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Covenant Registered user The Unbeliever Last page view: 5455 days, 17 minutes and 7 seconds ago. |
So here I was having a pretty awesome game as a Candle-born Human Monk. I'd killed Kranach and rescued the puppy, in the process draining a pool that gave me (along with Teleportitis - I had Tcontrol) Para resistance, which I'd humbly class as the best intrinsic to get. I found some 7LBs in the process of clearing out the puppy cave vault, and amassed a lot of useful scrolls such as uncursing and identify. Even found an IBM guild manual, which was my first time. Cleared out the Druid's Dungeon, finding a useful altar, and then in the early levels of the CoC (possibly right after Dwarftown) I found a giant slug. Who sprayed me multiple times and destroyed, among other things, my 7LBs and my newly acquired girdle of carrying. Grr. So I take him out, but fortunately, he drops a corpse. Acid immunity, woo! Almost worth it. Then I decide to backtrack (after picking up a spare Girdle of Carrying) and try the Unremarkable Dungeon. Where I have a Surge of Power. And find, after killing a Master Swordsman, the BoW! Pretty awesome, eh? This seemed like the perfect game. But then it all went horribly wrong. I went down into the Dwarven Halls, where a Greater Moloch is standing 1 square away from the downstairs. Lacking any reliable means of teleportation, I had to run, and walk through the annoying Animated Forest. The game stalled at this point (I eventually lured the GM away from the stairs), as I knew I needed an AoLS for Kele. This led me to try to drain the pools in Darkforge - which, at level 18 or so, put me at 1HP from Steel Golem criticals multiple times. I'd apparently been Cursed half the game from that initial pool, and not realised it. So the first message I get from the pool is 'You feel very very bad'. Which, the spoilers tell me, means I got to the stage of having a 50% chance to get a wish, but it went the other way. Grr. So I go back to Dwarftown, unDoom myself, and go back. Lose a couple of nice intrinsics like Tcontrol and Fire resistance, and then get doomed again. Repeat ad nauseum. I ended up losing half my resistances, including my beloved -Para, and making at least 12 different trips to Darkforge, before getting my wish on the last pool. Gah. Now my awesome paralysis resistance has been traded in for somewhat crummy petrification resistance and death resistance. Boo! Aside from finding a Crown of Fire directly after him, which should help with the ToEF, saving Kelevhaster was something of a pyrrhic victory. At least I got my wish *in the end*. Anyone else had similar tragedies trying to get theirs? Knowledge is chimera, for beyond it ever lies other knowledge, and the incompleteness of what is known renders the knowing false. |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4950 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes and 59 seconds ago. |
How about draining the pools in darkforge with tens and tens of promising PCs and about 8 times out of 10, not getting any wishes, despite ankh, trips to altars, high piety, etc? Lucky bar steward, quit moaning. /not bitter. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4233 days, 13 hours, 12 minutes and 15 seconds ago. |
Almost aged to death in the current game, and got stats drains to boot - and no wish in the end. Wasn't too happy... Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Hendar23 Registered user Last page view: 5651 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
Heck dude, at least your alive! I`d have been well dead by then. :) "Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work" - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian |
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Sulangatori Registered user Tourist Last page view: 1435 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Yep, pools are nuisance. Current game I tried to drain them while not worrying about golems: got teleportation without TCon and thin nimble corruption which made me loose some 5 points on str and tough... not a nice development. First 5-6 pools always takes heaps of sips to empty and gets you all sorts of terrible things. Then the last 3-4 dries up in like a couple or one sip.. Did get para-, deth- and peth-resistance, so it was ok. Although no wish and had to randomly teleport around looking for blinkies. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4891 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes and 11 seconds ago. |
Anytime a troll has to drink from a pool, he's taking his chances. Granted, if he has the alchemy skill, it's not so bad, but without it, it's really dangerous. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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mozzy tunes Unregistered user |
good thing you got the wish, but i think you wasted it on the AoLS. why even bother saving that old wizzard if you're not going for an ultra. you'd have to screw up pretty bad for corruption to be a problem if you're just closing the gate. go for 7leaguers or crystal scale mails or something. good job not quiting though. adom has a way of giving good stuff after you get popped somethin fierce. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4233 days, 13 hours, 12 minutes and 15 seconds ago. |
Crystal scale mails...? Why crystal scale mails? Both dragon scale mails and eternium plate mails are better and way lighter. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Mozzy Tunes Registered user Last page view: 5753 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
They're only a little better, but i like the crystals cause they can't be damaged by monsters. makes them a lot better IMO. unless you absolutely need the immunity, but you know darkforge will ahve a couple and if not then the casino will. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4891 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes and 11 seconds ago. |
> unless you absolutely need the immunity, but > you know darkforge will ahve a couple ! ... ? Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4062 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
Have a couple of immunities. He's talking about the dragon scale mails. And sorry, I'd still prefer wishing for dragon scale mails. You get more than one, right? So you have a spare anyway if monsters damage the damn thing. And the wish for the AoLS is still superior. :P You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4891 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes and 11 seconds ago. |
Specifically, I was wondering at the statement: > you know darkforge will ahve a couple To be honest, I know no such thing. It's quite lucky to get dragon scale mails from DF. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4062 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
Well, you're the one who does the early Darkforge raids all the time, so you probably know that best. I'd also assess the chance at nothing more than 40 percent. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4233 days, 13 hours, 12 minutes and 15 seconds ago. |
Plus getting them from an early wish can make all the difference between getting to DarkForge or not. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Mozzy Tunes Registered user Last page view: 5753 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
what's this some kind of anti crystal armor meeting? lol. |
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Nezur Registered user Last page view: 5431 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
Mozzy Tunes wrote: > (...) i like the crystals cause they can't be damaged by monsters. Monsters can damage crystal albeit it is very rare. Even a multiple-point PV drop in a single turn has been observed. Wishes are indeed very rare. The chance to get a wish from a pool is around 1% (every sip I think). |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4062 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
Code-dived info says that if you are doomed, the event that would give you a wish gives you a bad message instead, which means that you can't get a wish while doomed. Theoretically you should remove dooming via altar every time you are doomed by the pool so you can still get the wish, otherwise you're wasting precious sips... You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Kingsdragon Registered user You smelt it you dealt it! Last page view: 5764 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes and 36 seconds ago. |
So if your doomed you don't get a wish? Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife XD |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4062 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
Apparently so, yes. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Kingsdragon Registered user You smelt it you dealt it! Last page view: 5764 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes and 36 seconds ago. |
Ohh... I think I'm going to die... I was sure I read up there somewhere that if your doomed you have a 50/50 chance that the next sip is a wish, so I decided to try it... ergh. Bloody hearsays. Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife XD |
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Ancient_pink_dragon Registered user So I was talking to a dark elf Last page view: 5702 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
I go to the infinite dungeon for this kind of stuff which wastes allot of time! Not that I ever seem to have problems with corruptions, as for aging, a little, but I prefer to play as longer lived races. Stats, eh I just save up on appropriate potions for this stuff, usually by end game I have a massed a good deal of potions, from the lower levels of the Blue dragon caves, and with certain luck granting items, and maybe a dooming item, if I had generated one. To max out the monster exp, therby the value of the treasure generated. As for the AoLS. I somehow luck out on this stuff, really I do! With my current character I have seven just lying in the Dwarven Mystic Room! Oh yeah the pools! I stay the hell away from those! Unless it is early in the game, since my stats are guranted to increase later on, even if drained or abused, and any cursin/ dooming can easily be taken off by the time I reach the CoC. As I said I play long lived characters, who we all know are mostly N or L, except for Dark Elfs. You attack the Ancient pink dragon with all of your force, but do not mange to harm it! The Ancient Pink Dragon breaths a deathray, poision, fire, acid, ice, lightning, water, corruption, missle, petrefication, and stun breath at you. All of your equipment is torn apart! You die... ####################################### ..-------------------------------D%$[(% ####################################### Robojesus_gintfrg St99 Le99 Wi99 Dx99 To99 Ch99 A99 Ma99 Pe99 L++ Dv/Pv 1500/1500 H -5843(18857) P 99999 (99999) Exp50/48320283474958492 ID:48374 Spd:5833 Blessed Invisible Bloated |