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You forgot to brag about a cleared Ziggurat. Not sure how hard it is with Qazlal but doing so with a melee character sounds impressive.

Getting DMsl to a positive success rate with just gear (reasonable gear, not triple wizardry) and no skill investment sounds impossible. And human players would not bother playing that optimally for such a tiny advantage.

A level 2 Charms/Air spell that helps you dodge enemy ranged attacks (by reducing their to-hit roll (for evasion purposes only) *TO* a random amount between: 50% and 100% for penetrating beams, 0% and 100% for single-target missiles). A level 6 Charms/Air spell that helps you dodge enemy ranged att...

Sequell does. 43918/5791034 games for *: 1/3x SaIE [33.33%], 2/13x GrDK [15.38%], 1/9x ImMo [11.11%], 1/10x GnPr [10.00%], 1/10x OMAs [10.00%], 1/14x LOSt [7.14%], 1/14x GECK [7.14%], 49/707x MiAs [6.93%], 1/15x GEBe [6.67%], 3/47x LOVM [6.38%], 21/366x DDVM [5.74%], 1/18x ImHu [5.56%], 23/422x DDF...

I have a question which has been bothering me for a while. There were a few posts here at the Tavern saying that Artificer background has the highest online win rate in recent versions or something like that. Yet you almost never see people recommending that background alongside what's considered be...

For Lair:$, demon ending is the one i always skip (just the wizard and demons, not the forest). The relatively new one with a sun(spider?)-shaped construction containing guardian serpents and nasties is the one i should probably start skipping too. For Swamp:$, anything with the Lernaean hydra is pr...

Sorry, i kinda forgot shadow dragon armour was a thing. You could do a part of the Crypt with TSO for the holy brand and extended with Zin afterwards. Derp.

That's Okawaru recruiting new worshippers by advertising his silly gifts.

stab my way through extended in GDA A formicid with 27 armour, 27 stealth, your stats, GDA, boots of the Assassin and cloak of the Thief is only very stealthy so that's not gonna work. With robe of the Night you'd be uncannily stealthy and could stab some dudes but you're just a formicid with no ha...

When i finally reached the Orcish Mines with a MiBe, i decided to check that place out and predictably died at the last floor of that branch. "I should not visit other locations until i finish the main dungeon" — I thought, and eventually went from D:1 to D:27 with another MiBe. That chara...

http://crawl.develz.org/learndb/index.html#conjuration_challenge wrote:1. Win a pure conjurer: magic dart, searing ray, IMB, IOOD, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
2. Won by: jle (3 runes, SpWz, 0.9)

That's a dense wall of text! Anyway, why do you think Oka is better than Kiku for a Fe? This doesn't seem intuitive to me. Heroism is OK for tough fights, but it doesn't give HP and Fe doesn't get AC. Finesse comes kinda late and Oka can't gift anything useful. The Kiku books give most magically ap...

So, i'd assume nobody has tried a felid of Pakellas yet because this is literally a combination of the most hated race and god at the Tavern. I wanted to be the first person to tell the tale but there was no Pak at the early D:4 Temple and i was running out of wand charges already so i picked Kiku t...

Ok, in my original post you partition the set of books into k subsets, we use r_1,...,r_k to denote the size of the subsets. We assume that the r values are in ascending order of size. ... Since r_1+...+r_k = N this simplifies to N + r_k + k + 1, and this will be minimized when r_k + k is minimal. ...

My money is on N + ceil(2 * sqrt(N)) + 1.

Tiktacy wrote:My vote is for Khufu, because he is the only one who can build the wall.

A wall of oklobs is fine too.

"Slowed" is the Slow status effect, "very slow" is your current movement speed.

Reading the scroll is slowed down (takes 1.5 turns instead of 1) but the teleportation delay is just as long as usual with the Orb. That's 6 + 1d3 + 1d5 turns (11 on average) if you believe the learndb entry (which still mentions cTele).

I can't believe somebody is actually raging and quitting Crawl after splatting a character on Zig:18, of all places. A player has to experience a whole lot of YASD's to reach that point of the game, all the ragequitters should've left at that stage. I think TPV is just momentarily upset and will ret...

The thing about ogres/trolls in Dragon Form being good in extended is that you could've just played a draconian, have reasonable aptitutdes for the strategy, not suffer for most of the game and still have enough HP/dps to kill the toughest of dudes. While ogres/trolls are good without any transmutat...

I actually got a question this time. Gotta make a separate post for it because who cares about my diary. I'm about to play a FeAr, would Pakellas be an alright god choice? I'd imagine getting wand(s) of paralysis/confusion/disintegration and killing everything up to elephants/death yaks with that, a...

Thanks for your comments. The only felid I've played was FeVM, which is a fairly good felid start I think. My win took a huge number of turns though because I didn't have a great strategy and compensated with extreme caution. I will be interested to see how you get on with this. What do you think th...

So, i decided to win all felids online in their starting screen order and see how many i could streak. As we all know, the great thing about Crawl isn't beating the game but showing everyone online that you did. And i still can't stand inventory management on webtiles so gotta play the race which ha...

I'd try to loot at least Slime Pits. With haste, brilliance and your spell enhancers TRJ should go down just fine as long as you keep the distance. Immolation would help killing TRJ's spawns and Passage of Golubria (which you might have avaiable) could be good for saving blink scrolls as you're stay...

If you think the mid game is boring now, you haven't played 0.13 or whatever the last version with a 27 floors deep dungeon was. I used to constantly have 5—6 characters (offline) i didn't want to finish playing back in the day, now i can actually sit through the whole game. Personally i wouldn't pl...

Sar wrote:You don't actually need to do that, but some people find it fun.

Besides being a scummy strategy, isn't that actually the optimal play if you want to win? And if it is, should it be allowed (i'd vote for yes because mummies are bad enough already)?

I've been told that you win MuCK by sitting in the temple (at the exit) for 100K turns and scumming Xom's gifts. You can get artifacts, high-tier wands and whatnot.

Congrats on winning all the races. Your Crawl experience reminds me very strongly of my own: i play slowly, play offline and win about half of my games in recent versions too. I'd still recommend using autoexplore though. I know why you wouldn't want to use it but in reality it only kills you in the...

IIRC high-tier damage wands were removed not because of being unwanted/useless but because they were too similar to each other and existing conjuration spells. RIP.

My recent FeBe had to run away from Shoals:1 and do Vaults:1—4 instead. Abyssal rune should be the easiest third one for you because you don't actually have to fight tons of dudes there plus you have stealth. Remember to run from dudes while you can and teleport if you can't (and the dudes aren't po...

I got the message for a volcano portal in orc:2. Should I use a scroll of magic mapping to try to find it and enter it? I have a ring of fire protection, but some of those monsters in the volcano seem really nasty. I'd read a mapping scroll on Orc:2 even without a volcano. The usual "don't go ...

tedric wrote:also also, he/it is a big kobold (unless you polymorphed him into a human?)

He must have polymorphed Pikel, the game doesn't display races for uniques by default.
(Unless it's Blork the orc, you can actually turn him into Blork the jelly!)

They are pretty annoying indeed but the cure mutation spawn rate has been increased to compensate so there's usually enough of them. You've either got quite unlucky or played around mutators poorly. If you're not using a setting like this (you could add orbs of fire there, i just do Zot at a snail's...

Also, gastronok can hit for up to 70ish damage by casting Airstrike, so if the 35 from a melee hit scares you you probably shouldn't be anywhere near him. His max Airstrike damage is "just" 50 and while he pretty much never rolls that high (and he has four less lethal spells in his arsena...

Your last question is answered at the very bottom of the picture, i'd assume.

The only thing reaching ability of polearms has in common with evokables is the use of 'v' key.

That's a top quality post right there.
Judging by the flowchart, most of the acquirements should be used on wands and weapons. What happened to the old "always acquire armour" mantra? Was it never true to begin with?

I guess i'm the only person who thinks felids are in the best spot they've ever been and don't need adjusting at all. Before the buffs felids had their appealing (yes, this is very subjective) gimmicks ruined by the race being annoyingly weak, now they are just fine.

Getting Invocations to 15 on this character is a waste (and impossible) because Kiku doesn't use that skill. I don't have experience with this type of character but if i were trying to cast level 7—8 spells while wearing FDA in a 3 rune game (not sure if that's possible and "optimal" given...

I was planning to play a troll of Ru anyway so might as well join the league. Sorry for playing offline, inventory management is annoying enough already. I was pleasantly surprised by how good a large shield with an amulet of reflection and Ru's passives were at substituting for armour. My only real...

See I always think of people as either interested in seeing deaths for learning, or wins for learning but also a more laid back fun sort of play, but maybe I'm just imagining things. In any case, I did some Vine stalkers today as well :) Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sANaYfKnFNM Part 2: h...

Oh, and identify Ice Blast if you can. That shit's nice regardless of what class or race you are (except Felid). Hey, felids can zap wands too! On most characters of mine i'd train evocations to at least 5 just to deal with hydrae. As a side effect, this makes MR-wands (the OpTm in question has a p...

I've never seen a turncount speedrun on YouTube so gotta vote for that (count it for whatever VS build you can get the highest score with). It'd be nice to watch a melee felid too since i'll never get to record a playthrough of one anyway.

Okawaru will only gift you crap you can wear but it's all about that Heroism button rather than gifts or even Finesse (even though doubling your dps is insane). Speaking of insane dps, i find Blade Hands damage too good to pass up. Ice Form should be better for a lot of Lair encounters because of ex...

OpTm has a great late game (if you get Statue Form) but is quite squishy before reaching that point. Likewise, Chei provides you with sick stat boosts and invocations but until you can at least Slouch reliably, you're just moving slowly for almost no benefit and are quite susceptible to death. The r...

Just Corrupt his vault, that would break walls.

The upside of Silence is huge and since cancellation (as well as other potions and rare wands) exists, the downside doesn't kill you with proper play.

Whatever you do, please don't remove the Silence spell. Even before Mass Confusion got cut out, Hexes school had been considered unviable late game.

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