Ironman priest tips?

[Pete Mack]

One thing very different from non-ironman: Suddenly scrolls of phase door become crazy valuable. Use them sparingly (for high value uniques and quick exit from vaults when portal is too dangerous. Without ethereal openings, real escapes are few and far between.
Edit: Took until dl68 for current char. Ran out of ?phase 15 levels earlier. Was last book found, after 2(!) Wrath of God. Warrior ironman would be in bad shape. Think I found total of 13 scrolls

[Carnivean]

Not broken in 4.0.5, though, IIRC.

Oops, my mistake.

[Pete Mack]

Ironman priest isn't very different from ordinary priest, except for the need to conserve consumables. Protect PB2, PB4 at all , and carry rods of curing for incidental confusion. (And _Teleport for disaster confusion)

[PowerWyrm]

Hi,

I'm playing dwarf priest ironman now. Survived longer than any previous attempt but never played priest or ironman before.

Anyone care to give ironman/priest specific tips? I've already taken a warrior all the way past Morgoth before, so I am not looking for general knowledge.

Check this LP (third character -- Friar Tuck): http://lparchive.org/Angband/

[robbiodobbio]

It worked straight away when I first tried it on without IDing it, but the second I actually need it to activate, it let me down. Probably just murphy's law.

[Nick]

Known to be broken functionality. Might be fixed in the latest nightly.

Not broken in 4.0.5, though, IIRC.

[Carnivean]

My amulet of teleportation was completely useless, I must have had it on for about 50-60 turns burning through all my healing potions and now once did it decide to activate.

Known to be broken functionality. Might be fixed in the latest nightly.

[robbiodobbio]

And I've found Narthanc and a shortbow of accuracy before DL10!

In Ironman is it preferable to properly clear levels to collect stuff rather than dive like crazy? Main problem so far is ammo, not being able to pop back up and buy 80 arrows is a pain, do you just have to carry different launchers and swap them out when you run out of a specific type of ammo?

[Estie]

Yeah, it was on level 20 I think, but I'd only just got to the level. Opened the door saw the hummerhorns (there were already 3) and thought "I can pick these guys off before they breed" famous last words. It's such a frustrating death too because it takes so long. My amulet of teleportation was completely useless, I must have had it on for about 50-60 turns burning through all my healing potions and now once did it decide to activate.

After the first Father Iron made it to cl17 dl20 the next three all lasted about 10 minutes each! I've scrapped that idea and gone for a half-troll warrior for the next ironman attempt.

Hehehe that moment when you realize that with an awesome find like a Thanc early on, you still can just barely make a living, whereas the warrior with a basic dagger runs all over the place.

[robbiodobbio]

Yeah, it was on level 20 I think, but I'd only just got to the level. Opened the door saw the hummerhorns (there were already 3) and thought "I can pick these guys off before they breed" famous last words. It's such a frustrating death too because it takes so long. My amulet of teleportation was completely useless, I must have had it on for about 50-60 turns burning through all my healing potions and now once did it decide to activate.

After the first Father Iron made it to cl17 dl20 the next three all lasted about 10 minutes each! I've scrapped that idea and gone for a half-troll warrior for the next ironman attempt.

[Pete Mack]

Or, know that you must kill that sleeping Hummerhorn very quickly or you will soon be overwhelmed.

Not a chance for a dwarf priest.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

In the average game I don't see even 1 hummerhorn. That death suggests too much time between lev 20 and 30. And if you see one, Portal immediately and leave the level

Or, know that you must kill that sleeping Hummerhorn very quickly or you will soon be overwhelmed.

[Pete Mack]

In the average game I don't see even 1 hummerhorn. That death suggests too much time between lev 20 and 30. And if you see one, Portal immediately and leave the level

[robbiodobbio]

RIP Father Iron. F***ing hummerhorns.

[PowerDiver]

Anyway I just lost this game after having PB2 burnt to cinders in a fight with a unique and his helpers - I don't use macros so the normal m... combination did not give me portal

I was going to make some minor disagreement with advice above, but ten times more important is that you autoinscribe your books and cast spells using numbers. This has nothing to do with macros. I suggest you switch to casting priest spells with 'p' rather than 'm' at the same time. I'd guess it will help you make the shift more easily.

This is really important. Especially in ironman, at some point it will be right to throw away your PB1s. You will not be able to survive the misspells after that, unless you convert to p2b format for casting portal.