You open the door

[bcadren]

27 killer bees, 1 bee queen and Sonja come into view.

[nago]

Chei reason

[Croases]

And they say Olgreb's Toxic Radiance is useless.

[RBrandon]

well it is

[Laraso]

I learn it to deal with early monster packs (gnoll, orc, kobold) and the occasional killer bee pack in D, and to trivialize most of orc mines. I usually just amnesia it after that.

[bcadren]

I learn it to deal with early monster packs (gnoll, orc, kobold) and the occasional killer bee pack in D, and to trivialize most of orc mines. I usually just amnesia it after that.

THIS. Also if you also find Ignite Poison it trivializes Spider (except Emperor Scorpions and Ghost Moths). And with ignite poison you can still find some use throughout...Death Yak packs, Elephant Packs...Elf. You'd probably have something better by Vaults; but it DOES work on yaktaurs...

[Croases]

OTR, Ozo's Fridge and Shatter are three best spells in the game.

Probably in that order.

[Laraso]

Well, I'm not so sure about that. Maybe one day in April.

[Croases]

If your spell doesn't kill everything on the screen it isn't worth casting.

[twelwe]

NOPE

[The Ferret]

OTR + Ignite Poison (both at good power) are excellent through Vaults.

OTR + Cure Poison is a tedious win button against most things if you're fast.

The bigger problem is that getting OTR and Ignite Poison to high spellpower requires Poison Magic investment just at the point of the game where you more typically want to start shifting into other schools of damage spells.

[edgefigaro]

?Immolation reasons.

[Sphara]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

[bcadren]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

Was that an "o" death? "o" deaths are so bad.

[Sojiro]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

And they say that stasis is useless!


Also, today I saw my HPs go down to 70% (that would be 162 HPs) so I decided it would be best to retreat by casting cBlink. Since it was at 4% fail rate and had well over half my health I wasn't worried. I miscast (no side effect), then the monsters in melee with me managed to hit me for 167 points of damage in a single turn.

That's one of the things I don't like about crawl. Sometimes after many hours poured into a character, you are unfairly killed and there's very little you could do about it. The damage you receive tend to be highly variable, capable of straying very far from the average. Thankfully, that doesn't happen often.

[Siegurt]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

I would point out that you had at least stepped into the doorway at that point. Eyes do suck, but are super slow, you could've easily immediately closed the door and walked some distance away preferably around a corner or to that staircase prior to the centaurs and dragon catching up to you, the eye wouldn't have even come into the picture until well after the dangerous stuff had been sorted out.

Even if the eye had come into view after you were already engaged in combat you still had sufficient turns to walk around the corner out of its los.

You might have still died, but it wouldn't have been to annoying eye paralysis while engaged with several dangerous mobs.

[BugHunter]

Here's the timing:
47259 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a golden dragon
47259 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a storm dragon
47259 | Vaults:2 | Paralysed by a great orb of eyes for 7 turns
47260 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a sphinx
47265 | Vaults:2 | Annihilated by a golden dragon

I would assume that he opened the door on turn 47259, when he noticed the dragons. That is also the turn when he got frozen. Doesn't look to me as if he had time to do anything.

[Sphara]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

I would point out that you had at least stepped into the doorway at that point. Eyes do suck, but are super slow, you could've easily immediately closed the door and walked some distance away preferably around a corner or to that staircase prior to the centaurs and dragon catching up to you, the eye wouldn't have even come into the picture until well after the dangerous stuff had been sorted out.

Even if the eye had come into view after you were already engaged in combat you still had sufficient turns to walk around the corner out of its los.

You might have still died, but it wouldn't have been to annoying eye paralysis while engaged with several dangerous mobs.

Nope. I opened a door and was instantly paralyzed. Had no turn after that. Golden dragon trampled me two squares back from the door I opened there.

This was almost 3 years ago and still remains my most memorable death. If someone watches ttyrec file (I don't know how to do that..) of the game and proves I remember wrong, then I'll stand corrected for this being an instadeath.

[Siegurt]

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt

Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die.

I would point out that you had at least stepped into the doorway at that point. Eyes do suck, but are super slow, you could've easily immediately closed the door and walked some distance away preferably around a corner or to that staircase prior to the centaurs and dragon catching up to you, the eye wouldn't have even come into the picture until well after the dangerous stuff had been sorted out.

Even if the eye had come into view after you were already engaged in combat you still had sufficient turns to walk around the corner out of its los.

You might have still died, but it wouldn't have been to annoying eye paralysis while engaged with several dangerous mobs.

Nope. I opened a door and was instantly paralyzed. Had no turn after that. Golden dragon trampled me two squares back from the door I opened there.

This was almost 3 years ago and still remains my most memorable death. If someone watches ttyrec file (I don't know how to do that..) of the game and proves I remember wrong, then I'll stand corrected for this being an instadeath.

Oh, sure enough, I misinterpreted the situation from the map, but the notes back up your memory:

  Code:

 47259 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a golden dragon
 47259 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a storm dragon
 47259 | Vaults:2 | Paralysed by a great orb of eyes for 7 turns
 47260 | Vaults:2 | Noticed a sphinx
 47265 | Vaults:2 | Annihilated by a golden dragon


I'm not sure if this is still possible.

[Pollen_Golem]

Why would it NOT be possible?!