Lair Larrikin
Posts: 15
Joined: Tuesday, 25th December 2018, 06:20
YAVP - 1st win and now 2nd win with Wanderer with 4 runes
I think I was a bit biased that I needed to use a magic user on earlier attempts due to my experience and first victories on other old school roguelikes, such as ADOM with casters. I am also used to casters being overpowered in this genre.
I ended up winning with the opposite with what I normally play in these kinds of games with no magic whatsoever and just seven attempts with this build as a Minotaur Berserker. Victory summary attached.
I am really digging the design of this game since even though I won, I feel that I have a lot to learn and a lot to explore. I think more games just have modular victory conditions like this.
I think this run was a bit lucky and unlucky at the same time, and I don't know why I ended up killing around a dozen or so orbs of fires. I ended up getting a lot of bad mutations and I even had more, but I used potions of mutation. I should really run.
Is it just me being lucky or is the escape ascension a bit anticlimatic? I didn't run into anything I couldn't kill easily or run away from. The only scary end game part was the orbs of fire. This was my first time to Zotz, and I made it to the orb and won with a basic 3 rune victory.
Would the next step be trying to win with 4-5 runes with slime pits, abyss or crypts? There's also hell and much more, but I think baby steps first.
For those curious, I was trying to win as an ice elementalist or wizard draconian earlier before I swapped to this setup. I had little success and only managed a single rune.