sterjs
06-06-2009, 07:46 AM
I started ADOM pretty recently (~1 month ago?), but I am a retired(haha) Dungeon Crawl expert(~35 wins).
Rough recap of game from memory:
Started with Firebolt/Darkness and !Invis which I used to rob the black market for Frost Bolt and Magic Missile books from the black market. Killed a few criminals in Holeinthewall. Got the puppy/kranach quests, but held off on choosing between druid/healer.
Went to ID where I stairscummed ID:1-2 and ID:3-4 a bit until I had a decent spell repertoire (notably Teleportation, maybe Invis as well).
Went back to Hole, killed Hotz and bought Detect Traps.
Went to PC, found Grey Altar on PC:2. Converted self to Lawful with the marble amulet from Tywat Pare and then converted altar. Sacced monsters until I was precrowned with Executor(!). Found Book Shop and Stoma/Morgia patches on PC:3, so I did some gardening and sacced for a 2nd pre-crown: Preserver(!). Executor turned out to be ludicrously strong, so I ended up meleeing for most of the game. The book shop had magic map, acid ball, mystic shovel and gave me more castings in several spells I already had. Being a complete noob, I was very miserly with spells and used bookcasting for the util spells as much as possible. This was largely unnecessary... I found plenty of books even without the shop.
Left carpenter/druid decision for later. Went to CoC because I didn't have tele control yet. Finally found a blink dog and milked it for awhile to get a couple corpses. Somewhere along the way, I found Moss of Mareilon and got my Wi/To/Dx up to low 30s using sickness/starvation. Went back to SMC and used Map+Invis+Teleport to get to downstairs. Proceeded through UD and ate oracle corpse in HMV for a huge Le increase(17->23 or something). In the UD, I killed a stupid cat in 1 turn who wandered into a doorway that I had just opened. Finished all the midgame quests with no issues.
Seven League boots and the Tower Adamantium Shield turned up some time before Darkforge. Darkforge was a cakewalk with Executor, but I squandered all the pools without obtaining "LifeSaving for Khelly--didn't realize you can't get wishes while doomed. I also got crowned with the Brannalbin's Cloak and FIre Immunity somewhere around here.
Killed Khelly, snagged water orb and a /Wishing with 1 charge--never used because I was saving it for spare seven league boots or ?ChaosResistance. I should have just taken Find Weakness. Found a dwarven chaos knight vault that yielded charged eternium plate mail of life and eternium caps around this time.
Raced through ToEF using Magic Map+Tele. ToEF was way too easy with this char--I had tons of regen/healing, good artifact equip and I easily wiped out everything with Ice Ball.
Rolled over everything for awhile except for the damned Cat Lord. I tried to melee him a bit, but found out this was a dumb idea and had to use extra healing potions and coward/ice ball(I found a ton of ice ball books, so this was my go to spell most of the time).
Mana Temple was really tough. I got the Stiff Muscles corruption early on(along with many other more or less harmful corruptions) and had to turn back and do the Unicorn quest to progress(luckily I'd recently hit XL30). It took me awhile to figure out how to lure the boss out and then he did a number on me when I tried to melee him. Used a few !ExtraHealing and got severely corrupted. Eventually I retreated to regain PP and then ice balled him into oblivion.
D:49 was super annoying... didn't bring enough crap with me to throw and had to throw most of my wands to get to the downstairs.
D:50 was a bit exciting. I got mana battery corruption 1 step from the first lever, but was able to remove it with the precious corruption removal that I'd horded all game. I tried to melee Balors and that didn't work out so well, so I sighed and broke out Ice Ball again. Eventually I destroyed both levers and got my heavily corrupted ass out of dodge.
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Rough recap of game from memory:
Started with Firebolt/Darkness and !Invis which I used to rob the black market for Frost Bolt and Magic Missile books from the black market. Killed a few criminals in Holeinthewall. Got the puppy/kranach quests, but held off on choosing between druid/healer.
Went to ID where I stairscummed ID:1-2 and ID:3-4 a bit until I had a decent spell repertoire (notably Teleportation, maybe Invis as well).
Went back to Hole, killed Hotz and bought Detect Traps.
Went to PC, found Grey Altar on PC:2. Converted self to Lawful with the marble amulet from Tywat Pare and then converted altar. Sacced monsters until I was precrowned with Executor(!). Found Book Shop and Stoma/Morgia patches on PC:3, so I did some gardening and sacced for a 2nd pre-crown: Preserver(!). Executor turned out to be ludicrously strong, so I ended up meleeing for most of the game. The book shop had magic map, acid ball, mystic shovel and gave me more castings in several spells I already had. Being a complete noob, I was very miserly with spells and used bookcasting for the util spells as much as possible. This was largely unnecessary... I found plenty of books even without the shop.
Left carpenter/druid decision for later. Went to CoC because I didn't have tele control yet. Finally found a blink dog and milked it for awhile to get a couple corpses. Somewhere along the way, I found Moss of Mareilon and got my Wi/To/Dx up to low 30s using sickness/starvation. Went back to SMC and used Map+Invis+Teleport to get to downstairs. Proceeded through UD and ate oracle corpse in HMV for a huge Le increase(17->23 or something). In the UD, I killed a stupid cat in 1 turn who wandered into a doorway that I had just opened. Finished all the midgame quests with no issues.
Seven League boots and the Tower Adamantium Shield turned up some time before Darkforge. Darkforge was a cakewalk with Executor, but I squandered all the pools without obtaining "LifeSaving for Khelly--didn't realize you can't get wishes while doomed. I also got crowned with the Brannalbin's Cloak and FIre Immunity somewhere around here.
Killed Khelly, snagged water orb and a /Wishing with 1 charge--never used because I was saving it for spare seven league boots or ?ChaosResistance. I should have just taken Find Weakness. Found a dwarven chaos knight vault that yielded charged eternium plate mail of life and eternium caps around this time.
Raced through ToEF using Magic Map+Tele. ToEF was way too easy with this char--I had tons of regen/healing, good artifact equip and I easily wiped out everything with Ice Ball.
Rolled over everything for awhile except for the damned Cat Lord. I tried to melee him a bit, but found out this was a dumb idea and had to use extra healing potions and coward/ice ball(I found a ton of ice ball books, so this was my go to spell most of the time).
Mana Temple was really tough. I got the Stiff Muscles corruption early on(along with many other more or less harmful corruptions) and had to turn back and do the Unicorn quest to progress(luckily I'd recently hit XL30). It took me awhile to figure out how to lure the boss out and then he did a number on me when I tried to melee him. Used a few !ExtraHealing and got severely corrupted. Eventually I retreated to regain PP and then ice balled him into oblivion.
D:49 was super annoying... didn't bring enough crap with me to throw and had to throw most of my wands to get to the downstairs.
D:50 was a bit exciting. I got mana battery corruption 1 step from the first lever, but was able to remove it with the precious corruption removal that I'd horded all game. I tried to melee Balors and that didn't work out so well, so I sighed and broke out Ice Ball again. Eventually I destroyed both levers and got my heavily corrupted ass out of dodge.
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Honda Big Ruckus Specifications (http://www.honda-wiki.org/wiki/Honda_Big_Ruckus)