First Victory - L50 Gnome Bard

[lamanor]

I've been playing Adom on/off for about 12 years. About 10 years ago I got to D50 with a dwarf monk and didn't know what to do so I jumped into the portal
Anyways, so this is my first real victory.
I was quite happy with my artifacts and I think they contributed to my victory.
I found Executioner in Dark Forge in the weapons room
Cloak of Oman was my crowning gift.
Protector dropped from a greater red dragon vault
Bracers of war were also a random drop.
Apparently I also found "Preserver" , Ring of Immunity and "Hammerhead" but I never saw them?
Also what helped me was getting Ice Ball as a random spell when I hit a certain level (about L22 I think?) So dual weilding sheilds and spamming ice ball I managed to kill the Elder Wyrm in ToEF. I reckon this was the hardest part of the game.
The other chaos orb levels were not too difficult because I had heaps of slaying ammo such as quarrels of humanoid slaying and arrows of demon slaying etc.
I did not bother with the blue dragon level because I had everything I needed for victory. I found a Red dragon greater vault at about D40ish. I was only L35 when I went in. L43 after I cleared all the red dragons. The named Ancient Red dragon in the center put me up about 3 levels when I killed it.
I found an Amulet of life saving after talking to Khelevaster. Lucky I did because on D50 I decided to clear the room. killed all the balors including greater balor with not too much difficulty. Had heaps of demon slaying ammo + Executioner which is also a demon slayer. after I had closed the portal and just clearing the chaos servants I became a bit blase. Suddenly noticed my HP went to full (about 737). checked my inventory and sure enough my AoLS had been used. Thank Goodness I had it on!

Interesteing to note my Seven League boots and waterproof blanket were destroyed in the small cave very early on. I never saw another drop the whole game which was very annoying. Had 6 fireproof blankets and not one waterproof!. Still completed the game just before day 90 despite losing the 7LB.

Completed the White unicorn quest and cleansed myself just before exiting

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Blumpkins St:42 Le:29 Wi:27 Dx:51 To:32 Ch:32 Ap:34 Ma:41 Pe:32 N-
DV/PV:121/44 H:737(737) P:606(606) Exp: 50/36167389 DrCh Sp: 138
Blessed Bloated
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Background Information
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Name: Blumpkins Race: male Gnome Class: Bard
Eye color: green Hair color: white Complexion: light
Height: 3'4" Weight: 119 pounds Scars: 2
Age: 424 (middle-aged, 315 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Raven Birthday: 25/Raven (day 25 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents were poor people. They loved you and cared for you,
although you had to hunger more than once.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
In your youth you enjoyed competition against others to the
fullest. You were a very active kid.
As a young adult you were a credit to your family. Your parents
supported your plans and were very understanding. They tried to help you
along your way with all means at their disposal.
You decided to become a Bard.

[lamanor]

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Inventory
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Total weight: 10756 stones Carrying capacity: 21749 stones

He: uncursed helm of beauty [+2, +3] {Ap+6} [50s]
Ne: blessed amulet of order [3s]
Bo: blessed white eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13] [240s]
Gi: blessed girdle of carrying [+3, +3] [15s]
Cl: blessed cloak of Oman (+2, +0) [+4, +4] {Dx+8} [20s]
RH: blessed jet-black battle axe (named) (+2, 5d6+6) [-4, +1] {St+3} (+3 spd)
LH: blessed medium obsidian shield (named) [+20, +4] {To+2} [46s]
RR: blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of slaying (+7 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8} [10s]
Ga: uncursed gauntlets of strength (-1, +0) [+0, +1] {St+5} [40s]
Bo: blessed boots of speed [+5, +0] (+8 spd) [20s]
MW: uncursed light crossbow of accuracy (+8, +0) [70s]
Mi: bundle of 6 uncursed quarrels of slaying (+1, 2d6) [12s]
Tl: uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1) [75s]

[lamanor]

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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 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 99
Daggers & knives 4 +3 +1 +0 skilled 81
Clubs & hammers 6 +4 +2 +1 skilled 204
Maces & flails 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 40
Swords 11 +10 +7 +4 Mastery 1821
Axes 13 +14 +12 +4 Mastery 5278
Whips 4 +4 +2 +4 skilled 105
Pole arms 9 +9 +5 +10 excellent 1091
Twohanded weapons 3 +3 +3 +1 basic 21
Staves 3 +3 +0 +3 basic 7

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 10
Bows 7 +14 +10 +2 skilled 71
Crossbows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 106
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 11
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 11 +22 Mastery 274


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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ÆRight hand: Î+76Æ bonus to hit, Î5d6+38Æ damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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ÆAmmunition: Î6Æ, base range: Î13Æ, Î+90Æ bonus to hit, Î2d6+34Æ damage




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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+3d4]
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Detect traps .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Disarm traps .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d3]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gardening ................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Gemology .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Haggling .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Herbalism ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Metallurgy ...............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Mining ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Music ....................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Necromancy ............... 76 (great) [+1d3]
Pick locks ...............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Pick pockets .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Swimming .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Tactics ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........ 92 (superb) [+1d3]
Ventriloquism ............100 (superb) [+2d4]


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Spells
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Acid Bolt : 239, 14pp (Effectivity: +7)
Bless : 723, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Burning Hands : 393, 7pp (Effectivity: +5)
Calm Monster : 1029, 8pp (Effectivity: +2)
Cure Disease : 601, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Light Wounds: 52, 5pp (Effectivity: +12)
Darkness : 1314, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Death Ray : 314, 100pp (Effectivity: +0)
Disarm Trap : 354, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Frost Bolt : 661, 12pp (Effectivity: +2)
Ice Ball : 298, 24pp (Effectivity: +9)
Improved Fireball: 448, 30pp (Effectivity: +0)
Invisibility : 350, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 650, 3pp (Effectivity: +4)
Lightning Bolt : 469, 12pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Lock : 714, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Map : 119, 40pp (Effectivity: +3)
Magic Missile : 23, 13pp (Effectivity: +9)
Mystic Shovel : 151, 100pp (Effectivity: +1)
Neutralize Poison: 640, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Monster : 1366, 7pp (Effectivity: +2)
Slow Poison : 678, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 577, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Stun Ray : 457, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Summon Monsters : 625, 30pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 671, 21pp (Effectivity: +5)
Web : 477, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)




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His further life:
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After he leaves the Drakalor Chain he is welcomed by his people with great
honors. They acknowledge his noble deeds, his valor, his cunning and his
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world he
knows. He returns to his lands victorious and is hailed as a great leader.
Eventually he becomes king and rule your subjects with an iron fist for a
long and peaceful time, allowing his people to prosper and grow.

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His achievements during his adventures:
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Blumpkins, the gnomish bard, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 32 times.
He scored 11442172 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 89 days, 9 hours, 9 minutes and 31 seconds (114343
turns).
33 companions were killed during his adventures.
Blumpkins visited 113 places.
His strength score was modified by +22 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +16 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +14 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +19 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +13 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +16 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +14 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +22 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +16 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 315 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He brought back joy into the life of a tiny girl.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord but fell from grace.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
7004 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 25 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the scorched spear
the cloak of Oman
the rune-covered trident
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the black torc
the bracers of war
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the jet-black battle axe "Executor"
the ring of immunity
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier"
the medium obsidian shield "Protector"
the sapphire amulet "Preserver"
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was cold resistant (gained through items).
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him.
He was cursed (gained through an item).
He was sleep resistant (gained through items).
He was able to teleport (gained through an item).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through items).
He was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
He was shock resistant (enhanced through items).
He was immune to acidic attacks.
He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Alert, Beast of Burden, Boon to the Family,
Careful, Charged, Charming, Defensive Fighter, Good Book Learner, Good
Learner, Greased Lightning, Heir, Long Stride, Master Packager, Miser,
Porter, Potent Aura, Quick, Strong Magic, Treasure Hunter, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 138 (final base speed: 137).
He cheated Death once.
He was a messiah of Berwyn.
He asked for 2 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.

[lamanor]

The following monsters were vanquished:
1 acid vortex
23 air demons
12 air elementals
5 air grues
3 ancient black dragons
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
2 ancient minotaurs
24 ancient red dragons
1 Ancient Stone Beast
1 ancient white dragon
2 animated armors
10 animated trees
3 ankhegs
9 annihilators
5 annis hags
3 assassins
9 balors
22 bandits
1 banshee
11 barbarians
8 barbarian leaders
27 battle bunnies
14 berserkers
3 berserker emperors
5 berserker kings
11 berserker lords
3 berserker princes
10 big dogs
25 black baby dragons
12 black dragons
1 black druid
20 black hurthlings
3 black slayers
14 black wizards
76 blink dogs
2 blue baby dragons
2 blue dragons
1 bone golem
5 brown bears
7 brown worms
13 bugbears
2 bulettes
1 bunny master
22 carrion crawlers
6 cave bears
94 cave fishers
14 cave lizards
1 cave tiger
16 cavemen
1 Chaos Archmage
9 chaos brothers
2 chaos eyes
4 chaos knights
4 chaos lizards
70 chaos mutants
32 chaos plague bearers
13 chaos rats
246 chaos servants
6 chaos sisters
6 chaos spawns
3 chaos spiders
4 chaos vipers
34 chaos warriors
24 chaos wizards
20 claw bugs
3 clay golems
1 cloaked ratling
5 cobras
4 cooshoos
26 corpse fiends
6 corruptors
1 crime lord
2 crystal statues
18 cutpurses
12 dark elven archers
6 dark elven lords
5 dark elven priestesses
6 dark elven princesses
9 dark elven warriors
3 dark elven wizards
9 dark orcs
6 dark sages
2 death oozes
5 diamond golems
166 dire wolves
16 displacer beasts
11 dopplegangers
7 doppleganger lords
21 dwarven chaos knights
48 earth elementals
6 ettins
27 eyes of destruction
1 fairy dragon
37 fire beetles
9 fire demons
44 fire drakes
41 fire elementals
9 fire giants
2 fire giant kings
1 fire grue
54 fire lizards
10 fire vortices
8 flesh golems
8 floating eyes
5 fomorian giants
3 frost giants
1 frost giant berserker
3 frost giant jarls
4 gargoyles
35 gelatinous cubes
221 ghosts
10 ghost bats
54 ghost lords
200 ghuls
3 giant ant workers
40 giant bats
4 giant bee queens
139 giant bee warriors
22 giant bee workers
26 giant centipedes
30 giant frogs
22 giant lizards
6 giant raccoons
89 giant rats
2 giant rust monsters
3 giant slugs
69 giant spiders
10 gibbering mouthers
34 gnolls
5 gnoll chieftains
115 goblins
9 goblin berserkers
10 goblin chieftains
64 goblin rockthrowers
44 goblin slavemasters
2 gorgons
67 gray oozes
2 gray slayers
1 great black wyrm
1 great red wyrm
4 greater air elementals
1 greater balor
1 greater black unicorn
113 greater chaos servants
6 greater claw bugs
3 greater daemons
16 greater mummies
3 greater water elementals
6 green blobs
7 green hags
48 green slimes
11 green worms
1 gremlin
7 griffons
9 grizzly bears
2 half-orc bouncers
22 harpies
10 hell hounds
26 hill giants
2 hill giant chieftains
7 hill orcs
8 hill orc sergeants
23 hippogriffs
97 hobgoblins
17 hobgoblin chiefs
28 hobgoblin leaders
6 homunculi
16 huge bats
4 hydras
10 hyenas
16 imps
2 invisible stalkers
2 iron golems
428 jackals
11 jackalweres
2 karmic baby dragons
8 karmic lizards
1 king cobra
59 kobolds
13 kobold chieftains
14 kobold shamans
47 large bats
36 large dogs
16 large gnolls
6 large jackals
32 large kobolds
19 large orcs
7 large rust monsters
9 large snakes
139 large spiders
6 least daemons
5 lesser daemons
6 leucrottas
10 liches
5 lich kings
9 lightning lizards
1 lightning vortex
1 living wall
40 lizard men
12 magebane eyes
12 magedoom eyes
1 master assassin
8 master liches
1 master mimic
1 master necromancer
1 Master Summoner
13 master swordsmen
2 master thieves
5 mimics
21 mimic hiveminds
14 minotaurs
1 minotaur mage
1 mugger
15 mummies
21 necromancers
16 ochre jellies
242 ogres
3 ogre emperors
1 ogre king
25 ogre lords
21 ogre magi
147 orcs
1 orc butcher
14 orc chieftains
25 orc scorchers
12 outlaws
7 outlaw leaders
19 owlbears
45 pit vipers
6 pixies
5 pixie archers
50 purple worms
11 quasits
1 quickling
1 quickling king
2 quickling lords
1 quickling queen
11 rabid dogs
13 raiders
149 rats
46 ratling archers
19 ratling duelists
25 ratling fencers
6 ratling master thieves
19 ratling thieves
7 ratling warlords
22 ratling warriors
4 rattlesnakes
42 red baby dragons
50 red dragons
7 red worms
3 revenants
3 rust monsters
72 shadows
8 shadow centipedes
6 shadow lords
2 shadow trolls
3 shambling mounds
65 silver wolves
3 skeletal kings
36 skeletal warriors
241 skeletons
9 slow shadows
1 Snake from Beyond
85 spectres
6 staring eyes
34 steel golems
5 steel horrors
3 steel zombies
19 stone giants
5 stone giant lords
26 stone golems
32 stone grues
2 stone oozes
11 stone snakes
7 stone statues
5 swamp hydras
16 swordsmen
69 tarantulas
1 thug
14 trolls
11 troll berserkers
3 troll chiefs
1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
53 vampires
49 vapor rats
2 vipers
34 water demons
5 water elementals
20 water grues
24 water snakes
22 wererats
23 werewolves
6 werewolf lords
16 white baby dragons
30 white worms
93 wights
1 wild cat
1 will o'wisp
188 wolves
38 wraiths
84 writhing masses of primal chaos
12 yellow oozes
194 zombies

[anon123]

Congrats on the win

For future posts, I'd advice using the code tag, as it displays text in a fixed width font and preserves whitespace. It's done like this:

[CODE]Head          : uncursed eternium cap [+0, +7]                        [28s]
Neck          : uncursed amulet of life saving                         [3s]
Body          : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}       [60s][/CODE]

Apparently I also found "Preserver" , Ring of Immunity and "Hammerhead" but I never saw them?

Well, that's a shame. Preserver and the RoI (even with rings of elemental mastery around) are among the top-rated artifacts in the game as far as I'm concerned. Hammerhead is also nice for passionate gemologists and smiths.

[JellySlayer]

Congrats on first win! Especially doing it with a more unusual class choice.

As far as the artifacts go...did you skip any greater vaults? That seems like the most likely place for two or three artifacts to have ended up. Or maybe you didn't find the secret rooms in the dragon vault you cleared? Regardless, it's only Preserver that is really a shame to miss. RoI and Hammerhead are only really useful in fairly specific situations (RoI does give good PV/DV for a ring though).

While it worked out well for you wearing an AoLS, just so you know, amulets of order stop working above level 48, and are basically useless above about level 35. If you're worried about alignment, blessed balance is probably better. But you should probably just wear the ankh most of the time, IMHO.

[ironcash]

Congrats! I love playing bards... But I always die b4 level 20 with them...

[lamanor]

Thanks guys,

Anon123 i'll keep that in mind in regards to the code tag.

Jellyslayer I reckon you may be right, I did skip a Greater Lich vault. It was filled with master liches, king lichs with emporer liches at the core. The immense stat drain and monster summoning was too much to bear and I quickly ported away. IMO this greater vault was harder than clearing D50, and is probably where the "lost" artifacts were hidden.

In regards to the class combo I find bards to be an awsome class for two reasons. The first being the chance to get a brilliant mix of skills (which I did) and of course starting with the 7LB. The skills are random and you sometimes have to reroll numerous times to get a good mix which can be frustrating. Their stats generally start out average and with very minimum equipment, usually with no PV. This makes them very vulnerable to begin with. Once I got past the hurdle of the ToEF he became an extremely versatile and powerful character. The skills made him a great caster, excellent in mellee and awsome with the bow (his stats were also very balanced.)
The gnome is a good race for bards for the extra starting talent which makes it guarenteed to get the 7LB and often two extra useful talent. This definately increases survivability.

[Silfir]

You're spot on regarding greater undead vaults. They're pretty much always more trouble than they're worth. The only way to avoid stat drains is to shoot all of the lich kings and emperor liches, and because of the incessant summoning, you're quite likely to run out of ammo.

[Bheephbisskit]

You know a real player would have had their first win with a weaponsmith... *wink*