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IIRC, lightning attacks' damage is extremely variable -- it can really rock you, or it can do just a couple points. See the Spell Lab spreadsheet (stickied at the top of the forum) for complete details.

minmay wrote:(your cloak/helmet/shield are only decent)

Bullseye is only decent? How do the +15SH and -5EV stack up to each other?

Also! Just lucked into a Scroll of Acquirement. I kinda feel like there's not a lot I need right now -- any advice on what I might acquire?

Sigh. Too much luck. Feeling like YASD is just waiting for me :-/

Turns out the spiked flail is +5, +10. Which, I think, makes it a winner. Long-term, the plan is to main damage with Earth Magic -- there's a shop with Shatter waiting for me. It'll be a while coming, though -- my only castable Earth spell is Stone Arrow. And my dump: njvack the Necromancer (Deep Dw...

I'm playing a DDNe, and have gotten possibly the world's nicest treasure trove. Among its joys: N - the +15 shield "Bullseye" {EV-5} v - the spiked flail of Balance {pain, rPois MR SInv Stlth+} t - an uncursed executioner's axe of pain Right now, I'm a Maces & Flails guy, thanks to an ...

I had interesting discussions about this: everyone would buy a potion of degeneration for 1 gold. Probably also for 10 gold. What about 100? Hm... make the values of the 1 gold items random between 1 and 100 gold. Log how many people buy them. Sales rates will probably follow a logistic distributio...

dpeg wrote:The other route is creating more functional food: right now, we have royal jellies and ambrosia.

Royal jellies are definitely functional. Ambrosia is... arguable. The times I need MP and the times I'm willing to spend a couple turns eating and curing confusion are not strongly correlated.

Those consumable things? They can save your life -- even the less ordinary ones. Does your DDNe really, really, really need Revivification to work, but you can only cast it at Great? A potion of brilliance will push you over the edge to Excellent. Might will let even a weak-sauce spellcaster take ou...

mageykun wrote:(invisible eyes of draining?)

Ghost moth. Friggin' ghost moth.

http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=ghost+moth

My best experience was with a stealthy ice caster -- went invisible before going downstairs, mapped, and used Refrigeration on the rune vault. Grabbed the rune and took off; the guards never saw me. I don't ninja runes (or at least, not pre-Zot runes) as a rule, but I'm happy to ninja Shoals:5. It's...

What determines which it is? Is there a rule, or does it just depend on who implemented the randomization? The main difference between 1d18 and 3d6 relates to tolerance for extreme values. (Admittedly they're not too extreme here: the difference between, e.g., 100d10 and 1d1000 would be much more m...

Thanks.

And yup -- I was just unlucky enough to be hit by a paralysis-branded attack first-thing. I'm guessing paralysis attacks don't check MR?

5.

What's ^5 do? Doesn't seem to have any effect in my copy of Crawl (console, OS X).

Maybe. I was just hanging out resting, waiting for Vehumet to cool off, so mashing '5'. Which I thought was safe, because you won't rest when there's danger nearby, right? Right? Bit 'o wizmode lets me know: eldritch tentacles are not among the things rest considers threatening unless they're active...

Vehumet's wrath is surprisingly manageable, a mix of trivial damage and mobs of demons. On rare occasions, banishment. Damage? No problem. Demons? Got them handled. Banishment? Going for 15 runes anyhow. But SPAWNING A MALIGN GATEWAY THAT INSTANTLY PARALYSES AND KILLS ME? Welp, wasn't ready for tha...

Hi all. Apologies if this seems a bit stream-of-consciousness, or if it's been suggested before; couldn't find anything matching in the wiki or Tavern. Two things in crawl -- glow and mutation -- strike me as things it'd be fun to have a little more control over. Right now, the only thing you can do...

I doubt it was un-id'd; my current char has an amulet with -TELE on it (rElec, how we love you) and sometimes I forget about that, too.

+1 on "Your amulet prevents teleportation!"

You need to actually train skills to please Sif -- so you'll need to be killing things for exp before casting spells.

I'm a mummy, and the RNG has seen fit to bestow the yaktaurs of the deep with lots and lots of silver -- I know of over 100 silver bolts lying around right now. If I just leave it on the floor, will other yaktaurs who spawn pick it up and start using it? It'd be kinda tedious to go clean it all up, ...

Yeah, and the RNG has been really, really fond of giving silver bolts to yaktaur captains this run. It'd be just my luck to run into another one. Boris is the one I really want to kill anyhow, mostly because I like killing Boris. I did think that maybe Mennas should leave me alone and go after Boris...

Screen shot 2011-05-03 at 6.11.07 PM.png Maybe I could fight Boris in Mennas's silence halo? :shock: On the plus side, at least now I know where both Mennas and Boris are. On a more serious note, I'm a mummy caster, not huge into summons. Is there any reasonable way to take Mennas on? I could get S...

Wait -- you're a DD, and shouldn't need to worry about poison nor sickness, unless it's really, really serious poison...

So, I'm playing one of those mummy casters. And despite some very early RNG love with a super-early Vehumet altar and a sabre of speed, the dungeon is just punishing. Crap armour. Two(!) potion shops. Centaurs with arrows of flame. Cyclopses on D:7. And D:8. A Hill Giant on D:6. One of those godawfu...

tcjsavannah wrote:The learning curve for post-Zot seems very steep.

*cough* wizmode *cough*

I actually don't think the learning curve is any steeper than the rest of Crawl; it's just that you see the early game content a whole lot more. I've seen Asmodeus once, and Sigmund maybe 200 times.

Holy crap! That is awesome!

Vault syntax? Aaaaahhhh: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/ ... syntax.txt

And all I can get x to do is level me up... is there a trick to it?

If you're like me, you frequently find yourself in a situation for the first time. Maybe it's your first SpEn to reach Vaults:8. Maybe you're a SETm with an angry Mara guarding all three stairs on a level. Or you'rea Felid facing a hydra. Or pretty much anyone looking at Mennas. Or you want to see h...

For folks using Unarmed Combat, it might be neat to allow hand binding somehow. Bound, unarmed hands would require RC to wield any weapon / shield, and the binding could meld like a weapon when transmuting (no UC bonus for blade hands). Maybe an ability: Bind Hands for the cost of 1 scroll of Curse ...

XuaXua wrote:Maud dies first.

And that is exactly what happened :twisted:

I've never noticed this before, but Harold and Maud spawned in adjacent rooms on the same level.

If that's not by design, it should be...

'z' and 'a' are right next to each other. This does not mean that 'zd' (Animate Dead) do anything remotely similar to 'ad' (Summon Greater Servant).

Stormfox wrote:If all 3 stairs end up in that entry vault, well, may Xom have mercy on you...

Maybe invis + legendary decks of summoning? Or a fabulous use for a Tomb card?

Nevermind -- from get_real_mp() in player.cc:

Code:: // Yes, we really do want this duplication... this is so the stepdown // doesn't truncate before we apply the rotted base. We're doing this // the nice way. -- bwr enp = std::min(enp, 50);

So, before...?

If I'm a DD and use the Recharge ability, does the MP cost come before of after applying the MP cap?

It's wonderful in the Abyss -- especially if you're low-level enough that surviving there is an iffy proposition. I'm pretty convinced it saved one of my characters there. Also nice for something with a nasty ranged attack you want to get away from, as LoS is indeed reciprocal -- if you can't see th...

Heh. When I read the subject, I was just thinking about posting the same thing, expecting it to be something along the lines of "why do 90% of my goddamn melee characters die between D1 and D3?" 'Cos that's me. Even with spellcasters, I'm probably only 50% to the Temple. I've seen a whoooo...

The 'spam it with imps thing' will deal with most problems in the Lair. This list does not include Rupert, who will get just injured enough to berserk, then chase you down and kill you dead. The "spam it with snakes" thing will deal with most problems in the Lair, including Rupert. By the...

ghend wrote:kiku's recieve corpses ability got horribly, horribly nerfed in the newest version. it is now useless.

Really? Nerfed how? I was just gonna try a Ghoul of Kiku and was kinda counting on snacks...

Ah! MfCr was my first win! I've also made it with a SpBe and a DEWz.

Maybe TrMo or GhMo of Kiku? Hm... or maybe I should give mummies a chance. Sometimes I seem to do better with fragile builds; I'm not quite as likely to get careless...

Ah, I feel a little better, then -- I'd somehow thought of Ettins as roughly as tough as slightly tougher than Cyclopses, which were just popcorn for me. And yeah -- these guys were also summons. The only reason I didn't just leave was that they were kind of in the way of where I wanted to go next. ...

I... I'm speechless. Got me a Demonspawn Transmuter all the way up to CL20, DL20. Everything was going just fine until I met a Giant Orange Brain, who summoned a bunch of crap including an Ettin Zombie. I was so used to just mowing everything down with Blade Hands that I didn't realize this guy coul...

Thanks -- I actually have a dragon hide laying around the dungeon -- I'll go enchant that, as dragon armour seems to be superior in every way to what I'm wearing. For rC and rPois, I'm using Iceform, and I've inherited rN from my demonic ancestors. Still looking for a source of rElec -- but there's ...

That is the question. I'm a DSTm of Ash, and as I dive further into the dungeon, monsters with fire attacks are starting to do scary damage to me. So, I'm in the market for some rF, and found some swanky scale mail that gives me some. Only problem? It reduces my casting success. Not horribly, but en...

Alternatively, if obscuring the actual numbers is a goal (it seems to be), use a bar similar to the one used for spell power. #####..... is 50% success, .......... is 0% success, ########## is 100% success. Using a non-flat scale (e.g. #####..... is 75% success, #########. is 99% success) would be ...

One more Ash-specific thought: my current character is drowning(!) in Curse Jewelry and Curse Weapon scrolls, though I've got jewelry I like and am using unarmed combat. But I can't find enough Curse Armour to bind myself, and praying over RC... well, let's just say I can curse rings whenever I want...

OK, here's my $0.02: With respect to the butchering game, I'm totally fine if it goes away completely, and you're assumed to have a pocketknife or the like. It's dangerous for maybe D1 and D2, and then a non-issue for the rest of the game. Scrolls of Remove Curse are common. And really -- can I not ...

compared to Haste, targettable RAGE is only suitable for melee allies, hence even if rage is targeted, it won't be an equivalent substitute to Haste, but it becomes more meaningful. I might try targeting enemy summoners, conjurors, and archers. Too bad you can neither use nor unwield that bow, Ness...

No effect on unarmed combat either, right?

Knives, daggers, and quickblades (assuming learndb is right) don't cut off heads.

But: never bring a knife to a hydra fight.

And I thank you for those posts -- but for them, I would have just tried it out and had my possessions identified shortly thereafter. My wizmode experimentation shows: Spiderform does count as an unwield and break the spell; presumably, all other transformations that unwield would do the same. So tr...

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