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Stop using tab :) It's just too good to give up. But we could/should ask what their tab stop autofight setting is at - I'd recommend at least 50% hp, and if they want to be more safe, they could go even higher. A random panlord in a worst case scenario could probably still hit most characters for 1...

I was a HuBe of all things. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file. 720446 Joe the Slayer (level 27, -16/253 HPs) Began as a Human Berserker on Dec 28, 2017. Was the Champion of Trog. Killed from afar by a hellion (26 damage) ... with damnation ... summoned by Meebej ... on l...

... and my 161st attempt to win a human dies on the Orb Run to a pan lord that I didn't see had arrived as I was tabbing a lich. Ironic that this thread is near the 32 minute speedrun post. I died because I was playing too fast, even though I had kept telling myself ever since I'd entered the lungs,...

An interface that lets me set the order in which my follower orcs arrive when recalled would be sufficient, right?

So I had this question below, and as I was typing up my post I realized the answer. I tested it, and it works! Rather than erase my post, I'll share my discovery instead. The original question: How might I set my autofight to always throw, even at range-1 enemies, swinging only if I have no throwing...

ctrl-f corpse THIS WORKS! I had a corpse in LOS, and then one of my derived undead stepped on it. I could not see whether there was a corpse there via x-v or otherwise, but [Ctrl][f] "corpse" and selecting its entry in the list of results highlighted the square it was on, under the derive...

Ignoring the interface problem, the tactical one is that moving around just to find a eventual body isn't usually a very good move when in LOS there's a monster with berzerk and paralyze. This is not the problem. The problem is : I have killed some monsters, some of them were standing on square X. ...

You really did read that wrong, it's not a complaint. I know that it is a strong spell. But after reading what you wrote, I see that with Mephitic, say, I don't know which of the 3x3 squares will get fumes, nor do I know exactly where Freezing Cloud will go. I even have more control over where Corps...

Today as HuNe^Kiku I was fighting a pack of monsters that included Rupert. I killed several monsters adjacent to me, and then Rupert stepped onto that square. Corpse Rot, however, did not hit him because none of those monsters had left corpses (Xom chuckles). I wonder, is there any way for me to ins...

Thanks, bel! Here is what I discovered just now: ⋅ When you save on a floor that has an annotation, the annotation is repeated to you when you reload the game. ⋅ When that annotation has a "!" warning flag, nothing different happens. After all, the game can't ask you wh...

Is there any way to leave a note in-game right before or as I save that will pop up with --more-- when I restart the game? I'm restarting a game that I had to suspend abruptly last night, and I'm in the middle of a stretch of unexplored floors and I know there was a reason I was backtracking but I d...

So this happened last night:

"You fall through two floors!"
Entrance to Temple in LOS.

If anythging Makhleb's Desctructions are more random than nemelex's card effects, since you have no control over them whatsoever. Greater Destruction is so dangerous with its chance of AOE effects that I almost never use it on nearby foes. But Makh is strong without it, so no one cares.

How do you suggest handling the god ability that stacks a deck, and then discards the rest of the deck? There needs to be some way to pay for predictability of draws by reducing the overall number of cards while retaining the ability to draw blind or three or four from a deck of the same type.

Make Cigotuvi's Embrace a spell that complements Animate Dead/Animate Skeleton instead of competing with it. Whenever its status effect is active and one of your zombies or skeletons dies (not simulacra or spectres), you AND all your allies gain a little bit of AC and/or SH. Instead of the derived u...

This character found Simulacrum on V:5. And then died in Z:5 in a most spectacularly stupid way that I don't want to talk about. I am SOOOO mad at myself. This is my third Zot:5 death overall that I recall, and this was my 112th Hu to die and I STILL haven't won that species!!!! Hell I can't even wi...

I entered and followed duvessa's advice, particularly the part about not wanting to give the special foes constructs to do their magic on. Not cleared yet, but it is clearly a place that rewards luring. I'm glad I entered and now I can better assess it for future characters. The one other time I was...

... based on its wiki article, at least. What sorts of characters do well there, what sorts of characters do poorly? Which tactical suggestions do you have? It seems that you don't want to get surrounded. Does teleporting get you in more trouble or can it reliably get you out of trouble? Frankly, I'...

I didn't die just now, but moth of wrath again, this time with an entropy weaver! Berserk wolf spiders are even worse when you are corroded!

rHoly for players is a missing niche.

Simulacrum has not appeared yet in this game. I'm hoping to find it in Vaults:5. If I'd found it, I'd not need this thread for I've used it just as you've described, with less Necromancy skill than I have in this particular game. Given the negative energy resistance of the orbs of fire and the elect...

Chei will take a long time to get enough piety that your stats improve markedly. Until then, you're just slow.

While your game is running, press the "#" key. A link to your morgue file at that game turn will appear in the lower-right message pane, accessed by [F12].

VeryAngryFelid wrote:That's because you followed advice from neighbor thread

Point me to this thread, please.

vamp eveningstar? DROOLLLLLLLL

I died once in Z:5, when standing over the Orb I said, "May as well clear the other lungs, too." I had to win DD all over again, when I was just about done with that race forever. At least it was 0.19.

MiBe was my first ascension, and then GrEE was my second! I used Majang's Guide on the wiki, and while there is plenty in there that I'd not follow today (notably the staff of earth thing) it did work for me. FWIW SpEn was my third and HOAK my fourth.

I keep OTR for Vaults:5 and for draconian packs in Zot. If you're suggesting that the amount of damage poison does compared to the HP if the likely targets is not worth the spell slots and the turn casting it, I could certainly buy that. I'd like to keep Sublimation. I've not needed it yet, but ther...

I used Revivification because of bad corrosion in Slime with many acid blobs present. I was afraid that if I blinked to the stairs, a ranged acid blast would kill me before I could go up them. HP was low enough that !Canc to kill the corrosion first would still leave me vulnerable to the ranged atta...

Updated dump. I have V:5 and Zot remaining for a four-rune win. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file. MainiacJoe the Hoplite (Human Venom Mage) Turns: 93200, Time: 07:43:03 HP: 200/200 (201) AC: 21 Str: 11 XL: 27 MP: 41/41 EV: 27 Int: 21 God: Kikubaaqudgha [******] Gold: 43...

This might be better as gloves, protecting the wielder from the weapon.

The later #s account for more spellpower than the early ones. #### is 25, for instance. Think log scale.

Is there ANY reason for ignition to not hit the caster when adjacent to monsters affected? So it isnt terrible and super annoying to use? Hitting everything in LOS with a single click wasn't convenient enough? Every other AOE spell effects the caster if they are in the area of effect. The situation...

This makes me curious how joining a god is handled in Hellcrawl

crawlnoob wrote:
MainiacJoe wrote:OMG the ObjStats results that Siegurt shared recently show that on average, 5 nets spawn per game, with an additional 7 in Shoals per game.

Yeah. Save them for ancient liches.

But if you aren't heavily invested in stabbing, it can still cast its spells and you've essentially wasted a turn.

OMG the ObjStats results that Siegurt shared recently show that on average, 5 nets spawn per game, with an additional 7 in Shoals per game.

I also, after the above, netted a hydra and it mulched when I stabbed it to death. I vaguely recall a few years ago a YAVP where a Vp used net stabs for most of the game, and when people expressed surprised that he had enough he implied that they don't mulch as much as one would expwct. Either this ...

Summons are a conjuration that last several turn for the same MP. And can block LOS for you. And can cause distractions.

You convinced me. I don't mind playing with summons, but you're right about Kiku. I got a DDNe to Zot:5 but that was really Ne just for vamp drain to make it to the Makhleb altar and melee thereafter, so higher-level Necro is a part of the game I haven't really experienced yet.

This character has finished Orc, Lair and Dungeon. Acquirement has given a quick blade, but an artifact one I can't pain-brand. I can live with it, though: +10 QB {elec, *Contam +Rage rPois MR++}. I'm well set up for melee with a combined 56 in AC/EV/SH, but against high-AC monsters combat can take ...

I almost always collect them, and never remember to use them. Even if one isn't using them for stabbing, they can give you a headstart to escape or to block a corridor. Please confirm these impressions about them, a couple of which I'm not at all confident in: ⋅ Throwing skill improves acc...

le_nerd wrote:No. In trunk, where the elementals have mini-nado, you get emergency flight that drains you. Player lava/drowning death is a thing of the past.

Even when you've been confused, say an orc wizard or a swamp drake?

Must one kite in order for a venom weapon to be worth using? I've found them to be underwhelming, but also have not been anal to kite everything that gets a green droplet.

I am curious whether training 4-6 levels of a weapon before Lair and/or before finishing the starting book is ever a good idea for mage characters. If so, which sorts of weapons benefit the most from modest training? Light and fast, heavy and slow ones, inaccurate ones, or maybe it's only worth it w...

Lost a powerful berserker to a pack of wolf spiders and a single moth of wrath.

Shafts are like early banishment in the adrenaline department, except there's a good chance you'll actually survive.

Think twice before taking Ru on a blaster, because her panic buttons have a high MP cost and chances are by the time you've figured out that you need her help you've used up most of your MP. If you use Ru's Apocalypse as a panic button then you use it wrong. It is an opener. If you need to finish t...

Is the only gain in overall charges as suggested in 4) the elimination of wasted charges on un-ID'd wands? Seems to me that eliminating recharge scrolls is a net loss of useful charges in the game, because no one recharges a weak wand like flame or polymorph.

Hmm. Thank you, nago. Since the main effect I was aiming for with riposte was not the damage itself, but the distortion effect, let's see: a free +5% on distortion brand application comes out to 0.7 (mindelay) / 1.05 = effective mindelay of 0.67. On a falchion, 0.6 / 1.05 = 0.57. The dagger is 0.5 w...

Two thoughts: ⋅ Which short blades have you found? With Ha's aptitudes, 14 LBl for mindelay on a scimitar ought to be enough to get a dagger to mindelay on crosstraining alone (14 Lbl @ 0 apt is 6000 skill points, times 40% = 2400, SBl at+2 Apt = 3394 skill points in SBl > skill 11) ⋅...

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