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With everyone talking about ironman priest, I felt the itch to play one myself. A while ago, I lost 2 promising starts to lack of phase door scrolls in the middle game.
This time around, I had 2 attempts who didnt make it to orb level (one got ambushed by a half orc on dlvl 2!). I also varied the start; one bought a magic crossbow, bolts and not much else. In principle this approach can work, but it would have to be a sling; it just takes too long till bolts (or arrows) start to appear commonly. In the end, I bought a mace, book 1, lots of food (being a troll), a few torches and a huge stack of ?phase.
Maggot kindly gave me his magic warhammer, which was upgraded by a defender axe <+4> from Brodda. This was discarded in favour of a magic pick when I had FA and SI covered elsewhere and found book 3.
The first vault I cleared was the hardest; with no teleport other, I had to lure various nasties away, by running away, detecting and guessing their progress towwards me, then using portal to hopefully approach the vault from a safe side and out of range of the nasties. When I finally had killed the last inhabitant and entered the hall of treasures, the first thing I stepped on was an unidentified scroll which I foolishly read. It destructed everything.
Level 52 had the vault that made the game; a cloak with fire immunity and an armor with cold immunity meant that my consumables were safe now.
I was wielding a shortbow (x2) that gave me +4 wisdom and no ammo; Then I found the ultimate priest boots which let me discard wisdom amulets. I picked up a stack of holy might shots and replaced the bow with a sling, upgrading eventually to a Buckland +2. By level 90 I was ready for the final bosses, but I kept clearing the remaining vaults on the way down in the hopes of finding either a good melee weapon or more good shots for the sling. I found neither, but my consumables kept stacking up to ridiculous levels. In the end, I fought Sauron with my sword - it has a bit of acid damage - and shot Morgoth to death with the sling.
With fire immunity, burnable consumables were never a problem - except for phase door scrolls. Even protected, I had to use them sparingly before I found book 5 which made them obsolete. I still think they should be more frequent; it makes little sense that ?phase is a cheap commodity for anyone but ironman fighters and green casters, for whom they turn into the bottleneck for survival.
This time around, I had 2 attempts who didnt make it to orb level (one got ambushed by a half orc on dlvl 2!). I also varied the start; one bought a magic crossbow, bolts and not much else. In principle this approach can work, but it would have to be a sling; it just takes too long till bolts (or arrows) start to appear commonly. In the end, I bought a mace, book 1, lots of food (being a troll), a few torches and a huge stack of ?phase.
Maggot kindly gave me his magic warhammer, which was upgraded by a defender axe <+4> from Brodda. This was discarded in favour of a magic pick when I had FA and SI covered elsewhere and found book 3.
The first vault I cleared was the hardest; with no teleport other, I had to lure various nasties away, by running away, detecting and guessing their progress towwards me, then using portal to hopefully approach the vault from a safe side and out of range of the nasties. When I finally had killed the last inhabitant and entered the hall of treasures, the first thing I stepped on was an unidentified scroll which I foolishly read. It destructed everything.
Level 52 had the vault that made the game; a cloak with fire immunity and an armor with cold immunity meant that my consumables were safe now.
I was wielding a shortbow (x2) that gave me +4 wisdom and no ammo; Then I found the ultimate priest boots which let me discard wisdom amulets. I picked up a stack of holy might shots and replaced the bow with a sling, upgrading eventually to a Buckland +2. By level 90 I was ready for the final bosses, but I kept clearing the remaining vaults on the way down in the hopes of finding either a good melee weapon or more good shots for the sling. I found neither, but my consumables kept stacking up to ridiculous levels. In the end, I fought Sauron with my sword - it has a bit of acid damage - and shot Morgoth to death with the sling.
With fire immunity, burnable consumables were never a problem - except for phase door scrolls. Even protected, I had to use them sparingly before I found book 5 which made them obsolete. I still think they should be more frequent; it makes little sense that ?phase is a cheap commodity for anyone but ironman fighters and green casters, for whom they turn into the bottleneck for survival.
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