Halls Hopper
Posts: 58
Joined: Saturday, 15th January 2011, 07:47
Necro challenge
win a pure necromancer with no allies: pain, corpse rot, sublimation of blood, vampiric draining, dispel undead, agony, borgnjor's revivification, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
I love a good challenge, but I've killed about 100 so far and only managed a couple of runes. Stuff I've learnt:
- Go centaur: kiting is the only way you'll live. Bugger the apts.
- Zombie bats: These are killers before you get Kiku***. Yes, you can ignore the damage, but they will be the thing that prevents your escape from the ogre/orc warrior/Harold/etc.
- Go Kiku: you need the spells.
- Go Kiku (2): And early. You only notice how full of zombies the dungeon is when can't kill them. It starts becoming really hard when you have to wait until D:8 to find the Kiku altar and all the levels above you are crawling with them. And then you've got levels and levels of wights to herd before you get to ***.
- Go Kiku (3): You need corpses to power corpse rot; you need corpse rot for everything 'cos you've got nothing else
- The orc undead entry vault is the worst.
- Trying to get Kiku*** in lair is too hard. Pain/Vamp draining isn't powerful enough to take down big HP sacks quickly, and all the resting you have to do decays your piety. Do orc instead (if you can get in).
- Corpse rot is an underrated spell. It will take out wandering mushrooms when nothing else will.
- Gas spores: You can't kill them, you can't kill the ballistomytes. Your level is now full of spores. Have a nice day.
- The level above is full of imps you parked there. The level below is full of orc sorcerers.
- A freed slave just killed Grinder - the best thing!
- I just found: the +2,+9 long sword of Demonkind {pain, rElec rC+ SInv} I *almost* became a proper necro with charms but I didn't. And then I died.
- Learn to herd zombies. Shut them behind doors. There are never enough doors. Wights open doors.
- Mimics are also the worst. Not even corpse rot works. You don't even have bone shards.
- The conjuration challenge is easier.