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 If you did Hexslinger start, you want to get your other Hexes, particularly Dimensional Bullseye, online.
-If you come upon a Manual of Ice Magic in an Ice Cave and a bunch of nice Ice Magic spells, then you might still want to try some small ice spells — Frozen Ramparts and Ozocubu’s Armour are pretty good, since you can generally just stand in one place shooting at things, though if you got Mule, that’s not really an option. Simiarly, you might want to get some other utility and defensive spells from various schools if you come upon manuals or if they are low level enough to train easily.
+If you come upon a Manual of Ice Magic in an Ice Cave and a bunch of nice Ice Magic spells, then you might still want to try some small ice spells — Frozen Ramparts and Ozocubu’s Armour are pretty good, since you can generally just stand in one place shooting at things, though if you got Mule, that’s not really an option. Similarly, you might want to get some other utility and defensive spells from various schools if you come upon manuals or if they are low level enough to train easily.
 Swiftness is also a nice Air spell to have, as it is a distancing tech that lets you temporarily get boosted move speed now at the cost of slower move speed later. This is perfect as a Ranged Weapons specialist: get enough distance, then start shooting and kill them, so that even if you are at <code>-Swift</code> and walking slower, it doesn’t matter, they are already dead.

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 Now, for Coglins and Ranged Weapons specifically, Okawaru will offer, with high probability, at least one hand cannon amongst the weapon gift options:
-* Acquirements for Coglins are strongly biased towards one-handed weapons. That means slings and hand cannons for Ranged Weapons. If you are from the future, on a version later than 0.33.1, and the devs gave in and put in an intermediate one-handed ranged weapon between slings and hand cannons, then this build gets massively nerfed.
+* Acquirements for Coglins are strongly biased towards one-handed weapons. That means slings and hand cannons for Ranged Weapons. If you are from the future, on a version later than 0.34.0, and the devs gave in and put in an intermediate one-handed ranged weapon between slings and hand cannons, then this build gets massively nerfed.
 * Weapon acquirements are biased towards the weapon skills you have trained. If all you are training is Ranged Weapons, then that biases towards slings and cannons.
 * Acquirements are biased against items you have already seen. Since hand cannons are rare, but slings are distressingly common ''and'' Hunters and Hexslingers start with two slings, that means a bias against slings, leaving a strong bias towards hand cannons.

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 * Affected monsters are slightly damaged. If there are multiple, they also get additional collision damage.
 * The monsters are pinned down and cannot move for some duration.
 The item is most effective on melee monsters with fast movespeed: their threat is precisely their speed of movement, and while pinned down by Gell’s gravitambourine, that speed becomes 0, completely disabling their threat.

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 And some spells that in theory could be distancing tech, but are too unreliable or too high-level:
-* '''''Borgnjor’s Vile Clutch''''' is the hieh-end Grave Claw, affecting all monsters along a line, and only requiring MP. It is a somewhaat high-level dual-school Earth/Necromancy spell. The problem is that Necromancy generally gives you allies, which are not allowed by Okawaru, and level 5 is just about high enough to require a fair chunk of XP investment (Grave Claw is better for hybridization as it is easier to get castable, especially since it is single school, and many Necromancy spells are disallowed by Okawaru).
+* '''''Borgnjor’s Vile Clutch''''' is the high-end Grave Claw, affecting all monsters along a line, and only requiring MP. It is a somewhaat high-level dual-school Earth/Necromancy spell. The problem is that Necromancy generally gives you allies, which are not allowed by Okawaru, and level 5 is just about high enough to require a fair chunk of XP investment (Grave Claw is better for hybridization as it is easier to get castable, especially since it is single school, and many Necromancy spells are disallowed by Okawaru).
 * '''''Splinterfrost Shell''''' is a high-level dual-school Ice/Forgecraft spell that is an excellent panic button — if you can get it castable. It creates 4 icy shell objects on contiguous tiles adjacent to you, '''''and placing them will push away monsters in the same spot'''''. The icy shells block non-penetrating ranged attacks and hexes (and obviously melee monsters). You can then get distance by simply walking away. Monsters destroying the icy shells, even using ranged attacks or spells, will take cold damage, but you (or your allies, except you are worshipping Okawaru) destroying the same will take no damage. The major drawback is that it is dual-school and high-level, and Forgecraft gives you few support spells you can use under Okawaru (though Ice’s Frozen Ramparts and Ozocubo’s Armour work well with a ranged weapons specialist standing still and shooting).
 * '''''Dispersal''''' and '''''Disjunction''''' are high-level Translocation spells that move nearby monsters away. Dispersal is somewhat lower level than Disjunction. Dispersal is a single cast that blinks or teleports all monsters within polearm distance of you, while Disjunction creates a buff that will continuously have a chance to blink or teleport monsters within polearm distance. Their high level is the problem. Disjunction is fun during the orb run.

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 Thus, even if Okawaru’s altar is at D:10, you can quickly grow piety and still get the <code>******</code>, and the almost-assured hand cannon gift, before entering S-branches. Even with Okawaru’s altar at D:10, you can typically get to <code>******</code> before fully clearing Lair:5 (rarely, in Orc).
-Note that you can always worship Elyvilon or The Shining One, or even Zin, if their altars appear before Okawaru’s. ''Some'' god support is always helpful (Elyvilon purification, The Shining One’s light aura, Zin’s recitation), and the good gods will not mind if you switch to Okawaru later. But you absolutely '''''need''''' Okawaru for the hand cannon gift.
+Note that you should always worship Elyvilon or The Shining One, or even Zin, if their altars appear before Okawaru’s. ''Some'' god support is always helpful (Elyvilon purification, The Shining One’s light aura, Zin’s recitation), and the good gods will not mind if you switch to Okawaru later. But you absolutely '''''need''''' Okawaru for the hand cannon gift.
 === Against Piety Overuse ===

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 However, Translocations’ Blink is very good for any ranged weapon user; even if a scary meleedude gets next to you, rolling the dice on a random blink is better than staying there tanking their damage, and Blink is a tiny skill and MP investment. Passage of Golubria can be used to set up distancing; do so as soon as you spot a monster at edge of vision, and target a spell power of 25%, which should give you 4 tiles range. Dimensional Bullseye is a good way to handle summoners, especially curse toes. Iskenderun’s Mystic Blast will push back nearby enemies and stun them for a tiny while (less than 1.0 decaAut), possibly letting you get some space to continue shooting them again, though it kinda does require some skill investment to give good distance.
-Passage of Golubria really needs at least 25% spellpower to be really useful, as otherwise its range is too low. This generally means reaching somewhere between 14.0-16.0 Translocations, depending on any <code>Int</code> or <code>Archmagi</code> modifiers you get; once you have reached 25% spellpower, you can stop training Translocations. Don’t bother trying to get Dispersal, Gell’s Gavotte, or Disjunction castable; you are better of increasing your Fighting and Dodging for better defense, especially if you already have Passage of Golubria, which is much better for this playstyle (stand and shoot, then enter Passage once enemies close in) than either of Dispersal (better for dedicated caster with lots of MP for multiple Dispersals on panic) or Gell’s Gavotte (better for summoners or Hepliaklqana-worshippers who want to move enemies towards their allies).
+Passage of Golubria really needs at least 25% spellpower to be really useful, as otherwise its range is too low. This generally means reaching somewhere between 14.0-16.0 Translocations, depending on any <code>Int</code> or <code>Archmagi</code> modifiers you get; once you have reached 25% spellpower, you can stop training Translocations. Don’t bother trying to get Dispersal, Gell’s Gavotte, or Disjunction castable; you are better off increasing your Fighting and Dodging for better defense, especially if you already have Passage of Golubria, which is much better for this playstyle (stand and shoot, then enter Passage once enemies close in) than either of Dispersal (better for dedicated caster with lots of MP for multiple Dispersals on panic) or Gell’s Gavotte (better for summoners or Hepliaklqana-worshippers who want to move enemies towards their allies).
 Alchemy spells are almost all multi-school, so it’s usually difficult to hybridize into from Translocations. Mephitic Cloud still remains one of the best spells ever if you can get it castable.

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 == Distancing Tech: Duel ==
-Duel is an excellent reason to stay with Okawaru even after getting the capstone gifts.
+Duel is an excellent reason to stay with Okawaru even after getting the capstone gifts (the other excellent reason is that Okawaru wrath involves surrounding you in angry meleedudes, which is fatal for ranged Coglins).
-The rules for Duel, as of 0.33.1, are:
+The rules for Duel, as of 0.33.1 and 0.34.0, are:
 * You can cast Duel with <code>*****.</code> or <code>******</code> piety.

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 * Crypt:1-3
 * Ziggurat:1-6 (or 7 or 8 if desperate/reckless/stupid)
-* 3rd rune (Slime:1-5, Abyss:1-3, Vaults:5)
+* 3rd rune (Abyss:1-3 or Vaults:5)
 * Zot:1-5

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-Coglins are unique in DCSS for being able to wield two weapons, greatly increasing their attack power.  This guide for version 0.33.1 is for a ranged Coglin of Okawaru, aiming for a 3-rune success.
+Coglins are unique in DCSS for being able to wield two weapons, greatly increasing their attack power.  This guide for version 0.33.1 and 0.34.0 is for a ranged Coglin of Okawaru, aiming for a 3-rune success.
 = Introduction: The Squishy Coglin =
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 ** Summoners, such as Jeremiah The Dreamer, may hide behind their summons, making it harder to hit them. The javelins can let you smack them; it’s likely less damage, but at least you won’t have to chew through the summons.
 *** Nevertheless, your damage output may be high enough that you ''can'' chew through the summons; your Ranged Weapons is likely much higher than your Throwing. If you miss the minion in front of them, you still have a chance to hit the summoner behind them. Still keep the javelins in case you come upon a summoner that has high-AC, low-EV minions.
-** Smiters as well, though smite is rarely a threat past early game.
+** Smiters and tormentors as well.
 ** Having a penetration weapon would still be better and you can drop the javelins if you have a penetration weapon.
-** Dimensional Bullseye is better for anti-summoner tech, but still keep around the javelins in case you somehow run out of MP (mana viper, ghost moth, too much Okawaru use, Mephitic Cloud addiction, etc.).
+** Dimensional Bullseye is better for anti-summoner/anti-tormentor tech, but still keep around the javelins in case you somehow run out of MP (mana viper, ghost moth, too much Okawaru use, Mephitic Cloud addiction, etc.).
 * '''''throwing nets''''' ('''''Okawaru does not give throwing nets''''', but since I’m discussing throwing items here, I might as well mention them). If they hit, they can prevent monsters from moving or taking any action other than attempt to escape the net.
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 == Items To Throw Away ==
-I didn’t know this when I started doing Coglin Hunters, but potions of berserk rage will disable ranged attacks and force you to bash monsters with your slings or cannons. Throw away berserk rage (and get rid of berserkitis ASAP if you get it) and disable picking them up.
+I didn’t know this when I started doing Coglin Hunters, but potions of berserk rage will disable ranged attacks and force you to bash monsters with your slings or cannons. Throw away berserk rage (and get rid of berserkitis ASAP if you get it on 0.33.1) and disable picking them up.
 Potions of attraction are also bad for you, as your biggest defense is distance. There is no situation in which attraction is even plausibly useable for you.
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 Similarly, if you get a brand weapon scroll, prioritize the higher-enchanted sling. If you get two, then brand the lower-enchanted sling too. If you get three, save it for later if you get a non-artefact hand cannon that is unbranded or has a RNGesus Hates You Tier brand.
 Spending the enchant weapon and brand weapon scrolls greatly increases your survivability and ability to reach <code>******</code> piety and the hand cannon gift. The hand cannon option you end up choosing has a good chance of being an artefact of some sort, which you can’t modify with enchant weapon and brand weapon scrolls anyway, so you might as well spend them now.
-After getting the hand cannon, you can save scrolls of enchant weapon if the sling is at +6 or higher already, and see if you can get a second, non-artefact hand cannon from the shops or kobold blastminers in Orc:1-2, or on the floor or equipped by soldiers in Vaults:1-4. If you can’t find a second hand cannon after clearing Vaults:1-4, then upgrade your sling to +9.
+After getting the hand cannon, you can save scrolls of enchant weapon if the sling is at +6 or higher already, and see if you can get a second, non-artefact hand cannon from the shops or kobold blastminers in Orc:1-2, or on the floor or equipped by soldiers in Vaults:1-4. If you can’t find a second hand cannon after clearing Vaults:1-4, then upgrade your sling to +9; a hand cannon and a +9 sling are good enough for 3-rune endgame.
 Brand tiers are slightly different for slings, but branded slings are about as rare as hand cannons, and the scroll of brand weapon gives a random brand anyway, so the brand tiers for slings are usually moot. In addition, the damage output of the sling becomes less relevant once you have a hand cannon (it’s mostly there to speed up your hand cannon until you can get to Ranged Weapons 18.0) and thus its brand is really not as important; any non-chaos brand is better than no brand. Just in case you '''''do''''' have multiple options for branded slings:
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 ** A plain scarf of repulsion is better replaced with a mundane +0 cloak and the gizmo with <code>Clar RMsl</code>, as the +0 cloak gives 1 AC and the <code>Clar</code> on the gizmo protects against most Will-testing hexes. However, a randart scarf of repulsion might have other desirable modifiers, so you might be willing to turn down the <code>Clar RMsl</code> gizmo in that case.
 ** <code>Clar RMsl</code> will never be in the same gizmo as the dreaded <code>Rampage Acrobat</code>.
-* Otherwise, one of the gizmos will have <code>rF+</code>, and if it’s not <code>Rampage Acrobat</code>, take it. If you can get some amount of <code>rF+</code> elsewhere, though, you might want to consider a different gizmo in favor of other modifiers.
+* Otherwise, depending on whether you roll Orbs of Fire or Orbs of Winter in your run, one of the gizmos will have <code>rF+</code> or <code>rC+</code>, and if it’s not <code>Rampage Acrobat</code>, take it. If you can get some amount of <code>rF+</code>/<code>rC+</code> elsewhere, though, you might want to consider a different gizmo in favor of other modifiers.
-** Orbs of Fire.
+** Bad luck if you roll Orbs of Entropy.
 * Otherwise, consider <code>Slay+3</code>, which at least one gizmo will have (but may be in the same gizmo as <code>Rampage Acrobat</code>).
 ** The slay bonus applies to both weapons, making any amount of <code>Slay+</code> desirable (and conversely, makes any amount of <code>Slay-</code> very negative).
 * Otherwise, if it comes up, <code>Gadgeteer</code> helps with your evocable devices (and Gell’s Gravitambourine, the best active distancing tech, is an evocable device; wand of roots and wands of warping are also distancing tech that are covered by <code>Gadgeteer</code>). <code>Regen+ RegenMP+</code> is also good for a bit more robustness.
-“Rare” gizmo modifiers (other than <code>RMsl Clar</code>) are somewhat not that useful, and you should focus more on resists than on the rare modifiers unless it’s <code>RMsl Clar</code>:
+“Rare” gizmo modifiers (other than <code>RMsl Clar</code>) are somewhat not that useful for ranged Coglins, and you should focus more on resists than on the rare modifiers unless it’s <code>RMsl Clar</code>:
 * <code>RevParry</code> is solid: most of the time, you will be starting up your <code>Rev</code> from distance, and will be at full <code>Rev*</code> (and thus at full AC bonus from <code>RevParry</code>) once they are near enough to be a threat. Combine with Ozocubo’s Armour for even more staying power. Unfortunately, the disarm-enemies thing doesn’t seem to trigger with Ranged Weapons (or I’ve never managed to notice it happening). Still, the raw AC bonus is positive.
-* <code>SpellMotor</code> is nice if you hybridize, but you will rarely cast spells while fighting at <code>Rev*</code>, since your hand cannon(s) will outdamage any spells you can viably train up, though I guess it lowers the cost of utility and distancing spells like Dimensional Bullseye, Blink, or Passage of Golubria. This may not be relevant unless you are facing a ghost moth or mana viper (they’re not exactly high-level spammable spells).
+* <code>SpellMotor</code> is nice if you hybridize melee-brute with spellcasting; if you cast as spell with <code>SpellMotor</code> you also make a melee attack, but this will not work with ranged weapons.  As a ranged Coglin, you will rarely cast spells while fighting at <code>Rev*</code>, since your hand cannon(s) will outdamage any spells you can viably train up, though I guess it lowers the cost of utility and distancing spells like Dimensional Bullseye, Blink, or Passage of Golubria. This may not be relevant unless you are facing a ghost moth or mana viper (they’re not exactly high-level spammable spells).
 * <code>AutoDazzle</code> is not that useful; if enemies are swinging at you in melee often enough to reliably trigger it, you are already dead. It also triggers for enemy ranged attacks, but <code>Clar RMsl</code> is definitely superior protection against those if you can get it. The best you can say about it is that at least it is not <code>Rampage Acrobat</code>; it’s still useful, just a very small bonus for a ranged attacker.
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 If a second hand cannon does not come up after Vaults:4, assume you won’t get the second one and pump up your sling; it’s still a good enough 3-rune setup since the sling speeds up your sole hand cannon. It’s not the same as twice hand cannon damage from having two hand cannons, but it’s still about 18% more DPS from just the sped-up hand cannon, plus a little side damage from your sling.
 == Skilling ==
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 Swiftness is also a nice Air spell to have, as it is a distancing tech that lets you temporarily get boosted move speed now at the cost of slower move speed later. This is perfect as a Ranged Weapons specialist: get enough distance, then start shooting and kill them, so that even if you are at <code>-Swift</code> and walking slower, it doesn’t matter, they are already dead.
-Damage spells are usually not really useful, as the good ones usually require significant skill investment (impeded by your -1 aptitudes to most spell schools, and -2 in Spellcasting), and will likely be outdamaged by two hand cannons until you can train them up.
+Damage spells are usually not really useful, as the good ones usually require significant skill investment (impeded by your -1 aptitudes to most spell schools, and -2 in Spellcasting), and will likely be outdamaged by two hand cannons until you can train them up.  They may be viable for extended where you can get much more XP, but this is a 3-rune guide.
 == Distancing Tech ==

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	When using roots, do '''''not''''' also use darts of disjunction, as they will free the monster from constriction.		When using roots, do '''''not''''' also use darts of disjunction, as they will free the monster from constriction.
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		+	= Fun =
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		+	ASCII art credit to u/cybersaint2k:
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		+	<nowiki>
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		+	(o_o) <-[Coglin Hunter]
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		+	\| [XXX] \|
		+	\| [XXX] \|____
		+	\| [XXX] \| \|\==========> BANG! > > > > . .
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		+	\| [XXX] \| \|\==========> BANG! > > > > . .
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		+	</nowiki>
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		+	Bumper stickers for your Coglin Hunter's exoskeleton:
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		+	* My Other Handcannon Is A Mule
		+	* Who Would Okawaru Duel?
		+	* Honk If You Love Dual-Wielding!
		+	* Crawl Safely! CoHu On Board
		+	* If You Can Read This I Already Shot You
		+	* Keep Calm And Cannon On
		+	* Keep Distance At Least 6 Tiles

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