Monday, 27th February 2012, 07:50 by lazylink
Prepare for a tale. I cleared out the Crypts with some difficulty. Even with Dispel Undead it usually took 2-3 spells to kill the skeletal warriors! Not to the mention the bone dragons, which usually take 75% of my MP to kill. I had to fight Khufu and his mummies and he hit hard, had to use a scroll of blinking to live. Final level of the Crypt was easy since I went very slow and had a lot of stealth. I trained up my Air Magic to about 12, but by then I saw that I would never learn Tornado in time, so I started training up Conjurations.
I was completely unprepared for Vault 8, I had no idea that I would be surrounded by enemies like that. I had to go back and memorize the "Intoxication" spell and by that time they had crowded the stairs and I had to do some stair dancing and blinking to survive. After I cleared the stairs it was fairly easy. Shadow dragons didn't cause much trouble because I put on my rN+ amulet whenever I saw one.
Then it was onto Zot. I only faced 1 orb of fire in Zot:1-4, and I was fairly prepared for them with rf++ and resist mutation amulet. I think one pack of draconians put me below 50%, but overall I used Venom Bolt a lot, which worked wonders in the corridors!
In Zot 5 by far the hardest challenge was Tiamat. First time I faced him I took out a lot of his guards but had to run away. Lucky for me, the stairs down were far apart from each other, if they weren't I would have been finished for sure. After I rested and came back I cleared out the non-static chambers of Zot 5 and I realized that Tiamat had run off to the static section of the dungeon. That was bad. But I went slowly and surely, luring out monsters one at a time. Orb Guardians were no threat at all with Poison Arrow I killed them in 2-3 hits. By now Conjurations was maxed at 27 (I don't know if that was a mistake) and I started training Necromancy to handle undead easier (can someone PLEASE tell me how to handle Bone Dragons??? They have so much HP!). When I spotted an orb of fire I stepped back, hasted myself, and then shot orbs of destructions, making sure that I exposed myself as little as possible. Using this method I only had to use one cure mutation potion. Then I faced Tiamat. It was truly a battle of battles. I kept throwing orb after orb but he took them like a champ, and I had to quaff a Magic potion to finish him off! My reward was a +4 dragonskin cloak! It's weird though, in the game it doesn't actually tell you what the cloak does and in your character information the cloak doesn't affect any of your stats, but according to the wiki it massively improves all of your resistances. I think it should say in the game exactly what the cloak does, if anything at all! After that fight the rest of the chamber was easy as long as I went slowly and recharged by mana after each fight.
After that I gathered by healing potions, and charged my wand of digging for the trip to the surface. I was lucky enough to face a pandemonium lord on D21, and I immediately hit teleport, but he still got off a torment spell which hurt a lot. My teleport was good and I quickly got out of there. There was one time I was surrounded by some weak monsters but I blasted myself out. With lots of uses of wand of digging, getting to the surface to pretty easy, and I finally got my first win!
I really enjoyed this character, it seems like spellcasters are stronger and a bit more fun than fighters, for me anyway. My next character will be the same, and I'll use what I learned to get more runes. Thanks everybody for the advice, I would never have won without it!
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