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Cripplefish
02-28-2010, 06:32 PM
The mana temple without confusion resistence is a very bad idea. So I arrived at the mana temple, pretty strong and had everything I need EXCEPT confusion resistence. I was feeling pretty powerful so thought I'd give it a try anyway. I opened the temple and started clearing out the monsters, until that damn archmage started confusing me and I ended up in the corridor, to the south of the temple entrance, i.e trapped between a rock and a greater chaos servant. Read a scroll of darkness and started killing while being confused every few turns. After around 40 minutes of killing I sort of stopped paying attention to the text and just kept hitting attack until "you are hit by a painful stream of energy, you die"

It was a stupid death because I was down to around 130hp and could have healed/prayed. Well, once again over confidence destroys me...



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Yuri St:46 Le:22 Wi:29 Dx:26 To:38 Ch: 6 Ap: 1 Ma:24 Pe:31 N-
DV/PV: 74/39 H: -82(440) P: 27(197) Exp: 26/3824805 MT Sp: 126
Blessed
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Total weight: 7217 stones Carrying capacity: 9675 stones

Head : uncursed eternium cap [+0, +4] [28s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : blessed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s] (crowned with nature's companion. AMW for -death and seeinv)
Girdle : uncursed eternium girdle [+0, +4] [12s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +6] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed sword of sharpness (+0, 4d8+6) [35s]
Left Hand : blessed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +5] [70s]
Right Ring : blessed ring of damage [1s]
Left Ring : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Bracers : uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4} [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+1, +0] [30s]
Missile weapon: uncursed long bow of accuracy (+8, +4) [30s]
Missiles : -
Tool : uncursed Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire {St+10} [100s]

Sadface
02-28-2010, 07:20 PM
You can avoid most of his attempts to meddle with your mind by
standing like this in the corridor:



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#^. <- The secret door entrance
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If you fight like this, he has to stand on a line that is below the
secret door's line to have a shot at confusing you, and has to
be closer. Also, equipping the Water orb should help ward off
some of the confusion. Higher wi = higher confusion resistance,
even without the resistance ability itself.

Bfig
02-28-2010, 08:52 PM
agreed with the previous poster, with the orb you shouldn't have had that much trouble fighting the archmage.

Cripplefish
03-01-2010, 04:37 PM
Also, equipping the Water orb should help ward off
some of the confusion. Higher wi = higher confusion resistance,
even without the resistance ability itself.

Yes I should have really. Oh well, next time I guess.

JellySlayer
03-02-2010, 07:29 AM
His spells also only work at 2/3 power if you fight him on Silvernight.

Sadface
03-05-2010, 07:45 PM
Yeah, I hate it when I get stuck in the molybdenum temple, or
any of the other elemental temples.

(This spambot is actually kinda funny, even if he has a potentially
dangerous link in his signature)