BenMathiesen
11-19-2009, 07:50 PM
Elrond, the GE bard.
Pretty smooth early game, learned healing from Jharod and rescuing
the puppy. One excellent piece of luck: I found a girdle of giant strength in
the puppy cave! Slipped into L territory pretty quickly, but managed to learn Detect
Traps from Yergius first.
I couldn't get through the SMC, so I went around the mountains
to DDL. There I found Hammerhand (surge of power), which was nice as it let me
dig my way to the wand of teleportation! There was a forge just above dwarftown,
so I learned Smithing and pumped metallurgy. While exploring below dwarftown I
found a sword of sharpness, which I promptly rustproofed; that and a few quarrels
of construct slaying let me take on some of Darkforge after the Pyramid. Elrond
was doing really well, so no pool-sipping for him. No wishes in sight, and he
wasn't high enough level to take on the ToHK and Rift yet, so he just went down
further and let Khelly die. He found a tower eternium shield and ammo of humanoid
slaying, so he cleared Darkforge the rest of the way and slew Kherab for his anvil.
He wasn't quite L+ yet, so from there he went to the Rift and Tomb; in the rift he
found a ring of djinni summoning. Relied very heavily on various slaying ammo, because
my main problem at this point was finding enough healing. Spenses went as quickly as
they came, and Thrundarr gave me armor instead of the potion set. I had the Cure Light
Wounds spell by this point, but without the concentration skill I wasn't regenerating quickly.
Anyway, after clearing both I explored CoC down to wall of flames, then came back
out and got crowned with lightning immunity and Staff of the Wanderer (ugh).
cleared the ToEF, which destroyed my girdle of giant strength and my fireproof
blanket. My best finds, as always, were slaying ammo of one kind or
another.
From there it was a pretty swift dive; the most notable event was finding
a Greater Karmic Vault just below the casino. I decided to not gamble, even though
Purifier was there (and I left it there); the dragons yielded enough gold to stock
up on useful items (in particular, a wand of destruction).
They also gave me the Crown of Leadership, the scorched spear,
the staff of the archmagi, Nature's Companion, and Ironfist. Three of the four got
equipped immediately.
When I finally reached level 25 at the vault, I still didn't get
Concentration as a skill, so I used my ring of Djinni Summoning to get it. In the vault,
I found two other RoDjS, and a fourth on L50. The Earth Temple surprised me with a
surge of power for Thunderstroke. Uselessness gift was Executor, which I used to clear
out level 50. Even Fisty was no trouble, he fell easily to ammo of demon slaying.
I didn't get t.control installed until L:48, when a friendly blink dog died!
In the arena, the only lizard dealer stepped on an acid trap. Darn it.
I found something like 4 potions of education and one scroll of education between the
casino and the Karmic Vault, and none of them gave me Concentration... this is the
first character I've had that mastered bridge building, however.
One of my free bard spells was Wish! Talk about useless. My scores were high enough at
the end that I could have cast it--and it was even Silvernight while I was clearing
D:50. But with three rings of djinni summoning in my pocket, there just didn't seem
to be any point.
For alchemy, the !oGA recipe was longevity+youth. I made three of them over the course of the game.
!oXH was invis+wonder; potions of wonder were rare, but I made them where I could.
Fun game!
Ben
Pretty smooth early game, learned healing from Jharod and rescuing
the puppy. One excellent piece of luck: I found a girdle of giant strength in
the puppy cave! Slipped into L territory pretty quickly, but managed to learn Detect
Traps from Yergius first.
I couldn't get through the SMC, so I went around the mountains
to DDL. There I found Hammerhand (surge of power), which was nice as it let me
dig my way to the wand of teleportation! There was a forge just above dwarftown,
so I learned Smithing and pumped metallurgy. While exploring below dwarftown I
found a sword of sharpness, which I promptly rustproofed; that and a few quarrels
of construct slaying let me take on some of Darkforge after the Pyramid. Elrond
was doing really well, so no pool-sipping for him. No wishes in sight, and he
wasn't high enough level to take on the ToHK and Rift yet, so he just went down
further and let Khelly die. He found a tower eternium shield and ammo of humanoid
slaying, so he cleared Darkforge the rest of the way and slew Kherab for his anvil.
He wasn't quite L+ yet, so from there he went to the Rift and Tomb; in the rift he
found a ring of djinni summoning. Relied very heavily on various slaying ammo, because
my main problem at this point was finding enough healing. Spenses went as quickly as
they came, and Thrundarr gave me armor instead of the potion set. I had the Cure Light
Wounds spell by this point, but without the concentration skill I wasn't regenerating quickly.
Anyway, after clearing both I explored CoC down to wall of flames, then came back
out and got crowned with lightning immunity and Staff of the Wanderer (ugh).
cleared the ToEF, which destroyed my girdle of giant strength and my fireproof
blanket. My best finds, as always, were slaying ammo of one kind or
another.
From there it was a pretty swift dive; the most notable event was finding
a Greater Karmic Vault just below the casino. I decided to not gamble, even though
Purifier was there (and I left it there); the dragons yielded enough gold to stock
up on useful items (in particular, a wand of destruction).
They also gave me the Crown of Leadership, the scorched spear,
the staff of the archmagi, Nature's Companion, and Ironfist. Three of the four got
equipped immediately.
When I finally reached level 25 at the vault, I still didn't get
Concentration as a skill, so I used my ring of Djinni Summoning to get it. In the vault,
I found two other RoDjS, and a fourth on L50. The Earth Temple surprised me with a
surge of power for Thunderstroke. Uselessness gift was Executor, which I used to clear
out level 50. Even Fisty was no trouble, he fell easily to ammo of demon slaying.
I didn't get t.control installed until L:48, when a friendly blink dog died!
In the arena, the only lizard dealer stepped on an acid trap. Darn it.
I found something like 4 potions of education and one scroll of education between the
casino and the Karmic Vault, and none of them gave me Concentration... this is the
first character I've had that mastered bridge building, however.
One of my free bard spells was Wish! Talk about useless. My scores were high enough at
the end that I could have cast it--and it was even Silvernight while I was clearing
D:50. But with three rings of djinni summoning in my pocket, there just didn't seem
to be any point.
For alchemy, the !oGA recipe was longevity+youth. I made three of them over the course of the game.
!oXH was invis+wonder; potions of wonder were rare, but I made them where I could.
Fun game!
Ben