Re: CiP: DEWz Attempt number 81
Posted: Tuesday, 24th June 2014, 03:29
Hurkyl wrote:Yes, you must respect death yaks: they are not a monster to take lightly!
I too have had the experience that they die frustratingly slowly to Freezing Cloud. Fortunately, that character was a mummy, and was spamming infinite butterflies to keep the Yaks from moving closer to me.
Although from the log, it sounds like your problem was more that you got overwhelmed by a crowd of monsters, rather than simply getting beat down by the death yaks: I think the only character I've played that had a change with such a fight at that stage in the game (assuming everything isn't lined up perfectly for Fireball spamming) is a MuWz of Sif, and that's mainly due to the lack of hunger costs so that I can afford to channel enough MP to spam infinitely many Mephitic Clouds while still blasting everything.
And Death Yaks resist MC often enough that it still probably would have forced my mummies to retreat.
Hunger considerations were an issue for me, too. No gourmand to help out.
The RNG is so parsimonious and fickle that I find myself being ultra-conservative with everything at my disposal, worried that to use it up is to lose it forever. I won't (usually) read a scroll to ID it for fear of wasting it. That works in my favor when I find something like the scroll of acquirement he had, which he wasn't ready for, or the Brand Weapon scroll. No potion drinking, either. Those two Blink scrolls? They were the only two he'd found in all the levels he visited. Really, I didn't use one.
I should have, right then. But I was so accustomed to not doing so.
<sigh>
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