Friday, 4th April 2014, 14:31 by Lasty
Blarg, lost a on-paper-promising character. I had cleared Shoals, had a +4/+6 great sword of elec, MDA and all slots filled, much of it with decent stuff, good rings . . . but the character felt weirdly fragile. Even with +4 acc weapon and ~15 Fighting and 18 LBl skill, I still missed even non-evasive targets constantly.
Worse, Vault:1 stairs got swamped by 2x vault wardens, 2x convokers, and a bunch of other nasties, making going back into vaults near-suicidal (in retrospect, maybe random teleport would have been a good choice). Spider:4 had Mara positioned such that I couldn't reasonably get past him and still have a safe retreat path, and Mara refused to die to stacks of Summon Greater Demon.
So, after clearing Depths:1 (not that bad, actually), I decided that the next best thing I could do was to clear Elf. Okay, probably not the best idea, and I probably should have left well enough alone after just barely escaping from a Hell Sentinel flinging hellfire at me. But I didn't. And so, 3/4ths of the elf deathchamber later, I find myself going toe-to-toe with a master archer. I'm at full health, I have Repel Missiles up, I've got a decent stock of consumables, and mostly elves have been going down pretty easy once I'm toe-to-toe. Edit: Even dual-ego-blade blademasters weren't much of an issue, and they have 10 more EV /EDIT. Five swings later, I've got it at about 50% health and it has done almost no damage to me. Then it hits me for 1/5th of my health. I swing again, and it does it again. And again. I was playing too fast and didn't realize what was happening until I was at > 50% health. I drank healing, and the elf promptly unhealed me and took some extra hp to boot. I drank agility, and another 30 hp was gone. At this point I was desperate, and I tried curing, and took another 21 damage, just enough to kill me.
Based on all my previous experience, a +4/+6 great sword and 18/15 LBl/Fighting is a pretty accurate and effective killing tool, and 30/24 or so defenses are pretty solid defenses. I'm really confused about why this character felt so weak and squishy, and why that elf suddenly turned into a badass and shredded my face off. Could it have been an absurdly long string of bad rolls? It seems improbable.
Ah well. Tournament's over for me, and I feel like I could have posted a better showing, but I think I've still got a shot at winning Div III.
Thanks for organizing this tournament, WalkerBoh!
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Lasty on Friday, 4th April 2014, 14:49, edited 1 time in total.
The biggest problem was/is burnout and I see that I was not the only one who struggled with the game. All in all, playing should be fun, not hard work. As ackack already mentioned, 15-runner per week is rather a mixture of both.
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) then in postwin euphoria, I rolled and killed 2 VpAE's in quick succession. I just can't get the hang of low HP races, unless it's something sturdy like VS.