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Tormodpwns, you should had flee after the first hit. In crawl it's never good to be below 50% HP, and if you need *luck* to win a battle, consider this battle already lost. ;) Frost Giants throw Bolts of Cold. Continuing to fight was my best bet. Lesson learned: just because you can win easily with...

Right, I did notice that the tile-changing was good at times. Once on this mummy I was trying to survive and then suddenly a demon got replaced by a wall tile, enclosing me within! Basically a free Tomb card. But a few turns later I was exposed again.

Probably due to chance. Overall, there are more shops though, but not at D:10. Orc:4 has guaranteed 4 shops, and Vaults:8 often has a few shops too.

This was actually a really annoying YASD... You know that one "beastly" Ice Cave map that spawns in the early Lair with the Frost Giant at the end? I remember the first time I saw the Frost Giant (on a DrGl of Okawaru) I nearly pissed my pants because I was about level 12. I managed to kil...

How do you survive the new Abyss? It's still easily survivable for endgame characters, but the 0.10 makeover has made it much more difficult for midgame characters (level 12-17) in my opinion. With the walls constantly changing and Tele no longer generating a new map, it becomes extremely difficult ...

Press "#" ingame to dump. Then go to crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/username/username.txt, where username = brandon0981 or whatever you use on CAO.

Do mummies regenerate stats naturally? Is it worth using a ball of energy on a MuFE in 0.10?

To do with the Lernaean Hydra as melee: I've killed it with a HaGl of Okawaru. I don't recall exactly how strong I was but my defenses were something along the lines of 15/25/35. I was a M&F specialist (eveningstar of holy wrath) but I swapped out to a flaming scimitar to fight the hydra. Basica...

I know I found a brain worm behind some iron grates that almost made me brainless, but iono about the eyes.

jejorda2 wrote:
tormodpwns wrote:Tomb + Vitrification + smiting spell.

What's left that still works on the other side of a wall?

Airstrike, Firestorm, Haunt, Smite.

One-Eyed Jack wrote:That was a kobold, though; races with food problems might want gourmand more, especially since it gets you more corpses too.

Really??

Trolls should go unarmed because they have few alternatives. Centaurs and Minotaurs are much more versatile so while Unarmed is certainly viable, so are other weapon schools. Kiku is not a bad choice for a transmuter.

Titanic slime creatures hit for 110 attack; the second highest damage in the entire game is Antaeus at 70. I remember I was once playing an OgAs of Ash who was insanely powerful. 2 !experience early on + Ash gave me massive boosts to skills, so I was casting Deflect Missiles and Phase Shift reliably...

Fog scrolls are also useful when a TP (forced by disconnected deep water oceans) drops you in the middle of Antaeus's party, and you lose 230 HP in 2 turns.

Mephitic/Poisonous Cloud + Ignite Poison.
Ensorcelled Hibernation + Bolt of Inaccuracy.
Vulnerability + Polymorph.
Tomb + Vitrification + smiting spell.

Part of the 0.10 changelog was "custom shops." What exactly is this? The one time (out of dozens of trunk games) that I found anything out of the ordinary was an "Abandoned shop," which showed up as a gray arch. Also, is it possible to abuse health regeneration? I know it works b...

Yes, keeping weapon skill at minimum delay is enough for a 3-runer. Hell, it's almost enough for a 15-runer - I've done a DrGl of TSO with a eudemon blade at just 14 Long Blades. Took down fiends with no problem (damage-wise).

When should I ID my scrolls/potions? Quaff potions as soon as you find them. This is extremely bad advice, and it sticks out very strangely in an otherwise good post. Potion of mutation exist; blurry vision, berserkitis, etc are just as crippling in the early game as they are later. Furthermore, yo...

I don't know the exact percentages but after reaching min delay, the only benefits you get are +Acc and +Dam. +Acc is pretty negligible so it's mostly for the damage.

When should I ID my scrolls/potions? Quaff potions as soon as you find them. It sucks to die with unidentified potions of heal wounds in your inventory. Later on (as in much later on, around the Vaults), it may be worth using scrolls of identify on new potions so you know when you've found potions ...

Shields of reflection are also not great to wear corrected Shields of reflection are great. The 0.9 range buff makes them useful, notably against yaktaur packs and stone giants, who will happily kill themselves by firing missiles. And greater nagas in particular are fun to fight because you can ref...

Yes, clarity works.

Right, Jiyva isn't COMPLETELY useless in the early game. You get * piety almost instantly, and with that you can "summon" Jellies. Great in corridors when you're fighting orc packs that are stronger than you. Just summon one, swap places, and watch 'em die.

The problem with the corridor is that after hitting TRJ a few times, he'll spawn jellies and retreat through them, forcing you to fight Death Oozes, Azure Jellies, and the like. With 10/20/30 defenses you should have no problem. I like to use a scroll of torment (takes TRJ down to purple health inst...

Melee mummies have always been my bane. IMHO... Thing about using Okawaru: it's hard to reach the stage where you can start using Heroism consistently. I usually start off as an Assassin (for the poison + curare + stealth) or Artificer (wands) to stay alive in the early game. Mummies don't get poti...

PerverseSuffering wrote:Also, swapping Dispel Undead for Control Undead in the starting book confuses me.

Dispel Undead was killing the balance.

On an unrelated note, how useful is high-powered Control Undead in the Tomb?

in my defense i was trying to run away the moment I saw him. Petrify is a ranged hex.

Yeah, Snake is really the easiest rune to get in 0.9. Even Greater Nagas don't pose much threat when you have MR and a shield (hopefully of reflection, to poison the nagas with poison arrow). I haven't gotten a Snake generation 0.10 but I can imagine that Constriction kills melee characters.

A level 14 VpIE of Ash destroying everything in Orc with a great mace of crushing, 18 M&F skill, and 15/20/0 defenses with Ozocubu's Armour. A DDEE ghost will petrify you and destroy you with iron shots.

But you wan those things. Potions of cure mutation and such.

But that's because you're undead.

Yeah, 2 pips of resistance makes them into a mini dragon armour. They're not particularly useful rings in my opinion, maybe remove them? They were interesting in 0.9 and earlier at least because wearing one unidentified came with the risk of taking extra damage from orc wizard puffs of frost/flame. ...

A melee mummy of any sort is difficult. Go Trog. Seriously, eventhough mummies can't zerk it's not that difficult. I'm trying to all-rune a MuBe of Trog, currently with 11 runes (of 8 types) and counting. Even managed to melee Gloorx. Torment immunity compared with antimagic weapons and Trog's nice...

Looking good, Pan is quite the joke after Hell. Good luck!

Blink frogs will kick your ass even if you're a GhFE with 85 HP, 12 unarmed skill and Sticky Flame at 14% failure, with 10/20/0 defenses.

I've been trying out mummies recently, and have finally come across an amulet of clarity with one. This particular mummy, though, already has a randart amulet with lots of other bonuses that I'd like in the cases when I'm not confused. Will swapping to an AoC cure confusion, once confused? Or does ...

runequester wrote:Is it worth trying to train up dodging if you are aiming at medium to heavy armour?

If you have the experience to spare, sure. Medium armour (like the dragon armours) work well with points in both Armour and Dodging but for the heavier armours, dodging is less useful.

I'm a 0.10 GhFE of Ash going for a mostly melee build. I currently have 12 unarmed combat, but I'm wearing some cursed +2 gloves of dexterity that I think is better to wear, even at the cost of +2 unarmed damage. However, I found a cursed +2,+5 lajatang {speed, MUT+, +Inv, +Lev, rF+, Int+1} that I a...

Right, different acquirements for different times sounds about right. In the end you're going for wands and jewellery, or armour if you don't have anything good. Weapon is definitely still viable later on, especially if you haven't found a demon weapon in your class. For me personally I've always go...

How bad is Ashenzari wrath? It seems to be just improved monster AI (is that a big deal?) and -4 to all skills, which shouldn't be too bad... right?

so is there then a significant difference between base damage and damage from plus factors? +damage on a weapon is easy to understand. If you have a +3/+3 short sword, the +3 damage modifier randomly adds 0, 1, 2, or 3 hit points of damage to every successful hit with that weapon. Very simple, but ...

A melee mummy of any sort is difficult.

A scroll of torment can be used to deal high, unrecoverable damage instantly to the Royal Jelly, but watch out for "J" spawns in the double-digits.

Also, read a scroll of fog to break LOS with a Kraken and force its tentacles to retreat.

Can't generalize like that. If you find a godly weapon, then spend your gold on that. Unfortunately, what you found is not a godly weapon by any means.

Hey guys, I was so excited by this win that I just had to post it. Deep Elf Gladiator of Kikubaaqudgha, broke a 3-year-old record set by elliptic back in 0.5.2. His record back then was set as a primary melee fighter, using a katana of slicing for damage output. Of course I don't have that kind of l...

Nice job! You got some great mutations and items there. For skills, I think you should start looking for a good weapon and training that weapon school to minimum delay. A demon weapon of some sort is best, or a good randart if you find one. You have enough T&D skill to last the entire game, so d...

That question's not possible to answer with any semblance of effectiveness without more information about your character. At least tell us what your species is and whether you're with Trog (i.e. not casting). Lol whoops, my bad, should have known. Here's my character log: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup v...

Right, a common mistake for newbies is to die with resources like ?blinking and !heal wounds. If you're in the mindset where you think "if I can somehow survive this, then I'll have a !heal wounds for later," then there might not be a later because you'll die. For summoning, I don't see wh...

Warding provides rN+ and protects you from summoned monsters. That is, when they try to attack you in melee, they have a chance to "flinch away" and waste a turn (much like anti-magic attacks against spellcasters). ~~~~~~~~~~~ For the endgame, which should I use? +10 SDA or +2 robe of resi...

Search for glowing/runed maces and flails, and find every one of them, read a scroll of detect curse, then wield-test the uncursed ones. Brands aren't THAT rare.

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