Fun with half-trolls

[Timo Pietilä]

As for +9 STL/Speed artifacts for a half-troll... That's a legendary combination from RGRA by the legendary player Cliff Stamp. If you have it, use it. It's the only way to get truly epic wins. (As in: 85K turn win for NPP H-T Ranger.)

Note to those that don't know Cliff achievement. That is game turns, not player turns. Truly legendary.

[Pete Mack]

I dunno. I still like the classic Quickband message:

The Baby blue dragon dies
Welcome to level 2
Welcome to level 3
Welcome to level 4
Welcome to level 5
Welcome to level 6
Welcome to level 7
Welcome to level 8
Welcome to level 9

Of course, that doesn't compare to FA thrall mode:

The Vrock dies
Welcome to level 2
...

As for +9 STL/Speed artifacts for a half-troll... That's a legendary combination from RGRA by the legendary player Cliff Stamp. If you have it, use it. It's the only way to get truly epic wins. (As in: 85K turn win for NPP H-T Ranger.)

[Derakon]

Okay, I'm just gonna tack this onto this thread instead of making a new one.

This character has been ridiculously lucky. Let's recap:

Mughash dropped randart boots of +9 speed/stealth, at around dlvl 12 or so. IMO any item with speed modifiers greater than +5 should not modify any other stats. Stealthy trolls are weird.

I've found two randart launchers. One gives +5 speed, the other gives +2 shots and is a heavy crossbow.

I have a randart shield with combat boosts, +2 speed, and basic resists + fear -- perfect for a warrior.

I already have 4 potions of Healing and 9 potions of Speed.

And this is all by 1800' (I went down right before recalling), and in only 25k turns! I kinda feel like I shouldn't play this guy any more since what little challenge there was in the early/mid game (for warriors) has been basically obliterated. About the only annoying thing he's had to deal with so far is a lack of trap detection -- I only got a -TrapLocation at the end of the previous dive. Uvatha also showed up at 1600', which was an interesting but doable challenge.

I guess the alternative to abandoning him is to chain-read all those ?DeepDescent and toss him down to 2800'.

Oh, and fizzix: personally, I prefer getting my levels from multiple kills, because it's harder to do.

[fizzix]

I prefer:

The flask of oil breaks
You have slaing Grip, Farmer Maggot's Dog
Welcome to level 2
Welcome to level 3
Welcome to level 4

Happens to me about once every 6 games or so. Then again there's the guy who got 32 levels with his first kill.

[Derakon]

You hit the Salamander.
You have slain the Salamander.
Welcome to level 2.
The Kobold shaman hits you.
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***
You hit the Kobold shaman.
You have slain the Kobold shaman.
Welcome to level 3.
You see a Scroll titled "or gaiens cus".
You have a Scroll titled "or gaiens cus" (g).
You hit the Kobold shaman.
You have slain the Kobold shaman.
Welcome to level 4.

Sadly, I ran out of high-value targets to kill after that. But three levels in three kills seems pretty good to me! I'm dealing 13.3 damage/blow at 2 blows/round, thanks to a (+2, +2) warhammer that Farmer Maggot dropped.