Mines Malingerer
Posts: 39
Joined: Friday, 8th July 2011, 17:55
CIP: not your typical HEWz
been playing crawl for a few months and watching people play online trying to learn,my first wins have been:
MDDK of yred/lugonu/jiyva 3 runes (barely made it)
HaHu of Okawaku 5 runes (easy win slinging everything with steel+silver bullets)
DDEE of Elyvilon 8 runes (would of tried 15 runes but got mutated to much and called it a day,Ely is so underrated)
so ive been wanting to play a nuking mage for a while after watching all those pros pwning ziggurats with their tornados and icefire stroms,i want to abuse tornado at least once before it gets nerfed to oblivion in 0.9 but all my HECj have splatted horribly,cant deal with the low HP and crappy defenses.
switching from HECj to HEWz really improved my survivability and i finally got a great char going on.
found a very early dagger of venom and just spammed imps + poison to pwn the early game,worshipped vehumet but since i had higher summoning skill he only gave me the summoning books DOH!
summon demon + meph cloud + poison cloud made the orc mines,elven halls,swamp and shoals a cake walk.
so i just found these manuals of FIGHTING and SHIELDs lying around and i got 2 choices now:
1-do i switch to a melee crusader type with demon spam?
or
2-amnesia all my summoning related skills and start victory dancing my air/ice/fire skills so i can finally be a regular squishy mage with tornado abuse?
or
3-ignore the -1 summoning aptitute and just go balls out nuts summoning horrible things and tentacles,i got wizardry and can already cast the lv7 summoning at excelent.
other notes:
*got tons of enchant weapon scrolls and branded swords lying around,including crazy yuif chaos staff,is it worth it?
*none of my 20+ books has swiftness + flight =(
*i have full fire and ice inmunity,but no Rmut,should i still try going to hell/abyss?