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>Shared DCSS online account.
User: rlgrobin
Password: ownfault (or "robin" on CXC).
Remember, enter Control+Q when you're done so the game is saved for others.

>FAQ and What to Play
FAQ: http://pastebin.com/Q7K91Q34
What to Play?: http://pastebin.com/yfUKx35f

>Individual Game Pastas
http://pastebin.com/nXBycdgR

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To a thread with less shitposting.
Finals are over and it's time for lazy winter naps and gorging ourselves until january, what roguelike are you playing?
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>>163289417
Playing Brogue because I'm autistic
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>>163289417

DCSS to get my first 15 rune. What else is there to do?
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>>163289417
Playing PCB for the first time after getting my first 4 DCSS wins.

Is there a way to have multiple windows showing stuff, like I see people doing in screenshots, in linux?
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>>163289938
No idea how it works on linux.
Honestly I have enough problems running it.
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>>163289938
https://github.com/poschengband/poschengband
See the readme about Curses.
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Poschengband has to be the only roguelike that runs like ass on linux.
Well, actually also ADoM.
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>>163290209
I'm running vanilla PCB, so maybe you may have more luck getting that to work that PCBR?
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>>163290501
Oh, I can run pseudoellipos and vanilla pcb just fine.
It's just that I wanted to roleplay a human swordmaster that uses a broken blade from my favorite webcomic who's purpose is reaching heaven through violence.

It fits so well with the runesword start I might as well not play at all unless I play exactly that.
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>>163288673

the shared account is all messed up
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>>163291120
>grunt
you mean improved.
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>>163289978
People have been talking about making a wiki for Demon for like 2 months, however no ones actually created one. If someone created a wiki/wikia for it than I'm sure a few people including me would add some stuff to it, as currently the pastebin is the only "source" of knowledge for Demon outside the very slow forums.
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>>163290826
Really strange. I still don't know.
If all fails, you could try grabbing .exe from release-repo and running it through Wine.
I am really sorry that I can't really help you compile it on Linux, since that is woefully out of my ''expertise''.
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>>163291958
I tried, but it doesn't work for some reason.
Don't worry though, I just remembered I have a very old laptopr running windows lying around.
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>>163291120
>the grave robber
Lel
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I mean now it works but it kinda looks like ass on this screen
also this keyboard is a pain
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I 4 rune run once with a MiFi with lucky power drops in the span of 3-4 years

I simply don't understand the game besides IT HAS HIGH AC YOU CAN'T TICKLE IT YOU ARE DEAD and YOU HAVE HIGH AC OTAB VICTORY

I wizarded my way to tombs once and I'm at an absolute loss on how anyone could possibly clear tombs legit

I absolutely suck dick at DCSS and I wish I could end myself.
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>>163294525
DCSS is easy if you run away at the first sign of danger and lure everything. I've been playing for 1-2 months now and got 4 wins, maybe this thread can help you?
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22309
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>>163290826
thanks for that image
the source comic doesn't seem to hold up to as interesting as those few panels are alone but that is an inventive character with a great self-introduction
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>>163294525
I did tomb as my third rune on a HOFi of qazlal. your argument is invalid. Pull mobs better. Skill better. Pick your fights better. 1v1 more. And learn how to arbitrarily assess your weapon base damage+skill to an enemies defenses and your defenses against an enemies hd and damage.
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Isn't this a unique, why is she friendly?
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You know what?
It's fine. I'll play pseudo.

>>163294785
>the source comic doesn't seem to hold up to as interesting as those few panels are alone
Did you just skim through the first 30 pages of Kill 6 Bajillion "U"s? The lore and the story are the best part of the comic.
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>>163295251
Alignment shit. Same reason you'll get friendly gandalf/saruman/combat eziechen
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>>163294525

I got my first win after looking at a bunch of morgue files of skilled players from the tournament, and copied their skill training pattern.
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>>163295251
keep her alive until you get deep into dungeon, then murder her for that delicious exceptional object
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>>163295504
How do you murder her, everytime I try to fight her, I push past her.
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>go to teleport other someone and the wand is gone
I guess tabbing through the packs of energy hounds was a dumb idea.

Lost stone to mud and acid ball too.
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>>163295582

you can aggro her by using ctrl+direction
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>>163295582
blast her with a wand or (S)mash her i think, i forgot the keybinding
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>>163295862
>>163295874
Alright, thanks.
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Heard there's an android version of DCSS and it seems like a great game to have on the go. However the only version I find are either ASCII, or tiled online. I can't afford to stay online though.

Is there an offline tiled version?
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>>163295949
Have fun fighting one of the most frustrating early-game uniques outside of Robin Hood or Lousy.
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>>163295874
I would (S)mash Amy, if you know what I mean.
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>>163289847
a lot. you should expand your horizons beyond DCSS
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>>163295582
ctrl-direction if melee, just target her with ranged
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>>163295636
>when you have 65% acid resist but the queen and summons so many kamakaze a's that all your staffs get melted anyways
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>>163296241
Yes, but it's bugged.
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Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum~
Cute anime tum~
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>>163288673
Can someone give me advice? I'm a DsNe of Nemelex at about mid-lair. I've been doing great, but I'm starting to run into some concerning issues that will kill me soon if I don't figure out what to do. This is my first pure mage character so i've made a few mistakes. My biggest mistake was probably spending too many points on utility spells before I had enough core spells to carry me, but i'm working on getting enough srolls of amnesia to reallocate those points. I lucked out with mutations and got a massive stealth boost, and powered by death. I also got a ring of stealth early on, and recently a amulet of magic regen.

My two main offensive spells are Stone Arrow and Searing Ray. I also have lee's rapid deconstruciton, vampiric draining, and Mephitic cloud.

The biggest thing that's endangering me right now is poor crowd control and getting overwhelmed by too many enemies at once I can work on my stairdancing skills and use my existing spells to fix a lot of that.

Here is my current list of spells I can learn. I was thinking of trying to get some summons online. I have 0 points in summons but I figure I could train it up pretty fast. I also am considering iron shot, but 6 levels is pretty steep.

What spells should I learn next, and what should my main strategy be to deal with the huge packs of enemies of the future?
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>>163297586
considering nice stabbing muts you got, think about getting ensorcelled

battlesphere is cool too in combination with other spells

iron shot is good enough to carry you through entire game
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>>163297586
Nemelex is incredibly good, his summoning decks can easily carry you to 2 rues and beyond.

A really mp-efficient spell combo, is battlesphere and magic dart and can deal with everything currently and not run out manga instantly.

Also, you'll probably want to learn some weapon skill and fighting/dodging at some point. 'pure mage' is usually suicide.
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>>163288673

how do i stop getting faggoted in DCSS? basically what happens is i begrudingly walk through the early stages of the game, and then i get snagged because someone will confuse me for 15 fucking turns or i'll get petrified and unable to move for also 15 turns

i dont wanna look up shit that spoils the game but i dont want to keep having to redo the boring part because i randomly die to shit like that
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>summon bloat
>bloatform
Why are these two spells still in the game?
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>>163301636
Get your MR up.
>>163298893
>>163297919
ty yalls. and ye, I didn't know xemelex was so deadly. I was never a huge fan of the idea of relying on cards, but actually he gifts so often that it's more like having unlimited consumables and super power summ
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>>163301636
Mr is the most important resistance in the game, and stops most of the super annoying shit like paralysis and banishment which are near death sentences sometimes.
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>>163301671
Why isn't Bloat its own magic school yet?

And I mean in a non-meme way. There's this eternal battle between the elements of bloat and the element of void.

And the dev's are powered by the void. What don't they want us to see?
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Never had much success in DCSS despite trying a few times. Centaur looks kinda cool, though I never played a ranged character because using ranged weapons seems annoying.

How should I build it?
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>>163302339
My first win was with a centaur fighter. They're pretty good with ranged, but I hate ranged so I just went with an axe and okawaru.

Centaur is the strongest race in the entire game purely because they can run away from shit so much easier than everyone else and don't have shit HP like spriggans,
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>>163302339
delete this
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Forgot pic.
Guys, do I have good chances on going for 5+ or even 10 rune?

Never went this far, already finished the game with 3 runes though. Any tips? Should i go for magic? Charms, i have them but no skills yet.
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https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/2007a24446e49d01e41de8cd8a90f7783654e360
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/a6f70389726882b49cefdd3ad54c8da740edf40a
No wands of heal wounds, hasting and teleportation anymore. So I heard you like doing extended without Chei statue!

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/6aafc7b55e4ef2100e27039353bde9471d00a6a4
Deep Dwarves now have an ability to heal their wounds instead of recharging the no longer existing wand of HW. Doing so has a 25% chance of draining 1 max MP.
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>>163294525
>I wizarded my way to tombs once and I'm at an absolute loss on how anyone could possibly clear tombs legit
By going up and down the stairs a lot and enjoying falling down to <30 HP a lot. Also by hating yourself and/or being a masochist.
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>>163301636
did you try actually examining enemies to see what they can do BEFORE they kill you?

there's a whole button for it, anon
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>>163303382

lmao
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>>163303382
good
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>>163303324
i believe in you anon, depending on how high your skills are you might want to swap to zin or tso though. if you don't, butterflies & regen are worth skilling to get usable in plate. might want to wait for a shield/amulet so they aren't both reflect though.
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>>163303324
Yeah this character is pretty strong.
Do V1-V4, then depths then V:5.

After that convert to TSO and do crypt and pan->hell->tomb

or you can just do abyss and slime after vaults. A vampiric weapon makes V:5 much easier.
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>>163304374
I also have a +10 dark maul and +8 demon whip of draining, i guess they may have some uses?

Also, i dont have many ways to heal myself, i may try to find a vampiric weapon, but other than that, spells that i should use even with plate armour?
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>>163305034
You can probably hold off on spells on spells for the time being, but regeneration(try to get this with decent spellpower for it to last longer),summon butterflies and other low level general support spells are good.

Specifically, you may want decently powered regeneration is Abyss. There's a ton of exp in crawl so getting low level spells online ,especially in extended, is easy as piss.

Also, have you done all of elf, you could find a good vampiric mace there. A vampiric Demonwhip or eveningstar is ideal, since you're a shield user.
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IS LET IT DIE A ROGUELIKE?
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>>163303382
I like it, but can't we get a new wand or something?
please
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>>163305367
Yeah, I did elven halls 3, no luck.
Oka gave me some sick swords , but no maces.

So, for some low utility spells, i need STR+ARMOR SKILL and spellcasting?
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>>163305776
bad yahoo
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>>163303382
Is this legit? Removing wand of teleportation mean that spellcasters are completely fucked if they ever encounter Mennas.

Also, I don't understand why they make all of these workarounds for deep dwarf, a proper no-regen race can never work in crawl without workarounds like Makhleb or vampiric weapons.
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>>163306185
mennas's silence aura is not full screen, you can haste/tele before you get in range
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>>163306185
Mennas is announced by his aura, unless you happen to use autoexplore as most normal players do. Ooops.
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>>163306014
For utility spells just train up a bunch of spellcasting and the spell schools needed.
Even in plate armour, you don't a ton of levels to cast low level spells.

For example, here's an extract from my 3-rune centaur fighter's morgue:


I was wearing chain mail and only needed about 10 levels for lesser beckoning to be castable and thats without any spell casting levels. The other spells are at high failure rates but I didn't really need them and stopped training magic because centaurs are OP.
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1. Can we remove scroll of recharging ? It's only useful for charging wand of digging now.

2. Regeneration spell is worse than haste spell.
Unless you worship good gods, you want to use it every battle without any consequence, it should be removed.
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>>163307313
1. scroll of recharging still buffs up rods as well

2. agreed, nerf this shit
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>>163303382
THE ETERNAL CAMPBELL STRIKES AGAIN
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>>163303382
>these items work best in a limited form

THEN REMOVE SCROLLS OF RECHARGING

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!
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>>163307743
Why not just drop stacks of 8 ?tele instead of wands, then?
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>>163288673
>Momiji no longer tells us to do our best today in the first post.

And it was one of the few things I looked forward to in this thread. I even printed out a picture of that post and put it in my wallet for good luck.
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>>163303382
Oh god the madmen actually did it.

Each day I feel like I should make a fork of 0.15 or something and expand it as Crawl R or something.
Sorry, I won't.
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>>163308014
momiji is kill
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>>163306498

Mennas doesn't cast Silence until he sees the player. You're thinking of silent spectres.
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>>163302339
Centaurs are pretty diesel but also very boring and tedious.
>>163307313
I can agree with this
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>wands are effectively unlimited because of scrolls of recharging
This is true, so reduce scrolls of recharging instead. Only the crawl developers could be this stupid.
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>>163308353
Mennas has a corona.
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>>163308480
I see 'diesel' used alot in the roguelike community, but I never got what it meant. Does it mean OP or easy or something?
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>>163308663
diesel = diesel gas used by trucks = strong as a truck
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>>163308865
Oh, I see.
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>>163308563

Oops! You're right.
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So if wands of hasting, heal wounds, and teleport are gone, there's no point in Acquiring them, right? Who wants to update this image?
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>>163308558

That'd just encourage players to hoard ?recharging even more than they already do, though. Isn't it better to actually fix the problem, instead of making the problem less likely? Now recharging is actually reasonably used on an attack or hex wand without feeling like I "wasted" it.
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>>163308558
if wands were limited in the same way as scrolls... then what would be the point of wands that do the same things as scrolls?
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>>163309052
It's already out of date due to wand acquirement being merged with misc acquirement.
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>>163309139
It's a consumable, the whole fucking point of consumables is to hoard them until the optimal time at which to use them. There's nothing specially desirable about recharging a hex wand over a haste wand.
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>>163309052
wand acquirement was already removed before this

and the staff acq bit is wrong too since rods were moved to misc alongside wands
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>>163308353
I'm thinking of his TSO-like aura, the same angels have, except angels don't spawn anywhere in non-extended except in closed off ziggurat entrances, so you immediately know it's Mennas.
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>>163308543
>filename
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What would be a fun combo to do a godless run on?
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>>163309139
This.
Often you'd want to recharge enslavement or acid but no, it's a waste because you might find healing/hasting later.
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>>163309710
HuWn

name the character after yourself

>tip
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>>163309052
This was also done before jewellery acquirement buff IIRC.
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>>163309780
Recharging damage/hex wands isn't that bad, recharging iceblast for hydra's or recharging paralysis is better than not using it and dying because you might have found a HW or haste wand later.
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Alright, slut niggas. Hear me out.

>merge scrolls of recharging, enchant weapon, and enchant armor
>into a generalized "scroll of enchantment"
>can't be used on wands
>can be used on rods, armor, weapons
>add disenchanters and rust monsters
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>>163309945
I've had games with 2-3 scrolls of recharging for all 5 runes. It really makes you save them for "good wands" if you want to attempt extended.
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>>163309052
>my first misc acquirement on trunk gave me a wand of HW
turned out to be a very rare occasion
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>>163309052
this flowchart was made by a guy on the tavern forums

go ask him for another one
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>>163303382
>People STILL play Crawl

lmao
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need some help with draconian setup, i'm dying at d4~d6 quickly. Any class can be suggested, just a few tips could work for me
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How do I proceed on this run? I'm a DsNe of Xemlex, i just cleared Orc and now I've gotta get my first 2 runes. Only problem is I have Shoals and Spider's'' nest. I still haven't found any source of rPois and I'm pretty squishy, so those spiders will fuck me right up, but Shoals isn't much better. What do? Dive dungeon?
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>>163312127
You shoudn't be dying that early with any Draconian class. Try fighter, that is as easy as it gets.
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>>163312127
DrCj is incredibly strong, battlesphere + magic dart destroy lair,orc,dungeon and beyond,

I also recently won a DrMo^Chei, it's pretty fun. Just train UC to 10, then fighting dodging and invocations. Then transmutations once you get a good transmuter spell like statue form which is OP as fuck.
Here's the morgue if you're interested
>http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Vajrapani/morgue-Vajrapani-20161218-135448.txt

If you don't like Chei, pick something with immediate power like hepliaklqana.
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>>163312127
Also, forgot to mention that Draconian is pretty sturdy, even with the no armour conduct, so dying that early is really a tactical problem.

Always lure enemies in earlygame and don't try to take on shit like orc priests(in packs) or ogres without some backup plan.

Once you hit XL 7,when you get your breath weapon, and get a god is when draconian's start to really get strong.
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>>163312196
Nevermind. I tried just diving straight to Spider:4 and powering to the rune. Jesus fuck that is the most ridiculous branch. No amout of cards could have saved me. RIP one of my favorite chars in a long time.
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>>163312638
>>163312423
>>163312320

I'm starting one DrCj, the problem is cuz i died too much so i'm tilted as fuck and just o all way the dungeon.
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prepare to get angry, MuMos
gammafunk: !commands add !mu Mummies now have a +2 Spellcasting apt in trunk!
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>>163312127
gold draconian is a good choice because they get solid device skill and access to stunning through their breath

you probably shouldn't pick metamorphosis at 35
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>>163312320
Die before you get color, if you must.
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>>163314792
Nah, if you're dying on d:4-6, you should take bronze, since you can confuse pretty much anything besides maggot's dogs at that depth.
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Hey guys, can I farm skills after XL 27? Where can I do it? Abyss?
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>>163316335
abyss and pan are both infinite

ziggurats too if you're crazy/manly enough

you will have enough xp for several 27s just by playing a normal 15rune though
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>>163316335
Pan

>>163316827
Minotaur/elfaboo shitter go home
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>>163316335
Abyss is an ok option, but why would you need to do that? There's so much xp in crawl that it becomes superfluous after vaults:5.
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>>163316907
it's not about winning, anon

he needs to autismhoard them 27s
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Why does crawl obscure the most relevant information when it lets you check out everything else?

How am I suppose to know when my +2 whip of electrocution is surpassed by my UC attacks?

HURDUR GIT GUD
well faggots I die more to AC I unexpectedly can't overcome than anything else
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>>163318362
>i die to AC
you know it's possible to take your finger OFF of the tab button, right?
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is demonspawn berserker a good beginner class??
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>>163317124
Ubernaga or death

>>163318362
>Why doesn't my dagger-tier punch break an orc warrior in plate's ac
Gee, I wonder. The base damage for uc is clear on the wiki as is the brand explanation. Drop an exlusion and move on.
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>>163319010
Demonspawn isn't great for a complete beginner. They level very slowly and the mutations can vary from minor help, to minor annoyances or to completely game changing.
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>>163319010
No. It's a harder minotaur berserker for no reason. Play a minotaur berserker or hill orc gladiator of an invocations god.
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>>163307313
1. it's nice for hex wands, i'll use it more on those now

2. regen is dumb and should be fixed
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>>163309052
armour > weapon > jewelry > anything else. or gold if you're ~1k away from something really good
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>>163319010
>>163319221
it's good because Ds is very strong mid to late game, which is nice if you're new + unfamiliar with it, and new players will die a lot early game anyway
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>>163320437
Regen is a consequence of shitty monster design. The spell isn't the problem.
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>>163320974
regen would at least be more interesting if it worked like powered by death
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>>163318362
I'd like to just have the brands explained in the in-game wiki. Which one's add static damage, and which ones add percentage.
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>>163318362
Alot of the hard earlygame monsters you can literally just walk away and they wont be able to hurt you.

Wizard,priests and centaurs are the bigger problems but there are such things called corners,doors and staircases.
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I feel like I'm the only Crawl player who doesn't tab... I mean, I auto-explore (how could you not when it's right there?), but I've yet to see a good excuse for tabbing besides pure laziness and have only seen bad things about it.

...then again, I might be taking the ">otabbing" meme too seriously, when it may not literally refer to otabbing but to rushing like an idiot.
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>>163322079
you are supposed to press the button not hold it down
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>>163322079
Tabbing reduces a ton of the tedium, if you're careful to not tab into the Los of more dangerous shit, but that can easily be avoided by changing your rc-file so you can't move toward enemies when tabbing.
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>>163321402
>encounter difficult enemy
>run away
>don't get exp and loot
>encounter difficult enemy
>run away
>don't get exp and loot
>nothing left but difficult enemies
>don't have enough exp and loot to kill them
>die
????????????
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>>163322079
I wouldn't be tabbing either if the game didn't throw tons of popcorn at you. Tabbing cuts the playtime down by 3-4 hours. It's convenient.
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>>163322513
You get so much exp later on that it doesn't really matter if you avoid those ogres/orc warriors on the early floors, and you get exp from normal popcorn enemies anyway.

Crawl is always about minimising danger and taking the path of least resistance not taking dumb risks that don't really pay off.
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>>163322513
The XP scaling makes it a nonissue
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>>163322765
>later on
>>>>>>>>don't have enough exp and loot to kill them
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>>163322765
All roguelikes are like that. The difference lies in the knowledge required to avoid the danger. What is too dangerous at the moment? What are the best ways to deal with particular enemies? Where I should go next? What gear is optimal for a given location/situation? What's the most effective way to improve my character (skills, stat gains etc.)? And so on. Crawl just happens to have some answers to these questions shorter than other roguelikes.
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>>163322924
You don't have to kill every single monster on the floor, if I'm playing a character and I encounter a bunch of ogres or sigmund or whatever I just skip the floor and nothing really happens, there's not really going to be a massive difficulty spike from one floor to another unless it's a change of branch.
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>>163317124
I just want to level my skills so I can drop heroism from Okawaru, then change to TSO. Already got 5 runes.
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>>163322513
>>163322924
this rarely happens in practice
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>>163323284
>Tell a girl you'll worship her
>Take all her stuff and abandon her
What a nigger. Stick with your god.
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>>163323284
There's not much point desu, since you're so buff already. Might as well switch to TSO and do crypt now to save time.
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I think I should go for winning as a different kind of orb.
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>>163322079

tabbing is literally safer than not tabbing unless you hyper focus on every single action
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>>163323550
I equipped ONE of the gifts he gave me, fuck Okawaru, only good for heroism so i can level my skills in a better way.

Im probably going to switch to TSO and go kill some demon/undead.
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I'm getting bored of OP species but hate Felids and Mummys, how fun would you rate octopodes?
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>>163324823
they are fun once you get to lair
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>>163324332
>Two eveningstars
>Useless
>rF+ shield

>>163324823
Fun gimmick A little worse than human power wise
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>>163305776
Let it die indeed.
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>>163322079

Is... is this... the rumored special snowflake who doesn't tab?! whoa.... really makes u think... huh
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>>163322513
>encounter easy enemy
>fight
>get xp and loot

>encounter difficult enemy
>be weirdly paranoid about not finding enough xp in the game
>fight
>spend more consumable loot than you get back from it
>if you die you lose all your xp
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>>163322079
tfw click
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>>163322924
most monsters in crawl are easy-to-defeat freexps
the ones actually worth running from are a small minority
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>>163303382

ahahahaha I always knew this day would come since I've already practiced a gazillion of 15 rune Ru games of always sacrificing evocations! These madmen actually made my training truly worth it! ahahahaha

How about they just remove Evocations now? It's nothing but B L O A T
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>>163328060
>there is now a reason to use recharge scrolls on other items
stealth evo buff?
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>>163328060
wands of HW/Haste/Tele had nothing to do with evocations tho
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>>163328292

>a reason to use bloat on bloat

ahahaha I can't believe it!
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>>163328391
>not playing MuAr of Bloatzag and fully embracing hungerless bloat
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>>163328467
>hungerless
wow such a great upside
because all the other evo characters in the game have so many food problems

fucking remove food already
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>>163328334

>nothing to do with evocations

Have you tried sacrificing evocations with Ru even once?
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>>163328608
the fact that sac evo disables them doesn't change the fact that those wands were completely unaffected by the evocations school

sac evo also stops you from using boots of flight
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>>163328595
they do with the god of expensive eats, because that is less dosh to buy dank rods

>>163328608
sacrifice spider sack + evokers should be worth the full amount of piety
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>>163328680

You just contradicted yourself in your own post.
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>>163328821
training evocations does not affect the power of wands of haste, heal wounds, teleport, dig, or invisibility

although they are cosmetically "wands", they are unrelated to the "use wands good" skill
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>>163328757
>sacrifice spider sack + evokers should be worth the full amount of piety
Just the use of box of beasts should be worth full piety. A few uses of that at like 16 evo and you can demolish any enemy in the game.
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>>163328906

HW/tele/hasting are evocables.

Therefore sacrificing evocations affects them.

>>163328334 is false
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>>163329064
but it was in the context of
>How about they just remove Evocations now?

nobody cares what ru thinks about those wands

their removal does not affect the evocations skill, because they already did not use the evocations skill
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>>163329275

Anyone with a working brain could tell that wasn't what I implied. This damage control attempt is amazing anon, please don't spout misleading information next time
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>>163288673
>Remember, enter Control+Q when you're done so the game is saved for others.
ebin
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>>163328595

>remove food

Fuck off shitter. Crawl should never pander your lack of skill
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>>163322079
I didn't know about tab at first, so I feel you. Also my spellcaster chars obviously still rarely if ever use Tab
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>>163330074
you can macro tab to 'za' pretty easily for the holistic tabber experience.
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>>163330012
what?
people with chronic retardation and literally zero skill are the only ones who food actually matters for in crawl
nobody else ever has problems with it
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>>163330224

>people with chronic retardation and literally zero skill

Like you. You are complaining so you have a problem with it.
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>>163330012
bring back nausea
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>+3 ring of slaying early find fuck yes
>draconian transmuter
>Level just enough to get spider form
>great UC skill
>mottled, hate it but whatever
>find Ashy, curse it up for skill gain
>with Ashy, minor investment into +5 hand crossbow for superior ranged weapon I can just transform away
>have just enough for Ice Form, Blade Hands for Lair
>dodge a nasty ghost on lair:1
>play it smart and safe in lair:2, set up a 1v1 with a 7 headed hydra
>sticky flame and shoot it twice to soften it up on its approach
>Ice Form because Ice Form is said to be good against Hydra
>almost-dead Hydra turbos my exact 150 hp in two 75 damage hits in two turns

I think this happened because Ice Form sucks and has terrible defense
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>>163330276
so you are agreeing that food only makes a difference to players who have no idea what they're doing

but you still think it's a good mechanic that should stay?

i think you're just one of those anons who gets autismally triggered by any time the word "remove" is used. you probably madposted about weight and inventory destruction too
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>>163330428
Yeah, Ice form is aids, even 1v1 against hydra. I've killed them better normally than using ice form.

If you have chei, you can really easily destroy them with normal melee so maybe try that, but if you don't like him then maybe nemelex, because his summoning cards are OP as shit and demolish everything in the game, or Makhleb(4 invo makes lesser demon 1% hostile rate.)
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>>163330501

early D popcorn also ONLY makes a difference to players who have no idea what they're doing yet they are a good feature in this game and should stay

After all if they can make shitters like you splat as often as how you contemplate about killing yourself for your lack of skill, then the particular game feature has fulfilled its purpose
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>>163330793
>early D popcorn also ONLY makes a difference to players who have no idea what they're doing yet they are a good feature in this game and should stay
why?
the long-ass popcorn levels in orc and lair were cut out
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>>163330916

>clearly said early D
>mentions orc and lair

Yep, you clearly possess chronic retardation. Do not mention your chronically retarded ideas anywhere that has people in it
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>>163331072
remove food
remove food
remove food
REMOVE FOOD
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>>163330793
cutting D to 12 and lair to 5 would be nice
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>>163331151

Surely you mean remove lair cuz gam is 2 ez

t. single decimal/digit win """"rate"""""
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What is this, american late night autism time?
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>>163328292
You never get enough power for wands to be useful. Too few charges and it costs a scroll of id because you straight up don't have the generated charges to roll a 70% id chance. Only the new rods, BoB's, and sack of memes which were added specifically to be OP are saving evo.
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>>163331660
you know what they say anon

an /rlg/ clock is autistick 24 times a day
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>>163330428
Non-chei ice form is shit. Shiiiit!
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>>163330428

>worship bloat god
>surprised he got blown the fuck out
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>>163332004
ash is one of the more interesting gods. bloat gods would be oka, veh, ely, yred...
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>>163332004

The only real bloat god is Jiyva, literally what is it's purpose
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Why would anybody ever take adrenaline as a trait
Its great as a bionic but the crash is far to serious to risk random activation

Or does it only do that with the bionic and i was retarded to down that purifier to get rid of it.
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I'm playing POWDER and I randomly turned into a troll, whats up with that
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>>163332624
Did you put a ring or amulet on recently?
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>>163303382
>Nerf wands by making it impossible to properly acquire them
>remove them anyway
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>>163332849
Is that something by le Amy?
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>>163332951
it's some poor sap playing slex, and dying horribly on dungeon level 44 after 75k turns of overpreparation. He should just have ascended 25k turns ago already, but instead he died here. RIP. :(
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>Early game DD
>lol rot mp trigegrs 5times in a row
>already out of MP
Why is this allowed, who thought making this fully rng was a good idea
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So how do formicids do extended now without Heal Wound Wands?
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>>163332723
Yeah it's polymorph, I went from a troll to an earth elemental and then a large bat so I figured it out
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>>163333120
Regeneration like usual?
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>>163333120
try not to let enemies reduce your hit points to zero, using unlimited dig as needed
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Currently playing DCSS and having a good start I think. Never had much success in this game. The furthest I remember going was in some ice caves. Need some advice to increase my chances of survival.

Playing a level 11 Centaur Hunter, currently training Bows, Unarmed and Fighting. I am on Lair level 1. Should I train some armor? What about spellcasting?

My outstanding items are :
+2 Shortbow of Velocity,
+0 Shortbow of Freezing (not sure which is best)
+3 Amulet of Reflection
Ring of Ice
+1 gloves
Helmet, Cloak, Leather Armor, Centaur Barding,
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>>163333186
>>163333237
That doesnt help against bad rng rolls like brimstone fiends hitting you with 3 50dmg hellfires in a row
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>>163333237
what if instead of limited hitpoints and unlimited dig, formicids had unlimited hitpoints but limited dig?
and they got game over if they ran out of digs?
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>>163331397
enjoy your bloatfloors while they last, they WILL be removed eventually
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>>163333330

Forgot to mention that I used to have a whole lot of beneficial mutations (Intelligence, Clarity, Horns 2, Evolve (what does it even do)) but I found out the hard way that potions of cure mutations are a thing.
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>>163333356

You're just bad. Regeneration or even just a regeneration amulet is more than enough for extended
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>>163333356
dont pick chei?

>>163333357
dude... woah...
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>>163333330
i don't understand why you are training unarmed instead of a weapon skill

unless you're playing some 5-year-old version it does not increase the damage of your hoof kick
(sidenote: do not follow any advice or guides from the crawl wiki, it is terrible)

every character should train dodging and every character that wears armor should train armor
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>>163333356
Then cast triple crossbow?
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>>163298893
>Also, you'll probably want to learn some weapon skill and fighting/dodging at some point. 'pure mage' is usually suicide.
yet another garbage player giving bad advice
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It makes no fucking sense that ids are single use in cata
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Heal wounds and Regen are the 2 things that make Extended not completely fucking tedious if you dont worship Chei/Makh/TSO
Better lets remove both
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>>163333536
>Crystal ball has deposited 17 mp in your mana pool for this post

>>163333556
It's for pushing you onwards. Once you're in the bunker just jackhammer to get the loot. Labs you can use explosives.
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>>163333453

I was following a guide yes. Is there somewhere with more up to date guides? I'll keep rolling with unarmed since I've invested a lot in it, but put more focus in dodge and armor.
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>>163333536
"pure mage" builds suck and run into major problems when out of MP or forced to enter close quarters dangerous areas
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>>163333581
how about changing the video game to be NOT tedious?
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>>163333660
Cant have that, even /rlg/ defends torment and hellfire and tells you to gitgud instead
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>>163333581
there are a lot of better ways to fix those problems
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>>163333654
>i can't play a different playstyle without twisting them into being the exact same as my comfort zone
if you've let something non popcorn reach melee range as a ********pure mage********* you've already attained a deep level of fault
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>>163333627
there aren't a ton of up-to-date guides

the ones on the wiki are often actively bad though. either they're multiple versions out of date or they're just bad advice in general

the wiki has a general problem with not being up-to-date but the guides people put on it are even worse
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>>163333654

I thought I already told you to stop saying your chronically retarded ideas anywhere that has people in it. This is literally worse than showing your 2 (two) inch dick in public
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>>163333737
>the yaktaur hits you!!!!!!!!
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>>163333819
>not the arrow hits you
>not having rmsl
fault
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>>163333627
You don't really need to follow a guide, if you want to play a ranged centaur just train your ranged weapon ,pick okawaru or trog, and hit shit enemies with melee to conserve ammo(in early game) once your ranged is near minimum delat(should say in weapon description) then turn on fighting and dodging also.

After that train some armour and weapon skill.
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>extended without haste
no thank you
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>>163333737
the most dangerous threats in the game are ranged and/or above speed 10, and the most dangerous areas have you fighting multiple at once after you wake up the whole level with your loud conjurations

>>163333783
please stop recommending DEFE to new players
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>>163333737
>>163333783
Not even that guy but players new to playing mages(otherwise why would the player in question be asking for advice in the first place.) will run into bad situations and minimising it by training fighting/dodging and some weapon skill for conserving magic will help them in the long run.
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>>163333946
just use your wand sparingly in key tactical situations and when it runs out of charges recharge it
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OgFE is the new beginner mage combo
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>>163333852

Nevermind got fucked up by Rupert
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>>163333970
if you play like a tabber in general you'll splat a whole lot of high int robed characters until your brain learns how to play a caster(protip: tabbing titans with 10 AC is not the way)
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>>163334054
Beginner mage combo will always be DrCj, deep elf gaybois stay away.
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>>163334001
REMOVED
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>>163334120
NO
I REJECT IT
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>>163333964

>im scared of popcorn

And your point is? Why does this matter? Stop being bad
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>>163333964
>the most dangerous threats in the game are ranged and/or above speed 10, and the most dangerous areas have you fighting multiple at once after you wake up the whole level with your loud conjurations
it's a good thing that as a caster you have the luxury of clouds or even level 9 area spells by the time you reach those areas. that and with high stealth you can make noise without attracting the whole map even with shatter because they just forget about you in 1 turn unless they see you right away
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>>163334078
I understand, but what I'm saying is that tabbing popcorn enemies to save mp is probably going to be better, and safer, than spamming conjurations and getting in a tight spot with 0 mp.

Is this situation going to happen if you play well? No, not really but for someone new to mages it's good to have some kind of security that will minimise those scenarios.
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>>163334078
how to play a "caster": fire storm two titans to death in vaults 5, feel badass as h*ck, get locked out of the stairs while out of MP, die to "bad rolls" that pierce your 8/20/0 defenses in two turns, bitch on reddit

>>163334250
it is nice to have fallbacks in a game with permadeath. at least you acknowledged stealth, which is a very good option
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>>163334295
>tabbing popcorn enemies to save mp is probably going to be better, and safer, than spamming conjurations and getting in a tight spot with 0 mp.

the solution to that problem is to not fight the whole level at once, not train a weapon skill and getting tons of dodging and fighting. to avoid the problem of getting caught with low mp and having to fight everyone in the level
just make a habit of splitting packs, lure enemies, and train stealth. also remember to press 5 when you have half your mp bar
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>>163334419

>not having both firestorm and shatter at 1% by V:$

what a faultmaster
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>>163334419
>out of mana
What is Vehumet, Crystak ball, sublimation of blood etc
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I don't know how I learned all these spells but this is kick ass I'm unstoppable
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>>163334543
fifty int and still incapable of understanding a single sentence, this is why elves are not allowed in /rlg/
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>>163334419
there is no scenario even your made up retarded hypothetical in which training some weapon skill and wearing some ring mail is going to be better than upgrading your level 7 spell to a level 9 spell. you're not supposed to tab the titans son, and v:5 is easier as a pure mage wearing harm and buttblasting aliches in 1 turn than as a 30/30/30 bunker
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>>163334617
lvl 9 spells are overrated for 3runes
4 times the xp requirement
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>>163334669
they're so dank though
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>>163334617
>v:5 is easier as a pure mage wearing harm and buttblasting aliches in 1 turn than as a 30/30/30 bunker
terrible advice
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>>163334617
>wearing harm
jesus
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>>163334574
a better example would be sif, vehumet is useless once you're out and the other two are dangerous in a pinch
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>>163334762
>>163334841
you're not allowed to post in this general unless you've ascended a DEFE of chei with 15 runes wearing harm with no trained fighting and under 90 minutes of real time
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>>163334613

Forgive me for spamming shatter and firestorm AND glaciate while also having Deflect Missiles and SoB AND unlimited God mana while ejaculating to elf porn at the V:$ stairs.

While your """""""optimal build""""""" waste exp on bloat skills a caster doesn't need even once
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>>163334617
>getting a few levels in a weapon is the same cost as getting access to a level 9 spell
um?
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>>163334940
post your win where you do this and i'll leave /rlg/ forever

>>163334947
we are talking about V:$ not zig:27
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>>163335071

>zig:27

typical non-elf shitter HA!
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>>163335040
getting 14 in staves or 12 maces with your whatever shitty apt can and will make the difference between unsafe fail rate or safely castable for not just level 9 but every spell in general. i'm not against training weapons *eventually* but this meme where people must hybridize early because god forbid they use only their spells to clear lair branches is just an unholy abomination birthed from the depths of the bad wiki and it must be put to rest

>>163335071
sorry the dog ate my win
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>>163335271
you don't need to always train to mindelay anon
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>>163335345
GET OUT
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>>163335271
but building a "mage" *is* the classic bad wiki advice

you don't need anything more than your starting book to clear lair. you can excessively pump magic but if you are playing to win, it is usually not the best option
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>>163335271

These poopoo players are hopeless. Let them enjoy their glorious waste of exp for all they like while we get all the spells we need for either extended or Ziggurats as early as Vaults.
>>
If I knew my post asking for Mage advice would result in such a storm of autism, I'd never have made it. You guys are making my eyes bleed, besides I already splatted him.

It's 6pm and dark and rainy outside and I'm very lonely. Should I start drinking? Yes, yes I should.

What game/char will I run next?
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>>163335723
Draconian monk of Chei

or

Hill orc of Beogh, if ur a gay boi
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>>163335782
Not a gay boy, so le snail dragon it is.
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>>163335510
if you're going to clear shoals using only your imb or ice beasts or stone arrow you've already invested something like 10 spc 10 conjuration 10 elemental school, or else your spells are going to be too weak and you won't be able to kill things with your entire mp bar. at this point you can try to get more fighting and dodging to get your +3 elec whip to mindelay or try to upgrade your robe to ring mail but that's not going to be anywhere near as effective as trying to upgrade to the next tier of spells because it's your natural direction for growth and you've already invested in int and casting skills. if you've found book of power there's nothing SAFER than getting that iron shot or ood to a low fail rate, you should only deeply invest into tab power if you're playing some kind of no book no sif/veh playthrough or if you've found some kind of unrandart bonanza
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What the fuck is that?
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>the first time you use a scroll of immolation on a horde
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Jesus this glaive, if only if I was playing a merfolk or something
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Why hasn't anyone attempted to hijack the devteam yet and completely reform it by removing every single one of its active members? They're clearly being retarded for repeatedly cutting or dirtying game content for no reason and even in the rarest of occasions that they provide one, it's also nothing but memes.
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>sitting here drinking and playing DCSS alone to deal with the crippling depression
>pic related
Devs why?
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>>163303382

Truly, there are no redeeming features about post .15 crawl.
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>>163308317
Is that a yeek on the right
Did you draw this
You're forgiven for every compiling error now and forever

>>163338189
>playing DCSS to deal with depression
The only way to truly kick depression in the balls so hard it recesses into pure happiness is to play MuMo until you win.
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Fuck it im switching out junkfood intolerance for lactose intolerance
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>>163338189
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>>163338705
>I'm switching out
*wizmoding
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oh bby
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>>163338705
Traits really dont seem balanced anyway
Hell illiterate should probably be worth the whole 12 points.
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>>163338949
They couldn't really be balanced.

The same category of points having both food-related entries and combat entries would need some (((tight design))) to be balanced.

>Hell illiterate should probably be worth the whole 12 points.
It prevents you reading books, but NPCs can still read for you.
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>>163339245
>NPCs can still read for you
UGGGGGGGGGGGGH
COMMMMMFYYYYYYY
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>>163339358
Not comfy yet - being able to lie down and cover self in blanket while reading isn't implemented.
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>>163339395
actually if you read by the fire with a blanket under your tile you will get a morale bonus of around +10 for "getting comfy".
I'm serious.
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>>163339568
It's only by the fire thing.
For a blanket to do it, you need to actually go to sleep.
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>>163339395
>change into pajamas
>snuggle into bed
>npc reads mystery novel to you until you fall asleep

>>163339568
hnnnng
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>>163339637
>>163339358
Degenerate animeposter.
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>>163339667
You bully! You're straying from the path of not being an ass!
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>>163339667
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>>163339714
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Oh hey apparently someone uploaded one of the latest adom prereleases.
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>>163303382
this can't be real
just remove wands altogether then what the fuck
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>>163339759
>not a nail bat
I really really motherfuckin' fuckin' hope you pilgrims don't do this
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>>163339831
'tis real anon, just look on the forums. They also gave mummy a buff to spellcasting for some random reason.
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>>163339848
The original meme was about keeping your videogames in the fridge.
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>>163339831
That would be a strong MuMo buff.
Also
>Deep Dwarves now have an ability to heal their wounds instead of recharging the no longer existing wand of HW. Doing so has a 25% chance of draining 1 max MP.

Sounds like DD aren't really a no-brainer anymore.
Either that or people are gonna spend a lot more points in spellcasting to get more MP.
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>>163339902
>Sounds like DD aren't really a no-brainer anymore.
They still are, the change just makes early game more annoying but once you have full piety with makhleb, you're set for life.

Damage shaving + regen is a hell of a drug anon.
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what memes should die in 2017 rlg?
slex, tummy, awoo and crawl being bad IMHO DESU family
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>>163339971
>more annoying
You clearly mean "more tactical".
>>
is .. is roguelite dead?

I wanted to ask about enter the gungeon's new beta patch..
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tummy slaaaash!
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>>163339985
>IMHO DESU family
yes, let's remove that.
>>163340002
make nu rlite general
fixed
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>>163340045
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I don't get this tummy meme, I haven't been on /rlg/ since 2014/2015 and it gets referenced a ton out of nowhere.
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>>163340045
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>>163340167
Some dude started posting a monkey island genie image calling it "high priestess of uskayaw" in reference to the new dcss god
he did that in every single thread for months talking about her exposed midriff, which he called "tum"
it's an pure example of a "forced meme"
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>>163340051
Thanks for the headsup

>tfw every general will eventualy die.
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>>163340167
One word: pedophiles
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>>163340271
>an pure example
gosh golly gee I meant "a pure"
>>163340396
Everything will die eventually, anon.
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Huh, found a Lesser Beckoning Spell in Party Tricks

that's new to me. How is this spell?
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>>163340461
It's only really good with high spellpower to increase the range at which you can pull enemies to you, so basically a good spell for extended play.
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>>163339985
Crawl being bad will NEVER die.
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>>163338545
Nah, just pic of setting I was working pn
I did draw a yeek though. At least how I guess yeek would look like.
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>>163340908
The feet are weird and those random hairs or spikes don't fit
Otherwise pretty gud
Kinda psycho kobold
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>>163340908
That is a good yeek
you are a good person
Have cat
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Did somebody say "kot"? I think I heard someone say kot.

Mentionings
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>>163341068
>those random hairs or spikes don't fit
In what context?
Nobody has ever described a yeek.
I really like the goiter.

>>163341203
Kot a shit
Giraffe is better
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>>163340398

that's 3 words you quintuple minotaur
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>>163341309
I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU
THE FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE
GET IT ?
I DONT THINK SO
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>>163341068
Well, no official artwork or good description so yeah.
Althpugh I did kinda take inspiration from Sniff from Moomin ( The ears, which kinda would form y, like demons' horns form U ).
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In PCB what's the difference between a monk and a force trainer?
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Oh.
OH.
Oh dear.
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>>163342017
>kamehameha
really
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>>163342093
You seem surprised.
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>>163342147
Never played PCB but that seems like a blatant ripoff
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>>163342306
Well, one thing's for sure.
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How much can regen items stack in crawl?
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>>163342306
PCB is 90% references and ripoffs. Some are just more obscure that others ( ex. Red Helm is 'Akakabuto' from one anime about dogs that become flying sawblades ).
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Wow, turns out charging four turns for a 1000+ ranged attack isn't that big of a deal actually.
Barely took one star off oberon.
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I mean unholy fucker of mothers how much damage are you even supposed to do to these people
How much HP does the serpent even HAVE
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>>163343440
30k.
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>>163342694

Enough to safely remove wands of heal wounds
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>>163342694
40 boots
40 gloves
40 helm
40 cloak
280 armour
40 amulet
4.4 hp per turn
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>>163343519
That's retarded.
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>>163344117
gitgud
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>>163344249
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>>163344249

Why? That's not even 1 million.
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Currently doing vaults after getting the snake rune, the other lair branch is shoals.

Am I just being a pussy bitch about going to shoals?
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>>163344667
>34 AC
Yes.
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>>163344667

Your defenses, stats and HP are more than enough for the whole of extended.
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>>163345473
>fast
I can't believe they actually removed the haste spell AND the haste wand
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Ok, that was wayyyy easier than what I'm used to.
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D2 Vault. What's better?
>+3 Invisibility Charm (8 turns of invis every 230 turns)
>Wand of Domination
>Unidentified enchanted leather armor (unfortunately I am already wearing cursed scale mail)

I currently have Entrancement and Conjuration staves so I'm hoping to get Wisdom eventually.
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>+27 Lear's Hauberk
What
How
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>>163347597
Unrand.
It's actually pretty mediocre past lair.
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Why is this a thing?
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>>163347597
Unrandart, takes your gloves and torso slots and one other i think, cant remember which now
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>>163347691
Activate your boots.
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>>163333581

add uskayaw to that list, god is busted af
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#Bring_555_Back
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This character feels so weak for some reason. I've had to tele so many times against enemies that would I could take no problem on other tabbers.

Is it because I'm still using short blades?
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>>163348843
>This character feels so weak for some reason
I'll give you a hint.
You've got roughly half the HP any regular non-deep elf non-gargoyle player would have at that stage.
And you can't heal.

Also yes, short blades+ VS were the best pre-bite nerf, now they're mediocre to bad. Unarmed is still the best choice for a VS.
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>>163348843
>oka with anything but the biggest fuckoff weapon you can wield or the fastest one
>as a vine stalker
>on depths 4
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>>163349017
I've found an artifact demon blade so I'm getting long blades up to 14 in elf to see if that'll change anything. I don't to be left with 0 teleport scrolls for vaults:5, which I don't get how I can do without healing items.

The only character that didn't need to heal in V:5,that I've won, was an OP statue form draconian of chei.
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>>163349186

Have you tried casting regeneration? Surely you must have found at least one in some book during your 50k turns of aimlessly strolling around
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>>163349295
Okay, I will get LB to 14 and try to get regeneration castable.
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>>163349389

What the h*ck, casting regeneration as your priority even as early as Lair is the no-brainer route you should always do. You will be surprised on how good it is for always keeping your HP to its maximum during endurance fights, like vaults 5 or snake/swamp 4.
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>>163349615
Nobody really likes to keep recasting the same spell over and over, even if it gives you a good advantage.
It's annoying.
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>>163349754

Nobody really likes pressing o and tab over and over, even if it reduces tedium

Oh wait
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>>163349868
But o and tab are an extremely simple interaction compared to manually exploring and attacking enemies, anon.
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Kinda overestimated elf's xp, considering I've killed nearly everything and only just got LB 14. I'm feeling more stronger though so I should be able to go back to depths and get regeneration castable.
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>>163349959
oh hey that *is* a nice sword.
shame about the drain brand.
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>>163338189
The joke is that she has a goblin gang and she throws them next to you.
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>>163349754
If you aren't retarded and macro your spells then you literally just press one button to cast it every 5 minutes
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>>163350749

>cast it every 5 minutes

anon...
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How much much power(#) should you shoot for with regeneration? I don't want it to last for like 5 turns max or something.
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>>163340908
>the yeek screams "yeeeeek!"
cool picture anon
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>>163340045

>You dodge the Tummy Slash!
>You attack with your Tummy Lick!
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This is far more fun than I thought it would be. Irradiate and Confusing Touch are amazing spells for transmuters.
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>>163342017
that must take a lot of rounds and mana to focus and get so many extra dice
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>>163351806
4 turns and 120 mana, yes.
But it's in no way worth it.
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>>163351586

I only play real roguelikes.
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I don't think my character can do V:5, how hard is abyss generally?
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>>163352813
Awful.
Go do tomb.
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>>163352813

You're fooling yourself. There's nothing a Vinestalker can't do even with zero resists
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>>163353439
I am a fairly shit player, I've gotten shit like dragon-form and statue-form transmuters killed on V:5, and this character is far weaker than them. I'm considering Slime, but if that gets too heated I'll go do V:5.
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Actually, fuck this pussy shit. I'm going in.
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>>163354519
Do stairdance them while you can, dear.
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>>163354519

I don't know about you but the lower left quadrant is a good spot to kill everything there
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>>163354519
>+8 demon blade
>37 ac and 25 ev
>has that god tier lower left pattern
Nigga wtf
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I hate semicolons.
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>>163357910
amy please crush my testicles until I can't breathe
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>>163357992
With pleasure. Do you want me to use my block-heeled combat boots for that? *kick* *smash* Well, what does it feel like, do you want more? :)
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>>163358107
>tfw amy will never strangle you unconscious with her thighs whilst insulting your inability to ascend
why even live
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>>163358107
can't
ded
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Redpill me on roguelikes, anons. Are they alpha or beta? Are gargoyle posters omega?
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>>163358973
Go back to /v/
Make a gay Tracer thread or something
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>>163359042
WTF tracer is gay?
Holy shit glad i didnt buy that sjw garbage
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TROPHY GET! This Donald Trump character proves surprisingly capable of getting shit done.
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>>163359441
Well it IS a game set in an imaginary land.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the current path for an easy/first-time three rune is:
1) Dungeon (and safe early portals) until you get to Lair, usually a floor after finding Orc
2) Begin Lair if you have poison resistance; otherwise, safely draw some enemies out of Orc:1's entrance until you get something with poison resistance, and then begin Lair.
3) Complete Lair; if needed, stop before L:6 and do more of Orc, but complete Lair first.
4) Complete Orc.
5) Complete the last Dungeon floors. (Just finished this step)
6) Swamp/Shoals and then Spider/Snake, using the same caution as with Lair and Orc.
7) Elven Halls? I guess for XP and equipment.
8) Vaults, except V:5.
9) All of the Depths.
10) V:5.
11) Zot, including Zot:5.
12) High-tail it all the way to D:1 and exit.
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Jesus, vine stalkers are incredibly OP, I was at 20 HP and could still destroy 2 ancient liches, a tormenter,3 dragons and a bunch of draconians before going up the stairs all while I'm regenerating.

jesus.
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Where should I go to next? Also what should I train?
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>>163360492
Btw, won this bois, forgot to get screenshot.
>>163361462
Complete lair, and while you're doing get your weapon to minimum delay and do some fighting/dodging/armour
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>>163362005
I have 3 runes, I completed Vault, shoals and snakes
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>>163361462
no wait, disregard >>163362005
didn't see XL 22, fug. Might as well just go to Zot, if you want to cash out your win, but generally the next places after this are abyss and slime.
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got turned to stone. god damn
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>>163362105
Try to get a better weapon, haven't there been any decent eveningstar/demon whips? and you definitely need to level fighting/dodging a lot more.

Also there wasn't much point sinking 20 levels into maces and levels considering the minimum delay of morningstars are way below that.
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>>163362359
I have a +6 eveningstar, you can see that in the picture
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>>163362570
I meant one with a better brand, venom is shite after very early game.
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>>163359124
kill you are self and then suck a big gay garoyle dick, christfag
>>
>thread dead because everyone is shitposting on /v/ about gay Tracer
One reveal
6 billion destroyed anuses
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>>163367237
Overwatch isn't roguelikes, ergo it is not of my interest.
>>
>>163360234

No, the only correct path is to not die. It doesn't matter where you want to go.
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>>163367237
the only gay thing i'm interested in is HOMo because it's the most powerful combo
>>
how do i avoid dying on new levels in dcss? like how can i tell if there's gonna bea guy who one shots me? like from orcish mines to elven halls, do i just walk right in there too or do i go back and go deeper?
>>
>>163368229
FeAr MiNe HOMo KoCK
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>>163368382

well whoops i went back and then i got two shotted by another monster anyway
>>
>>163368382
>how do I avoid dying
Engage one enemy at a time and run away from anything especially dangerous until you can stack the odds in your favor.

>How do I avoid dying on new levels
Read about the level and figure out if you can handle it
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>>163367237
gay girls do not destroy anuses anon
unless they are girls (male)
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It's done, folks! The Amy and the remaining SLEX devteam finally updated the server and now all the senpaitachi from /rlg/ can enjoy this early Christmas present! Feedback, bug reports, shitposting etc. welcome. :):):):):):):)
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>>163369185
Does anyone actually unironically play slex
>>
>>163369185
whats even the point of that roguelike
>>
>>163369185
if you can't pudding farm in it then it's a bad roguelike
dropped
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>>163369185
cool, thanks!
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whyyy
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>>163370245
What's the issue? That's an incredible amulet for a tabber.
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Well. Now the Amy has reflection, magic resistance and drain resistance at dlvl2 in her very first slex 1.8.6 game, but the artifacts that grant those properties also have some incredibly nasty curses on them...
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>>163371001

How much extra damage would the Str+4 give you? How much of it is lost by the Slay-5?
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Now that I've reached level 40, I can use the mighty phase door ability.

Actually the troll subraces seem fairly balanced (well, except for storm troll which is garbage), rather surprising for pcb.
>>
>>163371168
not enough to matter in either case
>>
>>163371168
str+4 is not going to overcome slay-5
unless you're using tmuts like dragonform
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>>163371314
>storm troll doesn't have 7 helmet slots
fix this chris
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>>163368494
And now we even have
FeAr MiNe KoCK BaBe!
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>>163371847
BaNe?
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>>163369406
No, nobody.
It's a miracle she actually had someone else join her devteam.
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>>163371969
You're a large race.
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>>163372093
For dcss
>>
>>163372093
U
U@U
U
>It magically summons cyberdemons!
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>>163372214
Was getting assguttered part of your plan?
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>>163372268
Not really.
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Ulik's randart club was terrible, but it's 40 pounds so I can't imagine the original is too useful either.
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>>163344117
You can do I think 5.8k a round on a melee build so so what. Look through the pcb ladder dumps.
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should I train both spellcasting and conjurations on a draconian conjurer?
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>>163303382
>tfw still playing 0.15 offline ascii console crawl
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>>163374598
the smuggest loli.
>>
>>163374375
spellcasting only if you a) need mana or b) need spelllevels other than that its only around half as effective as leveling spellschools
>>
>>163341849
peench peench
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>>163374375
4 levels in spellcasting is worth 1 level in each of a spell's schools

you'll want to train it some, but don't overdo it
>>
>>163372093
>>163372214
U
UPU
U
>>
which god is best for draconian conjurer?
>>
>>163376523
Trog
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>>163376523
obsidian axe
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>>163376523
i t d e b e n s
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>>163369185
why the hell does it even exist
>>
>>163377418
Because retards gave the attention whore attention and the thread quality has plummeted with no endi n sight.
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>>163377418
because people want to have slex with amy
>>
>>163377789
>>163377418
It's literally roguelikes, so why complain?

Or do you want more Momijiposting?
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>>163378295
Except it's not. She shitposts, baits even more shitposting, then engages them into a shitpostoff and it all should leave but the janitors don't do their fucking jobs so the thread is trash.
>>
>>163378295
Hell yes I do. Here's a roguelike-related one.
>>
>>163378431
I got banned for tumposting once.
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>>163378621
And yet there's like 20+ per thread
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>>163378756
You wouldn't ban a tummy, anon. Would you?
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>>163378826
Bang a tummy, maybe
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>>163378942
replies like this is why I love rlg
I've been becoming more and more tolerant of shitposting and I often find it funny and entertaining
with each year here I feel more like a cancerous newfag
or perhaps I'm just less tryhard and just very infantile?
>>
>>163380336
Shitposting has always been rampant on /rlg/. It just traded topic relevance for enjoyability.

Remember when arguments between pseudo-namefags from tavern/SA/webtiles/etc about the most banal DCSS shit would stretch for multiple threads? Because I do.
>>
remove food
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>>163381401
>pls make trolls even more stronk and diesel
>>
>>163381331
Yeah I'd take tummies and momiji over that any day of the week.

>>163381401
They'll do it eventually, I bet.
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>Tavern regular starts spectating
>more of his friends show up
>start talking about what they had for lunch
>name weapon "Niggerslayer"
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>>163381576
>implying hunger is actually a limiting factor for trolls
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hey /rlg/, how come i heard about the new Binding of Isaac expansion on reddit before here?

dont you guys play BoI anymore? it's one of the most successful roguelikes
>>
Do nets have a limited number of uses each or just a high mulch rate?
>>
>>163381592
They had a chunkless branch up for ages. It's not happening.

>>163382157
They mulch when torn. Kill it before it breaks it.
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>>163382419
wait really? So as long as they don't break out, you can reuse nets as many times as you want?
>>
>>163383006
Yup. They don't have wear levels anymore.
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>>163383082
Dope.
>>163382419
>DCSS devs
>Not removing things
lol
>>
>>163382089
We're too busy playing with the christmas week buffs in https://archive.org/details/msdos_Rogue_1983
>>
add thirst
>>
>>163383669
remove sigmund
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Why does no rogueli*e address this?
>>
>>163383879
>sex
>in a roguelike
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>>163384104
>He doesn't maidensnow eve
Gotta get them womb inscription buffs bub and if you want to survive getting the best you gotta get STRETCHED
>>
>>163383879
>Your tummy rumbles!
>Your tummy rumbles!
>You shit!
>>
>>163384215
I only play real roguelikes, like SLEX, Brogue, and Clash of Clans.
>>
is using crazy old man's chaos staff a bad idea? im demonspawn berserker but im having a hard time figuring out how to skill when im not guaranteed to get a weapon of the right skill
>>
>>163384687
Just get fighting and use enchanted floor drops until you get something workable. They pretty much all often have a solid drop by the end of dungeon. you can use any edged flame brand or cross-trained blunt to cope if you don't want to run from hydras
>>
>>163384687
you will get more than enough good weapons eventually
especially as berserker since trog gifts weapons

the chaos staff is a bad idea if you could die to an enemy suddenly getting zerked/haste/mighted/full healed right before you kill it
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>>163384915
>run from hydras
lol
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>>163385102
It's easy in lair and by swamp you have plenty of solutions.
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>>163385592
>being this much of a noob
just kidding, friend. i was just fooling around, old sport. i was going to shitpost and troll, but i decided not to.

>find ring of +4 int
>put it on
>realize playing roguelikes all day aren't going to improve me as a person
>cntl + Q
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is it scummy to keep rerolling demonspawn until i get good mutations?
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>>163386570
who cares? play whatever gives you the most fun

Can I take these guys on?
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>>163386570
Yes. Just use wiz mode and spawn them in instead of wasting time like a retard. Protip, they're all good mutations.
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>>163386626
Yup, i could take them.
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>>163386626
Look at what the zombies actually are. You should be fine though you may want to reach kite any elf, human, or big kobold zombies
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Blood curses can go choke on a dragon dildo.
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>>163386973
Swap on antimagic and hope for the best?
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>>163386973
never not be fullhp when killing amberites

wear antimagic if possible
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>>163386973
>>163387043
>-114
it's over anon
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>>163387043
>>163387065
That was with antimagic.

I wasn't actually paralyzed, just summoned on and double moved.
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>>163384687
Just pick whatever weapon you want to specialize in, then pray to rng that you either find a good weapon or Trog gifts you one. I think he has higher chances of gifting you weapons that you're highest skilled in.
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>splatting high elf skalds
>getting frustrated
>decide to run a mibe for fun
>first Trog gift is a +5 battleaxe of freezing
>second Trog gift is a +4 executioner's axe of chopping
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>>163388183
420PraiseItSon
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>>163341271

Currently playing a Spriggan Enchanter. It seems that spells have a % chance that they will fail displayed next to their name. How accurate is this? After a hundred casts it felt more like 40%. Shit keeps fizzling. How do I reduce this chance?

What about the enemy MR? I noticed it now displays before casting, but once again despite being at 50% it feels like they easily ignore my sleep spell.
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>>163386973
he was also akaed as rip in peace
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>>163389379
It's a 50% chance not it will succeed one of 2 casts. Take an online course in probabilities or some shit
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>>163389379
Worship Sif Muna as soon as possible. Best god for spellcasting, you get protection from miscasts and free spells later down the line. Also very easy to please, all you have to do is kill monsters to get free spellbooks.
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>"Sif Muna accepts your kill"
This already made me want to vomit.
>that I got from bopping an enemy with a melee weapon jesus
FFFFUUUUUU
>oh also we removed the only 3 useful wands just now, and have removed/"streamlined"/""""fixed"""" the game a bunch since you last played 3 years ago.
Yeah no, I'm not picking up nucrawl again. Fuck Crawl, fuck the devs, fuck all of it. The nudevs are awful and apparently nobody listens to good people dwho are ACTUAL ROGUELIKE PLAYER/DEVELOPERS anymore (like, say, Grunt, who is a strong player, has played and developed other roguelikes, and isn't obsessed with change for its own fucking self-aggrandizing sake)

So many fucking people who should not have permission to speak on the forums, much less to commit to the repository.

Bye (again) Crawl. Maybe someday the good-but-too-sick-of-dealing-with-newdev-garbo-to-want-to-participate-any-more devs will reclaim it. Someday.
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>>163390590
I enjoy crawl in its current state.
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>>163391726
and may it fucking stay in Georgia forever, good riddance
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>>163390590
hey that's not fair
Grunt made a great and fun devices-centric god
then they removed it because the other devs decided that was easier than fixing a related bug
then they removed the good wands
okay maybe you have a point
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>>163390590
you can download and play old versions, you know?
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>>163390590

Have you seen duvessa posts? Every single thing (((it))) posts in some thread are absolutely abhorrent. If I want to see some cringeworthy posts to satisfy my masochistic desires of the day, I only need to browse a couple of threads containing its posts. These are the kind of posters that the devs take seriously.
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>>163392342
obviously anybody can play a frozen snapshot on their own, but that's very different from "these people should not have commit access"
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>>163392342
Yeah. But there are occasional good fixes/changes around, some interesting god-concepts and whatnot.
I've entertained idea of making fork of 0.13 / 0.14 or something, but I can't be arsed.
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>>163390590

chill out dude

do you genuinely and honestly miss all the garbage they've been removing? when playing the game, do you stop and go "man, I miss praying over every single corpse to consume it for piety"
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>>163392342

How many times are we going to tell you that "you can play old versions" is not an argument and is not the issue? They keep on implementing their trash updates in the LATEST VERSION that would stay for EXTENDED PERIODS of time either FOREVER or until someone eventually miraculously decides that its retarded (like Control Tele and Haste) and removes it.

This is not from a subjective point of view, mind you. They are either removing features, changing good ones for the worse or adding features with obscure uses that only little to no one likes (like Uskayaw, and Lesser Beckoning). Anyone with some form of intelligence could tell that they're slowly forcibly transforming Crawl into a trainwreck.
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Anyone have a link to the DRM free version of Binding of Isaac Rebirth + Afterbirth?
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>>163394026

>This is not from a subjective point of view
>changing good ones for the worse
>features with obscure uses that only little to no one likes (like Uskayaw, and Lesser Beckoning)
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exactly how clumsy do i feel, on a scale of 1-10?
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>>163382089
smiles while killing you
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>>163397131
sorry i dont understand what your saying?
that wasnt a complete sentence
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>>163390590
>>163394026
>you just DON'T GET IT
>they are RUINING it FOREVER
>this time I'll stop playing I SWEAR
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It's funny that I've never actually gotten into DCSS- I played Crawl way back in the day, though.
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>>163394887
>>163397542

Crawl devs and their tavern slaves are not allowed to post in this thread.
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>>163381826
underrated
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First and last 15 rune win.
This kind of run takes too much time, it was nice a nice adventure though. I can finally rest in this game.
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In DCSC
What are some good or fun class/race combos to try out.
So far troll zerker is fun but a little bs in my honest opinion
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>>163396001
very clumsy
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>>163398690

Have you tried not playing a berserker or worshiping Trog?
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Okay, Brand's curse was some weak shit

i wish there was any source of antimagic that a xorn could actually wear, though
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>>163398915
Yeah
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>>163399027
life is difficult for xorn
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>>163384104
Nethack

Railing a succubus as a tourist to powerlevel felt really good.
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>>163383879

This meme doesn't have anything to do with roguelikes
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>>163390590
Make a tavern post then. They don't read here
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>>163400875
>tfw kamikaze robe and terror mask are both sitting unused in my home
i wish i was a human warrior
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>>163401808

They actively ban people who attacks the devs in any way. It's a dictatorial shithole
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>>163402213
If you're leaving anyway who the fuck cares. Just stay as close to sourced facts over emotions and don't sperg out like a /pol/poster seeing a minority at a store and you'll be fine.
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>>163399027
>i wish there was any source of antimagic that a xorn could actually wear, though
Worpal Blade
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I am struggling to tell if Demon is good or not.

I like the gameplay concept but it feels... SUPER slow.
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>>163398690
VpEn of Battlemage hep
MuSu of sif
HO* of the Invoc gods
HONe of Kiku
SpEn
HEAM
HESk
DrTM
DrCj played to color
MfIE hybrid
OpIE/FE for those dank enhancers
DsMo until you get monstrous, song of slaying, and slaying gear.
OgWr
NaFi of Pakellas
HaHu of Oka
Dg/HuWn
TeCj
GrEE of Chei
DDBe/Fi
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>>163403521

>GrEE

This EE nerf https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/ef5153f041f09a8b719b4f545c09e6d7af0cb6f3 makes playing early EE very terrible. You would be forced to rely on RNG horseshit just to cast sandblast and dumb weapons before you can cast Stone Arrow.
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>>163404591
>Almost 2017
>Playing trunk
You only have yourself to blame
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>>163403457

I get that a lot. I think it's the games insistence on playing out every attack animation for every monster. You can skip it, but then you've no idea who did what.
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>>163404591
I doubt that'll last as the cries of holy fuck I can't cast my spell you faggots rolls in.
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>>163405241

But anon, it encourages you to train your weapon apts while having situational sandblasts! Can't you see how it's so beautiful and tactical?
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>>163402763
o shit forgot about that one

sounds like a great idea
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>>163405526
mages already have to use faggot melee attacks because crawl hates having actual mages
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>these item names in Elona

Is there anyway to change them, or will I forever be the wearer of Healthy Rape, a spirit cloth robe and Clownish Gay, a pair of dawn cloth gloves.

I'm not that hot on Moronic Skull, a rubynus speed ring either.
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Didn't play it for a long time and while in the most fun phase of the game ( reading the wiki and mapping my build ), i noticed that see the threads is a "once per zone level" now.
What the fuck ?
I understand it's for scumming the boss artefacts ( and i WOULD have done it, not going to lie ), but i was actually going to use it for actual battles on a regular basis whenever non-fodder was around.
I was planning on doing an adventurer completely focused on offense and using see the threads as a "you can't kill me lol" button.

Do revisionist history, the prodigy, enables me to have the same unlimitedly ?
No mention of "return to start point if death" implies no...
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>>163404591
As if a Gargoyle gives a shit.
OpEE tho...
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>>163405526
I don't even start with a staff to train for when I get my staff of earth
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>>163406520
not sure why you would change cool names like that
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>>163405008
It's this
>>163403457

When you're learning it's important to watch the animations

When you're gud you can chainsaw your way through combat at incredible hi-speed with movespeed shenanigans or massive AoE master blasting.

Also the slowness makes sense when you realize the dev is actively trying to avoid 'popcorn' encounters. Naturally there will be some things that are no threat, but that's more a matter of party matchup than an intended feature of designed suckage of that particular monster.
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>>163406520
From what I can tell, getting silly names on your items and character is half the point of the game.
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>>163411459
>living pair of panties
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>>163403457
>>163405008
>>163411373
Yeah. You're going to need patience to play Demon. I don't always have the patience for it, but I have played enough of the game that with quite a few characters I can breeze the first few floors until reaching Anomaly, aside from perhaps the first Sanctum (aeras are such a pain so early on unless you have something like snuff out).
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>>163403457
>>163411373
This. If you don't care just do an action to skip ahead

Sweet mother of fuck that dispas is horrifying.Bloodthrist yeilding good hp?
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Speaking of patience, Cave of Qud really does suffer from its memory issues. It can take a while just to load a file. I don't get what's up with it. I've heard that the one precognition abilitiy literally doubles the filesize of a game.
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>>163411373
Considered replacing dazzling with that accelerates turn on hit skill. Leadership I think and having you plus that dancer and another dancer to explode through a pack?
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>>163412673
Oh yeah bloodthirst becomes great with whirling death builds, though it can fall off hard against the fairly-common body resistant melee brute. But it really helps compensate for the HP loss from being fast, I think.

I was supporting it with guilt as well- the only reason it died was because I was fighting Anzu's pack and a pack of Oni simultaneously. I won against that but suicided my summoner like a dum dum against an EZ encounter right after.
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>>163412914
I actually had a Whirling Turdak, with Leadership, but honestly I think I liked Healer+Buffer+Dancer setup more than 2 dancers. Sure 2dancer is FAST but if something goes wrong you waste more time switching them out.
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>>163413087
Oh neat, you were a debuffer huh? how'd you build that. Looks like what, 3 vit 2 con and everybody has warmth? Hand's the double debuff touch and you avoid getting targetted via oppressor right?
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>>163413178
I didn't put warmth on everybody- the dancers didn't need SP, and I was pretty sure the healer would be out of range. But loadsawarmth+ ember burst is a very legitimate strategy.

The double debuff melee range didn't get used that much honestly, it was kinda disappointing.

Honestly this character was just a bad jumble of corpse abilities, mostly I sat around like a derp Guilting everyone as my dancers killed everything. If I had Refresh instead of Draw Wounds, that would be helpful for my healer, and some more ranged debuffs instead of the Withering Touch would've been nice.

But MAX CUNNING is something I'd only do if I were using Hex or other low-chance debuffs I think, so yeah, I put a lot into Vitality.
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>>163392450
minmay is an ebin shitposter who gets away with it because he's been around forever

most of what he says gets ignored
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merry christmas /rlg/!

ohio gozaisomething!
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>>163414363
meri kurisumasu
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What is *Slow?
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>>163415242
replaced *confuse
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>>163415351

Okay but what does it mean? Makes me slow?
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>>163415443
chance to get a slow debuff when you take damage
it should be explained when you inspect the item
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>>163415565

Oh my bad you're right.

So its garbage then?
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>>163415651

it's not garbage if the upsides outweigh the risk

being slowed is dangerous but you can purge it with !curing or sometimes just deal with it depending on how not-dangerous the situation is
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>>163415651
generally it's ok if your character is pretty tanky, +8 str can help with that
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>>163401808
>They don't read here
Are you sure about that? They used to.
>>
high ogres
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Third run in a row where I get stumped by hydra RNG or a death yak in lair as a DrTM

DrTM is my goal and I'm just struggling here, forced to use too much of haste potion + Poison dart on death yaks, wand charges expended on Hydras, using draconian breath attacks, etc.

I've tried a slightly different approach to UC, Fighting, Dodging, and Transmutation skill each time up to lair but I must be doing something wrong if I have to reach that far into consumables that I run out and eventually get clobbered anyway.

Projecting ahead I think that without a few amazing rings+amulets for big stat gains I wouldn't be able to handle Xot, etc. anyway even if I were lucky enough to get Dragonform or Statue Form online.

I must be doing something wrong with my skill gain and the tedium of dungeon before lair is wearing on me.
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>>163418446
>hydra rng
what are you even talking about
they have a 100% chance to be speed 10
just walk away
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>>163418446
It sounds like you need to evoke feet a little more often

are you using sticks to snakes
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>>163418560
yeah I'll explain
>Killed several Hydra so far
>Out of uses on things to make them go away from range
>Muscle through a two 8 headed Hydras with Spider Form without getting touched
>5 headed Hydra, should be fine
>Splatted when all the attacks hit

1v1, no water, no debuffs, nothing different from the 8 headed hydras

And please understand I'm not complaining I'm looking for help on finding a better way to clear Lair with DrTM
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>>163418807
JUST WALK AWAY YOU RETARD
stop spending consumables on speed 10 enemies when you could just evoke feet instead
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>>163418807
maybe don't use forms that make your defenses garbage? or just run until you get stronger
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>>163417956
sludge ogres
>>
step by step guide:

1 see hydra at edge of los
2 decide "can i easily + safely defeat this hydra without using consumables"
(if yes): tabtabtabtab

(if no)
3 go to staircase
4 press < button
5 go down a different staircase far away from the badguy

you don't get shit for killing hydras except a small amount of xp. for many characters it's not worth the risk/expense to fight them
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>>163418682
I use sticks to snakes anytime I know the snakes have a chance to actually poison the target sufficiently, I have sufficient arrows to spam sticks to snakes, and that it wouldn't be a better use to just kill it with blade hands or spider form.

Death Yaks certainly did not care, I think because the snakes don't live/hit often enough to stack the poison to anything relevant before I'm out of MP. Hydra's went little better.
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>>163419094
the snakes also make quite good meatshields even if their damage isn't significant
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>>163419005
This

draconians have scales and don't wear armor so their AC and EV should be better than whatever crap comes outta spider/ice form

just ignore transmutations except for Sticks to Snakes and get blade hands in some distant future, not in lair
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>>163418446
Dude, just breath kite and fist their anus.
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>>163419094
Snakes are for taking hits and causing distract punches. Not killing shit.
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>tfw I've seen it on D:2 before

k den
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>>163421136
Gg put it on you pussy, do it
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>>163421242
>put my point into dex literally moments before
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>>163421136

press alt-prtsc to take a proper window screenshot.
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>>163417956

There he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest ogre around?! Oh my God.

I can almost see your pathetic overweight frame glowing in the dark, lit by your computer screen which is the only source of light in your Orc:2 room, giggling like a little ogre girl as you once again type "remove because boring" while adding some pseudo intellectual filler you've thought of just to lengthen your 2 (two) int post to justify a removal. Maybe you're such a disgusting Cr*wlDevDrone that you actually paid for a tavern pass, so you can just support the devil's team. Oh, and we all know your epic comments. The "redundant" "unneeded" "uninteresting" "boring" isn't it? I bet you imagine removing yourself every morning because you have a +3 M/F apt, laughing so hard as you post your "design ideas" which always includes removing content that you drop your Pandemonium Pizza on the floor, but it's ok, your mother will clean it up in the morning. Oh, that's right. Did I fail to mention? You live with an ogre mother. You are a fat fucking manlet ogre, she's probably so sick of you already. So sick of doing everything for you all goddamn day, everyday, for a grown ogre who spends all his time posting on tavern about what to nerf or remove. Just imagine this. She had you, and then she thought you were gonna be an ogre hunter or an ogre venom mage or something grand, and then you became a Cr*wlDevDrone. A pathetic american Cr*wlDevDrone. She probably cries herself to sleep everyday thinking about how imbalanced her M/F apt is and how she wishes she could just remove herself. She can't even try to talk with you because all you say is "LOL, too good pls nerf or remove" You've become a parody of your own self. And that's all you are. A sad little manlet ogre laughing in the dark 1x1 tile by himself as he prepares to indulge in the same old dance that he's done a million times now. And that's all you'll ever be.

Forever...
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fucking swamp worm just like two-shot my formicid fighter wearing crystal plate
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>Iketa, the Brave flees in terror!
>Iketa, the Brave teleports away.

what kind of bullshit title is that, Iketa
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>>163378431

All the tummies are getting deleted for the past few threads. They are certainly always present here and doing their jobs but they always tolerate other offtopic bullshit like Momijiposting and Amy.
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>>163423193
Amyposting is no more offtopic than dickssucking
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How does PCB work compared to DCSS combat, I'm not talking about mechanics but how enemies aggro on you.

In DCSS, if they spot you, they're gonna come for you but I can wait for a ton of turns near a few monsters in PCB and they won't come near me unless I'm nearly adjacent to them. It just seems really stilted.
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>>163422926
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is when to know to retreat, anon.
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>>163423370
Well there are a few things at work here.

1. Stealth is generally much more effective in pcb -- with a decent stealth score you can often rest for hundreds of turns to regen hp right next to a sleeping dragon, although i wouldn't exactly recommend trying it.

2. the pathing for enemies is really shitty.
if you have telepathy or detect monsters you'll often notice enemies who are aware of you and sitting just a bit away but they just can't navigate their way to you past 3 bends in the corridor or something

3. different enemies have different AIs, and uniques sometimes have randomized AIs
some enemies will try to kite you by constantly backing off and blinking with the occasional ranged attack
some enemies will stand perfectly still and only ever cast spells instead of chasing
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What are the worst Draconian colors and if you don't answer Black you're wrong. White is close.
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>>163423839
white draconians have the best melee and the strongest breath, tied with red although frost is quite a common resistance so it isn't really useful past the early game, and cold resist is less useful to have than fire resist so really idk why anyone would pick them

by black do you mean shadow draconians?
i agree
shadow dragons proper are sort of nice because when you evolve into a death drake you get to walk through walls all spooky-ghost-style, but shadow draconians inherit their dads' shitty melee abilities bad stats and high xp penalty without getting the main benefit to go with it

plus nether breath is nigh useless, since all evil monsters partially resist
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i think this sword is better in sil
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>>163382089
>Antibirth
>Not unbirth
Come on if the game is going to be gross why not go all the way
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>>163423835
Ok, I guess that makes sense. I really like the variety in PCB but the combat seems far less smooth than crawl. Ah well, I'll get used to it.
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>>163424382
Yeah Sil's is definitely better.
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>aids the grappler (level 10, -16/71 hp)
>Killed from afar by a wizard (45 damage)
>...with a crystal spear
>...on level 9 of the dungeon

>You open the door.
>A wizard comes into view.
>You feel yourself speed up.
>The wizard points at you and mumbles some strange words.
>The crystal spear hits you!
>Ouch! That really hurt!
>The wizard points at you and mumbles some strange words.
>The crystal spear hits you!
>Ouch! That really hurt!
>You die...
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>>163424382
>>163424801
Definitely.


The Longsword 'Glamdring' (+2,2d5) [+2] 3.0 lb
--------------------------------------------------
It improves your will by 2. It slays orcs, trolls, dragons, and raukar.
It cannot be harmed by the elements.
(level 14 / rarity 20 / quality 50)
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>>163424898
rekt

can't remember the last time a wiznerd did damage to me
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neat vault
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Does rim world count
>tfw fire in the worst possible place at the worst possible time
I want to cry
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>>163428361
Come and find out. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Rogue_1983
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>mfw seeing wands removal I'm now certain that crawl devs are unironically aiming to end up with crawl being a bad Brogue clone

>>163424898
someone please post ASSGUTTER pic
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>>163428421
The devs do always claim on tavern that they go with an 'incremental approach to design' so they are most likely aiming for something like that, but removing big 3 wands isn't as bad as fucking up ogre's m&f aptitude for no reason.
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Which DCSS servers do you cucks play on?
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>>163428519

You'd have to be a one of a kind gullible idiot to believe that completely removing anything they like and destroying ogre's trademark to force their High HP Deep Elf meme are anywhere close to an "incremental approach to game design". They're doing nothing but wrecking Crawl and they immediately need to be replaced.
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>>163429385
em.slashem.me
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>>163429385

i think most people play on CBRO. I play on EU servers xtahua and underhound .
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>>163429464
nah the dcss game design philosophy is truly revolutionary

actually it's funny, DCSS is just continually taking out fun things, and slash whatever is continually adding terrible things. maybe they should do a merge
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>>163428519
And removing HE's which had nobody else in their niche and replacing it with an abortion they remove then maim ogres with a !ogre mage but worse
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>Start half-titan maledict with runesword
>Coffeebreak-mode

At lv 20, 9d0 (+3,-6) [-17]
Give me damage

Oh yeah, not updating PCBR during holidays.
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>>163428361
It doesnt
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>>163429385
Lantea, best eu server
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>>163429385

The server with the most tummies!
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>>163430641
Go look at some of the stuff developers (dpeg especially) say on SA and reddit
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>>163433916
>9d0
absolutely usgustigus
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If anyone has tried the new gray-mage class in poschengband: how stingy do you need to be with learning spells?
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>>163404591

As someone who always play EE, I'm just gonna say that this statement is completely misleading. Stones are just that abundant even in D1 for anyone to have issues. You just need a single-two stack of stone loot to get stone arrow castable for a DEEE or 2-3 stacks for an OpEE since its stats are lower. Even after you get stone arrow castable, stones would still be the most abundant drop in D so this is just nothing more than a QoL fix really. You won't be forced to train weapons.
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Damn, /rlg/ is deader than normal today, is everyone having too much fun to post?
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>>163444265

which one should I pick for a DrCj?
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>>163444609
vehumet
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>>163444842

went with chei. let's see how this goes.
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>>163445054
rip

good luck, you can get there but chei is not so good for the typical magey play of "aggro one enemy, kite it back alone, kill it, rest for mana, repeat" because, ya know, he's really bad at the "kite it back alone" step

Chei is best on heavy armor melee bros that also want to cast heavy spells, so you'll eventually want to skill up armor at the very least.
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>>163445054
DrCj is an incredible combo,so you may stillbe good, but chei kinda hampers it because, as a mage, you need to regularly retreat and rest up to regain magic. He's better if you're going UC -> transmutations as a draconian.
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What's the best brand for an enchanter for the relative early game?
I'm thinking poison or electric
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>>163445568
Electric is always good throughout the game, but poison is good for the very early game, but drops off pretty quick.

In the early game, you're not likely to be drowning in branded weapons, so any brand is good at that point.
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>>163445708
Thanks.
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I'm playing a Berseker Minotaur. With 22 in axes and Trog decides to give me a Vampiric Lajatang, I decide to ignore it and Agnes pops with another vampiric Lajatang.
Is it worth to use them?
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>>163446612

there will be other better axes later in the game. it's not worth losing all those xp points you put into axes.
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Wondering about starting as a Fighter. Is it better to unequip the shield immediately so it's not getting in the way, or does the added defence outweigh that?
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>>163446612
the value of lajatangs is they do not require a lot of experience investment in order to reach min delay, making them very efficient for character setups that are reluctant to invest much in a weapon for whatever reason (e.g. setup that need a lot points into magic skills)

If you're already planning to/have already invested a lot of xp into a stronger-but-more-xp-greedy weapon, don't bother with the lajatang.

>>163446716
no, shields are very strong.
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>>163446716
the shield is the main upside of the fighter start
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>>163446701
>>163448000
Thanks, I suspected that was the answer, but the whole situation has been weird.
It's better to conquer the deeps or wait till I get to the Spider and Shoals runes level?
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>>163448000
>>163448136

Alright thanks, should I pick up a buckler while my skill is still under 15 or should I stick with what I start with throughout?
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>>163445329
>>163445201

Dead. There's very little you could do when you run out of MP. Chei's invocations doesn't work either.
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dead thread
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I keep playing Cataclysm, trying to find the decent game I suspect is buried in there. Has anyone managed this, or is it hopeless?
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>>163450758
hopeless
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I haven't really played very many roguelikes (mostly just played a little DCSS), but are there any good roguelikes that are really open instead of just going down levels? Something like that one zombie roguelike but not shit.
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>>163450758
From what I've seen of it it's basically a "build your apocalypse dream vehicle and run over zombies and everything else that moves" roguelike.

I haven't played it enough to be able to build a vehicle, so I wouldn't know.
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>>163451325
read the fucking op
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>>163451431
I quite like the start if you ignore most of the crafting and rely on scavenging. But one way or another that doesn't last long and you're stuck either tediously grinding through books or giving up and charging into a horde of zombies.
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>>163451325
There's Caves of Qud but it's not very good. It is a bit tedious, to be honest.
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My second win ever, didn't expect it to be with a mummy and with 15 runes. I haven't used a single spell that game
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>>163452837
>you have escaped
a winner is you
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>>163450758
Why do people dislike Cataclysm? Just curious and it's the only roguelike I've been able to get into.
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>>163454945
Questionable additions and lack of an endgame.
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>>163448981
Sorry, I've seen your post but I'm not really sure since I'm not super pro at crawl, just passing on the advice that I knew was sound. I hope somebody else comments, though I know by now your dude is either dead or has enough shield skill.

>>163451325
A) read the OP's pasta on "what to play" as it gives good overviews
B) consider trying UnRealWorld, it's a non-fantasy roguelike survival game where you play as a dude trying to survive etc in Iron Age Finland.
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wats the next class and race i should try besides berserker? ive played too many games (and i still suck) with but im getting bored with it now
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>>163455986
FeAr MiNe HOMo KoCK BaBe
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>>163455530

Thanks mate. Any advice on when to switch armour as a fighter? Typically I've been pitting on the heaviest shit I have the second I find it.
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>>163456060
Ba is not a race
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>>163456169
Add AC + EV + SH and wear whatever gives you the highest total.
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>>163456169
wear whatever gives you the best total AC+EV

30ac 20ev is better than 50ac 1ev
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>>163455986
If you are tired of fighty types, maybe try a stealth-and-stab character for a 3-rune. Spriggan Enchanter is the classic. Use stealth, spells that sleep/confuse, shortblades, and stabs to take out enemies, while using your quick spriggan movement to run away from danger or to pull individual monsters so you can sleep and stab them.

>>163456169
Depends on how much evasion you lose. Also, if you have more strength and more armor skill, you take less encumbrance, meaning you take smaller penalties to casting/evasion/etc. so you end up with more net stats from heavy armor if you have that strength stat and armor skill. The strength part is also why chei (with his huge stat bonuses) has a cute niche use for spellcasters that also want to wear heavy armor.

Like with Dominions 4 thugs, you want layered defenses instead of relying on just a single stat (hp, evasion, AC, various other defensive effects) to multiplicatively reduce the chance of getting chunked in a turn. Otherwise, you feel super beefy right up until something makes it through or is allowed to ignore your chosen focused defense types.
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>>163456372
>>163456379
>>163456775

Alright, thanks. How do I decide then if it's better to use a shield or a two-handed weapon? Is it worth getting the largest class of shields for anything outside of extended?
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>>163457024
Only use shields with Long Blades.
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>>163457127

Why's that? Do two handed Long Blades suck or does Riposte proc on blocked hits? Why go two handed with every other weapon class?
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>>163457024
I'm not really sure. I am guessing from >>163457127 that shield blocks contribute to riposte chances with long blades? Can anon confirm?

Of course, you could always dodge the question by playing a Formicid. One of their main draws is the ability to use both a 2-handed weapon and a large shield with no penalty, so they become absolute monsters in melee when that all comes online.
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>>163457297
>>163457336
The reason is because 2swords are as good as any other class's big two-handed weapon, and 3swords take a huge skill investment to use properly, so typically 2sword + shield is better than just a 3sword.
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>>163457297
>>163457336
Riposte procs only on evasion
The reason for shields with longswords only is because, from my opinion, their base damage and all isnt that high nor anything like axes or maces and such
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>>163454945
It's more of a sandbox or simulation than a game. And it's not all that good at those either. It's full of junk, and a basic things like NPCs and hordes don't work well at all. Also the approach to balance problems seems to be adding options.

Basically they delegate responsibility for actually making things fun to the player, which doesn't gel well with roguelike players that want to optimise everything and beat the game.
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another pcb player pointed me towards a classic chardump of a Nightmare mode winner in Entroband (closely related to PCB). The comments are a fun and lengthy read, which is why I'm sharing it here.

Reading a dump like this is much more fun than just looking at somebody's stats and inventory and trying to piece out what happened.

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5295
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p10 bump

I'd post actual roguelike gameplay content but I'm working on a project right now
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vg moving quickly today huh
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>delete light spell since I found the staff
>gets destroyed by fire
Oops.

Gray mage seems like it's probably the strongest mage type, since it allows you to ignore the fact that half the spells in a realm are useless.
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>>163465785
you can also cast while blinded and without having to burn inventory slots

seems great
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guys i have the plan for the ultimate pcb character:

beastman potionmaster. duplicate potions of polymorph until you have every beneficial mutation in the game, and since you're beastman you can have many more muts than a normal race before encountering regen penalties
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What are your experiences with Kiku? Everyone seems to jizz over him on tavern but from what little I've played, he doesn't seem to be that incredible. But then again, I've never won with him.
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>>163467115
actually fuck potions of poly are apparently level 50

so there's almost nothing high enough level to turn into them, except shit like stoneskin/giantstrength plus *healing*/augmentation/etc
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Aww yee!

>>163467115
Lots of mutations basically require cure wounds/healing staves, even as a beastman. I think when I tried something like this, I ended up at about 1 hp recovered per 15 turns. Not sure what my regen rate was though.
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>>163467936
It doesn't even sound that useful unless you're trying to stack +dam with all the extra mutant attacks or something.

You'd get what, +3 speed and some stats and a bunch of actives no one has used ever.
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>>163467371
Good for necros at least. That's all I've ever used him with.
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DCSS is bullshit and I just lost my Rogue character to some bullshit emultor crashing. How do I into PCB? I can play Angband no prob but I have immense difficulty trying to comprehend PCB.
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>>163445201
It's totally fine. You get a weapon to 1.0 delay and combined with your amazing evasion and bend time you don't give a shit once you've dropped your mp bar. Stop being a badwiki little shit
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>>163455986
VpEn of Battlemage hep
MuSu of sif
HO* of the Invoc gods
HONe of Kiku
SpEn
HEAM
HESk
DrTM
DrCj played to color
MfIE hybrid
OpIE/FE for those dank enhancers
DsMo until you get monstrous, song of slaying, and slaying gear.
OgWr
NaFi of Pakellas
HaHu of Oka
Dg/HuWn
TeCj
GrEE of Chei
DDBe/Fi
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>>163469846
>It's totally fine. Bluh bluh I know this because I must be the best and I think you are a wikifag who knows nothing.
Except the part that the new player asking for advice died >>163449195
because of cheimove and a lack of game experience that combined to run him out of mana while being unable to retreat, as lamentably expected by my post, faggot.
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>>163469835
Follow the pasta, actually start following the pasta, win, begin the quest to reclaim the 150 hours of your life you'll never get back.

Give Sil, brogue, infra arcana, forays into norrendin a go. Sil has a great tutorial and manual that cover the mechanics so you really feel like you know what you're doing.
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>>163470085
>Pakellas
Anon, I
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>>163470351
>18 EV
>Didn't teleport
Chei wasn't the problem but go ahead and keep talking out your ass.

>>163470410
>Not playing older versions
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>>163469835
what do you have problems with in PCB that ain't in angband?
are you just having trouble with understanding quests/the world map?
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>>163470896
>are you just having trouble with understanding quests/the world map?
Yeah, the whole interface is kind of unwieldy and cumbersome. Think dwarf fortress the first time you play. For example, with Angband i can actually read spell descriptions before learning them, in PCB apparently some classes I just have to know what the spell does, because it won't let me read the descriptions until after I learn them.
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>>163471220
there's just a separate key for reading spell descriptions in books

with vi-keys turned on it's P, i think by default it's B maybe?
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>>163467371
It's more like Necromancy is fucking incredible even at low skill (Miasma, Regen, and Skeletons), Kiku gives you infinite dead bodies to play with, gives you spellbooks ASAP unlike Sif, and also Pain Brand
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>>163471343
Yeah, but you can't read them until you learn the spell.

Normally this doesn't really matter since there's not much reason to learn all your spells, but I'm running into this with my gray mage, where I have no idea what damage all the offensive spells I could learn do.
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>>163469835

>dcss
>rogue character
>emultor
>screenshot of aurora

what the fuck are you talking about?
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>>163470085

>HO* of the Invoc gods

Does anyone else think worshiping Beogh is a waste of a +3 aptitude?
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>>163471674
That's because it is.
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>>163471674
Yeah, they need to up the dice on smite since it's a bad upheaval
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>>163471560
oh actually i think being able to read descriptions for unknown spells might be a change in pseudo so it ain't possible in vanilla

>>163471629
dcss rogue and aurora are 3 different games anon. he's playing all 3 at once
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>>163471629
I think posting is a art
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>>163471629
He's just saying DCSS is bullshit as an independent statement.
And he's saying he lost his Rogue character due to an emulator (probably WINE or something) crashing.

And since he has eliminated DCSS and Rogue from what he might play, he is asking for help with PCB, and illustrating his confusion by posting Aurora, a presumably confusing game.

A classic example of stream-of-consciousness posting
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>>163470587
you are retarded, pretending I said something like "it's impossible to survive that scenario with Chei" when I am taking about how Chei makes pullkiting dangerous, to the degree that one is e.g. killed or forced to tele, retard.
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>>163472072
>an emulator (probably WINE
anon, WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator"
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>>163472072
Thanks, anon. You understand me.
>stream-of-consciousness posting
If only we all posted in this manner. Think of the potential. To glimpse directly into one another, to understand each other on such an intimate level, to even become one another. A radiant, beautifully incandescent love would surely arise in all of us as a result, and we could conqueror all problems. If only we could understand and love each other. /rlg/ is the key to world peace.
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>>163472119
But it's not dangerous is the thing. Chei negates it by allowing you to fight with much higher yields from from lower experience investment
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>>163471674
It doesn't really matter since warlords with polearms tear through everything in a 3-rune game and smiting, with decent invocations, can easily take care of stuff like vault wardens and a-liches, which is really all you need.
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>>163472693
nah, too intimate.
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>>163473942
>intimacy being possible on an anonymous image board
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>>163474259
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damn good reforge

too bad i already have telepathy and max con
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Which PCB class is most similar to a stand-user?
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When playing as a Vine Stalker, or any character with Spirit Shield, how evenly is damage spread between HP and MP?
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>>163474669
if you play as a possessor you could potentially become Dio Brando (after killing the real one and possessing his corpse)
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>>163475196
Not enough that you should rely on it too much. I've had near-full MP as a late-game vine stalker even at like 40% HP
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Bretty gud for finding in the wilderness on the way to morivaunt. That and 700hp is gonna make this fun.
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>no special bonus for dual-wielding greyswandir and werewindle
well, why not?

>>163476146
morgul weapons all have aggravation, don't they?
doesn't seem like it's worth the trouble
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>>163476327
they were never wielded by the same character though

but I still think it would be cool
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>>163476327
Yeah. It's early, It doesn't bug me at all though. I got retard zombie berserker str for tunneling checkboards too.
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>>163474481
still, could enable some nice equipment swapping later on

I mean damn, that is pretty nice after all
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hey wasn't she one of the most dangerous uniques in vanilla angband

she doesn't even resist stunning, what a chump
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On a scale of 1-10, is a ponderous +10 plate mail worth using?
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>>163477959
Depends what you're playing, I wouldn't wear it on something like vine stalker, which are better off with with dragon scale armour.

But, ponderous is one of those things you really don't want in a bad situation so if I was feeling at all weak on a character I wouldn't be wearing it.
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>>163477953
yeah she's pretty scary in V, partly because she's one of the tankiest monsters it has
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I've been watching this Hugo the great guy playing PCB and he seems to just dick around in the wilderness, do thieves and warg quest then goes straight to camelot.

Is this a viable strategy? Early game just feels so slow to get started.
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And people told me rings of invisibility didn't exist anymore.

Is this worth dumping XP into Evocations for?
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>>163479745
nope, not really much point. Since you're an unarmed user, you should look out for any book with statue form, and then pump earth magic/transmutations/spellcasting.
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Reminder to kill yourself at least once with a Fulminant Prism to increase your power level irl.
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>read *acquirement* on Angband:99
>get a quarterstaff of life (+1) and a broad axe of nature
what the fuck game this is like level 20 loot
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What's everyone playing today?
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>>163481609
Playing DCSS to increase my FPD:W ratio.
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>>163481609
poschengband

oh god i wish i had less than 50% failrate on staves of healing
although I can still wreck the shit of anything that doesn't resist stun because of the same weapon I've been wielding for 99 levels after Nami the Mate dropped it

it has +2 dice from a ring here. stunning weapons check (damage from dice) vs (1d100) to see if they trigger so it works extremely often now
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current char: http://pastebin.com/C7iReQTM

Ever since I got the gong I've been rocking it. Right now I'm about to tackle the last area in orc. Keep it on for the lul factor?
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>step on a tele trap
>Sent to another wilderness map tile
>Loot from the grendel/deep one horde I fought through
Hate PCB so much. I don't know why I'm stupid enough to start it up every couple months
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>>163481609
All I have played is Caves of Qud. I'm getting bored of it.
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>>163482454
>tele traps in the wilderness
what
they should only be there if some dickbag enemy casts "create traps".
but if someone casts create traps at you and then you immediately walk forwards and step on the created trap you're a big dum-dum
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>>163477959

Be like me,
>>163482425
let Chei into your heart. Then you'll be worshiping that armor.
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I figured it was ubbo spawns out of control making the level feeling go up.

It wasn't.

>>163482013
>oh god i wish i had less than 50% failrate on staves of healing
Better get some wizard gloves (do you even have that slot?)
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>>163481609
Won VSFi^Okawaru yesterday, tried to win the next game as a naga to streak but got fugged by slime creatures(even the small ones hit surprisingly hard) and now trying to get a character with Kiku off the ground.
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>>163482631
Looks like I ate shit on one of the traps the single ogre mage made while I tabbed the whole horde. It's irritating cause it wasn't during the fight but back when I went back to pick up loot. Give me my fucking detect traps power already this is killing me
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>>163482939
telmora arena m8

you can beat up a hill giant and a berserker right?
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If it has graphics then it's not a fucking rogue like you retards.
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>>163482996
Berserker sadly so I have to wait for my class power
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>>163482745
I even have wizard gloves in my stash, actually.

I have to swap a ring of combat +20 out for more rAcid to make up for the gloves I'm ditching, but it's probably worth it
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>>163483359
are you still doing the MAXIMUM HITPOINTS ZOMBIE BERSERKER

that sounds fun
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>>163484008
Yeah, I got the itch so I fired up another one. gonna actually look at the red T's this time
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with my newly non-terrible device failrate I decided to go kill little j
?forestcreation stronk

now do I use the scroll of artifact creation on a scythe of slicing, or do I save it in hopes of a diamond edge or an amazing set of dragon gloves?
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INFINITE
LOOT
WORKS
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>>163485117
update when you're done, I want to see what you get.
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>>163485117
on a scale from 0 to 100, rate your electricity resistance

also rate how sad you'll be when the ring of speed (+15) the first dragon drops gets evaporated by all the dragons behind him
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>>163396001

About this clumsy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmIhEiqoRUk
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>>163398339
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>>163485331
nothing useful, 2 randart body armors was all

not even any stat potions
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>>163482013
That staff makes my staff erect.

>>163481070
Yeah, they are rather bad in that way. I just made them generate randart ( * having big boost in item level )
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>>163479745
getting it to ~50% fail is fine
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>>163467371
zombies, simulacra, or hilarious defenses any time you want, pain brand is good, torment is also nice at times but not usually
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>a huge fucking Gnoll army vault in D:3

literally why
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>>163489231
You are a minotaur, ID those rings if you can or and some pots. Kill them. You got it easy there.
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>>163489231
it's the RNG punishing you for all that unid'd shit, you five int minotaur
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>>163489231

here's (You)r reply
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>>163489231

Just look at that humongous amount of stones by D:3, you literally can't run out of sandblasts even if you were speedrunning
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new thread

>>163489645
>>163489645
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>>163340167
>>163340271
Wrong!

Tummies first appeared in /rlg/ with this touhou roguelike screenshot.
And this particular conversation was the dawn of tummy time: https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/149503067/#149622561
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>>163491709
That dude was a catalyst, though. Seriously. Nobody would post about them today if it weren't for that one guy posting the same image in every thread for a few months.
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>play a vampire enchanter of dithmenos
>find a scroll shop with 3 scrolls of acquirement
>die
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>>163479165
hugo is consistently one of the (realtime, not gameturns) fastest earlygame players out there, though he plays quickly and incautiously so he always dies between the 2 and 4 hour marks basically. You get way more experience for killing things that are significantly higher level than you, so hugo abuses that in the wilderness for a little to jumpstart his character. This is pretty typical for mages, as melee characters don't really need the boost, but it's fine.

So yeah, definitely viable but not all that necessary. Most melee PCs can instead immediately do Thieves at level 1 (it can be risky, but much less so with a scroll of light and a potion of heroism, maybe a couple cure wounds) and then just go straight down stronghold. They may need to regenerate Stronghold 15 while using detection of some sort to find a setup where the boss is easier to take on.
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>>163484829
oh nice
definitely save it for a diceboosted weapon, a tonsofresists dragon thing, or a diamond edge though. If you're already wearing an uber dragon armor of some sort, use it on that.

Nice job killing the babble!
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