Kind of stopped playing my
Pale Draconian character (also I was playing on version 0.5.2) in favour of a Purple Draconian character (now on version 0.6.0!). Made a really dumb mistake when I decided not to eat, trying to be conservative with my food, and died of starvation... :/ I had not taken into account that I was encumbered; was going to my stash on D:12 and was hoping I'd faint from lack of food before starving to death but that didn't happen. I even had a Book of Annihilations that I had found on D:7...
Oh well, I had made mistakes in that game anyway. I had such a rough time trying to damage anything, so in a sense I'm almost glad I have to start over. It didn't help that the deeper Lair levels seemed to each have at least one unique in them (Lair:7 had three, even...who was that Maud person anyway?).
Mistakes include but are not limited to: Not choosing the fire magic book at the beginning, not becoming a follower of Sif Muna as soon as I was able to, and general poor choice of spells learned. As I said, it was so hard trying to do any damage until I was able to learn Poison Arrow, which helped immensely. Sadly, I was not able to enjoy it for long...
morgue filePerhaps the biggest drawback from this is that my new purple draconian has the misfortune of having the other one's ghost haunting D:12. I was at XP 11 when I first encountered it; its bolts of draining quickly dashed my hopes of defeating it as my HP dipped into the red and my XP level went down to 10. As such, I'm cut off from the upper levels of the dungeon, at least for now.
I've completed the Lair and the Hive and did two levels of the Swamp before meeting up with Mara, who proved to be too much for me to handle, what with his illusions and misleading and all. Also swamp drakes. So for now I've just gone down the main dungeon, and am currently finished with D:21. Hoping to learn Fire Storm soon; finally got the success rate for it up from Useless to Terrible!
My selection of spells is much better this time around:
- Sublimation of Blood is just pure awesome since it lets me recover MP quickly and I don't have to keep using the Channel Energy ability.
- Sting is great for a level 1 spell since it poisons, I usually use this instead of Magic Dart, unless I really need Magic Dart's accuracy.
- Mephitic Cloud is amazing against enemies not resistant to poison; this spell is excellent at giving me a little breathing room when I get surrounded.
- Conjure Flame stops some enemies from chasing me down corridors, allowing me to quickly and safely kill them; those that the spell doesn't stop will at least take damage crossing it.
- Sticky Flame is great for poison resistant enemies. I usually use both it and Sting for excellent damage over time.
- Throw Flame is the spell I usually use once my enemies are burning and poisoned. I also use this to train Fire Magic since it's my cheapest Fire Magic spell.
- Poison Arrow helps me put dents in enemies with both fire and poison resistance (like dragons), not to mention it poisons regardless of resistance (except for the undead).
- Resist Poison for when I need rPois. The only equipment I have that grants rPois is my staff of poison, and I'd rather have my staff of fire equipped for maximum damage with my fire magic.
- Regeneration helps get my health up quickly. I can also use it to counter the HP loss incurred when I use Sublimation of Blood when I don't have a chunk to use it on.
- Blink I rarely use anymore, but it's saved me time and time again, mostly in the early game.
- Throw Icicle is for those with cold vulnerabilities (like dragons). I don't really use this that often; I don't even have Ice Magic at level 1 yet.
- My other spells are Magic Dart, Summon Small Mammals and Poison Weapon. I rarely use these; in fact I don't think I've ever used Poison Weapon--the only reason I learned it was because I wanted to have a spell to train Enchantments, but Regeneration and Resist Poison typically fill that role now.
Basically, I only use magic now; it's very rare that I use my weapons, or even my wands. Also, if I did the scoring calculations correctly I should be up to 130,000 points in this game!
Current progress file is here.
EDIT: And...died. Was on D:23 and happened across Frederick. Tried confusing him but he had drunk a potion of speed and quickly kept recovering from it. I really should've used my own potion of speed, but I didn't think he'd hit so hard (notice the killing blow dealt 54 damage). I had just reached level 17, too. Oh well...142,165 points! Pretty sure that beats everything else here. The worst part, I think, is that since I didn't destroy the previous ghost back at D:12, it's going to be there for my next unfortunate character...and now there's another one on D:23...hopefully my next character will be strong enough by then to destroy them!
morgue fileGuess I should finish up my pale draconian game, now...
