YAVP, Testar DE Farmer (ULE)
bema...@gmail.com
I don't know if the item destruction is higher in 1.1.1, but I
experienced an extremely high rate of destroyed gear compared to my
numerous previous games. Swear to god every time i got near an acid
trap or vortex i would take out half my stuff in the early game. I
went into ToEF with 3 (THREE!) blessed blankets only to have two of
them toast before I even entered the Wyrms room. I consider three
fireproof blankets a literal BOON to a mid twenty character. Can't
imagine this is usual.
Despite the setbacks I was rewarded with an abnormal amount of
artifacts and wishes (6 total) so no real sweat on the brow tbh.
Precrowns was Scorched Spear and the leather armor. A good polearm
onehander is pure win for a dragon-born farmer.
On the out of usual track I did not have 50 deaths on my highscore yet
and despite tampering with the mana orb I couldn't "fish" the two
light corruptions rendering the quickling tree and bugville shut. So I
decided to use a different approach altogether - I farmed the
wilderness. I am a farmer after all :). In particular I went for the
following
Chaos Warlords (good L boost, good XP)
Chaos Entourage (simply kill the chaos knights, grab the eternium gear
and run away)
Ogre Army (kill Magus' with "of hunting" something for Ma - or the lot
if you farm strength)
Quickling Raiding Party (the ones I was after to begin with)
Black Unicorns (use "of hunting". corpses give a PoCC from Guth'Alak)
This is a corruption free endeavor. I works best (only!) if you have
on demand Doom through a "of damnation" something and 7LB. With this
combo you get encounters on 75% of the moves on the Pyramid road
tiles. NOTE that if you give Guth'Alak a STACK of unicorn corpses he
only gives you ONE potion. So give him the corpses individually.
I wasted a wish on Boots of the Slow Shuffle. The speed gain from
corpses is limited by your BASE value and not CURRENT - unlike
everything else.
I didn't use Garth. I tried not to walk around with too much cash,
saccing it for piety along the way. A YASD where a lich cursed my
girdle of greed still haunt my memories.
On the differences between 1.0 and 1.1 - I find the rapid escalation
of critter experience to be annoying, especially for those you cannot
by any logic AVOID. Spiders, rats, wolves and jackals - who cares. But
regular Chaos Servants hitting HARDER than Andor Drakon is a JOKE! The
talents are nice, but lacks balance. Some are relative (i.e. 10%
higher damage per energy on missile attacks), while others are
absolute (+1 damage on melee. which is this win translates to about
0.5% more damage per energy). Treasure Hunter is too imbalanced as
well. The other talents needs a serious beefing to make me consider
NOT taking this. The remaining enhancements works nicely. I like you
have to work a bit more for stats. Would have liked to see the
improoved bug cave, but as said - no can do.
I have (in rec.games.roguelike.adom style) placed the remaining
comments in the .flg file itself.
## SNIP
Testar St:99 Le:81 Wi:74 Dx:94 To:93 Ch:62 Ap:35 Ma:67
Pe:46 L+
DV/PV: 83/90 H:1125(1149) P:893(1183) Exp: 50/48946451 ChAoS
Sp: 615
Blessed Invisible Bloated Berserk
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Background Information
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Name: Testar Race: female Dark Elf Class: Farmer
Eye color: blue Hair color: white Complexion: black
Height: 5'3" Weight: 97 pounds
Age: 137 (grown-up, 1 year of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Dragon Birthday: 15/Dragon (day 165 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
## SNIP
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Inventory
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Total weight: 33370 stones Carrying capacity: 51150
stones
He: uncursed crown of leadership [+2, +7] {Ch+18}
[65s]
Ne: uncursed ankh
[3s]
Bo: uncursed empowered eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [+7, +17]
[240s]
Gi: blessed rustproof adamantium girdle [+6, +9]
[18s]
Cl: blessed cloak of protection [+0, +4]
[20s]
## Lost one boosted to +7,+8 on D:50
RH: blessed Trident of the Red Rooster (+36, 6d12+18) [+12, +12] {Ma
+24}
LH: -
RR: uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +2] {Le+1}
[1s]
LR: uncursed ring of immunity
[1s]
Br: blessed rustproof bracers of regeneration [+7, +0]
[18s]
## Was smithed to +7,+9. destroyed on D:50
Ga: blessed black dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+2, +4]
[10s]
## Lost a pair smithed to +11,+8 on D:50
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+8, +7]
[30s]
MW: uncursed sling of accuracy (+6, +1)
[3s]
Mi: bundle of 8 blessed mithril sling bullets of slaying (+7, 2d5)
[24s]
Tl: uncursed torch (1101 turns of fuel remaining, lit)
[10s]
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Stuff
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Armor ('[')
uncursed fine leather armor "Nature's Companion" (+2, +0) [+2, +8]
(+15 spd)
uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5}
[60s]
uncursed elven chain mail [+10, +10]
[10s]
uncursed moloch armor (-8, -16) [-28, +50] {Dx-20} (-20 spd)
[15000s]
Shields ('[')
blessed dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour" (+2) [+9, +6]
[120s]
Gauntlets ('[')
uncursed iron gauntlets "Ironfist" (-1, +0) [+1, +3] {St+7}
[10s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+3, +1]
[15s]
Cloaks ('[')
blessed cloak of adornment [+1, -1] {Ap+6}
[40s]
Girdles ('[')
uncursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+4}
[15s]
uncursed girdle of giant strength [+3, +6] {St+15}
[30s]
Boots ('[')
uncursed boots of the slow shuffle [-6, +0] (-40 spd)
[20s]
## Wished for. WASTE! DONT DO IT!
Necklaces (''')
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One-handed weapons ('(')
blessed hatchet (+0, 1d6+1)
[50s]
uncursed battle axe of devastation (+2, 5d6+11)
[70s]
blessed scorched spear (+2, 3d8+1) [+2, +0]
[50s]
uncursed rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier" (+5, 4d5+5) [-4, +1] {Wi
+4}
blessed jet-black battle axe "Executor" (+2, 5d6+6) [-4, +1] {St+3}
(+3 spd)
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1]
[10s]
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Sting" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1]
[10s]
uncursed swift eternium long sword of mayhem (+0, 4d8+13)
[20s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed hammer of the gods (+1, 7d6+8) [-6, +0]
[400s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12}
[80s]
blessed glaive "Long Sting" (+4, 7d3) [+4, +0] {Pe+6} (+6 spd)
[100s]
uncursed rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" (+15, 4d8+10) [-2, +0]
[50s]
Missile weapons ('}')
## SNIP
Missiles ('/')
## 3 pages of slaying ammo. SNIP
Tools (']')
## blankets, keys and a blessed wererat statue I forgot to kick. SNIP
Rings ('=')
## SNIP
heap of 3 uncursed rings of weakness
[3s]
## Wished for. Ogre diet = 99 strength
heap of 19 blessed rings of fire resistance
[19s]
## Exchange dip stack. 12 dips and no RoDS :|
Wands ('\')
## SNIP. LOADS of wands
Potions ('!')
## SNIP
blessed potion of youth
[4s]
## Forgot to drink :|
heap of 5 blessed potions of cure corruption
[10s]
heap of 2 uncursed potions of cure corruption
[4s]
## Corruptions?
Scrolls ('?')
## SNIP
heap of 5 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance
[10s]
## Corruptions?
Books ('"')
blessed manual of bridge building
[100s]
## LoL. Bridgebuilding.
blessed spellbook of Identify
[100s]
uncursed spellbook of Revelation
[100s]
uncursed spellbook of Slow Monster
[100s]
blessed spellbook of Strength of Atlas
[100s]
uncursed spellbook of Teleportation
[100s]
## Bookcasted these
uncursed spellbook of Wish
[100s]
## LoL. Wish.
Food ('%')
## five zillion herbs. SNIP
Valuables ('$')
132716 gold pieces
[1327s]
Gems ('*')
## SNIP
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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 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 86
Daggers & knives 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 36
Axes 10 +9 +7 +3 excellent
1184
Pole arms 15 +20 +12 +22 Grand Mastery
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required
marks
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Slings 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 9
Bows 7 +14 +10 +2 skilled 173
Crossbows 6 +12 +9 +2 skilled 79
Shields Lvl DV Level Required
marks
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Shields 12 +24 Mastery
3896
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +292 bonus to hit, 6d12+126 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 8, base range: 12, +119 bonus to hit, 2d5+52 damage
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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Bridge building .......... 31 (fair) [+4d4] (ma)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+1]
## Wished for
Cooking ..................100 (superb) [+1d5] (ma)
Detect traps ............. 75 (great) [+1]
Disarm traps ............. 50 (fair) [+1d5]
Dodge .................... 57 (good) [+3d3]
## Potion
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Fletchery ................ 50 (fair) [+3d3] (ma)
Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gardening ................ 67 (good) [+3d5]
Haggling ................. 49 (fair) [+3d4]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Herbalism ................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+4d4]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1]
Pick locks ............... 93 (superb) [+1d5]
Pick pockets .............100 (superb) [+3d4]
Smithing .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Survival .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Tactics ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Two weapon combat ........ 34 (fair) [+3d3]
Woodcraft ................ 27 (mediocre) [+4d4]
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Spells
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## Bookshop on D:9 was milked a bit.
Acid Ball : 23, 61pp (Effectivity: +3)
Acid Bolt : 625, 14pp (Effectivity: +0)
Bless : 234, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Burning Hands : 319, 7pp (Effectivity: +2)
Calm Monster : 197, 8pp (Effectivity: +2)
Cure Light Wounds: 441, 5pp (Effectivity: +2)
Darkness : 1092, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Disarm Trap : 312, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Fire Bolt : 1006, 8pp (Effectivity: +7)
Fireball : 356, 18pp (Effectivity: +2)
Frost Bolt : 668, 11pp (Effectivity: +0)
Identify : 139, 75pp (Effectivity: +0)
Invisibility : 769, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Knock : 403, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Know Alignment : 222, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 822, 3pp (Effectivity: +4)
Lightning Bolt : 435, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Lock : 743, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 571, 7pp (Effectivity: +0)
Neutralize Poison: 540, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Revelation : 141, 33pp (Effectivity: +0)
Scare Monster : 184, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Monster : 371, 7pp (Effectivity: +3)
Slow Poison : 352, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 288, 10pp (Effectivity: +2)
Stun Ray : 448, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 337, 21pp (Effectivity: +5)
Web : 322, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
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Her further life:
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## SNIP. Imagod
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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Testar, the dark elven farmer, transformed into an avatar of Order.
She scored 9641321 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 128 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes and 24
seconds
(239546 turns).
4 companions were killed during her adventures.
## Beggars
Testar visited 137 places.
Her strength score was modified by +82 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +29 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +26 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +57 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +31 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +19 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +26 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +17 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 1 year.
She was the champion of the arena.
She was a member of the thieves guild.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She ended her adventuring life in the palace of Andor Drakon.
9120 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 38 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
## Lots! The ones with * was fed to the ratling.
## A great deal was sacced for piety
#### Guaranteed ####
the si
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 Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the black rune-covered dagger "Sting"
* the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour"
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
* the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the rune-covered trident
* 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
the Crown of Chaos
the Medal of Chaos
#### Generated ####
the scorched spear
the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
## Precrowns. Farmer + Scorched Spear = own
the glaive "Long Sting"
## Crown. Useless
the hammer of the gods
the robes of resistance
the ring of immunity
## Greater Red Dragon vault on D:25
the crown of leadership
the iron gauntlets "Ironfist"
## Another Greater Red Dragon vault on D:42
the jet-black battle axe "Executor"
## Dropped from the first kill on D:43.
## Would have been used more if Polearms were not rank 15.
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier"
## Casino shop
* the black tome of Alsophocus
## Generated in a book shop on D:9.
## Bought it and fed it to the rat.
* the shining long spear "Soaker"
## Pickpocketed in the dwarven graveyard.
## New world record in pickpocketing i think.
the rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance"
## Uselessness
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant.
She was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was cold resistant.
She was acid resistant (gained through an item).
She was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon her (enhanced through an item).
She was petrification resistant.
She was able to teleport.
She was able to control teleportation.
She was invisible.
She was stun resistant.
She was resistant to death rays (enhanced through an item).
She was shock resistant.
She was able to see invisible things (enhanced through items).
She was immune to shock attacks (gained through items).
She was immune to fire attacks (gained through items).
She was immune to acidic attacks (gained through items).
She was immune to ice attacks.
She was able to breathe water (gained through an item).
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
She had the following talents:
Strong of Will,
Affinity with Axes,
Affinity with Daggers & Knives,
## Fillers.
Affinity with Polemarms,
Basher,
Melee Weapon Master,
Mighty Strike,
Powerful Strike,
## +8 hit and +6 damage w. TotRR.
Careful,
Defensive Fighter,
## +3 DV
Quick,
Quick Shot,
Good Shot,
Keen Shot,
## +3 hit, +3 dmg and 900 energy on ranged
Alert,
Miser,
Treasure Hunter.
## A MUST!
Long Stride,
## Nice to have early on IMHO
She had a final speed score of 615 (final base speed: 187).
She was a fervent follower of Elderon.
She asked for 150 divine interventions.
## Best ward against YASD = high piety
She was a holy champion of Order.
The following monsters were vanquished:
## Notable kills.
59 ancient blue dragons
79 ancient red dragons
1 battle bunny
57 black unicorns
46 blue baby dragons
38 blue dragons
1 bunny master
1 cat lord
80 cave fishers
162 chaos knights
312 chaos servants
42 chaos wizards
1 ElDeR cHaOs GoD
1 emperor lich
1 emperor moloch
75 fire drakes
86 fire elementals
133 fire lizards
104 ghuls
100 giant bee warriors
113 giant rats
3 goodwives ### First Kill ###
6 great blue wyrms
3 great red wyrms
152 greater chaos servants
473 gremlins
246 jackals
216 large spiders
472 ogres
192 quicklings
1 quickling bard
79 quickling lords
8 quickling queens
167 rats
91 red baby dragons
91 red dragons
160 skeletons
111 stone giants
55 tarantulas
176 wolves
119 zombies
gut
bema...@gmail.com wrote in
news:5e32c561-fb58-4239...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com:
<snip a bit>
> went into ToEF with 3 (THREE!) blessed blankets only to have two of
> them toast before I even entered the Wyrms room.
If you had been doomed, that never would have happened : ) I did a bit of
testing a while back, and found that a single uncursed fireproof blanket
usually lasts several thousands of turns in the tower, as long as you are
doomed. The same blanket is lucky to last over a hundred turns if your
not cursed or doomed. Makes perfect sense, right? Right? : )
http://tinyurl.com/6hvykb
<snip a bit more>
> 0.5% more damage per energy). Treasure Hunter is too imbalanced as
> well. The other talents needs a serious beefing to make me consider
> NOT taking this.
The TH talent only gives an extra 1 item per ~10 kills, so it's not
really as great as it first seems. The standard item drop rate seems to
be more than adaquate for my needs, and I consider the speed and PV
talents much better for the early game.
> ## Lots! The ones with * was fed to the ratling.
<snip some artifacts>
> the phial of Caladriel
> * the crown of science
Do I read right, that you fed the CoS to the rat, and kept the Phial?
I think the CoS is cool, and usually only get rid of it as a last resort.
Is there a use for the Phial I don't know about?
<one last snip>
> She asked for 150 divine interventions.
*Faints* : )
bema...@gmail.com
> bemad...@gmail.com wrote innews:5e32c561-fb58-4239...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com:
>
> <snip a bit>
>
> > went into ToEF with 3 (THREE!) blessed blankets only to have two of
> > them toast before I even entered the Wyrms room.
>
> If you had been doomed, that never would have happened : ) I did a bit of
> testing a while back, and found that a single uncursed fireproof blanket
> usually lasts several thousands of turns in the tower, as long as you are
> doomed. The same blanket is lucky to last over a hundred turns if your
> not cursed or doomed. Makes perfect sense, right? Right? : )
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6hvykb
>
elementals and the wyrm itself. Of course at that time I had left
everything but important corpses and !oEH behind so the disaster would
have been limited. I never ever even once found a =oIce. Not one was
generated the entire game. Even with a ring shop directly above the UD
branch. I'll consider he crown next time. You can just use piety to
uncurse it. Doesn't use up too much piety.
> <snip a bit more>
>
> > 0.5% more damage per energy). Treasure Hunter is too imbalanced as
> > well. The other talents needs a serious beefing to make me consider
> > NOT taking this.
>
> The TH talent only gives an extra 1 item per ~10 kills, so it's not
> really as great as it first seems. The standard item drop rate seems to
> be more than adaquate for my needs, and I consider the speed and PV
> talents much better for the early game.
>
That still approximates double item generation in "ordinary"
circumstances. Logically it doesn't affect dragon hoards, shops,
pickpocketing nor "great treasure" digs. Still the premise of the game
is to obtain the gear you need to counteract any specific situation.
And to this end this talent simply owns. Also I dont rate PV that
high. Not enough to talent for it.
> > ## Lots! The ones with * was fed to the ratling.
>
> <snip some artifacts>
>
> > the phial of Caladriel
> > * the crown of science
>
> Do I read right, that you fed the CoS to the rat, and kept the Phial?
> I think the CoS is cool, and usually only get rid of it as a last resort.
> Is there a use for the Phial I don't know about?
>
At that time I had everything except the farmer corpse. So it worked a
bit like this. Go C. Feed the rat. Give Gaab stuff. Kill farmer. Give
Gaab the rest of the stuff. Give beggar 100 stomafilia. Sac the
remaining superflouous artifacts for piety. I would NEVER have gotten
rid of the crown of science if i hadn't gotten crown of leadership on
D:24 already. Also as DE i couldn't get any money out of si's since
the three mixed shops give a ludicrous low price on items. So
artifacts worked out like a nice piety booster.