Rungie the Gnome Mage

[jgbrowning]

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

joe b.

[jgbrowning]

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

joe b.

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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.

[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]

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.

[jgbrowning]

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

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]

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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.