ME Beastfighter

[SirTheta]

flg is at http://ancardia.us.to/adom_users/sirtheta/no_brake.flg

I will attempt to annotate it and such later. Suffice it to say, what you see there is not at all what I had to work with on D:50. I went in with about 30 PV or so and most of the fight I had <200 HP, with about 17 To - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7494096/no_brake_after_d50.vlg shows what I looked like after clearing D:50. At the time I cleared D:50, I was at corruption Q (and over halfway to corruption R!) with only 1 SoCR left, so it was quite the close call The whole game was quite nerve-wracking at times as well (Nuurgy fight was probably the most scared I've ever been in ADOM).

More later, after I've had some sleep!

edit: ah, yes, no 'unnatural' stat scumming methods, such as discovered by JS were used. I did find one pot of potential toughness, a POGA (and got POGA set from mystic), and ate Minotaur Emp corpse, though. Quite made up for it (before Nuurgy drained 3 and my corruption-riddled body took the rest!)

[SirTheta]

Don't remember much of early game. Maxed To at 16 or so quite early, with herbs from big room.

Pyramid & Griffyard were done at xl 13 or 14..wand for all three bosses, plus invis on top of pyramid, made it quite easy.

TotHK was quite a close call. I didn't have -Conf, so I was confused a lot, and, of course, the skeletal king decided to blind rage, which nearly killed me multiple times. The stupid skeletal warriors weren't helping in that regard, either, since they made me a lot easier to hit when I was surrounded. Definitely going to have to start saving this for a bit later.

The SfB was a tough son-of-a-gun. I didn't have any reliable way to kill him except for melee, so I wound up taking him to DT (still not sure why there of all places) and running around the inn, hitting him every 3-4 steps. I actually think his corpse is still in Waldy's shop...forgot to exchange it. Between water temple & SfB, I picked up a corruption--flesh of order (not bad, not bad at all).

Next was crowning--sacced Sword of Nonnak, Moon Sickle & Big Punch, plus 100 blessed stoma [mainly for testing purposes] and 25k gold to get...the staff of Creation. Man, that was a huge let-down, considering the awesome crowning gifts to which Beastfighters have access, but it actually came quite in handy at certain points in the game.

Next I mined/wanded out most of VDDL trying to find TP wand, but to no avail. Then came clearing DFG--not a problem even with HP in the 80s. Used First Aid a lot, so as not to waste spense (lots of pepper petal, but satiation problems). Accidentally brought a beggar [lured into wilderness after dropped booze] into my stash on D:1 causing a crash.

Next, I cleared DFG again, to get xl 18. Found some nice armor in the armor room--two eternium ring mails. Then I explored ToEF a little. Coming back for final run, I brought in beggars (hoping ToEF would kill them and I wouldn't have to deal with their annoying wilderness messages)...another crash.

Next, I retrieved TP wand from VDDL (not a problem since I remembered where it wasn't, this time). Then I cleared DFG again, getting xl 18; this time, nothing nice was genned in the armor room To was at 18 from potential toughness pot + morgia; visited mystic, getting PoGA set, so blessed another PoGA I'd found [or maybe Thrundarr gave], and took my To to 20.

ToEF was surprisingly easy. Only ran into one fire giant king, and I had blessed invis pots to carry me through the temple part. Zapping a wand of cold with the staff of creation equipped managed to bring the ACW out. Confusion wasn't a problem due to the aforementioned staff. The ACW was touch and go. With 100 Alertness, I wasn't too worried about his energy rays, despite having just a little over 100 HP, but his corrupting melee attack was killer. Luckily, I got him almost to panicking with my only cursed potion of invisibility, and a few hits and an extra healing pot or two later, he was only shooting energy bolt. Traded corpse for PoCC.

I'd initially not planned to rob Casino, but after testing revealed that all my old methods worked, I just used them. Picked up a fair bit of slaying ammo, which would come in handy throughout the rest of the game.

Next was Air Temple, which was cleared without any trouble, as usual. The Earth Temple was quite a hassle though--I hit level 23 or so in there, so my melee attack was not very powerful yet (you most notice Mist Elf slow leveling a bit later in the game). I basically used slaying ammo, and backstepping w/ my movement reduction, to kill everything in there, including ASB. Cat lord I lured off-level and used TP + webs + humanoid slaying to dispatch. Was hoping for a big exp boost, but he only netted about 220k exp after 10 cats.

Nuurgy was quite an epic battle. Due to various corruptions, I had to equip the Earth Orb for about 25 To--and 189 HP. Luckily, I had the very light corruption, though that's a relative "luckily"--+20 Spd, so I'm much more likely to avoid Nuurgy's DR, but -6 To, so I'm much more likely to die if hit with DR; quite the double-edged sword. After luring him out a little, I realized this was not going to work and had to hightail it out of there. He hit me once with DR, but luckily it only dropped me to 19 HP.

I exited and did the library for the Weird Tome and to max my Literacy. Learned a bunch of spells, including the useful Invis and CLW--concentration as a racial skill is the bomb. Also had Magic Map & Stun Ray, so I knew the game was begging me to do Mino Maze. Did the Mino Maze for corpse--really needed a St/To boost, and 2 PoCCs couldn't go wrong. Of course, still used the top trap trick. This wasn't too bad, though I was terribly ill-prepared--no gold to mark hidden passageways, for instance [left entire inventory on downstairs to ML1]. This led to the hilarious occurrence of me leaving the AMW (that thing you kind of need to fight Nuurgy...) on ML6 and having to retrieve it. I'd had poison hands for a while, so I had to bring my -2 PV thick gauntlets along to pick up the potions. I didn't clear Poison Hands because I knew I'd have to poison Nuurgy, and poison always comes in handy! Quite a bad corruption from Mino Emp--I think absorb mana. Decided to clear it with PoCC....only to find that one wouldn't clear it, so I had to drink the other too, so I didn't clear poison hands. One PoCC left.

On the way to fight Nuurgy, I pumped Wi with morgia--wound up with about 13 Wi for the fight after I got another corruption (making 6, and -2 Wi...but also +2 St, To, Dx, Ma--a pretty good trade off). With Earth Orb, I had about 220 HP, so I knew I'd be pretty okay against DR--plus, I had like 147 speed unburdened. Nuurgy was a challenge--from earlier, when I'd hit him with some humanoid slaying, he was at slightly injured. One PoCC later, he was at severely, and I could close in without worrying about corruption. Had a lot of problem damaging him for a while and was bewildered--until I saw I still had the staff of creation equipped. I'd also done this against ACW, what a dunce I am. My heart was racing extremely fast as I finally finished him off. Probably the most excited I'd ever been in ADoM.

D:50 was next, and it wasn't /too/ bad. At first I'd thought I'd do the white necromancy + door trick [even with Ch: 1, haha], but I decided to clear it for bragging rights. I didn't think this would be possible, at first--I only had about 20 PV and mid-100s HP going in, but as time went on and I collected equipment from chaos knights, I gradually built up to about mids-30s PV. To was usually less than 20 the whole time, though. First dug into the side rooms and cleared it, and shut one lever...but not the other. Took side route into jelly room and cleared it, then started into main room. Eventually woke the balors with the noise, I guess, and they started TP'ing out. Using [demon] slaying ammo, I started to whittle down their health and then backstep/hit them barehanded, but I started picking up corruptions quite fast when they connected. Ran out of TP wand charges and exited to D:49 to try to learn TP now that concentration was maxed [hadn't been able to learn it after library with concentration in 60s]. Successful, but wound up never using it, [even though I just barely had enough PP to cast it!] because I'd forgotten I'd recently hit...32(?) and gotten hostile switching capabilities--huge, huge help. Eventually all the balors were gone and all that was left was Fisti, who easily went down to slaying ammo.

Next, cleaned up the dregs (including the chaos mutants rooms) and closed the gate, escaping at corruption Q (and well on the way to corruption R, since when I cleared it [it was absorb mana] with my last SoCR, it didn't remove corruption P!). Visited white unicorn and left the chain.

[SirTheta]

few comments + annotated:

Mist Elf melee classes are very viable--especially Barbiarans and Beastfighters, who have a pretty high starting Toughness. While Candle was a nice starting month, what you really want is something like Tree--that +2 To is great (RIP ME Barb who wore one iron ring in the wilderness). Of course, Barbs do compound the slow leveling problem of mist elves, but it's not /that/ big a deal for them. Other [mostly] non-spellcasting classes to consider: Healer, Weaponsmith, perhaps Ranger/Archer, and, of course Chaos Knights [with corruption CK boost & ME boost == giant amounts of To, St, Dx]. Weaponsmith has real potential with some smithed up gear.

No Brakes     St:27  Le:24  Wi:18  Dx:32  To:27  Ch:12  Ap:34  Ma:19  Pe:26 N+
DV/PV: 39/51   H: 392(392)    P: 165(165)    Exp: 47/17786092   DrCh  M: 74126
Blessed Hungry Strained Berserk
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Name: No Brakes           Race: male Mist Elf       Class: Beastfighter
Eye color: pink           Hair color: white         Complexion: white
Height: 6'11"             Weight: 66 pounds         Scars: 1
Age: 8104 (grown-up, 220 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 14/Candle (day 284 of the year)
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Total weight: 4296 stones                Carrying capacity: 3975 stones

Head          : uncursed eternium cap [+0, +7]                        [28s]
Neck          : uncursed ankh                                          [3s]
Body          : uncursed eternium plate mail of protection (-1, -2) [-1, +17]
Girdle        : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +2]                      [20s]
Cloak         : uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3]                 [20s]
Right Hand    : -
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of protection +1                         [1s]
Bracers       : uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4}         [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+1, +3]            [15s]
Boots         : uncursed adamantium boots [+1, +3]                    [89s]
Missile Weapon: uncursed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2)                [30s]
Missiles      : bundle of 4 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6+3)                [8s]
Tool          : -
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Total weight: 3831 stones   Carrying capacity: 3975 stones

Armor ('[')
   uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                    [60s]
   uncursed black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [-2, +11]               [200s]
   uncursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13]                   [240s] //all eternium plate from D:50
   uncursed eternium plate mail of balance (-1, -2) [-2, +16]        [240s]
   blessed eternium plate mail of power (-1, -2) [-1, +16]           [240s]
Gauntlets ('[')
   uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]                     [10s]
   heap of 2 uncursed pairs of thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+1, -2]      [30s] //one of these from D:50 :(
Cloaks ('[')
   uncursed cloak of defense [+6, +0]                                 [20s] //also from D:50, all my earlier cloaks were consumed
Girdles ('[')
   cursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+3}                          [15s]
Boots ('[')
   uncursed boots of the slow shuffle [-6, +0] (-40 spd)              [20s]
   uncursed mithril boots [-4, +5]                                    [96s]
   uncursed boots of speed (+1, +1) [+2, +0] (+8 spd)                 [20s]
   cursed eternium boots [+0, +5]                                     [55s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed broken pick axe (-8, 1d6-14)                               [75s]
   heap of 2 uncursed knives of endurance (+6, 1d3+7) {To+4}          [16s] //one of these from DFG, another from Casino [for 3444gp! very low price]
   blessed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2)                                       [75s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed staff of Creation (+4, 4d6+4) [+9, +1] {Wi+16}             [20s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   uncursed sling of accuracy (+5, +1)                                 [3s]
   heap of 2 uncursed short bows of accuracy (+6, +0)                 [40s]
   uncursed heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer" (+18, +18)               [350s] //uselessness gift. came in handy.
Missiles ('/')                                                              //see full flg for missile list
Rings ('=')
   uncursed ring of searching                                          [1s] //really terrible luck with rings this game
   uncursed ring of ice                                                [1s]
   heap of 2 uncursed rings of the clear mind                          [2s]
   uncursed ring of teleport control                                   [1s]
   uncursed ring of gain attribute {Ap+1}                              [1s]
   uncursed ring of fire resistance                                    [1s]
   uncursed ring of acid resistance                                    [1s]
Wands ('\')                                                                 //see full flg for wand list
Potions ('!')                                                               //see full flg for potion list
Scrolls ('?')                                                               //see full flg for scroll list
Books ('"')
   uncursed spellbook of Teleportation                               [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Magic Map                                   [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Light                                       [100s] //this and below not from library
   uncursed spellbook of Magic Missile                               [100s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 61 uncursed pepper petals                                 [122s]
   heap of 6 blessed spenseweeds                                      [12s]
   heap of 13 uncursed morgia roots                                   [26s]
   heap of 4 uncursed lumps of beeswax                                [20s]
   blessed lump of gelee royal                                         [3s]
   uncursed melon                                                     [20s]
Gems ('*')
   heap of 2 uncursed crystals of knowledge                            [2s]
   heap of 4 uncursed crystals of light                                [4s]
   uncursed crystal of power                                           [1s]
   uncursed crystal of darkness                                        [1s]
   uncursed emerald                                                    [1s]
   cursed topaz                                                        [1s]
   uncursed aquamarine                                                 [1s]
   uncursed crystal of health                                          [1s]
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
Unarmed fighting        13   +10   +10   +8   Mastery              745
Daggers & knives         2    +2    +0   +0   basic                21 //occassional accidental knife of endurance bashing
Axes                     2    +2    +1   +0   basic                11 //lowering pickaxe repair cost, even though I didn't wind up needing to do it
Staves                   3    +3    +0   +3   basic                51 //LOT of accidental staff of creation bashing

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
Slings                   3    +6    +4   +1   basic                22
Bows                     8   +16   +12   +2   excellent            150
Crossbows                7   +14   +10   +2   skilled              124

Damage caused with your melee weapons:
Right hand: +208 bonus to hit, 1d34+72 damage

Damage caused with your missile weapons:
Ammunition: 4, base range: 16, +81 bonus to hit, 1d6+41 damage
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  Alertness ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Athletics ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Backstabbing .............100    (superb)       [+3d5]
  Climbing .................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Concentration ............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Detect traps .............100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Dodge ....................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  First aid ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Haggling ................. 56    (good)         [+1d3]
  Healing ..................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Herbalism ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ................100    (superb)       [+3d3]
  Literacy .................100    (superb)       [+1]
  Necromancy ............... 66    (good)         [+1]
  Pick pockets ............. 86    (great)        [+1d3]
  Stealth ..................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Survival .................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Swimming .................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Tactics ..................100    (superb)       [+1]
  Two weapon combat ........ 46    (fair)         [+1d3]
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   Cure Light Wounds:   105,   4pp     (Effectivity: +6) //used a lot to not get scars
   Darkness         :   117,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Fire Bolt        :   231,  10pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Frost Bolt       :   341,  12pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Invisibility     :   180,  10pp     (Effectivity: +4) //used a lot on D:50
   Light            :   122,   2pp     (Effectivity: +7) //negating blotting out the Sun
   Lightning Bolt   :   440,  12pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Magic Map        :   211,  40pp     (Effectivity: +3) //mino maze only
   Magic Missile    :   316,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Stun Ray         :   355,   8pp     (Effectivity: +2) //mino maze only
   Teleportation    :   100,  26pp     (Effectivity: +0)
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No Brakes, the mist elven beastfighter, saved the world with his brave
efforts and became a great ruler while saving himself 23 times.
He scored 17284456 points and advanced to level 47.
He survived for 0 years, 117 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes and 51 seconds (74126
turns).
7 companions were killed during his adventures.
No Brakes visited 128 places.
His strength score was modified by +11 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +5 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +10 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +14 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +11 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +9 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -2 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +7 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 220 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He killed the emperor of the ancient minotaur race.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
3372 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 heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
  the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
  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 Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion" //greater undead vault. tried to get it, but stupidly teleported out of tiny room after lich king didn't fall to undead slaying ammo (to reload), and couldn't get back in
  the shining long spear "Soaker"
  the weird tome
  the rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance"
  the axe of the minotaur emperor
  the staff of Creation
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was fire resistant (also through an item).
  He was poison resistant (also through an item).
  He was cold resistant (gained through an item).
  He was lucky (also through an item).
  Fate smiled upon him (also through an item).
  He was able to teleport.
  He was able to control teleportation.
  He was stun resistant.
  He was shock resistant (gained through an item).
  He was immune to acidic attacks.
He had the following talents: Alert, Brawler, Careful, Extremely Hardy, Good
Shot, Greased Lightning, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot, Long
Stride, Miser, Quick, Steel Skin, Tough, Tough Skin, Very Hardy, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 135 (final base speed: 145).
He was a messiah of Balance.
He asked for 5 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 acid vortex
     23 air demons //completely cleared outer air temple
     11 air elementals
      6 air grues
      1 ancient black dragon //library. luckily I had nothing on me
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
     26 ancient minotaurs
      2 ancient red dragons
      1 Ancient Stone Beast
      1 ancient white dragon
      1 annihilator
      9 balors
      1 black druid
      1 black unicorn
     69 blink dogs //these seem a lot more common, kept encountering them everywhere
      1 cat lord //not that bad
      3 cave lions
      5 cave tigers
      1 Chaos Archmage
     69 chaos mutants
    142 chaos servants
      6 chaos spawn
      2 chaos warlords
     28 chaos warriors
     30 chaos wizards //no darkness used on any of them, either
     20 claw bugs //wow, had no idea I'd seen that many
     29 clay golems //lesser golem vault
      1 corruptor
      1 crime lord //backstab ftw
     12 dark sages //balor summoned like 6 of these
      3 death oozes
      1 diamond golem //D:48. tough bastard.
     13 doppelgangers
      5 doppelganger lords //saw two dopple kings before I even hit D:30. avoided them.
      1 Dorn Beast
     17 earth elementals
      1 fire demon
      6 fire giants
      1 fire grue
      7 fire vortices
     13 flesh golems
     29 frost giants //threat room in lower CoC. gave me two St points when my St was at 14.
      3 frost giant jarls //tough guys. there was a giant vault with a lot of these; I skipped it
     36 ghost lords
      3 giant bee queens
     97 giant bee warriors
      9 giant bee workers
      1 giant slug
     30 gnoll chieftains //threat room for about 28 of these, I think
      1 greater balor
      1 greater black unicorn
    118 greater chaos servants
      2 greater daemons
      1 greater mimic
      1 greater moloch //much needed exp boost on about UL4
      1 greater water elemental
      1 ice vortex
      2 invisible stalkers
      3 iron golems
    143 jackals //I swear like 100 of these were from one jackalwere in a 5x7 room
      1 jackal demon
      7 jackalweres
      1 karmic baby dragon
      2 lightning lizards
      1 lightning vortex
      1 master necromancer
      1 Master Summoner
      5 minotaurs
      1 minotaur emperor
     13 minotaur lords
      2 minotaur mages
     11 minotaur mazelords
     13 minotaur mazemasters
      2 mist wolves
      1 mummy lord
      1 ogre king
      7 ogre lords
      7 ogre magi
      5 pixies //one of these gave me teleportitis on D:48, I think. huge help on D:50, saved my ass once.
      2 pixie archers
      1 raider lord //oh yeah, did this quest for some early gold
      4 ratling warlords
      7 red baby dragons
      6 red worms
      1 revenant
      6 shadow lords
      1 shadow wyrm
      3 shambling mounds
      1 skeletal king
      9 skeletal warriors
      1 Snake from Beyond
     37 steel golems
      4 steel horrors
     10 steel zombies
     14 stone giants
      4 stone giant lords //genned two in HMV, luckily one was neutral (still alive)
     23 stone golems
     24 stone grues
      6 stone snakes
      4 stone statues //haven't seen this before, didn't notice them either
      5 swamp hydras //balor summons
     10 trolls
      3 troll berserkers
      4 troll chiefs
      1 troll king
      1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
      3 vampires //100 stealth is great in CoC graveyard. went up and down stairs multiple times without disturbing any of the surrounding monsters
     48 vapor rats
      2 wall beasts //mino maze
     10 water demons
      7 water elementals
     20 water grues
     21 water snakes
      4 white baby dragons
      3 wild cats
      1 will o'wisp //library, I think
     72 writhing masses of primal chaos