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I had downloaded it just before my computer died. I've just reinstalled it on the new one.

It's superb.

Right. I've been away a few months. My computer died and sourcing a replacement has been a long painful story; I wasn't in a position to play Crawl at work (I also resigned from my job and started somewhere new), so I kinda went cold turkey. I stayed away from the forum because reading it and not be...

I just took a break for about three or four weeks after a particularly painful, prolonged bout of teh Stoopid (killed half a dozen characters of various strengths in a few hours, starting with a Zotsplat).

I feel much better now, and I'm certainly playing better again!

Swings and roundabouts. It's certainly harder to hide and rest up, but running away is much more effective: the lines of sight change often enough that you can escape pursuers completely, reasonably often. Even when it doesn't happen, groups of pursuers seem to get broken into manageable chunks some...

Get in a corner or hall and stay stationary I find that if I use a hall, one of them inevitably blinks behind me and cuts off my escape route. Then another one comes into view and then I get eaten. You can limit that if you're lucky enough to find a winding tunnel (I think they only blink within th...

If you are playing badly enough, you can start your day with a Zotsplat, and your sixth and final death of the day can be getting one-shotted by Edmund with a +4 Flail of Crushing.

At this point, you should seriously stop playing Crawl for a while.

Joel
I'mma do that

Blade wrote:There is no reason at all ever to save without exiting besides savescumming.

Or to switch to another character.

It's possible to get all the way through the main game, down to Zot:4, without finding rElec or rMut, and only one pip of rF and rC. Then you can totally die.

Joel
Died because he's an idiot, not because he lacked resistances

I've almost lost my Australian accent (it was never that strong, my home town of Adelaide has a fairly neutral accent to start with), apparently I have acquaintances who thought I was English until told otherwise.

I really want it back though!

joellercoaster wrote:catching yourself directly with the edge of Fire Storm still hurts

Turns out this is totally true of Ice Storm as well.

Who knew?

I actually like combat wombats the most - load up on armour, get a big hurty weapon of choice, and run around whacking things with it.

Unfortunately, looking at my score file, I'm much better at casters!

evilmike wrote:"Angbandy" is a fair way to put it. I like this style though.

Yeah, certainly it's just a matter of personal taste. I guess if that's the least fun I can find a vault, then that bit of the game is in pretty good shape!

(And I like the dozens-of-doors vault.)

Yarp. Snake, Labyrinth and Crypt are now all much easier on the eye. Nice job!

Sojiro wrote:I love it when after a difficult portal vault the loot is : 1 potion of confusion, 1 potion of degeneration, 1 potion of confusion

...and I'm a Stalker?

I'd like to add the early, early Jiyva altar vaults with multiple jellies. At levels when jellies are a huge threat by themselves if you're not a Spriggan with a sling and plenty of stones or a lucky wand. Oozes would probably be more appropriate there. I like those! And yes, I have been seriously ...

Then you should not not do that.

[edit: OnOnTopicComment: When you leap six inches out of your chair because a hydra just came around the corner, don't let your panic make you fail to note the snapping turtle right beside it.]

Blade wrote:I found two manuals of ice magic on a mummy fire elementalist and ended the game with both fire storm and ice storm castable.

You, sir, win.

That depends, a lot. Bolt of Magma is OK, and Fire Storm is brilliant. The former is good when you have a lot of investment in Fire or Earth already and need a mid-level blaster but don't have much else; the latter needs a lot of focus. And to focus, it has to be worth investing in Conjurations and ...

I still like Sludge Elves and Demonspawn. The former seem like an unobvious combo doe to the -2 Conjurations aptitude, but turns out to be effective in different ways. The latter are just generally awesome

I know you found the entrance, but: +1 on taking Ash. The curse thing is actually pretty user-friendly, and the powers you get are really awesome all the way through the game.

There are some really big hive vaults :shock:

[edit: Checking with the morgue file, the one I just found on L:2 had one queen, and 51 killer bees. Never have I missed rP quite so much.]

What I have learnt... Fear potions of greater poison. REALLY fear them. I lost a lvl16 MDFi of Oka with great gear by randomly identifying my remaining items... Came across one of these with no healing pots =S I think this can be distilled down to "if you are quaff-IDing potions, Cute Mutation...

Wow, totally forgot about Elyvilon too! Great god for the pure-melee approach, and surprisingly straightforward to use.

I've had good results with unarmed combat and Chei, but I wouldn't call it 'recommended'.

Have also made it to the endgame with two pure-melee Yredelemnul worshippers (splatted both of them on the Orb run, but that wasn't Yred's fault)! Lugonu also OK but the play style can be a bit odd.

It is entirely possible to encounter (and be killed by, though that part was panic) a Vault Guard on D:11.

Blade wrote: Or you could use the LearnDB, which works perfectly well already.

No, it doesn't.

It's not as bad as the Wiki, but I've certainly been burnt by out-of-date learndb entries before. "Perfectly" is a strong statement

XuaXua wrote:Damn.

Died in Zot:5 to several orbs of fire. I tried to teleport and forgot I had stasis on

Oh man, that sucks a lot.

I've done that with a HuDK (also in the Orb chamber)

[edit: Looking at my bonesfiles, he's apparently still down there!]

Your ridiculously powerful conjurator can die, even in the Vestibule of Hell, if you don't pay close attention to what you're doing (especially if it's not what you thought).

This will cause you to cry bitter tears of frustration at your own shortcomings.

Rune Mimics exist :lol:

Crystal Golems are rare, but so annoying - IMO a perfectly good justification for learning OoD

Chain Lightning is great fun.

Possibly, a little too much :oops:

[edit: By the same token, Ring of Flames is hella fun, but catching yourself directly with the edge of Fire Storm still hurts when you only have rF+.]

You miscast Evaporate. Waves of light ripple over your body. Crazy Yiuf hits you with a quarterstaff of chaos. You are cast into the Abyss! On the first strike. Dunno how I managed to get in melee with autoexplore. :S Are you sure you were in melee when you miscast Evaporate? It's totally legal for...

Moral of the story: "If you fancy being rude to someone in the Tavern, don't rely on the wiki for your only source of superiority."

The last ten words of that sentence are redundant, by the way

If you are fighting Wiglaf and some centaurs, think hard before killing the latter where the former can pick up one of their bows.

I got a Sludge Elf EE (-2 apt) up to 26 Conjurations, could have been 27 if I'd been really trying. He was a total beast. ...and have just got Firestorm somewhat castable* with another one in 0.10 at XL18 (Very Good with a =oWiz). Re-learned lesson: even with crappy Conj, Sludge Elves make great el...

...I run into a Tentacled Monstrosity (wait, what?) on S:3, standing next to a hydra and some normally-bothersome unique.

Having just learned Firestorm for the first time.

I love it when...

I go downstairs to Orc:4 and immediately see Saint Roka plus entourage of Red Robed Jerks, run upstairs, run down some different stairs and realise that they're stuck in a bubble.

HeeHee the HuHu quickly ran out of gas... Orc Warriors and a Jelly (from a vault?) on D:3 gave him a hard time had to run for it, and he ran straight into the jaws of an iguana. Nom.

Trying again.

Anything by RocketCat. Hook Champ was amazing, and they just got better.

I don't love them enough to get a new iPhone contract, though

(OK, HeeHee, the HuHu started. Starting with javelins is pretty sweet.)

In your position, I'd definitely start training LB

I just

Stormfox wrote:don't use Major Destruction

at all!

varsovie wrote:MuBe

Have a nice game. ^^

Didn't pratamawirya win one of these a little while ago? Maybe even postgame?

DDDK. A character with no sense of humour whatsoever.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2eku5w7.png A zombie fungal colony. It's got no ballistomycetes. I just had this happen as well. There were multiple (3?) sleeping spores on the level, the individual colonies didn't go away until I'd killed them all. Not sure if this is a bug, but it was surprising.

Blade wrote:Don't ignore skills that have negative aptitudes. -1 or better is a good aptitude, and -2 is workable.

Indeed. In 0.8, I got a Sludge Elf EE (-2 apt) up to 26 Conjurations, could have been 27 if I'd been really trying. He was a total beast.

Sticky Flame is even more awesome than usual when fighting Unseen Horrors.

OK, so even with rPois, I can now occasionally be poisoned, regardless. This seems reasonable. Does it apply to poison-resistant monsters too?

I love it when...

My player ghost mephitic clouds me, then paralyses me. Then gets me down to about 10hp while helpless.

Then its distortion-branded attack teleports me to safety!

Chaos-branded weapons can duplicate enemies. How long has this been going on?

Every poison attack has a 10% chance to bypass rPois in 0.10, it's not spiny frog exclusive. Oh. Cool, I guess. On Topic: If you have a spell at Good, and are in deep trouble but only need to cast it once to survive? You can most definitely miscast it five times in a row then run out of MP :roll: A...

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