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Hi All,
Finally achieved first win, in Vanilla 3.2 with High Elf, Rogue, after about 5 months trying.
I had excellent luck. I decided to go for as clean a win as possible, and so did not stair scum in the early levels, which I had taken to doing as after many deaths bored of them. I was rewarded with finding Careth Asdriag at cl15, dl15, first time on the level. With that I pressed on down to dl20 looking for the basic resistances, and fairly soon found Arvedui, Dal-I-thalion, a rod of healing, and then an amulet of WeaponMastery. I pressed on down as far as I dared, not stopping to max stats.
Most enjoyable was cleaning out a Demon pit with a Scythe of Slicing of *Slay Demon*.
Towards the end, I had to bail out from fights with various high level uniques such as Sauron and Cantoras, until I found more artifacts to improve melee and rearranged artifacts to maximise hp. I went into battle with Morgoth with 3 *healings*, 3 healings & 2 rods of healing, which turned out to be exactly right amount. As in my last encounter things got a bit sticky when he summonsed too many helpers. I teleported myself out, and let him catchup with me for a further whacking.
I'd say 3.2 is easier than previous versions, and much easier than moria... but in a good way - plenty of interest, different techniques to try, but not months of grind. Great game, thx to maintainers, & for running this site.
Finally achieved first win, in Vanilla 3.2 with High Elf, Rogue, after about 5 months trying.
I had excellent luck. I decided to go for as clean a win as possible, and so did not stair scum in the early levels, which I had taken to doing as after many deaths bored of them. I was rewarded with finding Careth Asdriag at cl15, dl15, first time on the level. With that I pressed on down to dl20 looking for the basic resistances, and fairly soon found Arvedui, Dal-I-thalion, a rod of healing, and then an amulet of WeaponMastery. I pressed on down as far as I dared, not stopping to max stats.
Most enjoyable was cleaning out a Demon pit with a Scythe of Slicing of *Slay Demon*.
Towards the end, I had to bail out from fights with various high level uniques such as Sauron and Cantoras, until I found more artifacts to improve melee and rearranged artifacts to maximise hp. I went into battle with Morgoth with 3 *healings*, 3 healings & 2 rods of healing, which turned out to be exactly right amount. As in my last encounter things got a bit sticky when he summonsed too many helpers. I teleported myself out, and let him catchup with me for a further whacking.
I'd say 3.2 is easier than previous versions, and much easier than moria... but in a good way - plenty of interest, different techniques to try, but not months of grind. Great game, thx to maintainers, & for running this site.
, I'm going to hang up my boots for the summer - was spending too much time on this, and needed to get a win so I could stop (for a bit). I used high elf rogue as thought that would work in melee style, but taking advantage of monster detection and find treasure spells. If I come back to this in the winter, I'd like to go for a faster win using more of stealth/deep dive & missile, probably still using rogue, but maybe human.
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