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[Graven]

Random teleports and you : Chapter 1, verse 1 : Don't.

[TripJack]

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christ... how did you manage to escape?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I have a question about skills for casters. As of late I have taken to turning everything but spellcasting and the specific skill off and focusing said specific skill so with a conjurer 33% goes to spellcasting and 66% goes to conjuration. Should I just be training the specific skill to a certain level or what? Also at what point should I start training other stuff like dodge or what have you.

[Leafsnail]

Generally:

- If you want more success or power in a specific spell, train the spell schools
- If you want more spell slots, train spellcasting
- If you don't particularly want either, train dodging/fighting/whatever else you want

Although after a while you might as well get a few levels in dodging, fighting and spellcasting since the XP investment for the first few levels of them is so small.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Okay that seems like a good guide to follow. Thank you for the tips

[Shashu]

My most ridiculous death so far: I had just started following Nemelex, I'm just outside the Temple, and Nemelex just gifted me my first deck. Card #2 - Wrath. A bunch of berserk grizzly bears and a berserk stone giant appear.

  4240 | D:5      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
  4245 | Temple   | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
  4346 | Temple   | Became a worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh
  4411 | D:5      | Received a gift from Nemelex Xobeh
  4472 | D:5      | Noticed a two-headed ogre
  4472 | D:5      | Noticed a stone giant
  4472 | D:5      | Noticed a grizzly bear
  4472 | D:5      | Noticed a grizzly bear
  4472 | D:5      | Noticed a grizzly bear
  4474 | D:5      | Mangled by a stone giant

[Graven]

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christ... how did you manage to escape?

Same way I got into the mess - random teleport 

10 runes so far, Pandemonium nearly managed to drive me to suicide - actual physical suicide, that is. I have high latency as it is, trudging through the endless halls with the 4 Pan Lord runes and only the minor one left does not help anything. Not to mention I'm ill, so I have to pause every 30 secs to blow my nose. God damn post-endgame.

edit : Also if anyone dares to win with Zin until tomorrow I'll be so mad.

[E. Albright]

I'm absolutely not going to join the tournament, but I will leave this tidbit of advice for any intermediate players here: don't just try to pick strong class/race combos to win with. Spend some time looking at obscure combos with low high scores (they're usually low for a reason), and try those out. The last tournament I did I had 2-3 "serious" runs, and the rest of the time was spent combo-sniping. I improved my skills much more by playing god-awful combos that no one in their right mind would chose than by playing the "safe" ones that would let me cruise along to the mid-game.

[TripJack]

how is the Crypt now? significantly more difficult?

wish I had a holy wrath axe...

[Xgamer4]

So, I'm standing on top of my stash quaff-IDing potions and stumble upon a Potion of Mutation.

It gives me Blink. That was lucky.

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EDIT:
Also, walking into the Orcish Mines as an Apostle of Beogh is insane. Forget getting surrounded. I drop down a level and immediately gain lots of allies.

[monk12]

Welp, today I learned that Water Elementals can keep you from reading scrolls or casting spells. Apparently it's easy to break by moving away from the elemental, but I also happened to be in a net. I suppose a death where I learn something is better than YASD, though I still should have just run the hell away instead of being drunk on poison arrow abuse.

[quinnr]

If there is a beginner-level team that needs an extra person, I'd like to join. I don't know how much time I'll be able to devote to it though, so if anyone else would like to fill up the spots, feel free to before me. I got to the Lair once, but it was a year or so ago, so I definitely belong on the lowest level team there is xD

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Welcome to the Bay12 Nobles team. For those who joined after we filled the other teams so skill matter not. Hope you have a fun time though do note that it takes a while for the tournament page to update so it could take a while to show up on the team.

[tompliss]

I'm easily strong enough to survive the Abyss, and my constriction (playing a Naga) should somewhat counteract the annoying possibility of blinking my enemies to safety.

It won't, I think. Constrict doesn't prevent any TP. That's something I learnt in the Snake Pit recently, with those Nagas and Guardian Serpents

[Antur]

http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Antur/morgue-Antur-20131015-110703.txt

Why you won't let me win Crawl ;_;

Seriously though, having no rMut and conservation are awful. Same with heal wound wands. And probably could have survived bit longer if i had killed wrath moth on the previous floor.