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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Here's a thing I haven't had to think of for awhile. This shouldn't be hard, considering you are in a zig.
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# ? May 11, 2016 05:41 |
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So I rolled a DrCj after blowing up my DEFE in Shoals, and now I'm back in Shoals and I look like this. I got the sick poison cloud > ignite poison combo down so now I'm just planning to pump fire magic? Might use Sif to forget the level 1 2 and 3 conj spells and replace them with the relevant spells in the starting fire book too, is that worth bothering with?
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:08 |
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This is still one of my favorite goofy things in Crawl.code:
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:32 |
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Found a book of conjurations on a lvl 7 DEIE, anything worth learning/working toward? These spells didn't even exist back when I got my wins.
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:36 |
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Battlesphere; a +3 apt in charms (which you want point in later on anways) makes it a trivial spell to pick up, and has synergy with magic missle for absurd mana efficiancy for single targets.
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:38 |
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World Famous W posted:This is still one of my favorite goofy things in Crawl. You monster
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:40 |
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Maha posted:Found a book of conjurations on a lvl 7 DEIE, anything worth learning/working toward? These spells didn't even exist back when I got my wins. Stoat posted:You monster World Famous W fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 11, 2016 |
# ? May 11, 2016 06:45 |
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Here's a thing I haven't had to think of for awhile. You can only cure stat damage by gaining xp, as far as I know. Maybe Zin or Ely does something about it too idk. SInce your base stats don't go below 0 (I think!) you're safe if you can wear a ring of +1 int. At least that was my experience on a VS who got degeneration from quaff-IDing mutation and spend half the game at 1-3 int and the other half at 0 int before eventually splatting.
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# ? May 11, 2016 06:58 |
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You can definitely go below 0, maybe not from Deterioration though.
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# ? May 11, 2016 07:13 |
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Akett posted:So I've been complaining about a problem for months and nobody's paid any attention to me, so I'm going to use a visual aid to help explain what I'm talking about so hopefully it can get fixed. That's this bug. It's known, and was apparently caused by this specific commit; the dev who made that commit is trying to look for a way to fix it without just reverting the commit.
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# ? May 11, 2016 07:37 |
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Thanks, guys. I love my battlesphere already <3
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# ? May 11, 2016 07:45 |
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PleasingFungus posted:That's this bug. It's known, and was apparently caused by this specific commit; the dev who made that commit is trying to look for a way to fix it without just reverting the commit. Ah, cool, it's good to know it's being looked into. Thanks!
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# ? May 11, 2016 09:05 |
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Two potential post-game characters lost in shoals now. I loving HATE SHOALS.
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# ? May 11, 2016 09:21 |
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I just lost yet another character who has cleared both runed Lair branches. I just can't seem to finish out a game so far.
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# ? May 11, 2016 09:25 |
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Here's a thing I haven't had to think of for awhile. If you weren't in a Zig, you could swap to Ely and Restore, then swap back to TSO (or make a pit stop with Zin to donate so you can swap back to TSO at a higher piety level).
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# ? May 11, 2016 13:11 |
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Darox posted:Wands of teleport are useful. One slot for more teleport isn't a huge deal, and it's a pretty easy drop if your inventory gets really crowded. I wouldn't want them on autopickup and I'd almost never waste a recharge scroll on them, but they have decent utility. Are you sure about this? It may have been changed recently but I distinctly recall encountering silent spectres in the crypt and commonly in tartarus, or at least common enough that I was constantly preparing for it. That said, they are easy but it's when you're trying to take care of them and nastier mooks decide to join the party that they become really scary.
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# ? May 11, 2016 14:17 |
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According to PF they are now completely absent from crypt. They have a tiny chance to appear in the abyss and there are a couple vaults that have them (Wizard Prison and maybe an abyss rune vault?) but otherwise they only spawn in Tartarus, where they are semi-common.
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# ? May 11, 2016 14:32 |
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Wizard Prison is fun to bust in on the dudes and push in their poo poo while they're completely incapacitated. Just don't go too far or you'll find a less than happy guard ready to push in yours!
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# ? May 11, 2016 14:48 |
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I like this entryway to the Hall of Blades. Very ominous! Also:
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# ? May 11, 2016 15:51 |
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Haven't seen this before. That's pretty cool.
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# ? May 11, 2016 18:49 |
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Brag: Up to a 5-streak, and managed to sneak 2 nemelex choice runs in there. Rank 5 overall right now! Beat: My god the pressure
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# ? May 11, 2016 19:06 |
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I have been idly murdering casters for a while an finally have a GrEE who has the two easy runes and I have no possible justification for failing to ascend, as i've access to two copies of the Book of Annihilations, shatter on offer from vehumet, simulacrum and Lehudib's/Orb of Destruction both easily castable + staves of energy and wizardry. Problem is I even with two +MP rings my MP pool is tiny (and one of them is a randart with -Tele so it basically gives me blurry vision, but it's +7 int and +9 MP) and hilariously expensive spells and my only defensive spell is Blink. There have been about fifteen million books of various sorts dropped, what sort of spells should I look to go back and pick up to avoid getting murdered from here on in?
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UberJew posted:I have been idly murdering casters for a while an finally have a GrEE who has the two easy runes and I have no possible justification for failing to ascend, as i've access to two copies of the Book of Annihilations, shatter on offer from vehumet, simulacrum and Lehudib's/Orb of Destruction both easily castable + staves of energy and wizardry. Problem is I even with two +MP rings my MP pool is tiny (and one of them is a randart with -Tele so it basically gives me blurry vision, but it's +7 int and +9 MP) and hilariously expensive spells and my only defensive spell is Blink. There have been about fifteen million books of various sorts dropped, what sort of spells should I look to go back and pick up to avoid getting murdered from here on in? Do you have access to a staff of power? Using that till you need to swap to energy can help a lot. Also it seems impossible for your mp pool to be THAT small with all those items. Try using Spellforged Servitor to clear chaff (with haste if possible) and save your own spells for when it matters. Most small groups of dudes can be killed with a single servitor and he sticks around for future adds as well.
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I Love You! posted:Do you have access to a staff of power? Using that till you need to swap to energy can help a lot. No staff of power, just a lot of elemental staves (but not earth!) and energy/wizardry. I mean, it's 56 which is actually fine it just feels bad because earth magic is very, very inefficient (your magma bolt/iron shot misses the rear end in a top hat snake). Though yeah, my Servitor is embarassingly amazing since I went and retrieved amnesia scrolls for my early game Conjurations, but that made the inefficiency problem worse if anything. I suspect there are cheap, effective spells I have access to that aren't blowing things up that I just don't know about because I've never gotten a caster out of the very early 'run out of mp against an adder/get smited by an orc priest' phase.
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UberJew posted:No staff of power, just a lot of elemental staves (but not earth!) and energy/wizardry. Just wield the staff of energy all the time and use shatter on almost everything. 1 shatter is more efficient than 2 iron shots and you can spend the extra turn channeling if need be, and you wont accrue hunger costs while just wielding it and casting spells. If you really need to up the efficiency be sure to wait until there are 2 or more things on the screen before casting it. Also LRD is your efficient go-to earth spell if you need something cheap but excellent for killing lil babies. Wait if your servitor is amazing why are you having efficiency issues? Just cast him and run in circles or punch poo poo with a staff of earth/weaponswap, you should be absolutely great if you have all that online. One thing to consider in the mid-lategame as a caster is mana efficiency vs. turncount efficiency. Yeah stone arrow might kill that big snake in 3 shots when it takes 2 iron shots but is spending 3 turns really worth it? In fact is spending 2 turns iron shotting really worth it (especially since they can miss) when you can just kite that snake into a room with 2 other snakes, hit shatter, and then channel energy for the next 2-3 turns? The answer is usually no; your high lvl AOEs are almost always more efficient (for both mana and especially turncount) than your single target nukes, especially once you get your evocations up to 15 or so and a staff of energy is absolute money. I Love You! fucked around with this message at 20:00 on May 11, 2016 |
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this is an awesome vault (heh) and whoever made it is cool and good
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# ? May 11, 2016 20:36 |
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I Love You! posted:Just wield the staff of energy all the time and use shatter on almost everything. 1 shatter is more efficient than 2 iron shots and you can spend the extra turn channeling if need be, and you wont accrue hunger costs while just wielding it and casting spells. If you really need to up the efficiency be sure to wait until there are 2 or more things on the screen before casting it. I don't actually have Shatter castable yet, or a Staff of Earth. But yeah I'll dance around with my Servitor more (who should be even better than ever b/c I used amnesia to get rid of Stone Arrow; Iron Shot is the weakest spell it can cast now apart from when it decides to cast Orb of Destruction at point blank)
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# ? May 11, 2016 20:40 |
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bitcoin bastard posted:
I've had this vault show up every single time this tournament where I have generated the Vaults entrance and I would like to see something else again.
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# ? May 11, 2016 20:50 |
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Every time I dip my head into the game design tavern subforum I am always pleasantly surprised to see the bonkers weird feature requests that are inevitably there. It's like visiting an old friend. I am always reading spellbooks when workshipping Trog. Thalamas posted:Haven't seen this before. That's pretty cool.
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bitcoin bastard posted:
it is a classic but it was better when you had to take the second set of stairs up if you wanted to know what down-stairs they corresponded to casual devs ruining challenge imo
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# ? May 11, 2016 20:59 |
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IronicDongz posted:Every time I dip my head into the game design tavern subforum I am always pleasantly surprised to see the bonkers weird feature requests that are inevitably there. It's like visiting an old friend. I won't take them with Ru either.
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:46 |
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I forget about Ru a lot tbh
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:51 |
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Don't Ru Forget About Me
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:58 |
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What's the percent chance of donald being in that? He's so angry and yet he has so many friends.
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:58 |
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Akett posted:So I've been complaining about a problem for months and nobody's paid any attention to me dpeg fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 12, 2016 |
# ? May 12, 2016 00:21 |
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dpeg has an SA account? Well then, let me gush a bit! PleasingFungus, dpeg, other devs who browse the forums I don't know: Crawl is fantastic. You guys put in so many thankless hours for such a wonderful game and even though it's probably not difficult to find me complaining about stuff, that stuff is so, so minor compared to the strengths the game has. Thank you for doing the work you do -- Crawl will forever hold a special place in my heart. Cheers
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# ? May 12, 2016 00:46 |
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Holy poo poo, Spider really loving wanted to kill me: Spider 1: Agnes Spider 2: Nicola Spider 3: Arachne, Norris, Mara (who appeared out of nowhere while I was fighting Arachne, cue exit pursued by a spider lady) Spider 4: Wiglaf Sage Grimm posted:I'd wield-id that longbow once you do break your current one, so you can get a better comparison between that and the triple crossbow (since you decided to skill that one as well!). As for the best time to do so, uh, I guess when you have to break out your guns and go berserk. +8 longbow "Fumpekaq" {venom, rF+++ rN+ MR+ Str-3} Should I keep this guy around, or continue working towards my backup +2 Triple Crossbow of Velocity?
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# ? May 12, 2016 01:12 |
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Does the naga speed penalty go away with certain transmutations? I can't find anything on the learndb.
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# ? May 12, 2016 01:16 |
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I just wizmode it and it seems that Naga 'Cover Ground Slowly' is overridden by form changing transmutations. Only tested with Hydra and Dragon, but there ya' go. Edit: Statue form overrides it as well, so you going from moving 1.4 to only 1.5. Nice.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:dpeg has an SA account? Well then, let me gush a bit! PleasingFungus, dpeg, other devs who browse the forums I don't know: Crawl is fantastic. You guys put in so many thankless hours for such a wonderful game and even though it's probably not difficult to find me complaining about stuff, that stuff is so, so minor compared to the strengths the game has. Thank you for doing the work you do -- Crawl will forever hold a special place in my heart. Cheers To add to this, what does Crawl need more people to work on, if anything? I'm not the best player, but I love this game and have some coding/graphics abilities and spare time.
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