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raven1
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 04:31 (GMT -5)

just cleared a greater vault like i have never seen...on D:45 i found one w/50 odd ancient red dragons, and 14 great red wyrms!!! i was lv 28 when i walked in zaped monster detect, and WOW... luckily i had a RoCM, and RoI<casino> and nether bolt @ +28(from the tower).the worms AVERAGED 1.44Million each, and the vault netted 6 artifacts <executor,odsidian, rune sling, scorchedspear, bracers of war (YESSS) arch staff> 6 PoGA, but not a SINGLE wish!! 5 brass rings uggg the RNG is sometimes just nuts, but it was far and away the best level ive ever seen..gained 22 levels in about 15 minutes...anyone else find rooms like that, w/ that many named monsters?
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Majin
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 04:40 (GMT -5)

Yep, got the Truely Exciting red dragon vaults, my drakeling ranger had about 370 memory points in frost bolt and had never used it before but he *still* whipped their ass with it.
didnt get BoWar tho... but did get Sapphire amulet preserver ;)


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J.
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 05:27 (GMT -5)

A troll barbarian of mine had fun clearing two lesser vaults of dragons/wyrms(one black, one red) and a greater vault of red thingys. The red vaults where on consecutive levels and the black vault just two levels before them. He got a 291 clearing the red lesser vault though, without a backup.

Never had that many artifacts in a greater vault. Wow.


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Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad."


[Edited 1 time, last edit on 4/18/2004 at 05:30 (GMT -5) by J.]
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Alex
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 12:04 (GMT -5)

I cleared a great black wyrm tension room once, that was fun. They all had funny names and I laughed. then I killed them.


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J.
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 13:40 (GMT -5)

I once almost killed a room full of great black wyrms in DH:2. Then I took one step, got hit with one acid breath and died. :(




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Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad."
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Alex
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 16:02 (GMT -5)

mmmmm, tasty slugses.
doesn't prevent item destruction though . . .
I got a wand of wishing with 5 charges from that room. I winced all through the fight every time I got a 'something on the ground is destroyed!' message


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maestro_mozart
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Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 23:31 (GMT -5)

having stuff destroyed like that sucks. it takes a real long time if you don't have tons of iceball. even then scrolls and potions can be destroyed. you gotta lure them to a hallway corner and kill diagonally one at a time then pick up the goods. i lost a really good barb to a truly excited red dragon vault. menelalxxxidies or someone like that got me. i think that was before i knew which items corrupt while carrying them, i was getting a corruption every 5 min.
The Real J.
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Posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 at 01:16 (GMT -5)

I got a greater red dragon/wyrm vault in my archmage attempt. Can't quite remember how many wyrms there were or what I gained from it. But I got an invalid item that crashed the game if I even stepped on it :-(

Luckily I had backed up my save.

J.


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Mewto
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Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 04:20 (GMT -5)

I got 2 vaults full of giants, and I ate all their corpses but I forgot to remove my GoGS and fire orb. BIG IDIOT I am, yes
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Jonesy
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Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 07:41 (GMT -5)

I remember having a Greater Vault of Karmics on one side of the level, a tension room of Titans on the other, and a trap room on the same level. That level was abitch, if you ask me.


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*Majin*
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Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 09:21 (GMT -5)

Heh, one day back in scumland (a loong time ago), i was playing a hurthling thief who found a greater dragon vault, i saw all these red D's and W's so i saved my game and copied it, eagerly awaiting the loot ahead of me, reloaded the game took one step and they all changed colours....

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Dalrok
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Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 16:19 (GMT -5)

Toughest fight I've ever had is when I met a pack of 35 very experienced titans and a very experienced greater titan in the first level of blue dragon caverns...
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Mewto
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Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 05:34 (GMT -5)

I met yesterday with the my best char so far a vault full of red dragons and one red great wyrm. I didn't get any artifact, though. I am a level 35 drakish priest. I have quite a lot of artifacts(25) and 1 phase dagger(best weapon). I already cleared darkforge but didn't drink any pools( I got one AoLS for Kelly from the dwarven grave) and I beat the crap out of the first 4 temples. I have 2 boss corpses in my pack and I think it's time to go to make the unicorn quest and deliver the corpses to the druid. I already cleared the rift but had no harpy corpse. If I enter now, will I still be able to get the tome?(i have 1 harpy corpse in my backpack).
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Ry
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Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 05:56 (GMT -5)

Harpy corpse? What's the point with that harpy corpse business? You simply need Stealth 100 (Yergius) and 2000 turns spent in the Library (write down the number of turns when you enter it).


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Mewto
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Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 06:50 (GMT -5)

are you sure? I never heard about the stealth thing before.
Anyway, after i do the rift thingie, should I do bugtown first if I can( don't remember how many times i died before) or should I take the unicorn quest?. I'm already crowned so no chance for this char to make an ultra.

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Ry
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Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 07:08 (GMT -5)

I'm absolutely sure. I've received that weird tome, lemme think, um, I think four times, and never with a harpy corpse. Just Stealth 100 + 2000 turns in the Library. Oh, and don't chat to anyone until those 2000 turns pass. Characters without Stealth were not able to get it, OTOH, but I must admit that I never tried the harpy corpse trick - anyway the info on it seems to be inconsistent, and even the GB gives more of a gossip, than some real help.

> Anyway, after i do the rift thingie, should I do bugtown first if I can

That depends on your char. Generally speaking, you need a few medium-efficiency ball spells in the first room, and some high-efficiency bolts for the rest. Oh, concentration and regeneration help a lot. Although my OCG DE assassin managed to fight his way through it with missiles. But it was quite hard.


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Mewto
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Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 04:20 (GMT -5)

I've done the unicorm quest: 5 burning hands.
I got stealth from master thief and I'm prepared to go to darkforge and wish for emperor moloch so I could level up a bit. Is that a good Idea?
a GM takes about 200 hp and I have 400hp + 160 speed+ 7LB.
I don't have any ball spells but I think burning hands can take out everyting. Am I faster than a killer bug? haven't met one of those before.
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Ry
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Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 05:02 (GMT -5)

Killer bugs are NOT fast. They're not quicklings. It's just they have some 8 attacks per round, and bypass your PV. So if you can't keep them away and your DV isn't in 200+ range, they *will* hit you, and they will hit you *hard*.


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Ry
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Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 12:16 (GMT -5)

ps. I should make it clear perhaps, the first room in the bug temple is *quite* tough without some ball spells. You start surrounded by a couple of dozens of greater claw bugs (not killer ones, but still bad enough). While a few ice balls would make a short work of them, meleeing them, or scorching them one by one is not recommendable. After first turn you're gonna be surrounded by 8 of them, and that's, ugh, 64 attacks per round. PV bypassing. That's about enough to kill any character in just one turn (bar those aspiring ultra-tanks with 2000 HP, natural 300 speed and DV way above 250 - for them that would be a walk in the park, of course...)


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wakka*
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Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 14:42 (GMT -5)

and molochs are immune to fire.
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Mewto
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 09:43 (GMT -5)

I wished for EM: I got from lv 33 to 48. There was 1 tense moment when I had only 37 HP left.
After that i did the bug temple: very easy. I also got two more wishes from darkforge(SoCR and crystals of learning) and have 2 pools left. I also got a ring of djinni summoning from a greater vault full of dragons together with skullchrusher, whirlwind and soaker and thunderstroke. I'm using far slayer and thunderstroke.

I already did the blue caves and have 50 xp levels. i killed the wyrm. Should I go and get needle(sting9 from the assasin.
Ry,
that library thing didn't work. I tried with 2000 stealth, didn't count just read some 15 books. After i tried with harpy corpse but it still didn't work.
Any suggestions?
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Klavert
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 10:06 (GMT -5)

Just imagine killing a Emperor Moloch with a lvl 1 character, would give loads of levels :D


Klavert
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Morio
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 11:25 (GMT -5)

How exactly would you kill the EM with a lvl 1 char?


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Jurne
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 11:54 (GMT -5)

You'd cast a lot of lvl 99 magic missiles at him, o course.


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Ry
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 13:11 (GMT -5)

Mewto, I might be wrong, but I don't think you can recover. Talking to Ghost Librarian and making him angry, from my experience, makes it impossible to get the weird tome no matter what you do.

That's *exactly* why I advised to write down the number of elapsed game turns upon entering the Library. 5 SoCRs is ~2 wishes, so you don't want to fuck up by "oh, I'm just gonna check with that librarian guy".


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Mewto
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Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2004 at 01:31 (GMT -5)

even if I messed it up I still have 6-7 scrolls and I'm trying to get the dagger from the assasin prince. After that is the Mana Temple and D50.
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Some guy
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Posted on Monday, April 26, 2004 at 11:33 (GMT -5)

Sometimes I talk to the ghost librarian when I enter the library, and he still gives me the tome 2000 turns later. I think you just need 2000 turns in a row without talking, but it's okay if you talk outside those turns.
maestro_mozart
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Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 02:39 (GMT -5)

i just tried to get it with a fighter. ididn't have a harpy corpse and my stealth wsn't quite 100 and i didn't get the tome. i've gotten the tome before by using a harpy corpse but the thing is the corpse wore off before the turn limit passed and i spent the rest of the time just waiting regular. maybe my stealh was at 100. i dunno.

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