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[Asher]

Hey, I'm fairly new to Adom and have just found this site.
I'm playing my second character ... my first one died of poisoning.

This is pretty much my character... I'm wondering if it's good to everybody elses standards??

I'm hoping to get my bows to Grand Mastery very soon... it seems that I can make really, really arrows and I'm loving the ability to kill much stronger NPC's than myself by using these Arrows of Slaying that I made... the Casino Shopkeeper for instance ... over 2.5 million EXP!! (and peity loss :s)

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Character Information
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Asher St:37 Le:21 Wi:22 Dx:52 To:14 Ch:25 Ap: 6 Ma: 1 Pe:33 L
DV/PV: 97/13 H: 265(265) P: 62(62) Exp: 36/7612672 M: 108124



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Background Information
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Name: Asher Race: male High Elf Class: Archer
Eye color: golden Hair color: golden Complexion: light
Height: 6'5" Weight: 149 pounds
Age: 214 (grown-up)
Star sign: Cup Birthday: 30/Cup (day 270 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your mother is a mighty enchantress. She is unmarried. Your father
is living in the vicinity of your mother's tower. He is a humble shepherd.
As a child you had to survive pretty harsh times since your parents
seemed to have run out of luck. Their wealth was ever-declining and times
were very hard.
During your youth you were very lazy. You slept a lot and didn't
care too much for your duties and tasks. Your parents were not very happy
with you.
As a young adult you spent a lot of time searching for a deeper
meaning and purpose in your life. You pondered and pondered but nothing
truly sparked your interest. Finally, after many many hours, you made a
decision.
You decided to become an Archer.


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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Daggers & knives 3 +2 +1 +0 basic 65
Clubs & hammers 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Maces & flails 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Swords 10 +9 +6 +3 excellent 866
Axes 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25
Pole arms 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Twohanded weapons 1 +1 +1 +0 basic 25
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Bows 14 +28 +21 +4 Mastery 6128
Crossbows 3 +6 +4 +1 basic 24
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 0 +0 unskilled 15


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +36 bonus to hit, 4d3+22 damage
Left hand: +27 bonus to hit, 1d7+22 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 125, base range: 91, +119 bonus to hit, 1d6+59 damage




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Spells
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Bless : 159, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 46, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Frost Bolt : 21, 21pp (Effectivity: +1)
Identify : 57, 107pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 116, 3pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile: 149, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation: 56, 31pp (Effectivity: +3)


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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics ................ 20 (mediocre) [+4d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Bridge building .......... 15 (mediocre) [+3d5] (mr)
Climbing ................. 44 (fair) [+4d4]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
First aid ................ 76 (great) [+2d4]
Fletchery ................100 (superb) [+2d4] (ma)
Haggling ................. 23 (mediocre) [+4d5]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Law ......................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+3d4]
Literacy ................. 72 (great) [+1]
Smithing ................. 22 (mediocre) [+3d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Tactics .................. 88 (great) [+1]
Two weapon combat ........ 78 (great) [+1]


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Effects of Corruption
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Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
You have grown a bulging cranium (Le: +6, Wi: +4, Ap: -6, PV: -4, To: -3).


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Inventory
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Total weight: 5913 stones Carrying capacity: 8825 stones

Head : crown of regeneration [+0, +0] [55s]
Neck : blessed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s]
Body : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
Girdle : uncursed girdle of carrying [+0, +0] [15s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of defense [+3, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5} [80s]
Left Hand : uncursed broadsword of the eagle (+3, 1d7+2) [80s]
Right Ring : ring of slaying (+9 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
Left Ring : ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd) [1s]
Bracers : blessed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
Gauntlets : uncursed archery gloves (+0, +4) [+3, +0] [6s]
Boots : seven league boots [+1, +0] [30s]
Missile weapon: blessed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2) [30s]
Missiles : bundle of 125 arrows of slaying (+0, 1d6) [250s]
Tool : holy symbol [5s]


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Achievements
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He survived for 0 years, 106 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes and 18 seconds
(108124 turns).
Asher visited 105 places.
His strength score was modified by +23 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +2 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by -5 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +17 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +8 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +11 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +7 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -18 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +14 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was the head of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He killed the emperor of the ancient minotaur race.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.


I also recorded all the artifacts that I've collected.
There is likely to be a few I haven't noticed.

Si, Far Slayer, orbs of water and fire, Sword of Noonak, Thunderstoke, Death's Sting, Ring of the Master Cat, mummy wrapping, Ring of high kings, Preserver, Ankh, robes of resistance, crown of science, Elemental Gauntlets, Rune-Covered trident, Rolf Companion, Moon sickle, Big Punch, Axe of the Minotaur Emperor and Soaker.

[flibble]

1. This is your second character?

2. Good stats except for your To. I bet it had something to do with the Minotaur Maze. Get some morgia. Lots and lots and lots of it.

3. 125 stacking arrows of slaying. That's excellent.

4. This is your second character? Ever?

[nathrakh]

This sounds pretty impossible. Either you are save scumming or then you have studied the guidebook+these forums for weeks/months before starting your second character. Stop cheating.

[Asher]

Yes, this is my second character ever.... also I do not see how you can possibly think that reading as many help files and guides as possible is cheating... I like to know as much as possible about a game before I start playing it.

I know my Toughness sucks... I think that had something to do with a pool that I drained to get some wishes that I desperatly needed.

TBH, I hated the Minotaur Maze and the fire Temple more than anything I've ever come across.
Fourtunalty I have invisibility otherwise I would have died in the firetemple as I finished with 1 HP :S

I realized too late that I was too weak to tackle that but I managed to convert the Altar in the Temple and Sacrifice everything except the constructs which I was very lucky enough to have made (cursed) arrows of Contruct Slaying.

Early in the game I kinda got carried away in the small cave Sacrificing everything as there was an altar there... I got crowned twice... (pre-crowned? :s)

Edit:

Oh yeah, that really made my day when I made those arrows of slaying!!!

[Dudley]

Precrowned, definitely.

Well... pretty good character. But you're an archer, therefore despicable in my opinion. But that's me and missiles
Since you still didn't win, it's an OK choice.
Pool draining is bad too.
and those are th most awful place in the chain.

[nathrakh]

By cheating I meant save scumming. If you haven't done any save scumming and this really is your second character then that is very very impressive.. and hard to believe. Sorry for accusing you without any evidence. :-)

[Silfir]

This looks quite unbelievable for a second character, though if you're thoroughly prepared by guides and the like it's certainly not impossible.

13 PV is quite low for a level 36 character. Though 97 DV without a shield is quite godly and should make up for it (is that Coward or Normal?). The dual-wielding looks wonky - your swords are quite weak - but then an archer doesn't need strong melee. I guess you should be fine, since you know what awaits you. Try to fix that To, do you have access to herbs?

[Asher]

Nathrakh, no offence taken

I have read just about every guide and walkthrough before making my seconds character... I wanted to know what I had ahead of me in a game that made my first character starve to death so quickly

That DV is on Coward. I like the idea of DV because Elves don't have much HP in comparison to everything else so I figured I don't want to get hit much.

I have 91 two weapon combat now... I only trained in swords as a back-up and to help get my DV up.

I'm now level 40 and am loooving the 20% chance of my arrows completely bypassing everythings PV!!!

Ahhh... I'm not sure how to get some herbs for my TO .. I think the level below the dwarf town has a lot of herbs but I'm a long way from there.

[nathrakh]

If you want DV dual wielding shields is a lot better.. Or even sword and shield. Switching weapons/shields take only 1 turn anyway so it's not that bad.

edit: as you can see, in the copy of stats you posted your sword skill gives +3 to DV. When you dual wield it is 3+3/2. That makes it 4 or 5. Better shields give 10-15 to DV...

[Asher]

I went all the way to collect some herbs.... most were cursed however I managed to find 3 Morgia roots.... I ate them but my Toughness is still the same??