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Then we have the answer, no? Black mambas and anacondas can attack multiple times in 1,5 turns, plus the anacondas were also constricting, which ignores AC. Also you were being constricted. Constriction damage builds up over time, it can quite suddenly become very serious. Yes, fast constricting mo...

I noticed an interesting thing in the morgue: @: constricted, very slow, extremely resistant to hostile enchantments, extremely unstealthy Why were you "very slow"? Hovering slows djinn down: it takes 1.5 turns for them to move over shallow water /deep water/lava, their attack gets slowed...

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My bardiche-wielding DjGl of Okawaru got the Snake ending with lava and salamanders and was happily abusing reaching while clearing it. At the very end of this vault, he was hovering over the lava lake while most of his enemies couldn't attack him outside of melee range. However, the killing process...

With such an awesome set of mutations, i'd switch to Zin right now. Yes, i'm no fun.

Regarding your death to a hippogriff, i should quote this since nobody has done it already: According to ogaz, you should carry curare around with you so that you can forget to use it and then feel like an idiot when you die. On a bit unrelated note, i can advise you to try OpMo. Monk background som...

Big part of Swamp rune vaults are completely invis-stabable and can be done by an XL 16 SpEn (if he doesn't overextend) for a good amount of XP. Mara and Margery, however, are two giant stop signs. With Heroism and ammo gifts, Okawaru works pretty good for net-/needlestabbing, so i'd definitely pref...

That Jiyva altar was one of those opportunities you should take just for the sake of curiousity. Because when else would you be given such a chance again (if not scumming)?

First of all, congrats on your victory and escape from that Hell Sentinel! Victorious characters' score depends on how much runes you gathered, gold you carried (just found this out) and turns you spent. See http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=score And look at your naga's score once more, it's...

Those bars indicating spell power are quite misleading. Having 9 bars out of 10 on Iron Shot and Lightning Bolt makes you think spell powers are almost maxed, while in reality they are between 100 and 150 and so far away from the maximum of 200. Getting your spells to 200 power is usually a very har...

Quaff one of your curemuts to get rid of berserkitis, why would you doubt doing this?

I'd uncurse that dagger, pick up a blowgun with curare and ordinary needles and try to conquer Orc:4 with the help of those tools (probably enslavement too). I also use needles of para/sleep/conf and throwing nets as stabbing tools, but that's not common practice: usually players just learn Iron Sho...

Seriously,without a shield,youre soooooo dead.previous to that one,i had an octopode going with something like 20 slaying.he was specialized in two handed combat weapons.after clearing orc,lair and elf 1-2,and to some extend,some of the main dungeon floors,i ran out of options.I could dish out a to...

Code:: force_more_message += (neqoxec|cacodemon|shining eye).*come

I have this line in init.txt/.rc file, so it's hard to forget to put on the rMut amulet. I always forget to switch back to conservation afterwards though.

Invis + Silence can actually be a good tactic if you don't want one shouting/casting dude to ruin your day. For example, with the help of Silence (Darkness is desireable too) it's possible to sleepstab about half of the guards on Vaults:5 instead of being instantly spotted by all of them.

Does it mean deep water can be created on a tile with a monster? Yes, you can even drown greater mummies without getting cursed (and gaining EXP)! It should be noted that shallow water can be deepened only with card power 1, so the second consecutive use of maximum power Water won't have any effect...

Btw, this vault isn't new, i remember seeing it back in 0.10... except it was on D:27.
What exact loot was lying on the trap? None of the artifacts you had were picked up on D:14.

starless wrote:Vorpal (Okawaru)

Oka doesn't have a favorite brand, does she? She should auto-identify negative enchantments instead.

In the skill menu, one key activate the "promp mode". When in it you then choose a skill, and enter a number (if nothing it remove previous promp). When the skill reach the number, a promp text appear, (You just reach # skill level in ****, press enter to continue). But I'm not sure if it...

Bim wrote:My humble advice (I've only ever scraped a 3rune with a Tm) is to get dragon form under way when you can, as it's awesome!

Dragon Form's awesome indeed and it was quite viable for an OpTm back in 0.10. But since 0.11 dragons can't wear more than two rings

Well, troll leather can actually be good for speedrunning, but not so for regular games.

Recently it's been three years since this issue was reported: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=1246, and i guess, devs just forgot about it...
However, you can add these autoinscriptions in your init.txt/.rc file:

Code:: autoinscribe += rod of:!a autoinscribe += lightning rod:!a

One thing to note about the warrior/captain crowd is the use of ikiller counting the band leader. so everybody who dies to a centaur pack led by a centaur warrior counts as a warrior kill. Not that this is a bad thing. This also somewhat explains why TRJ counts as a killer on Slime:5. It's definite...

Why would you take chances if you have an option not to (rhetorical question)? Apply Murphy's law to Crawl and consider yourself a lucky bastard every time it doesn't work.

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He found a ring with it actually.

I like your approach to stabbers. This character archetype is widely spoken of as unable to complete the game without hybridizing into offensive magic/summons, but that's clearly not true. It's surprising to see you almost maxing Hexes (did that work out for you? you could've maxed stealth instead, ...

For the record: just cleared Orc after Lair, ate 2 rations there. My reserves of food are quite large: 4 meat rations, 10 honeycombs, 2 cheese and 9 royal jellies (food acquirements, hell yeah), so i'm not going to die from starvation any time soon. Nausea was quite annoying in Orcish M...

This ability stops only jellies that were in your LOS when you used it. So, you don't get to pick up all the loot on the last floor of Slime. Apportation can help you to grab more of it.

Do you have actual experience with felids that use high-hunger abilities without gourmand (Be does not count) or are you assuming this from your experience with kobolds and trolls? Carnivore 3 does nothing to your nausea. You need saprovore for that (which also allows you to eat rotten meat), which...

Well, most of the players can't stand felids, which is understandable, but at the same time i can see crate in that thread stating it's hard to lose as FeHe. However, i can't understand all cerebovssquire's complaints about his felid being constantly near starving. Were nausea/carnivore mechanics ch...

Excuse me for a little thread hijack, but i tried out the strategy of temporary switch to TSO before extended. Even with Ash being mad at me, four floors of the Crypt (with an amulet of faith, they were enough to please TSO) were still doable. However, it took me ages (over 8K turns in the Abyss and...

Outside of the easiest races, consider HE for an Abyssal Knight: just pick up the first bow you find and kite dangerous melee threats with Lugonu's Blink. As for Ely worshipers, Felids are surprisingly good at this, despite the meh Invo aptitude. Slow metabolism with Carnivore 3 means they have litt...

Crossbows aren't really strength based weapons either, so... ...Aren't they? Both wiki and Henzell agree that xbows rely more heavily on str than on dex in reaching min delay, and their damage is independent of stats. From my experience with an xbow SpHu, i invested every stat point into str and ac...

Once in 0.10 i ran away from an angel into Lair (no idea who let him out of a mini-vault with Ely's altar) as a SpAs of Zin, cause my piety wasn't high enough to make the holy guy friendly. When i finished Lair, gained **** piety and went out into the dungeon, that angel was hostile, sleeping next t...

Thanks sanka, this thread inspired me to try the same build, and i'm quite enjoying it (i couldn't say the same thing about my previous not numerous attempts with Necromancers)! It's amazing how for that small investment of 4 in Necromancy skill you get an army to cover ogre's terrible defences, and...

Code:: You see here the -6 cloak of Okawaru's Approval {Str+1}.

Not the worst randart ever, but its name is just perfect!

Ash is quite awesome, letting you pick up useful spells in no time and pretend to be a multipurpose reaver . But at the end of the game you might regret you wasn't worshiping Makhleb, and thus would have a much harder time in Zigs. Tornado + Makhleb is considered as one of the easiest ways to clear ...

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Congrats on your victory! Your way of playing DDBe sounds pretty challenging, cause no piety means no BiA's. But, since there are no mentions of challenges in your post and your dwarf's ending MP is 22, i should emphasize one thing about DDBe. You'd better be using the wand as your mean of healing b...

If you had blurry vision, your trap sensing ability goes way down; you can't detect any new traps at all until you stand on them. As does swiftness - you can't detect traps at a distance. Good point but neither of these assumptions were the case. And i'm so glad to know that in 0.12 the issue of su...

Once i had a game, after which i said NO to mutation roulette once and for all. After playing the roulette, being unsatisfied with the result and drinking my only curemut potion, suddenly saw a zombie stepping into a Zot trap and got red glow and several bad muts, most notable ones being berserkitis...

Out of all transmutations, only Statue Form is worth considering, as it won't meld your claws and shield. I'd prefer it over heavier armour as well, since it doesn't mess up your casting, but provides HP, some nice AC and resists (including torment resistance for extended), but that's just me. I don...

So, i wanted to try out the quick blade of pain, and with that sole reason i created a character by the name of "qbop". Fighting with short blades almost implies stabbing, so i was aiming for the usual stabber spell kit with some necromancy support since i was going to train Necromancy any...

Zot traps on the last floor of Slime are lethal, and i'm not even kidding!
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Yermak/morg ... 135806.txt

Worship Makhleb to keep the enchantment high!.. Oh wait, you're a demigod. And with these enormous amounts of slaying, your effective damage enchantment on anything would be over the roof anyways...

Disagreed, he wants to keep his fairly high EV instead of bombing it to oblivion. Unless he happens to have 10+ enchant armour scrolls on hand which is rather unlikely. If he wants a dragon armour to enchant, SDA may serve him better. Thanks to his almost maxed armour skill, switching to GDA will d...

Enchant that golden dragon hide and enjoy your awesome AC/resists. For dangerous enchanters... (ancient) liches and draconian shifters use Trog's Hand. Enchant your weapon as well. Wear the amulet of conservation as your primary choice (unless you take a cloak of preservation off one of the ...

I'm surprised not to see Blade Hands in your spell list. With this spell and all those monstrous muts (and desirably more UC training) your damage output should be amazing.

Damn, i described the situation about as badly as i played it. Let me clarify things a little bit. Of course, i initiated a teleport before playing with distortion, but too late: that turn i dropped down from 70 to 40 HP and decided to click my only immediate panic button, being distortion unwield. ...

Oh well, disregard the post above, already YASD'd in Shoals:5. Probably went there too early. Forgot to use invisibility wand and started panicking too late. Tried to escape mesmerising with distortion unwields but had no luck with that (they send you to the Abyss only when you're an XL 9 character ...

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