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Anyone have suggestions on how to set up a lake? Getting the water to go still in a two block deep pond is giving me fits. Even getting the water to self-perpetuate is fairly difficult...

It's Zin. Primary way of dealing with mutations is to not get mutations

There's some nice ones, but most ways of getting mutations are heavily biased toward negative ones. Legendary Helix cards and Jiyva are about the only two I remember that don't basically aim to screw you sideways. Every single other source of mutation leans toward negative, though things like the potion or alter self doesn't lean as far as eating a mutative corpse or getting hit by a shining eye or whatever (Hostile mutation effects have pretty much a 100% chance to be negative these days.). You can luck out and get good ones, but... it's not likely, and if you do, the RNG was just merciful. Expect Nikola at D:6

Basically, the only thing that's got a good chance of actually getting non-character-raping mutations are demonspawn

Also you mentioned graphics. How dare you. (the graphics of the 1st halo game was above average compared to the over 1st person shooters in the stores at that time eg.COD 1)

*coughPChackcough* Anyway, your "More You Know! *rainbow*" for the day: A year is 365 days (Except on leap year!), or a full orbit of the Earth around the Sun. A decade is ten years. A century is one hundred years. A millennium is one thousand year. There's more after that, but they tend to be fuzzy in general use (Epoch, Eon, etc.). Halo has not been around for even approaching a century. Microsoft hasn't been around a century. Electronic computers smaller than a large room haven't been around a full hundred years yet. Moral of the story: Please don't tell people Halo has been around a century. That's very, very mistaken and makes everyone involved look silly.

Halo's been around for almost a decade. It's still got a year and just shy of two months to go. I'll give that it was pretty big for getting the Xbox off the ground -- that's important. I'd almost say that's a shame, though. Always sucks to see a particular entertainment device get largely stuck on a particular genre. S'kinda' like a TV that only manages to show spaghetti westerns. The westerns aren't bad, but I want my old school Kung-fu flick occasionally, yanno?

Anyway, off-topic, etc, etc. Reach seems pretty solid for your more-or-less-bog-standard next-gen FPS shooter. Solid experience from what I've been observing, if not even remotely enough to get me to even consider buying a Xbox 360.

I'm done

I guess I'm not doing it right since my Boxer has 200hp at level 7. 

Yeah, it's not terribly difficult to do that (Comp items or putting points into LP can make it happen pretty quickly.), but from what I remember seeing on the wiki (and from what I played, which was pretty far in following a party guide) offense >>> defense, so being able to take 200 points of damage doesn't help much if you can't kill things quickly... or at least it doesn't help as much as killing the critters before they can attack

Supposedly there's quite a number of ways to play (Though full priest is probably impossible.), so whatever works for you works. Level 7's pretty early though -- my 3xwhipper/1xpriest team's all level 11 and only has three distinct boss kills under their belt.

Whippers are pretty awesome, and I think they'll start kickin' serious tail once I get a decent proc on their whips, but they're not all that impressive in the early game. Especially compared to magicians and snipers, who just kinda' breeze through the first quarter-to-third of the game... and then hit a brick doomwall if they haven't been very freaking careful about how they built their character. Still have more trouble in the mid-late game than some other classes.

Proper spec'd boxer was, at least the last I played stick rangers much, an absolute and complete beast, though.

If you're asking what I think you are, you get a number of MP per strike, based on how high your magic stat is. When your MP pool hits whatever the MP cost is on your weapon is, the weapon's magic effect triggers.

Even a magic score of 1 will eventually cause weapon effects to proc, but the higher your magic stat, the more often it triggers (i.e. less hits between activations.). There's no point to having a mag score higher than the MP cost of your eventual weapon, though, unless you're a class that has some other effect tied to your MAG stat.

Figuring out what weapon your characters will eventually use and matching your magic stat to what they require (if anything; some classes don't need the added proc to shine with certain weapons) is a pretty big part of stat point allocation.

Short answer: Torches and <Insert Marker Preference Here>. I prefer signs, some folks prefer torch or block patterns, etc.

Long answer: Read backwards for somewhere between 5 and 15 pages. There was a fairly lengthy discussion on spelunking within the past week or two, I think. It was either here or in the planehacked thread, maybe one of the LPs.

Well, the big thing to remember is that you don't have to explore a branch to its end, just 'cause you're in it. As a general rule, you'll want to explore the dungeon until you run into the lair, which you explore to the very end -- or until something vicious (uniques, death yak swarms, etc) shows up -- or something dangerous blocking your way further into the dungeon. Once you've cleared out the lair and possibly the orc mines (and maybe parts of elf if you've got decent MR and rF+C) and gotten as far into the main dungeon as you safely can, then -- and pretty much only then -- do you start testing the waters on the rune branches.

Even with cleaning out rune branches, you don't attempt the rune until you've explored pretty much everything else you can to the fullest extent you're able, at least until you're seriously familiar with crawl and what you're able to get away with. I'm certainly not, even with a win under the belt, and so everything possible gets cleared out before any attempts on rune vaults. They're pretty much specifically set up to wreck you if you attempt them as soon as you possibly could -- and so you don't, until you're better prepared.

Do not be afraid to run away and go do something else. Just because things are going well does not mean they will continue to go well. You will run into situations you cannot overcome with your current resources, at which point you either go away until you can or you die. The former choice, cowardice, is preferred

Getting used to when you go to certain depths and branches is definitely one of the mid-upper level techniques of Crawl playing, though. Certainly takes time to get a feel for it.

Re: Wand stash; branch ends are basically the entire reason that you're stocking those things. Next time, if you've got wands in your stash when you attempt to take a rune vault, go back, pick up the better ones and then use them. You could have dumped most of your scrolls (ID, enchant, fog, etc; the ones that wouldn't have specifically helped you survive.), some of your potions (Agility, berserk rage), and most of your food (Sprig wouldn't have needed more than two rations to clean out a rune vault and get back to the stash) to make room for them. Swapping the poly wand for a higher-tier damage wand (especially fire or lightning, in the pestilence case) would have been a good idea. Definitely should have kept the better rods, whatever they may have been, around. The main point of running a Nemelex artificer is to use those rods to pump evocations through the roof and get ridiculous effects from the cards your dungeon vacuuming is producing.

Depends on what resources you've got. One of my spriggans looted the place by leading 90% of its contents out of the inner core of the building, killing them in the general swamp area, then using blink (which won't land you in a miasma cloud) + teleport control to get past the clouds. Fireball around the corner killed the oklob, dispel undead and mystic blast took care of lingering enemies.

It was an absolute beast of a fight -- harder than when my winning SpEn took on vault:8 -- but it was doable. If you've got access to something that can destroy stone walls, you'll have an easier time, I think. No idea if LRD or Shatter (if by some miracle you can cast it at this point) would work on the vault's walls. Burning down some of the surrounding trees helped, too, though I don't remember why.

If you're some poor melee sucker, I guess throw rocks at things to lead them out and pray you have a decent holy weapon? The bone dragon's probably going to wreck the hell out of you. Once everything's dead, you can charge through the miasma clouds and get torn to shreds by the waiting oklob and whatever wouldn't let themselves be lured out. I'd probably suggest going and doing something else You could burn a couple blink scrolls getting in and out, I guess.

Casters have an easier time, at least if they can outrun the vault's contents (Swiftness, haste, spriggan, centaur, blink + telecontrol) and have dispel undead and some high accuracy spell to deal with the wisps. You'll probably want decent rN, just in case the RNG decides to give you death drakes.

Looking back at the git branch maps, it's kind of a rip that there's one vault that's nothing but hydras and swamp drakes (a joke, at the point you make it to the bottom of the swamp), and then the pestilence and ice vaults, which can be harder to get through than V:8, Elf:7, and similar such nasties. These are not equivalent challenges