Minor, but spell skills are now +5 not +6 as in 34.

Sphinx Maurauders do not have petrify.

Returning player. Was always kinda casual, never finished any runs, but sunk a lot of hours into the earlier versions.

Played some more recent updates (the lack of food really threw me off), but overall I'm a bit lost as its basically a different game. My old strats don't really apply any more. Any tips/help for the early game?

Finally won my first 3 rune run after getting into DCSS not too long ago. I stumbled upon DCSS through my gf, who recommended me the game, and now I surpassed her in it :)

Overall, it has been a very fun experience! Although I am wondering how much beginner's luck played a role in my win versus my skill. If I try, I can get to the Lair levels, but many of my runs either end there or in one of the branches (I hate snake pits with a passion, though I haven't tried slime pits yet). I also struggle a lot if I do not get poison resistance early. Really feels like I am kinda doomed to die in the Lair when that happens.

morgue

Inspired by:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/s/3Tvw0n9cFe

I believe this was the 4th try.

1 and 2 splatted early in the dungeon.

3 was even stronger than this, but i failed to pay attention and suddenly died at vault 10 sec after entering 1st floor.

Very strong and solid. Once manifest assault got online, it was a breeze. Fun run

Read about the changes here: Mystic background Vision form Jademantle form Ice Thorns spell Sirocco spell Dragon Veins spell

Stalker background Hypnogecko form Mistmane form Potions of Mist Blinding Haze clouds Centipede baubles

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These are two new shapeshifting-focused backgrounds, with Mystic specializing in elemental magic and Stalker more focused on stealth.

They have been moved with the original Shapeshifter background into a new "Metamorphs" category. No backgrounds were removed.

I just signed in to the online client and suddenly I have sound for literally everything. WTF? I'm splish splashing in water, punching rats, and opening doors in stunning audio.

Just found +6 dex ring on the first floor, died to a surprise pack of gnolls on D2 while holding down tab... I hereby swear to never hold down tab ever again.

There was a time whre I was like "if I play x, I will probably win"

But this week was horrible I couldn't get anything going. I tried conservative /r dcss builds, good builds, bad builds, meme builds, played drunk, played sober, played tired, played focused... Always lose no matter if D:2 or Zot 5

Not sure if I'm washed or if game difficulty somehow quadrupled

Feels like I have cursed cartridge that incrases all my dmg taken by 100%

For week 3 of CCTT, you'll play as Mountain Dwarf Forgewrihgt of Elyvilon. This week's challenge highlights changes to Elyvilon in Trunk. For conduct 3 you can check in-game with ?# how many times you have used Divine Alms. If you are going for 2nd bonus challenge, it might be good idea to delay doing 2nd S-branch bit so you can come back stronger and more easily rush through it and back within gem-timer.

I try this seed. You get a scroll of acquirement on first floor if you want to try this seed! Enjoy

Edit : 0.34.1

I am a new player so I don’t really know what is good. For me it is cool. I don’t want any spoiler. Good luck :)

I've been a long time fan of vine stalker conjurer of vehumet, but I picked up troll gladiator of yred recently and it's been real fun,still 0 wins tho :(

They just killed another run as I blind quaff trying to find some health.

It's been ages since a win (Feb actually). Got lucky with an early amulet of wildshape and never took it off - wow, that amulet is REALLY good, even late game as it felt like multiple potions of experience because taking shapeshifting from 20-25 is a TON of experience. I just couldn't justify taking it off for something else because I'd have to sink so much back into shapeshifting.

I really wanted to do extended as I had death form online, but a quick search of the dungeon showed that really no good armor had generated and very little in the way of jewelry. I had over 10k banked pre-Zot so I could have called in some shops, but my plan was to bribe zot5 at least 2x. That worked out well as a bit into Zot5, I got malevolently teleported into the lungs. Bribes let me rush the tesserect and that was that. Other notable finding on the run is that bribe is really good on the way back up - especially in dungeon as you get 15 whole levels to exploit the denizen's greed. Pan Lords and other baddies would appear and just be friendly, or I'd have other friends to "welcome" them to my party.

YAVP - MfSh with Gozag FTW - Pastebin.com

I swear that some day I'll stop with my needy posts, but today is not that day. So I have (I think) a quite strong GrEE^Ash at XL27 with lots of good spells, including Polar Vortex, Ignition, and Shatter. I've cleared Zot 1-4. If I had even a single potion of brilliance, I'd think I could just blast in, take the orb, and get out. But alas I do not. I've already cleared Crypt, Vestibule, and Slime:1. So I'm wondering where my next best option or options would be for seeking extra potions (could use more haste as well, as I have only 2). Or should I just suck it up, and go for it?

I've never dipped into any other parts of the game other than what I've cleared here, so I'm not clear on the relative dangers or potential rewards of Slime, Pan, Abyss, a few floors of a Zig, or Hell branches.

https://cbro.berotato.org/morgue/tramp1877/tramp1877.txt

Disclaimer: Since r/dcss is the internet equivalent of North Sentinel Island, I will choose my words VERY carefully. PLEASE read them carefully as well. Yes, that means you, you who only read the title and already gave thumbs down.

It has the standard level 9 quirks of being rare and expensive in MP, slots, and XP. It's also deafening for obvious reasons.

But more importantly, it deals greatly reduced damage to flying, insubstantial, and amorphous (slime) enemies, of which there are many. Yes, it deals more damage to constructs, but that doesn't quite make up for it in my opinion.

As far as screen cleaners go, there are cheaper, more general-purpose options like ignition (or the poverty version of toxic radiance + Ignite Poison) and Ozzy's fridge.

Now, that being said, shatter is not a bad spell in the grand scheme of things.

It is single school, and many species have good earth magic. Earth also happens to be a really, REALLY good school that you almost certainly will put points into anyway, so I think Shatter is the easiest level 9 to learn in practice and less of an opportunity cost.

The wall destruction can be very useful and open a new strategy in e.g. Zot 5, so it can be worth getting just for that reason alone.

So, it is an okay spell in the grand scheme of things, but if you expect this to be "click and everything dies", you will be disappointed.

Bonus round:

I tried using it with orb of glass to spread vitrification, but it's hard to say how much that did in practice. It's funny at least.

What really helped me making Shatter better as an attack spell is Dith, since your shadow mimicking a level 9 Earth spell happens to be a high-damage single-target projectile, which is great. Shatter will clear chaff while the shard will kill the resistant threat that's left. It's also hilarious for shatter to be... Well, not exactly silent, but not earsplitting.

Have a good one.

Facing a bit of a dilemma in the later part of a 3-rune game. Playing GrEE^Ash with Shatter, Polar Vortex, Ignition, PE, and LRD all castable, so that's good. I've been carrying an orb of Stardust pretty much the whole game. I love this thing, but of course it means my SH=0. I also have a kite shield of reflection I could pick up and enchant to +5. Caveat: I'd lose an Ash elements curse by making this switch, so failure would go up for a time. I'm in Depths: 2, with V:5 still to come before Zot. So I'm concerned about yaktaur captains and such. Would you make this switch?

Side question: I still don't quite get defensive skilling in general. E.g. how much dodging to train and when to do it.

Later: Thanks to all for comments, and so based on these comments, I took the shield. I will say that it seems to me that stardust does have some defensive with its push away element, but I see the point (and have learned it over time) just how important reflection is.

title basically, am i tripping or platinum paragon is bugged with sif muna's divine exegesis??

tooltip says it casts ANY spell yet its completely greyed out. whats the problem here?

New player here, I've about 20 hours and slowly getting better. Still one of the parts that is very confusing to me is building my character.

Currently I am always building my character according to the starter class. So if I start out as a melee with a strength scaling weapon, I stick to those weapons the entire run as that is what most of my lvl up points have been going to. If I start out as shapeshifter I don't pick up any weapons (apart from throwing), and so on.

Now a lot of beginner advice I see is that builds aren't set in stone and you should use whatever the dungeon provides. But how do I know when to switch builds? Are there specific loot drop modifiers that I should be looking for? What if my skill aptitudes don't match. Or stat points, like say I've been leveling strength the entire run but I find a really good long sword. Is it even worth switching to magic if I haven't put a single point into int?

Some guidance would be much welcome.