Complete N00b's Journey: The Series
Posted: Saturday, 9th February 2019, 09:55
Hello everybody. This is a n00b who was recommended to play this free game by the denizens of r/rogeulikes to play this game due to my preferences. Below is my resume:
Outstanding Nethack experience: Managed to ascend every role at least once in 3.4.3, and still have an excellent playing record in the 3.6 versions
Exceeds Expectations ADOM experience: Achieved several ultra endings back when it was free and before Steam came into the scene. Haven't played the Steam version due to pricing though.
Acceptable experience with ZAP'M: Won a couple of games, but I got bored of that real fast.
Acceptable experience with Rogue: The deepest I got was level 16 I think.
Poor experience with PRIME: Haven't made it into the robot town.
So now I am delving deep into DC:SS under a series titled "Complete N00b's Journey" where I pick a character at random, and hope for the best, because that is just what I do and random generation is my thing. In my first try, I picked a random character in hints mode in 0.22 after completing the tutorial, since I was getting to know the game. The resulting character, Buen the Deep Elf Conjurer, got pretty far, until he got splatted by an ancient Lich that Banished him to Abyss:5 in 2 turns with a 6% chance of success. Needless to say, Buen met a swift end. Take a look at r/dcss to see how the mistakes that I made in the journey. So without further ado, I am starting another character anew in version 0.23. In this series that I am starting, the number before the hyphen signifies the attempt that I am playing, and the number after the hyphen signifies the goal that I have finished. With the first character's journey all logged in r/dcss, I bring you:
Complete N00b's Journey: Character #2
The RNG has given me Reloff, a Centaur Ice Elementalist. The first goal for this guy is to get to the Ecumenical Temple, and try to get into the circle of Vehumet or Sif Muna, since this is a caster. So it looks like I should be playing this as a warrior mage, where the warrior part is mostly focused on ranged attacks?
Here's my battle plan on how to survive until I get to the Temple:
Focus on training Fighting, Dodging, Spellcasting, and Ice Magic (emphasis) skills on manual mode.
Use all point improvements on Intelligence since this is a caster.
Don't try on Rings or jewelry at this point, since you don't know when you'll get a source of curse removal.
Pick up the first ranged weapon that you find in order to cover the weakness that the starting Freeze spell is close range. If I find a good ego weapon (venom, draining, electrocution), I keep it on me for a while and *maybe* train it if it is a bow.
Any tips to help this character are appreciated!
Outstanding Nethack experience: Managed to ascend every role at least once in 3.4.3, and still have an excellent playing record in the 3.6 versions
Exceeds Expectations ADOM experience: Achieved several ultra endings back when it was free and before Steam came into the scene. Haven't played the Steam version due to pricing though.
Acceptable experience with ZAP'M: Won a couple of games, but I got bored of that real fast.
Acceptable experience with Rogue: The deepest I got was level 16 I think.
Poor experience with PRIME: Haven't made it into the robot town.
So now I am delving deep into DC:SS under a series titled "Complete N00b's Journey" where I pick a character at random, and hope for the best, because that is just what I do and random generation is my thing. In my first try, I picked a random character in hints mode in 0.22 after completing the tutorial, since I was getting to know the game. The resulting character, Buen the Deep Elf Conjurer, got pretty far, until he got splatted by an ancient Lich that Banished him to Abyss:5 in 2 turns with a 6% chance of success. Needless to say, Buen met a swift end. Take a look at r/dcss to see how the mistakes that I made in the journey. So without further ado, I am starting another character anew in version 0.23. In this series that I am starting, the number before the hyphen signifies the attempt that I am playing, and the number after the hyphen signifies the goal that I have finished. With the first character's journey all logged in r/dcss, I bring you:
Complete N00b's Journey: Character #2
The RNG has given me Reloff, a Centaur Ice Elementalist. The first goal for this guy is to get to the Ecumenical Temple, and try to get into the circle of Vehumet or Sif Muna, since this is a caster. So it looks like I should be playing this as a warrior mage, where the warrior part is mostly focused on ranged attacks?
Here's my battle plan on how to survive until I get to the Temple:
Focus on training Fighting, Dodging, Spellcasting, and Ice Magic (emphasis) skills on manual mode.
Use all point improvements on Intelligence since this is a caster.
Don't try on Rings or jewelry at this point, since you don't know when you'll get a source of curse removal.
Pick up the first ranged weapon that you find in order to cover the weakness that the starting Freeze spell is close range. If I find a good ego weapon (venom, draining, electrocution), I keep it on me for a while and *maybe* train it if it is a bow.
Any tips to help this character are appreciated!