Fun times report

[anon123]

I had a nice adventure for a few hours with a blessed scroll of familiar summoning in DH2. Eventually, my greater earth elemental stopped fighting for me (after I killed the SFB and cleared the Pyramid and dwarven graveyard). He just started attacking me all of a sudden. If I hadn't noticed, I might have died since I was right out of d-town with my selling clothes on instead of my fighting clothes. I doubt I'll be able to put a dent in him for a while.

Apparently that's bound to happen if you're not a bard. GEEs are great companions, though.

In the mean time, I got the RotHK pretty easily with the rune covered trident. In one of the big rooms, there was an ungodly amount of living walls--I mean thirty or forty. I killed a few, but I have to lure them out and fight them one on one. I ended up giving up there and clearing darkforge instead.

Would-be threat room of living walls

On my way out, I decided to test the waters, so to speak, and got snakes and a wish! Now I need to decide between bracers of resistance and just going for eternium two handed swords. I need more killing power even with my mace of destruction.

Ideas? It's just sitting there on my other computer, waiting for input. I guess I could use another AoLS now that I gave my other one to Khelly.

Wish suggestions depend on what you already have and how far you're in the game. The wiki has some suggestions you can read:
http://ancardia.wikia.com/wiki/What_to_wish_for

[BrianL]

Yeah, I've read all the links on the first few pages of a google search, but it doesn't get easier. I have most of the items that people normally talk about wishing for with the exception of bracers of resistance.

Lessee, I've got...

Ring of ice, phase dagger, mace of destruction, 7lb, nice armor, source of fire resistance, invisibility, some other stuff.

Since I have +tctrl, I think I might just wish for the EM and get a bunch of greater molochs. If I don't do any decent damage with the phase dagger (which I think I should), I'll just teleport out and go do something else. It'll be nice to have a couple of million experience points waiting for me patiently.

[BrianL]

Hmm. I'm not entirely sure that I won't load up a backup and play from there since I think I can count "choosing to whatever and melee a master mimic with no source of control just because I'm tired of reloading new missiles every few shots and can't bother to teleport away" as a glitch---if not in the game then in my head.

I dunno. I just hate playing for literally 24 just to start back over again.

[JellySlayer]

Not so much bolts for the ACW, though what else would a wizard use as it plodded itself over to me? Moreso for general use. The thing was, that char was intrinsically invisible so I tended to play in such a way that pissed off as few monsters at a time, i.e. not using ball spells too often. That mostly had to do with the fact that I only had one copy of my ball spellbooks and bookcasting doesn't train the same way so they were never really as powerful as the swords of dev or the powered up bolt spells--that is until the fight with the ACW.

I'll take a level 0 acid ball over a level 20 bolt any day. It may do slightly less damage, but it more than makes up for it by avoiding line of sight, passing through walls, and never being shrugged. The shrugging is the big thing, IMHO. Bolts are fine for general purposes, but if you need to drop of the game's notorious bolt-dodgers, ball spells are the only way to go. There are very few problems a wizard is likely to come across that cannot be solved with acid ball--there are really only a handful of monsters in the game that aren't immune to acid, and most of those are either not dangerous or pretty rare.

I don't think I've ever bothered to spend extra time doing nothing but training up a spell. Except maybe stun ray. But I'd assume that if you just ate a bunch of stoma, stood in an empty level and just spammed your spell over and over again, you could probably get up to 30 or more without passing day 90 easily enough. Time doesn't pass that quickly if you aren't in the wilderness.

[BrianL]

This is my new troll's motto.

[BrianL]

Playing a 1.20 F HE Paladin right now. I lost one such char after in the unremarkable cave on level 12 after getting precrowned with protector for the first time. Very nice shield.

After that death, I pretty much was speed running through whatever I could find and this current character was anything but lucky at first, in my opinion. I didn't find even a single altar until the UD. I left Keethrax alive so that I could precrown twice, which is exactly what I did. Didn't even take all that long. On the way to that, I found and then lost a cloak of invisibility only to find a huge book store with Veil of the Gods and a bunch of other useful spells. Right now I am between successfully mastering Light and having my Cure Minor Wounds burn up on me. The book store is just for the future.

Anyway, precrowning gifts. The first one I got was Purifier to replace my silly 1d8+4 spear. After I talked Corellius into a second gift, I got the third first-time artifact of the day.

From what I've read, finding a silvery two-handed sword at my feet is a good thing. Can it really cut through moloch and balors like an enthusiastic poster stated?

[grobblewobble]

That's exceptionally cool, a paladin with Vanquisher.

It is a good weapon, for sure. It slays about every monster in the game, with few exceptions. Some think of it as the best weapon in the game, others think executor is even better. But all agree it's great.

In any case, as a paladin you might still obtain a weapon that seriously is even better than this, imo. Justifier. If you get crowned with that, it will beat even Vanquisher. It allows a shield and deals double damage on everything, on top of slaying demons and undead.

Oh, one tip: if you get crowned with something else than Justifier, Vanquisher is going to be your weapon forever. If that is the case, make sure to eventually get the Basher, Powerful Strike and Mighty Strike talents. With +6 to hit and damage total they are a good deal.