Re: BrogueSpeak, an accessible roguelike
More manual navigation is probably important at later levels, but I haven't reached that point yet.
I can't think of any other situation where manual navigation is important except when facing multiple monsters in order to avoid getting surrounded. What is really important to be good at this game is how you handle items. For example, are you going use invisibility or speed potion and keep fighting some monster, or jump down into chasm to avoid the fight and save that potion for later on. But mostly it's all about what items you are going to enchant that will determine how well you are going to be able to fight deeper level monsters.
By the way, don't spend your enchant scrolls on too many different items, it's best to concentrate enchants on two or three items and make them really powerful. Also, consider enchanting offensive staves, like fire-bolt, lighting, conjur ation and poison, rather than some middle class weapon or armor.
And one more tip, the most powerful weapon can be your ally, but you need to have wand of empowerment to make it strong first. The trick is to keep it alive until it gets strong, and also that wand of empowerment has only one charge which can only be reloaded with scrolls of enchantment. So if you invest your enchants in empowering your ally and it dies anyway, then all those enchant scrolls were wasted. Still, even monkey ally empowered five or more times will be strong enough to fight for you the most dangerous monsters one on one.
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