Xevoc
07-17-2009, 09:46 PM
(Read the .flg from http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/xevoc/wizzy.flg)
Human was the last race I had not won with, so I decided to win easily by choosing a wizard. I started with a book of teleportation and started the game by robbing Barnabas (semi good stuff, but nothing special) and running to ID for spells. Got a blink dog corpse after scumming and would've been well set up for a speed run, but decided not to run too much. I got two rings of djinni summoning (1 was lying around in DH2 and 1 was in a ring shop in D14) from which I obtained AoLS and SLB. I also got an eternium halberd of penetration from DF, which is probably the 2nd best weapon in the game (after TotRR), so I fought quite a bit in melee also. Wizards are such an easy class so basically everything was easy except for the ACW, because I had no cheat methods to kill him and no ball spells, and he kept shrugging my stun ray.
I ran into a stupid problem: I found no water. I raided every possible place (looted water dragon, casino, everything...), but just couldn't find enough water. I even cleared minotaur maze, library and bugville, but didn't really find a lot of water. Couldn't find any morgia roots until late game either. I scummed exp by slowing myself and killing the water dragon in the dark and killed white unicorn to get nice potions, because I had a lot of SoCR's. I was preparing for the final showdown by going to quickling tree, but happened to accidently create some poison potions (> 150) in the process (I was very tempted to just quit the game at that point). I lost my 9 PoGA's, 7 PoCC's and several other nice potions and ALL my hard-fought water! I was frustrated, so I ended up finding 1 more water bottle to bless my 4 RoDS's and tried to set up a ring wish engine. I got lucky and ended up getting it work quite well - until I finally failed to get more RoDS's even with 100 potions of exchange. I did get 38 PoGA's and GoGS in the process though, so I was not very mad. I had also found ring of weakness earlier, so my STR was quite nice by now.
The worst thing was to scum blue dragon caverns for water to bless the PoGA's (this took ages). After I finally got them all blessed, I went to D50 and killed everything without really taking damage (the char was a killer in melee and really good with spells too). It was very funny to notice that greater titans could only hurt me if they scored a critical hit (and I easily killed them in melee) and in previous games I've never even dared to kill them. Andy also fell very easily in melee. I had like 120 damage reduction due to wearing the moloch armor (it rocks for low To characters!). The only prayer was used for power points in D50, because I went there with 0 and couldn't be bothered to wait for them.
Funny wizard - would've probably been even better if I didn't destroy my potions with poison hands. I scummed a lot and wasted a lot of time and still managed to do an ultra under 80k moves - probably because I started the game with teleport.
Human was the last race I had not won with, so I decided to win easily by choosing a wizard. I started with a book of teleportation and started the game by robbing Barnabas (semi good stuff, but nothing special) and running to ID for spells. Got a blink dog corpse after scumming and would've been well set up for a speed run, but decided not to run too much. I got two rings of djinni summoning (1 was lying around in DH2 and 1 was in a ring shop in D14) from which I obtained AoLS and SLB. I also got an eternium halberd of penetration from DF, which is probably the 2nd best weapon in the game (after TotRR), so I fought quite a bit in melee also. Wizards are such an easy class so basically everything was easy except for the ACW, because I had no cheat methods to kill him and no ball spells, and he kept shrugging my stun ray.
I ran into a stupid problem: I found no water. I raided every possible place (looted water dragon, casino, everything...), but just couldn't find enough water. I even cleared minotaur maze, library and bugville, but didn't really find a lot of water. Couldn't find any morgia roots until late game either. I scummed exp by slowing myself and killing the water dragon in the dark and killed white unicorn to get nice potions, because I had a lot of SoCR's. I was preparing for the final showdown by going to quickling tree, but happened to accidently create some poison potions (> 150) in the process (I was very tempted to just quit the game at that point). I lost my 9 PoGA's, 7 PoCC's and several other nice potions and ALL my hard-fought water! I was frustrated, so I ended up finding 1 more water bottle to bless my 4 RoDS's and tried to set up a ring wish engine. I got lucky and ended up getting it work quite well - until I finally failed to get more RoDS's even with 100 potions of exchange. I did get 38 PoGA's and GoGS in the process though, so I was not very mad. I had also found ring of weakness earlier, so my STR was quite nice by now.
The worst thing was to scum blue dragon caverns for water to bless the PoGA's (this took ages). After I finally got them all blessed, I went to D50 and killed everything without really taking damage (the char was a killer in melee and really good with spells too). It was very funny to notice that greater titans could only hurt me if they scored a critical hit (and I easily killed them in melee) and in previous games I've never even dared to kill them. Andy also fell very easily in melee. I had like 120 damage reduction due to wearing the moloch armor (it rocks for low To characters!). The only prayer was used for power points in D50, because I went there with 0 and couldn't be bothered to wait for them.
Funny wizard - would've probably been even better if I didn't destroy my potions with poison hands. I scummed a lot and wasted a lot of time and still managed to do an ultra under 80k moves - probably because I started the game with teleport.