933591907 (webtiles) character file. zhorgal the Grand Master (Vine Stalker Monk) Turns: 78375, Time: 12:33:29 Health:...

I know that using statue form is my goal. I found it in Orc. All the prerequisites are there but I don't know when I should start training. I know that with statue form I should wear a light armour but so far I can't use it so I'm wearing plate. I just found an acid scales so tried it on. Plate seem...

There was a bug in webtiles / trunk here, that I fixed. (It was displaying as intended in console.) It's worth noting though that it's not entirely obvious when it makes sense to display the EV boost. The intended (and now current) behavior is that you see it on the beginning of the turn after it a...

I cleared V:5. It was simple enough. I stair danced a bit and when things got hairy, i teleported and landed on a good spot then proceeded to methodically clear the level. During the abyss, I learned regeneration and BVC. Then I decided to do the Abyss because there was a trove that asked for the ru...

I never see EV increasing now (I put it on with full HP and MP, tried standing still and moving). Is it broken?

So I have this char: https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/zhorgal/zhorgal.txt . It had its moments, mainly Oka´s presents were utter rubbish but finally got a Vault on U:3 (I think) were I got demon whips and the +12 GDS. I think I may have been spending XP quite badly. My questions are mainly these:...

Don't forget that if you have Tele status and you don't want to teleport, another source of teleport will cancel it. Thanks. I did remember that, but only too late. Nice to know someone reads these walls of text. :-) I love reading these stories. Unfortunately, I never remember enough from my adven...

R.I.P. in advance. This can seem a little mean but is probably true unless the OP is a very good player. The point is that a person with a good find will tend to take on several monsters at the same time until two orc wizards and two orc priests appear, confuse him and blast him to smithereens desp...

So you decided to get another rune. Nicely done!

I needed rpois for Zot. But now everything is covered. I think a good player wouldn't even blink considering going for 15 runes. Should I change gods I wonder. What would be the next logical step? V:5 then Hells? Pan? Abyss? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-271-gc000056 (tiles) character fil...

Hellmonk wrote:Do more runes if you feel like it. Use whichever armor gives you more AC. Why would you want hat of the alchemist on this character?

My current setup lacks rpois. But i'd be giving away 4 AC for it which seems a tad excessive.

Third attempt. This guy just finished the Crypt and his equipment is quite nice. He can even buy the hat of the alchemist. He has 3 runes, being slime his third. Advice needed. Should I go nuts and try to get a few more runes? Should I buy the hat? Which armour should I use? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup...

Unfortunately, this char died in Zot: 5 to a berserked quicksilver dragon. I didn't realize until too late that it was that dangerous berserked until too late. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-271-gc000056 (tiles) character file. 642048 Hufocum the Slayer (level 27, -6/256 HPs) Began as a Ce...

Thanks guys, Elf, Crypt and V: 5 done. I'm considering whether to try Slime or simply go to Zot. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-271-gc000056 (tiles) character file. Hufocum the Crack Shot (Centaur Hunter) Turns: 93753, Time: 07:41:51 Health: 246/246 AC: 33 Str: 27 XL: 26 Next: 31% Magic: 3...

I would do Spider without giving it a second thought. Centaur with +9 longbow of freezing with Okawaru... you have everything you need. 28 AC is plenty enough for such a character. There's no need to train for a glaive when you have a +9 longbow and infinite arrows from Oka. You were right, spider ...

Second try. This guy finished Shoals easily and even stumbled upon the rune and then decided to clean the rest of the level up. Ilsuiw had to be kited and I even had to teleport away at least once to separate it from the other monsters and flee engulfing. As I felt I didn't have a lot of AC, I didn'...

Same here. Nemelex seems fun by I abandon his games out of sheer disgust of inventory management. I hate having to choose what to throw away all the time.

Patashu wrote:
Zhorgal wrote:How did it attack? I don't understand.

My guess: Just before dying, the orc wizard managed to confuse the guardian serpent zombie, which wandered around randomly, stepping onto the MuNe and dealing the lethal blow.

But shouldn't there by a ? symbol on the guardian serpent zombie?

How did it attack? I don't understand.

This is a new one for me: large concentration of hungry ghosts took away all my food. I used a teleport trap to teleport this guy away but he came back. Is it me or is hunger worse in this version? I find that my recent chars seem to be eating much more rations. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22...

Shtopit wrote:
Majang wrote:Generally, I would avoid the fight entirely, and move to the next upstairs (or even downstairs) asap. Unseen horrors more often than not are left behind by stairs, and if not, you shake them going down again.

I agree.

I tried. But I had no scrolls of tele and was too far away from any stairs.

None of those methods helps a low level MiBe with no scrolls of teleport and very far away from exits.
I just leave (or widly swing an axe or one of the methods in the wiki) when I find one without sinv when I am of a highest level with higher AC/EV.
But on D:5 it feels particularly unfair.

816 Xeom the Chopper (level 7, 0/62 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Berserker on Mar 4, 2018. Was a Priest of Trog. Slain by an unseen horror (3 damage) ... on level 5 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:12:26 (4995 turns). Yes, D:5, and an unseen horror. I'm afraid of these guys when I don't have Sinv on ...

Airwolf wrote:Why were you using an untrained weapon against a very tough monster in Zot?

The bow wasn’t working because the summons got in the way of the cursed toe. I should probably have trained the melee weapon instead of the spells.

Lack of portal projectile did me in in Zot (and scroll of blinking being uncontrolled). Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-247-gbddf880 (tiles) character file. 617257 Loasi the Slayer (level 26, -4/261 HPs) Began as a Centaur Hunter on Feb 22, 2018. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Killed by drai...

When it rains, it pours. I have three nice weapons at my disposal, and have delayed training any melee skill until now. I have two longbows, one with pois/rpois and the other a +9 of fire. I have 3 nice weapons: a demon whip of electrocution, a latajang of electrocution and a demon trident of freezi...

I thought as much. How about things like fighting? I just found the wizard's mirror and decided to train some shields. My VM died and I used this one. Same principle really. Should I learn invisibility? (Need to buy Party Tricks for it). Edit: just found book of transfigurations and an artifact ring...

Should I increase skills like fighting or armour as a Sp? I'd guess so for fighting even though I haven't yet. Probably should. But what about armour?

Necro spells are not good because no corpses due to Gozag and regen spell is bad because of extra hunger and easy escape via running away. Regen spell is bad because of spell hunger? Or having regen increases hunger even if I can cast the spell without hunger costs? I had no hunger costs due to hig...

Airwolf wrote:Ring of Flames sucks. Freezing Cloud is awesome, but expensive and not a priority. Is Vile Clutch in the Book of Necromancy now? Probably too expensive at this point, but interesting.

What VAF said.

It was removed. It is awesome yes.

Yes, I know, I keep going for the tough ones. Unlike the Naga, I never won with a Spriggan. I just bought an amulet of the acrobat. Wow! 38 EV when he's running is quite nice. Basically, I need general advice about everything. I can learn all the spells from the starting book of necromancy, the last...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Potion of haste might save you too, it is usually enough to last for teleport to kick in.

Edit. Training all those skills at once was a mistake IMHO, ignore Dodging too if you want to streak NaWn like that guy

Good call. And yeah, training dodging was a mistake.

As I feared, a Hydra did me in. I should have read ?tele as soon as I saw it. I used phial of floods and potion petition but to no avail. Now that I think about it, maybe the scroll of vulnerability plus the wand of paralysis could have saved me. Alas, I'm too bad in emergencies. Dungeon Crawl Stone...

Hi, This char is inspired in a certain person no one knows *wink* who streaked Naga Wanderers of Gozag. I'm wondering if I should ask for a shop but don't know if I should and, if I do, which would be a better choice. Any other kind of advice is also welcome. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0...

I feel like a more important question is why on earth you would want to make Abyss your third rune? Some chars are too afraid of say Shoals or Spider and prefer to go elsewhere. Having seen perfectly good chars get murdered while confused in one of these places you can’t really blame them. I lost a...

I went to the obvious places and have more questions: ⋅ Considering armour, I think the best one is the one I'm using. +1 CPA gives me much more AC though. ⋅ Oka gave me a longbow of velocity. It's probably better than the one I'm using atm since it works against everything rig...

So, just killed Nessos (he dropped the longbow and the centaur barding). Questions: ⋅ what should I use? Should I simply enchant the bow Nessos dropped as much as possible? ⋅ What should I wear? ⋅ Should I learn spells? ⋅ What skills should I increase? Dun...

How do I deal with wasps or black mamba? They're faster than me and they kill me everytime. An early swarm of wasps centaur killer.

MainiacJoe wrote:
Zhorgal wrote:I'm not leaning towards Be because Trog doesn't help with bow.
Trog gives arrows. That is huge, it means you never have to wonder whether an enemy is worth the ammo. As a Ce, kite everyone. Trog will also give you a nice bow eventually.

True. But Oka also gives arrows and helps with bows.

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