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Sandblast is really great, yeah. There are lots of ways to play the game, and you should play it however you like. But if someone's preferred play style involves substantially weakening a particular background, then he or she shouldn't be too quick to claim that the background is weak/needs a rework...

What does the UI look like for that? You'd need to be able to check spells inside the books. Would it be like examining books in a shop? Blue forced-interrupt message: "Sif Muna's library has some new acquisitions." You can then examine the books via the abilities screen and choose amongs...

Queen Cassie wrote:It turns into Benny freakin' Hill.

Except (even) less amusing.

And keep in mind that Evo-skillers can ignore wandidentifying a little more than usual. High Evo lets you identify wands by using them. True, but I find that this comes into play only when a lot of wands generate and ?identify has been unusually scarce. By the time I am putting significant skill in...

What you call "playing IE as a blaster" can also be accurately described as, "I refuse to use a powerful part of my starting kit." Assassins suck if you drop your blowgun and needles on turn 1 and play without them. FE sucks pretty bad if you refuse to memorize and use conjure fl...

KoboldLord's advice above is very good overall, but I also use ID scrolls on wands now. The choice isn't between "IDing !haste, or getting extra uses of a known wand type." The choice is between possibly IDing a useful potion or scroll, or definitely getting extra charges of a wand. Basica...

Fortunately having good AC and good EV are not mutually exclusive.

Freeze is extremely powerful for a lvl 1 spell, way better than flame tongue, and on top of that IE has easy ticket to good defenses, plus summon ice beast. Throw icicle is very good too. Being able to slow down everything dangerous in Lair (except uniques) is way more important than whatever resist...

I'd recommend getting a three-rune ascension before you try other stuff. Zot always has the potential to be rough. In this case, you really, really want to have at least one pip of rF when you fight orbs of fire. Fighting an orb with a low HP character is one of the few times where you really apprec...

Any of those is a great weapon. I'd probably go Arga. Speed is a great brand and it is fun to use unrands.

The exec axe will do more damage, but not until you get above 20 levels in axes, which is a lot of experience. But, again, any of these is really, really good.

1.) Remove food 2.) Reduce clutter: ammo always mulches, tweak generation rates if necessary; abstract monster equipment, or make non-blue equipment drops non-guaranteed 3.) Remove deep water and lava, remove flying 4.) Traps trigger upon entering LOS, tweak generation 5.) Uniques give much more exp...

Share your stories. Here's mine: Few versions ago. Berserker in Lair using staves, Trog finally gives a relevant gift: glowing quarterstaff. Eagerly I wield it, says "Space warps around you." Ok kind of annoying, roll with it, but then the next two levels are just a plague of blink frogs. ...

Flavor argument goes whatever way. Evocable abilities +invis, +flight, +blink also take MP, so in terms of consistency it doesn't seem so strange that most invocations would require MP. No MP cost would actually be a big buff to invocations (and indirectly to spells), which frankly doesn't seem nece...

Interesting concept. Monks/faded altar can just get the piety bump I think. "It's free stuff"—except starting with bonus piety under a number of other gods is stronger than getting some extra gold or a scroll of acquirement, so there is a real opportunity cost. I suppose it would be a bit ...

Slow down. The game freezes when you don't input actions. This is a huge advantage in the player's favor. Whenever you find yourself in a tight spot, take your fingers off the keyboard, take a breath, and think through your options.

Also, if you have been playing a lot of Crawl lately, take a little breather. I find if I play too much over a short time I start getting impatient, which ultimately screws with the frustration-to-fun ratio.

Don't take Kiku on a necromancer, you already have necromancy spells so you won't get as much. (bad advice and bad reasoning)

Siegurt wrote:My only question is why would you want to France something again?

Regions in present-day Belgium were unfranced and refranced a few times before independence.

You lose piety walking, opening doors, taking stairs, etc.

There are spellcasters throughout crypt and literally all over the damn place in tomb, you aren't going to suffer net piety loss via decay in those branches.

With 17 strength and halved base AC (deformed body), I don't think GDA is going to be a good choice here, especially with your current investment in spells. In terms of armor, are there any other worthwhile ring/scale/chain mail lying around? This is a situation where those might not be a bad choice...

Yes, that's why I suggested removal over change, even careful wording might be misleading, and the information is better presented already as a bar.

This is a minor point, but this has bothered me for a little while. For a long time, and at least as of 0.17, players with two pips of MR have been described in game as being "very resistant," and three pips as "extremely resistant." (Apologies if this has been changed in 0.18, h...

Fair enough. If you give AK a try again, you might find distortion a little less annoying on a polearm, for future reference.

Request story about score-scumming in the abyss with xom mummy.

Also brand something with distortion, it can come in handy even when you got a great non-disto weapon. Lugonu lets you wield/unwield distortion freely.

I've played a lot of AKs and even going as high as ~14 invocations never felt like a waste to me. Banishment is amazing early, try to get at least 6 or so invocations shortly after it becomes available. It isn't as powerful later on, but remains useful throughout the whole game. Remember, it has ran...

Oops, missed that you lacked ?amnesia, my bad.

Good luck!

I'd be very nervous walking around with 0 MR.

You got a demon trident and whip of electrocution, great weapons for this stage of the game. You've got quite a few redundant spells that you could clear out, but otherwise looks pretty typical in terms of skilling, etc. I'd go do Lair now.

Obviously, don't go through a portal without resting up, unless you are using it to escape a very bad situation.

You can wield the greatsling without a shield, too. Only 13 bows so far, greatsling to mindelay would be roughly same as getting bows to mindelay. Berserkers feel even less experience crunch than other characters, so "wasting" 13 skill in bows won't really matter ultimately. So yeah, I'd p...

KoboldLord is right, however now that you've built your character this way, you are kind of stuck using that. Even at 27 axes (which favors higher base damage), a +9 war axe of holy wrath does a bit more damage than a +9 broad axe of flaming/freezing/chopping against unholy targets, so unless a broa...

I'd be wearing amulet of faith and the +2 slaying over see invis. You can swap to see invis when you need it. The big int boost from your weapon and the reasonably low encumbrance of your armor does help spellcasting, but, as Queen Cassie recommended, I'd prioritize getting M&F to 16, then fines...

Why not make it trigger 100% of the time but greatly reduce the HP regained so that the HPA (health per auts) is less than it is now? That could be fine, too, but currently the design for vamp has tended towards, "give HP proportional to damage, which can be quite a lot of HP, but only trigger...

Vampiric weapons have some problems: 1.) Too strong . They were nerfed a while back to trigger 3/5 of the time, rather than 4/5. That helps, but I've still found vamp weapons to be too good. Direct healing effects are for the most part limited to consumables and gods in DCSS, and for good reason. Wi...

Avoid it in the early game on characters that care about MP (not only "mages," strictly speaking)—your experience was pretty representative, there. However, later on, it can be worthwhile even to characters that use MP. It just depends on how your character developed. Once you are well est...

I like AK as a starting background, but this would be a reasonable way to remove them.

Okay, different idea: Sif Muna is mostly kept the same, except: Divine Energy --> Invoke Spell: [name of spell] You may "equip" a single spell you have memorized to this ability slot. You can still cast this spell normally, but you can also cast it by selecting Invoke Spell in the abilitie...

Well, poison arrow and poison cloud make the magic school "not a waste," but I agree it would be nice to have more cool poison spells. However, the tricky part is that the new spells have to stand on their own feet, rather than existing just to pad out poison magic. About the OP, I wouldn'...

That's a very radical change. No book background will ever worship this Sif, as they would lose access to their spells until gaining piety. Book backgrounds would actually be punished for kneeling to Sif. At the same time, this god would be really overpowered for spell-less backgrounds. Functionally...

This might be veering more toward Advice than GDD (just saying). IMO the only redeeming aspect of necromutation is flavor. Turning into a lich is cool. (Subjective, yes, but I imagine the sentiment is widely shared.) Everything else about the spell is messy. Putting aside the "should" ques...

That's not unreasonable. Learndb is very terse and doesn't present itself as a comprehensive "guide." As goodcoolguy implied above, a traditional "strategy guide" doesn't seem very appropriate to Crawl in general. Ironically, when there is a simple piece of strategic advice that ...

I always like pointing out that I've died to draconians more often than orbs of fire. That may not be typical, but I doubt I'm the only person for whom that is true. Draconians are the dangerous pack enemies in Zot, hexes (including invis) take them out effectively, that is great. Darkness can be ve...

BiA has a steep piety cost, and its success/power depends on piety, you actually do get diminishing returns kind of quickly if you spam it. I think it is fairly well balanced; if anything the problem is that you get piety like crazy with Trog later on, as spell-casting enemies become extremely commo...

Right, you can put distortion on a big damage weapon, or you can put it on a fast weapon. Either route is effective, really, although regardless you want a weapon with good damage that is not distortion, because blinking enemies can be bad, and (less often) the other distortion effects aside from da...

Should bleed gold when you damage it

Remember that Lugonu lets you freely swap among distortion-branded weapons and other weapons. You can choose to put distortion on a high base damage weapon, but you can also put it on the fastest weapon you have skill in and swap. Distortion is fun with cleaving. It also goes well with reaching. If ...

Malevolent wrote:
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B - amulet of the Stallion {rF++ rC++ Regen+ SInv}

Hello? What is this? The most perfect amulet ever?

Ride it to victory

I'm aware that stealth isn't just good for stabbing, the fact that Fi starts with potion of might, and that backgrounds aren't supposed to give you something that carries through the game. As for "having a mind centered on stabbing," I'm merely responding to the OP. The title of the thread...

Off-topic serious post: Don't sacrifice artifice under Ru if you want to do Slime! (unless you have lee's rapid deconstruction)

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