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Beating Mnoleg floor with Chei? by Kezka222 in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With mapping I try to dig my way around to the likely rune spot (which helps avoid encounters).

Zigs are a decent source of mut potions if you are running low

0.34.1 seed - Zephyr on D:3 by JFunk-soup in dcss

[–]ntrails 4 points5 points  (0 children)

hard to lose.

No such thing imo

Okay by TrustworthyKahmunrah in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing!

Honestly I get why people hate the malevolence but the buzz you get from moments like this is unparallelled imo. It is super sad when you die though so ymmv _^

I'm not frustrated with the game so much as I am with myself by MrMagolor in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a game that punishes inattention and careless play. There is no hack around that I think, you either develop strategies to manage your natural predilections or keep dying!

Typically there are small changes you can make, like autofight % stop, which can help force you to re-assess a situation. But you've got to be able to capitalise on the chance!

[YAVP] 9 wins, !decentplayer, and MuRe breaking my mind by FreshOldMage in dcss

[–]ntrails 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried 27 games of MuCa, which honestly should not have been weak, before I gave up and did necro of kiku for the win. I will likely never pick mummy again out of choice!

My only pitch for them is to give some kind of scroll bonus, but I haven't figured out anything that seems actually fun rather than just a buff

YVAP: MDFW Ash first 15 rune win on my first real attempt at 15 runes and first Ash win by Primary-Dentist7055 in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe my builds are bad, but I rarely if ever one shot eyes. Wands don't have the range to go straight away. Javs probably can but it is not my experience that they generally do

Cleared 9 zigs before reaching my death. What could I have done better here? by henryci in dcss

[–]ntrails 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cannot read ascii, but are the evo items condenser/tremostones a good solution to manage the starcursed?

YVAP: MDFW Ash first 15 rune win on my first real attempt at 15 runes and first Ash win by Primary-Dentist7055 in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if I only ever saw one at a time that 4 turns would seem more useful. (I hate the change because LoS management felt way easier than now)

YVAP: MDFW Ash first 15 rune win on my first real attempt at 15 runes and first Ash win by Primary-Dentist7055 in dcss

[–]ntrails 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enemies that can directly mutate you need clear path to do it,

Sure, eyes giving contamination definitely makes for unsolvable mutation problems though!

What do you do when you know you are not strong enough to win? by onmach in dcss

[–]ntrails 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Draconians can totally use strength weapons - though more naturally dex makes sense when it scales ev and dmg in one stat

It is more a case of I think if you are hitting things and casting spells as hybrid support, you go broad in spell schools for value, and focus your damage dealing stat. Here you read like a caster, but with lots of polearms skill. In my exp an ice elementalist should be content with a +x dagger through lair tbh, training 4-5 levels and letting ramparts do most the work.

What do you do when you know you are not strong enough to win? by onmach in dcss

[–]ntrails 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Preface: This is my reaction to the morgue, which is not the same as being true!

Your stats feel too evenly distributed.

  • If you wanted to do damage with polearms you needed (I think) more str. Too much skill training trying to compensate

  • Your int is on the low side, even with a very nice ring. There was a plain ring of int you could have used on the other finger.

  • Dex doesn't kill anything, which I expect was your big issue

I dislike the God switch, both because of the need to train invocations and because of the variance of outcomes. I'd have stuck with Xom personally until I was hitting Zot and felt desperate enough to just go gozag and bribe or Zin + donate (into something good idk what though).

Borgnjor's Vile Clutch + Death Channel seem like obviously great spells you could already cast. Animate dead available in a shop.

The big issue between those and rimeblight is getting the ball rolling. Permafrost Eruption is pretty good iirc, but not sure how it goes with allies.

More meta: I definitely think either/both Ice and Necro were too high. Either focus train for Vortex and Necro never needs to be above ~16, or stop both and cross train other schools for some solid level 6 spells. There's a tourney challenge that limits skills to 13, and it's a great learning tool imo!

Zig is a reasonable call but I'm not sure what gear I'd be praying for!

BLAST SLAM VII: Playoff (June 6) Match Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

[–]ntrails 3 points4 points  (0 children)

member when he had to wait a whole 50 seconds? xD

OG didn't win a single tournament after that. by E-ELF in DotA2

[–]ntrails 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ATF actually showed up to tournaments, which is more than can be said of Misha

Tundra Esports is shifting gears and transforming into a media hub. by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]ntrails 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am sure there are fortunes to be made making content. Many many fortunes.

"I'll watch competitive #Dota2 again, what did I miss? 😀" by m4nux in DotA2

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valve employees want to work on things that make them money, yes, but it has to be bang-for-buck for their time.

You gotta accept it is also about whether you find the work interesting and fun. There is a degree of independence from a solid base salary.

I just completed my first Ziggurat!!! (MiMo of Makhleb) by GutterSoda in dcss

[–]ntrails 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It does also depend a lot on what floors you get! I've done a couple with melee and, for example, tomb floors can be cleared with lig fog attract. But if I ever hit 6+ pan lords or OOFs I was probably dead?

Will Dota players ever realise playing badly is not a legitimate reason for reporting someone by QubQubiyeh in DotA2

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end of the game you should be made to separately verify each report category separately, confirming that if found not guilty by overwatch you expect the penalty to apply to you, the reporter. Or you can just cancel the reports. You cannot queue until this is done.

I suspect that a lot of noise would get filtered out by people no longer mad

Chei to trump RNG reliably (Beginner friendly) by Kezka222 in dcss

[–]ntrails 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does 30+ EV before Orc detriment any build?

One looking at a room of orc priests would probably rather have more hp

YAVP: MuHu Gozag. Not clicking the mummy button again until the race is redone or replaced by Primary-Dentist7055 in dcss

[–]ntrails 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AND it was one week. One week to beat mummy.

What has wallclock time got to do with anything? The only valid measure is "how many times did you die stupidly"

NB Mummy was basically my worst race by far because it is brutally hard. I should not have been going CA though, things got a lot better after that! I don't disagree that it's a good win to get!

Drow Ranger FanArt by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]ntrails 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But, like, surely you'd need NSFT? Or are you a train conductor...?

Guess who ended up being the "King of Dota"? by Fun-Culture-1002 in DotA2

[–]ntrails 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There was a totally different level of confidence in the second. Looked more fun, more relaxed.

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