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Thoth Registered user The Scribe Last page view: 6200 days, 20 minutes and 1 second ago. |
I'd say the most impressive vault I have found, bar none, was with my incredibly scummed Trollish Healer, Wishmaster... a vault of Greater Titans. :) Never was able to attack 'em. What is the absolute best vault you have ever come across? Only really, really good ones please! :) --<>||<>-- |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5671 days, 1 hour, 18 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Vault? So it wasn't "just" a tension room of titans? I haven't had greater titans, but had a tension/"you feel threatened" room of ordinary titans in one of the cavernous levels of the CoC. Had fun dodging their quarrels, as they pretty much all had space to shoot me at the same time. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. 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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TheTimpen Registered user Last page view: 6856 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes and 20 seconds ago. |
Yeah I have had one of those in the bdc. With titans. Hardest "vault" for me since they were 37 according to the kill list when I finished the game (found no other titans). They gave me level 50 though but they got me down to looooooooow hp many times. |
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Ferret Registered user Master Mindcrafter Last page view: 5875 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
I'm at ID 470 with my super duper mindcrafter at the moment - seeing how far I can go (i already closed the gate). So far i took on a horde room of approx 50 greater molochs at about ID 150, i died once but had my amulet of life saving on. (I keep wishing for another each time i die - wishes are common at that depth!). The craziest so far was a room of 38 Ki-Rins. I've only ever seen two in all my other games then I get a tension room of them! I left them well alone cos i'm crowned lawful... |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3762 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
A vault full of ghosts. With a troll... *next character, please* Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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 Armada Registered user Last page view: 1232 days, 18 hours and 31 minutes ago. |
Can the ghosts fly through the walls of a vault? I never remember it being discussed if vault walls were digable |
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Deaneus Registered user Accountant of War Last page view: 6901 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
A greater vault of red dragons/ancients/great red wyrms, on level 46Coc or thereabouts, as a wizard with +25 FrostBolt and +16 IceBall. Went from lvl24 to lvl 50 clearing it out, found a veritable treasure trove of items. Only found one RoDS this game though, and am running out of SoCR... Filk quest time, i think. Barney was no trouble (thanks AcidBall), usually i string him in a web and MM till i drop, took about ten castings of AB and bam! dropped like a stone. What do you wish for? _Drew Barrymore figurine |
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Danielle unlogged Unregistered user |
Only one i ever got was greater undeadvault, on a gnome wizzy the level JUST after casino, cleared the whole place out, got farslayer and natures whatever, the leather armor. so many liches id never seen before, an i went through about 5k Ice Ball casts (wisdom at 48) I think i got maybe 13 levels? I went down and died on the next level to somethign stupid, level 32ish |
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 pernicion Registered user High Pernicion Last page view: 6229 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes and 1 second ago. |
Armada. They can move through the walls once they are active. I think if you dig into the walls you can potentially stand right next to three creatures that don't do anything. They'll just stand there. I once had the pleasure of teleporting into the empty space behind the door in an "abandoned shop". I stayed still until I teleported again. I later returned to kill them and upon smashing the door the mimics,masters,hiveminds etc all attacked. -------- Scarest vault i met was just a greater undead with a dozen or so emperor lichs. I got attack while being a distance from them. I think I killed one or two. Nothing that exciting. The kobold cringes in pain |
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 eppztr Registered user droog Last page view: 7047 days, 10 hours, 28 minutes and 57 seconds ago. |
twice i've encountered tension/threaten rooms of greater titans. they were too though for me both times when i found them, but i could go back later and finish them off with ease. I've also found rooms with greater molochs, but i've really never had any troubles with them. just be careful so you don't let them hit you, or equip a moloch armor, that's just pure terror. the greater moloch equips the hulking armor |
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gergonthedestroyer Unregistered user |
I once encountered a GV of undead just finising the ToEF. I had a Gnomish fighter (lvl 28ish) and was innocent of the realities of greater vaults. After killing 2 master liches, I saw my first ever lich king. I ran for my stat-drained life. I eventually cleared it out by dint of perserverence, pride, and spite, but I never escaped unscathed. It sucks to be level 50 with a 12 dex! By comparison, winning the game was easy. |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3762 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Yes, Armada; ghosts can go through vault walls. They're not undiggable (except in the special case of Orb levels), but ghosts dont' have to dig to get through them; they just pass through. After all, they're ghosts. What happened to my poor troll: Open door. It's trapped, and goes off in my face. No big deal... until I see what's behind it: a tension room full of 20-odd ghosts, all capable of going through walls and surrounding me. As a troll I don't have much speed, so they surround me quite quickly, and age me to death equally quickly. That's why I don't play trolls anymore... Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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CK Unregistered user |
Well, the toughest vault I've cleared was one of those greater vaults... Undead. With a lvl 30 trollish barbarian. Got it cleared after had closed the gate and got some premium equiptment. Also, had to waste a wish on scrolls of familiar summoning in there. Emperor lich vs. emperor lich duel is entertaining to watch. :) |
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Túrin Registered user Wildman of the Woods Last page view: 6927 days, 21 hours, 19 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
After finding two ordinary rings in a gnoll vault in the PC, I was smiling like a little school girl. I ID it and it turned out they were rings of damage, sigh... Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3762 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Hey, rings of damage are cool, too. Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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Alex Registered user Master Necromancer Last page view: 6515 days, 1 hour, 3 minutes and 21 seconds ago. |
Vaults are chosen from a set list (ie giants, dragons, undead), so you won't get something really random. you will with tension rooms though. I had a small tension room of ancient karmic dragons, would have been a pain without magic missile +20. the worst was a *HUGE* tension room of ghost kings. even with a dark elf I shivered just to see all those 50-year-per-hit yellow G. What do you wish for? wands of cat repellent_ |
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Túrin Registered user Wildman of the Woods Last page view: 6927 days, 21 hours, 19 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
Great karmic wyrm tension rooms are nastier. Especially if your melee. :) My last character just died on level 47 of CoC to an ancient red dragon in a red dragon vault. High elven archer, level 13 knives and daggers with the twins, and level 13 bows crowned with sun's messenger (but also had far slayer and whirlwind on me via surge of power and greater vault). The greater undead vault I got, I thought would be terrible, but with intrinsic death ray resistance and invisibility from a pool (helped with vampires, spectres, and all the nasty summoned), the crown of leadership (precrowning, gives confusion resistance), and best of all sun's messenger (undead slayer), the nearly 2 hour-long fight was quite fun. :) Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5671 days, 1 hour, 18 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Alex, vaults can be full of random monsters too. Those are the nastiest, at least for low level chars, as they contain monsters that are MUCH more out-of-depth(werewolf lord in the bottom of the puppy cave, anyone?) than the monsters would be in a vault of monsters of one type. GREATER vaults aren't full of random creatures. I think? If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. 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 7/11/2004 at 18:57 (GMT -5) by J.] |
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Alex Registered user Master Necromancer Last page view: 6515 days, 1 hour, 3 minutes and 21 seconds ago. |
ah yes, but you can't get a vault filled with all the same of a single random monster, like you can with tension/threaten rooms. random vaults are a serious pain - they always seem to contain at least one vortex, at least one cat, and bunch of nasty monsters like iron golems or something. What do you wish for? wands of cat repellent_ |
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Cervantes Unregistered user |
I once found a BIG vault of greater undeads. It was... a slaughter. Ghost lords, emperor liches, couple of skeleton warriors, and everytime i killed 5, the freaking liches summon more and more. And I was melee! At the end i had -47 health and unnaturally aged 50 suttin years old. And there was an altar of my deity on the level, but noooooooooooo, undead can't be sacked. |
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Mike Registered user I like magic Last page view: 7228 days, 12 hours, 57 minutes and 43 seconds ago. |
I once found a big room of Greater Molochs from D50, but the best vault was greater vault of red dragons. Ancients and Wyrms and everything. Good thing I was immune to fire from crowning. Got an artifact from there too. Amulet called Preserver or something. You hit the Ancient Red Dragon and transform it into a mangled heap. "sorry mr. dragon, I just tried to poke you..." -Zin Zu the High Elven Monk |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 4962 days, 16 hours, 47 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Well, a tension room in the second level of the DH full of quickling queens is also quite nasty. http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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TheTimpen Registered user Last page view: 6856 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes and 20 seconds ago. |
Random vaults in the deep UD have killed many promising chars :( |
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Marillion Registered user Twinmaster Last page view: 366 days, 5 hours, 5 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
Sargoth: I had that on MasterCat level = no teleport. After almost getting killed trying to defeat them, I dug myself round them and another 10levels later I butcherd them! Moahha! |
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The Real J. Registered user The faceless swordsman Last page view: 5620 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes and 28 seconds ago. |
Best vault ? I'd say it was the greater karmic vault I found in my current game. With death ray and high level magic missile it wasn't too bad actually and those karmic dragons/wyrms left behind lotsa stuff. Sytytä toiselle tuli ja hän pysyy lämpimänä jonkin aikaa. Sytytä hänet palamaan ja hän pysyy lämpimänä loppuelämänsä. |
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 Derek B Rackham Esq. Registered user Swordsman of Forcena Last page view: 6968 days, 16 hours, 26 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
Geez just encountered a dark sage tension room on the same level as a jelly vault. Got unarmed combat up to lvl 4 from 0 on the jellys, and the dark sage tension room was an insane source of exp, weapon and sheild marks. No good items though, about 1 lvl down from dwarf town... Tell me how to get stronger.... |
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Mewto Registered user Last page view: 3606 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
man, the RNG isn't fair For the Horde! |
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nelar Registered user Last page view: 7183 days, 9 hours, 11 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
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Alex Registered user Master Necromancer Last page view: 6515 days, 1 hour, 3 minutes and 21 seconds ago. |
Dunno about vaults, but the best(/worst?) tension room I've found was a BIG-ass room full of werewolf kings on the water temple level. That's tough for a level 22 character. What do you wish for? wands of cat repellent_ |
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TheTimpen Registered user Last page view: 6856 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes and 20 seconds ago. |
My current char met a greater vault of red dragons (10 wyrms) + a tension room with ~15 great karmic wyrms next to it. (~230 dragons in total) |
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