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==Various hints, tips and recommendations==
====Combat====
* Always be aware of how much damage an NPC is capable of doing. Often this is sadly something you can only reliably tell with experience. Use 'l'ook to check the gear of tough humanoids like orc squad leaders or mistresses, and adjust your tactics accordingly. Keep that chance of a one-shot death to minimum.
* Only fight on your own terms! Skip any risky NPCs for later if you can't safely take them on, and fight as few at once as you can.
* Always have a way to escape when SHTF. Everything from safe escape routes to teleports with telecontrol works, as long as it's reliable and takes you out of combat the moment things go sour.
====Loot====
* There'll be stuff here Every run has a limited amount of items spawned. Use polypiling to increase this amount for more chances at those great items like ommel substances, scrolls, wands and magical equipment (5*5 items in a row for 25 per zap). Get a pickaxe and mine out some pointrocks for easy items and a safe room for polypiling.
====Gods====
* Lawful is gods are often of situationaluse only, while chaotic has gods give more consistent bonuses.* Never pray to Valpurus or Mortifer before you're hailed as a champion when offering.* Once reaching champion status with Valpurus, praying to him grants you either an unenchanted valpurium two-handed sword or a shield of the same material. The shield is worthless, the sword can be useful if you haven't found anything better yet. Terrible rewards compared to Mortifer.* Praying to Legifer causes a large explosion around you, which becomes less useful effects more the further in you are. Mostly useful for reliably and quickly clearing out physically weak but dangerous opponents like mystical dark frogs. He can also replace missing limbs with illithium ones. Very rarely gives out helmets of piercing perception and scrolls of detect material.* Atavus can ''very'' rarely give out scrolls of wishing or oil lamps. More oftenthan not, you won't get any during a run. Often enough only useful for the arcanite plate mail he always gives once hitting champion status, which is worse than the mithril +2 one from an elite guard when reaching Attnam. Does not replace missing limbs.* Dulcis can charm enemies around you. Other than that, he's useless not counting the possibility of getting magical whistles or horns of bravery/panic. Does not replace missing limbs. Loricatus * Seges is arguably the most useful of the lawful gods, capable of providing sustenance, healing, curing and Mellis are awesomenew limbs. Effect priority as follows: limb replacement > curing if poisoned > sustenance up to satiated > healing. Make sure to eat up to satiated and to have all limbs on if you need the healing effect. Very useful in conjunction with school food. May possibly give out healing liquid if no other effect can happen.* Sophos
==Equipment and items==
====Armor====
