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Personally, I never use it.

Personally, I have no problem with the current shafting rate. I'll make a post the first time I get killed because of getting shafted (I bet it happens soon now that I wrote this).

...and the streak ended with the next game. Started a GhSk and even got Makhleb on D:4 but then on D:5 I just didn't notice that an orc warrior was wielding a trident and let it get a hit in when I had only 16 hp left. Died with -1 hp...

I played completely normally, and that's what I advice everyone to do with Xom.

Oh my, the first time I managed to streak with a CK. After my last HaAK victory, I started a TrCK and to my great surprise, managed to win it. I think Xom was quite gentle with me this time and didn't actively try to kill me too much. And the set of mutations I had for most of the game was quite nic...

There's no point in having a debuff in the game if you don't actually have to deal with it. Quaffing a potion is dealing with it. If curing potions are too common is another question. But using a consumable to deal with a debuff is perfectly fine. Confusion is a good debuff in that you can always d...

There really shouldn't be a status effect that you cure by drinking the most common potion in the game. Why not? Poisoned is also a status effect, is it bad that it is cured by !curing? What if curing was the second most common potion in the game, would it be ok then? Whether curing potions are too...

I'll quote myself from another thread: My criteria for Vaults vs Abyss vs Slime is: Vaults: always, because it is the single most fun level in the whole game. Objectively thinking, Slime would probably be better for most characters who have rCorr. If you can handle V:5, you should be able to handle ...

Wand of digging works on those grates.

Code:: C - the +2 cloak "Geatzok" (worn) {*Drain rPois MR+++ Regen+} (You acquired it on level 10 of the Dungeon)

I don't think I'm going to take that off. (TrCK of Xom)

Yeah, just raise every raisable corpse. Skeletons last for quite a while, so they can still be around when you find the next enemy. There's an option for adjusting your autoexploring speed to match your slowest allys speed, if you don't want to run ahead of your undead allies.

Once again, no streak for me as I splatted a DrAr after my 15-runer GrFE. But then the next character, a HaAK made it. I started with long blades, as I could then easily stab with daggers and get some use for the cross-trained skill. But then I found Eos in a bailey and just couldn't resist it. So I...

We already have a staff of death, so we don't need a staff of pain imo. How about scaling the damage somehow by the maxHP of the target? So it would cause more pain to those who have more life. Just an idea. Scaling it with weapon skill would make e.g. daggers of pain less intriguing, since you don'...

They are actually constantly trying to mate and because they can't see their partners they are just poking around with their sexual organs. Too bad their sexual organs cause stat drain on PCs.

Vanquished Creatures [...] Boris (6 times) (Vaults:2 Vaults:3 Vaults:4 Depths:1 Crypt:1 Crypt:2) I believe my previous record was 3 but in this game Boris has been exceptionally persistent. I'm (HaAK of Lugonu) currently on V:5 so I guess there's a possibility he'll show up once again...

Jeremiah wrote:SUICIDESTORM - Conjurations/Necromancy - Everything in LOS dies, including you

Only recommended for Felids.

Just a note: monster Angels have rN+++ so rN- on a PC Angel seems unfitting. Also monster profane servitors have rHoly. Main challenge with this specie is to know when to "change version". I think it would be best to just stay with what you choose, there's no need to subject yourself to wr...

I hate getting both feet and horns since it's imo. not enough reason to start training unarmed fighting No reason at all, since unarmed combat skill has no effect on auxiliary attacks. My route went like this Lair -> Orc -> Spider -> Shoals -> Vault 1-4 -> Elf 1-2 -> Vault 5 -> Depths + Zot. People...

By interesting I mean "the defining feature which makes the species different from others".

Do people think "I want to play a species which can not drink so I'll play a Mummy"? I doubt it, yet the inability to quaff is imo the most interesting part of mummies.

Yara's works well in combination with Metabolic Englaciation.

This was already hinted at in another thread, but I'm going to post it as a separate topic. I don't dare put this in GDD, though, at least not yet :) The interesting part of DD is no heal. The interesting part of Vampire is the bloodless part. So let's combine these into one. Mountain Dwarves haven ...

And one more thing: in my experience, useful gifts by Oka are pretty rare. My personal experience is (checked my last 3 Okawaru winners) that I get 1 or 2 armour gifts which I use in the end. Often they are not anything too special, maybe just gloves of strength/dexterity, but still. Whether that m...

Branches: Dungeon (15/15) Temple (0/1) D:4 Lair (0/6) D:10 Orc (0/2) D:9 Vaults (0/5) D:13 Depths (1/5) D:15 Next time, do D to 11 or so, then Lair, then Orc, then D to 15, then Swamp/Snake/Spider/Shoals (whatever you get, not Slime), then Vaults: 1 - 4 (not 5!), (then optionally Elf) and only afte...

This is probably late, but about the skills: training Fire and Charms seems pointless; your spell success rates are good enough. You should probably stop training Stealth (even with the manual). I would learn Animate Skeleton and Swiftness.

So you're wearing an amulet of harm, which makes the situation even more dangerous. A scroll of fear is another option, but I have no idea if it's better than a scroll of blinking.

Imo you are training too many skills at the same time.

In my own case, I've played berserker 33 times (including 27 MiBe) and never even come close to winning (most have died before Lair, or even before Temple). Maybe you don't lure monsters enough? You should try to make every fight 1-to-1 in a corridor. There must be something fundamental in your tac...

Rename DD as something evil and give it a drain life ability (improves with XL). Then make it no healing or regenerating whatsoever, except for this intrinsic drain life.

Paralysing would probably also have worked after reading a scroll of vulnerability.

That is true. It is also currently the case, because losing max MP for healing is unoptimal. Except if you are with Makhleb etc. And I hate this dependency on gods that give healing. So, imo, if there must be a species with "no regen", it would be better to really make it "no regen&qu...

The problem with this approach is that it means playing DD becomes an exercise in "avoid taking damage at all cost because every single HP you lose is one you've lost forever" and Crawl gives you a lot of ways to do something tedious to avoid the possibility of taking damage. My proposal ...

"Wand of acid (6)" means it was a wand with 6 charges, not that you took 6 damage from it.

In my opinion, DD should be a totally no-healing species. So max HP = current HP. The only way to gain HP would be on level-ups. It is left as an exercise to the devs to determine the amount of HP to be gained on level-ups (and the HP at the start, and the role of the Fighting skill in all this, and...

tasonir wrote: AC. ~70ac statue with 6 rings? You'd have to put in serious effort to die.

Like open up a shatter-ghost vault? :)

IIRC each chamber in Slime:$ had a chance of containing a rune. I don't remember (it was 19 years ago after all) if this was a bug and whether it was possible that no slimy rune was generated.

Well, it doesn't take a lot of real time to press '5'.

could you tell me more about this "reaver"? Here's one: Dungeon Crawl version 3.40 character file. Ajaja the Annihilator (Human) (Level 27 Reaver) Experience : 27/987777 Strength 18 Dexterity 16 Intelligence 20 Hit Points : 124 Magic Points : 38 AC : 29 Evasion : 13 Shield : 0 Gp : 2781 Y...

I was a bit vexed not to find Chei in the Temple,

Yeah well, as cruel as Crawl can be, sometimes it does its best to prevent you from making bad decisions :)

There's no need for a drawback imo, potion of resistance does not have any drawbacks.

It was time to go for 15 runes. I started up a GrFE. Ash was on D:1 but I really didn't want to do 15 runes with Ash. Luckily, Elyvilon was on D:2 and the choice of god was made. A funny thing was that I almost ran out of food. I guess I forgot that Ely's greater healing causes quite a lot of hunger...

Ouch. I've died once on the Orb run (on D:1 no less) but I already had won many times at that point. It still hurt quite a lot.
You'll get over it, just start up another character :)

I agree with VAF, guardian spirit is very good and those 34 MP would have been gone to good use.

I wouldn't train stealth. I also wouldn't quaff !mutation. It's nice to have them available, if you get some nasty mutations from an OoF on Zot:1 for example. (Or from a summoned neqoxec somehere.)

Jory has crystal spear (3d37) and Boris iron shot (3d37) so yeah, you want to be careful around them.

Ouch. The Desolation is the most dangerous portal vault. I would never enter one with a level 18 character.

No, it was not deliberate design. I made this trove back when every character was allowed to zap wands, and back when digging charges were not nearly as limited or valuable. I have requested several times that this trove destination be removed, but with no luck. What I had I mind was that sacrifici...

defen wrote:Is this deliberate design?

Of course, sacrificing artifice has its consequences. Bad luck, though.

Airwolf wrote:Orc high priests are more of a problem: I think their smites do more damage

According to the knowledge bots, it's the same (7 - 17) damage for orc priests, high priests and even Saint Roka. Saint Roka has only two spells so he smites more often though.

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Killer Klown [...] can paralyse/distort etc. you

Are you sure about that?

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