Zea, the high elven beastfighter

[Lich]

This is the first time I played a beastfighter, and the conclusion is: they are awesome. I got crowned with BoW, and after I got the RotMC, I basically took everything on in melee. The ToEF was the biggest hurdle, because my powers weren't quite fully developed there. I had enough dex that I was able to kill the ACW with regular missiles (didn't have dragon slayers). Everything went smoothly from there on. I thought I ran into some trouble when I didn't have enough dragon slaying ammo and found a lot of great red wyrms in a greater vault, until I realized that I can melee them; simply unbelievable, considering that I had to pull my hair out with my other PCs when I encounter a stone golem with "too much" PV. The air, earth, and mana temple, plus D50, were pretty trivial. I shot the balors to death with humanoid slayers, but of course realized afterward that I could melee them as well. At that point in time, there was only one left, so I acid balled it to death.



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Zea St:42 Le:22 Wi:26 Dx:56 To:45 Ch:11 Ap:31 Ma:27 Pe:24 N-
DV/PV: 84/59 H:1057(1057) P:355(355) Exp: 50/33336901 DrCh Sp: 169
Blessed Satiated
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Background Information
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Name: Zea Race: female High Elf Class: Beastfighter
Eye color: purple Hair color: black Complexion: light
Height: 5'11" Weight: 112 pounds
Age: 279 (grown-up, 82 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Unicorn Birthday: 24/Unicorn (day 114 of the year)

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Inventory
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Total weight: 4499 stones Carrying capacity: 14541 stones

Head : uncursed eternium cap [+0, +4] [28s]
Neck : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s]
Body : uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
Girdle : uncursed eternium girdle [+0, +6] [12s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of defense [+6, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : -
Left Hand : -
Right Ring : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +4] {Le+3} [1s]
Bracers : blessed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8} [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed thick gauntlets (+0, -1) [+0, +0] [15s]
Boots : uncursed eternium boots [+0, +5] [55s]
Missile weapon: uncursed short bow (+1, +0) [20s]
Missiles : bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+5)
Tool : -

Armor ('[')
uncursed eternium plate mail of resilience (-1, -2) [+0, +11] [240s]
uncursed anti-magical eternium plate mail of life (-1, -2) [-1, +13] //oooo, pretty prefixes and suffixes, I don't even know what they do

One-handed weapons ('(') //inventory ornament
uncursed eternium warhammer (+0, 4d3+8) [29s]
heap of 2 uncursed phase daggers (+0, 1d4) [10s]
uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1) [75s]
blessed rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier" (+5, 4d5+5) [-4, +1] {Wi+4}
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]

Two-handed weapons ('(') //inventory ornament
uncursed scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" (+6, 10d4+6) [+2, +2] [70s]
blessed staff of smiting (+4, 1d37+3) [30s]
uncursed quicksilver quarterstaff (+6, 5d3+8) [+3, +0] (+20 spd) [20s]
blessed staff of power (+0, 1d10+2) [+1, +1] {Wi+4}

Missile weapons ('}')
uncursed rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (+12, +12) [3s] //at least it wasn't the black tome (the black tome was generated in the game though)

Rings ('=')
heap of 2 uncursed rings of djinni summoning [2s] //didn't know what to wish for

Wands ('\')
uncursed wand of light (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of webbing (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of magic missiles (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of webbing (0 charges) [3s]
blessed wand of magic missiles (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of fire (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of light (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of trap creation (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of paralyzation (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of fireballs (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of ball lightning (0 charges) [4s]
blessed wand of fireballs (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of gold detection (0 charges) [6s]
uncursed wand of wonder (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of magic missiles (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of light (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of webbing (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of webbing (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of fire (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of item detection (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of acid (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of teleportation (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of fire (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of acid (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of wonder (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of gold detection (0 charges) [6s]
uncursed wand of destruction (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of monster creation (0 charges) [3s]
blessed wand of trap detection (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of poison (0 charges) [3s]
blessed wand of poison (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of acid (0 charges) [4s]
uncursed wand of door creation (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of death (0 charges) [3s]

Scrolls ('?')
heap of 2 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance [4s] //didn't need to use

[Silfir]

Armor of life increases your max HP by 20%. They are awesome.

Anti-magical armor either sets your current PP to zero, increases PP cost, or stops PP regeneration, I can't remember. For a beastfighter it's a non-issue.

I'd have transformed the two rings into six potions of youth, to cure unnatural aging, but that's just me...

[gut]

gut: "I wish I'd remembered I had the mana battery corruption!"

I'm joking : ) I assume you drained those on purpose to get more
PP's. For THIS beastfighter, anti-magical armor would have been an
issue. Funny enough, I remember our beastfighter 'Tiny', from the
'race wars' challenge, also being quite good at spellcasting. It's odd,
because one would think of beastfighters as being less able to learn
spells than (for instance) archers, but in my recent exp., they seem
to be better.

[Silfir]

My high level beastfighter with more than decent Learning and Mana and what have you failed to learn Knock from a spellbook. This could have been caused by the lack of the Concentration skill though (which archers have, making them indeed better). But even without Concentration, a level 20 or above PC with Learning above 20 should be able to learn Knock, shouldn't they? (It wasn't said whether this was regular casting or bookcasting. Bookcasting requires one freak success, and it doesn't matter if that one gives 20 castings only.)

[gut]

Yeah, I was talking about regular casting, not bookcasting.
It does seem like an exp. level ~20 beastfighter should be
able to learn knock if they have a Le stat of ~25, but I'm
begining to think that may rely heavily on star sign and
possibly race as well. Tiny was a wand born hurthling,
and Zea was a unicorn born elf. If your beastfighter was
a 'sword' born dwarf (ha, a beastfighter with SWORD
star sign!), maybe that would explain it.

[Silfir]

Dark elf. Falcon. Dark elves do have less Learning than dwarves, humans or other elves.