Let's Play the New ADOM!

[grobblewobble]

I fully support your plans to do another let's play with a chaos knight in the future, Silfir! That will be great to watch!

[Whippy]

I've heard about and seen the new CK class on the class selection screen... Sorry for completely going off topic in your Thread Silfir but whats the difference between a CK and other classes. Are they incredibly difficult?

[LFk]

They can be.

You'll quickly notice upon starting a Chaos Knight game that you are widely regarded as the 'bad guy', and that your appearance in the Drakalor Chain is seen as ... less than welcome.

You can imagine the implications - many quests are out of the question, many resources and much of the assistance/cooperation you previously took for granted when playing as any other PC has vanished so long as you stay on your wicked path.

The PC itself is actually quite powerful, but corrupted.

[Whippy]

So he's the type of guy that would help the evil in the Drakalor Chain instead of being a hero?

[GordonOverkill]

Hah, I still maintain that they are

If indeed there is one place they excel over Wizards, it is the earliest of the early game of course, where Wizards are not guaranteed to have access to 3 different offensive spells from the get go. Beyond level 10 though? Eh. I did mention in that previous thread that reworking classes does fall under "not so important" right now, and that the class is certainly functional, not to mention powerful (as most casters are). Power was never the issue.

Maybe your opinion will change after I won tomorrow's Ancardian Fighting Championship with (at least) one of the two Elementalists that I rolled!

[LFk]

So he's the type of guy that would help the evil in the Drakalor Chain instead of being a hero?

Yes indeed. On that topic, there's a very interesting game ending that you can achieve with the Chaos Knight, and it's the only class in the game that can achieve it. Kind of the opposite of an ultra ending, if you ask me

Maybe your opinion will change after I won tomorrow's Ancardian Fighting Championship with (at least) one of the two Elementalists that I rolled!

Haha is that the arena thing? You know, Elementalist is a good roll for that kind of challenge. I don't imagine books to be very plentiful.

[GordonOverkill]

Haha is that the arena thing? You know, Elementalist is a good roll for that kind of challenge. I don't imagine books to be very plentiful.

It is indeed! And especially for my Ratling Elementalist I have already thought of a strategy that will hopefully enable me to beat even very dangerous opponents :-D I am so looking forward to see if it works as planned!
I think the duelist will be very tough to play... no skills for missiles or spells, not lvl 12 class powers... that's gonna be a true challange!

[Silfir]

Is this the kind of trouble fame has wrought upon me? I am planning a third playthrough now (I am definitely not), and one playing the one class I have announced I really wouldn't like playing as (which is why I assumed everyone would vote for me to play it, because you all love to see me suffer apparently)?

I genuinely don't want to play a chaos knight. In all the numerous RPGs that give you the option of playing as a bad guy, I have never, ever seen the appeal of playing as the bad guy. Of the victories I have had in ADOM, none of them have been as any flavor of chaotic alignment. My only Iji playthrough was a pacifist run. I am a wimpy goody-two-shoes if there ever was one.

[GordonOverkill]

Haha is that the arena thing? You know, Elementalist is a good roll for that kind of challenge. I don't imagine books to be very plentiful.

They are indeed! Both my Elementalists won their challanges and in the thread I read about yet another Elementalist who also won... these guys are absolute beasts for this kind of challange! :-)

[GordonOverkill]

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