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Yes, Naga and Centaur get the shields bonus.

*Drain and * Contam only trigger when you unequip the item, while *Corrode and *Slow have a chance to trigger when you take damage. Those two setups aren't so different in defenses. Your physical skills are good and you've got good Int. The spellcasting route will be a bit weaker in the short term. ...

Use your enchant weapon and armour scrolls. Those will make you a bit stronger.

Train Fighting. Spam Summon Ice Beasts.

Yeah, get Swiftness and Shroud online: Apportation will come for free with Shroud. Then Fighting, Dodging, and Shields. I'd wait a little while on training a weapon. The scimitar is very good and cross-trains daggers for stabs. You could also train like 5 Long Blades soon to make using it better. Or...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I'd avoid him, he can confuse you despite extra MR.

Edit. Don't forget you have a breath attack, it is powerful and fun.

Yes, green draconian breath is extra awesome early.

During the very short mating season, the males molt and become visible.

... and poison.

A cursed staff of summoning seems excruciating.

Getting duvessa to thank your post is an irredeemably bad idea. Just remove it and replace it with nothing.

Bad luck on the short sword, but worth checking.

I'd replace the MR- randart ring with the ring of protection from fire. rF- is bad.

Is the bow doing anything that Magic Dart etc don't? I'd drop it and wear the buckler.

Identify that short sword by wielding it. A good brand will increase your damage a bunch, especially on non-stabs.

I was a bit vexed not to find Chei in the Temple, Yeah well, as cruel as Crawl can be, sometimes it does its best to prevent you from making bad decisions :) Eh... while I dunno what a gnoll of some other god might be like, and while there clearly was a point early on where Chei was a net liability...

Awesome, wizard44! A first win that fast is amazing!

RIP. Next game!

You're in great shape. Arga and the antimagic broad axe are both amazing.

You need nothing and you don't need to explore the other lung. Grab the Orb and win. Use digging to shorten your path to upstairs when possible. Beware of demons with torment and Panlords. Otherwise, you should be fine.

No, that armor is top tier. You are unlikely to find anything better in this game and the next few combined. I'd wear the cloak of MR and replace the ring of MR with the ring City for a little more AC, EV, and damage, but spirit and your current jewelry is also a reasonable choice. Choose and drop t...

You are doing awesome! If you feel a need to kill any of those uniques, you can handle it with some care. You can totally avoid them otherwise. For both Sojobo and Mara (and many other monsters) you want to spend as few turns as possible in their LOS without walking then with your weapon. The best g...

A Panlord with chaotic-branded melee is the unavoidable threat that will eventually kill a megazigger. And they're tedious to identify, although the recent change to announce Panlord melee brand on sight should be a big help, e.g. a force_more_message. Good idea to use silver on them. Of course, you...

Awesome! Thanks for the report! Corrosion and petrification are among the few ways to die at that point. It makes sense that the combination would be ... bad. I didn't look at the map, but fog can help alot to limit LOS for monsters with smite-targeted abilities like floating eyes (and gives clouds ...

Kiting, camping, Abyss-grinding, etc are their own punishment.

That amulet is great. You can drop the blowgun and poisoned needles. Curare needles are useful in Vaults, and confusion and paralysis needles all game, but without those, the blowgun is worthless now. Drop the cloak and plate. You've made your choices there and are t likely to change. You can always...

You can drop the battleaxe and war axe. The broad axe is your end-game weapon (unless a better broad axe drops). I'd rebrand it if you find a scroll, but protection is fine. You're not going to unequip your shield and eat a few rations to wield the battleaxe. There aren't many hydras left in the gam...

Stick with the axe & shield. A better axe will drop at some point.

Forking Paths is much better than the rest.

Learn Shatter!

Stats are capped at 125!

I noticed you weren't carrying any potions of resistance, which you could have used for rElec. Potions of resistance are rare, so it's possible there weren't any available. Electricity (partially?) ignores AC, so it is particularly dangerous. I probably would have worn that barring with rElec for th...

Yeah vamp bardiche seems obviously better than Finisher. Paralysis needles are amazing! I don't know why anyone fights non-paralyzed HellPanlords. (Ok, they are crazy rare and you might not have any. Confusion needles are an excellent substitute, except I hate loosing the Sword of Cerebov trophy to ...

Regular orc priests are trivial at this point unless there are 3+ in LOS at once. (Use fog or teleport or both.) Orc high priests are more of a problem: I think their smites do more damage, but more importantly, they summon demons that can totally change fights. Orc sorcerers summon demons, too. Orc...

Make sure you know how Drain Life works—its success and *power* depend on Invocations skill—and remember it is an option if you get in trouble.

For Spider-themed zigg floors, invisibility shuts down ghost moths, but entropy weavers can still be a problem.

Congrats!

Javelins of penetration are my first choice.

Old disc of storms used to be insanely strong... I think its replacement, lightning rod, should work, too, but you only get a few shots.

An item with evocable blink can help, too.

The paralysis eyes don't check MR.

Reduced LOS sucks in Abyss for finding the rune? I'd say that despite that, it's stilling in Abyss for avoiding monsters.

Would Corrupt have helped on your HaAK?

Yeah, if you feel ok losing 2 AC, the minor effect of more ripostes is good.

Why not add a force_more_message?

Plutonium Sword is amazingly entertaining.

I'd go 1-handed, though.

Needles are definitely not trash in the late game.

There's an "Unknown command." in the log right before you try to cast Death's Door. Maybe that's where the keyboard betrayed you.

I try to slow down my play in dangerous situations: I am sometimes successful.

Will die for loot.

Armour. It'd be good to replace the Shield of the Gong... Plog is awesome! But you have 4 acquirements, so reevaluate after each one. Tavern generally doesn't like jewelry acquirement, but I think that's your 2nd beat option. (Or gold if there's stuff you want to buy in shops, but judging by how muc...

Necromutation makes Tomb a good bit easier, but death curses and not being able to retreat upstairs easily is still a problem if you haven't done it before.

There's infinite loot in the Abyss & Pan! I'd carefully go for the Abyss rune and then consider Pan.

I wouldn't bet on being able to clear a zig yet. Looting a few levels is fine, but may or may not give you scrolls of amnesia.

Dancing weapons don't see invisible. Definitely read a scroll of blinking next turn.

Some more minor ideas: silver javelins, hide behind TSO/Trog summons, Portal Projectile, Buttleflies.

Congrats!

Darkness is great.

Demon trident of chaos must have been fun.

Does anybody have piety problems from Recieve Corpses? I don't remember ever having that problem past just after conversion. I think the cost is 2–3 piety (same as Heroism?), which is just a few kills.

That vault with the merfolk avatar and miasma clouds is obnoxious (but behind a blue door). I did it recently completely painlessly with a scroll of blinking from the door to a spot adjacent to the merfolk, avoiding all of the miasma.

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