CIP->YASD DrTm^Okawaru

[arandomperson12]

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arandomperson12 the Martial Artist (DrTm)          Turns: 14151, Time: 00:41:04

Health: 74/74      AC:  7    Str: 16    XL:     9   Next: 99%
Magic:  12/12      EV: 13    Int: 15    God:    Okawaru [**....]
Gold:   410        SH:  0    Dex: 13    Spells: 3 memorised, 6 levels left

rFire  . . .      SeeInvis .      - Unarmed
rCold  . . .      Gourm    .    (armour unavailable)
rNeg   . . .      Faith    .    (no shield)
rPois  .          Spirit   .    (helmet restricted)
rElec  .          Dismiss  .    (no cloak)
rCorr  .          Reflect  .    (no gloves)
MR     +....      Harm     .    (no boots)
Stlth  +.........               (no amulet)
                                (no ring)
                                m - +3 ring of strength (curse)

@: no status effects
A: breathe power, unfitting armour, cold-blooded, AC +7
a: Breathe Dispelling Energy, Heroism, Renounce Religion


You are on level 9 of the Dungeon.
You worship Okawaru.
Okawaru is pleased with you.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and seen 10 of its levels.

You have collected 410 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand Weapons
 g - a +0 blowgun
Missiles
 a - 110 arrows
 k - 32 poisoned needles
 s - 10 tomahawks (quivered)
 y - 5 javelins
Jewellery
 m - a cursed +3 ring of strength (left hand)
Wands
 q - a wand of digging
 v - a wand of teleportation (6/9)
 x - a wand of slowing
 D - a wand of iceblast
Scrolls
 d - 3 scrolls of amnesia
 o - 6 scrolls of remove curse
 p - 4 scrolls of teleportation
 r - a scroll of enchant armour
 A - 4 scrolls of identify
 B - a scroll of fear
Potions
 e - 3 potions of brilliance
 f - 3 potions of curing
 i - a potion of haste
 j - 5 potions of flight
 l - a lumpy cyan potion
 n - 2 bubbling green potions
 t - a green potion
 u - 2 fizzy purple potions
 w - a cyan potion
 z - 2 lumpy puce potions
Books
 b - a book of Changes   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Beastly Appendage            Transmutation                 1
    b - Sticks to Snakes             Transmutation                 2
    c - Spider Form                  Transmutation/Poison          3
    d - Ice Form                     Ice/Transmutation             4
    e - Blade Hands                  Transmutation                 5
Comestibles
 c - 6 bread rations
 h - 2 meat rations
 C - 4 fruits
 E - 8 slices of pizza
 F - 2 chunks of flesh


   Skills:
 - Level 5.1 Fighting
 + Level 3.1 Dodging
 - Level 10.0 Unarmed Combat
 - Level 2.4 Spellcasting
 - Level 9.0 Transmutations
 - Level 3.0 Poison Magic


You have 6 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Beastly Appendage     Tmut           ####..       1%          1    #......
b - Sticks to Snakes      Tmut           ####....     1%          2    ###....
c - Spider Form           Tmut/Pois      ###.......   6%          3    ###....


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (9/15)             Temple (1/1) D:6         
  Lair: D:8-11         Orc: D:9-12     

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Dithmenos
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Gozag
Hepliaklqana
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Qazlal
Ru
Sif Muna
Trog
Uskayaw
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
The Shining One

Shops:
D:5 (

Annotations:
D:6 exclusion: downstairs


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can breathe bolts of dispelling energy.
Your rich purple scales are hard. (AC +7)
Your body does not fit into most forms of armour.
You are cold-blooded and may be slowed by cold attacks.


Message History

There is a stone staircase leading down here.
You punch the orc!
You kill the orc!
Okawaru accepts your kill.
The orc hits you but does no damage.
You punch the orc!
You kill the orc!
Unknown command.
No target in view!
No target in view!
Items here: )) [[
a club; a chain mail; a robe; a dagger
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
You start resting.
HP restored.
You climb downwards.
There is a stone staircase leading up, spattered with blood here.
Unknown command.
Save game and exit?


I have never played Tm before. What should I train? Was Oka a good choice?

[VeryAngryFelid]

I usually have Ice Form castable before entering Lair.
Oka is one of the best gods for Tm because it means you can either have great attack/defense or get spells earlier depending on what you choose to train. And finesse is always great.

[arandomperson12]

What stat should I pump?

[Malevolent]

Oka is pretty much always a good choice if you are just looking to win. Sometimes there are better options, but Oka is never really bad if you are going to spend a lot of your time fighting in melee.

For now, learn Blade Hands, train Transmutations if you can't cast it reliably yet, and chop everything up with Blade Hands. Also, get Ice Form as well once you have the spell levels, since it can be useful for slowing down cold-blooded monsters and dealing with ice-susceptible monsters. Also, don't sit on the identify scrolls - use them up. Since you didn't choose Sif (probably not even a particularly great choice for a melee-based DrTm anyway) there's no telling when/if you'll get Statue Form, Dragon Form etc., so if you can cast Blade Hands, just train UC, Dodging and Fighting roughly in this order of priority IMO. Should be simple and straightforward.

Oh, and Ctrl+F gloves, boots and cloak, because if you didn't get any so far, well, you're pretty unlucky.

Edit: I'd just train Dex all day. You don't really need Strength that much since you won't be having encumbrance problems, and you don't need Int that much because you can cast your starting spells easily with this much Int and it's a waste IMO to train Int for spells that you want to be casting well before battle anyways.

[and into]

Malevolent's advice is good, just make sure to squeeze in like, training one or two levels of invocations skill early (for heroism) and then 8 or 9 at some point after finesse becomes available. I would definitely increase dexterity every three levels on this character.


edit: ice form is imo the best form in Lair, in general, as everything dangerous there except uniques can be slowed by cold-based attacks.

[arandomperson12]

Died, when I went down to D:10, pulled up a yak and fought it until I reached half health, then I escaped up to Dl:8, which I thought was cleared, but an orc warrior with a trident of venom was right by the stairs. It hit me and poisoned me. I quaffed a haste potion, and tried to run, but the orc hit me twice, and I died of poison. Should have used a scroll of fear. I need to use those more.

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4389 arandomperson12 the Martial Artist (level 10, -1/81 HPs)
             Began as a Purple Draconian Transmuter on Aug 29, 2016.
             Was a Believer of Okawaru.
             Succumbed to an orc warrior's poison
             ... on level 8 of the Dungeon on Sept 1, 2016.
             The game lasted 00:46:55 (15596 turns).

arandomperson12 the Martial Artist (DrTm)          Turns: 15596, Time: 00:46:55

Health: -1/81      AC:  7    Str: 16    XL:     10   Next: 13%
Magic:  13/13      EV: 14    Int: 15    God:    Okawaru [**....]
Gold:   447        SH:  0    Dex: 13    Spells: 4 memorised, 3 levels left

rFire  . . .      SeeInvis .      - Unarmed
rCold  . . .      Gourm    .    (armour unavailable)
rNeg   . . .      Faith    .    (no shield)
rPois  .          Spirit   .    (helmet restricted)
rElec  .          Dismiss  .    (no cloak)
rCorr  .          Reflect  .    (no gloves)
MR     +....      Harm     .    (no boots)
Stlth  +.........               (no amulet)
                                (no ring)
                                m - +3 ring of strength (curse)

@: lethally poisoned (-1 -> -30), very slightly contaminated, hasted, very quick
A: breathe power, unfitting armour, cold-blooded, AC +7
a: Breathe Dispelling Energy, Heroism, Renounce Religion


You were on level 8 of the Dungeon.
You worshipped Okawaru.
Okawaru was pleased with you.
You were not hungry.

You visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and saw 11 of its levels.

You collected 447 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand Weapons
 g - a +1 blowgun
Missiles
 a - 110 arrows
 k - 32 poisoned needles
 s - 10 tomahawks (quivered)
 y - 5 javelins
 A - 6 needles of sleeping
Jewellery
 m - a cursed +3 ring of strength (left hand)
Wands
 q - a wand of digging (11/24)
 v - a wand of teleportation (6/9)
 x - a wand of slowing (15/48)
 D - a wand of iceblast (10/15)
 F - a wand of iceblast (4/15)
Scrolls
 d - 3 scrolls of amnesia
 o - 6 scrolls of remove curse
 p - 4 scrolls of teleportation
 r - 2 scrolls of enchant armour
 u - 2 scrolls of magic mapping
 B - a scroll of fear
Potions
 e - 3 potions of brilliance
 f - 3 potions of curing
 i - a potion of haste
 j - 6 potions of flight
 l - a potion of cure mutation
 n - 2 potions of resistance
 t - a potion of magic
 w - a potion of cancellation {unknown}
 z - 2 potions of lignification
Books
 b - a book of Changes   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Beastly Appendage            Transmutation                 1
    b - Sticks to Snakes             Transmutation                 2
    c - Spider Form                  Transmutation/Poison          3
    d - Ice Form                     Ice/Transmutation             4
    e - Blade Hands                  Transmutation                 5
 G - a book of Fire   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Ignite Poison                Fire/Transmutation/Poison     3
    b - Fireball                     Conjuration/Fire              5
    c - Bolt of Fire                 Conjuration/Fire              6
    d - Delayed Fireball             Conjuration/Fire              7
    e - Ring of Flames               Charms/Fire                   7
Comestibles
 c - 6 bread rations
 h - 2 meat rations
 C - 4 fruits
 E - 8 slices of pizza


   Skills:
 - Level 5.1 Fighting
 - Level 3.8 Dodging
 + Level 10.1 Unarmed Combat
 - Level 2.4 Spellcasting
 - Level 9.0 Transmutations
 + Level 1.4 Ice Magic
 - Level 3.0 Poison Magic


You had 3 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Beastly Appendage     Tmut           ####..       1%          1    #......
b - Sticks to Snakes      Tmut           ####....     1%          2    ###....
c - Spider Form           Tmut/Pois      ###.......   6%          3    ###....
d - Ice Form              Ice/Tmut       ###.....     28%         4    #####..


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (10/15)            Temple (1/1) D:6         
  Lair: D:8-11         Orc: D:9-12     

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Dithmenos
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Gozag
Hepliaklqana
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Qazlal
Ru
Sif Muna
Trog
Uskayaw
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
The Shining One

Shops:
D:5 (

Annotations:
D:6 exclusion: downstairs
D:9 exclusion: downstairs


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can breathe bolts of dispelling energy.
Your rich purple scales are hard. (AC +7)
Your body does not fit into most forms of armour.
You are cold-blooded and may be slowed by cold attacks.


Message History

An orc warrior comes into view. It is wielding a trident of venom.
The orc warrior hits you with a trident of venom!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You are poisoned.
There is a stone staircase leading down, spattered with blood here.
You feel yourself speed up. You feel sick.
The orc warrior hits you with a trident of venom!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You are more poisoned.
You are very lightly contaminated with residual magic.
Unknown command.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You feel very sick.
The orc warrior misses you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You feel sick.
Unknown command.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You feel sick.
You die...


[torrenera]

just wondering: would you train shield for a transmuter? I guess no because it gets melded everytime you use your magic, but this way defenses are really low, don't you think?

[VeryAngryFelid]

just wondering: would you train shield for a transmuter? I guess no because it gets melded everytime you use your magic, but this way defenses are really low, don't you think?

My current DgTm uses warlock's buckler, it is still useful for autoexploring and does not cost much XP. Also statue form does not meld shield so it is ok to use shield in extended.

[Midn8]

So Oka is a fine god for transmuter, but I prefer Chei because a lot of transmuter damage is based off of stats, and Chei will let you swim in stats if you can deal with the slowness (basically once you get blade hands online he gives you +20 damage on your fists).

For stats I put stats into int until I get to 15 and then keep strength and dex about the same (they are useful for different forms).

[VeryAngryFelid]

For stats with Chei I always pick Int. There is step down for Dex after 24 and you don't need Str higher than 23 or so either. Int is useful because you can get spells faster and at higher spell power.