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Ran into this ghost on my latest MfGl, was rather surprised at the ^Chei, I get it now

You are a mean, mean person Duvessa. But its OK, I've been here long enough that I knew this.

Code:: 9541 | D:10 | Noticed a salamander stormcaller

Ewww. Nothing like still lacking rF when you meet the first guy with Firestorm. He had a bunch of Hill Giant buddies who seemed positively tame by comparison (and not particularly unusual for D10)

The +16 gold dragon armour of Music {rPois rF+ rC+ Regen+ rCorr Str+2 Dex+3} Now tell me thats not awesome. 2071 gold from Snake:1, and cheap at half the price. MfGl who was wearing +8 Chain {-cast Regen+ Str+3}, immediate trade-up. (guess he's training Armour forever, fair 'nuff) I just love Regen...

I havent won a Mf yet, but I tend to prefer 1hander and shield (on almost everything, i just tend not to 2hand). This works ok on polearms but you really need the DTrident base unless you have a 'fast' brand of some sort in which case spear is totally viable as its about as fast as many short blades...

In the vague situation described in the OP, well Death Yaks are not really faster than you. As soon as you see them you run if thats not something you can handle. Back the way you came, down and up another stair or something. You said you were moving upwards. Never be afraid to backtrack or go aroun...

Isnt Disintegration a reasonable energy wand? I zap stuff with it from time to time but dont pay much attention to results, its an ace-in-the-hole when im out of more known combat wands. I can see I would use a 'Sting' wand heavily, but thats the niche I currently use needles in, early D/O/L. Not su...

It seems a lot tougher ro build a spell user over just straight melee Its certainly a bit more complex a job, most melee bruisers end up with 1 or two endgame weapons, both applied in the same manner, directly to monster faces. Combat casters are more like swiss army knives, you got lots of tools b...

Much agreed on leaving weapon unbound under Ash. Especially if you are a VpEn and have a vamp brand, In that situation I swap 4-5 times per engagement and go can pretty much forever bloodless. I also tend to leave 1 ring slot or the amulet unbound, since by lategame those are often crucial swapslots...

Bah... YASDx2-3. Decided to try clearing Snake:4 outside of the rune vault to pick up some spell levels, ate 2 poison arrows from a pair of GNaga in a single turn, had to shuck my stasis to ?blink to the stairs and safety, went up a level at 8hp. Of course since I had dived to the rune floor nothing...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-854-g4a4ba72 (webtiles) character file. celem the Bewitcher (Vampire Enchanter) Turns: 41997, Time: 05:01:57 Health: 116/131 AC: 15 Str: 8 XL: 17 Next: 22% Magic: 33/33 EV: 21 Int: 21 God: Ashenzari [******] Gold: 2086 SH: 8 Dex: 17 Spells: 11 memorised, 3 l...

duvessa wrote:think of the biggest poop youve ever taken. you know for a fact that you can fit that much stuff in your ass. so really, theres nothing to be afraid of at all

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Its rarely a question of dimensions, so much as direction of travel.

Hah, quite like this one actually. Just a shame it slightly steps on Qaz's toes since he is the resident noisemaker. Can totally see me running a skald with song of slaying under this god. Could be fun to have the idea of 'singing a spell' be a multi-turn action for increased spellpower or similar. ...

Code:: 33135 | Shoals:1 | Noticed Louise 33171 | Shoals:1 | Cast into the Abyss (Louise) 33274 | Abyss:3 | Got an abyssal rune of Zot 33461 | Shoals:1 | Escaped the Abyss 33479 | Shoals:1 | Killed Louise

Thanks bitch, way to speed up my run. (XL18 HaHu^Ash)

Code:: the cursed -7 pair of gloves of Visagh {rN+}

Dont think i've ever needed rN that badly.

Another run, another awesome ring.

Code:: the ring "Kurch" (right claw) {rN+ Str-4 Dex+12 Slay+3 Stlth-}.

On a monstrous UC DsGl w Nightstalker.

Trog likes to gift thrown because you have a bit of skill in it (he would gift them regardless though). IIRC the first gift will always be ammo. Dont get too hung up on picking your weapon. For hydras the DWhip freezing is probably best since it will slow them. If you really want to spend some Encha...

Pretty chuffed with this one. Ended up not quite being my fastest run by maybe 2,000 turns, but since that other win was 3-rune I think this takes the prize. Previous highscore was 10.4m for my DEWz^Veh. Nothing much fazed him. The only battles I chose to avoid were Serpent of Hell (Dis) and Hellion...

Code:: 77298 | Tar:7 | Entered Level 7 of Tartarus 77300 | Tar:7 | Got a bone rune of Zot 77322 | Tar:7 | Noticed Ereshkigal 77349 | Tar:7 | Killed Ereshkigal

Emergency hatches are awesome. (going to try for 15 yes, im fairly familiar with the remaining runes)

77298 | Tar:7 | Entered Level 7 of Tartarus 77300 | Tar:7 | Got a bone rune of Zot 77322 | Tar:7 | Noticed Ereshkigal 77349 | Tar:7 | Killed Ereshkigal 77406 | Geh:1 | Entered Level 1 of Gehenna Emergency hatch into the vault for the win. I just didnt want to miss killing her, but I'm not gonna han...

Decided to keep going. Finally found rMut in Slime after checking Crypt first. Also got a very handy rCorr on boots. Enchanted up the electric DWhip a bit. Went to Pan, apported hellion island, hit the TSO/Zin floor and then the 4 lords in pretty quick order. Cerebov got 2 firestorms off because I e...

I like them mobile, roaming priority targets are always fun from a tactical viewpoint. While strategic guarding is interesting in principle, a player can usually come up with some trick to work around or mitigate the difficulty. Stuff that moves and torments is always fun, and tbh I love them with a...

the ring "Foreug" {+Blink rN+ Str+6 Slay+3} the ring of Xerar (right hand) {rElec rPois Str+4 Dex+4} the ring of Xuim (left hand) {Contam rPois rN++ Str+3 Int+4} the ring of Liberty {+Fly MR- Int+6 Dex+6} the ring of Xom's Bemusement {+Blink rC+ MP+9 Int+3} If only I were an octopode, all...

I think your methodology has too much focus on games by the very best players.. About a page down from the top post he also posts the same graph for all streaks, 2+. I also felt it was a more interesting metric. As usual another intriguing bit of number-crunching from Berder, though as you say, aga...

Much like rchandra I dont rush mindelay. Its the fastest way to increase your DPS output, true. But thats all it does. If you are an experienced crawler then you can probably keep your character alive while skilling it up, but many players will find they spend too long being very fragile this way, i...

Its edge of the envelope... If your armour skill is significantly better than your dodging then it might yield an overall increase in defenses. If it means assigning a point of Int at level-up on a MiBe then pretty much forget it. You need to find the buffer Int from other items if its even gonna be...

You had really nice MR and Stealth, but very little in the way of elemental resists. As you noticed, most of the elves have branded gear. I probably wouldnt have walked in without an rC+ pip somewhere, even if its a ringswap. A number of the elves can bolt of cold/icicle and then theres branded ammo...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-777-g32247ce (webtiles) character file. celem the Warrior (Vine Stalker Fighter) Turns: 61854, Time: 09:35:28 Health: 156/156 AC: 29 Str: 31 XL: 27 Magic: 47/47 EV: 24 Int: 19 God: Makhleb [******] Gold: 5868 SH: 18 Dex: 29 Spells: 6 memorised, 51 levels lef...

The problem with having them expire and just repeating the procedure is hunger. It already costs me food to bring the corpses in, then more to animate them. And they dont even horde like they used to :( This was a pretty hungry character despite not casting much if at all in-combat. You dont need a ...

Bah, starved to death :'( Never actually managed to do that before, guess I assumed my health would slowly trickle out or something, but suddenly im just dead. Did Depth 5 and Crypt 1-3, found some more ?ea, buffed DTrident to +5 and pain branded it. Did Tomb 1 and was a cakewalk. Took a break and h...

Bit of an oddball here thats worked out quite well over time. Wasn't what I had in mind for the char initially, but I try to adapt to what the dungeon throws. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-744-gaa96792 (webtiles) character file. celem the Acrobat (Merfolk Gladiator) Turns: 72332, Time: 10...

In all fairness though, most charactrs will learn a weapon, "mages" as much as anyone. I'll often leave weapon skill off while i wait for something acceptable. Basically I'm looking for the top base-weapon (the one *Fi's get), until then Fighting, Dodging, Stealth, whatever. A character th...

I hate claws. Because I love them... Im somewhat obliged by brainbug to start all non-Ash DS without a weapon skill, because it might get Claws. It leaves me playing casters with wand backups until muts start to slot in, I very rarely get Claws before the chracterbuild falls over because Im building...

Yeah the bigger slimes do incredible amounts of damage. They also have an annoying habit of not splitting when you think they are going to. I die like this every now and then because im 99.99% sure that if I just hit it once more, its gonna divide, so it doesnt...

While I didn't use it on this one Petrify works OK too. The previous one was a lighter armour and dabbled more into spells, Petrify is pretty easy to get running on a Fo and Dith will shadow it sometimes edit: sorry, i meant leda's liquifaction, not sure why i said petrify. While that one is handy f...

I think the biggest disadvantage of formicids is not the inability to teleport, but the inability to haste. This means that in all important battles you are a lot weaker than you could be with any normal species. Yeah lack of Haste does suck a lot. I rarely overuse the spell even on those who can c...

River trove doesnt use acquirement code right? Just 16 random items? Its the only way I can make sense of amulet of stasis coming out of it... I don't know about river trove, but I'm pretty sure you can acquire an amulet of stasis. As a formicid? Thats an item with no use conceivable edit: oh actua...

Since Tiamat murdered off my last one . Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-4024-g0ecf4ac (webtiles) character file. 1546501 celem the Executioner (level 27, 229/229 HPs) Began as a Formicid Fighter on Feb 16, 2015. Was the Champion of Dithmenos. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Feb 18, ...

It becomes worth taking a small amount of armour skill to get the first few cheap points of AC as you level up. Remember that the xp needed to raise the skill from 0 to 1 (or any other step) is static, yet xp yielded by kills rises as you get deeper. By the time your Blades/Dodge/Stealth are all up ...

Merging assassin into hunter would solve a major problem I've always had with the class, specifically that its name & kit very strongly imply a playstyle that does not exist in crawl. Needles and stabbing is quite a common playstyle and fits well with how I see an assassin. The As kit is quite ...

I always assumed Troves were blind to the character. In the past, playing as Mu*, I've been careful to retrieve all potions from timed portals on the off-chance a trove wants curemut. Like Sar, I feel the point of trove costs is to make a sacrifice, the items asked for are generally highly valuable....

Again with a terrible river trove: FoFi^Dith, price 6 ?blink. (Free) Someone must have known it was free, terrible terrible trove +4 scale mail of the Armadillo {MR+} gold sling bullets (fire) lamp of fire amulet of stasis amulet of resist mutation amulet of gourmand +4 antimagic rapier +2 morningst...

Incidentally the only characters that can actually use a bow/xbow in 1 hand with a shield is the Formicid. Its still not worth doing even then really from my experience, bows and xbows suffer an attack speed penalty based on shields that thrown/slings do not, presumably specifically to stop the Fo d...

Sar was on the money, I didnt notice Tiamat, mistook her for another drac in tiles and didnt notice till she berserked and suddenly my HP bar is full of holes. I still should have shafted once I managed to disengage though (fan of gales), it was when she caught up with me on my way to the stair that...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-4013-gd591273 (webtiles) character file. 616545 celem the Slayer (level 27, -13/219 (228) HPs) Began as a Formicid Fighter on Feb 14, 2015. Was the Champion of Dithmenos. Mangled by Tiamat ... wielding a +4 demon trident of venom (90 damage) ... on level 2 o...

Good work on the runes. Vashnia is a real nasty, I find myself burning consumables pretty much regardless of my XL, Roxanne can also be nasty as you noted, but it much depends what she casts. edit: misread the bit about staves... Your quarterstaff is pretty cool. The only thing worth dropping it for...

I quite like the current availability of this scroll. It certainly doesnt feel too rare, even a 3-rune game will often ascend with 10/20+ in the pack. What makes this one a bit of an odd-ball compared to the other player-valued scrolls is that its usefulness changes dramatically over the course of t...

Bailed out on the Zigg and went for the orb. Got mutated quite a bit, but managed to power through and get the Orb out. Fairly uneventful ascent, Pan Lord popped right on the exit but I just sprinted past rather than risk engaging. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-3998-g78f890e (webtiles) ch...

Personally I've never liked 'turn everything except weapon off till min'. I gather the theory behind this is that the biggest boost to your survivability in the early dungeon is actually killing stuff faster. You dont learn dodge, you just hit faster and take fewer hits in return. This only really w...

I love the Gong, its awesome amounts of AC on your shield hand, can be a huge deal for some characters. The noise generally doesnt bother me, you play as if you worshipped Qaz, but can take the noisemaker off. I like to remove it for branch ends where you can ill-afford to bring the entire level to ...

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