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crate wrote:
sir_laser wrote:Any tips on how to deal w/ Mara when he summons your illusion which proceeds to cast Haunt?

Run.

But I'm a Naga...w/ semi-controlled blinks available. This guy appeared on Vault:3. Should I just skip that level and move to Vault:4?

Any tips on how to deal w/ Mara when he summons your illusion which proceeds to cast Haunt?

So I'm currently playing a NaWz on CAO and wish to see a char dump. Except the dump in the morgue shows an older character no matter how many times I dump from in game ("char dumped successfully"). The timestamp for the file is correct (05-Mar-2012 17:17), but the file itself is not. Help ...

How useful is Apportation? Is it useful enough to warrant keeping in your spell repertoire permanently?

I recall reading somewhere that bringing my armour skill to 5 for leather armour completely removes any spellcasting penalties for said armour. Unfortunately, I can't find this anymore (i.e. not "armour" in either the wiki or the knowledge bot). Does anyone know the internals for armour s...

Basically, if you wear armor that has any EV penalty your spell success will be penalized as well - it takes 45 Armor to fully negate this penalty on a non orc/dwarf/elf wearing non-specie-specific armor, regardless of the armor's EV penalty. The vast majority of the time it is not worth training Ar...

Congrats on the win, and an all runer too! But how is it that when I cast abjuration, *all* enemy summons are immediately dispelled? Is is simply that my high int/spellcasting/summoning reduce the remaining duration by more than the total duration (thereby instantly dispelling the monster)? Yes. The...

Here are the effects of Necromutation. The main drawback is that you can't eat or drink, and this can prove very dangerous in a Ziggurat (OCS is one, but also stat damage from those Neqoxecs/mutating monsters). If you get tormented it's only half HP gone and you can cast Necromutation right away, b...

I'm very surprised that your summons were able to penetrate the island at all (maybe its different in Trunk...? been playing trunk exclusively), for in my experience these 10+ Hellions drop up to 2 hellfires on you per turn, resulting in 1d20*3d15 damage, but congratulations! So you have the demonic...

Why is the ponderousness enchantment on this item considered so bad even for casters?

If you just want to win the game get the Abyssal rune, rElec, rF+++ and sprint for the Orb, but that requires alot of luck.

You can get rF++ right now, so that's something (looks like Slime Pit run went fairly successfully). Also, how'd you do the Tomb before Pan? I'm curious to know 'cause the majority of Pan isn't that hard. If I was going into Pan, right now...would probably forget Summon Elemental (you have summon dr...

Step From Time, then see what happens. At least you have Revivification up.

Tornado = auto win, basically, especially since you have a staff of air. In the extended end game offense = best defense. CBlink should be @ 5% failure or less, ideally. Since no one's talked about the Tomb yet...you need Necromutation, basically. It's doable without, but being undead means you can ...

Your lack of rF is a fairly substantial problem, because if you stumble upon Cerebov's realm without at least rF++ (Fire Storm is ~8d16 damage per cast from him, I think) a 15 runer is probably not possible. With cBlink+Haste (+stealth for extra bonus) you don't have to fight Cerebov. In fact i thi...

Nagas almost feel OP in 0.10, based on the reasons given by whelen.

Megika wrote:
Galefury wrote:(or skip the floor).

How?

Controlled Blink to the stairs and go down after you lured most of the enemies to where you were a second ago...you have Controlled Blink memorized right?

If I don't particularly care about the bonuses to my sword skills, can I keep my sword and staff uncursed so I can swap whenever I need to slash stuff as opposed to blasting stuff? There's no other benefit to being fully bound if your piety is already pretty high right? You can do whatever you want...

How can TSO render your summoned divine allies stay permanently? In the description for Summon Divine Warrior it is said "They may be blessed by the Shining One to stay longer or even permanently in this world."

Well for one thing a lot of monsters are plain not pacifyable (J, G, w, y, * with some exceptions, as well as zombies and probably more I'm forgetting). I think you can pacify the rest of the non-uniques, though random pan lords with max HP might require a wand with maxed evo or might be impossible...

Can every monster be pacified when you have max piety and 27 Invocations w/ Elyvilon?

cerebovssquire: Are you saying that shields are not very useful in the extended end game?

I thought Haunt would take a Mummy through a 3-rune game. Why Summon Dragon?

Sif Muna's wrath is one of the most dangerous because you're guaranteed at least a 5% miscast chance. Personally I would keep Sif and Wucad Mu, and go with Haunt + Summon Dragon - as a Mummy you get necromancy power boost @ level 13 and 26. Think of Haunt as Poison Arrow and Summon Dragon as LCS, on...

Can the Abyssal Rune spawn for Abyssal Knights in the beginning?

Which ability in the game uses the most piety? My friend and I were having an argument about this one.

Apparently Mimics were changed back to the old version where they move and stuff? How should one deal with them as a MuWz? All my magic is Necromancy/Summoning and I lack any destruction spells.

lifecoder wrote:I have a pair of long swords in the shop:
+7, +5 Scimitar of Flaming Death {flame, rPois, rF++, rC-, MR} for 1850 gold (looks better for its rF++)
+5, +10 Scimitar of the Wasp {freeze, rC+} 2160

It appears you do not have any rF items? I would go for the first one based on that reason.

First win of somesort in Crawl, therefore I feel compelled to brag :) Basically a stereotypical SpEn win. Realized that Zin's actually a really legit god. Shining Eyes and Pulsating Lamps became incredibly easy to defeat. Dungeon Sprint DCSS version 0.10-a0-3112-ge764b46 character file. 277367 sirla...

Blade wrote:At high necromancy skill, Pain is by far the best brand against anything it affects.

Thank you for your answer, and for discriminating between 'effects' and 'affects'.

This MuWz of mine is going quite well...except its picked up a Grand Grimoire. As I was planning on worshipping Kiku for Necromancy and Haunt, this puts a bit of a twist in that. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-a0-3107-gaf52d39 character file. sirlaser the Magician (Mummy Wizard) Turns: 8497, ...

How good is the Pain brand? Is it worth using on any kind of weapon after Lair?

If I have an artifact w/ +Blink that I can evoke @ Excellent, should I forget the spell Blink? Or is that a bad idea?

Twisted Resurrection! Its so good its almost IMBA, especially w/ Recall. Just keep on killing shit at a good pace and Kiku will get it to you.
Use Scrolls of Fear only when you think you're fucked. They're hard to come by.
Wand of Draining is legit. Use it when you face packs of enemies.

...So its an awesome weapon if the wielder has >= 26 INT?

How is damage and attack speed for Staff of Wucad Mu calculated? Staff damage is apparently calculated differently from other weapons since it takes into account one's Evocation skill (LearnDB), but this is not an elemental staff or a regular staff.

The only way to get the Abyssal Rune is to spend turns in the abyss?

Bolt of Cold vs Freezing Cloud? What are the pros and cons of each?

Game Design Discussion thread?

mageykun wrote:Every floor should have exactly 3 downstairs and 3 upstairs (plus escape hatches).

I thought every floor should have at least 3 downstairs and 3 upstairs? There can't be more?

What about Mummy? No spell hunger.

Noob question:
Why did you switch from Sif Muna to Kiku?

How good are the spells in the book of callings?

Just don't do what this noob did here.

Trog? If you fail to stab someone just berserk and kill by brute force. He may also grant fabulous short blades, and Brothers in Arms is useful in a tight spot.

Almost none of this is on the Wiki.

Thanks for the replies everyone. So what use is the Deck of Wonders?

In both of these games I've sacrificed three bread rations for an early deck of wonders (experience), but it sounds like a bad idea? Only triple draw from these decks?

Ok, maybe the reason why that miscast did so much damage was because the deck was a ornate deck of wonders. I've started another game and drew blind from a plain deck, got 3 experience cards in a row

Yeah, noted. The wiki said not to do it, but now...

A painful lesson.

Thanks for replying.

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