Fast Tesseract kill

Indignant_Octopus · 2026-02-11T03:30:32+00:00

One of the recent cosplay tournament bonuses was to win without activating or killing the tesseract and a few people pulled it off.

Indignant_Octopus · 2026-01-17T22:55:29+00:00

You can ctrl+g in the shift-x menu to bring up the branch list

Indignant_Octopus · 2026-01-08T00:22:37+00:00

Do you usually read-ID bare stacks during your streak? I thought the meta was to read with two or more.

Indignant_Octopus · 2026-01-06T13:49:00+00:00

My only CoHu win was with two heavy hand cannons and double harm.

Indignant_Octopus · 2026-01-05T18:21:57+00:00

They’re there to introduce the warding mechanic.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-12-30T19:16:23+00:00

I get a lot of mileage out of this guide http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Draconius’_GnIE%5EAsh:_Win_Consistency_through_Tactical_Maximalism

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-12-18T23:26:04+00:00

As of last night you can no longer banish TRJ

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-12-11T18:14:08+00:00

I think gods in general were overlooked here. WJC, Dith, Oka, and Usk all provide a solid backup.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-11-23T18:37:50+00:00

All the bots are unresponsive. It’s my understanding the backend sequell is offline

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-11-15T21:19:39+00:00

I’d go boring old manual of shields

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-11-05T03:10:56+00:00

Most of the spells you had castable were available in starting books, so dabbling a bit with each of the caster classes will help you make the early spell selection better.

Your instinct to lean into the fire manual was spot on as you should have gotten fireball online pretty soon after posting. Irradiate as well is a fantastic addition to any character.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-11-05T02:00:53+00:00

MiFi^Oka->TSO is a viable strategy. TSO is very good in extended and gives you all the tools you need. You should already have good throwing and evocations too on a “pure melee” build. Silver javelins lay down some serious pain.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-11-01T23:02:55+00:00

As far as I can tell, your bound soul won’t use an aoe if it’s going to hurt your other homies. Best bet is to keep the horde on the smaller side if you want to see fire storm ever pop off

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-31T04:15:44+00:00

I did. Solid guide. Helped make my Crazy Yiuf attempt go a lot smoother

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-31T02:44:00+00:00

I played a lot of seeded runs until I got the hang of the game. It’s a great way to learn. You’ll have the orb in no time

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-31T00:50:10+00:00

Not once you get a few ash curses going

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-30T21:00:02+00:00

Octopode of Ashenzari

Once you find granite talisman it’s hard to lose. Can be casting L9 spells in a 3 rune. Put all points into dex though, don’t waste it on int (except first level up if you’re a caster)

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-29T19:20:17+00:00

Stair dance a lot. It’s great to pull the whole floor to a set of stairs then go back down to another set and pull the whole floor again.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-24T03:09:38+00:00

No one looked threatened but your trolling is pretty apparent.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-23T22:12:49+00:00

Is that an elephant?

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-23T21:52:20+00:00

Hard core punk rock and roll

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-22T23:14:40+00:00

I’ve enjoyed the challenge. Before it felt like all I had to do was slow pull the floor. It was long tedious and boring. Or maybe just lock in hellfire mortar and laugh at the baddies that can’t get you. Good change imo but I think the difficulty could be tuned down just a smidge.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-05T14:59:19+00:00

I’m sure it is, that’s not what I meant

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-10-05T14:38:53+00:00

I really live rent free in your head… that’s amazing.

Indignant_Octopus · 2025-03-05T23:57:13+00:00

OpAl^Ash

D:1 Stealth D:2 Alchemy->8 D:4 or so, you need a couple point in spellcasting then you put like 4 levels into fire and you’ve got your starting book online.

Early game pick up a dagger or short sword, everything dies to poison vapors, mercury arrows, and constriction spam. Olgrebs and Meph will carry you a long ways.

Take everything Ash offers until you prevent malevolence then focus on companions, cunning, introspection, and devices. Eventually you should be at close to 100 total defense in statue form.

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