Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 18:44
I have won all 26 races!
Deep Dwarf - I'm always surprised by how easy Deep Dwarfs are. Mahkleb gives crazy healing. This guy was straight meelee with a randart executioner's axe and GDA.
Deep Elf - The first race I ever one with! And probably still my favorite! Spellcasters are the most fun for me. I have won multiple games with this race, but this morguefile is my only deep elf to get 15 runes.
Demigod - Played as fire mage. Godless is a fun conduct to have. I just wish the aptitudes were a bit more interesting.
Demonspawn - Air mage of Ashenzari. I suicided a bunch with 3 runes, and this was the only to escape with the Orb. I <3 Tornado.
Felid - I absolutely can't believe I won this character. I started off as a berserker thinking I would just mess around and then...I just kept going somehow? I still don't understand how this character survived Zot 5.
Formicid - I killed SO FUCKING MANY of these guys before I won. I think my play style relies too much on teleport as an escape option and that is what I was having trouble with. This character found Sniper and I considered going for 15 runes, but never found a wand of healing. Doable, but not by me and especially not when I just wanted to win. Also, Sniper does CRAZY damage, just in case the +15 with 22 base damage didn't make that clear. 1 hitting tentacled monstrosities is a great feeling.
Ghoul - Monk. I think this was the first Yred worshiper I "won" with. Yred is really boring IMHO. Your allies make the game too easy, and then they all die in Zot. I switched to Mahkleb because I hated Yred.
Gargoyle - My first 15 rune game! Gargoyles are the bomb. Crazy AC, rPois, rElec, rTorment, good aptitudes. Probably my go to race if I just want to win.
Halfling - This guy used Punk pretty much the whole game. Ranged combat with an Oka worshipper feels a bit too easy sometimes.
High Elf - Ranged using a randart bow of speed. Probably could have done 15, but just wanted a win.
Human - Troglodyte using a Sacred Scourge and GDA.
Kobold - I used staves this game for some reason. I don't know why. Also switched to TSO and scummed the Abyss. Don't ask me why.
Merfolk - Another Oka to TSO switch. Again, no good reason.
Minotaur - I won this guy for the 0.14 tourney.
Mummy - Like the felid, I can't believe I won this character. Killing OOFs with simulacrum is sooooooooooooooo scary. Simulacrum and haunt...yeah, I don't how I won.
Naga - Yaaaawn, another berserk using maces in GDA
Octopode - Spellcaster worshipping Ash. Looking back, I should have specialized way more. With Ash bonuses, I had 17 Fire, 20 Ice, 15 Air, 15 Earth. Probably not the best idea, but hey, I won, right?
Spriggan - Conjurer of Ash. I almost had a 15 rune spriggan with Kiku but then died in Cocytus. That made me bitter about spriggans for a long time...I decided to just play it safe and do a normal spellcasting build.
Tengu - I killed way too many tengus trying to get a win. Boredom/impatience is my greatest weakness. Most of those deaths were air mages of Vehumet. I got fed up so went with Trog and M&F
Troll - I have never understood why trolls are so squishy. -2 in all the defenses and large body is bad, but not that bad, right? I guess it is that bad....I finally won with this guy. Yet again, switched from Oka to TSO for no good reason.
Vampire - Berserker using an antimagic demonblade and fire dragon armour. I died many times with Kiku and then figured I needed to be less squishy...so I remembered deep dwarf strategy and chose berserker using Trog's Hand to regenerate when I forgot to bottle blood.
Vine Stalker - The "morgue" for this guy is just a screeenshot. I was messing around with Ubuntu distro's and forgot to save the morgue file, but did print it out. Yet another Troglodyte with M&F.
I lost the morgue files for the following races so you'll just have to trust me on these.
Hill Orc - I believe this guy was a Beoghite the whole game. I remember being very sad when all my warlords died in Zot 5
Ogre - Troglodite using GSC. Pretty typical. I got Skullcrusher, but Trog had actually given me an even better randart GSC of speed.
Draconian - One of my very first wins. Conjurer of Vehumet casting fire storm. Pretty sure I was a green. My only previous spellcaster win was with a deep elf. This character was so much more resilient with HP and natural AC bonuses.
Centaur - Worshipped Okawaru. I was giggling so hard for the last half of the game. Oka gave me a barding of flying and all I could imagine was this kneeling horse zipping around a few feet off the ground shooting arrows like crazy. Once I could cast haste, this character was pretty OP. Oka's gear lead to some crazy damage and a hasted centaur covers ground WAY too fast.
Lava Orc - These guys are scrapped now right? Anyways, I won with one in trunk. Standard Beoghite.
My original plan was to win with all the races that have been removed as well, like mountain dwarves and sludge elfs. I downloaded 0.9 today and got a rune with a mountain dwarf worshiping Okawaru, and then said "Fuck this, I don't want to play these old versions." It hurts my brain to go from 0.15 back to 0.9. There are so many small things that add up to make the game not worth the effort/fun for me. To name a few, item destruction, weapon enchantment identification, uncontrollable levitation, and worst of all, fleeing monsters. Having to chase down a pack of cowardly yaks is a HUGE pain in the ass. And yes, I know that "Back in your day" this was the norm, but coming from 0.15 it is simply an antiquated pain in the ass. I can't imagine going back to before 0.5 for gnomes, grey elves, and others.
I've been typing for way too long now! I think now I'll shut up and simply bask in the warm glow of my achievement.