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Author Topic: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's all over!  (Read 104693 times)

Robsoie

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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #750 on: August 11, 2010, 10:27:14 pm »

According to wiki, those amulets stop :
    * Teleport Self, including scrolls of teleportation
    * Blink in all forms
    * Slow
    * Haste
    * Paralysis
    * Petrify
    * Berserker Rage
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #751 on: August 11, 2010, 11:31:15 pm »

By the way, Robsoie...
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Remembering this, and not wanting to count on my "luck" to see if mephitic clouds would confuse her or not depending on some random number, i prefered to avoid the battle.

You went from complaining about the RNG, to assuming that all the rolls would go against you. Good job! I think you "get" Dungeon Crawl. :)

Think of Dungeon Crawl as a series of 1000 coin flips, and if one of them goes against you, you die. But you can do certain things to vastly cut down on the number of coin flips that are made.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #752 on: August 11, 2010, 11:40:48 pm »

Suggestions as to what I should buy?

Wand of teleportation or a wand of disintegration and digging.

I just remembered that wand of teleportation works on other people and not just me, so for sure grabbing that. As for wand of disintegration, is it just a high damage missile spell that also digs out a square?
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #753 on: August 12, 2010, 12:45:01 am »

After an early game with barely any rings at all, my deep elf conjurer recently found this:
Right ring : x - a +6 ring of intelligence

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds!!!!!

A selection from my spell list...

Your Spells                       Power         Range           Hunger    Level   
e - Bolt of Magma            ########..    @---->          None        5
f - Fireball                      ########..    @----->         None        6
v - Sticky Flame              ########.     @---->          None        4
y - Orb of Destruction      ########..    @-------->     Choko      7


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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #754 on: August 12, 2010, 08:51:46 am »

What are amulets of stasis good for besides stopping my berserker powers?

It prevents hostile teleports, paralysis, and slowness. You can also use it to hide in the abyss, until you get the abysmal rune. If you worship Nemelex it's the easiest rune to get.

I just remembered that wand of teleportation works on other people and not just me, so for sure grabbing that. As for wand of disintegration, is it just a high damage missile spell that also digs out a square?

High dmg depending on monster MR, instantly destroys most statues, poor man's dig (1 square), and causes monsters to explode into chunks!  ;D
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #755 on: August 12, 2010, 10:47:49 am »

Bloody finally! Wizard kicked the bucket trying to get into Vault 8. Was entirely not ready for it, I guess; the early guards basically raped me, and trying to get away ended up with me killed.

I'm waay too happy about this, heh. Was quite sick of playing that character.

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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #756 on: August 12, 2010, 10:51:30 am »

What are amulets of stasis good for besides stopping my berserker powers?

You can also use it to hide in the abyss, until you get the abysmal rune. If you worship Nemelex it's the easiest rune to get.

Explain please?
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #757 on: August 12, 2010, 11:05:31 am »

Too bad he died but Vault:8 is far from being an easy going, but congratulations Frumple for that awesome run you got there, 2 runes in this long run got you a great score and added lots of points for the team ;)

My little kobold fire elementalist is to my own surprise always alive, now level 14 (i was level 13, then drunk an unknown potion and was level 14 ! ) and i managed to get my spellcasting skill to reach level 10 while i am currently cleaning with a bit of difficulty Lair, so for now i can cast level 3 spells without hunger, too bad sticky flame is level 4...

I have a bit of problem with my equipment as it is now easy to get encumbered and i don't want to drop anything i have, as i am sure that whatever i drop will get him killed as it will always be what he would have needed lol :D

But always happy, as i managed to destroy a Hydra by shooting it with 4 fireballs, even blown up 2 yaks and badly damaged one with 2 fireballs.
Burned down several of those extremely annoying Blink Frog, monsters i have a specific feud with considering they killed several of my promising characters already.

I got a nice book that had stone arrow, so i will begin to learn earth magic.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #758 on: August 12, 2010, 12:31:15 pm »

On Lair:3 i encountered "Sildraith's ghost", apparently "a powerful MfTm of Cheibriados"

I don't know what kind of ghost this was, but it was an epic battle to take it down, no less than 15 uses if not more (thanks scrolls of recharge) of disintegration wand to take this ghost down, as none of my fire spells had any effect (the ghost resisted every of them).

His attacks were based on mephitic clouds that strangely had (extremely fortunately) no confusing effect on me (maybe the resistance to poison play in there), but when he was in contact, his damages were high.
If those clouds had me confused i guess it was guaranteed death considering how hard the ghost was striking me in contact.

So it was resolved by a battle of stairs to get away, entering by other stairs, blasting from afar and worrying of why that ghost can take that much disintegration hits, etc... , but finally managed to take that ghost down.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #759 on: August 12, 2010, 12:35:39 pm »

Ha! Perversity of the RNG, mark N:

D:3, Orc Priest hits a Mummy Wizard with a trident. First hit, dealing all of 2 points of damage, banishes the mummy to the Abyss.  ::)

EDIT: The mummy dies <20 turns later, chased down by a midge. Well, a midge, one of those u-something 5s, and a Large Abomination.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #760 on: August 12, 2010, 01:08:20 pm »

Is there any sort of weapon I ought to try shooting for with a Deep Dwarf Necromancer, or is it alright to just snag whatever interesting piece of rubbish gets shaken loose?
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #761 on: August 12, 2010, 01:24:25 pm »

Vampiric hand axe, for healing yourself.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #762 on: August 12, 2010, 01:52:09 pm »

Learned a new way to die...

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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #763 on: August 12, 2010, 02:38:02 pm »

Trying a kobold assassin now. I just ran into two halfling transmuter ghosts of someone called "razzo". On consecutive levels. The first one knew mephitic cloud, which would render me more or less helpless, so I decided to flee from the second one like a little girl. I'm worried that one of them may be guarding the temple entrance. :(

EDIT: Well, that turned out to not be relevant, since I was killed by YET ANOTHER ghost who also knew mephitic cloud.

Stupid asshole ghosts.
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Re: The 2010 Crawl Tournament Bay12 thread! It's on!
« Reply #764 on: August 12, 2010, 02:51:16 pm »

Ahaha, ghosts. My latest run killed off three of them. Smite is pretty rockin'.

Amusingly, I noticed my wizard's ghost already netted a kill -- my first ghost kill. It was an 18th level vampire summoner who had already nabbed 3 runes :D

A ghost with dispel undead is probably a nasty surprise for some folks :P

EDIT: Sweet monkey god... my ghost did 59 damage in a single shot. That had to suck!
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 83866 | Vault:8 | Noticed Frumple3's ghost
 83867 | Vault:8 | SSSHIIIIIIIIIIT
 83872 | Vault:8 | FFFFUUUUUUU
 83873 | Vault:8 | Killed from afar by Frumple3's ghost"
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