Pandemonium Purger
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Saturday, 27th June 2015, 01:54
O to Mad-dash for the Sword of Cerebov (and use it well)
Quest
By the time people are 'prepared' to do Pan, they usually have a weapon as good or better than Cerebov's. It would be interesting, though, to have his sword as your main weapon for a large chunk of the game. The only way I see to make Sword of Cerebov useful is to get it relatively early. The earlier the better, but no special rules, so all branches are 'allowed', and clearing D/L/O is a given. In order to do this, a character must be able to:
1) survive encounters in Depths
2) travel across many Pan floors
3) kill Cerebov without dunking him in lava
The last goal is the most interesting one. What is the single reliable way for a severely underpowered character to destroy the game's single toughest monster? Oklob farms, so Fedhas is a given. If you carry a good number of fruit into Cerebov's domain, I assume you can pre-emptively celebrate his demise. Any character than can survive Pan can survive Depths, so let's examine viable species.
Thoughts? I haven't tried it. This is pre-emptive speculation.
By the time people are 'prepared' to do Pan, they usually have a weapon as good or better than Cerebov's. It would be interesting, though, to have his sword as your main weapon for a large chunk of the game. The only way I see to make Sword of Cerebov useful is to get it relatively early. The earlier the better, but no special rules, so all branches are 'allowed', and clearing D/L/O is a given. In order to do this, a character must be able to:
1) survive encounters in Depths
2) travel across many Pan floors
3) kill Cerebov without dunking him in lava
The last goal is the most interesting one. What is the single reliable way for a severely underpowered character to destroy the game's single toughest monster? Oklob farms, so Fedhas is a given. If you carry a good number of fruit into Cerebov's domain, I assume you can pre-emptively celebrate his demise. Any character than can survive Pan can survive Depths, so let's examine viable species.
- DD damage shaving and passive mapping significantly facilitates shuttling through Pan levels, plus they never need to wait to regen like other races. You have to start off as a Necromancer, which is okay, you just won't be animating corpses.
- DS mutations can potentially take a lot of sting out of Depths/Pan.
- Ce has high speed, so it should have an easier time running from stuff in Pan.
- Mf/Op are aquatic, but you probably can't spam Fedhas powers in Pan, so - whatever.
- HE has good aptitudes for skills you want to train eventually (fire, charms, long blades...), but that might not help with the pre-Cerebov part of the game very much, depending on what you manage to find.
- Te has good aptitudes too, and also doesn't mind water, but again - whatever.
- Some Dr develop a minor benefit that may help survive Depths/Pan.
- VS regenerates so quickly that they never have to wait around for long, and can train stealth to very levels by mid-game, but Pan can kill you very quickly regardless.
- HO/DE/Tr/Mi/Ko/Og/Hu/Na/Fo/Gr/Ha don't seem to profer any particular suitability for this quest.
- Mu/Gh/Vp/Dg can't worship Fedhas.
- Sp/Ha/Ko/Fe can't wield great swords.
Thoughts? I haven't tried it. This is pre-emptive speculation.
