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What's the formula for player constriction damage?

Nemelex works with literally any build. In fact, it shines for builds in which you don't really know what your greater plan is - I remember playing on a VpIE and dropping conjurations (-3!) and simply focusing on melee from turn 1, which magic to support. When it came time to choose a god, I really ...

BlackSheep wrote:Helms don't introduce auxiliary unarmed attacks, they only enhance the damage of headbutts. You need Unarmed Combat skill to get the attacks.

Spiked helmets give headbutt as well as additional damage.

I've been trying this out recently, dropping all stats but Fighting, UC, Spellcasting and Transmuting until I can get Ice Form/Blade Hands. Smart move? Also, I was thinking of probably following Sif. I would say drop everything except UC until you become comfortable with your damage output, while g...

Just a little clarification: you can Id most of the jewellery, which doesn't auto-id on equip, through actions that reveal their property. For example, casting an ice-school spell identifies ring of fire/ice, teleporting identifies ring of c-tele and so on... Normally I don't find really important ...

About the Glaive - bardiches are freaking rare. Granted, the purple glaive is just as rare, but on the occasion that you do get it, it's a very good weapon. My case in point: I had a MfBe who was gifted the purple glaive and then an anti-magic bardiche. Anti-magic doesn't add extra damage, and getti...

My question: when fighting the Royal Jelly, does it make a difference (in terms of number of jellies spawned) whether you do the damage in a few big hits or lots of less damaging hits? I think it does make a difference. Sometimes if you're a melee fighter and you get in a weak hit, TRJ won't spawn ...

So, pick a god with rather weak wrath who is also useful if you end up never getting the Jiyva altar. Nemelex comes to mind.

Yes, it's great. There's been many times when I descended a staircase into a sticky situation, only to see a nice item like ?blinking or a randart sitting a few tiles away. If I had apportation I would be able to apport the item and then retreat upwards.

You have a decent chance at heal wounds and a very good chance at the staff of cold. I would acquire wand if I was low on heal wounds potions/Borgnjor's Revivication/Elyvilon (basically any major healing option) and a staff of cold if I had enough healing. I ended up acquiring wizardry... FML. I ac...

Likely enough to try acquiring it? Does a higher Ice Magic skill (say, 18 or so) increase my chances? Or maybe I should acquire wand, I haven't ID'd confusion, random effects, or heal wounds yet.

I'm trying to get a staff of cold for my evocations specialist, and I just bought a scroll of acquirement. I have 15 Evocations and 13 Ice Magic (my 2 highest magic skills). Once I raise Ice Magic to 16 and then acquire staff, does that guarantee me a staff of cold?

Congrats on the win! Just wondering, how did you come up with the collection of bad mutations? Did you not switch out for rMut?

What exactly do manuals do in the new exp system?

German war term. Nice.

Jeremiah wrote:Annihilated by a hill giant
... wielding a +0,+0 giant club
(79 damage)

ouch!

I've been annihilated by a titanic slime creature on a Gray DrAr in the Vaults for 163 damage.

TehDruid wrote:There's many that will disagree. But I like it too, overall. Too bad it doesn't polymorph you into a shellfish or something fun.

If you're a shield user, maybe. But for 2H I think +4,+12 vorpal glaive bests any vanilla bardiche you're likely to get.

The armour is nice but you'll want to upgrade to plate eventually for the better AC. That crossbow is also nice, but only for now when your ranged accuracy isn't that good. Later on you'll definitely want to upgrade to maybe a vorpal +9,+9 crossbow for damage.

On an unrelated note, what's the generic caster weapon? I used staff just because De's have 0 apt and I figured I might one day use an enhancer, but it's hard to mix that with a shield. Should I take whips or short blades instead? Anything with a good brand early on to kill stuff your spells can't ...

some sort of ring {+Lev +Inv rPois rElec Acc+5 Dam+6}

The only really good piece of loot I ever, EVER got from Lair:8. It was from the Yak ending, which, aside from the elephant ending, seems to be the only Lair:8 ending that gives items better than your average dungeon crap.

Greater healing = easy pacification.

Right, everyone seems to hate on Okie's gifts but I actually find them to be quite good. I do occasionally get plain caps and stuff but that usually only happens when I have nothing in the slot, so it's not bad. I consistently get cloaks of preservation and boots of running by the time I reach Vault...

Glaive of Prune is an amazing item. Massive damage.

Right, and Felids don't care about items so Jiyva is great.

I was on a promising MuBe and upon seeing a bunch of orc warriors on D:10 I summoned a berserk Ogre. To my horror, my Ogre initially killed a big kobold zombie and then stood there doing nothing while I was getting beat up by the warriors. I ended up dying with my berserk ally just sitting there doi...

The one time I met the Lernaean was on a HaGl with M&F specialization. I took up a flaming scimitar (0 skill in long blades!) and with the simple Heroism + ?tele combo x5 I was able to chop of all heads.

That ring, btw, is like the hat of the alchemist in ring form.

Congratulations! Wow, 44 HP rotted away!

Also, have you guys heard of speeddemosarchive.com? This sounds like a speedrun that would fit in there.

So I'm a level 17 Hill Orc Priest, at the bottom of the swamp (my first attempt at getting a rune) with three knights, two high priests, one sorcerer, two warriors, and Urug, who is still alive somehow. Hmm. Speaking from experience, you really have a very strange army composition. Out of two HOPr ...

Weeeell if you find one early on (around D:12 or something) they may happen to feature a bunch of Vault Guards (the guys on V:8). I've seen a trove guarded by 4 once and by 1 on another occcasion. They're not really challenging. I've found an early trove at D:11 unguarded. I've also found later tro...

One-shotting basic nagas? Wow, sounds like yours is much more powerful than mine... At best I was taking spiny frogs down to "moderately wounded." Does the breath weapon get stronger as you level up?

But he would still get exp if the horror was killed by a trap.

I had no idea Kirke summoned VERY ugly things... I got mobbed by them on D:15. After I died I went to look them up on the database and apparently they're speed 11, so I could have just easily ran away... rest in peace my beloved TrEE. Summon Ugly Thing has a chance of producing very ugly things bas...

Hey guys, I have yet another stupid death here. I got shot by a yaktaur captain at low health, which I could have prevented by reading fog or blinking or something like that. It was a pretty cool game; I was going to draw from a deck of summonings on Lair:8, but I drew the Genie from the Deck of Odd...

I had no idea Kirke summoned VERY ugly things... I got mobbed by them on D:15. After I died I went to look them up on the database and apparently they're speed 11, so I could have just easily ran away... rest in peace my beloved TrEE.

I'd also say that TrTm and TrEE should be in there based on past experience playing local. TrTm since they start with a good enhancer to UC and in theory if you spend the XP, statue form allegedly makes them even stronger. While I didn't get that far, evap is cheaper than meph in the old book and s...

@ Luckymoose

If you see a large rectangular room with a door in the Lair, don't open it if you're not ready for mass bees/J's (jellies, brown oozes, even azure jellies).

Igxfl wrote: A Naga could alternate spells and invocations for quite a while, especially with both recharging on kills.

I believe he only heals HP now.

Does the corpse generation follow the same formula as Shadow Creatures?

Their DEX got buffed in trunk, didnt it? Now its about average, on par with humans. To change the subject: I rolled a yellow DrAs and right now Im level 12. Luckily im going for unarmed combat, but im not level 14 yet so I cant vouch for Acidic Bite. But what I did notice so far was that yellow drac...

OCS's are automatically excluded on sight.

Jabberwocky wrote:Just because you annihilated the guards at the entrance to vault 8 does not mean the rest of the level will be easy.

The guards are literally the easiest part.

rebthor wrote:And that's why I don't quaff ID potions until I have mutation and cMut identified.

You could end up never quaffing...

1) Dying in Cocytus with 13 runes on a Minotaur of Tso because I went in without means of Levitation/Flight. (I played Blink roulette to travel from island to island). That was pure arrogance, and cost me my first possible all-rune game. My story EXACTLY. I had already cleared Dis no probelm on my ...

I don't think swiftness gives extra speed from flight anymore. I've found pale draconian to be my favorite. I've only gotten pale once out of ~50 draconian games at level 7+, but it was stupidly powerful. I eventually took the pale DrGl to 14 runes but died to Cerebov becausenof my excessive hubris....

There's a lone potion by the exit, so that's probably it. I was playing a mummy at the time, so...

No, white draconian breath does not knockback grounded enemies.

Does the Abyssal rune behave like the Pan runes? As in, if you get teleported away from the map, it's gone forever?

Why not use the self-restoration ability? I use it on my mummies, even spellcasters. Also, how useful is Control Undead in the tomb?

MarvinPA wrote:No (to all three). His native depth is 20-27, !Lair, !Slime - Pan and the Abyss have to be allowed explicitly.

What's !Lair and !Slime? Last levels?

If you can't find any downstairs in Zot, be prepared to find them bunched together in a smallish room... filled with Oklobs, Burning Bushes, OCS's, and Ice Statues. Like Zot Defense except they're fighting YOU. Even easier if you manage to teleport at the end and do it "backward", this way...

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