EPTI would say that you can usually get away with it following Nemelex though, once you have enough Legendary decks lying around.
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
I would say that you can usually get away with it following Nemelex though, once you have enough Legendary decks lying around. | ||
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worldsnap
Canada222 Posts
 I was stairdancing just fine, and then something, somehow, knocked me off of my stairs, and then i was surrounded, teleported around the level a bit, tried to get back to the stairs, deaaaaath. it was heroic. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
That said, if you're a squishy dude dealing in the bigger spells, it's better to cblink out of the stair section into the hallways and killdudes as they come to you in droves. Dancing is pretty dangerous if you can't take the heat. | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
guess I'll have to play locally T___T | ||
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crate
United States2474 Posts
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
On August 14 2012 03:00 crate wrote: You need to make sure you are using the correct telnet port for CDO, it's not the default. Ah, thanks. Anyway, why would they generate a kobold with curare on D:3 T___T Oof, CDO is sorta slow because it's in Europe (and I'm in MA so CAO is even faster for me.) Whatever, I'll be fine  | ||
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crate
United States2474 Posts
You can also try the new cszo server, apparently (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto and http://crawl.s-z.org/) | ||
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Misder
United States1557 Posts
 Fire storm op. IRC chat is pretty awesome I must say. | ||
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Salivanth
Australia1071 Posts
I've just been getting back into the game. I'm a noob: I have a lot of trouble getting past Lair, except for this one time when I played MiBe's and was able to get past Lair like 4 out of 5 times, and thought I was going to win within weeks. Then without changing anything I suddenly couldn't get past Lair again. On another note, does anyone have a basic build order for a Fire Storm DEFE or an Ice Storm DeCj in a 3-rune game? (Yay, I can finally actually SAY build order when I refer to Crawl characters, and not just think it!) | ||
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On August 15 2012 19:35 Salivanth wrote: Congrats I've just been getting back into the game. I'm a noob: I have a lot of trouble getting past Lair, except for this one time when I played MiBe's and was able to get past Lair like 4 out of 5 times, and thought I was going to win within weeks. Then without changing anything I suddenly couldn't get past Lair again. On another note, does anyone have a basic build order for a Fire Storm DEFE or an Ice Storm DeCj in a 3-rune game? (Yay, I can finally actually SAY build order when I refer to Crawl characters, and not just think it!) Go Vehumet, train Fire Magic and Conjurations fairly equally, with Spellcasting as needed. Around Lair you should be decimating most things with Fireballs, and Vehumet will gift you Orb of Destruction late into Lair. Make sure you train Conjurations enough to make that consistent, and then put some points into stuff like Shields/Dodge/Traps, then go back to maxing Fire Magic/Conjurations. Eventually you just Fire Storm everything to death. Try to pick up Deflect Missiles and Haste on the way if you can, as well as Blink, Swiftness, Flight, possibly Poisonous Cloud, and Mephitic if you get it early enough. Start training up Fighting to 10 when you get to D:20 or so. That's about all you need for any amount of runes as a FE. Ice Mage pretty much the same thing, except replace Fire Magic with Ice Magic. Abuse Freezing Cloud instead of Fireball. Mephitic replaces Conjure Flame. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
Kobold: small body, really easy to eat with to fight against spell hunger because carnivorous, good proficiencies, no glaring weaknesses except can't use plant-based permafood or Spriggan: tiny body, incredibly fast, great at everything but conjuration. Weakness: herbivorous, so spell hunger is an issue. get lots of int and spellcasting. If you want to play a Minotaur, I'd start off as a Fighter. Although Minotaurs don't benefit a huge amount from magic, they are survivable and Okawaru's traits are more suited to the lategame than Trog's. If you must be a Trog guy, I really truly recommend being a Kobold Beserker. It sounds weird, but because Kobolds are carnivores, they can eat meat whenever and the hunger drain from rage doesn't hurt them nearly as much. So yeah, KoCj/KoWu, MiFi, or KoBe is probably easiest to do. | ||
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ZaplinG
United States3818 Posts
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
On December 17 2011 01:50 myopia wrote: working my way through shoals, havent broken a sweat yet. opinions on the sword I just found? falchion +2, +11 speed -cast rC+ MR dex+2 I barely use spells and can spare the xp to train long blades and shields. does MR prevent mesmerize? that would be nice. lol I love reading the play by play of my early games. Yes people, I tried to sabotage my first win by swapping from speed lajatang to speed falchion. | ||
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
Beating my way through lair without breaking a sweat. It's kinda weird succeeding for once. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DwxZ6.png) | ||
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
On August 18 2012 17:29 Blazinghand wrote: Part of the problem I find, playing VpSu, is every minor engagement turns into a total shitfest as I summon scorpions and they turn on me, and I summon more scorpions, then finally imps and mammals to I can swap to safety. hmm, should you be casting summon spells with that high a fail (or rather, unfriendly) chance? o.O | ||
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crate
United States2474 Posts
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
What a well-designed, polished game. E: typically, btw, my spells go "small mammal -> imp -> scorps" and by then I should have found some other books to supplement my magic and I sort of roll with it from there. Hound and Ice Beast are both fun in their own right but lack the real killing power that Scorps brings to the table. | ||
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On August 25 2012 05:35 Blazinghand wrote: I really love the attention to detail in Crawl. It's not just the how brilliantly the game is played, it's also the little things. I was playing a VpSu, and one of my imps re-animated an orc, and it's like "The dead are walking!" whenever a corpse is animated. After a few times this happened, he re-animated a frog and it said "The dead are hopping!" What a well-designed, polished game. E: typically, btw, my spells go "small mammal -> imp -> scorps" and by then I should have found some other books to supplement my magic and I sort of roll with it from there. Hound and Ice Beast are both fun in their own right but lack the real killing power that Scorps brings to the table. Dunno, I find hound to be way more useful than scorps because it creates more summons, scales better with spell power, and doesn't screw you by being hostile. I rarely use scorpions personally. | ||
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