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Previous thread: >>143617578
ohio awoo ganbatte
>>143824909
>those defenses
Dude.
>>143825395
HUMAN PRIDE
DUNGEON WIDE
cursed blood races get out!
>>143825427
Who needs EV anyway?
>>143824606
>if he's not gonna use a two hander play a good race like human
I think that 2handers + shields is almost a trivial aspect of formicids, they'd still be very easy wins if they didn't have that.
>>143825427
>>143825542
CPA with -5 str does this to even the best of ants.
pls no die
>>143828627
I'll splat if I want to!
just got a acquirement scroll, not sure what to get, or to save it for later. i'm thinking either jewelry or wands, but afraid i'd be massively disappointed with a ring of tele or a wand of digging.
>>143825395
>ohio awoo
>>143829734
jewelry is generally a terrible option if you're not Op
wands are good, misc can be good if you have decent evo, and if your spellcasting skills are all 0 staffs has about an 80% chance to give a rod
>>143829734
Jewelry is pretty bad until you have the base types identified.
>>143829938
i got a vamp sword why the hell would i want a rod right now?
>>143829942
i might wait till i got more base types then, since i'm really hurting for something good in those slots.
>need to be not-good alignment to summon demons
>killing all the evil/undead/whatever monsters raises your alignment
Sure wish I could actually use summon manes!
At least I've upgraded from magic missile to this crap randart whip that does all of 29 average damage and trashes my device skill. But it has vampirism so it's still OP.
>>143830176
I would go wand. You have a substantial chance of getting heal wounds or hasting, which are both amazing.
Jewelry will try to give you base types you don't have yet and, well, there's a lot of base types.
Don't do it! Don't fight her! Just walk away man.
Goddamit, Wiglaf. Where the fuck did you got this equipment?!
>>143830482
>hasting
>
>>143830482
i already have hasting.
ps. I'm a ant.
>>143825138
Do you know Sky Rogue ?
>>143831647
time to wish for a bob and have a hasted primal oxbat solo zot5 for you
>>143832343
zot's not gona be a problem, more trying to see what I can get to help with hell and such, bob would be nice though.
good news guys, finally got my ev back up to double digits, all it took was the xp equivalent of both lair branches and the rest of the dungeon going into dodging.
New PosChengband video:
https://youtu.be/ilHRamBhQPE
This random teleport will surely be useful!
>>143836851
>[worried laughter]
How are demon whips compared to morningstars?
>>143837454
Strictly better.
>>143837575
it's a blowgun
>>143837454
you want an eveningstar my man
>>143838006
I don't have one, which is why I specified morningstars.
>first time trying Gozag
>bribe in Vaults 5
>a Titan allies himself with me
>>143839670
should have bribed zot
>these helms
Lucky personality is great.
>>143839738
>he can't afford multiple bribes
>>143839856
>tfw you blew all your money on shops
ok, how are these compared to boots of running? i mean I'm pretty sure running's better but i haven't had many games where I got running.
>>143840535
Running's better.
>>143839670
Me and my V:5 crew.
Having a fire giant makes things... interesting, to say the least.
Thank goodness for rF++.
>>143839795
>not playing a hydra to wear all your helms
Is lucky still worth it on those weird slot races that have a harder time making up for the lower stats with equipment?
>>143840535
Running is literally worthless unless you're on like d:4 and have no other escape options.
whatever slaying +6 str gives > gaining a square every ten moves
@143841363
>the new thing
>new
>>143841363
MuMo was ruined the moment it was "won"
Remember the shitstorm that ensued?
@143841614
we were only doing it ironically back then
i don't care if it was dumb, cloning Mara was therapeutic.
>>143841752
People have been taking MuMo seriously since day one. Such is the power of autism.
Swapping on health regen amulets was absolutely mandotory if you actually wanted to do extended without TSO/Makhleb
New Mumo rules:
All artefacts are banned unless they are terrible and make it more likely for you to lose
>>143841712
One guy yelling at his computer screen that the dude's win is invalidated because he forgot to drop his starting robe on D1 and did so in D3 was fun until it became obvious he wasn't joking. Even dicks made the invisible robe of rage as a joke for how angry they were, as a joke.
Too bad autists can't get jokes.
It only went downhill from there.
So is it normal for the inventory in mpa-PCB to only go up to y or is there something wrong?
This is still 4.0.1 by the way.
>>143842137
Well if the game actually supported conducts then indeed the win using the robe wouldnt have counted
New MuMo rules:Have fun. If you're not having fun, it doesn't count.
>>143842196
yeah mpa-pcb reduced inventory size by 1 in exchange for giving everyone a free stone of lore at level 25
We should ban rF from Mumo to make it truly hardcore
>>143842419
but it's in crawl
those rules are impossible
how about a completely naked mumo
only rings and maybe amulets allowed
>>143842639
so a felid?
What if we make MuMo like Lord of Darkness III
Change the runes to all pan and hell runes and no lair/orc/vaults allowed
What if the rules were fine
>>143842497
Sounds good to me.
>>143843153
They obviously arent otherwise people would stop having to ask for clarifications about them while getting different answers
>remove 3 cards
>since there aren't enough cards in it anymore, remove deck of wonders
>since deck of wonders is gone, remove deccks of summoning changes and defence
How the hell do you kill basalisks in PCB? I've been faulted for the last goddamn time.
Getting to level 25 in mpa-PCB gives the message "You have evolved into a Stone of Lore."
Here we are,
Born to be Pharaohs
We're the princes of all /rlg/,
Here we belong,
Fighting to survive in a war with the dankest shitpost,
And here we are,
We're the princes of the /rlg/,
Here we belong,
Fighting for survival,
We've come to be the rulers of the thread,
I am immortal,
I have inside me blood of gods,
I have no rival,
No foo can be my equal,
Take me to the end of your branch,
Born to be pharaohs,
Princes of all /rlg/,
Fighting and UC,
Got your Rune in my hand,
I'm here for your xp and I'll make my stand,
We were born to be princes of all /rlg/,
No man could understand.
My power is in my own FIST,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, people shittalk about you,
People say you've broke your rules.
I'm a mummy, mummy that will go far,
fist the moon troll, grab all the runes,
With my bandaged hands held high,
Got to clear the lair first time, yeah.
I know that people shitpost about me
I hear it every day,
But I can prove you wrong
'cause I'm having fun,
>>143843879
you really can't make this shit up
jesus christ
decks used to be the most interesting part of crawl
I got to the end of Lair as a SpEn and I feel weak as fuck, what gives?
I dipped into Shoals to see what was good and I get rekt by everyone
>>143843879
>here, we've removed this thing
>since we removed thing, we gotta cut thing yoo
>oh and thing really has to go.
Pottery
>>143844162
Apply fist
>>143844162
killing shit in pcb isn't exactly complicated
just dont fight them if you don't have the resists for your breath
basilisks breathe poison and greater basilisks have nether and i think one other element (disenchantment?)
>>143843879
I'm starting to think it's a contest, like, the devs are taking turns justifying removing things from crawl systematically and sometimes adding stuff on top to cover it up, until the whole thing falls and crumbles to dust. Kinda like Jenga
oh yeah they also removed salamander stormcallers
>>143844834
Theyre trying to turn it into a linesprint tabfast
>>143844890
por que
>>143844890
Good fuck stormcallers
>>143844739
Darkness.
Also you need Free Action since they paralyse you.
So which of the 3 decks left has the summoning cards
>>143845179
decks of war are a mix of 50/50 summonings/battle
>nemelex was always about decks of summoning
>after a million reworks they finally removed them
>>143846013
nemelex hasn't gifted decks of summoning for a while
they were OP so they mixed them with decks of battle to create decks of war
so now you get a 50% chance to get a useful card (summoning), a 45% chance to get a worthless Battle card, and a 5% chance to get Elixir
Gozag fucking OP.
>>143846684
>depriving yourself of precious xp
>>143847438
Nigga....
>>143846684
>[Hand rubbing intensifies]
>>143846684
>Friendly OoF
>Neutral OoF
>That draconian getting fucked by his bros
Nice.
>>143846684
And that's a winner. 5 runes.
Special thanks to the rF+++ helm I found to keep my poor flammable ass from getting burned. Plus the +8 flame flail that carried me through the early game.
>>143847957
>ascended with 16864 shekels and the orb of zot
Mu of Gozag is just so damned optimal.
>>143848376
Not having to shell out for food shops is definitely nice. I also found means you effectively get an "extra" shop offered every time you set one up, since the otherwise mandatory food shop offering doesn't appear.
The downside is, well, you have to be a Mu, with all the wonderful aptitudes that brings with it.
>>143848551
Mummies have average aptitudes. THey're basically humans that don't need to eat
>>143847957
Nice job man. How'd you like MuFi^Gozag?
>>143848634
>-2 across the board
>average
>>143848634
>Mu
>Average apts
They're pretty shit, anon. Mu are definitely the most fun race though.
>>143848703
>>143848742
They also gain exp terribly slow, making it even worse
>>143848634
Straight -2s is not average.
Oh yeah, and Gozag lets mummies get potion effects that are otherwise impossible.
>>143848662
Gl actually. I can't live without those damn nets in the early game.
It was pretty interesting, being my first Mu win and my first Gozag win. Potion petition really helped out in some tight situations and Bribe is goddamn broken-tier.
Honestly the shops probably made the least impact of all, although still nice.
Also new Elf is hell, who the fuck thought those elementalists were a good idea?
>hurr some players abuse killholes so we'll just completely fuck over everyone
>>143848914
the key now is to make like 10 killholes
So if one gets blown up you go to the second
>>143848914
Gl is a great mummy start too, since you don't really want to use your starting shield right off the bat. For elf, you just didn't dig enough killholes. Those new guys still fall to a 3 or 4 path killhole.
>>143849282
>Those new guys still fall to a 3 or 4 path killhole.
How? Every single turn they obliterated all the walls around me and made like 6 more elementals.
>>143849378
You let your initial killhole get wrecked and break LoS to lure them into the second bend. However, a better way to kill them is by throwing a stone and closing a door to break LoS or break LoS with the unbreakable stone walls of the vault.
>>143849624
Actually that kinda makes me wonder why their solution to killholing was to make the horseshit elementalists (that just enforce killholing harder somehow) instead of just making the damn walls out of stone or something.
>>143849827
They'd actually have to address killholing as a strategy, which is problematic because of how crawl reallly works. They'd probably have to throw less enemies at you, more dangerous enemies that don't kill you just by being in LoS (IE no damnation or torment since the only way to mitigate it IS with LoS shenanigans that digging facilitates) rather than mobs of easy fodder and rework formicids altogther. Its a slapshod solution to a large problem, although I think a better solution is just to give elementalists, sorcerers, and annihilators a ray of digging or LRD. Perhaps the destructive ray that eyes have. That fuckboy who was talking about removing wands of digging was an idiot because he thought it influences the ascent, when the real problem is that it does very REAL work at killing most of the dungeon and makes a fool out of pandemonium. They'd actually have to come up with a new postend that doesn't rely on the crutch that is enemies that kill or ruin you just by being in LoS, and maybe a postend that isn't completely reliant on haste.
>>143850332
Solution: more custom hell/pan vaults with steel/crystal walls.
>>143850580
Killholes are actually pretty shit in most of the hells. Completely useless in Dis for example. There are some amount of pans with crystal/stone walls (like disco pan!), but I think just throwing more undiggable walls is just the same as the elementalists. If they truly want to address it, they need to make it less viable rather than making it harder to accomplish.
>>143850332
>crawl with smaller maps with less numerous, more dangerous enemies who give more XP
>removemore egregious LOS Cancer
>maybe XP for pressing > too
>>143848914
can't you draw the potion/fortitude/helm/elixir/alchemist/velocity to get similar or better buffs than gozag's potion petition?
>>143850897
I always thought exp on LoS would be a really nice change to crawl. Like 20% of the total exp value on sight, 80 for when you kill it.
>>143851720
you mean 50%
and then the exp you earn on sight and on kill is base seen/kill exp/number of times you've seen/killed that enemy
>>143851416
I dunno, Gozag can hand out some pretty nice potion sets.
Like HW/haste/might/agi all at once.
>>143851896
That's just Silly.
>>143851896
I don't think Sil's system would work for crawl.
Why doesn't anyone play Sil tho
How to fix elf
Its now called giant
The loot vault is filled to the brim with juggernauts and iron giants
>>143852097
Already played it to death.
>>143852125
Considering the usual loot, an exp piñata would be much better
>>143852097
Plenty of people play Sil.
Most people play different games in cycles though, and just nobody is playing Sil right now.
>>143852125
>WE'LL TAKE DIS
>AND MOVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE
Not going to lie though, I'd never go back to elf. You'd be free toremove itsince no one tries to go there anymore. I see through your posts like open doors, crawl dev.
>>143852285
Most good players already skip elf anyway because the requirements and risks dont outweight the possible loot unless you are desperate for a specific spell
No wait
guys
wait
get this
what if instead of destroying walls and creating elementals
they create walls, possibly stone/metal/crystal, and lock you inside your own kill hole
this way they kill your killhole, and also force you to waste charges of your digging/disint to get out, and if you try to make a permanent kill hole by making use of natural stone/metal/crystal walls you end up getting sealed in and have to tele out
Elf should randomly replace vaults just like the lair branches
>>143852575
That is scummy and degenerate because it could be abused by formicids
>>143852694
How? If you're a Formicid you'll just end up permanently trapped and starve unless you have necromutation
>>143852694
Its fine, formicids are losing digging anyway because it doesnt go well with their brute force melee designs
>>143852727
They create crystal walls where the empty space should be
which means that they can literally moonwalk away by digging the rock behind them
How about monster stone arrow and lcs get buffed the more wall tiles are around yourself
30% increased damage per tile and if its more than 3 then it always hits
>>143852821
You can already moonwalk away by just zig-digging in general tho
>>143852989
that gets you hit by enemies
>>143852975
wew lad I think we have a winner
also make them bounce off of walls, and make them cast it out of LOS, so they can bounce it into your killhole
>>143852771
doesn't digging killholes go perfectly with their brute force design?
>>143852575
>>143852975
>its already been pointed out earlier in the thread that the issue with killholing is systemic to the way crawl encounters work mechanically and that elementalists are just treating the symptom rather than the cause
>/rlg/ posts a bunch of bandagework "solutions" which work just as poorly or worse than elementalists
We'll make crawl devs out of you yet.
>>143853326
Oh anon, they're just having fun. Its pretty amusing to think of all these silly solutions and how a character would have to deal with them.
Who is the best god, and why is itAshenzari?
>>143853326
What if they make Deep Elf Death Mages cast only that Lost Soul spell, and make them cast it even when you're not in their LOS, and monsters can get Lost Soul revived over and over and over unless you take care of that Death Mage
What if you got a slaying malus if you stayed in killholes for too long because your character gets a wall phobia
>>143853517
My man. Chei used to be my favorite, but i can't play so well with him anymore. As I play more, I find myself going back to Ashen more and more. She is my first ascension god and most beloved.
>>143853545
Doom guy class when
>>143853545
Isn't this how it used to work, bar them casting it out of LOS?
>>143853579
>Claustrophobia (-4)
FUND IT.
>>143853545
Do you get exp when you kill something which is then replaced by a lost soul? Because if so fuck yes
How about elf:3 shows the corrupted nature of the elves and has been partially invaded by the abyss causing the walls to change all the time
What if Elf alternated 50% of the time with Dwarf?
>>143853942
they removed all dwarf enemies
>>143853967
better remove Elf since we can't fix it then
>>143853967
So add them back in.
Dwarven Firstborn, Diggers, Runesmiths, Forge Priests, Shieldbearers, Sharpeyes. Runic Golems and of course dancing weapons.
Throwing in some C and E too.
Necromutation is the new rMut
but since they removed amulets of clarity Necromutation is also the new ctrl q
therefore if you don't want mutations and you don't want to play jiyva/zin then you better ctrl q
>>143853942
>>143853967
>Its 1 floor
>Corpses of elves all around
>Wiglaf at the center, wielding the obsidian axe, shield of ignorance and a heavily enchanted CPA
>>143854718
But wiglaf is going to remove anon because he is still a mountain dwarf
>>143854824
>elf detected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvJsG4F2Img
This is the deepest I've ever got with a magical char.
What should I skill now? I've got so many books, I can learn most of the spells of te game, except necromutation and some traslocation ones like passage and Cblink. Should I still bother with fighting?
Also I've got a brand weapon scroll, should I use it on my +9 demon trident of venom? It has done wonders so far, and I also have ignite poison so I wasn't sure if changing it would have been a good idea.
>>143855106
Also skill screen.
>>143855175
aw shit, I'm also a pale draconian of sif muna. Steam breath is the best right?
>>143855243
Yes.
>Melee dude
>Breath steam
>Hide far away and blast him
>Ranged dude
>Breath steam
>He has to get close where he doesn't shine and you can easily blast
At first when I became pale I was disappointed, now I think that I won't be able to play any other draconian.
>>143855106
>>143855175
Your character is looking really good. That should be enough fighting for quite a while since you have a massive HP pool. You also have a really great spell set for dealing with most of the threats in the dungeon. If you can, post dump with books in your inventory so we can see what spells you can potentially learn and advise about defenses and other stuff. Otheriwse, you're looking pretty rock solid.
>>143855175
where ur buckler at
I wish the Infra Arcana wiki/boards weren't deleted. The new website where the DL is hosted has zero information on the game, and the readme/Tome doesn't explain a lot of weird shit or specific interactions (like if it's possible to unload firearms in your inventory, or if you have to drop them on the ground every time you want to unload them)
Game is fun as fuck elsewise though.
>>143855448
I have 38 books here and there in the dungeon.
I have ALL the spells avaiable. The only ones I don't have books for are CBlink, passage of goluria and necromutation. Maybe also death's door.
>>143855472
There's a runed one in vaults, should I invest in bucklers? How much shields do I need again, 5? I never used a shield on any char.
>>143855630
Luckily the game is open source so literally all the information about it is available at https://github.com/martin-tornqvist/ia
Code diving for info is certainly not the most enjoyable thing though.
>>143855903
I have no idea how to do that. I'll just keep mucking around in game and hope for the best.
>>143855843
If you really do have ALL the spells, learn haste/regen/Dmissile and a cloud spell like freezing cloud or Pcloud. Forget magic dart and searing ray, possibly shroud if you aren't attentive in using it.
You should very certainly pickup a buckler if you're going to stick with the dtrident. How much EV do you have? How many pips of steatlh? I think its 5 for bucklers, very small investment for large returns at this point.
>>143856114
Bucklers are 2.4 (Tr/Fo/Na/Ce/Og)/4(most)/5.4(Ko/Ha)/7.2(Sp).
>>143856114
Yes I have those spells avaiable, I do have 0 in necromancy for regen tho.
Should I invest on charms till I have 1% on haste? Right now is on 21%. Also should I forget repel missiles for deflect, does it last forever untill it's broken like repel?
>>143856187
I might just as well pick it up then.
>>143856358
Bucklers are 100% worth it. The only reason not to is to 2-hand. But if you are a master caster, you probably don't want to 2-hand.
>>143856358
Haste is definitely fine at like 10%, although ideally you'll want it at 1% if you can. DMissile is much harder to break, and does a better job of deflecting shit. Obviously, it IS based on your EV so if your EV is shit, invest it further. Dmissile is fine at like 30%. Get regen to a decent spellpower, it really does make the difference in a drawn out battle. Low spellpower regen is like getting a free curing, high spellpower is like getting a free HW. A little necromancy goes a long way.
Did Chris fix the Always small levels -option to work for all the dungeons in 4.0.2 or is it still broken?
Because it works in mpa-PCB 4.0.1 and it's great.
>>143856791
>fix
always_small and ironman_small not working on levels flagged as BIG was an intentional part of the code.
mpa scrapped the line which prevented this because it was stupid.
>>143857024
>it's a feature
>>143857096
Here's the change in question. Literally all it does is remove the line which prevents always_small from working on DF1_BIG levels (i.e. Orc Caves, Giant's Hall).
>>143857345
And of course I am cursed.
What is not clear about the rules?
Dicks only threw his fencer gloves at enemies because they gave slaying in his version, they're just overpowered EV gloves in later versions so they're allowed.
>>143856187
not in .18
>>143858478
What was changed?
>second floor
>FIVE STICKS OF DYNAMITE
Oh baby
Centaur and Naga bardings are getting merged
>>143859638
Fucking finally.
Hostile UFO spotted! And it's full of themed monsters - in this case, every single monster in there has a fire-based attack!
>>143844391
>>143860352
dont get farted on sexily
might explode
Jesus christ, Infra Arcana is so fucking hard and random.
Even with kiting and strategy, you get fucked raw 90% of the time.
>check whole map, there's a stuck door
>can't open it any other way than kicking it
>if you kick it open, enemy on the other side gets a free attack
>can literally be an entire chamber full of things that paralyze/blind/stun, or D5 enemies, on the second floor
I have no idea how the fuck I'm supposed to deal with this.
Am I doing it right?
>>143862134
All those potentials should be Superb.
>>143862195
Are you implying I did it wrong? I have no idea what I'm doing so it's very possible, I only made sure learning and charisma were high, I wanna farm and buy/sell for lots.
Also it's Elona+ so it might be a change they made?
>>143860856
Or it might ruin the nice items I keep finding, like this one! By the way, nobody can cheat as much at Sokoban as I do. If this continues, my luck will soon be at -13.
>>143842196
Did MPA change the way the labyrinth works as well?
I forgot tree would cancel out my tele
how fucked am I?
>>143863198
pretty fucked
does your god let you do some kind swappy thing?
Can you swap Lernean Hydra for your ancestral Ghost?
If you can, maybe you can shit out as many summons as possible before it swims back to you
>>143863835
The only thing I can summon are butterflies
>>143862695
Yes, it's similar now to all other dungeons with no stupid darkness.
>>143864014
better sputterfly pretty fast, then
>>143864017
The fuck is the point then? Even by default you can just detect stairs and autotravel to them, why take away its main unique feature?
>>143864014
no scrolls of summoning or decks of cards?
decks of summoning are hilariously overpowered, you can summon a pan lord with 0 evo
>>143863198
no haste for yourself, then wand of frost/cold to make a freezing cloud over the water to slow Lerny? Kinda late now since you're almost dead, but it's something
definitely something to think about next time
Fully cleared Eric's Stronghold.
Not sure why because it took so fucking long with all those summoners.
Killed like 7 other uniques besides Eric since they just kept getting summoned.
>>143865081
>decks of summoning
LOL SOMEBODY DIDNT TELL HIM
>>143865269
>wand of frost/cold
whats that
>>143866297
Th-they didn't get removed too, did they?
>>143866431
http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=4db263552158fb634bc7760c5c90c95b65f7bdde
Removes decks of summoning, changes and defense in favour of letting escape,
destruction and war generate at a normal rate.
>>143866384
jesus, they got rid of those too? Replaced them both with iceblast, which is just a cold fireball? Does it still make freezing cloud over water?
THERE IS NOTHING LEFTI actually enjoy the new iceblast/acid, fire bolt cold bolt was blandThe damnation change is still the dumbest thing
is the rogue-lite general dead?
>>143866725
>the sphere of damnation explodes
>>143866754
Back from where they came
Their autism was too weak
Reminder that the silmarils are power cores for Feanor's moon laser.
>ring of flames claims to block other clouds from spawning
>tornado claims to shuffle clouds around
yet every single fucking time a chaos crap spits chaos cloud at me I'm stuck in that shit
what the fuck where can a guy get some renewable cloud immunity jesus h christ
>>143869046
then I shoot of a fan of gales and I'm STILL standing in chaos
>>143869034
ima chargin ma valinor
Are 2 corrosion resist rings enough for slime pits?
>>143844657
Answer my question ree
>>143852474
>elf
>risky
I don't think so tim
>>143872454
>abyss:5
>tier 1 demons
>bad lcs rolls
>not risky
>>143872616
The only one of those which has any significance is bad lcs rolls. The rest are laughable unless you're going to elf with 0-2 pips of MR for some reason.
>>143854670
With high MR you can do ok without clarity. But yeah, they've switched out one "no brainer" for another
>>143871929
0 resist corrosion rings are enough for slime pits
>>143872616
If you go there with low MR and aren't yet ready for abyss then you earned the fault. If you're diligent about shouting and drawing out the elves slowly then you really won't have any problems.
>>143873709
If you can handle abyss:5 or have the MR then you dont need elf in the first place
>>143875085
There are other reasons to go to elf other than getting MR, anon.
>>143872141
Read the pasta and lurk more.
>>143844657
>>143872141
Hey /rlg/, remember that time a guy posted a screenshot or a dump with his post so we knew what was happening in his game?
Haha what a guy!!
>>143844657
anon it's always so situational that it is not worth asking without giving much much much more complete info. >>143876075 this is the only correct response, besides ignoring you because your post was useless and REEEEEEtarded.
>watching nethack wizard player at d27
>They are running around killing things in mindflayer form very handily
>Suddenly
>The cockatrice misses. The cockatrice misses!
>You hit the cockatrice! Your tentacles suck the cockatrice.
>Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq]
ghahahafug
>>143876075
>>143876252
here's an idea faggot, why don't you stop acting like a bitch before I show up at your mom's basement and stick my size 7 combat boots down your throat
New player to crawl, can I throw shit like potions of degeneration and poison at enemies and have it affect them if it hits?
>>143877547
kek
>>143879324
Nope, there used to be a spell that allowed you to create clouds with those potions though. But they took it out because it was too cool
>>143879324
No.
It was bloat.
>>143879474
>>143879490
Now I don't feel bad for not trying it while a wyvern had me cornered
>>143879756
Rule of thumb is if it sounds like it would be fun, you probably cant do it in crawl
>>143880257
If nobody is having fun it's probably better just to cut fun altogether
PCB comes so close to a good necromancer experience in a roguelike, but ultimately it's tedious shit.
>>143880257
you can still turn into dragon, right
>>143880530
as was pointed out yesterday, a Truely Great Necromancer Roguelike Experience would basically need to be its own game to do it at a really great level.
>>143880653
Yes you can
>>143880653
shh They might hear you
>>143880530
What in your opinion would need to be changed about PCB to make the necromancer experience optimally fun?
Well the endgame fucks everyone over of course but is there something different you were thinking?
>tfw I actually like lategame poschengband
>>143880973
Making the summoning exp penalty not so awful, probably.
Maybe android necromancer is good.
![400357cc0db869522303cf1802f31b50[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/2natYjZ.gif "400357cc0db869522303cf1802f31b50[1].gif")
>>143880764NOT FOR LONG
>>143880973
I'd move cold touch to be your unarmed attack, like how Liches have it
Unfuck the exp penalty for summoning (aka the entire reason to be a necromancer)
I love Zin. Smiting nonbelievers left and right while reciting passages
>>143884426
I love Beogh. Smiting nonbelievers left and right while rolling with my homies.
>>143864925
because its main unique feature was bad
>>143885045
I love Beogh, but when one of your main orc bros who's been with you since lair dies it's heartbreaking
![c64617838f0d8372e45474fce4ecb573[3].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UlpRQC6.jpg "c64617838f0d8372e45474fce4ecb573[3].jpg")
>>143885164
>>143886203
wow I feel incredibly sad for a moment
>>143864925
the real reason is that he was going to make it instead just be low-vision like in the Dark Cave but it looked like a mild pain to do so instead he did this (at least for now).
>>143886203
RIP vampire bro
>>143886203
Rip
>>143887935
Joshua Wells does not understand how flowcharts work
>>143886203
>>143886203
;_;
give me a DCSS combo to play
no memes please ;-)
>>143891632Random
>>143891632
Human wanderer
>>143891632
Vampire of Xom, a nice and agile race for the most swingy of gods
>>143891632
FoTm of Cheibriados
Branch into earth magic
become the impossible to eradicate pestulence of the dungeon, tunneling straight to the back of every single vault in the game, except for the orb of zot
>>143892412
you can shatter your way straight to the orb
>>143891632
>playing DCSS
you won't need our help with the memes, faggot
>>143886203
Jesus...
>>143892554
Aren't the walls all the way around the lungs 'unnaturally hard rock?'
>>143892571
