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If I renounce a god, do I have to wait until he's mollified before taking another god? Is it advisable? (I'm thinking about abandoning Okawaru, and from what I've read I can cope with his wrath, but maybe I need to wait before talking to Ash.) No, you do not have to wait until he's mollified before...

evilmike or one of the other devs, how does AC work compared to GDR? I know GDR only applies to things attacking in melee - does it apply after the damage reduction is done by AC? Not a dev, but yes GDR is applied after AC damage reduction. As for the wiki, I think it's a great idea, just that it's...

Sometimes life just sucks. But Terence in general tends to spawn with good items anyways, including wands, ego weapons, and ego armour.

Right haha, I edited my original post just as you were posting this one. Took out my question because it never occurred to me. I think necromancy is too much of an experience sink just for the pain damage though. Crosstraining isn't bad, especially if you just happen to have a crosstraining skill al...

Added: how does apptitude change xp consumption? Halfligs have +3 for Short blades and +0 for Long, but +4 with crosstraining. Is it a good idea to rise short and then raise long ones? For your halfling, you will want to train Long Blades immediately. Basically, it is a good idea to raise one skill...

After some unfortunate times with Mummies (including a death to a two-headed Ogre on D:4), this time, I thought I would ascend a Mummy for sure. I got incredible luck with items early on: a wand of hasting, two rings of magical power, randart buckler, gloves of dexterity, and a +2 cloak of preservat...

I noticed amulets of resist mutation are not greyed-out on the inventory screen for mummies. Is their only purpose to protect against rotting from mutating effects?

Once I get a branded demon weapon, I take that as my final weapon. On one occasion, I substituted an eveningstar on holy wrath that I found on Lair:8.

Is that some sort of sick joke? There were so many monsters right there in that opening party that I doubt anybody could survive without cBlink. Curse Toe Torment + Scorcher Hellfire = gg, even without the 30 berserk dragons.

Just play a necromancer. But then if you die and you're playing an undead... you're screwed.

Is Ashenzari variable for a spellcaster? I'm currently playing a MuFE and I'm on D:7 already, so the temple must be coming up. Ashenzari has some cool skills and I've already found a bookshop on D:6 with Vehumet+Kiku gifts (Annihilations + Power + Grand Gimoire, Death + Unlife, as well as some other...

Personally, I wouldn't swap to Sif Muna for late game. By then you should have all the spells you need, so all she offers is Channeling and miscast protection. And if you have a Staff of Channeling... well, then she's mostly just redundant. Doesn't staff of channeling suck majorly? On my recent NaC...

There's also Experience cards in Decks of Wonder.

I doubt a SpHe could make it through the dungeon (especially after 0.9), unless you decide not to pacify everything you see and only use healing for emergencies.

Boring but easy.

I'm playing a Demonspawn with the Res.Rott. mutation which "allows eating contaminated chunks without the risk of sickness" according to the wiki. I also have one level of Saprovore which lets me eat rotten chunks (res.rott. probably does too but I'm not sure). I ate a rotten chunk and go...

Everyone knows Mummies are a challenge race, because the survival line called potions is unavailable. To make it more of a challenge, remove spellcasting altogether: play a pure melee Mummy (until you find your first spellbook). I currently have an unhealthy obsession with this challenge as well as ...

Very nice playing, story was fun and entertaining to read! I know exactly what you're talking about for the Spider's Nest. I JUST lost my greatest mummy character ever, and he found that nest in his game. I thought it would be a joke because the centipedes were so easy to kill, but then I found a pa...

Is a shield + demon weapon combo generally always superior to a two-handed weapon?

Maybe you should have trained up some more Armour to boost up your AC massively. But congrats on succeeding with such a strange build! Controlled Blink, Dispel Undead, and /healing are nice but hardly needed to finish anything that's not hell/pan. IMB can take you all the way to Zot with ease. IOOD ...

Death in two bites is not super powered.

It's worth a shot. I once bought a random scroll for 34 gold... turned out to be a scroll of acquirement. Later that game, I saw two scrolls of acquirement in another shop for 884 gold each. In case you guys were wondering, I acquired 3 very disappointing pieces of armour.

Deformed body at all mutation levels reduces your AC bonus by 50% of the body armor's base AC value. So your Crystal Plate would give you base stats of 7 AC and -8 EV. First sentence is right, second one is wrong. It doesn't act as if it has "base stats" of 7 AC - you still get the GDR an...

Deformed body at all mutation levels reduces your AC bonus by 50% of the body armor's base AC value. So your Crystal Plate would give you base stats of 7 AC and -8 EV. Enchantment bonuses and bonuses from Armour skill are unaffected by Deformed Body, so I would say go ahead and wear it. Unless you w...

When's a good time to quaff !experience?

Insane Trove. Especially that wizard hat, the perfect hat for Zot (minus the slaying). I've found a similar Zot-ideal item, a scimitar on my long blades DrGl: a +4,+6 scimitar (freeze, rF++, rElec, +Inv).

And highly thematic Amulet of ZIn's Approval.

Did you have more large rocks? I'm surprised you only had 5.

You play so much crawl, you can get a character to XL13 while drunk.

It doesn't have to be in your inventory. I currently have a NaCj, and I skipped the Book of Conjurations from Vehumet and went directly to Book of Power. At the time, my Book of Conjurations was sitting in my stash.

I would stick with Mahkleb, TSO is only worth switching to for the post endgame. Otherwise, rN+++ isn't too useful. Not too mention piety isn't abundant either.

What's up with 5/13/0 defenses? You need to up your defense more, and I would say focus less on Air Magic, what you really need is more Conjurations and Ice Magic to deal big damage. And level 13 was way too early for Snake, especially with 72 max HP.

Hell, Ice Beasts spook everything that can possibly appear in Lair, including Rupert.

But you can't pray while under penance.

When dropping potions/scrolls against monsters with cold/fire RANGED attacks, make sure that you drop and then move away because otherwise the cold/fire blast will destroy your items, even if they are sitting on the ground. Step away so your dropped items are out of the line of fire.

What's a good conjurations spellset for a mid-endgame conjurer? It's been several versions since I've played a serious spellcaster, so I'm pretty out of it.

I think most people recommend Earth, because it can't be resisted. Granted, Fire and Ice Storms damage fire/ice opponents respectively, but earth is more effective.

I think they're implementing a change so ring slots 3-8 are melded in transformations. = gg I wish I had the patience to play OpTm's, I was once playing one, picked up a miraculous +6 ring of protection on D:3, so I just spammed my directional keys when I saw a pack of vanilla orcs on D:4 and I ende...

For Transmuters I leave Fighting, Unarmed, and Transmutations on at beginning. Fighting is for the HP and so it doesn't fall behind. UC for damage. Transmutations to get Ice Form up (can get it at Fair by level 8-9, even earlier for wizardry or Int bonuses). Only then do I turn on dodging and spellc...

Blink Frogs are always moving around, so it shouldn't be hard to pull them up/down stairs one by one. I haven't played a pure summoner since 0.8 I think, but I remember Canine Familiars, even without enough power to get wargs, were enough to pull through the entire Lair. Pretty much nothing was a th...

Wow, how did you enchant your PDA to +10? Were those all scrolls?

Mummy confusion You can notably use decks while confused. If you happen to have a spare identify scrolls, you could look through decks for escape cards to use while confused (or if you find good ones like Tomb and legendary Portal, maybe even if you're not confused). Can't read scrolls while confus...

Honestly for melee characters, with rF+++ and rMut (not hard to find, even if you have to swap for vanilla rings of fire/protection from fire), orbs are the smallest threat in Zot. Sure it takes a while to kill them but you'll probably take no more than 40 damage meanwhile, and maybe one mutation if...

Back to the topic of octopodes, I was playing an OpTr the other day and I got a ring of poison resistance in my third ring slot. Then when I cast Spider Form, I lost my rPois status on the @ screen, and I got poisoned by a killer bee. A possible bug?

Is there a limit on the usefulness of Int? I know that past a certain point, Dex gives hugely diminishing returns on EV and SH.

On an unrelated note, I took this monster off a goblin on D:2:

I would say enter. Relatively speaking, thats the cheapest price I've ever heard of. You can easily amass 25+ healing pots after 3 runes, and if youre worried about hell effects, just scrounge pan for more healing pots before doing the hells.

Well, it happened again, this time on my DGTr. Some items are looking good, like a pair of vanilla boots, some scrolls, an encrusted large shield, and an embroidered wizard hat. But... it's mimics for sure now, because also generated were a runed PDA (dragon armours don't exist enchanted, as far as ...

Hey guys, I just lost a promising Halfling Gladiator of Okawaru... shot by a Minotaur for 42 damage . The minotaurs in the Labyrinth are surprisingly easy for some reason. I can take it down on 95% of characters who enter Labyrinths, usually no more than level 12. The only wake-up call I ever had wa...

If you've been to the Hive, just replace the rations you carry by royal jellies. Unless, of course, you're playing trunk.

I'm Chinese but English was my first language. I have a (very) low voice. No noticeable accent.

Halflings are good at shields, so HaGl is viable. I have a level 22 HaGl of Okawaru right now with 2 runes, and he's at 15/34/35 defenses. I was able to take down a D:12 altar vault's stone giant right after Lair and Orc, without any sort of potion/spell boost.

You need 8 throwing to get ammo gifts.

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