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So any other advice to help over come my stupidity? Did I make the right gear selection across my options?

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/grinr ... 005104.txt

Been running

20% fighting
40% weapon
20% defensive (dodge/armor)
20% spells (spellcasting/hex/invocation/evocation and a level or two of stealth ..)

Which reminds me, if a spell shows two schools of magic (say hex and transport), you only need to worry about skill ups in one?

If I come across a sleeping mob, does it matter if I cast first or bow first? For instance, does a sleeping mob still have all its dodging ability so I should shoot to wake him or just cast corona first and then bow?

Since I run out of space, and had no clue how to use them, I usually just dropped them off. Die and learn as they say.

Ok, will follow the advice and take bow off 40% when i get to 16 if a long bow, still stopping at 14 with a short bow. Killed myself in Desolation. Did not want to retreat and have the branch close. Also noticed all the explosions, but was not taking damage so was ignoring. Until the bright red DRAI...

For a human Arcane Marksman, are potions of mutation worth playing with? seems more downside than up.

My latest run was my best by far. LVl 21, 166 Hp, 20 skill level with bow. Here is my morgue file from the run, could some one tell me what I should have worn? http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/grinrain/morgue-grinrain-20190421-220307.txt For instance, I was torn between +3 protection ring vs + 3 ev...

Are there points where increasing skill ups makes no sense? On a weapon for instance, still skill up after minimum delay? Is there a point where more fighting, dodge, armor stop making sense?

Worth anything to an AM wearing scale or heavier?

Big risk, but you only need to trigger the teleport trap once.

Have bought weapons before and unenchanted gear for empty slots. But what about buying enchanted or artifact gear? Seems a big risk without any idea of the enchantment.

As an example, currently level 14, ac21, ev 13, armor at 10. Currently using +1 ring mail of fire resistance. Also found a +3 leather of magic resistance, and both chain and scale without any enhancement.

Suggestions? strategy?

Started with fighting 20%, bow 40%, armor 20% (missed the comment that said start with dodge till lvl5 or 6), hex at 20%. Bounced between armor and dodge at 2:1, every time i did 2 lvls of armor, did one of dodge. Did hex and spell casting back and forth, but once I got religion, did two lvls of inv...

I would beg to differ, requires a different level of understanding. Before, would just set weapon skill to the level that gave me minimal delay, and let the game take care of the rest. Now I need to determine how much armor vs dodge vs stealth? How much hex vs spellcasting vs invocations vs evocatio...

That is sort of telling some one who barely writes python to go write assembly.

How do most folks set skills? I have just been clicking bow up one step, and leaving the rest as is. Tried to decrease spell/hex a bit, but they all zero out when I step around. (sorry, sure there is a better way to express the question) After that, I just let the game take is course. Setting stop v...

Ok, gradually increase armor keeping slow failure rate below 20% makes sense. Enchant other slots until you get a good Breastplate makes sense. Try to maximize EV and AC given my str makes sense. Anything else I should be doing?

Ok, skip dex, which is too bad. Human AMs start with high dex, was hoping it was important!

Thanks all

In a lot of games, strength plays to melee fighting (both effectiveness and how fast you skill up), dex to range fighting and defense (effectiveness and skill ups), while int plays to magic (effectiveness and skill ups). How does it work here?

Hmmmm, leather has a slow failure of 14% or so at start, so I guess I can start with something a bit heavier than that, will have to see. Read some where that heavy armor decreases the chance to hit with bow. That would be a problem. How does that work, what do you do to compensate? Does enchantment...

Wow, so enchantment adds straight to the damage but without brand proc. And enchantment adds to the possibility of hitting? A 9/14 short bow, 14 skill level, 2 enchantment would act like am 11/7? so a better then a 15/17 long bow at the same skill level. Read somewhere that you want high damage weap...

How do you evaluate weapons? I know how to compute damage per effect delay (Damage per round) but how do you take into effect enchantment in doing the calculation? Is there a quick and dirty equation one could pop in or at least understand? Any short cuts in understanding the effects of brands in do...

So, played a couple of hundred times its seems, always human AM, just cause it is close to my toons in other games. Best I have ever done is cleared 15 levels, lair, Orcs, Swamp (only time I have gotten a rune) and died in snakes. Looking for ideas that might make me last longer. Armor: Usually go w...

I seem to have frozen the system. In Tree form, starving. Too hungry to rest, can not move, can not trigger a turn. Suggestions?

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