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‎Vaults 1-4

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‎Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism

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‎Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism (0.34)

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‎Vaults 1-4

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‎Lair

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‎Level 4

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‎Orbs

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	Thank you, crawler, for taking the time to read and hopefully follow my guide. I hope you enjoyed playing the build and learning the game as much as I enjoyed writing this guide. For any feedback please refer to the official Git Guide Gnoll Guide thread on Tavern 2.0		Thank you, crawler, for taking the time to read and hopefully follow my guide. I hope you enjoyed playing the build and learning the game as much as I enjoyed writing this guide. For any feedback please refer to the official Git Guide Gnoll Guide thread on Tavern 2.0
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 ::; [[Boggart]]: Use will or HD hexes. Hit with bolt or AoE early before they spawn a swarm of hard hitting bad guys. They travel in packs!
 :; Boss Packs
 ::; [[Ironbound convoker]]: Use will or HD hexes. Stack on the poison. If they start recalling, attempt to immediately confuse, silence, dispel or otherwise disable their ability to finish the recall.
 ::; [[Undying armoury]]: Buffs other enemies with powerful weapons and is resistant to most forms of damage.  Prioritize and focus fire if you don't have access to Dispel Undead.

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 Properly applied, they can increase your effective HP pool, overwhelm defenses, or block LoS effects. But for most characters, maintaining your ally pool is tedious. Either you’re juggling Animate Dead and Death Channel or summoning/forging the same friends every fight.. I’ve always found the play style boring. But with Yred, we get our homies for free. They just show up for us without having to lift a finger, and the cool part about derived undead allies is that they natively scale with the branch they’re from. Even the weakest zombie will prevent an attack of opportunity if you swap with them, but overall zombies are fairly tanky.
-Most fights you should still be able to isolate and solo an enemy, so you have ample opportunity to build up a deep bank account of homies to call to help out in bigger fights. This doesn’t mean you need a 1 tile corridor for every fight; 2 tile corridors are better for this build in most situations so your homies have room to move.
+In most fights you should still be able to isolate and solo an enemy, so you have ample opportunity to build up a deep bank account of homies to call to help out in bigger fights. This doesn’t mean you need a 1 tile corridor for every fight; 2 tile corridors are better for this build in most situations so your homies have room to move.
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 As a practice, there a few types of monsters that don’t work to well or even anti-synergize with Yred:
-* Things that leave clouds (e.g. catoblepas)
+* Things that leave clouds (e.g. catoblepas)
 ** Efreet and Azrael don’t leave their flame trails in spectral form.
 * Monsters that rely on AoE attacks
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 Once you’ve learned basic tactics against these archetypes, you’ll be 80% of the way there in knowing how to start engaging any given enemy.
-There are certainly some niche enemies that don’t neatly fit into these categories, especially considering uniques or what is possible in extended, but considering them through the framework of your counters for these archetypes will still help you make effective decisions even if that means to run away. The tactics you’ll develop will generally be run specific, but there are some adaptations you’ll develop that fit your play style that you find to hold across most of your runs (e.g. maybe you discover an affinity for datura darts as your answer to everything in Orc).
+There are certainly some niche enemies that don’t neatly fit into these categories, especially considering uniques or what is possible in extended, but considering them through the framework of your counters for these archetypes will still help you make effective decisions even if that means to run away. The tactics you’ll develop will generally be run specific, but there are some adaptations you’ll develop that fit your play style that you find to hold across most of your runs (e.g. maybe you discover an affinity for datura darts as your answer to everything in Orc).
 At the end of the day, any one-hand base weapon is serviceable but short blades and lower tier options might need to keep some !might or swappers on hand to deal with Orbs of Appropriateness.  That said, by the time you're hitting Vault you'll also have enough stealth to reliably sleep or hex stab enemies if the RNG has blessed you in that direction too.
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 Some knowledge of the branch denizens is helpful as well, since the walls that may feel safe at your back in early dungeon and Lair will soon be used against you by deep troll earth mages,
-[[File:29_picking_stairs_2.png|thumb|The north stair case offers good defense to the rear with room for more allies and gives you a clear pull on the spark wasp without the radroach immediately being in your face.  Can you tell why the eastern stairs are a bad idea?]]
+[[File:29_picking_stairs_2.png|thumb|The north staircase offers good defense to the rear with room for more allies and gives you a clear pull on the spark wasp without the radroach immediately being in your face.  Can you tell why the eastern stairs are a bad idea?]]
 The presence of old school teleportation, shaft, and alarm traps might be beneficial, but be wary of fighting near dispersal, zot, or any of the recently added traps like devourer.
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 Listed resistances are the minimum generally considered necessary. In most cases, these can be achieved with swappers, but it’s ok to give up a couple points of total D if it means the basics are covered.
-While also not exhaustive lists, I’ve also called out any major threats to be aware of. Especially if you’re playing trunk, these are subject to change, and there are certainly monsters that might be more threatening to certain builds. I’ve provided basic references to the archetypes, but many of the nastiest will fit into multiple categories (i.e. juggernaut are both high damage and high ac). In these cases I’ve classified them by the way it makes the most sense for me. Your playstyle may unfold differently, so use my archetypes as guides instead of hard and fast rules. Many fights will be overcome simply through the sheer mass of your horde, especially when you catch one of these major threats solo, and some runs you’ll overcome 90% of the enemies just spamming out cheesy spells like Olgreb’s Toxic Radiance, Ignite Poison, and Metabolic Englaciation.
+While also not exhaustive lists, I’ve also called out any major threats to be aware of. Especially if you’re playing trunk, these are subject to change, and there are certainly monsters that might be more threatening to certain builds. I’ve provided basic references to the archetypes, but many of the nastiest will fit into multiple categories (i.e. juggernaut are both high damage and high ac). In these cases I’ve classified them by the way it makes the most sense for me. Your playstyle may unfold differently, so use my archetypes as guides instead of hard and fast rules. Many fights will be overcome simply through the sheer mass of your horde, especially when you catch one of these major threats solo, and some runs you’ll overcome 90% of the enemies just spamming out cheesy spells like Olgreb’s Toxic Radiance, Ignite Poison, and Metabolic Englaciation.
 References to willpower and HD hexes shouldn’t be taken explicitly as hex school spells. These include things like Mephitic Cloud, Alistair’s Intoxication, darts, and wands, but I’ve kept these recommendations intentionally generic enough to adapt to whatever has dropped.
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 ==== Vaults:5 ====
-Moreso than any previous floor, Vaults:5 is going to take away our ability to escape upstairs.  While you could just go down a staircase and Shackle the welcome party, you're still likely to have enemy reinforcements streaming in from every direction.  Instead, we want to take a shaft or hatch from Vaults:4; pre-reading ?teleport before going down a regular staircase works if neither is available.  It's good idea to buff up with haste, brilliance, and might to make the initial break in a little more resource efficient.
+Moreso than any previous floor, Vaults:5 is going to take away our ability to escape upstairs.  While you could just go down a staircase and Shackle the welcome party, you're still likely to have enemy reinforcements streaming in from every direction.  Instead, we want to take a shaft or hatch from Vaults:4; pre-reading ?teleport before going down a regular staircase works if neither is available.  It's a good idea to buff up with haste, brilliance, and might to make the initial break in a little more resource efficient.
 The first place you land may not be suitable for making a stand, so be prepared to ?teleport a few times before you start lighting the torch or spending resources.  If you find yourself waiting to teleport, you could try reading ?fog to break LoS and ?revelation to get a better tactical lay of the land.  Once you've landed in an appropriate spot, call in your homies, summon up any additional friends you can, and carve out a bastion.
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 Our build doesn’t really lend itself to consistently visiting timed portals, but you’ll have some opportunities to explore a few of them over the course of multiple runs. You’re probably going to have to deal with some FOMO here, but portals can be valuable training tools due to their regularity.  Especially the early Sewer and Ossuary portals can be cleared by most characters if you maintain good resource discipline; you'll often be rewarded with even more consumables than you spent there.
-In general, you’ll need to decide immediately if you want to attempt the portal or not; a large stack of ?revelation can make this decision easier. You’re also generally safe to wait on the staircases to see if the portal is near any of them, if not it’s probably best to just skip it and active your torch.
+In general, you’ll need to decide immediately if you want to attempt the portal or not; a large stack of ?revelation can make this decision easier. You’re also generally safe to wait on the staircases to see if the portal is near any of them, if not it’s probably best to just skip it and activate your torch.
 Some levels are laid out in a way that you can still clear most of the level with the torch lit, hit the portal, then finish up any lingering enemies, but it’s more a happy accident than something you should expect to be able to make happen.
-If you do decide you want to make a run for the portal, be aware that you won’t have that critical shaft protection we’ve been leaning on the whole game.  The following recommendations apply to the Git Gud Gnoll, other builds may fair better or worse in confronting these.
+If you do decide you want to make a run for the portal, be aware that you won’t have that critical shaft protection we’ve been leaning on the whole game.  The following recommendations apply to the Git Gud Gnoll, other builds may fare better or worse in confronting these.
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 ; [[Gauntlet]]: Go in and check paths, initial allies can sometimes clear, fully omniscient threat assessment with 0 threat.
 ; [[Volcano]]: Avoid them, too much threat to your homies leaving you unprotected.
-; [[Ice Cave]]: Yes, only if living or slime (slime needs rC+).  Be careful of out of depth monster in the end vaults, but sometimes there is interim stashes before you reach the main treasure.
+; [[Ice Cave]]: Yes, only if living or slime (slime needs rC+).  Be careful of out of depth monsters in the end vaults, but sometimes there are interim stashes before you reach the main treasure.
 ; [[Desolation]]: Avoid them, too much LoS goofiness and overwhelming non-living enemies.
 ; [[Gulch]]: No, few things in here can be converted to derived undead.

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-==== [[Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism]] ====
+==== [[Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism]] [Intermediate] (0.34) ====
 The foundation of Draconius' 61 game win streak.  Lean into the Gnoll lifestyle with Ashenzari, and might find yourself casting level 9 spells by S-branch.

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-==== [[Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism (0.34)]] ====
+==== [[Draconius’ Gnoll of Ashenzari: Win Consistency through Tactical Maximalism]] ====
 The foundation of Draconius' 61 game win streak.  Lean into the Gnoll lifestyle with Ashenzari, and might find yourself casting level 9 spells by S-branch.
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 ==== [[Repo Troll Guide, TrFi^Wu Jian]] [Beginner] (0.32) ====

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 ::; [[Vault warden]]: Let them lock their friends out then recall in your homies.
 ::; [[Ironbound convoker]]: Use will or HD hexes. Stack on the poison. If they start recalling, attempt to immediately confuse, silence, dispel or otherwise disable their ability to finish the recall.
-::; [[Undying Armoury]]: Buffs other enemies with powerful weapons and is resistant to most forms of damage.  Prioritize and focus fire if you don't have access to Dispel Undead.
+::; [[Undying armoury]]: Buffs other enemies with powerful weapons and is resistant to most forms of damage.  Prioritize and focus fire if you don't have access to Dispel Undead.
 :; Smiters
 ::; [[Ironbound thunderhulk]]: Use willpower hexes. Stack on the poison. Swap to rElec even if it’s just a staff of air.

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 :; Packs
 ::; [[Death yak]]s: Hit packs with torch charges then move fights to corridors for one on ones. Curare and lay on the poison. Try to move up and preserve any death yak zombies you make.
-::; [[Dream Sheep]]: The more on the screen the likelier they are to put you to sleep.  Try to kite the pack away from anything more dangerous and let your homies engage.
+::; [[Dream sheep]]: The more on the screen the likelier they are to put you to sleep.  Try to kite the pack away from anything more dangerous and let your homies engage.
 :; Warding
 ::; [[Mountainshell]]s: You can pack on some poison at range, but try to close the distance and surround with your homies.
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 ::; [[Raven]]s: Block LoS with summons or homies.  Use smite targetable spells or will and HD based hexes to reduce the threat.
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 ==== [[Orc]] ====

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 ; [[Forge Phalanx Beetle]]: Free AC without the game play changing requirements of Ozocubu’s Armour. Great for blocking LoS on a retreat.
 ; [[Fortress Blast]]: It takes some practice and planning, but it won’t hit your homies. Since you’ll likely be in mid-weight armour the damage will be decent.
-; [[Gells Gavotte]]: Great for moving nasty monsters off screen or making a quick escape.
+; [[Gell's Gavotte]]: Great for moving nasty monsters off screen or making a quick escape.
 ; [[Summon Cactus Giant]]: Can pretty much solo a 3 rune game, takes some planning to get them in the fight before your homies start dying though

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 ; [[Airstrike]]: Mainly good as a full screen smite spell. Your reliance on allies means it’s often doing less than optimal damage, but for our purposes a generally good trade of MP for damage.
 ; [[Anguish]]: Best used against large groups since it can take a couple recasts to apply to any given monster. Since your homies’ defenses generally suck, the bad guys will at least be taking some extra HP loss for their trouble.
-; [[Broms Barreling Boulder]]: Great for pushing back a monster and making space.  Be sure to cast it while there is still an opening.
+; [[Brom's Barrelling Boulder]]: Great for pushing back a monster and making space.  Be sure to cast it while there is still an opening.
 ; [[Cause Fear]]: This is not a panic button; ?fear is the panic button. Cast this 1/3 to 2/3 into a fight to help reset the battlefield. Combine with ?poison and recall for best effect.
 ; [[Dimensional Bullseye]]: Makes your throwing items more potent and increases their resource value.  Smite targetable and great for taking out the back line.

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 An alternative to wearing shields, orbs can be very powerful in the hands of our evocations heavy Gnoll.
-  * Stardust - Great for a spell centric playstyle.  The stardusts scale well as we level.
+; Stardust: Great for a spell centric playstyle.  The stardusts scale well as we level.
-  * Mesmerism - Solid stand in for a shield.  The flash of mesmerism can be a good signal to reposition and let someone else tank for you.
+; Mesmerism: Solid stand in for a shield.  The flash of mesmerism can be a good signal to reposition and let someone else tank for you.
-  * Glass - Another good stand in for a shield but a bit more offense focused.  Pairs well with a fast weapon to get the Fragile proc in sooner.
+; Glass: Another good stand in for a shield but a bit more offense focused.  Pairs well with a fast weapon to get the Fragile proc in sooner.
-  * Energy - Middling efficacy for our build since we're likely to be lagging slightly behind in spell success already, but this can be offset with high Int or Wizardry.
+; Energy: Middling efficacy for our build since we're likely to be lagging slightly behind in spell success already, but this can be offset with high Int or Wizardry.
-  * Mayhem - Avoid using this on our build.  We aren't going to be Zigging where this really shines, and you won't have Yara's online until late-midgame to counteract a nasty frenzy.
+; Mayhem: Avoid using this on our build.  We aren't going to be Zigging where this really shines, and you won't have Yara's online until late-midgame to counteract a nasty frenzy.
-  * Pyromania - Just don't use it for this build.  It will only hurt your homies.
+; Pyromania: Just don't use it for this build.  It will only hurt your homies.
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