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How did you deal with cerebov/gloorx vloq without glaciate? Shatter?

Would you use a +10 ponderous plate mail instead of a +4 plate mail of rF, if you had boots of running?

Having no fighting skill is risky. If you were missing just 4 hp, then 2 hellfires that rolled for max could kill you.

You are a vine stalker, so the eveningstar is basically -9 hp.

Mummies can death curse you up to 7 points in each stat (previously). Some characters might not have seven points in each stat. Once you have stat zeroed, it is very hard to get out.

On some forums I have seen, If you double post (make 2 posts in a row instead of adding the content of the second to the end of the first via editing), both the moderators and other posters get extremely angry. However, I see people do this on this forum often. Is it forbidden?

Were you a melee character with some utility spells?

Polypiling is overpowered in nethack. If you have the spell, then you can zap it at every amulet you don't need, until it turns into a amulet of life saving or explodes. You will get a bunch of amulets of life saving. In my only nethack ascension, I ascended with 9 amulets of life saving.

How much has the stat drain been reduced?

How do you have 200 hp? Don't level 27 tengus with 27 fighting have 199?

I berserked from full health, when there was 1 square between us (lured him around corner first). The game only called him "dangerous", and not "extremely dangerous", so I did not BIA.

With the battleaxe, my damage output may have been high enough to take out aizul. I have read many people advocating for early use of enchant weapon/armour scrolls, but then you won't have them for enchanting endgame gear, and I have managed to get through the early game several times while hoarding...

157269 arandomperson12 the Severer (level 17, -8/198 HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Berserker on Aug 10, 2016. Was the Champion of Trog. Killed from afar by Aizul (10 damage) ... with a poison arrow ... on level 3 of the Swamp on Aug 11, 2016. The game lasted 02:27:05 (41185 turns). arandomperson12 the...

Does the bite do 12 or d12 damage?

Vampiric brand is more for 3 rune game. Also, vs bite is most needed for those enemies, because of its antimagic effect, and is not really necessary against popcorn (you can do fine against popcorn without it).

Why is this considered so good? It only does 12 damage according to the VS wiki page at level 27 (is this 12 damage, or d12 damage)? Therefore, although the antimagic effect and mana vamp are good, the bite will have a really hard time piercing the ac of opponents such as cerebov, dispater, asmodeus...

The wiki says that hell beasts have randomized stats. Do all hell beasts in one playthrough have the same stats (damage, had, speed)?

How come multiple forumites seem to have a Xed out bread as their avatar? Are you all in the remove food movement?

While they have powerful attacks, they are quite fragile, and are nowhere near as tough as fiends/hell sentinels.

jwoodward48ss wrote:Wands of healing are still the best thing.

They aren't that good in lategame/extended, as they are only really useful then for stalling for time waiting for a teleport, or healing up after escaping.

TSO makes you immune to Ophan holy flames and pearl dragon breath though.

In depths, it can contain titans/juggernauts/gold dragons, and one I opened in zot had, among other things, 3 orbs of fire.

In general, should this be opened? It contains many monsters, which you can kill to get lots of exp. However, the monsters might also kill you. Reading a scroll of teleportation right before opening it, and then letting the monsters disperse might be a good idea?

Fighters start with a shield. Should you use it, or just immediately drop it?

It is useful for formicids and people in heavy armour who can't cast cblink.

Don't trolls get +6 hunger per turn?

I just got a wand of heal wounds as a vine stalker from a scroll of acquirement. Is this supposed to happen?

Why is the spell regeneration considered so good? It only gives 1 hp/turn, and it also makes you hunger faster.

I should have used a hatch? yes. Or read tp. Or read magic mapping and head for the nearest downstairs. I could not go anywhere from those stairs, as the layout of the stairs was like this: ###### ....p@# ###### where #s are walls, .s are empty floors, p is the ghost, and @ is me. Or explore other ...

Both others were in vaults that I could not access. I went up to avoid a troll ghost, then realized I had no other way down, went down and fought the ghost, and lost. I should have used a hatch?

I put on chain mail, and tried to lure prince ribbit up, but died.

But you get less healing per use of trog's hand as your piety goes down.

How do you accumulate this? In my second win as GrFi of Okawaru, I used heroism 83 times and finesse 30 times, and was unable to consistently maintain 6 stars of piety. Another time, as a DDBe^Trog, I had to use trog's hand for regen a lot, and was unable to ever reach 6 stars of piety, and my piety...

arandomperson12 the Carver (Deep Elf Fighter) Turns: 10105, Time: 00:29:41 Health: 45/45 AC: 14 Str: 15 XL: 8 Next: 97% Magic: 10/10 EV: 4 Int: 14 God: Makhleb [***...] Gold: 184 SH: 0 Dex: 14 Spells: 0 memorised, 7 levels left rFire . . . SeeInvis . a - +1 long sword (flame) rCold . . . Gourm . E ...

But this just makes you really uncomfortable "oh no, there are all these nice rods, but I can't use any of them".

Dodging is bad, because it is based on luck. If you are unlucky, you will get hit over and over and die. Armour is better, as it gives some gdr.

One reason for this is that one of the best sources of 2 handed weapons of these types in a 3 rune game are frost/fire giants, who wield freezing battleaxes and flaming great swords respectively. Axe users are pretty much guaranteed a freezing battleaxe, while sword users have to use a flaming great...

Does the dungeon level influence what floor loot you find? If so, what is considered good and what is considered bad? What about branches?

One reason for why the early game is harder than late game (besides having more consumables and escape options in late game) could be that enemies are proportionally harder in the early game. In early game, there are many enemies (early ogres, Sigmund, grinder, orc priests, etc) that must either be ...

How do you get inside as a non ee?

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That vault has a room in the middle?

That's probably because on both non heavy armor characters and many heavy armor characters, the hide is not enchanted into gda. The hide itself will be much more common.

If you haven't gotten a win yet, then just go for 3 runes. I am not a particularly good player, but on my 15 rune mifi, I went with TSO from the start. Both Oka and Trog wrath seem nasty. Wrath occurs during/after battles, so it will often hit you at low health.

Thus far, I have never actually died after getting a rune.

All demons are immune. You can find all this on the wiki.

Gold dragons are plentiful in depths. Also, if you die early, then you can restart easily, but deaths in the lategame cause you to lose a lot more progress.

Why do people say that waiting to enchant gda is bad? Usually, you can find some decently enchanted (2-3) branded plate armor to carry you until you get gda.

Does it actually only do 3d6 damage? Once, on my SpEn, I had good enough skills to cast it, but was scared away by the low damage.

But +12 gda will give 4 more ac and a bit more gdr. Also, aren't stats useless?

How is it good? Wiki only says it does 3d6 damage, which is 10.5 on average. Also, it is extremely fragile.

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