ADOM Ultra-Ultra Competition!

[blunk]

Depends on how you define DPS.

Damage per hit might be unaffected, but I had severe issues clearing Frost giant great vault, after Casino restock. It's not like I was smithing between tackling Air and Earth temples for the fun of it.

Per my experience monster to hit is higher (to the point DV fails to compensate), and lot of mobs go on blind death rages (might be not setting, but version difference -- I saw very little panickng mobs). So overall damage per encountered monster is way higher. (I was cursed in Frost giant caves, but cleared up while smithing)

The little I played I think monster damage was slightly higher than normal, don't know about to hit but 90 dv is a LOT for a frost giant to rage through.

[Soirana]

The little I played I think monster damage was slightly higher than normal, don't know about to hit but 90 dv is a LOT for a frost giant to rage through.

Well, it was d40+ and giant was likely from tension room remains. Overall it is not super new issue, regular guys with obscene xp levels tend to be more dangerous than stuff properly generated at that depth. (I think worst case I've ever read was margoyle open tension room in scintilating caves (or something similar))

edit: it was in BDC actually -- http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=3785

[Soirana]

I experimented a bit more with 'tough monsters' and it looks like mobs get extra attacks (not always, but orcs with three attacks happen fairly early in SMC ).

[Soirana]

Since, looks like no on else is going to do it... Well, I think I'll try crawl-like approach -- slow and steady with goal orientated shorter plays.

Overall strategy:
-take TH (too good from what I've tried), strong thrower (at char level 18), probably PV line in between these.
-plan to be chaotic for quite some time (grave digging, killing milked beggars) - at the time of planning I didn't know tome of donors does not give benefits for chaotics

Let's make the list or something
1. Rob the BM, get blanket, find UD stairs, install detect traps (so precious PC points are not blown by runes) and healing. (likely kill Kranach for cash)
2. Look for Tome of Donors (I quess, quit char if moldy dungeon happens to be on other mountain side), do precrown, maybe drop in some other random dungeon (looking for shops/herbs/pools/etc)
3.reach DT, start dwarven quests, farm herbs in Big Room, while collecting loot/looking for dwarf elder quest kill. I should by smithing early, maybe some points (up to 15) in learning too.
4.Clear dwarven quests, start pyramid
5. Griffyard/dig as much as possible, try to dig great treasure graves in the end (don't fight high end liches, need at least couple potions of invisbility and ~6 tp charges). Boozefarm (will be chaotic at this point and close to the east)
6. to be determined by results of 1-5 (likely high kings dungeons/dark forge). Overall I am intended to leave IQD after Casino (as drake I think ToEF is easier than IQD).


Videos:
1. https://youtu.be/qCyqSV_TUDo
2. https://youtu.be/jEwKFr3LNxA
3. https://youtu.be/1LZbxagSc4c
4 https://youtu.be/gHWBh0cB9pk
5.https://youtu.be/A8IUpHS27vc
Descriptions of results in the next post..

[Soirana]

1.So, this time got mithril rapier of lightning in BM... sort of meh, but at least immune to exploding runes.
I didn't find stairs in SMC (starting room was dark, so I couldn't use Skriek to kill monsters for me, luckily he wasn't moving), SMC shield was -2PV type...
I guess I could have checked few places for moldy dungeon while I was looking for Kranach. Figured that wands still apply PV based damage to mobs, so took Kranach with wand of slaying. (should have saved charges and used mindcraft)
2. I've got scroll shop in Pc4, which restocked into scroll of item detection (which I uncursed and managed to to fail to tp on the wand () at very elast I know aproximate area to dig). Got an early altar... in the corner of room.
PC6 vault was orcs, so I milked as many spears as I could, no ego weapons... After some effort I found moldy dungeon (3rd level had goblin vault and an altar... again in the corner)
ToD was picked up buy some random monster (never found cash pile). I nearly killed myself while trying wand of far slaying bounce on stone golem (he shrugged everything). I grabbed the tome and made hasty retreat (coward speed bonus helped).
Proceeded to CoC, found third altar (neutral, which I converted to C), this time it was not in the corner. Used cooked lizards for food, and tension room for saccs... got Protector.
Overall, thinks I was looking for were like Executor, Iron crown, scarf. Unless I get serious slaying weapon, Protector won't do much in the late game. However, it would speed mid game and allow delay dealing with smithing.
The main reason to keep the char was stuff I've got from ToD - +10 speed and resistance (and I should stop reading it until I convert to neutral)
3. So, I've got a potion shop somewhere between Arena and Big Room. Despite brown worm infestation farmed my stat herbs, killed dark orc for dwarf. Also took a peak below DT. D13 has mixed vault (nearly got myself killed by ogre lord) luckily most of it is not awaken. I've tried scouting DH1... opened tension room withing 10 turns.. Well, time to mine out tp wand, I guess. (fixed learning, no cash for smithing yet)

[mtf]

Announcing the winner of the ADOM Ultra Ultra competition! After performing his second Ultimate ChAoS God win as a Mist Elf Chaos Knight (this time fully recorded), I'm happy award Ster with $50! It's a rather amusing run that does a few things out of the ordinary (like visit the quickling tree!), so I highly recommend giving it a watch! Here's a link to the run (seperated into a few parts): https://www.twitch.tv/sterroidss/videos/highlights

I also would like to announce a runner up... God of ADoM was able to defeat AnDoR DrAkOn as Gnomish Necromancer + Champion of Order, achieving the Ultimate Lawful Ending! This run is a particularly cool watch due to God of ADoM becoming an Archmage, meaning he had infinite wishes to wish for anything he wanted in the game. Check out his full run here: https://www.twitch.tv/yollamist/v/96310288

Thanks to everyone else who participated =)

[Soirana]

Announcing the winner of the ADOM Ultra Ultra competition!

Cute ...

[GordonOverkill]

Congratulations to the winner! I gave it two or three tries, too, but didn't get a really promising character going and sadly it kinda collided with my project to finish a 15-runes-run in DCSS. Gonna try to get a run with commentary done sometimes in the future