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kordi
08-30-2009, 07:56 PM
It's been ages since I last played ADOM seriously ....
It's my 4th or 5th ultra ending IIRC. Earlier there was human bard,
trollish barbarian and high elven archer IIRC, oh and drakish mindcrafter I guess??
I really don't remember, this was sa long time ago ...

Ok, so I must say that merchants are not an easy class to pick.
I picked a merchant cause I read I think in the guidebook that
dark elven one would be one of the toughest class/race combo to
play with :). I DO NOT AGREE!!! Yeah, he wasn't easy to play
but there was one thing that kept me alive most of the time and
this was dark elven "find weakness" skill. Without it it would be
much harder for me. So If you look for a challenge, then high
elven merchant would be harder to play I guess. BTW. I just started
playing an archer once again, and in comparison to merchant it's
like a child's play .

I always start my characters aiming at ultraendings as normal ones
are not fun anymore for me. This time I got AOLS early on, before even
reaching dwarftown .... I was really cautious with this character and
spent a lot of time on him (real time). Boosting however I could.
Now I regret this a little bit :). Because I could have taken down
Andor much more quickly. He really had no chance with my character.
I spared 1 wish for him (I found a wand of wish with 1 charge - one
I used one I spared) wishing for "speed" :). Additionally I drank
8 potions of boost speed and poor guy was helpless. I had
my speed above 500, meaning I could move 3 times in his one turn ...
Additionally I boosted my strenght over 80 so I was doing like 150 dmg
in every round with TOtRR without critical hits (and I had find weakness
on 100 so they were more then often). All in all, i had to hit him like
15-20 times before he dropped dead. In this time I got maybe like 2 corruptions,
so I didn't even need my scrolls of chaos resistance.


The one thing I can say after this game .... Great book caster is the best talent
ever :D FOR EVERY CLASS AND RACE.... Why is that? If you aim at ultraending
you have one guaranteed spellbook of teleportation. Even if you are unable to
read it .... it's enough to find a wand of wonder and to zap it long enough
(with beggar's booze) until you cast teleportation. Afterwards the it's like taking
a candy from a baby. You have access to almost unlimited teleportation, and you can
pass through levels like a lightning not getting background corruption. This is
useful in sooooooo many ways ..... ie. on level d42 I found a tension room with
black unicorns. As I had a flail of hunting they left some corpses. I didn't have
food preservation so I had to be very quick to get back with them to Terenyo.
Without casting teleportation from the spellbook I probably wouldn't be able
to get there in time ....


Another important thing, that became iimportant since v. 1 was released ...
(I remember previous versions as I am an old player). Pick EVERY weapon
and armor you can .... And identify them later on .... (of course if you can
lift them). You never know what kind of prefix/suffix combo it might have.
This way I found eternium flail of hunting that I was using throughout most
of the game although I have never ever use a flail in any of my games.
Always switching to spear as fast as I could.

Ok, that would be all folks.
I had shortened the memory file below as the forum didn't allow
me to send such a long message..

Bye






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Name: D Race: male Dark Elf Class: Merchant
Eye color: amber Hair color: white Complexion: black
Height: 5'11" Weight: 123 pounds Scars: 35
Age: 192 (grown-up, 54 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle Birthday: 27/Candle (day 297 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents were poor people. They loved you and cared for you,
although you had to hunger more than once.
In your childhood you were a credit to your family. Your people
loved you and enjoyed your presence.
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 young adulthood was characterized by hard and long work. You
had decided to study under a renowned master. To your great disappointment
you had to find out, that he was a hard, unjust and tyrannic man,
embittered by his old age. Your apprentice years were quite terrible.
You decided to become a Merchant. During your apprenticeship you
specialized on enchanted wands and rods.