Frot (HT Paladin) DAR

[chknflyrice]

Picked up an artifact trident off of the Ant Queen (might be the first time I have ever had her drop an artifact for me? cant remember) *slay* dragon and demon, slay animal, and gives me poison gas and nether resistance..... ill take it nd happily.

[chknflyrice]

Medium vault on a 6-9 feeling. I can see a Great Storm Wyrm that is about 20 levels ood and an acient blue dragon so that's not so bad but I don't have any charges left in my To. It looks like the vault is split into 4 parts by walls so I am going to try and clear the other 3 parts and leave the GSW for last. I might be able to kite him out and phase around till I can teleport away then come around the back side.

Kite successful. Went straight for him lest my limited supply of PD or TS get used up in the other fighting. He is safely out of the vault and I'm in.... lets see what we get.

Ok. A nice shield with FA and +2 DEX which frees up my hands for something better when it comes along and a SOS of extra attacks (+10+15) <+2>. Boots of speed as well but only +5 but seeing that its the only speed boost I have I will take it gladly.

[Grotug]

Good luck! Maybe post some photos of your shenanigans with the G-Storm Wyrm.

[chknflyrice]

Good luck! Maybe post some photos of your shenanigans with the G-Storm Wyrm.

I thought about it but I don't know how to post larger pictures on here. Every time I do they are too small to really see. By the way it was, actually, a shenanigan because I lured him away then TS but the only way to get back to the vault was to tunnel through a lot of granite to come around the backside. He eventually got back to me but I had already cleared out the vault.

[Pete Mack]

The pics are big enough when you click on them, otherwise, they only show as a thumbnail.

[chknflyrice]

Here is one that I tried before and even when I clicked on them the words were illegible.

I don't know if I should put the img into paint to "blow" it up or what but for me it is way too small to see even after clicking the thumbnail.

[Patashu]

That image is too small for me, even after expanding.

What I do is:

1) Use alt+print screen, which copies a screenshot of the current window to my clipboard.
2) Paste it into any paint program (MS Paint, Paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop, etc. are all ok) and save it. (If you want to crop just part of the screen, do that here. Or consider using a tool that makes this easier, like Windows's "Clipping Tool")
3) Upload the saved image to http://imgur.com/ .
4) Once it's uploaded, copy the direct link to the image and post that.

[Grotug]

I do the same thing, but I use blogger.com to upload the images and then link them here.

[Pete Mack]

Yeah, I can just barely make that out. But there's also a screen dump feature on this site. It works with the ) command, IIRC.

[chknflyrice]

Finally got ahold of a greater vault and it was one of the one square checker board ones with a 9-9 level feeling. Had plenty of TO but I really don't like leaving a unique that I can fight especially if I know that I can so easily control the parameters of the engagement. So Lungorthin, Balrog of Moria, and Cantoras fall without too much fuss but had to TO Haun and Gothmog. There is sooooo much stuff in this vault. 7 artifacts and about a dozen ego items that presented a real problem for me.... what do I take.

So here comes one of my favorite parts. Hauling it all back up and sitting down and optimizing my gear.

So not too bad. After sorting and swapping around I have it set like I want. I now have all resists that matter (except nether that I have to stat swap for confusion), +18 speed and a beautiful artifact pike Galor (3d5) (+13+23) <+2>, +2 attack speed, slays trolls, giants, *slay* demons, dragon, and branded with acid and fire (not weak). 639 damage with the slay and brands and 793 for the *slay*. And it gives me chaos res.

About to read these three DD and see what happens.

[chknflyrice]

Dead.

A series of unfortunate events. Knocked down the outside wall to clear a vault and I got summoned first a Q and then by a titan into a room with about 15 plasma hounds. TS failed and I got knocked out instantly. What a disappointing and useless death. I should have read MB the second that I saw the hounds.

[Grotug]

Awww, sorry to hear it. No RNG love! Just think of all the great adventures you'll have in your next run, and the great loot you'll find.

[chknflyrice]

Going to take a break from the warriors for a bit me thinks. Priest sounds good.

[Pete Mack]

Try rogue. Very high stealth makes a huge difference. An endgame rogue can achieve legendary stealth, which is essentially a form of 0-fail. Throw in detect monsters and detect objects, and you have a winning combination. Only mage has better control of his environment, and he has other problems.

[chknflyrice]

Ok Pete. Started a HE rouge "Lastil". Put 6 in str, 6 in dex, and 8 in con.
LVL 12 at the moment and nothing interesting has happened but did get Thengel off of Wormtounge and a decent ego trident off of Maggot so that's not too bad for a start.