Third win! Death Lily, Dark Elf bard

[magpie]

Death Lily St:29 Le:18 Wi:30 Dx:44 To:27 Ch:28 Ap:26 Ma:24 Pe:24 L+
DV/PV: 88/41 H: 482(482) P: 319(319) Exp: 36/8983556 DrCh Sp: 122
Blessed Invisible Strained
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Background Information
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Name: Death Lily Race: female Dark Elf Class: Bard
Eye color: amber Hair color: white Complexion: black
Height: 5'6" Weight: 97 pounds
Age: 148 (grown-up, 4 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Tree Birthday: 24/Tree (day 354 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents belong to the middle class. They are average people
living in average quarters. Your father is a craftsman of mediocre talent.
As a child you lived through happy days. Your parents tried to ease
your life as much as possible and gave you a lot of comfort.
During your youth you had a lot of fun playing with other kids of
your age. You always were a natural leader and the center of interest.
As a young adult you tried many occupations before finally deciding
on one to pursue. This has left you with a very broad base of lore.
You decided to become a Bard.


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Inventory
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Total weight: 8357 stones Carrying capacity: 7849 stones

Head : uncursed helm of water breathing [+0, +1] [30s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : uncursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [+2, +13] [240s]
Girdle : uncursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+3} [15s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+1, +0] [30s]
Right Hand : blessed rustproof phase dagger (+4, 1d4+3) [5s]
Left Hand : uncursed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +6] [260s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring : uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Bracers : uncursed bracers of protection [+0, +2] [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+1, +2] [30s]
Missile Weapon: uncursed short bow (+1, +0) [20s]
Missiles : bundle of 2 uncursed griffon-feathered arrows (+0, 1d6)[4s]
Tool : heap of 10 uncursed bandages [20s]



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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 29
Daggers & knives 12 +14 +8 +4 Mastery 926
Clubs & hammers 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 105
Maces & flails 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Swords 13 +14 +10 +4 Mastery 6962
Axes 4 +3 +2 +0 skilled 105
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25
Pole arms 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Twohanded weapons 2 +2 +2 +0 basic 40
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 12
Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 288
Crossbows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 18
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 20
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 12
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 10 +20 excellent 903


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +65 bonus to hit, 1d4+28 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 2, base range: 11, +68 bonus to hit, 1d6+37 damage




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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Appraising ...............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Bridge building .......... 15 (mediocre) [+4d5] (mr)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Concentration ............ 32 (fair) [+4d5]
Detect traps .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Disarm traps .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d3]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Fletchery ................ 19 (mediocre) [+4d4] (mr)
Haggling ................. 81 (great) [+3d3]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Music ....................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Pick locks ............... 85 (great) [+2d4]
Pick pockets ............. 81 (great) [+2d4]
Smithing ................. 94 (superb) [+2d4]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming ................. 80 (great) [+1d3]
Tactics .................. 88 (great) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........ 71 (great) [+1d3]
Ventriloquism ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Woodcraft ................ 72 (great) [+1d5]


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Spells
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Acid Ball : 684, 35pp (Effectivity: +3)
Bless : 166, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Calm Monster : 97, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Light Wounds: 166, 5pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 750, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Destroy Undead : 744, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Earthquake : 13, 149pp (Effectivity: +0)
Heal : 671, 40pp (Effectivity: +2)
Ice Ball : 8, 48pp (Effectivity: +0)
Identify : 38, 121pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 174, 3pp (Effectivity: +1)
Lightning Ball : 11, 56pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Lock : 9, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 28, 13pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Monster : 171, 7pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Poison : 12, 11pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 158, 26pp (Effectivity: +0)




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Her further life:
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After she leaves the Drakalor Chain she is welcomed by her people with great
honors. They acknowledge her noble deeds, her valor, her cunning and her
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world
she knows. She is crowned to be the queen of all dark elves and lives a long
and prosperous life full of power, happiness and pleasure.

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Her achievements during her battles:
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Death Lily, the dark elven bard, saved the world with her brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving herself 13 times.
She scored 13779596 points and advanced to level 36.
She survived for 0 years, 59 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 13 seconds (90374
turns).
43 companions were killed during her adventures.
Death Lily visited 107 places.
Her strength score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +11 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +12 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +10 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +3 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +9 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 4 years.
She was the champion of the arena.
She was the head of the thieves guild.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
6148 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 25 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the black long sword "Kinslayer"
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 cudgel "Black Thumb"
the rune-covered long sword "Trusted One"
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the scorched spear
the gauntlets of eternal peace "Shezestriakis"
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
Perion's mithril plate mail
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (also through an item).
She was poison resistant.
She was cold resistant (gained through an item).
She was acid resistant.
She was lucky (also through an item).
Fate smiled upon her (also through items).
She was able to control teleportation.
She was invisible (gained through an item).
She was shock resistant (also through an item).
She was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
She was immune to acidic attacks.
She was able to breathe water (gained through an item).
She had the following talents: Alert, Beast of Burden, Boon to the Family,
Careful, Charming, Good Learner, Good Shot, Heir, Long Stride, Master
Packager, Miser, Porter, Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield Specialist,
Treasure Hunter.
She had a final speed score of 122 (final base speed: 116).
She was a messiah of Elderon.
She asked for 7 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Order.

[magpie]

Well, I had wanted this character to be a melee character, but I found too much good ammunition to only melee stuff - many of the harder battles were done with slaying ammo.

A few notes:
- Bards are incredibly powerful once you get them going. They can basically do everything!

- The new 'scroll of monster aggravation' trick with Nuurag-Vaarn is ... almost too cheap.

- The 'wand of destruction ending' is also almost too cheap.

- I only ended up getting Concentration after I closed the gate ... I got a ring of djinni summoning on D:46 or something like that, and didn't want to backtrack to my book stash in Dwarftown at that point.

- Only one greater vault all game (a giant vault on D:46), which (along with the relative lack of action on D:50) meant that I finished the game at a very low level, relatively speaking.

- Finding an early phase dagger made a lot of the mid-and-late game very easy. I also found Kinslayer in the Casino gift shop, which was the perfect weapon for much of the end game.

So. Nothing too spectacular, but a win is a win. It's only my third win to date, and my first done mostly with melee, so I'm happy with it.

[Scooter Fox]

Congratulations!

What's the trick on Nuraag-Vaarn? You should not be able to make him teleport out of the temple entirely in the current version. Can you lure him out of the chamber into the trap corridor or something?

I'm jealous of Heal, I pretty much never find it unless I'm playing a wizard and go to the library. What skills did you start with and what spells did you get at level 18?

[magpie]

Thank you!

What's the trick on Nuraag-Vaarn? You should not be able to make him teleport out of the temple entirely in the current version.

Oh, this was on 1.2.0 pre 23. I'm not doing the current pre-release just yet - a bit behind the times.

I'm jealous of Heal, I pretty much never find it unless I'm playing a wizard and go to the library.

Yeah, it was incredibly useful, and meant I only had to use 2 PoEH during the whole game. Actually, the spells I got at level 18 were fantastic: Acid Ball saved me on the Earth Temple (although I probably could have fought my way out, it was very good that I didn't need to), and Heal ... well, Heal is Heal, what more can I say. I didn't get Concentration until after I closed the Gate - I kinda wish I had backtracked when I got the Wish, and read all of my book stash at that point, but I didn't need to, so ...

The skills I got at 25 were crap - Woodcraft, Pick Locks (I already had a full set of keys), Pick Pockets (which could have been useful if I'd been bothered to use it, but I mostly can't be bothered), and basically nothing that had any kind of effect. I did, however, start with an incredible skillset - Dark Elf and Bard skills, plus Find Traps, Disarm Traps, Dodge, Appraising (which can be very useful, believe me) and Fletchery, which I never bothered with because I didn't need to.

I also found a mass amount of dwarven chaos knights in DF and in the TotHK final cavern, which fed me many Wands of Digging. Digging is one of those things that you don't notice normally, but which is incredibly annoying not to have when you do need it.