JellySlayer
11-08-2009, 06:50 AM
The next installment in my ongoing series to try to win with every class: Elemena, the High Elf Elementalist. This was my first win with a high elf, and my first game passed level 5 with an Elementalist. At this point, I would basically say elementalists work like this: they're a wizard with three spells, crappy skills, class powers and modifiers, and can't find books to save their life. I think I had found one book by the time I finished the Pyramid--a good one, at least, Darkness. Might be the second class that I'd strongly consider always taking TH (the other being weaponsmith) to try to boost the dismal book count.
Started off by visiting Bugville, got up to around level 10. Might have gone higher, but it's a bit sketchy doing it without a torch. I don't know the positions of the bugs well enough to really feel comfortable with it. Took care of some business around CoC, killed an owlbear for the dwarf, killed a dark druid, and freed the spirit of a dwarven berserker. Dug some graves and killed a few master liches, and a lich king, and found an RoDS. Saved Khelly for my teleport book (I guess I got some SoCR too...), raided Darkforge for some RDSM. Got water orb, and crowned with Iron Crown of Havlor. Spent most of the rest of the game fighting with an eternium 2-hander that I found in Darkforge. Don't normally play casters without a shield, but the extra DV/PV from the crown seemed to let me get away with it. Killed ACW with blindness + melee. Found Acid Ball in the Casino, which pretty much made the rest of the game a breeze. Killed cat lord (easy) and a ki-rin (hard) on the cat lord level. The ki-rin was an interesting experience--I don't see them too often, and usually they're non-hostile. They apparently shoot death rays and are immune to fire and acid. Oh, and they shrug bolts like crazy. Nasty things. I found a lot of rare monsters this game, in fact. Ki-rin, eternium golem, fairy dragon. Ran into a greater undead vault on D:40. 12 emperor liches, but it looked like it had 4 artifacts in it. One was definitely ring of immunity; I thought one might be RoR (turns out it wasn't); another piece of armor and a weapon. Figured I'd chance it. Didn't go so hot. Cleared some of the initial undead (with surprising difficulty), but the moment I (accidentally) opened the lich room, I found myself confused and surrounded by 5 gorgons. Lovely way to start. I threw on an amulet of pet. resistance and decided to teleport away.
Killed AKW, and then did Mana Temple. Acid balled archmage, then worked my way back up and acid balled the earth/air temples. Cast from HP is ridiculously overpowered... I basically stopped playing with PP from the Mana Temple onward. Cleared D:50 via wand of destruction, but ended up killing all of the balors anyway. Got myself cleansed and won the game.
[edit]As it stands right now, I've won with every race except Orc, and every class except Fighter, Ranger, Bard, Healer, Weaponsmith, Mindcrafter, Barbarian, Necromancer. I did win with an Orc Barbarian in the ADOMPossible challenge, as well.
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Elemena St:23 Le:30 Wi:33 Dx:38 To:34 Ch:12 Ap:21 Ma:21 Pe:21 N-
DV/PV: 77/52 H: 710(710) P: 466(466) Exp: 50/28075989 DrCh Sp: 110
Blessed Satiated
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Background Information
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Name: Elemena Race: female High Elf Class: Elementalist
Eye color: amber Hair color: black Complexion: light
Height: 5'10" Weight: 123 pounds Scars: 5
Age: 269 (grown-up, 52 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Salamander Birthday: 23/Salamander (day 143 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your mother is a mighty enchantress. She is unmarried. Your father
is living in the vicinity of your mother's tower. He is a humble shepherd.
During your childhood one of your uncles taught you a lot of things
about the history of your people. Your vast knowledge on the legends and
the lore of your people made you very popular with your friends because of
all the exciting stories you knew.
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 Elementalist.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 1564 stones Carrying capacity: 5018 stones
Head : blessed Iron Crown of Havlor (-6, -6) [+12, +12] {Le+4}[65s]
Neck : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s]
Body : uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5}[60s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +5] [20s]
Cloak : uncursed light cloak (+1, +1) [+1, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed eternium spear of devastation (+2, 6d8+15) [25s]
Left Hand : blessed medium crystal shield [+11, +4] [160s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Bracers : blessed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
Gauntlets : uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+3, +2] [15s]
Boots : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2] [96s]
Scrolls ('?')
heap of 4 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance [8s]
Books ('"')
blessed spellbook of Teleportation [100s] \\from Khelly... bookcasted a lot
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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 8 +8 +4 +8 excellent 1001
Twohanded weapons 9 +8 +12 +3 excellent 1302
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 8 +16 excellent 989
\\Never used missiles basically the whole game. I think I threw the black torc more than any other missile.
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Spells
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Acid Ball : 304, 32pp (Effectivity: +16) \\My favourite attack spell
Burning Hands : 4364, 4pp (Effectivity: +31)
Cure Disease : 1305, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 1377, 4pp (Effectivity: +3)
Earthquake : 205, 80pp (Effectivity: +0)
Fire Bolt : 7079, 6pp (Effectivity: +13)
Fireball : 269, 15pp (Effectivity: +6)
Frost Bolt : 6688, 8pp (Effectivity: +20)
Ice Ball : 130, 25pp (Effectivity: +0) \\Never noticed I learned this
Identify : 389, 75pp (Effectivity: +0)
Improved Fireball: 174, 24pp (Effectivity: +0) \\Never used this
Invisibility : 733, 9pp (Effectivity: +5)
Lightning Ball : 155, 30pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 1168, 6pp (Effectivity: +14)
Scare Monster : 776, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 561, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 712, 21pp (Effectivity: +7)
Started off by visiting Bugville, got up to around level 10. Might have gone higher, but it's a bit sketchy doing it without a torch. I don't know the positions of the bugs well enough to really feel comfortable with it. Took care of some business around CoC, killed an owlbear for the dwarf, killed a dark druid, and freed the spirit of a dwarven berserker. Dug some graves and killed a few master liches, and a lich king, and found an RoDS. Saved Khelly for my teleport book (I guess I got some SoCR too...), raided Darkforge for some RDSM. Got water orb, and crowned with Iron Crown of Havlor. Spent most of the rest of the game fighting with an eternium 2-hander that I found in Darkforge. Don't normally play casters without a shield, but the extra DV/PV from the crown seemed to let me get away with it. Killed ACW with blindness + melee. Found Acid Ball in the Casino, which pretty much made the rest of the game a breeze. Killed cat lord (easy) and a ki-rin (hard) on the cat lord level. The ki-rin was an interesting experience--I don't see them too often, and usually they're non-hostile. They apparently shoot death rays and are immune to fire and acid. Oh, and they shrug bolts like crazy. Nasty things. I found a lot of rare monsters this game, in fact. Ki-rin, eternium golem, fairy dragon. Ran into a greater undead vault on D:40. 12 emperor liches, but it looked like it had 4 artifacts in it. One was definitely ring of immunity; I thought one might be RoR (turns out it wasn't); another piece of armor and a weapon. Figured I'd chance it. Didn't go so hot. Cleared some of the initial undead (with surprising difficulty), but the moment I (accidentally) opened the lich room, I found myself confused and surrounded by 5 gorgons. Lovely way to start. I threw on an amulet of pet. resistance and decided to teleport away.
Killed AKW, and then did Mana Temple. Acid balled archmage, then worked my way back up and acid balled the earth/air temples. Cast from HP is ridiculously overpowered... I basically stopped playing with PP from the Mana Temple onward. Cleared D:50 via wand of destruction, but ended up killing all of the balors anyway. Got myself cleansed and won the game.
[edit]As it stands right now, I've won with every race except Orc, and every class except Fighter, Ranger, Bard, Healer, Weaponsmith, Mindcrafter, Barbarian, Necromancer. I did win with an Orc Barbarian in the ADOMPossible challenge, as well.
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Elemena St:23 Le:30 Wi:33 Dx:38 To:34 Ch:12 Ap:21 Ma:21 Pe:21 N-
DV/PV: 77/52 H: 710(710) P: 466(466) Exp: 50/28075989 DrCh Sp: 110
Blessed Satiated
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Background Information
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Name: Elemena Race: female High Elf Class: Elementalist
Eye color: amber Hair color: black Complexion: light
Height: 5'10" Weight: 123 pounds Scars: 5
Age: 269 (grown-up, 52 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Salamander Birthday: 23/Salamander (day 143 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your mother is a mighty enchantress. She is unmarried. Your father
is living in the vicinity of your mother's tower. He is a humble shepherd.
During your childhood one of your uncles taught you a lot of things
about the history of your people. Your vast knowledge on the legends and
the lore of your people made you very popular with your friends because of
all the exciting stories you knew.
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 Elementalist.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 1564 stones Carrying capacity: 5018 stones
Head : blessed Iron Crown of Havlor (-6, -6) [+12, +12] {Le+4}[65s]
Neck : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s]
Body : uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5}[60s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +5] [20s]
Cloak : uncursed light cloak (+1, +1) [+1, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed eternium spear of devastation (+2, 6d8+15) [25s]
Left Hand : blessed medium crystal shield [+11, +4] [160s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Bracers : blessed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
Gauntlets : uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+3, +2] [15s]
Boots : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2] [96s]
Scrolls ('?')
heap of 4 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance [8s]
Books ('"')
blessed spellbook of Teleportation [100s] \\from Khelly... bookcasted a lot
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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
--------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- --------------
Pole arms 8 +8 +4 +8 excellent 1001
Twohanded weapons 9 +8 +12 +3 excellent 1302
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
--------------------- --- --- ------------- --------------
Shields 8 +16 excellent 989
\\Never used missiles basically the whole game. I think I threw the black torc more than any other missile.
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Spells
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Acid Ball : 304, 32pp (Effectivity: +16) \\My favourite attack spell
Burning Hands : 4364, 4pp (Effectivity: +31)
Cure Disease : 1305, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 1377, 4pp (Effectivity: +3)
Earthquake : 205, 80pp (Effectivity: +0)
Fire Bolt : 7079, 6pp (Effectivity: +13)
Fireball : 269, 15pp (Effectivity: +6)
Frost Bolt : 6688, 8pp (Effectivity: +20)
Ice Ball : 130, 25pp (Effectivity: +0) \\Never noticed I learned this
Identify : 389, 75pp (Effectivity: +0)
Improved Fireball: 174, 24pp (Effectivity: +0) \\Never used this
Invisibility : 733, 9pp (Effectivity: +5)
Lightning Ball : 155, 30pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 1168, 6pp (Effectivity: +14)
Scare Monster : 776, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 561, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 712, 21pp (Effectivity: +7)