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- From: vh@cs.columbia.edu (Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou)
- Subject: Re: Incredible. Simply.
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- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Nov17.204515.18545@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:30:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.204515.18545@csi.uottawa.ca> u519876@csi.UOttawa.CA (U. N. derGrad) writes:
- >Unbelievable. This is _by far_ my best game ever, and I'm only
- >on dungeon level 7!
- >
- >FOUND (believe it!) so far: gauntlets of power, 2 blessed magic lamps (!),
- >boots of speed (yessir!), amulet of reflection, blessed tinning kit.
- >
- >WISHED for (2 lamps): Mjollnir (now up to +6), gray dragon scale mail (+0).
- >
- >_AND_ I've just found a wand of wishing! WITH 3 CHARGES! on dlvl 7!
- >
- >*suppressed shiver*
- >
- >The obvious question: what do I wish for? I've go 6 wishes left (I've already
- >wished for a blessed scroll of charging (I wished for 3, but only got one. ?),
- >so 2 (left) + 3 (recharge) + 1 (wrestle out of wand). SIX! :-)
- >
- >Please note that I'm not a newbie (well, not too bad). Using saved games, I
- >_have_ reached demi-godhood. For the past month, I've been trying to complete
- >the game without saving, and always seem to meet _stupid_ deaths. Furthest I've
- >gone without saving is dlvl 30. This _should_ be THE game.
- >
- >My own suggestions: amulet of life saving (more than 1, perhaps?), 3 blessed
- >scroll of enchant armor, ring of levitation, 3 blessed scroll of genocide
- >(liches, et al), 3 cursed scroll of genocide (nurses, wraiths), ring of teleport
- >control.
- >
- >Side question: I don't have Stormy or Excalibur, so I'm not protected from level
- >drains. If I genocide liches, am I safe?
- >
- >Other Side question: can I wish for more than 1 amulet of life saving with a
- >single wish?
- >
- >What do the experts think? BTW, I'm playing a priest.
- >
- >--
- >Kevin Coughlan
- >u519876@csi.uottawa.ca
- >--
-
- Being an experienced player (although I'm posting for the first time), I'd say
- you should wish for any of the "best" items that you don't have and are rare to
- find. By "best", I mean the best armor for each armor slot, and some valuable
- and rare tools. These are:
-
- helm of telepathy
- gauntlets of dexterity
- water walking boots / speed boots
- shield of reflection
- Hawaiaan shirt
-
- (No point in wishing for GDSM, since you can get it from the dragon if you
- have a want of polymorph. Also, it's relatively easy to find a cloak of
- displacement).
-
- Useful tools/other stuff that you can wish for : blessed luckstone, magic marker,
- blindfold, stethoscope, amulets of life saving.
-
- On early experience levels a ring of levitation/conflict or gauntlets of
- power are useful. Depending on what you find on your way, you may need to
- wish for some other items if you are unlucky, such as a ring of protection
- from shape changers (indispensable on later levels).
-
- Never wish for a scroll. Wish for a magic marker instead, and write on your
- useless scrolls after you make them blank; you can get much more scrolls
- that way than directly wishing for them. The one exception is if you need
- a type of scroll and you haven't found any, it is rare, and you are not a
- wizard (this really applies only to the genocide and charging scrolls).
-
- You can also wish for blessed potions of gain ability, but do that only if
- your intelligence and/or dexterity is low; the other stats can be raised in
- other ways. Note that this will lead you to be able to raise your HPs and
- level much easier than summoning nurses/wraiths, so there is no point in
- wishing for cursed scrolls of genocide.
-
- Answering your side question 1 : No, genociding liches will still leave you
- exposed to level drain attacks. This is the point that many posters miss
- when they compare the various weapons and say things such as "Frosty is the
- best" or "for later levels, go for Mjollnir". The truth is that when you
- have a decent number of HPs and good level/stats, you don't really care
- for the difference in damage, but you do care for keeping your level intact
- (unless you want to go raising it every so often). There are only two
- things that can protect you from level drain attacks, and that is wielding
- Excalibur or Stormy. Now, you can get Excalibur easily (and rustfree), and
- you don't want the level drain attack of Stormy on lower levels (to be able
- to get these intrinsics) and you don't care about it on higher levels. So
- the weapon of choice is Excalibur, and there is no need to wish for it.
-
- Side question 2 : No, you can't group amulets together, therefore you can't
- wish for more than one.
-
- BTW, you have two more wishes, after you recharge your two magic lamps.
-
-
- Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou.
-
-