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YASD GhHu Spell-less MegaZig attempt (8th Zig)
I Just died stupidly during a spell-less mega-zig attempt.
Here is my morgue file
Though I'm a casual Crawl player, I was disappointed to read in the wiki that spell-less mega-zigging was "impossible".
Actually, I already achieved it locally by the past, before the removal of the disc of storms. So I was tempted to apply on a public server a new way to do it without the disc.
The way I found is the singing sword. It deals irresistible damages to every LOS target, and Makhleb appreciates its songs
The problem is : it's a far less common item than an old good disc of storms.
BUT, as all ziggurat raiders know, in the first few zigs, you collect almost every unrandart. I found the singing sword in the seventh (unlucky run, less than 20 unrandart were remaining) and it trivialized the following levels.
My strategy is the following :
- Ghoul (Torment/Rot/Mutation immunity, +10% HP, way of healing by eating chunks, may drink)
- 6 base Int, every other stat point go to Dex, to get a correct dodging score (24 Dex is a target). Str is generally naturally high enough to wear any armour.
- Axe mastery, for the first few zigs
- Throwing mastery, and a large supply of penetration/silver javelins
- Unarmed combat mastery, to single-target dangerous foes during zigs, while keeping a shield of weak monsters
- Worship Okawaru (to get javelins and artefacts) with a switch to Makhleb before mega-zigging
- Cloud immunity scarf to be protected against holy/chaos/petrifying dust clouds -> It protects against Cold clouds too and renders rC almost useless (in this run, I did a few zigs without rC at all)
- Amulet of the air to have a permanent RMsl
- As an optional bonus, the alchemist hat, for rMut, limiting stat drains.
- MR+++++ and rF+++ are mandatory, as rElec and rCorr
- A good shield (preferably of resistance), a good armour and dodging score, so it may mean some unrandart with nice +Stat bonus
- A +9 broad axe of freezing (or better Argua) until finding the singing sword
So how did I die ? :p
Stupidly, for sure ! Like I said, I'm a casual Crawl player, and wasn't prudent enough.
While I was fighting some acid blobs, a floating eye appeared. I tried to kill it with javelins, whereas I was already lightly corroded.
After 3 missed javelins and one unfruitful singing sword swing, I was paralysed 4 turns, during which I went helplessly from full life to death.
- I Should have drink a potion of cancellation to get rid of the light corrosion before throwing javelins.
- Or I should have used some eyes/azure jelly as shields while I claw the acid blobs one by bone : paralysis would have been far less dangerous while encircled by spheres of eyes than by 4 (almost dead) acid blobs
As a conclusion, I'm now pretty confident spell-less mega-zig can be achieved. I just wasn't yet the good candidate to do it.
Actually I was even surprised to win the 6 first zigs without the singing sword.
Hope the next attempt will be the good one, then I'll may try the same thing with living species
- For this message the author Flaz has received thanks: 5
- chequers, nago, Sorcerous, Stairdancer, VeryAngryFelid