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B_C_ Registered user Last page view: 5160 days, 7 hours and 26 minutes ago. |
Awesome my first "real" win. (I had a gnome wizard a long time ago who missiled himself to death after winning.) I play on mac and can't access a .txt memorial file so you'll have to believe me:) Heir, the gnomish bard, saved the world...saving herself 6 times. Scored 11407052 points, advanced to lvl 50. 166,683 turns. Born Candle. Started w/ heir (thus the name.) My 7lb had +3 PV which helped immensely in the early game. Solid starting skills (herbalism, archery, food pres. most notably) Around lvl 5 I tamed a great claw bug and used it until around lvl 13 but that was the only "scumming" I did. All in all it was an interesting game (as Bard PCs tend to have) some points to note: Precrowned at lvl 11 - Staff of Magi, meh. Crowned w/ lightning imm. and cat's claw, meh. Things started to get interested around this late early/early middle stage as far as items are concerned. Orcish dagger of devastation drops around lvl 8 in CoC. Bandit village store restocked w/ a broadsword of devastation. And then...a strange stick. Boomerang of Slaying!!! YEeeeah didn't even know these existed. Holdenbrook has one in stock too, know we're in business. I do Pyramid ASAP which makes things interesting, but still everything falls w/o problem. Still I got NO wishes (and about 6 cursings) from DF pools. Luckily a RoDS drops in the dungeon above Darkforge. AoLS to Khelly and I'm ready to go deep. Water temple and skeletal king are easy. Not only do I have my boomerangs but I'm finding multiple scurgari of returning a couple scurgari of death and another (normal) boomerang (!!!!) I'm cruising. So cruising, in fact I hang out in DH:2 and find another RoDS in a hill giant tension room! wish for Spellbooks of acid ball. After much grave digging (in grave room & doing griff quest) I have a Ring of Ice and a couple fireproof blankets, and enough resistance. Mine for crystals of power, now I'm ready for the ToEFF. ACW isn't easy but not too hard either, anything I can't melee I Boom o' Slay to death (I'm not using them too much so they don't smash, etc.) All my crystals are used up and Acid Balls still haven't killed ACW so I use one of the boomerangs. He dies, it burns. Fair exchange. on 30, above casino - greater undead vault. now i'm only lvl 20-something and i know conventional wisdom but i have soooo much undead slaying ammo. long story short, I don't clear it (duh) and lose my 2nd slaying boomerang when I accidentally use a wand of ball lightning (and suddenly shock immun doesnt seem so bad...) but kill enough liches that one of them drops BoW! Take that conventional wisdom! I run away (later learning I left behind the Ring of Imm.) and recover stats. Casino has nothing of note, except a couple crowns of regeneration and a bit more slaying ammo then I remember, but it's been a while since I got this deep so whatever.. Air Temple goes OK I don't lose much stuff. Earth Temple is EASY! (I'm meleeing everything w/ no problems!) Cat Lord is also easy (I don't even use my wand of poison with 6 charges) just melee the crap out of him and compliment w/ some acid balls. After Cat Lord I do the Rift, get some decent spellbooks (lightning ball, fireball, acid bolt) and a RoDS. Concentration compliments my new spells quite nicely. B/c I have intrinsic shock immun I do the blue dragon caves EXTENSIVELY! Go from 39-48 and lose some more stuff (mostly ammo). (Note: I'm a very stubborn player and I HAAATE that the dragons break my stuff then run away after I acid ball them, so that may have played a role in me sticking around too long.) Mana Temple is actually quite easy. I just stand at the door and bash stuff. My dex is around 50, which helps. I use a few acid/fireballs to clear monsters and use human slaying arrows on the Mage. Instantly go from 48-50 and the stat increases have me feeling like a god. Now, it's late at night and I do something crazy: instead of a surface run (bless waters, learn more acid ball, get more crystals of power, etc.) I just go for it. I don't wanna go to sleep until I win! Potion throwing gives me....the F****** quarrel. O well. Lvl 50 is tighter than I thought it would be. I want to clear it outright, cuz I think I can. But I can't just melee everything to death anymore and I'm running out of Acid Ball castings and pp sources. I didn't really want to do Wand of Destruction ending, but clearing the level isn't gonna happen given my utter lack of planning. And that's that. Since my last "winner" died and I want something "official" on my resume I just go to the unicorn and leave. Bards are very interesting. I got 2 as far as the mana temple before that had at least 7 wishes each! Yet this one has only 3 (all from rings) and she's the one who wins. (I don't realize I'm playing as a female until the very end, lol.) Next goal: ULE!!!! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 3/12/2010 at 18:14 (GMT -5) by B_C_] |