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Al-Khwarizmi
08-17-2009, 11:42 PM
So, after years of playing this game, here is my first win!

It was a normal, gate closing ending. No scummy techniques or cheating were using. No savescumming, piety abuse, dragon gold doubling, gremlin bombing, pickpocket scumming, wish engines, ID stairhopping, starvation training or extensive herb farming were used. The only scummy technique that I used was getting gold from the Casino, but I think this is almost mandatory to an extent (the shop and machines are clearly designed for that). I only got enough to buy some items and didn't force restocks though. The game was played on the server.

Zussynias was quite lucky with the RNG in the early game. I got him started as always, by doing a blanket run in the SMC, exiting through the downstairs to the UD, and not without the blanket. At some point in the UD he found a pair of seven league boots that, surprisingly, he was able to keep for the entire game, and was still wearing when he exited the Chain! Apart from this, he also found an AoLS that was stashed for Kelly. He could go for an ultra, but I didn't dare, since I hadn't ever won the game yet. I preferred to go for a normal win.

The rest of the early game was more or less unremarkable. After the UD, it is always quite a breeze, and it was even more so with the 7LB's. Zussynias went from the HMV to the CoC, did the upper CoC, the dwarven quests, the druid dungeon, Pyramid and Griffyard (the two latter at level 14 or so). He found morgia to get Wi and To to 25, but never found moss of mareillon (he would find it later at about D:45 surrounded by uberbees, and he didn't get too much of it). At the griffyard he found a crown of regeneration but it soon got destroyed by a trap. As soon as he got teleport, he went to the dwarven mystic and was lucky enough to receive SoCR's, and then completed the arena. Then he raided Darkforge, killing the golems with web+bolts+some balls, which netted good exp points, and he found a suit of red dragon scale mail, which was very useful. During all the late game he was changing between RDSM, BDSM and the ever useful AMW. He made TotHK, and then water temple (IIRC). In one of these places he found a RoDS, and he also found a second crown of regeneration that would last for the rest of the game. Then he went to see Blup's mom and made the puppy quest, getting the RCT in the process (as he was Raven-born).

At this point Zussynias was level 19 and it was time to do the ToEF. He equipped the red dragon scale mail and had the RotHK, ring of fire resistance, intrinsic resistance and elemental gauntlets. He didn't have rings of ice though, and as he wanted to wear the crown of regen, he wished for some with the RoDS. The ToEF was a military parade, to tell the truth. I think the tower is overrated, everyone says it's the hardest part of the game but I don't agree, at least for a wizard. I found the blue dragon caves, the mana temple and D:50 quite more difficult (also the SMC+UD run is difficult, but that's my fault for doing it). The fight with the cat lord was quite tough as well.

During the first levels of the ToEF I just bolted everything to death and I didn't even have to worry about the damage taken by drakelings, because the crown of regeneration was countering it fast enough. In the last level, I had to use some spenseweed... something like 3 or 4 of it. The ACW easily fell to a potion of blindness, following by a wand of paralyzation and then was bashed with the RCT. It didn't hit me a single time. I spent some more time at the level killing everything to get some exp.

At this point (or sometimes before) all my wizard characters usually do the Rift, but it happened that I hadn't managed to get Climbing to 100, and I didn't feel like going to Yergius and then kill time in some dungeon to get it there, so I just dove the CoC. When Zussynias went to the big room, he was unlucky enough to bolt a cat out of LoS. I'm always really paranoid about that, in fact he was wearing a blessed necklace of the eye rather than the ankh, precisely for that reason. But he didn't have Farsight and the necklace was not enough to see the cat. So bye bye RotMC.

I got quite scared with the Eternal Guardian because I accidentally ice balled him (I just saw a black @ amongo other monsters, and didn't realise it was him) and of course he went hostile. But I found out that if you kill his copies (incarnations of his fury, he says) and then show the RotHK to the nonhostile copy that remains on the stairs, everything is OK. I had to kill two copies. But actually, this ended up benefitting me, because although the EG's were quite scary hitting me for 100 HP's, they were easy to kill with range 2 balls plus 7LB's. It was just step, ball, step, ball. And they gave me 5 experience levels, from 20 to 25. At some point around here Zussynias got crowned with acid immunity and the useless staff of the wanderer.

I bought some items at the casino, but nothing really spectacular. Useful potions, wands, maybe a book or two, etc. Then I went for the lower CoC. Air and earth temples didn't give much problems (although the earth temple was quite annoying due to grues coming from the walls behind me and surrounding me). I found lesser vaults of white dragons (bolted all to death, I had some speed problems being a drakeling but nothing stopping me from killing all the buggers) and golems (diamond and eternium golems easily fell to construct slaying ammo). Sadly I didn't get any greater vault.

I then did the Blue Dragon Caves. And I must say, they are quite hard. Much harder than the ToEF. There was an area full of titans in the first level, I had to leave them be... I could kill them in darkness (and killed some of them) but if I didn't pay attention they would hit me for 100 HP and it just wasn't worth it. Then in the lower levels there were a crapload of dragons and I was out of PP, I didn't want to cast out of PP yet or pray much, so I kept returning to upper levels to regen, but the monster generation was so high that it wasn't easy to do that. So at the end I ended up killing the wyrm with acid balls cast out of PP, and by the way he also damaged me quite a bit (brought me down from 500 to 150 HP or so). Anyway, the mission was worth it because I found two RoDS in the caves. With one I wished for spellbooks of acid ball (I had only found one and didn't have too many castings), and the other I stored for a necessity. At the end Zussynias didn't need it, so he just took him back home upon exiting the Chain, and subsequently used it to wish for pretty blondes. I also got several experience levels there.

After the Blue Dragon Caves came the Mana Temple, which was tough but not as tough as the caves if you ask me. I took all the usual precautions, entered the temple and acid balled the archmage to death out of HP's. The lowest they got me was to perhaps 300 HP.

In D:49, the uselessness gift was Nature's Companion, the only actually useful nonguaranteed artifact generated in the game. The rest of them were all crap, that always happens to me. I then went down to D:50. Zussynias had wands of destruction but I don't consider that to be much of an honourable ending, so I didn't use them. Instead, I started bolting everything to death. At the beginning, I bolted lots of WMoPC and chaos stuff with my speed being really low from D:49, but I couldn't do much about it (only had a wand of fire with 1 charge, and decided to use only one booze and save the rest for later, although to tell the truth I could perfectly have used it). I had some bad moments when balors surrounded me and I realised they had a powerful corruption attack, they made me gain two corruptions in a couple of turns. I was more careful after that and used teleportation to engage them one by one. So, summarising, I just used lots of magic missiles and acid ball and killed most of the monsters in the level, including the balors. These gave me a lot of exp that pumped me to level 50.

When I closed the gate, I still had 4 SoCR's and 2 PoCC's, and had 3 corruptions. I guess I could have a corruption-free ending without the unicorn quest, but I did it anyway. That way Zussynias was able to greet Kelly. After killing the black unicorn with acid balls, he happily leaved the chain to live the rest of his life as a hero.

furious_styles
08-17-2009, 11:46 PM
Good work! Drakeling wizard is such a ballin combo, the acid spit totally mitigates a wizard's early-game crappiness and just makes the PC a powerhouse from start to finish.

Al-Khwarizmi
08-17-2009, 11:50 PM
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Background Information
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Name: Zussynias Race: male Drakeling Class: Wizard
Eye color: blue Hair color: bald Complexion: light blue
Height: 5'5" Weight: 163 pounds
Age: 23 (grown-up)
Star sign: Raven Birthday: 7/Raven (day 7 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents belong to the lower class. They were honest
hard-working people, who did everything to enable you to live a
comfortable and fine life. They were not very successful.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
In your youth you worked a lot to become rich and famous later.
Consequently you rarely had enough time to play with other kids of your
age.
Your life as a young adult was characterized by steady
determination. Your goal lay clearly ahead of you and you never strayed
from your path.
You decided to become a Wizard.

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Inventory
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Total weight: 29345 stones Carrying capacity: 28575 stones

Head : blessed crown of regeneration [+0, +0] [55s]
Neck : blessed ankh [3s]
Body : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
Girdle : uncursed adamantium girdle [+0, +3] [18s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed orcish spear of penetration (+1, 1d8+5) [75s]
Left Hand : uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +4] [70s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of elemental mastery [+2, +1] [1s]
Left Ring : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Bracers : uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+5} [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+1, +0] [30s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : heap of 110 uncursed sis [1100s]
Tool : heap of 22 blessed spenseweeds [44s]

Stuff
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Total weight: 27848 stones Carrying capacity: 28575 stones

Summary:

uncursed crown of science [+4, +8] {Le+9} [65s]
uncursed eternium cap [+0, +7] [28s]
blessed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
uncursed empowered crystal scale mail (-1, -2) [-2, +8] [620s]
uncursed blue dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +10] [200s]
uncursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [+1, +13] [240s]
uncursed fine leather armor "Nature's Companion" (+2, +0) [+2, +8] (+15 spd)
uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [+1, +13] [220s]
uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+4, +0] [30s]
blessed seven league boots [+1, +0] [30s]
uncursed black torc [+4, +2] (+10 spd) [3s]
blessed necklace of the eye [3s]
uncursed lead-filled mace "Big Punch" (+1, 8d5+3) [-6, +0] [800s]
uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5} [80s]
uncursed yellow short sword of devastation (+0, 5d6+6) [30s]
blessed eternium spear of hunting (+2, 2d8+8) [25s]
uncursed eternium spear (+2, 2d8+8) [25s]
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
uncursed eternium spear (+2, 2d8+11) [25s]
uncursed scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" (+6, 10d4+6) [+2, +2] [70s]
uncursed shining long spear "Soaker" (+9, 3d7) [+3, +0] [10s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
cursed eternium two-handed sword (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
uncursed eternium halberd (+11, 4d7+8) [-2, +0] [50s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword of the void (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
blessed staff of the Wanderer (+2, 3d8+2) [+6, +3] {To+6} [40s]
uncursed glaive "Long Sting" (+4, 7d3) [+4, +0] {Pe+6} (+6 spd) [100s]
cursed halberd of devastation (+4, 6d7+7) [-2, +0] [100s]
uncursed ultra-heavy adamantium two-handed sword (+12, 3d5+12) [-1, +0]
(...)
uncursed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2) [30s]
uncursed light crossbow of accuracy (+9, +2) [70s]
uncursed long bow of hunting (+5, +3) [30s]
(...)
blessed ring of ice
heap of 3 uncursed rings of ice [3s]
heap of 2 uncursed rings of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
uncursed ring of mental stability [+3, +4] {Le+3} [1s]
uncursed ring of djinni summoning [1s]
uncursed ring of elemental mastery [+0, +1] [1s]
Wands ('\')
blessed wand of fireballs (11 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of destruction (0 charges) [3s]
Potions ('!')
heap of 2 blessed potions of cure corruption [4s]
cursed potion of cure corruption [2s]
Scrolls ('?')
heap of 3 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance [6s]
Lots of books




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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Pole arms 10 +10 +6 +12 excellent 2905

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 5 +10 +7 +1 skilled 150
Crossbows 5 +10 +7 +1 skilled 44


Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 8 +16 excellent 148

Al-Khwarizmi
08-17-2009, 11:58 PM
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Zussynias, the drakish wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 16 times.
He scored 16125284 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 45 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds (87775
turns).
Zussynias visited 113 places.
His strength score was modified by +13 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +6 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +14 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +11 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +16 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +3 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +10 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +8 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
4852 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 23 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
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 staff of the Wanderer
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the rune-covered trident
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 glaive "Long Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
the black tome of Alsophocus
the shining long spear "Soaker"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through items).
He was poison resistant (enhanced through items).
He was cold resistant (enhanced through items).
He was acid resistant.
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
He was sleep resistant (gained through an item).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
He was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
He was shock resistant (enhanced through items).
He was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
He was immune to shock attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to acidic attacks.
He was immune to ice attacks (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Alert, Careful, Charged, Durable Magic, Far
Shot, Good Book Caster, Good Shot, Great Book Caster, Healthy, Keen Shot,
Mighty Aura, Miser, Potent Aura, Strong Aura, Strong Healer, Strong Thrower,
Treasure Hunter.
He had a final speed score of 105 (final base speed: 115).
He was a messiah of Issrecht.
He asked for 4 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.

The following monsters were vanquished: (summary)
35 ancient blue dragons <- lots of those in the BDC...
1 ancient blue wyrm
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm <- easy!
1 ancient red dragon
1 Ancient Stone Beast <- easy.
14 ancient white dragons
17 animated trees
9 balors <- quite tough.
1 banshee
3 berserker emperors
2 black dragons
1 black druid
32 blue dragons
1 cat lord <- very difficult, and I had only killed one cat! I can't imagine how this could be with 20 cats killed...
1 Chaos Archmage <- hard but could be harder.
65 chaos mutants
152 chaos servants
12 chaos warriors
17 chaos wizards
3 cyclopes
1 death ooze
1 diamond golem <- construct slaying ammo FTW
3 doppleganger kings
1 Dorn Beast
9 dwarven chaos knights
46 earth elementals
1 emperor lich
2 eternal guardians <- I was a bit scared when I accidentally turned him hostile, but nice exp!
1 eternium golem <- construct slaying ammo
3 fire giant kings
1 ghost king
32 ghost lords
1 giant bee queen
180 giant bee warriors <- those were UBER strong, hitting me for 70 HP. At the end I had to get the hell out of the hive.
18 giant bee workers
1 giant eel
3 gorgons <- scary.
3 great blue wyrms
1 great white wyrm
22 greater air elementals
1 greater balor
1 greater black unicorn
56 greater chaos servants
2 greater daemons
1 greater earth elemental
66 greater mimics
1 greater water elemental
155 green slimes <- bred a lot.
37 iron golems
62 jackals <- was careful not to kill too many.
1 karmic baby dragon
3 karmic lizards
11 liches
1 living wall
9 magebane eyes
11 magedoom eyes
2 master liches
16 master mimics
1 master necromancer
1 Master Summoner
12 master swordsmen
6 mimics
4 mimic hiveminds
3 molochs
1 mummy lord
1 ogre king
4 quicklings
2 quickling kings
2 quickling lords
6 red dragons
1 skeletal king <- easy.
1 Snake from Beyond <- easy.
30 steel golems
2 steel zombies
1 stone giant lord
57 stone golems
2 titans <- there were many more but I left them be.
1 undead chaos dwarven berserker <- I love the name of this monster.
21 white dragons
1 will o'wisp <- rare monster, isn't it?
73 writhing masses of primal chaos

JellySlayer
08-18-2009, 05:29 AM
Congrats on your first win!

Does this mean you'll have the chance to give a certain Troll Fighter a quick spin through the CoC pretty soon? ;)

Grey
08-18-2009, 07:45 AM
The ToEF was a military parade, to tell the truth. I think the tower is overrated, everyone says it's the hardest part of the game but I don't agree, at least for a wizard.

You weren't just any wizard - you were a drakeling wizard with a crown of regen, wished for rings of ice, and a suit of red dragon scale mail. You also blinded *and* paralyzed the ACW! Most characters don't have anywhere near that sort of luxury. Any drakeling spellcaster will easily tear the tower to pieces.


At the end Zussynias didn't need it, so he just took him back home upon exiting the Chain, and subsequently used it to wish for pretty blondes. I also got several experience levels there.Sounds like quite an experience indeed :) Well done on your first victory, I hope you enjoyed it as a victory long due. Now get working on the second ;)

Al-Khwarizmi
08-18-2009, 10:07 AM
Thanks to all!



Does this mean you'll have the chance to give a certain Troll Fighter a quick spin through the CoC pretty soon? ;)

Of course, it means exactly that. I was delaying that fo a while because I really needed to finally win (or die a horrible death). But tonight I'll give the troll a ride.

warheart
08-18-2009, 04:56 PM
Enhorabuena! :)

Btw, why weren't you using the ring or a better armor?

Al-Khwarizmi
08-18-2009, 05:57 PM
Gracias :)

I was using better armour during most of the time (BDSM until I was given Nature's Companion, which I used in D:50). But I equipped the AMW because I wanted to say bye-bye to Khelavaster before leaving the Chain, and he was invisible.

The RoDS I was keeping as a backup in case I needed an emergency wish, such as wishing for speed in D:50 or something like that. I could probably be wearing a ring of slaying or something instead of the RotHK though, but I don't know... it was used by the High Kings. It's got style.

warheart
08-18-2009, 06:40 PM
Hehe, I was talking about the awesome ring of mental stability you had, way better than the RotHK, but it didn't matter at all.

Ahora a por un ultra :D