nathrakh
01-21-2010, 09:32 AM
This was enjoyable game. It all started yesterday when I said to gut in #adom : "gut tell me a r/c combo and I'll make my first win with that!" Well, gut said troll druid first - and I tried it but I didn't enjoy it so I asked for new combo. He said dark elven assassin and so I created one and so it happened that I won with that very first one. So my first victory is dedicated to my honorable Mentor gut. *bows humbly*
Overall it was pretty fast paced game except for herb gatherings. I started the game by taking the druid quest (was Candle-born) and made it through easily enough. Then I proceeded to puppy cave. I got lucky finding stable morgia/moss/stoma bushes in PC:3. Also found general shop in PC:4 but used only once to sell some useless stuff. Somewhere in PC I found battleaxe of devastation that I used till Casino. When I had gathered enough herbs I returned the puppy corpse to tiny girl and went to CoC.
CoC was quite uneventful save for one river, a scroll shop and a ring shop. I made it to DT easily and got the elders quests (slay ogre, kill nonnak). Now I don't remember too much about this part of the game anymore but I was constantly training with herbs and strained. I went and got the teleport wand from VDDL (ate blinkie at some point), did pyramid and dwarven graveyard. Then I went back to DT, ID'd some stuff etc, visited beyond the forest or something. Mystic gave me 4 scrolls of chaos resistance. Very good. At some point I also killed the ogre and then went to clear DFG. In DFG there wasn't any very good stuff but I got a wish from the pools (2nd pool that I drank). Wished for AoLS and went to save Khelly.
Then I did the water temple, snake was _almost_ oneshotted. I got crowned with the Far Slayer (was hoping for Executor). I proceeded to fetch the RotHK -> fire orb. Everything went fine except wyrm was problematic in melee so I had to go back to D:1 to get Far Slayer. :P Wyrm died to like 5 quarrels at that point.
I was set to dive now so I did and got to the Casino safely. I dropped all my stuff udner the casino except for +str gear, money, food and blessed scroll of ID. I gathered all the stuff from casino and ID'd them. Was QUITE pleasantly surprised to see Executor among the stuff but unhappy to see only 1 ring of slaying (+3 melee, +6 missile dmg :(). Robbed the stuff with help of #adom (mainly Sorear, thank you). I noticed I had 2 potions of education so I drank them and got...... Healing + Concentration. :)
I had nice learning score thanks to eating oracle at early game and couple crystal of knowledge. So I had teleport learned, and invisibility too. Bunny level was easy thanks to teleport. My kitty karma was horrible and I was scared of the Cat Lord because I didn't have source of see invisibilty. I thinked some time how to kill him. Ended choosing dual wielding shields and fire balling him with Thundarrs wand while drinking potions/using water orb for healing. It worked quite nicely and lowest hp IIRC was ~150 at that fight. The Cat Lord panicked after 7-9 zaps and I used wand of webbing. Proceeded with shooting poisoned quarrels of humanoid slaying. (Can't underestimate raging Kitty Lord). Got 2 levels.
Air temple was easy as I had controllable invisibility and 100 stealth. Yulgash died to 2-3 humanoid slayers and didn't even have time to summon anything. Earth temple was a little bit problematic because there was a mixed tension room in the level. In the end the panicking earth elementals waked the room or something and I had to deal with emperor lich among some other mobs. Well luckily he didnt summon anything and took only two or three undead slayers to kill. Ancient stone beast wasn't any problem either. Executor is awesome I have to say. :)
Reached Sharad-Waador but hadn't found any magic missile books so left him be. Mana temple was the next place and posed some problems thanks to the chaos wizards going insane with summons. In the end I slayed over 100 chaos servants/greater chaos servants. Also a bastard annihilator destroyed my 7lbs... Nuurag-Vaarn was killed easily tho. At some point there I found another potion of education and got.... _athletics_. Gotta say I got lucky with those 3 potions.
Dropped the orbs to the anomalies and used scurgaris of returning to cross the ice level. Uselessness gift was Purifier. Too bad I hadn't trained maces at all, could have used that against most easier mobs at D:50. I found at that I didn't have wands of destroying or monster creation so had to do the level "real style". Happy I did because it was an experience in itself to clear D:50.
Balors including Fisty fell to demon slaying quarrels, chaos wizards to human slaying ammo and other stuff was dispatched with the Executor. In the end I had to kill a lot of chaos servants again. Check this: 243 chaos servants, 234 greater chaos servants. Luckily assassins have nice DV and I had good equipment so PV too. There was also a tension room of normal ghosts in the level that I cleared for fun.
As you can see from the .flg I still had some spare ?oCR left (thanks to saving Khelly and mystic giving me 4 too). I was surprised to see my turn count so low (73320 turns) because I wasted a lot of time w5'ing for herbs and shops restocking. Then again I like to play ADOM fast so maybe I should continue trying speed runs. ^^
Ending score surprised me too. I got to the 38. place in the list.
http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/nathrakh/guts_cho.flg
edit: accidently wrote Nuurag-Vaarn as Yulgash.
Overall it was pretty fast paced game except for herb gatherings. I started the game by taking the druid quest (was Candle-born) and made it through easily enough. Then I proceeded to puppy cave. I got lucky finding stable morgia/moss/stoma bushes in PC:3. Also found general shop in PC:4 but used only once to sell some useless stuff. Somewhere in PC I found battleaxe of devastation that I used till Casino. When I had gathered enough herbs I returned the puppy corpse to tiny girl and went to CoC.
CoC was quite uneventful save for one river, a scroll shop and a ring shop. I made it to DT easily and got the elders quests (slay ogre, kill nonnak). Now I don't remember too much about this part of the game anymore but I was constantly training with herbs and strained. I went and got the teleport wand from VDDL (ate blinkie at some point), did pyramid and dwarven graveyard. Then I went back to DT, ID'd some stuff etc, visited beyond the forest or something. Mystic gave me 4 scrolls of chaos resistance. Very good. At some point I also killed the ogre and then went to clear DFG. In DFG there wasn't any very good stuff but I got a wish from the pools (2nd pool that I drank). Wished for AoLS and went to save Khelly.
Then I did the water temple, snake was _almost_ oneshotted. I got crowned with the Far Slayer (was hoping for Executor). I proceeded to fetch the RotHK -> fire orb. Everything went fine except wyrm was problematic in melee so I had to go back to D:1 to get Far Slayer. :P Wyrm died to like 5 quarrels at that point.
I was set to dive now so I did and got to the Casino safely. I dropped all my stuff udner the casino except for +str gear, money, food and blessed scroll of ID. I gathered all the stuff from casino and ID'd them. Was QUITE pleasantly surprised to see Executor among the stuff but unhappy to see only 1 ring of slaying (+3 melee, +6 missile dmg :(). Robbed the stuff with help of #adom (mainly Sorear, thank you). I noticed I had 2 potions of education so I drank them and got...... Healing + Concentration. :)
I had nice learning score thanks to eating oracle at early game and couple crystal of knowledge. So I had teleport learned, and invisibility too. Bunny level was easy thanks to teleport. My kitty karma was horrible and I was scared of the Cat Lord because I didn't have source of see invisibilty. I thinked some time how to kill him. Ended choosing dual wielding shields and fire balling him with Thundarrs wand while drinking potions/using water orb for healing. It worked quite nicely and lowest hp IIRC was ~150 at that fight. The Cat Lord panicked after 7-9 zaps and I used wand of webbing. Proceeded with shooting poisoned quarrels of humanoid slaying. (Can't underestimate raging Kitty Lord). Got 2 levels.
Air temple was easy as I had controllable invisibility and 100 stealth. Yulgash died to 2-3 humanoid slayers and didn't even have time to summon anything. Earth temple was a little bit problematic because there was a mixed tension room in the level. In the end the panicking earth elementals waked the room or something and I had to deal with emperor lich among some other mobs. Well luckily he didnt summon anything and took only two or three undead slayers to kill. Ancient stone beast wasn't any problem either. Executor is awesome I have to say. :)
Reached Sharad-Waador but hadn't found any magic missile books so left him be. Mana temple was the next place and posed some problems thanks to the chaos wizards going insane with summons. In the end I slayed over 100 chaos servants/greater chaos servants. Also a bastard annihilator destroyed my 7lbs... Nuurag-Vaarn was killed easily tho. At some point there I found another potion of education and got.... _athletics_. Gotta say I got lucky with those 3 potions.
Dropped the orbs to the anomalies and used scurgaris of returning to cross the ice level. Uselessness gift was Purifier. Too bad I hadn't trained maces at all, could have used that against most easier mobs at D:50. I found at that I didn't have wands of destroying or monster creation so had to do the level "real style". Happy I did because it was an experience in itself to clear D:50.
Balors including Fisty fell to demon slaying quarrels, chaos wizards to human slaying ammo and other stuff was dispatched with the Executor. In the end I had to kill a lot of chaos servants again. Check this: 243 chaos servants, 234 greater chaos servants. Luckily assassins have nice DV and I had good equipment so PV too. There was also a tension room of normal ghosts in the level that I cleared for fun.
As you can see from the .flg I still had some spare ?oCR left (thanks to saving Khelly and mystic giving me 4 too). I was surprised to see my turn count so low (73320 turns) because I wasted a lot of time w5'ing for herbs and shops restocking. Then again I like to play ADOM fast so maybe I should continue trying speed runs. ^^
Ending score surprised me too. I got to the 38. place in the list.
http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/nathrakh/guts_cho.flg
edit: accidently wrote Nuurag-Vaarn as Yulgash.