Sami
07-09-2009, 06:33 PM
Yet another weird challenge game completed... This time only attacks used were (thrown) potions, offensive alchemy and traps. No pets were used.
Main problems in this challenge are getting enough hp/fire resistance and herbs to start using alchemy, how to avoid/kill fire creatures (by using traps/poison) and of course getting fire orb and mana orb from guardians that are immune to fire. Also a lot of loot gets destroyed due to fire.
I chose to be a gnomish assassin because assassin has easy access to poison and gnome gets extra talent and ventriloquism which turned out to be a lot more useful than I have ever thought. Before this successfull attempt I had tried mainly some hurthling/gnome wizard/necro combos to start with a ring of fire resistance to start alching like mad earlier (with hardy + very hardy).
At start I scummed a lot in ID to find some potions (can be exploded in emergency when I have enough hp to survive from it), gold (for disarm traps and to buy fireproof blanket) and some door traps (to kill monsters for a few xp).
It took awfully long to scum for ring(s) of fire resistance and before I got those I had enough gold to buy disarm traps. With disarm traps I could get some safe xp and a few levels from assassin's guild from teleportation traps. After leveling up a bit I had to continue ID scumming but eventually I got two rings of fire resistance and could start using alchemy.
4th level in puppy cave had some very nice herb farms that was my main supply of herbs for stat training, food, healing, precrowning/crowning and of course for some big booms.
Keethrax is immune to fire and I couldn't harm him quickly enough with poison alone but luckily I had some friendly(?) giant slugs there that helped me to destroy my inventory and kill Keethrax for me.
At this point the game started to get a bit more straightforward except that my fireproof blanket burnt away quite quickly. To continue without insane item destruction I had to drop all my stuff and pick only some herbs when I wanted to attack monsters.
Dwarven graveyard and pyramid were both done without rings of ice or fireproof blankets and without fire immunity (or even natural fire resistance). Soon after doing these I dipped rings in potion of exchange and got 2 rings of ice, the best item I could get (after RoDS of course), which allowed me to start using alchemy like mad.
Khelly were killed (no AoLS or a single wish were found during the whole game) but obviously graveyard and water temple both were really easy to clear.
Also fire temple were easier than I thought it would be. I used invisibility to sneak past 3 first levels and inside to the temple. By killing some chaos servants first and then throwing a potion at fire drake, I managed to lure ACW out with no trouble. Killing him was a bit trickier though but eventually potions of poison, ventriloquism and potion of cure corruption did the job (should have used that PoCC first though, now I didn't get any xp from killing him).
Getting the ring of the high kings was pretty tricky as I didn't have any means to build (ice) bridges but killing people in UC:5 gave me an ogre magus fairly quickly that could be used to freeze a bridge for me.
Earth and air temple both were easy and srraxxarrakex went down pretty fast as well.
Clearing mana temple turned out to be quite a lot harder than I thought. Without confusion resistance Nuurag-Vaarn could confuse me several times (even I had 50+ willpower) and meanwhile annihilators destroyed some pretty useful stuff and chaos wizards kept summoning (greater) chaos servants like mad. All prayers during the game were used to remove confusion there. Killing the Nuurag-Vaarn took a PoCC and dozens of potions of poison and a lot of time. With ventriloquism I could keep him confused all the time and eventually poison killed him.
At level 33 I was ready for the final dive. D:48 and 49 were both simple and in D:50 clearing the way to the lever rooms were easy. Main problem there were balors who are immune to fire and who can teleport... and it gets even harder when they summon some greater fire elementals and diamond golems. With a few attempts I could finally close the gate by trapping a monster on both levers and escaping quickly before balors could go reopen it.
Full flg: http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/samim/alchemis.flg
Alchemist St:33 Le:27 Wi:39 Dx:67 To:42 Ch:19 Ap: 9 Ma:27 Pe:32 N=
DV/PV:218/64 H:450(625) P:243(310) Exp: 37/7290878 DrCh Sp: 141
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Inventory
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Total weight: 9629 stones Carrying capacity: 9908 stones
Head : blessed adamantium cap [+7, +5] [36s]
Neck : uncursed amulet of perseverance {Wi+3} [3s]
Body : uncursed red dragon scale mail (+0, -5) [-1, +13] [220s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+6, +7] [20s]
Cloak : blessed cloak of Oman (+2, +0) [+4, +4] {Dx+8} [20s]
Right Hand : blessed tower mithril shield (+1) [+11, +2] [120s]
Left Hand : uncursed tower adamantium shield (-2) [+11, +2] [108s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring : blessed ring of ice [1s]
Bracers : uncursed bracers of speed [+8, +6] (+4 spd) [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed black dragon-hide gauntlets (-3, +1) [+7, +7][10s]
Boots : uncursed boots of sneakiness [+2, +0] {Dx+2} [20s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : heap of 73 uncursed sis [730s]
Tool : -
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Alchemist, the gnomish assassin, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 25 times.
He scored 12630852 points and advanced to level 37.
He survived for 0 years, 160 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes and 37 seconds (143115
turns).
Alchemist visited 111 places.
His strength score was modified by +18 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +14 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +26 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +27 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +25 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +11 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +8 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +9 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +10 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He stopped the generation of nasty bugs.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
3416 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 22 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
the obsidian quarrel "Thunderstroke"
the cloak of Oman
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the black torc
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
the ring of immunity
the black tome of Alsophocus
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant.
He was poison resistant.
He was cold resistant.
He was acid resistant (gained through an item).
He was lucky.
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
He was able to teleport (gained through an item).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant.
He was resistant to death rays.
He was able to see invisible things (enhanced through an item).
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to ice attacks.
He had the following talents: Beast of Burden, Careful, Defensive Fighter,
Greased Lightning, Hardy, Long Stride, Master Packager, Porter, Quick,
Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield Specialist, Very Careful, Very Hardy,
Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 141 (final base speed: 136).
He was a messiah of Berwyn.
He asked for 5 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.
He was tainted by Chaos.
Main problems in this challenge are getting enough hp/fire resistance and herbs to start using alchemy, how to avoid/kill fire creatures (by using traps/poison) and of course getting fire orb and mana orb from guardians that are immune to fire. Also a lot of loot gets destroyed due to fire.
I chose to be a gnomish assassin because assassin has easy access to poison and gnome gets extra talent and ventriloquism which turned out to be a lot more useful than I have ever thought. Before this successfull attempt I had tried mainly some hurthling/gnome wizard/necro combos to start with a ring of fire resistance to start alching like mad earlier (with hardy + very hardy).
At start I scummed a lot in ID to find some potions (can be exploded in emergency when I have enough hp to survive from it), gold (for disarm traps and to buy fireproof blanket) and some door traps (to kill monsters for a few xp).
It took awfully long to scum for ring(s) of fire resistance and before I got those I had enough gold to buy disarm traps. With disarm traps I could get some safe xp and a few levels from assassin's guild from teleportation traps. After leveling up a bit I had to continue ID scumming but eventually I got two rings of fire resistance and could start using alchemy.
4th level in puppy cave had some very nice herb farms that was my main supply of herbs for stat training, food, healing, precrowning/crowning and of course for some big booms.
Keethrax is immune to fire and I couldn't harm him quickly enough with poison alone but luckily I had some friendly(?) giant slugs there that helped me to destroy my inventory and kill Keethrax for me.
At this point the game started to get a bit more straightforward except that my fireproof blanket burnt away quite quickly. To continue without insane item destruction I had to drop all my stuff and pick only some herbs when I wanted to attack monsters.
Dwarven graveyard and pyramid were both done without rings of ice or fireproof blankets and without fire immunity (or even natural fire resistance). Soon after doing these I dipped rings in potion of exchange and got 2 rings of ice, the best item I could get (after RoDS of course), which allowed me to start using alchemy like mad.
Khelly were killed (no AoLS or a single wish were found during the whole game) but obviously graveyard and water temple both were really easy to clear.
Also fire temple were easier than I thought it would be. I used invisibility to sneak past 3 first levels and inside to the temple. By killing some chaos servants first and then throwing a potion at fire drake, I managed to lure ACW out with no trouble. Killing him was a bit trickier though but eventually potions of poison, ventriloquism and potion of cure corruption did the job (should have used that PoCC first though, now I didn't get any xp from killing him).
Getting the ring of the high kings was pretty tricky as I didn't have any means to build (ice) bridges but killing people in UC:5 gave me an ogre magus fairly quickly that could be used to freeze a bridge for me.
Earth and air temple both were easy and srraxxarrakex went down pretty fast as well.
Clearing mana temple turned out to be quite a lot harder than I thought. Without confusion resistance Nuurag-Vaarn could confuse me several times (even I had 50+ willpower) and meanwhile annihilators destroyed some pretty useful stuff and chaos wizards kept summoning (greater) chaos servants like mad. All prayers during the game were used to remove confusion there. Killing the Nuurag-Vaarn took a PoCC and dozens of potions of poison and a lot of time. With ventriloquism I could keep him confused all the time and eventually poison killed him.
At level 33 I was ready for the final dive. D:48 and 49 were both simple and in D:50 clearing the way to the lever rooms were easy. Main problem there were balors who are immune to fire and who can teleport... and it gets even harder when they summon some greater fire elementals and diamond golems. With a few attempts I could finally close the gate by trapping a monster on both levers and escaping quickly before balors could go reopen it.
Full flg: http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/samim/alchemis.flg
Alchemist St:33 Le:27 Wi:39 Dx:67 To:42 Ch:19 Ap: 9 Ma:27 Pe:32 N=
DV/PV:218/64 H:450(625) P:243(310) Exp: 37/7290878 DrCh Sp: 141
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Inventory
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Total weight: 9629 stones Carrying capacity: 9908 stones
Head : blessed adamantium cap [+7, +5] [36s]
Neck : uncursed amulet of perseverance {Wi+3} [3s]
Body : uncursed red dragon scale mail (+0, -5) [-1, +13] [220s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+6, +7] [20s]
Cloak : blessed cloak of Oman (+2, +0) [+4, +4] {Dx+8} [20s]
Right Hand : blessed tower mithril shield (+1) [+11, +2] [120s]
Left Hand : uncursed tower adamantium shield (-2) [+11, +2] [108s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring : blessed ring of ice [1s]
Bracers : uncursed bracers of speed [+8, +6] (+4 spd) [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed black dragon-hide gauntlets (-3, +1) [+7, +7][10s]
Boots : uncursed boots of sneakiness [+2, +0] {Dx+2} [20s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : heap of 73 uncursed sis [730s]
Tool : -
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Alchemist, the gnomish assassin, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 25 times.
He scored 12630852 points and advanced to level 37.
He survived for 0 years, 160 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes and 37 seconds (143115
turns).
Alchemist visited 111 places.
His strength score was modified by +18 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +14 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +26 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +27 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +25 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +11 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +8 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +9 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +10 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He stopped the generation of nasty bugs.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
3416 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 22 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
the obsidian quarrel "Thunderstroke"
the cloak of Oman
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the black torc
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
the ring of immunity
the black tome of Alsophocus
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant.
He was poison resistant.
He was cold resistant.
He was acid resistant (gained through an item).
He was lucky.
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
He was able to teleport (gained through an item).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant.
He was resistant to death rays.
He was able to see invisible things (enhanced through an item).
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to ice attacks.
He had the following talents: Beast of Burden, Careful, Defensive Fighter,
Greased Lightning, Hardy, Long Stride, Master Packager, Porter, Quick,
Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield Specialist, Very Careful, Very Hardy,
Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 141 (final base speed: 136).
He was a messiah of Berwyn.
He asked for 5 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.
He was tainted by Chaos.