Rungie the Gnome Mage

[jgbrowning]

Thanks for all the help guys. I first played Angband back in '94 and I never managed to win. I started up again last year and won once (but via reloading against Morgoth) and this is my first real win.

Time to pick the next character...

joe b.

[Timo Pietilä]

Congrats!

And Disenchantment does do damage; IIRC the damage cap for it is 400.

500. Big four = shards, disenchantment, chaos and sound do 500 (law+chaos = balance dragon combo), Nether does 550. Rest I think are either 400 if you can get resist or 200 if you can't.

Chaos prevents hallucination, and I think mind blast can cause that if you don't have perfect saving throw.

[Derakon]

Congrats!

And Disenchantment does do damage; IIRC the damage cap for it is 400. But you're not likely to face it much; it's a pretty rare element. If you don't care about the side-effect (and mages generally don't), then it's not really worth worrying about.

[jgbrowning]

And I got him! Using over 20+ charges from wands of annihilation, 40+ charges from wands of teleport others, 20+ healing potions, 20+ mana potions.

I got him. And I never died! (my only other time killing Morgoth was by reloading when he killed me).

I did this one the right way!

Good 'ole little Rungie... the mage who ran away...

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

My big concern is that I haven't killed very many of the powerful uniques and I'm going to get overrun.

Well, here's goes!

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Sauron is dead! :-)

I'm doing much, much better than I thought I would. Now I have to try and figure out how to kill Morgoth. I'm thinking much like I did with Sauron, but bring all my potions.

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Hrm... probing Sauron says he can hit to disenchant... hafta be careful

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Actually, IIRC neither Sauron nor Morgoth throws disenchantment or chaos around, and anyway as a mage you don't give a hoot about disenchantment (beyond it potentially affecting your bow, but that's a long shot) because you aren't going to be doing much melee anyway.

Of course their summons are different stories, but again, you're a mage; if Banishment and Teleport Other won't do there's always Word of Destruction.

Disenchantment doesn't do damage? That's nice to know.

joe b.

[Derakon]

Actually, IIRC neither Sauron nor Morgoth throws disenchantment or chaos around, and anyway as a mage you don't give a hoot about disenchantment (beyond it potentially affecting your bow, but that's a long shot) because you aren't going to be doing much melee anyway.

Of course their summons are different stories, but again, you're a mage; if Banishment and Teleport Other won't do there's always Word of Destruction.

[jgbrowning]

Yay!!!!! Finally found it on level 96!

Now to level up a bit more (and hope for some chaos and disenchantment gear) before going after the big guy...

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Just realized I'm on level 92 and only seen one Kelek's. Wow....

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Still no Kelek's but at least I found Vilya! Damn book's rarer than a ring of power....

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Ah wouldn't you know... a Kelek's finally shows up in an undead pit on level 85 and I just used my last mass banish scroll the previous level... *sigh*

The fates are cruel in Angband....

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Why would you use a sling as a mage? Use your spells, it should be enough to kill anything...

I'm doing ok, but I'm missing the last book, so I don't have access to the really good spells yet. I keep looking...

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

Depends of the sling. Buckland slings can be rather mighty weapons. If you get both +2 shots and might you have x4 weapon with three shots with mage. With good ammo that beats pretty much any mage spell (if you can hit the target) and you save your mana for utility and emergency reset-battleground -spell (destruction).

Yeah, it's a +2 in both shots and might (and +5 dex).

joe b.