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Does Stabbing basically eliminate the need for Short Blades, or is the stab damage just far more important than weapon delay in the early game? You want your stabbing high enough so that you can reliably get the stabbing bonus and get 1-shot kills, so that the delay doesn't matter. (this isn't to s...

I nominate mumra. When I see his replies, my mind changes his name to blue on the fly.

adozu wrote:i'm pretty sure you can't win as long as any enemy is in your LOS so if you end up being followed to the exit you have to deal with the panlord a way or another.

You can win with enemies in LOS.

While minion management is nice, it is not necessary to actually have any followers to finish Zot. That does depend on knowing how a melee dude should play in the lategame, like getting spells (Haste). Yeah, I think this is the trick I've been missing with my HOPr's. I had three in a row die on orb...

TehDruid wrote: So, unless I were to go back and get my Stasis amulet, I'd have to go through the alarm trap, which can't be disarmed too...

Going back for the amulet is what I've done in similar circumstances, was there a reason you couldn't? (eg running out of food?)

Psieye wrote:Your spell power is a tad low to reliably confuse skeletal warriors. You'd need 9# to stand a reliable chance of landing it, unless there's a power modifier for confuse that I'm not aware of.

Is there a formula for this or are you just going by experience?

I was just about 12 steps away from the exit, too.

Damn.

XuaXua wrote:
It would be cool if rings and items SORTED in inventory, so all rings of the same type are ordered.

Yeah, this would be cool. I end up burning more time than I care to admit switching inventory slots around to make it look right because OCD. :geek:

Yeah, I appreciate the canine tip but I really don't like the idea of this as an interstitial start screen kind of deal. Its the kind of info I'd rather get from forums, bots, irc, etc...when I want to play I just want to go immediately.

Tip of the day: As a Summoner dealing with early invisible enemies use Call Canine.

Thanks for that one.

e: never mind, answered on irc

If you're playing online, your dumps will be in a URL. I'll let someone more familiar with online play tell you what that URL actually is. Your main page with all your stats tabulated and links to recent games, regardless of server, is: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/USERNAME.html For cs...

Grats man, first rune is a pretty big milestone and often ends up also turning into your first win. Let us know how it turns out.

Yeah my worry in Zot is generally my +2 non-body non-artefact pieces. (or more recently, a GDA that I picked up late after I'd already used up most of my enchantment scrolls) Its sounding like I'm probably just worried too much about losing a few points of AC.

Note that some monsters have been renamed, others have been changed, so those diffs can be a bit misleading. My list was based off of the constant names being the same (eg MONS_CENTAUR). If it would be helpful to see a list of things where those names matched but something else in the line changed ...

Note that some monsters have been renamed, others have been changed, so those diffs can be a bit misleading. My list was based off of the enums being the same (eg MONS_CENTAUR). If it would be helpful to see a list of things where those names matched but something else in the line changed I could r...

Removed: MONS_PROGRAM_BUG MONS_GIANT_ANT MONS_GIANT_BAT MONS_GIANT_SNAIL MONS_BUMBLEBEE MONS_GIANT_IGUANA MONS_GILA_MONSTER MONS_FIREDRAKE MONS_KILLER_BEE_LARVA MONS_ANT_LARVA MONS_GIANT_MOSQUITO MONS_GIANT_BLOWFLY MONS_GIANT_BEETLE MONS_SKELETAL_DRAGON MONS_GIANT_BROWN_FROG MONS_GUARDIAN_NAGA MONS_...

In Zot, you are 1. unlikely to fight enough yellow draconians badly enough to make a difference, 2. about to win anyway so who cares what your armour looks like? I'm just worried about it lessening my chances of survival for the rest of zot and the orb run. I guess I look at it as though I'm pumpin...

whats a jelly horde A shit ton of jellies, like you're encounter in slime pits. (minmay's point is that corrosion basically only matters in slime and from yellow draconians, and in the latter case you're in zot so you can probably handle getting corroded anyway) Ok, thanks for explaining that since...

It seems like some combination of disintegration and invis should be able to get you past the mottled dragon, then do whatever for the hill giant if he can't be avoided.

Since resistance to corrosion does nothing in practice, any change that makes it do something in practice is equivalent to adding a completely new and unrelated amulet that happens to be called resist corrosion. So when I put on my rCorr amulet against the jelly hordes I'm essentially just taking t...

minmay wrote:rCorr, well, corrosion doesn't actually exist, so you might as well make a new amulet instead.

I'm confused by this statement, can you explain?

e: is this just a semantic thing from when acid/corrosion used to be two separate resistances?

dpeg wrote:2. Indicate squares you've stepped on.

This right here would make them go from "mildly annoying" to "pretty cool" for me.

nicolae wrote:
battaile wrote:I'll bite...why no more active abilities for weapons?

They're a pain in the ass interface-wise, for one, since you can't activate them by just walking into a dude.

Ah, ok, I guess I was confusing 'active' with 'special' (eg Cleave). Never mind then, yeah, 'active' are a hassle.

e: never mind, I don't know what words mean

Is Poison Arrow sufficient for dealing with Orbs/ALiches in Zot 5? If not, what would be the best thing for say, this guy here to branch into: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-2651-g53b4b1d (webtiles) character file. kekekela the Anointer (Green Draconian Conjurer) Turns: 40186, Time: 07:27:...

I'd probably do a couple more levels of dungeon then hit up Vaults(1-7) or Spider(1-4).

You definitely don't want to tangle with Slime Pits, and I'd hold off on Swamp until you're ready to get the rune because its a hassle.

I'll make this short and to the point.

Or will you...

Golden_Eye wrote: Yeah, I was under the illusion that nausea status would always wear off before you starve to death (...thought the game was build that way).

Nausea won't necessarily wear off, but you can eat while nauseated once you hit "Near Starving", that may be what you were thinking of.

They show up for me (unless they're at 100%). I'm using the default config, playing 0.12-a.

minmay wrote:Good job letting the secret out, now some dev will make it warm-blooded and ruin your strategy

Code:: e75baf2 | Chris Campbell | 2013-02-28 12:15:48 +0000 Make the Lernaean hydra warm-blooded like other hydrae

the +26,+26 Sword of Power

Damn, I didn't realize such high enchantments even existed.

giann wrote:Just finished Vaults:1~7. Will pickup tonight or tomorrow. Best game for me so far :p

Congrats. I'd definitely swap out that "Amulet of Things You Don't Need at All" for Conservation.

You want to abuse his Heroism ability as much as you can. Every non-trivial fight you should have that up. The piety costs you say? Nope. Oka piety decays so rapidly that you lose more healing up from a tough fight than you do spamming Heroism. I've always played this way as well, but I recently tr...

HenryFlower wrote:no Flight for Shoals.

Flight's definitely not a must-have for Shoals. (Just pointing that out, not voicing an opinion on whether or not you should've been there vs D:14)

Code:: And how can I alive in this dungeon?

I ask myself this every day.

but there are a lot of opportunities to play badly in zot:5 and die Yeah, and I took advantage of plenty of them :mrgreen: Basically everything went to shit when I went to the disto weapon. Probably should've just stayed the course but I was having so many problems with the tougher packs on d26 tha...

RIP little spriggan...
kekekela the Ninja (L27 SpEn), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, mangled by an Orb Guardian on Zot:5

Died with the orb in his ratty little paws.

Sounds like you don't need our help. Nemelex is a great God for just about any character build, although I prefer Ashenzari on SpEn. He makes stabbing an absolute breeze, especially when combined with controlled blink and passwall. I managed to snag 15 runes using a SpEn of Ashenzari and it was by ...

And actually going ok so far, got three runes. kekekela the Ninja (Spriggan Enchanter) Turns: 72600, Time: 17:25:40 HP 119/119 AC 10 Str 9 XL: 24 Next: 9% MP 46/46 EV 45 Int 20 God: Nemelex Xobeh [******] Gold 4461 SH 22 Dex 22 Spells: 14 memorised, 6 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : + a - ...

I wouldn't completely discount dumping the scrolls into Steam, it does make casting super nice especially once you get Haste etc and also for you the UC benefits. I used one on this guy all the way through Slime Pits (found an unrand that I liked marginally better in the Slime 6 trove) even though w...

For the best chance of keeping the streak going, why not another Be, since you are already familiar with that playstyle rather than trying to shift to something completely different? Just felt like playing something different I guess. Got stabby guy to 11 last night, will see how it goes this weeke...

Got my first win streak going. Only two games and both berserkers so not exactly pushing the envelope difficulty wise, but still pretty stoked. First was a HOBe that really should've died in Zot. Emergency tp'd out of a bad situation on Zot 5 into one of the other lungs, which had two statues and a ...

I have modified and updated the weapons lab. I incremented the version number to 1.4.6. The main feature that I have implemented is calculation of average damage. Before average damage was calculated as average weapon damage - monster AC/2. This is incorrect since a AC roll of 10 and a damage roll ...

They're mimics.

Getting the websocket message here as well.

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