User:Snyrand - Revision history

Snyrand at 20:10, 10 December 2013

2013-12-10T20:10:04Z

Snyrand at 20:02, 10 December 2013

2013-12-10T20:02:55Z

Snyrand at 20:02, 10 December 2013

2013-12-10T20:02:29Z

Snyrand: moar win and moar commentary

2013-12-10T19:51:15Z

moar win and moar commentary

Snyrand: added disclaimer :P

2013-09-17T11:55:49Z

added disclaimer :P

Snyrand at 17:06, 15 September 2013

2013-09-15T17:06:41Z

Snyrand at 16:43, 15 September 2013

2013-09-15T16:43:16Z

Snyrand: added a little info on myself

2013-09-15T16:11:47Z

added a little info on myself

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I've been playing DCSS since around the last days of version 0.8, and I've had a couple of wins since. I've played some other Roguelikes such as Rogue, Adom and Zangband, but Crawl is the only one I've really dived into because of its superiour sophistication and "logicalness". I hail from South Africa, and so I play Crawl offline only; the lag to overseas servers is absolute killage.

Also, I believe in the text terminal interface. Graphical tiles is for wussies! :P

Though I've dabbled extensively with a bunch of different backgrounds, I've only had great success with Naga venom magi so far, and I can proudly say that I got 5 runes on my very first win about a year ago. So at the moment I'm focusing on only one thing: perfecting my NaVm of Chei hybrid building technique. Besides the fact that I like to tackle challenges systematically, the simplicity of focussing on one build for a long time helps me retain some of my sanity in this... ''wonderfully complicated'' game.

I intend to write a thorough guide for beginners and intermediate players on winning the game with NaVm of Chei. Once I feel I've got something resembling a master's grasp on it, that is.

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 | 2539416 || 2013-08 || NaVM || 0.11? || Ezmi || 6 || 182851 ||
-<small>Heh, I vastly underestimated TRJ from last time, and neglected to bring fire power ([[Ignite Poison]] is un/surprisingly under-rated after all). Corrosive punishment repeatedly ensued before finally squashing the thing and slithering away ''like hell''. Second time in the Tomb was again very scary, but at least I knew beforehand which tools should work.</small>
+<small>Heh, I vastly underestimated TRJ from last time, and neglected to bring fire power ([[Ignite Poison]] is un/surprisingly under-rated after all). Corrosive punishment repeatedly ensued before finally squashing the thing and slithering away ''like hell''. Second time in the Tomb was again very scary, but at least I knew beforehand which tools should work. I missed projecting noise.</small>
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 | 2479673 || 2013-02 || NaVM || 0.10? || Asban || 6 || 184513 ||
-<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[The Slime Pits|slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]] and a few scrolls of mapping later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb. Oh and btw: double sword of anti-magic is ''total friggin dope'' for dealing with [[Orb of fire|those things that otherwise make me cry tiny drops of blood]]</small>
+<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[The Slime Pits|slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]], [[Summon Elemental|air elementals]] and [[Scroll_of_magic_mapping|mapping]] later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb. Oh and btw: double sword of anti-magic is ''total friggin dope'' for dealing with [[Orb of fire|those things that otherwise make me cry tiny drops of blood]]</small>
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 |2161225 || 2012-05 || NaVM || 0.10? || Nas || 5 || 155539 ||
-<small>First time I went for the Abyss rune. Mind numbing! At least the Helliphants-and-lava rune vault was fun if not frightening. Later I was at 1HP on Cocytus:7 at some point after teleporting away from Antaeus when an Ice Fiend spawned next to me. Fortunately I was able to make extremely quick work of it with my blade. Yes, it's a little crazy that I dived into a Hell branch without at least considering The Tomb or Pan (or even Slime!) but looking back on it choosing Cocytus next wasn't a terrible choice.</small>
+<small>First time I went for the Abyss rune. Mind numbing! At least the Helliphants-and-lava rune vault was fun if not frightening. Later I was at 1HP on Cocytus:7 at some point after teleporting away from Antaeus when an Ice Fiend spawned next to me. Fortunately I was able to make extremely quick work of it with my blade. Yes, it's a little crazy that I dived into a Hell branch without at least considering The Tomb or Pan (or even Slime!) but looking back on it choosing Cocytus next wasn't a terrible choice and I really learned a heck of a lot from it.</small>
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-<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[The slime pits|slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]] and a few scrolls of mapping later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb. Oh and btw: double sword of anti-magic is ''total friggin dope'' for dealing with [[Orb of fire|those things that otherwise make me cry tiny drops of blood]]</small>
+<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[The Slime Pits|slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]] and a few scrolls of mapping later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb. Oh and btw: double sword of anti-magic is ''total friggin dope'' for dealing with [[Orb of fire|those things that otherwise make me cry tiny drops of blood]]</small>
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 |2161225 || 2012-05 || NaVM || 0.10? || Nas || 5 || 155539 ||
 <small>First time I went for the Abyss rune. Mind numbing! At least the Helliphants-and-lava rune vault was fun if not frightening. Later I was at 1HP on Cocytus:7 at some point after teleporting away from Antaeus when an Ice Fiend spawned next to me. Fortunately I was able to make extremely quick work of it with my blade. Yes, it's a little crazy that I dived into a Hell branch without at least considering The Tomb or Pan (or even Slime!) but looking back on it choosing Cocytus next wasn't a terrible choice.</small>
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 <small>Yes, the name turned out to be awesomely ironic. Lots of firsts. Notably: my first non-experimental time in Pan, first time I got more than freaking half the runes, the first game I ever managed to learn and use a level 9 spell ([[Fire Storm]]) and of course the first time I defeated three lords of hell and three of pan (not Cerebov and Asmodeus). What a blast!</small>
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-| 2539416 || 2013-08 || NaVM || 0.12 || Ezmi || 6 || 182851 ||
+| 2539416 || 2013-08 || NaVM || 0.11? || Ezmi || 6 || 182851 ||
 <small>Heh, I vastly underestimated TRJ from last time, and neglected to bring fire power ([[Ignite Poison]] is un/surprisingly under-rated after all). Corrosive punishment repeatedly ensued before finally squashing the thing and slithering away ''like hell''. Second time in the Tomb was again very scary, but at least I knew beforehand which tools should work.</small>
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-| 2479673 || 2013-02 || NaVM || 0.11? || Asban || 6 || 184513 ||
+| 2479673 || 2013-02 || NaVM || 0.10? || Asban || 6 || 184513 ||
-<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]] and a few scrolls of mapping later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb.</small>
+<small>First time I defeated TRJ. Practically excavated (with [[Dig]]) the entire [[The slime pits|slime pits]] for fear of touching those friggin walls (they could corrode equipment back then). Bringing down Jellobus Inc was made possible using ignite poison cloud, which, along with [[Projected Noise]], [[Statue Form]] and a few scrolls of mapping later served me extremely well during my first time in The Tomb. Oh and btw: double sword of anti-magic is ''total friggin dope'' for dealing with [[Orb of fire|those things that otherwise make me cry tiny drops of blood]]</small>
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 |2161225 || 2012-05 || NaVM || 0.10? || Nas || 5 || 155539 ||
-<small>First time I went for the Abyss rune. Mind numbing! At least the Helliphants-and-lava rune vault was fun if not frightening. Later I was at 1HP on Cocytus:7 at some point after teleporting away from Antaeus when an Ice Fiend spawned next to me. Fortunately I was able to make extremely quick work of it with my blade. Yes, it's a little crazy that I dived into a Hell branch without at least peering into The Tomb or Pan (or even Slime!) but looking back on it choosing Cocytus next wasn't a terrible choice.</small>
+<small>First time I went for the Abyss rune. Mind numbing! At least the Helliphants-and-lava rune vault was fun if not frightening. Later I was at 1HP on Cocytus:7 at some point after teleporting away from Antaeus when an Ice Fiend spawned next to me. Fortunately I was able to make extremely quick work of it with my blade. Yes, it's a little crazy that I dived into a Hell branch without at least considering The Tomb or Pan (or even Slime!) but looking back on it choosing Cocytus next wasn't a terrible choice.</small>
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 I've been playing DCSS since around the last days of version 0.8, and I've had a couple of wins since. I've played some other Roguelikes such as Rogue, Adom and Zangband, but Crawl is the only one I've really dived into because of its superiour sophistication and "logicalness". I hail from South Africa, and so I play Crawl offline only; the lag to overseas servers is absolute killage.
-Also, I believe in the text terminal interface. Graphical tiles is for wussies! :P
+Also, I believe in the text terminal interface. Graphical tiles is for wussies!
 Though I've dabbled extensively with a bunch of different backgrounds, I've only had great success with Naga venom magi so far, and I can proudly say that I got 5 runes on my very first win over a year ago. So at the moment I'm focusing on only one thing: perfecting my NaVm of Chei hybrid building technique. Besides the fact that I like to tackle challenges systematically, the simplicity of focusing on one build for a long time helps me retain some of my sanity in this... ''wonderfully complicated'' game. (also, it's hilariously [[Mephitic Cloud|difficult to get past early venom mage ghosts]] if your character lacks innate poison resistance)
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 == Wins ==
-Out of probably more than a hundred losses, I've made a few ascensions:
+Out of more than a hundred losses, I've made a few ascensions:
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-! Score !! Month !! Background !! Char Name !! Runes !! Turns
+! Score !! Month !! B/g !! Vers !! Char Name !! #Runes !! Turns !! Comments
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-| 2539416 || 2013-08 || NaVM || Ezmi || 6 || 182851
+| 6782098 || 2013-12 || NaVM || 0.12 || Luzr || 13 || 207088 ||
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-| 2479673 || 2013-02 || NaVM || Asban || 6 || 184513
+| 2539416 || 2013-08 || NaVM || 0.12 || Ezmi || 6 || 182851 ||
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-|2161225 || 2012-05 || NaVM || Nas || 5 || 155539
+| 2479673 || 2013-02 || NaVM || 0.11? || Asban || 6 || 184513 ||
 |}

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 Though I've dabbled extensively with a bunch of different backgrounds, I've only had great success with Naga venom magi so far, and I can proudly say that I got 5 runes on my very first win over a year ago. So at the moment I'm focusing on only one thing: perfecting my NaVm of Chei hybrid building technique. Besides the fact that I like to tackle challenges systematically, the simplicity of focusing on one build for a long time helps me retain some of my sanity in this... ''wonderfully complicated'' game. (also, it's hilariously [[Mephitic Cloud|difficult to get past early venom mage ghosts]] if your character lacks innate poison resistance)
-I intend to write a thorough beginner/intermediate Naga Venom Mage guide. Once I have a better grasp on it, that is. In the meantime, I think I'll make some minor improvements to wiki pages whenever and comment on stuff.
+I intend to write a thorough beginner/intermediate Naga Venom Mage guide. Once I have a better grasp on it, that is. In the meantime, I think I'll make some smaller improvements to the wiki whenever and comment on stuff. Here's hoping I make some worthwhile contributions. This, of course, comes with no guarantee against screw-ups, but correcting my mistakes is what the friendly neighborhood wiki admins and other editors are for, riight? ;-P
 == Wins ==

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 Also, I believe in the text terminal interface. Graphical tiles is for wussies! :P
-Though I've dabbled extensively with a bunch of different backgrounds, I've only had great success with Naga venom magi so far, and I can proudly say that I got 5 runes on my very first win about a year ago. So at the moment I'm focusing on only one thing: perfecting my NaVm of Chei hybrid building technique. Besides the fact that I like to tackle challenges systematically, the simplicity of focussing on one build for a long time helps me retain some of my sanity in this... ''wonderfully complicated'' game.
+Though I've dabbled extensively with a bunch of different backgrounds, I've only had great success with Naga venom magi so far, and I can proudly say that I got 5 runes on my very first win about a year ago. So at the moment I'm focusing on only one thing: perfecting my NaVm of Chei hybrid building technique. Besides the fact that I like to tackle challenges systematically, the simplicity of focusing on one build for a long time helps me retain some of my sanity in this... ''wonderfully complicated'' game. (also, it's hilariously [[Mephitic Cloud|difficult to get past early venom mage ghosts]] if your character lacks innate poison resistance)
-I intend to write a thorough guide for beginners and intermediate players on winning the game with NaVm of Chei. Once I feel I've got something resembling a master's grasp on it, that is.
+I intend to write a thorough beginner/intermediate Naga Venom Mage guide. Once I have a better grasp on it, that is. In the meantime, I think I'll make some minor improvements to wiki pages whenever and comment on stuff.