I suppose nobody has completed the brimstone man challenge yet? I made a few promising attempts and decided to do it using save scumming. I'd like to hear others' experiences about this. I'm following these rules:
- Enter ToEF immediately (no wilderness square may be entered for any reason, but you may eat food and put on rings)
- Do not exit the tower before you have the orb
I considered trolls for regeneration, but discarded the idea, because a trollish elementalist will starve before he reaches the tower. My last attempt is very promising:
Starting EQ:
- Gnomish elementalist with heir to obtain 2 resistances from rings
- Wand of teleportation (3) *useless if you save scum*
- Blessed scroll of familiar summoning *haven't used him yet*
I entered tower, read familiar scroll to obtain a red dragon (didn't use) and zapped the teleport wand to find a fire giant, which died from two frost bolts giving me 6 levels. With save scum I would've gotten a corpse from him, which would've saved me 1 prayer. With the teleportation wand I found the stairs and went up to find an altar. I found a red dragon from the next room, killed him with 3 bolts and ate his corpse for total resistance. I also found nice small mithril shield and crystal chain mail along with a spear of devastation and potion of blindness. I sacced ~3000 money to get 1 extra prayers.
I now have 2 prayers and limited food, but I can kill the wyrm if my potion of blindness survives long enough. I probably need to scum dragons for food and wand of digging so I don't have to waste a prayer for pick axe. I even considered scumming money using dragons to get 2 precrowning gifts. Anyway, this sounds a very promising character with only little save scumming (I died maybe 3 times) and I'm almost there. I have decent PV and DV and hit points so I don't instantly die unless somebody does a critical.
Any tips? Even without altar I would have 1 prayer left, so it would still be doable, although a lot harder. But this makes me think that brimstone challenge is not impossible...