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To my Fellow Angbanders,
So, I've set myself the goal of winning the game with each class. So far, I've beat the game with a Warrior, Ranger, and Paladin, although my winning warrior game was lost due to a crash and then I failed in my second fight vs. Morgoth due to some bad luck vs. shatter damage.
This month I've been making time (at quite the expense to my real life!) to beat the game with the Mage class. I brought Morgoth within 10% of his health with a Gnome mage before I ran out of healing and then bit the dust due to "the strain of casting banishment" when I made a greedy dash to pick up a choice artifact and I wanted to clear some trash mobs to get to it... the 37 or so hp I had at the time was not enough for all the "D's" or "U's" or "L's" or whatever it was I trying to banish in the dungeon at the time... oops!
Then I starting playing an "Iron Mage", just running the class, iron man style and I've levelled up into the 40's now before getting one-shotted. It tends to take a death for a Mob to burn into my memory its capabilities... oh, so and so Mobs have a 200+ dmg nether bolt or, in the latest death, "Saruman summons dragons, an Ancient Gold, Scatha, and a Great Wyrm of Thunder, hmmm Ancient Dragons of any color I can handle at my current ~450 health, Scatha too, I have all my resists up, Wyrm of Thunder deals lightning, got that covered..." except the Great Wyrm of Thunder blasts sound at 500hp at full health, not lightning... hmm Great Wyrm of Storms vs Thunder, lightning vs. sound, no sound resist... now I've got that straight after another 20 or so hours of play!
Sadly, real life calls and since I tend to be a binge player it will probably be several months before I try to scale this peak again. Until then...
Hoorah for the six summits of Angband, still three to go!
Fiquin
So, I've set myself the goal of winning the game with each class. So far, I've beat the game with a Warrior, Ranger, and Paladin, although my winning warrior game was lost due to a crash and then I failed in my second fight vs. Morgoth due to some bad luck vs. shatter damage.
This month I've been making time (at quite the expense to my real life!) to beat the game with the Mage class. I brought Morgoth within 10% of his health with a Gnome mage before I ran out of healing and then bit the dust due to "the strain of casting banishment" when I made a greedy dash to pick up a choice artifact and I wanted to clear some trash mobs to get to it... the 37 or so hp I had at the time was not enough for all the "D's" or "U's" or "L's" or whatever it was I trying to banish in the dungeon at the time... oops!
Then I starting playing an "Iron Mage", just running the class, iron man style and I've levelled up into the 40's now before getting one-shotted. It tends to take a death for a Mob to burn into my memory its capabilities... oh, so and so Mobs have a 200+ dmg nether bolt or, in the latest death, "Saruman summons dragons, an Ancient Gold, Scatha, and a Great Wyrm of Thunder, hmmm Ancient Dragons of any color I can handle at my current ~450 health, Scatha too, I have all my resists up, Wyrm of Thunder deals lightning, got that covered..." except the Great Wyrm of Thunder blasts sound at 500hp at full health, not lightning... hmm Great Wyrm of Storms vs Thunder, lightning vs. sound, no sound resist... now I've got that straight after another 20 or so hours of play!
Sadly, real life calls and since I tend to be a binge player it will probably be several months before I try to scale this peak again. Until then...
Hoorah for the six summits of Angband, still three to go!
Fiquin
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