Purist + Vicious Challenge!

[Tinker]

[Zazzlegut]

Hey...just curious...love this thread...not that I'm completing any of it yet. But just wondering....has a similar thing been tried for speed?

Curious what the best times achievable are for certain dungeons.

Sound like a good competition? Any race, any class...prep however you like. Finish as fast as you can. Only differentiator that would matter would be vicious versus non-vicious.

Again....I won't be on the list. I play slow and steady. But I'm impressed by you speed demons.

.......Z

[Darvin]

[Tinker]

By the way, I did an overhaul of the Namtar's Lair dungeon page in light of my last couple of runs. I added more text (rather more than less, anyway it can be cut easily if needed), and went into more detail regarding how to beat each form. I changed the recommended classes by removing Sorcerer and Transmuter, and adding the Wizard and Half-Dragon instead. (Sorcerer is universally good, but I don't see it being so much better here than other hybrids like Thief; and Transmuter is still really-really awesome, but I want Blovski to be free of the burden of VT-ing NL with one of these buggers... ).

Wizard is really good because it can bring lots of glyphs (and versatility) down, a Mystera Wizard is a walking free Crystal Ball even cut off from the altar. For races I recommend Elf & Orc (Elf because it ignores the mana penalty, and can kill Form 3 with a single level-up without anything else, and Orc because it ignores the damage penalty and can beat forms 2 & 4 easily, and even form 3 if they take Cleansing first). Dwarf would also be logical as they ignore the health penalty, but I've never felt that particular penalty to be really crippling, whereas the Damage & Mana penalties can be real bad. That said, a JJ Gnome for example is probably overkill, but I didn't want to go into all of the combinations...

[Tinker]

Btw still lots of maps unwon (unreported?) Purist + VT... Anyone still thinking about some? I might try The Labyrinth if nobody wants to do that one, and possibly something else... Not so eager to try Ick...

[Darvin]

[Astral]

Why, it's so fun?

If noone wants it, fine, I'll take it:
http://s8.postimg.org/opdkcdhp1/PVT_ick3.png

I didn't give much thought to this, picked Ick, because it's one of my favorite dungeouns due to the Wisp Charm and Spoon drops and it's nice to see some of those rare vampires too. As a class I went with Paladin, Halpme made the choice easier. Orc looked perfect for the job, didn't have any special builds in mind to deviate from my 'default'.

The start was horrible. I got boxed in by numerous mana burn plants, cursing ones to lose my edge, and an umbelievably high number of barbing bushes. I had no other choice but to kill lvl1, so there went Cheeky. I did find a Cydstep, but it was little help against the spike-maze with my small initial blackspace.

EM was a welcome sight, staying without gods for long as a Pladin can be a real pain. She's pretty useful, Imawall practically reduces the difficulty of the map, Vineform is an amazing way to power up low level heroes, Greenblood works towards beating Itssama, Entaglement makes you a Rogue - great on top of Cydstep - and Clearance is a fantastic mana refill kit with so much ammo.The only problem was the increasingly more frequent troll plants blocking my way. The Murkshade - BB - Murkshade sandwich popping up in the only open path to the boss during bossfight was genious.

Monster selection was friendly - there were plenty Warlocks to rob, some easy Gorgons to level up on and only a few Nagas. The map was crawling with Wraiths, so I rarely got to use my resistance. Burndayraz played hide and seek with me and actually won
By the time I found it one boss was dead and the other easy enough to kill without it. The 2nd boss was Tomithy btw, he was so weak I didn't even need to use a ding, DP or Entanglement against him.

Shop pool was forgetable, but the early Tower Shield and Venom Dagger helped a lot. I loved my glyphs though. Cydstep, and Bysseps to peel off Itssama's skin is always nice.

[Tinker]

[William]

I know Astral did this already, but here is my Purist Vicious Token of Ick Swamp. I accidentally clicked on Ick Swamp while doing Purist VT runs and figured I would try and finish it.

[William]

And here is the dungeon I meant to do, but I decided to change it up a bit and use a class that still needs to be ticked off the list instead. Orc Thief, Hexx Ruins



I am quite surprised that I beat both these dungeons Purist + VT on my first try.