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i think hell is completely fine. Its pan that is mind bogglingly stupid. How many maps do you have to go through to get the runes?

So ive been playing Ds alot lately and I really love where the species are at currently. I still remember when spiny was seriously useless but now its one of the strongest early mut you can get. All in all i feel like there is good balance between all the mutations. While not all of them are good in...

I think this is the crux of our disagreement. I doubt that there are characters that 'need to develop in many directions simultaneously', while at the same time not really being sure what you actually mean. Yeah, I guess we can leave it at that. But I do observe that people here are repeating over ...

Berserk is good whenever you can get a dangerous monster alone and want to kill it with melee attacks. Yeah, but how often does that happen? As a general rule, there's always a stall. I mean, whenever you're fighting a big nasty monster some other monster not so tough but demanding to be killed fir...

Early amulet of rage pretty much guarantees your char will get to mid game. Killing strong monsters that you would have otherwise run from gives that easy exp to stay ahead of the difficulty curve. Obviously berserk loses its luster by the end game where haste/might is preferable, but its power in t...

it basically lets you act like a trogger while following another god. Even at 0 evo it has a 50 percent chance which is plenty and pretty much everyone should be getting a little evo early game regardless of build. I think either needs a much higher evo investment to succesfully use or it needs a bi...

yea.. i value MR more than any other resist other than maybe rpois for swamp and perhaps spider. Its pretty terrible how stupid the run gets if you cant find any MR by certain point. I think potion of resist should also give a pip of MR

I have a really hard time with the premise; silence is incredibly good even with the risk. ALiches can just erase you with the right rolls and are a major hassle otherwise, as are many other monsters that just get neutered by silence. Yeah, if you're dealing with an awkward spawn or bad positioning...

I start reading scrolls at differing times. When you pick up a cursed item you need to get rid of, you want to quickly read a scroll of remove curse. This is one of the more frequent scrolls, so you start with non-single scrolls. My next need to read scrolls is when I want to get at a timed portal,...

I acknowledge the problem but I don't like your proposed solutions. Both are basically making it into old Silence again, which was strong but also really bad gameplay. I think the spell should just be removed. Remove and replace sounds like a good plan too. It doesnt even work on demonic casters an...

I feel like Silence as it is right now is a pretty terrible spell. It pretty much makes any situation that you might consider using it more difficult in my experience. Lets say you use it in tomb. The AOE shrinks quite rapidly and you find yourself silenced while a bunch of mummies are now freely ab...

makes sense lol. I knew something wasnt right when it lasted that long

also how long is barb supposed to last? Last time, I was swinging bread for like 50+ turns or something ridiculous like that. I think in the grand scheme of things, its effect of seriously boning you if you get hit by it at the wrong time would not be affected even if the duration was considerably l...

nightstalker 3 + darkness + tornado. That is the ultimate zig build

didnt have any. Only 1 tele and 3 blink scrolls. I know most of these problems were due to the speedrun aspect but I wanted to see what people thought about getting marked. Im pretty sure most people would just dismiss this complaint/concern since its not a big deal in normal play. You usually clear...

I just had a fairly good run ended in swamps by stepping on an alarm trap 4 times in the span of like 200 turns. Granted, it was a VpEn speedrun so obviously getting marked 4 times was a death sentence. The low lvl also contributed to being unable to detect these traps. BUT, i feel like getting mark...

you are talking about skilling a useless thing to 27 just to sacrifice it later when you switch to Ru. Thats not optimal at all. Of course you can win with anything given enough time/skill/luck but this is a pretty bad.

Ru is a god that shines the most when you can earn piety ASAP.

good to know.. its overkill until you try to stab TRJ and he lives with 5s hp :[

more specifically is the bonus damage frm might applied beforeor after the multiplier?

you actually died because you used an exe axe with 0 training. Exe axe needs 26 skill to hit min delay and is not worth switching for since you cant even use it un the forseeable future.

just wear the robe til you find a better hide and enchant that

yea i dont think its weak in the least in the late game. having free clarity and sensong is extremely convenient and helps out and makes life easier in extended. When i ment mediocre late game i was basically just refering to the boosts you get in skill which is an incredible boost in the midgame bu...

I do like the curse item scroll idea. It would save inventory clutter and be less annoying in general. Giving maybe 1 or 2 scrolls per remove curse should be balanced enough. That said Ash doesnt need a buff. Ash gives a tremendous boost to the midgame. That comes at a trade off in a very weak early...

its hard to imagine this affecting its combat effectiveness. If you are using the jump as an offensive attack its mostly to win an already won fight easier (clear some fodder and hurt the big guy) where you wont need the positioning of walls. In tough fights its advisable to save the jump as a free ...

Ru's jump attack should have a piety dependent chance to break walls around where you land. I sacrificed artifice without much thinking and it turns out this pretty much makes it impossible to dig. The jump attack is versatile and a good skill but i dont think the current version is overpowered or a...

the reason immolation scrolls exist is to use it on V:5. Haste, go down, read immolation, walk through the gaps or ?blink if stuck, summon some stuff or kill them at range, walk away to the edge and then try to make a safe zone at a corner. That said, i think V:5 is pretty hard if you are extremely ...

i almost always do slime, usually before i even enter vaults or dephts. The thing is, if you have agi/might/brilliance/haste/resistance potions almost any character can kill TRJ. Just dive down and dont make alot of noise outside so TRJ stays in the middle. Summon some dudes from any source to cover...

wand of heal wounds (9)

I had 2 of these so i figured why the hell not?

There was 4 tiny rooms with various useless crap. Got 3 rings out of it.
1) +inv, rF+ randart ring
2) -3 protection
3) -2 eva

the +8 plate armour of Death's Door (worn) {+Blink rF+++ MR+ Stlth-} (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Orcish Mines) the +10 demon trident of Tujut (weapon) {freeze, rElec Dex+2} (You found it in an ice cave) On a mummy wanderer. I died with this char. Im really really sorry dont hurt me g...

no matter what character your running. You should always make a killhole by the entrace to Elf:3 vault and fight them one at a time. Its ever a good idea to have more than one of these guys in LOS

I took over 50 damage on the first turn returning from the abyss i think. I have a feeling quaffing !healing would be my last move well its certainly better than random blink i suppose. ill try it edit: oh lord. I got out miracously. First !heal put me at 5 hp. Then i kept doing it but it always sta...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.0-17-g811c1d7 (webtiles) character file. gameguard the Spry (High Elf Warper) Turns: 55826, Time: 06:22:18 Health: 14/166 AC: 25 Str: 14 XL: 22 Next: 76% Magic: 27/40 EV: 24 Int: 25 (26) God: the Shining One [******] Gold: 1455 SH: 0 Dex: 21 Spells: 8 memorised...

tomb is more about tactics than equipement but basically you would want fog, silence, sustain ab and restore potions, remove curse scrolls, hopefully rN+++ If you are comfortable with LOS management and proper tactics when dealing with summoner/tormentors then sure go ahead and do it but take it slow.

shock serpent explosions seem to do a fair bit of damage even through rElec in my experience. You shouldnt have been fighting 3 monsters at once. I mean we all get tabby in crawl but it needs to be used with discretion. Hydra form as far as i know pretty much tanks your defense so even fairly trivia...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.0-16-g311141a (webtiles) character file. 16509353 gameguard the Meteorologist (level 27, 197/217 HPs) Began as a Vampire Enchanter on Mar 18, 2015. Was the Champion of Ru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Mar 19, 2015! The game lasted 13:21:24 (94077 tu...

http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/gameguard/morgue-gameguard-20150317-194501.txt I had a cool experience with a demonspawn that had not even a single subpar mutation. Notably powered by pain and death and torment resistence. I was comming off of a game where a rather promising HEGl splattered in a zig:20 ...

yea i just got that actually in orc 4. I forgot to basically.

yea it was a series of bad decisions due to overconfidence and the threat level not registering to my brain in time.

I really should have stopped and evaluated the situation for longer when i first took the big hit by "something"

ok honestly. I never thought id post here. Here goes. I had the most promising character in my whole experience of crawling here. I had 3 cure muts before lair so i quaffed a mut potion which gave me 3 positive muts with one being evolution. End result was 2x wild magic mutation. Found staff of chan...

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Re: Proposal for Re-Designing the Hells

Ds: Ignite blood could use some tweaks

Re: How Many Skills to Train

Re: amulet of rage is too powerful

Re: amulet of rage is too powerful

amulet of rage is too powerful

Re: Paralyze

Re: Silence should be reworked

Re: Item Identification

Re: Silence should be reworked

Silence should be reworked

Re: Force Barbs movement warning every time?

Re: Force Barbs movement warning every time?

Re: Darkness

Re: Alarm traps

Alarm traps

Re: YAVP: SpEn - max Ru with one sacrifice, give or take

Re: does might affect stabbing?

does might affect stabbing?

Re: YASD - DsGl

Re: OgHu: Robe of Augmentation or MDA?

Re: Curse Ashenzari, abbility

Re: Curse Ashenzari, abbility

Re: Proposal: Ru, god of balance and sacrifice

Re: Proposal: Ru, god of balance and sacrifice

Re: First time in Vaults

Re: Which Rune is Third?

Re: Trove reporting

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

Re: YASD! 2x VpEE of Dithmenos

Re: CIP: Am i dead?

CIP: Am i dead?

Re: How tough is tomb?

Re: YASD: Black Draconian in Dragon form loses to Shock Serp

YAVP! VpEn^Ru 15 runes

YAVP! DsAs^makh. Amazing regen stack

Re: YASD: something hits you!!

Re: YASD: something hits you!!

YASD: something hits you!!