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Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 07:26
by right hand
Can normal orcs upgrade to sorcerers and priests?
Can sorcerers get more upgraded?
Which are the best orcs I can get?
Can I tame unique orcs?
Should I save the orc mines until I get max piety?

EDIT: Do I lose experience when one of the sorcerers' summons gets a kill?
Can I ask these sorcerers to stop using Summon demon?
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking?

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 07:32
by VeryAngryFelid
Can normal orcs upgrade to sorcerers and priests? No.
Can sorcerers get more upgraded? No.
Which are the best orcs I can get? Orc -> Orc Warrior -> Ork Knight -> Orc Warlord.
Can I tame unique orcs? Yes.
Should I save the orc mines until I get max piety? Yes, good idea. Also the chance depends on XL (the higher XL the higher chance)

EDIT: Do I lose experience when one of the sorcerer's summons gets a kill? It does not depend on kill, you get 50% XP from dealt damage by allies no matter who killed the monster.
Can I ask these sorcerer's to stop using Summon demon? No.
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking? No.

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 07:33
by nago
right hand wrote:Can I ask these sorcerer's to stop using Summon demon?
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking?


Yes, let them die.

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 07:36
by right hand
VeryAngryFelid wrote:Can normal orcs upgrade to sorcerers and priests? No.
Can sorcerers get more upgraded? No.
Which are the best orcs I can get? Orc -> Orc Warrior -> Ork Knight -> Orc Warlord.
Can I tame unique orcs? Yes.
Should I save the orc mines until I get max piety? Yes, good idea. Also the chance depends on XL (the higher XL the higher chance)

EDIT: Do I lose experience when one of the sorcerer's summons gets a kill? It does not depend on kill, you get 50% XP from dealt damage by allies no matter who killed the monster.
Can I ask these sorcerer's to stop using Summon demon? No.
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking? No.

Thanks
nago wrote:
right hand wrote:Can I ask these sorcerer's to stop using Summon demon?
Can I ask my wizards to stop blinking?


Yes, let them die.

I just cleared two lair levels with these blinking a-holes just to get them to sorcerers, I don't think I want to kill them yet.

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 08:08
by nago
The reasons behind my single-line-joke is that wizards upgrade to sorcerers, who have decent damage\debuff abilities that works bad with other orcs around (as they block the line of fire) and they are on themselves very very fragile, so they will die sometime fast anyway while providing very little real support.

The best orc buddies you can have are orc warlord with 1h polearms + shield as they are quite durable and can deal a lot of damage. However, the more orcs you have, the less experience a single one get, the longer he need to upgrade to something better, the higher the probabilities he'll die miserably before that. Adding more orcs who will specialize in the wrong "tree" in the mix is only a way to worsen that.

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 13:56
by MainiacJoe
So what are the reliable ways to kill weenie orcs?

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 14:32
by nago
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22106&p=298394#p298394

Shard1697 has written some other secret beogh techs, you could search in his posts, probably he's the most Informed beogh player in the tavern

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Friday, 20th October 2017, 16:49
by right hand
Imo they aren't that terrible (Not terrible enough to waste that precious exp you just spent on them, anyways)
The minion spam looks cool, that's what matters, right?

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st October 2017, 00:09
by Shard1697
They aren't actually terrible but they're worse than warlords so it's better to nip it in the bud and not level wizards/priests in the first place. If you can leave them behind by telling them to wait/recalling other orcs, do that, if not either swap places with them when a dangerous monster is in front of you or steam them to death with a flame wand.

Once you have gotten them to be sorcerers/high priests the smart play is to just hold onto them if you're not too bothered by summon spam

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Thursday, 26th October 2017, 04:47
by Rast
Orc wizard steaming is one of the funniest dumb parts of crawl and I'm really looking forward to seeing 4chan or the Koreans make a comic about it.

Re: Questions about Beogh's orcs

PostPosted: Thursday, 26th October 2017, 13:49
by mattlistener
Poisonous Vapours is apparently the most efficient way to take care of unwanted orcs. You monster.