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Ditching the starting book is a big mistake IMO. Butterflies and Blink are very powerful survival tools. A Jester should never die to a lone Ogre or Orc Warrior.

I won't have a problem with opening Zot up if the monster annoyances are addressed. As is, I map/dig/dive irrespective of dieselness.

Re Hall of Blades, I've heard at least one suggestion of turning it into a serial vault to be placed in late Vaults. I don't really know the particulars of how that would work at present. Half the reason why no one goes to Blade is the lack of loot. The other half is the fact that dancing weapons a...

Uglies lose a turn whenever they change color, so it's actually not hard to get away from them. Very uglies are pretty rare in my experience, but I'm OK with that because I don't enjoy getting rotted and napalmed.

That's true, but petrification would accomplish the same thing in a less binary manner.

My perception is that eyeball paralysis doesn't last as long as spell paralysis. Typically 2-3 turns as opposed to 4+ turns. I might be wrong. The thing with eyeballs, in addition to what Davion said, is that they're predictable, slow, and easily killed. If you're in LOS, kill it fast or get out. Mu...

Proposal: replace all instances of paralysis with petrification. Wands, sphinxes, chaos brand, grinder, etc.. Eyeballs can keep their special gaze because they're an interesting and manageable threat. Paralysis is not fun. Too often, it means you're one bad MR roll away from a bad situation. It lead...

New Cj is tons of fun. Props to the dev(s) responsible.

Yeah I'm thinking the same: x% of locking them all. I mean it's not like a surprise or anything: you know that centaur might have fire arrows and such so you can plan ahead... and you want it to mater tactically. I don't think you appreciate how brutal this suggestion is. Say you hit a tele/shaft t...

There are some cases where I'll put points in str or dex, but the majority of the time if you're not under Trog you should be raising int. Because spells are good.

A +4 venom branded crossbow with 0 skill will do approximately nothing for you. Just use your huge blade. Have you not found regeneration yet? It's one of the best spells in the game and makes running through the smitehellfiretormenting endgame much easier. Regen + mahk's healing + big sword + caref...

MDA, MR cloak, randart gloves... your armour is pretty good. That said, you don't need a better weapon and you have heal wounds/teleport/haste covered, so your choices are limited.

I would do staff acquirement if you don't have conj or air stashed somewhere, otherwise armour.

My mistake, I'd thought they'd patched out the hand-and-a-halfedness of some weapons. In that case, I'd recommend demon blade + a shield of some kind, if you want to go longblades on this dude. I don't think that double swords are enough of an improvement over demon blades to justify not using a shi...

That's a good point. He could go Lugonu and get a disto quickblade like a boss.

Halfings and Kobolds can use double swords with shields.

Or, you could be flexible to what the rng gives you and ditch stabbing altogether. Put the PDA on, grab a scimitar and buckler, and start killdudesing. You've put barely any XP into the the typical En skills and you don't even have a god yet. You're not locked into a sneaky character by any means.

Everything about the new abyss is an improvement, save Ancient Zymes: instantaneous LOS deep red sickness is total BS. Stat drain and sickness are some of the more annoying things in crawl - being powerless to mitigate without sustain abilities and curing is just plain stupid IMO. My suggestion for ...

Autumn Katana is cool but not particularly useful for your dude. Vampires have great natural MR for resisting confusion, and you're going to want a staff of cold/air equipped while you drop ice storm/tornado. Keep it around if you don't have a clarity amulet. If you're still using a demon blade for ...

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, you really shouldn't be using Bullseye. EV is a much more useful defensive stat than SH. Get a buckler or shield of resistance. Makhleb and careful play should be all the healing you need - ditch regeneration. Airstrike is very useful for sniping the occasion...

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Yes, let vorpal work as normal. My HEFE being stuck with 8 flaming demon blades and 0 freezing is the reason I made this feature request.

Enchant only fails above +4, not +3, and the infrequent jelly isn't worth wasting scrolls on a not-endgame weapon. Throw stones, zap wands, use a throw-away weapon, or just walk away.

Your spell has a lot of special cases and exceptions that go against typical Crawl design philosophy. Stuff like 'doesn't work against dwarves' isn't crawlish. Poison's problems aren't what it does (because poison arrow and cloud completely destroy anything they work on) but what it doesn't do. Hell...

Hm yeah, hadn't thought about disto unwields. They shouldn't work either.

Eh, I never curse my weapon under Ash and it's pretty rare for me to burn EW scrolls on anything other than my endgame weapon. I'm not sure if taking away the brand inventory management is that big of a deal.

FR: they work on any non-artifact, even if the weapon already has a permabrand*. Would they be too good if they did this? In my experience, I almost never use them outside of skald early game or a single use+vorpalise. This change would make them more flexible, useful all game long, and it would als...

Please. I'm tired of accidentally burning piety whenever I hit 'p' instead of 'o'. So much so that I macro 'p' to 'o' whenever I worship Jiyva. It's only in very limited circumstances that I stop jellies from eating things anyways. Not often enough to devote an entire key to it.

Morgue files don't display properly. If you could change the in-app text editor to use a monospace font, it would fix this.

Shields and GDR tend to be heavily overvalued. My thoughts on shields: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5321. GDR has been discussed to death on this forum, I don't want to open that can of worms again, just know that while GDR is nice to have, it only applies to certain forms...

In your position, I would: - use the robe of resistance and train dodging, keeping the FDA and enchant armor scrolls on standby depending on what other gear I find as the game progresses. Robes of resistance are great all game long, you don't necessarily need anything better. - armor skill doesn't h...

As of .11, unicode is not console's default. It's on my shortlist of rc changes whenever I update the game.

Things I don't like about felids

1. extremely limited slots/inability to use most of the items they'll find/generally bad apts railroads them into few playstyles
2. extra lives

But I've got my fe win and won't be touching them again, so I won't complain if the devs are happy with current felids.

You bought the ring of vitality on turn 22855, yet when you died you didn't even have it in your inventory? I don't understand. It's significantly better than the rings you were wearing, especially on a character who can't cast regeneration.

Tome4 has visual indicators for pretty much every action, and I find it really annoying tbh.

It's a random pan lord. We can't tell you anything about him, because he's random. knowledge bots: 1. There are four fixed ones, see pan[3]. Others are random: HD 12-30, hp 103-250, speed 10-19, random resistances, random melee brand (possibly distortion), random spells (including hellfire). 2. Poss...

That exec axe may be the best weapon I've ever seen. Total shame you're stuck with polearms. Bless the bardiche. rF plate, mottled, and salamander hide are all good. Since you've nearly maxed armour while ignoring dodging, it makes the most sense for you to stick with plate. You should've been pumpi...

I used jewelry acquirement on my Fe, Op, and 'kill everything with dragonform' wins. Pretty sure that means I've used it more than book.

How does this work with TSO? Say you're trying to cleave a big group but a few of them are unaware/distracted by your angel bros.

It takes time for Zin's piety to build up after you donate money. In a few hundred turns you should hit 6*, then you'll get a single use ability to remove all mutations. God wrath never happens immediately. Every few hundred/thousand turns Trog will blast you with fire or drop a pack of berserking d...

Game and gold turns aren't showing up for me (I thought this was on by default now? I edited the config file anyways). Are they disabled on purpose?

Testing the trunk build:

1. autofight is broken, gives an unspecified lua error.
2. message window colors aren't quite right e.g. poison/contaminated corpses aren't green/brown, fight messages aren't greyed out, etc.
3. the app crashed on my first death, but it didn't crash on my second.

claws wrote:Also, the abyss re-write bh has planned makes abyss-teleporting in vaults happen less (since vaults are islands of relative stability for the abyssal morphing).

less is nice, but can we make it happen never? same with exit gates in los

Nice. Does this mean the tiles droid binary is getting automatic trunk updates? I hope the ascii port gets the same treatment.

Well, that weapon is extremely bad for that point in the game, and while your spellset sounds OK, it isn't good for killing things, it's good for blinking into rune rooms while hasted and stealing the runes (and from what I read you like killing everyone and dislike running away). So if you want to...

Yeah I'm not really sure what to do about the keyboard empty space. Even the second numpad is unnecessary. There's too many buttons for 2 tabs, but not enough for 3.

You have to choose: do you want to killdudes with unarmed tmuts OR summons OR conjurations? There simply isn't enough XP in the game to do all of these well, outside of grinding pan. I recommend that you don't grind pan. Any reason why you're not using your rF buckler? Bucklers are good for this cha...

Nice!

What's planned for the abyss rewrite?

I thought of a good reason to have the files installed on the sd card: morgues/char dumps. Un-rooted people won't be able to get to these files, which means they won't be able to post them online for help.

With the power of paint I worked out a keyboard layout. My goals were to include all the missing buttons, get tab+ctrl on the main tab, the most used special characters on the '123' tab, and the lesser used ones on the '&*#' tab. It's kind of a mess.

The chance of being saved by a blink is reduced by the chance that your un-id'd amulet is stasis. I'd go for the repoly.

we could also just remove poly wand/spell. it's never really useful against dudes and when dudes use it on you it makes you want to tear your hair out.

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