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Old: >>122111047
Re: the OP. Should I keep the lines on current events up there or remove them in future OPs I make?
Also I think there might be another /rlg/ clan now, but I'm not sure.
Should I do it?
>>122256625
imo, you should keep them.
>>122256914
Do you like fun?
>>122257840
I like fun but High Elf Skalds need a lot of loot
>>122258065
Well, I'd go with the rare fun choice because you are level six and can get there again in ten minutes if you die. But I'm not a streaker or anything like that.
>>122258257
I'm gonna slimify things and caste haste and have blonde hair with antennae and it's gonna be great
what to get
>>122259275
weapon to replace your shitty lajatang
>>122259275
1. A name
2. A live thread
3. Always Acquire Armor
>>122259324
>>122259424
t-thanks senpai
>>122259472
Do you even have axe skill?
>>122259548
i spawned with some as a wanderer ;_;
>>122259583
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>>122259619
i should've went for book to be honest
>>122259472
>acquiring weapon when you already have a lajatang
Should have went with wand or armor, like pretty much every other character.
Then you could post about your wand of frost instead.
>>122259583
>DgWn
May as well just savescum you easymode pansy.
How does Okawaru feel about Tukima's Dance?
>tfw you're the only friend of the creature you summoned
>>122260291
Considering you just ripped him out of his own world, you probably are, in fact, the only friend he has here.
>2nd character in a row lost to the abyss
WHEN WILL I LEARN MY GODDAMNED LESSON
>>122261562
What abyssed you?
Did you melee sonja?
Did you fuck with erolcha?
>>122260071
Okawaru is no longer so SHAMEFUR DISPRAY about allies
So long as you don't accidentally hit them or anything you're good
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>>122261614
it was a random ogre mage. i had a ring of mr+
i didn't even punch it once
Instead of the usual "what to do now", I have a better question - how the fuck am I not dead yet? This must the most shitty character I ever took to D:10. 4 AC, 16 EV, no offensive spells and one wand of flame. To make matters even more ridiculous, I just found a wand of heal wounds. It's also a Skald with 8 points blown into Charms.
On a slightly unrelated note, it made feel a bit bad about Harold.
>>122259472
Should have saved the scroll for later
>>122261562
I hate fucking spear..
Also should have just tp+d when you saw the mass and/or lich
>>122261919
Well you have a good weapon which is carrying you good right now
As for the armor, you rly havent found any leather armor or ring mails around?
>>122262574
It is with a leather armor. I haven't found any helmets etc. except for one +0 cloak. I didn't want a ring mail because it rises Shroud's failure rate a bit too high and now I have a +3 randart robe, so it looks a bit better.
What are some good mental only defects for an esper? Also, the anon who told me of the caves of Qad, I thank you very much. Holy shit, the amount of mental mutations in this game.
ladies and gentlemen, the chaos brand
...but that has got to be really confusing, either way
>>122262879
That shouldnt do anything right? I mean increase his dmg or anything
>this level layout
Can't wait for an unseen horror to pop up.
>>122263110
In the most technical sense of the word, it increases his HD by one, makes him easier to hit, adds 20 mr, gives it a second attack for about 60% of the first and may or may not slightly increase his health depending on if it's recalculated against the new overall health or not.
...
Also it more than doubles the XP, which healed up my drained stats (but did nothing for the cursed armor and rings of STR and INT I was wearing all the way down to D:6 before tabbitis berserked yak got me) thanks for asking.
I just giggled at TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything though.
>>122263218
>this level layout
That D level generation is a fucking sin. You just know it's going to be full of centaurs and speed 15 monsters raping you to death.
What's better for a Dex focused melee fighter, +4 quick blade with min delay or +2 scimitar of flaming with almost min delay? 5 base damage on the quick blade is scaring me.
>>122264000
depends on what you've already invested skill into. quick blades are shit without the electricity brand or tons of slaying
>how do I get your slimy rune
You guuuuuuuuuys
>>122266507it's not my fault /rlg/ is just too cute
Blessed are the yeeks, for they shall inherit Arda
>>122267240
Yeeks make the best meme knights
is there anyway to stop my psychopathic allies from charging the enemies when they see them? I just saw my farmer get annihilated by some...sleeping bear.
>>122268321
Caves of Qud question, sorry.
>12.7 in Conjurations
>12.0 in Fire Magic
m8
>>122269061
>conjurations higher than elemental school
fault
>>122268460
No, and it's absolutely terrible. I've lost two pretty great psionics due to my beguiled creature charging a slumberling - then getting charged by it. You can forcewall it in even if it's next to you but it can do a bit over fifty damage per turn - so you need to be like level 20 to survive two rounds in melee with it, or have great physical defences. There's no fix as far as I'm aware, and it's incredibly frustrating. If you find yourself falling to it, stop using beguile.
Silfag again.
>The Silent Watcher
>It may attempt to cause a hideous screeching
>normally found at depths of 1000 feet
Well, this is 450', so I guess I found a vault. Should I be moonwalking away right now? I mean there's probably loot but I'd rather not die like a bitch.
what luck
too bad I'll never use it
>>122269940
It's basically the biggest alarm trap in the world. It has a few ways to fuck you up but no direct damage.
>>122270994
It's going to terrify me and attract everything this side of the level, isn't it?
Well fuck that. I'm taking my 100 spotting xp and leaving.
>>122271093
This is why I love Sil.
>>122271093
Clear out the rest of the level, then come back and 'S'tealth mode past it.
The stuff in the vaults proper shouldn't be too bad. Silent watchers are monsters that get plopped down in cross vaults regardless of their native depth since they act as an obstacle instead of a monster.
whats the secret to success on hunters? Ive been trying all the races and i dont think i ever got past D:5
I either run out of ammo or get squashed by one high damage monster like a cyclops
>>122271657
be more afraid
Can Gozag's potion petition cure rotting in mummies?
>>122272530
Well I just wasted the free petition for it but yes, it can.
>>122269940
>silent watcher
>not silent at all
Lugonu OP
>>122271657
All into launcher skill . hit popcorn with the best weapon you can find to conserve ammo. Notice that at x skill and depth y you can't kill z so you just NOPE. Around late lair it finally starts to level out and you're getting launcher and ammo gifts to beef up. Keep trucking on launcher with little defense and you'll hit 27. Then go win.
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>>122274660
Nice. My corrupt cleared everything in Zot but a handful of Orb Guardians.
Feels good man.
>>122274660
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE I AM STILL JUST A RAT IN A CAGE
>running an Edain of Haleth
>-1 strength gauntlets, -1 grace amulet, -1 damage ring
>all cursed
>no staves of uncursing yet
>staying alive until 600ft through sheer determination
>also have insane perception and concentration
>Nan the giant shows up
>pelt him with poison arrows and get him to red
>he runs away
>chase him down with treachery gauntlets and sprinting
>step on confusion trap
>"Nan the giant turns to fight."
>"Nan the giant hits you."
>"You die."
reee
>>122275696
What game?
>>122275696
Hold off on crap wearing until like 400' where you can afford lorekeeper then?
>>122275696
Also, while inadvisable, you can take curse breaking in the will tree if your shit is fucked and you need it all fixed yesterday.
>>122275830
>>122275895
I was really holding out for that staff. Victim of the sunk cost fallacy.
>>122275810
Orc Genocide Simulator
>>122276000
Those fucking orcs....
>Two beauty and the beast jobs for a quick 90k
>Caught halfway to lumiest
>Teleport the rogue archer
>He heads SE but I figure since he's out of the line of AoE from enemies it'll be fine
>Next turn, this happens
I swear to god m8, it it wasn't another -7 karma if I killed you.
what's up you panzerbros?
Is Ashenrazi slightly different in 0.17?
I apparently got SInv but not clarity at level 3 piety
Also, any way to bind hands as a monk when worshipping her?
>look at the nemelex choices
>see OgEn
>look at current players
>johnnyzero is 15 runing it
why do i even play this game
>>122278939
To find out that Elliptic won a DDVM nemelex choice in I think 0.12
I must say, I didn't expect to see a toaster come winging it's way towards me today
>>122280660
Found some ultramarine power armour, and so far, I'm loving its effects
Is it possible to do Pan with a KoEn? Something tells me it'd be impossible to stab anything at that point.
Thank you rngjesus
For the feasts we are given
So if I want to try to be a magic user in DCSS, will I be doing all my damage with magic? Or should I pick up a weapon of some kind?
>>122282140
You should pick up a weapon skill. Probably staffs, maybe a whip.
JUST FIX THE FUCKING FLICKERING BUG IN DDA ALREADY
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>122282140
Pick up a dagger, whip or shortsword of venom or elec. When you reach lair you can do whatever you'd like, though I like some melee to reduce tedium. You don't always get one of those of course - a mundane weapon combined with spells will work, albeit less powerful.
Playing around with discord in pan in wizmode for a minute. I dunno if it's really all that viable at all. You can frenzy the lower tier demons but they can't do anything to anyone and at best are a momentary distraction. If you're lucky, you'll be able to discord some demonspawn into killing each other then some demons but at that point you really have to ask yourself what it costs to do what which is a lot, 27 spc, hexes, and all the int/wild magic mutation you can get cause no hex enhancers. All so that occasionally you can berserk some weak living monsters to do a little damage before dying or to simply irritate the field into killing it. While rare, you can discord the weaker pan lordsi nto fighting their fiends. It's pretty cool but I mean really, as a one-school "AoE" it's outclassed by tornado. You still need all the spellpower cause since the dev's are allergic to hexes but not obscenescreen-wide damage you need every % of success you can scrape cause Mr ++ monsters are like a 30% affect rate.
Holy pan, pretty much all the MR +++ which is most of them, you'll maybe only get 1 or 2 with a whole bar of mp.
In the abyss it's like 50-50. You can turn a lot of the popcorn against each other to escape but even agaisnt a common middling threat like a balrog, you can try a whole bar of mana and not turn it.
There's the potential for a little utility by using discord in conjunction with a mercenary from the mercenary card of living summons with middling or poor MR. You can say, monstrous menagerie a pack of harpies or two or one use of summon hydra then once they close to engage you can discord to haste+might them. But then they also will tear up each other. You can turn an enemy summoner's haunt summons neutral but once again, just a poor man's ghetto not-tornado. Whatever you use it for, you're better off with actual damage or better channeling. A note for use with mercenary, it will attack you while neutral but after frenzy wears off it returns to being allied
>>122282140
You'll train spell skills early while carrying around any shitty weapon, mostly as a way to plink people down. Later on you'll level a weapon skill to a decent degree.
Skills in DCSS take far more experience per level as they go up, without any more power per level, so usually later characters generalize into a large number of skills without depending on a single character archetype.
>>122282619
This. you can expect get 2 skills to 26, 2 to 20 and like 3 to 10-15. More with good apts, less with bad.
My last 5 runs have ended with me being cast into the abyss, even on a fucking Formicid with over 5 MR stars
Help
>>122284184
Happens?
>>122284184
I once lost two runs in ten games to opening a lair door, getting paralyzed on the first turn by a giant eyeball, then dying to a hydra that was also behind the door.this anecdote doesn't have a point other than "sometimes crawl is bullshit"
Neat
Is it worth learning how to use it just to use it?
How strong is Maud? Can I fight her with this wimp? I have a wand of cold, Shroud of Golubria and Okawaru's Hero/Finesse to back me up.
>inb4 why aren't you doing Lair first
because Orc is literally easier until higher orcs or Erolcha show up.
>>122284807
You could after you min delay and setup defenses? Crossbows can be an alright supplement instead of evo. I dunno how much I'd use that specific one though since it can confuse you. Be wary since you'll be sacrificng your defenses to soften monsters before they reach you though so adjust your mindset accordingly.
>>122284895
Fairly strong. Like mid-lair strong.If your wand of cold gets some hurt in you might but you may need to quaff agility and/or some HW.
>>122284895
You can almost definitely kill Maud on if you take Maud seriously.
Also, don't let people get onto you about Orc>Lair. Orc is much safer than Lair in the first few floors (especially if you lack rPois), plus (and more significantly) it usually has a lot of stores.
Watching elliptic win made me realize that the orb is hilariously easy to ninja now. Controlled blinking means that almost any teleport into a lung lets you pick up the orb in five aut.
>>122285162
*Confuse confuses *me*? Shit, I am not touching that then.
>>122285252
>tfw land in view of 3 orbs of fire
I loved that KoAr like a son....
>>122285342
Found it,
*confuse
A randart property that causes confusion rarely when the player takes a hit. Has a (number of Confusing artefacts worn) in 100 chance of triggering.
>>122285342
It doesnt proc often, just like *Corrode so its worth using
>>122256397
>mfw 2 of my wins are in the OP
Come on, step it up
Is it just me or did Sandworm's Lair become fucking weird when I wasn't playing this game?
It just keeps going... and going... and going... to the right. Only to the right. Plus the sandworms are apparently fuckhueg now.
It's stressin' me out, can't stop to rest or anything.
I just found the Sword of Power on D:4. Never seen it before... any good?
>>122286072
That's the alternative version of the sandworm lair. If you look carefully you can find pockets where you can rest safely while waiting for that big worm to come back around.
LET'S GO FUCCBOIS
There's a lot of shit in this seed and wanna see what route you guys take
>>122286264
Go team Butt Eel!
>>122285235
>get to Orc:4
>first shop in sight
>seems like there's no vault guarding them, great!
>suddenly Rupert comes into sight
ABORT THE MISSION
ABORT ABORT ABORT
I guess it's time to fight spiny frogs and black mambas without rPois.
>>122286192
Its dmg scales of your current hp, so its shit early but good later on if youre a berserker
>>122284895
>>122286769
>lvl 12 orc
What the fucxk are you doing nigga
Did you clear lair? How far into the dungeon did you go?
>>122287024
He does orc first cause most of it is fairly easy and you can get shops with nice things to make lair easier.
>>122287024
kek
but to answer your questions, I only cleared the immediate vicinity of the entrance in Lair:1 and cleared D:11 before going to Orc and clearing the first 3 levels almost completely save for an area with orc warlord. And now I'm going back to Lair, still no rPois.
>>122286072
>that light radius
>no clairvoyance
wew lad
>>122287341
Thats just stupid and pointless
>>122287606
Not great drops so far, and probably like 2 lanterns dropped during the entire game.
Thankfully floor 2 is normalwormlair.
>>122287651
He's his own man. He does what he wants.
>>122287715
Have you checked the shops?
Why is getting more experience and skill training in an easier place before tackling a harder location stupid and pointless?
>>122286769
>Rupert
>>122286264>Room of gob totems with a bloat on the other side
>Conj cheese to spawn blades on the far side
>Hot boxes the whole den of filth with caustic gas as the blades wall them in
>>122288602I did that too, it felt great
>>122286038
I put everyone's wins into the OP except my own.
Vitality and troll armour on a VS - pretty fun. I never played them much, so I'm kind of surprised at how strong it is. I really shouldn't be, I try to get regen on almost every character - but still.
>>122288823
not him but why did you not put yours
Wait what?
>>122288051
I'm so not used to checking shops in ToME for anything else than runes, I guess mainly because everything much better drops as I go on. I'll have to I guess.
>>122289202
I would feel wierd also the image is way more than large enough already.
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>>122289519Allahu Ackbar
Allahu Ackbar
Allahu Ackbar
>>122285235
>Orc is much safer than Lair in the first few floors (especially if you lack rPois), plus (and more significantly) it usually has a lot of stores.
For the benefit of people who might not know better, I'm going to point out some of the reasons why this is badvice.
1) The guaranteed shops in orc are all on the last floor, which is where Warlords and High Priests spawn, which is not somewhere you should be on a character that feels threatened by Lair.
2) The floor layout of Orc means that when you take stairs, there are often packs in immediate sight of the staircase and you have little space in which to act. Stairdancing to split the packs is viable, but for many low XL characters doing so means exposing yourself to unnecessary risk.
Yes, there are monsters in Lair that can be dangerous for a character an appropriately low XL character, but here's the important part: There's more space in Lair to kite, find stairs, and choose your fights.
>>122282563
>no hex enhancers.
RIP BOTONO
YOU WERE BEST
>>122289779
second point is important, lair lets you be stealthy and take on komodo dragons 1v1 and there are plenty of pillairs around. you can find an orc mage in orc:1 and get rekt
>>122278573
>Also, any way to bind hands as a monk when worshipping her?
No.
>>122289779
Thank you.
>>122289779
I may be a badplayer, but I get to Orc/Lair often enough to have some experience with them and my viewpoint is that where you say that you can get nasty pack spawns right next to the stairs in Orc, I can say that there's not really any kiting you can do against spiny frogs, black mambas or wolf packs in Lair (or wolf spiders/redbacks if you happen to get this variant of Spider entrance). Teleporting in an unexplored Lair is a death gamble, so you can only haste/blink away IF you have the resources available. At least nothing can straight up catch up to you in Orc except rare wargs or maybe hasted orc wizards who are pretty harmless on their own anyway.
There is one point for going to Lair instead of Orc though - Orc, without breaking sorcerer/high priest vault(s), gives less experience for the equal amount of levels traversed.
>>122291092
Orc doesn't have any XP or items until Orc:4 but does have a chance of screwy spawns.
Lair does have XP and items and does have a chance of screwy spawns.
Orc does have lots of piety though.
>>122291092
>At least nothing can straight up catch up to you in Orc
sixfurries
this isn't worth the trouble right?
all i have right now is +2 ringmail rf
>Enter Daikara
>Escort quest
>Rare giant right off the bat, didn't even move yet
>Move once, he once-shots the escort with a lightning bolt
Oh ToME
I downloaded Crawl 0.17 and the latest MarvinPA rc and now everything's set to not pick up automatically. What setting do I change to revert this?
>>122291417
It has gold and a chance of shops. You can also get ego gear off the orcs equips/
>>122291558
ah, the great "maymayl VS personal displays of affection" argument.
I'll grab the popcorn, my child.
>let starcursed masses split up
>kill them with AOE spells
>maximum gold from gozagThis isn't even very useful, but finding a way to jew it up is fun.
>>122291737
Ctrl+a?
>>122292204
Back when Gozag was introduced, killing tentacle segments would drop gold equal to the starspawn/Kraken's "value" for every single segment.
It was pretty humorous.
>>122292090
excuse me?
>>122292525
I said
the great maymayl versus personal displays of affection argument
>>122292278
No, I mean, the list that shows up when you press \. Everything there's set to a -, and when I discover a new item, it defaults to -.
>>122292620
That's strange, I'm using an old MPA rc and it works for me in 0.17.
>>122292525
I think "maymayl" means ring mail.
Also PDA is amazing and all, but you do need rF+ at least.
>>122292525
Ignore the shit poster. The PDA is worth it if you have enough enchant armours and a way to get rPois/rF without using a body slot. You might want to wait until you're done with snake to bother with it.
>>122292943
>you do need rF+ at least
In Zot and postend.
>>122292590
Why not hold hands while in meme mail? Wurely in tens of thousands of years someone learned to do both.
>>122292590
>>122292943
jesus was i reading that wrong.
i get it now
i'd like to have rNeg+++ and im sure i'll find a decent other source of rF sooner or later but i don't have scrolls anyway so it has to wait
just found a scroll of acquirement maybe i should wish for armor?
last time i got a shit buckler
>>122293695
Wands if you're lacking haste and/or HW.
>try playing on the US server
>shit lags to hell and back
>can't use Tab at all because I can't tell when to stop pressing it due to the long delay
>it actually makes me play much smarter
I think I'll stick to playing there, even though it's really fucking slow.
>>122286264Staff of hunger always winsInb4 sekrit room had fudSurprisingly good ally build option if you can hang on till the troll, get it techs, then plenty it to heck and back.
>>122293873
2 hw and 2 tele wands
good call though
_What kind of item would you like to acquire? (\ to view known items)
_Something appears before you!
_v - a wand of hasting
throw those rocks son
it's good for you
>>122294162
you could throw little ruk many times
or you could throw RUK once
>>122294059>Panicking cause I haven't got food lately and I'm about to hit hongre hombre
>Panic Telepathy
>See a flame dancer in the NE, nah wont be food up there.
>Search the rest
>Oh god starving. starving!
>Head down to the next floor and burn through a health charm and two potions of life looking for food that isn't there.
>Was one room away from food the whole time
I'm sorry starving african baby. I failed you.....
>>122294471
OgHu of Chei when?
>people still starve to death in Brogue
C'mon guys.
>>122295079
this
like nigga, go faster, it's not hard
i bet they are Z'ing when they get hurt
>>122295079
How you doin then.
Threadly reminder deep trolls give no fucks
So.
Daikara kinda sucked and I died twice to some bullshit giant horde + rares combo. I had phase door instead of teleport, and that's what killed me I think. So here's my question.
I have both movement and heroism infusion, and I'm thinking of going absolute madman with using both of them, maybe wait until level 20 to get additional slot for the 2nd one instead of replacing something.
Bossfight was pretty bullshit too thanks to a rare hanging around, but again, teleport saved me, so I'm reluctant to get rid of it.
Should I do any quests/dungeons before Dreadfell?
WHAT WOULD RLG DO
>>122295437
Are you in nightmare difficulty?
>>122295614
Nah, normal, but I'm shit and never made it past Dreadfell.
>>122295176
I'll try the seed later. I'm expecting to die to double-tap or paralysis+conjurers, never hunger though.
>>122296067
Well hustle up, I wanna see you eat dem words cause you had nothing left to.
>>122289254
Latest update made the sandworm queen hunt you down if you take too long, so that people would stop crying about not being able to find her.
fuck is this
>>122292943
>you do need rF+ atleast
Yeah, for depths and further..
>>122291670
Worst feel. Especially when it's an escort that you really need/want.
>>122296793
New graphics? It's not the Shoals.
>>122296793
Entrance vault. Really cool.
>>122296793
Un id's scroll and potion, for some reason
>>122291558
Always trust in the memes, lad.
>>122296793
>>122296953
OH MY GOD, i thought thats shoals, i wasnt even paying attention
I feel ashamed now
>>122293039
>>122296821
He didn't post his other gear so I don't know if he had a switch for more rF.
And Salamanders in snake do have AF_Fire. If he had a switch for rF, yeah sure, ditch, but having one pip will get you out of a lot of dangerous situations more than a few AC.
r8 my character
http://pastebin.com/6AVbu48x
>>122295437
Personally, I would take movement+heroism. Teleport is nice, but it isn't as reliable.
>Should I do any quests/dungeons before Dreadfell?
What haven't you done?
>>122296793
You started in Shoals, that's a rare joke start because devs want to have some unfair fun at your expense once in a while.
>>122297348
this game takes me for a fool, huh?
>>122297258
voted most likely to splat in the first rune branch for 2015
>>122297279
Questwise I haven't done anything basically, only cleared stormderth.
I'm thinking about doing the tomb because it's relatively easy if you're opening the coffins one by one, and I very rarely die there.
And alright, I'm doing the move+hero thing. Hero first, move when I hit 20.
Abyss should not exist. Literally everything about its design philosophy is not roguelike
>>122297603
I'll be the first to say that it's the worst branch in the game, but I'm not sure it goes against the spirit of roguelikes.
>>122297258
>Berserkeritis
>rFire X
>Blurry vision
>Deterioration
>Ez spells ruining your spell power
I hope you find rMut and stop eating mutagenic chunks like an idiot. That axe is an easy 3 rune win if you can survive until it'll carry you.
>>122297603
>>122297829
>not Tomb
>vaults almost exactly the same every time
>strategy always slap on rTorm or rN+++ and blow them up with AoE or CFlame while stairdancing
>>122296708
When I last played tome4, I would just telescum the sandworm lair every time.
It only killed me once.
>>122297576
>Hero first, move when I hit 20.
If you're replacing TP, you really ought to start with movement. That way you have some method of escape.
Tomb can have some pretty sweet loot, and as you said it's not too tough. The only place you should really be scared of is the dark crypt. It's pretty much never worth the riskbut I always do it anyway
>>122297829
not him but i suppose he means that constantly destabilizing the players with random teleports and erasing the map, repeatedly forcing them to recover from bad situations is the antithesis to the calm and calculated approach to exploring the dungeon the player is usually expected to take in roguelikes.
>>122295437
>using runes on a noncaster
bruh
>>122298314
There is still maprot in the abyss? Why haven't they removed that spoilery shit yet?
>>122298417
Shit nigga if there's anyone who's allowed to use runes it's a dwarf. RUNES ALL OVER HIS FUCKING BODY.
Have you never seen a dwarf, man? It's runes. Everywhere. Everything is runed, even their fucking nail clippers.
>>122298114
>not following the sandworms
>not getting caved in on and suffocating to death repeatedly because you forget that non-skellingtons have to breathe
Somebody get this hothead outta here.
>>122298569
But then you can't get rewards that are actually useful from some escorts. Escorts are completely mandatory and the game is unwinnable if you don't save them.
>>122298552
>spoilery
wat
>>122297603
I rather like the abyss. It punishes melee dudes for having shit MR and no stealth. A caster or stealthy character will have a much easier time avoiding things that can abyss depending on what spells they have available, and usually they're avoiding melee range so disto brands won't ever be an issue. Sometimes the abyss is even easier than a second lair branch or vaults if your character is sufficiently stealthy.
>>122298417
>not using shielding runes
Pleb.
>>122298676
u wot lad
>>122298676
Really.
Escorts are mandatory.
So what you're saying is if you get bad escorts, you can't win the game.
Anon what are you smoking because it doesn't agree with you
>>122298660
Liches don't have to breath either but you're probably not going to be a lich in the sandworm lair (except after you get back from the east, but the sandworm lair no longer collapses then).
>>122297603
Tomb is the worst. Statue form/lich form, haste then stairdance while spamming high level aoe's or using silence. It's just a stupidly tedious checklist.
>>122299309
>not clearing tomb with FIST
>>122299309
You don't need anything on your list to do Tomb though?
![[cursingintensifies].png](https://i.imgur.com/POlmXWH.png "[cursingintensifies].png")
>>122299309
>Not clearing tomb as a mummy
>Just silence and tab
>>122298150
By tomb I meant mausoleum of course. Doin' it.
>>122299407
You also don't need to survive it to go to tomb either.
>>122299407
He forgot to add TSO CFlame, but please do tomb without stairdancing, hasting, using high level AoE, or silencing.
You won't, because not stairdancing tomb is fucking retarded.
>>122299693
Forgot abj/aura of abj as well. Fucking summons
>>122299595
Well I survived it multiple times on a Berserker of Trog who didn't have anything on your list so yeah.
Silence does make it pretty easy, though it makes it easier to fault too.
>>122299693
Stairdancing is something literally any char can do so it's not a part of some "checklist".
>>122299595
BURNS YOU TERRIBLY!
>>122299506
>tfw undead take tomb as their first rune
>>122299750
Yes, but it's part of why tomb is fucking stupid.
It's like the new lair branch ends.
Pulling 75 snakes out of the rune vault is fucking terrible.
This is purposely made right.
It can't be a coincidence.
>>122300262
God, that's beautiful.
>>122300262
Coincidence. It happens when you play long enough
>>122300351
>>122300387
They'll fuck off if I go back up and wait for a bit, right?
>>122300262
LMAO
>>122300505
You wish
>>122300505hahahahahahahahahahhaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Yeah, no.
>>122300262
You should probably go do something else. You don't have all 15 runes, right?
At least it didn't berserk and got greedy.
>>122299857
>Using all the loot to steamroll the dungeon afterwards
>>122301041
Orbs of fire can't berserk. They're non-living.
>>122301094
actually, they can.
>>122301153
Stop memeing please.
Funnily, they'd be really easy if they could zerk, since they don't have any melee attack.
BLOOD AND SOULS FOR MAKHLEB!
>VS in swamp with no rPois, with snake as my other branch
>Figure swamp will be easier, as it always is
>Get chain paralyzed for 5 FULL paralyze durations by a wasp, go from full HP to 2 with red poison
Its like I was really playing angband. That character had such shitty loot drops. No branded plate, no sources of rPoison/clarity/stasis to help and certainly no hope of escaping a situation like that without trying to preemptively Ru bomb the hornet before it could get me.
>>122301235
dumbass
>>122299857
Won't they get rekt by Bennus with their dispel undead?
>>122303832
The real danger is those dog headed dudes with the staves. They have dispel undead, but they come in packs and scream their stupid heads off to attract all the other mummies. Bennu aren't bad if its just a 1v1 thing.
>enter vaults
>door gets sealed
>get marked
i actually ended up getting marked twice
i killed the entire floor in this one room
>>122304473
Flail is not a very good weapon type.
>>122304789
what do you recommend
>>122304953
morningstar, dire flail, eveningstar, demon whip, great mace
the last 3 are endgame tier
someone post mumo challenge image please
>>122305092
Stealth specialty, and the entire run was nothing but blood and chasms and screaming and no stealth at all.
>>122305275
I always wondered, why those six runes in particular?
>>122305035
Morning star is good too if it has a good brand like vamp, holy or crushing, but obviously holy evening star is god tier
>>122305275
So, I've told Sandman25 about this challenge and now he's going to take a shot at it too.
>hit Blork with curare-tipped needle
>he kills me with a puff of flame
What a little bitch.
All thanks to an early wand of clouds.
That shit never becomes useless.
>>122306448
Its every rune you can grab without going to pan/hell. I think the reasoning is that doing those areas would be impossible for such a character because of the equipment requirements.
>>122306769
What happens if you get spider and swamp instead of shoals and snake?
>>122307234
They're considered interchangeable. Just think of it as the lair branches, the vault branches, and the elven rune.
>>122307234
You just grab those runes instead. I think dck has done both swamp and spider in his mumo vods.
>>122307398
>elven rune
So the legends are true.
thank you
>>122307704
Calm down, anon. Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.
>>122306754
Congrats. I like clouds so much. Acid is OP.
>>122307704
Can you acquire better positioning?
>>122307704
How did this happen?
>>122307908
>>122308018
my last teleport landed me in the southeast room. i should've haste walked the fucked away.
>>122307704
>here, have some cyanide gas
Should i use +2 pair of fencer's gloves {LBl+4 SBl+4 EV+3 Dex+6} or +0 pair of gloves of Chimes {*Corrode MR+ Str+4 Slay+3}.? I dont use LB or SB
BULWARK QUESTION AGAIN
Does Last Stand (die when at minus health) stack with heroism? I mean does the minus health stack?
>>122308648
Fencers' probably give you a crapload of EV. I'd use them unless you're starving for MR.
>>122308750
AFAIK no, they do not stack.
>>122308648
Fencer's gloves. They're easily the best gloves in the game. Chimes is good, but getting corroded on hit is really bad.
