sooooo close

[seraph]

closest i've ever been to killing morgoth, or even getting a sil. any advise for next time would be appreciated. in particular, why did morgoth's accuracy go up 20 points over the course of the fight?

[seraph]

didn't post the picture? but here's the link: https://imgur.com/gallery/ddIXHo0

and the character dump: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=24968

[HugoVirtuoso]

That's an awful lot of Unrelenting Horrors. You should look at my Sil-Q videos (i.e. my signature) on YouTube of my aggresive approach to fighting the version 1.5.0 Morgoth. Obviously although I failed many times, I successfully killed him the one time I won a recent Sil Q 1.5.0 compo two months ago.

See this:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=24851

[Quirk]

At 53 evasion with double free action I'm going to call that death somewhat unlucky. That said, getting a Sil is way easier than killing Morgoth. He gets harder to kill the closer he is to dying. If you want to crack a couple of Sils from the crown and run you get the classic ascent with him chasing you and I feel you could very definitely have managed that.

Rapid Attack might have upped your damage enough to take Morgoth down. Vengeance has its merits also. I don't know if you were at full health when you got hit, if not Miruvor would have been a good move, but in general you were defensively pretty solid and would have shrugged off pretty much everything but a desperate final phase Morgoth.

[seraph]

At 53 evasion with double free action I'm going to call that death somewhat unlucky. That said, getting a Sil is way easier than killing Morgoth. He gets harder to kill the closer he is to dying. If you want to crack a couple of Sils from the crown and run you get the classic ascent with him chasing you and I feel you could very definitely have managed that.

Rapid Attack might have upped your damage enough to take Morgoth down. Vengeance has its merits also. I don't know if you were at full health when you got hit, if not Miruvor would have been a good move, but in general you were defensively pretty solid and would have shrugged off pretty much everything but a desperate final phase Morgoth.

technically, i had 50 evasion; strength in adversity kicked in after i died lol.

it probably would have been a good strategy to kill everything else first. then i could at least do dodging and flanking and not have other things break concentration, and maybe get some more xp.

[DrWho42]

[Thraalbee]

I thought being in a pit greatly lowers your defense.
At least in the older releases. And you seems to have perished while in a pit

[wobbly]

I thought being in a pit greatly lowers your defense.
At least in the older releases. And you seems to have perished while in a pit

It does, but you can see the charge message from staff of freedom between being pitted and dying.

Its a big help if you don't get pushed into the corner like that. You're less likely to fall into a pit and you'd have another +3 from dodge. I see !con still in inventory, I'm guessing you got screwed by the timing of events. Sometimes I like to pre-buff with !quick to avoid situations where you have to do multiple things at once. Having to heal and haste, or haste and freedom, or ...

With that little armour you need to be con buffed, as you saw he can still one-shot you when he reaches full buff.

[NotMorgoth]

In a lot of these Sil character dumps, I see artifacts made by the player that "make you encounter more dangerous creatures even when not worn".

Is this something from an earlier version that is no longer possible in 1.5? I can't see how an item would get this in the smithing menu.

[Quirk]

It used to be possible to stack curses on artifacts you had created to get more smithing points. By Sil 1.3 most of the curses did not give you points because they could be used on items that would only be worn when smithing, at which point the drawback scarcely mattered.

Danger remained as a curse with a drawback that did count for something even when not worn. However, stacking danger on all your items essentially maxed out its effects and so let you bypass the drawback to some extent while still getting the benefits.

As of 1.5, to the best of my recollection, all curses do reduce smithing cost on enchanted items but you can no longer deliberately add them to your own artifacts.

[NotMorgoth]

Yes, I can see that cursed items like "of blight" are still available under the enchantment menu, and the danger ability is still available on weapons of the Feanorians, but these are not available on artifacts.

It is still possible to put stat penalties on artifacts, but these don't appear to reduce the smithing cost, so maybe they are redundant like the curses.