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I don't believe acquiring book is the wisest choice most of time... But you already have wands, good (great) jewellery, decent armour and so on. Probably you should wait to get slimes' loot to see if a necronomicon is here. If missing, pan hells and tomb are still full of loot and easily to clear ev...

It took a bit more than usual due to real-life engagements, but it' finally a victory! Overall, it was quite funny to play a stealth character in extended who isn't a power house able to rape everything - I've felt somewhat like when I was a newbie who was entering Hells or Tomb for the first time (...

Surviving in Abyss by lv.13 may be hard but not impossible: keep in mind the best thing do to is not fight enemies unless forced, but keep moving hoping to find an exit. This means that to choose a general direction to move, and everytime anything dangerous appears in LOS (my rule of thumb is anythi...

Acquirement under Trog is usually used for wands or rods, because his gift are very good. Nevertheless, you're been insanely lucky: a vamp exec axe is the best weapon you can have for a 3 runes game. Wield it asap, and put all you enchant weapon 1/2/3 scrolls on it. Carry an anti-magic battle/exec a...

Oh agreed, if I was ever going to switch out of Ash, I'd do it when I had Skills at 27, i.e. WAY FAR ENDGAME. And no, I will not curse this dagger, I need to swap out for my falchion (and later, scimitar) when I can't stab. Before then, I had to swap out with my sling for jellies (and ogres who don...

Keep in mind that Ash's wrath may be the worst in the game: you get about -8 in all skills (from the loss of bonus and the wrath's malus itself), which usually means you can't cast anymore half of the spells you know, while the others still castable have terrible spellpower, your defences suddenly s...

Unless it has been changed in 0.11 with Kiku you have a chance to resist Haunt's sickness, increasing with piety. At max piety you can practically spam it without worrying side-effects!

Thanks for the explanation!

Today I've played a little more, and gained another 5 runes: now I've 14 in hand, only tomb's is missing :D Hell was much easier than I thought: iron shot/dispel undead took care of anything big could be a problem, warp weapon on a quick blade rapidly suppress any annoying group hell effect may span...

For jellies: they're speed 8, so you can usually kill them with rocks or useless melee weapon - there's no need to use wands, unless they corner you early on. You should train armour only if you have reached min delay attack speed for the weapon you're using - the penalties to use plate without skil...

It sounds like a spell a player would learn, cast one maybe two time and then immediately forget.

Thanks for the answers. My little SpEn is my first stabber-character to clear Slimes :D Too bad TRJ wake up when I was one tile away, I wonder if I've done some wrong (move towards it when other minor jellies were still alive). Anyway, LRD proved an excellent way to kill it easy and quickly, so much...

I'm considering to try my all-runes first character who hasn't the raw power to kill everything in extended. The choice is the classic SpEn. This fellow has been particularly lucky: he found a +6 ring of protection (!) and a +5 ring of evasion in the first floors of the dungeon. Coupled with a +2 md...

After you reached min str to wear armour without penalty (>= 3 * evp penalty) is useless to raise str more.
Past that point you should put all points in int if you plan to cast, and otherwise in dex, to get a bonus in ev

An executioner's axe isn't guaranteed, and a branded one is even rarer. The +12 battleaxe of electrocution is a fine weapon that he found on Z:1, so I'm guessing up till that point he was using shields. That makes the point about 27 Axes stronger, though. You reached min delay on your primary weapo...

The fact a friendly greater demon can't wipe out everything in LOS in Zot in 5 turns like earlier doesn't mean Makheleb is underpower - summon greater demon neither. Switching to other god would have been a mistake: Makh is awesome, few gods may be significantly better than him in Zot:5, but that wo...

Yup, I forgot to check existinging topic , my fault. TThanks for the reply anyway!

Partial dump, so here are some partial answers: Wiz is a good choice if you need it to cast a good spell you can't now. That's said, +str is useless to you - if you want to carry more weight, cast flight - and -dex is somewhat bad , as it could lower your EV, so a plain ring of wiz is better than th...

You should give more priority to magic school skills rather than spellcasting, because the formers increase spells' success rate and power more than the latter - but with 10 in conjuration and IMB you shouldn't have problem with imps at all

Protection is a very nice thing to find for a mage - free +5ac for a slot you aren't going to use most of time is cool as it sounds. And considering that swapping weapons takes less than a turn, nothing prohibits to have a second weapon with a good damaging brand to use when necessary (unless worshi...

For undead and ice-resistant enemies, and for everything else is a problem and when you're out of mana, use a sling: they're incredibly strong, even with 0 skill and especially when using branded bullets and let you attack everywhere in LOS, while all your spell have shorter range. Furthermore, most...

I don't know if this section is right for this topic, so a mod may move it if there's a properly one. The auto-sacrifice and auto-eat chunk in 0.11 are great, but I'd like to get the process a little more automatic and less boring: when hungry, I'd like to have an option to make auto-explore to butc...

Paralysis is better, because her MR is low. Missing that, polymorph is good too, as there's a good chance she transforms in something who can't use that dreadful curare and consequently hit you 5 times for every your action with that distortion dagger. Missing that, fireball is better than beam-type...

And is throwing skill worth investing all the way up to 27? How does range attack works in terms of skills? For melee weapon you'd want to get min. delay, but what about throwing/bow/crossbow? CommanderC once said For thrown weapons/missiles every point of str gives more benefit than 2 levels in th...

Oh, one more intrusion: I think Ashenzari deserves to be listed among suggested gods, even if she is more trickier to use properly : her passive abilities' boost helps a lot hybrid, especially when the race h as bad apts like tr. I don't have experience with TrXX of Vehumet, but in the long run ash ...

I consider 15 in evo the strict minimum necessary to use cboe reliably enough, but it's really worthy to raise evo more, even to 27, if you're planning to use it often. In any case, remember to use it in dangerous situation only when having a backup for miscast: curing for confusion (clarity is a mu...

I want your video, not a basic guide for a ugly race :cry: Anyway, I've read this guide and I'd like to make some suggestions: 1. Maybe you should explain a bit more clear how speed works, that is monster with 8 or less are slower than a Tr and others are faster - and maybe also that move away from ...

Deeper floors tend to have -ctele, which make C-Blink, coupled with Chei's slow movement, a really unreliable way to flee a floor. Moreover, I suspect Mummies' floor require more too many slouch to be an effective way to clear them. In other floors, it is rather powerful (but I'm not entering in a z...

1. Zigs can be cleared even with Chei, but it's much more difficult: the biggest problem isn't the movement delay (which is a big trouble by itself) but the impossibility to use haste. You'll really miss it in harder floor. Furthermore, you'll miss Vehumet's mp refill on kills, which is awesome in Z...

I've never played much ghoul, who have claws only at level 1, but generally speaking UC is very strong; however, unlike other weapons its damage increases accordingly to skill level, so you need to keep training it to be able stronger enemies in deeper floor. I usually get at least 15 points in UC b...

Thanks for the replies, but in the end I wanted to get the Nemelex Banner and I rushed to Zot. Poison arrow gatling works as good as ever, and don't need too much melee backup xD Anyway, when I'll have some spare time I'll check the simulator's manual, I still want to understand which weapon is the ...

Break their LOS. Use walls or corners to do so. Never fight other orcs while one priest is in LOS, is the best way to let them deal great damage. Even if forced to flee backward in a corridor, priest have speed 10, so most turns they will simply move towards you doing 0 damage - and even if they rar...

When playing mage I usually wait until I find a decent end-game weapon before training the relative skill; however, this time in few D floors I've found a vampiric lajatang, a speed one, a demon whip of flaming and a staff of air. Actually, I'm throwing away the vampiric lajatang (yes, I'm stupid, b...

Unfortunately, Jiyva is the only god who can die. Maybe in future I'll double check my food supply before killing the RJ

To use Zin effectively in Hell/Pan/Tomb get Sanctuary reliable and remember that you have Sanctuary in case of emergency and that it's awesome. Yup, I've used it the first time I've fought Ereshkigal, because she paralyzed me as first action, and it has wonderfully saved me. Surely, knowing that vi...

I'm finally playing an extended game with Zin -forced by the facts I've got some muts in two unwanted abysal trip and I still no have a rmut amulet. Missing TSO's raw power, I'd like to understand a couple of Zin's power: 1. Recite. Is it good against high-tier demon? If yes, what "category&quo...

Probably what you did is you shouted and the entire level heard you and said hello. Noises in tomb/crypt are much louder than elsewhere in the game. I'm just curious: are you saying that because attracting enemies with sounds elsewhere isn't as bad as tomb:3, or because is there actually an increas...

BlackSheep wrote:This isn't a Let's Play where we torture the guy for our own amusement.

Oh, right

I vote for Chei :lol:

Fedhas? Marvelous, I've never played with the fruits' goddess, I could learn something about her strengths - but are you doing late-game with conjuration? That doesn't seem precisely a stabber build for extended

I'd like to see a stealthy/stabber character too, but I'm actually interested only if extended is covered - i'm fine with any combo of your choice.
I prefer tiles, but I can watch ascii as well.

Well, it's almost sure your character is going to die, but at least you've learned a lot from your mistakes, so it isn't so bad, is it? Anyway, what version are you playing? In 0.11 there's little chance to break constriction just walking away - it's a desperate move, but in your situation may be th...

A plate armour with rf+ is the best choice, unless you find a rare crystal plate or a good randart. Gda is quite bad overall, I'd choose only with races which can't wear normal armour.

I'm pretty sure after I've been tramped over the water I didn't recieve the usual warning for flight expiring effect - so I keep to tab some turns without noticing the danger. Isn't that a bug?

I was trying a TrMo of Ash after watching Turgon's one, and to my surprise it was really strong. I steamrolled through all the game - when Tr awful apts began to count, Ash's boost provided a big help and that early ring of slaying was the best bonus to the combo I could hope : i had statue form onl...

A rf+ plate mail is far better, for a Mi, than a sda or mda, especially considering you high armour skill. Put all your enchant armour on it and keep until the end. Anyway I'd start to train dodging now, rather than waiting to get 27 armour: the benefits of going from 24 to 27 are little while the e...

So is wyrmbane now is fixeard of awesomeness? Which version are we talking about? 0.10, 0.11 or trunk?

I wish I'd knew that earlier, a couple of polearm user of mine found the lance and left it on the floor disinterestedly

Wear a plate mail (if you have one with rf+ put all your enchant armour here) instead of that chain mail. Don't you have ring better than a +4dex? I'd suggest to disable fighting and armour, getting at least 20 in axes to have battle axe at min delay should be a priority - but you really want to get...

I've played with Ely only seldom in normal game, my common approach in fact is "BASH THINGS, RWARGH!", so TSO in extended is pretty much an obligated choice. Anyway I may give Ely a try, but after going with TSO - I really don't need a holy weapon considering I've a +3,+7 holy gsc, but in ...

Oh, right - I've forgotten I haven't trained invo yet! Unfortunately no wand of hasting yet (!), so I'd need the spell quite badly... Why Ely? Farming the piety in extended probably takes forever, her power aren't great against demons; I'd go with TSO - or Zin, at least in Hells and Zot:5 if I don't...

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