Archmage advices

[zsomkovacs]

Currently I'm trying an Archmage UNE. She is pretty good at the moment. (She's a Salamander-born GE Wizard.) She got the Crown and the Medal of Chaos and did the library easily. Also learned Wish. Now she is L43, and she still have to do 3 temples, D:48 and BDC. Then Filk, EM and Bug Temple, with Slow Monster and strong spells she'll have no problem reaching L50. She has all the talents which give PP or HP and Great Book Caster of course. So she only needs 4500 PP with all stats at 1, but how?

I have a big heap of extra and ultra healing potions (about 30-40), but it's not enough for anything. I can create potions of extra healing from cure poison and invisibility, which I can find in ID. There's that mana battery corruption as well. I think I can gain some PP by repeatedly charging and draining wands, but that requires a lot of booze. With wizard class power I can recharge every wand once, so double PP gain. I'm not sure about this, but doesn't Mana Orb give PP when I use it? Or does it just increase my Mana? I'm going to wear TotRR and Mana/Water Orb (or Earth?). I have bracers of toughness and amulets of perseverance. I know eating spellcasters is good. Eating Oracle is very good.

Do you have any other idea? Can I do it faster than this way?

[Soirana]

stack on blessed pots of boos toughness and wish for power?

[Grey]

Remember that HP counts much more than PP, so boost toughness helps a lot. And restoring HP with Water Orb is less corrupting than the analogous solution to PP drains.

[JellySlayer]

I believe mana orb does actually gives PPs (guidebook claims +12). One method to get enough PPs is, if you can get a couple wishes in hand, to repeatedly use the Mana orb to boost PPs, then wish for SoCRs to clear corruption.

[gut]

drop some +PV/+DV gear for a beggar, but not a shield.
turns out they give boni to-damage -_-

anyway, next job is to tame him, just give him 1 ration at
a time until he is your pet. Now lure him to jharod. Oh, I
forgot to mention you must have taken the healer quest
for this to work : )

Order beggar to attack jharod, tp beggar, read or zap some
mob detect, tp to beggar, order beggar to follow you to stairs,
let jharod join you and beggar in stairs room (mystic shovel
does wonders), lead beggar up, return for jharod, descend,
repeat.

Now that jharod is in VD:1 up stair room, set up some locked
doors in the momma dragon's cave. Lure hawkslayer or the old
barbarian (hawk is easier) there and return to fetch jharod.
With everything set up properly, you can heal Hawk, then chat
with jharod, then heal Hawk, chat, heal, chat, and just pick up
a stack of several hundred PoUH when done. Be careful not to
allow your pet to die, cure light wounds is not enough by itself.
Best strategy is to mix a CLW with a CCW or even a heal.

Forget PP's entirely for the first part of your engine, they are of
little use. Wish for boost To: potions and use PoUH for healing.
After To: is fixed, wish for speed, that way silvernight will last
forever. At this point, you will prolly want to switch healing
method to W-orb, and just wish up some SoCR to counter the
corruption. Lastly, wish for 'power' until you have 10K PP's or
so. Always remember to equip AoLS, as I (and others) have
noticed that we started engine with one, only to see it had
dissapeared upon next check

[zsomkovacs]

Does Silvernight have an effect on neutrals?

gut: it's really nice, but unfortunately I chose the druid quest. Stupid me.

[JellySlayer]

Does Silvernight have an effect on neutrals?

gut: it's really nice, but unfortunately I chose the druid quest. Stupid me.

I don't think so. I seem to recall reading recently (Soirana maybe?) that Darknight doesn't affect Wish for chaotics either, incidentally.

[Soirana]

I don't think so. I seem to recall reading recently (Soirana maybe?) that Darknight doesn't affect Wish for chaotics either, incidentally.

Only lawfuls on silvernight. Can get some run with PP reduction to ease process i believe.

Darknights do not make wishing easier. if you ever take look at HoF 99%+arcmages were L+.