[PROTIPS] Secret Tricks

[Patashu]

Going up against a Summoner like Eustachio?

Summon first. Get your Summon Butterflies going and taking up valuable summoning real estate, so his summons won't have any room for their creation.

I suspect this doesn't work all that well. All most summoners need to summon is one square free, and if they don't have one they'll just mass abjure - so both you and the summoner have wasted a turn at best, and at worst you'll have achieved nothing.

[Jabberwocky]

Doesn't Eustachio blink?

Yes.

I suspect this doesn't work all that well. All most summoners need to summon is one square free, and if they don't have one they'll just mass abjure - so both you and the summoner have wasted a turn at best, and at worst you'll have achieved nothing.

According to LearnDB Eustachio doesn't have either abjuration or mass abjuration.

[Patashu]

I suspect this doesn't work all that well. All most summoners need to summon is one square free, and if they don't have one they'll just mass abjure - so both you and the summoner have wasted a turn at best, and at worst you'll have achieved nothing.

According to LearnDB Eustachio doesn't have either abjuration or mass abjuration.

Every summoner knows mass abjuration. Don't believe me? Pick any summoner enemy you like and start spamming summons near him.

[Deimos]

Yea, the combination of blink + mass abjuration is going to make that "protip" pretty pointless. I mean, its Eustachio. Even if it did work I'd suggest just decking him in the face instead.

[Southpaw]

Yeah, the trick to Eustachio is to just hold down tab. Can't summon when you're dead.

[XuaXua]

Eustachio and I were in a hallway.

I snuck up on him, he woke, I summoned butterfiles and filled the corridor. Every time a space opened up, I summoned butterflies. Every time a space didn't open up, I hit him.

Also, you can't blink into a space filled with butterflies.

[Tiber]

This probably isn't much of a secret, but drinking a potion of agility before going berserk is a great combo. I tended to not use them much, but you can really tear through uniques this way. My DDAK took down Nikola and Wiglaf with surprisingly little damage thanks in part to this.

Extra evasion and extra HP > extra HP, better accuracy doesn't hurt, and you're in a much better position defensively if the berserk wears off earlier than you wanted it to.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

  Code:

Hedgefox: Why do you have those elements of jewellery inscribed with !d ?
Turgon: !d prevents dropping
Turgon: I once lost a good item in Zig
Turgon: Since then I always inscribe interesting things with !d

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Hedgefox: Excuse me, how did you make the autoexplore instantaneous?
nago: it should be travel_delay = -1

[dassem]

Nice resurrection!
I'll add a couple of very situational ones that came up for me lately:
If you can sticky flame something invisible, it will become visible while it burns.
Hellions don't fly, so a single cast of shatter makes landing on Hellion Island quite fun.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

If you edit the dump_order option in your init.txt or rcfile to include vaults in the list, your dump will include the list of vaults you've seen, but only after you've either won or lost. Here's my dump_order as an example:

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dump_order  = header,hiscore,stats,misc,mutations,skills,spells,inventory
dump_order += screenshot,messages,notes,action_counts,monlist,kills,vaults

It ends up looking like this in your morgue file (this one's copied from a dead character of mine):

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Vault maps used:
D:1:      minmay_entry_wavy_path, minmay_misc_feat_rows, hex_tiny
D:2:      infiniplex_staircase_hallway_doors, first_bread
D:4:      corexii_shack_village, vehumet_altar_wand_db, serial_bayou,
          serial_bayou_pond_d, serial_bayou_shore_b, serial_bayou_pond_e,
          serial_bayou_pond_b, minmay_bad_closet, good_gods_mini_temple,
          minmay_misc_feat_encased, minmay_temple_entry_nine_rooms
D:5:      makhleb_grotto_becter, beetle_altar_1, uniq_crazy_yiuf_cottage
D:6:      overflow_temple_1_default, overflow_temple_1_default, zin_statuary,
          basic_altar, orc_0_dummy
D:7:      serial_shops, shop_fountains, item_on_display_a
D:8:      firewood_loft, lemuel_hellish_altar, uniq_duvessa, uniq_joseph,
          uniq_edmund
D:9:      tgw_trog, david_orc_3
D:10:     special_room, serial_gnoll_camp, gnoll_camp_mini_hut,
          gnoll_camp_mini_doghouse, gnoll_camp_mini_sergeant,
          gnoll_camp_mini_doghouse, gnoll_camp_mini_doghouse,
          grunt_lair_entry_elf_guard_hut
D:11:     grunt_ministairs_2, uniq_nessos, uniq_psyche, uniq_grum, uniq_urug
D:12:     lab_entry_generic
D:13:     serial_shops, shop, minmay_metal_thing
D:14:     minmay_misc_feat_ornament, serial_shops, shop, hangedman_tell_no_tales
Temple:   cyrus_temple_forest_13
Lair:1:   st_stairs_3, uniq_prince_ribbit2
Lair:2:   fedhas_growing_garden, uniq_harold
Lair:3:   st_stairs_5
Lair:4:   enter_volcano_3, dummy_snake_entry
Lair:5:   special_room, spider_nest_entry_funnel_web, RatsNest_Lair
Lair:6:   swamp_mist
Lair:8:   hangedman_lair_in_review, guppyfry_lair_end_dragon, basic_altar,
          dpeg_slime_entry_enclosed_altar
Lab:      nicolae_lab_dead_adventurers, nicolae_lab_x,
          labyrinth_skeletal_remains, nicolae_lab_grate_2
Volcano:  volcano_grotto

Thank Thalfon for the tip!

[snow]

not sure if this is a good idea or not but early on i poly electric eels

[Sphara]

I'm pretty sure that polymorphing orc priests is a good idea.

[Sandman25]

Collect useless weapons/armour pieces early game. If you happen to meet a mummy, you can kill it and curse may affect one of those useless items.

[gorbeh]

When tackling elven halls,bring a wand of digging.
Dig out a y like space,,so your LOS is reduced to only one tile.
go wake up the elven vault and lure them in
have some fun
lol

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Mod edit: added [code] tags so this looks less crazy.

[rebthor]

Leda's Liquifaction will make you faster than everything in it's range. Even if you follow Che.