General-Purpose bragging topic!

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Got it done, Luck really plays a big part, plus the right preps. I didn't dare to prep Patches in my previous attempts, this time I did. Also, I figured Avatar's Codex is the solution to the problem of dealing with Phys. Resistant enemies as well as those dealing Magical damage.

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I prepped Conjunction and wanted to get GG since he can help with curing the statuses (from Patches) and prepping GG just gives too little piety. But soon realized the altar was not close at the start, still I went along after a number of re-rolls. Got JJ on the first floor, got Petition, 1 of each of the 2 boosts (Bysseps, and discovering mobs really gave me lots of piety). Only 1 Health potion was used to cure off Poison from JJ, Patches was super friendly to me and only made me teleport (to tiles I already discovered) or revealed some new tiles. However, all I got was just mana boost, gold and HP boost. Only got around 2 shots of damage boost and 2 shots of Resists much much later. But looking back, it's not too bad after all, I got lots of HP and MP from Patches, gold too and combined with an early purchase of Gloves of Midas, I was able to buy out everything in the end to use or convert off for damage boost.

The altar from Conjunction was GG, GG was also on the 2nd floor (really convenient), but I deferred converting to him until quite a bit later since Bysseps allowed me to farm JJ piety pretty easily. 2nd floor was also fully revealed (which was a blessing, clearing it earlier is better). It had the Golden Statue, and I decided to kill it first so that I could cure off my bad statuses with the 2 prepped potions to free up space to buy both Soul Orb and Viper Ward, I knew Patches wouldn't be friendly all the time.

Last floor was Binlor level but had the Dancing Blade so I ended up wasting quite a bit of blackspace that could have been super useful for the fight against H if it had been another mini-boss. I only bought the Platemail around that time (could have got it earlier but held on to both Patches and Gloves of Midas).

In the end, I had lots of resources left (bloodpools, potential mobs for using Blood Swells) and even forgot to use my Whupaz because it wasn't needed.

[William]

I had an interesting daily on the Android tablet version today. If I recall correctly, it was Gnome Berserker in Hexx Ruins and I decided to prep extra mana pickups and the mana amulet as I wanted to play my favourite caster Berserker. As luck would have it, MA invited me in with open arms. Unlucky for me, the sub was Metal Spider. I took care not to get mana burned in there while at high mana levels. Unfortunately I did not know that crafting that purple potion at the alter counts as mana burn, so I went in there with a full mana bar (~19 mana) and lost enough piety to get punished by mystera with about 2/3 of the monsters still on board. Somehow I lost track of my piety while killing popcorn and a lvl 1 wraith's death led to a 2nd MA punisment. I still ended up killing both bosses, and Stheno had +/- 40% magic resist and +/- 55% physical resist.

On a different run, whilst doing flaming dungeons, I took a Wizard Orc prepped with Binlor to The Labyrinth. I got all I needed from binlor including heaps of magic resist as virtually everything on board was a Dragon Spawn and the 2nd boss was Aequitas. The other alters were Taurog and TT, so crazy old me switched to TT at level one, took dodge and a hit of Learning but didn't bother to buy more piety. I thought I would start by killing a lvl 3 Dragon Spawn, hit it once which pushed it into covered area by mistake, and decided to go after it to hit it again. *whack* Have some weakening and monster first strikes, courtesy of your loving god TT. I thought I was done for as popcorn was no longer popcorn and weakening would negate the Orc racial. Luckily I kept my head and did not quit. I started knocking high level stuff into Aequitas using the get-out-of-jail-free glyph known as PISSORF. Then I tricked old Rex out of his hiding spot and started knocking him into Aequitas too. Luckily I had Bludtupowa and useless health to fuel the shenanigans. Coolest Labyrinth win to date.

[Tinker]

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Tried various combinations, including things like trying to bring Avatar's Codex or Dragon Soul, prepping Taurog, Quest items, etc. Well, this finally worked so I am pretty thankful for the nice RNG after so many darn failures!

Last hit to H:
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Victory Screens (2nd one for bottom row):
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It was "just nice", used up all blackspace and bloodpools in the end (there were only 2 more statues that I could break for another 2 bloodpools at most, but I had no mana left). At the beginning, once I found both Bysseps and Martyr Wraps (and Platemail), I knew this was one of the most favourable items combination I could get, so was keeping my fingers crossed, hoping I won't get screwed up by the floors.

Patches wasn't nice to me all the time, but at least, he gave me some resists, so the resists I had was mainly from Patches, the Resistance Scroll, Dragon Shield, Gorgon's innate resistances, and a whole bunch of Magic Resists from Binlor's boons (I had 60% Phys, 65% Magic resistances, figured that I wouldn't bother with the remaining 5% Phys resistance).

Luckily, I found Dracul by floor 5 so that more or less helped me nail the run. Oh and I also got Lemissi, which I used during the last few floors. Took Enlightenment in the end just for the fun of it. I think I could at least afford another 6 (?) hits if H still had health, I was able to convert to GG, convert bunch of stuff for enlightenment, I had 1 last Health potion, I had the DP from Yang's Sword, I still had 50 free piety from PactMaker and 2 more desecrations worth a total of 30 piety.

Only left with Rat Monarch, GoatPerson and Half-Dragon and the rest should be pretty easy to complete once I am done with these final 3. I am getting there slowly,

[Tinker]

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Half-Dragon done, Also took quite many tries, always get screwed up by something.

Last hit to H:
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Victory Screens (2nd one for bottom row):
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First, let's talk about the "Bad":
I found Dracul pretty late at the 6th floor. 9th floor was PactMaker with Bridge Troll and Bloodless, that extra knockback damage could have been super useful if I had gotten it much earlier. 8th floor was Binlor level with Goblin Miner and fully revealed (damn!), so the CP here would also have been super useful. Needless to say, I wasted quite a lot of bloodpools just to go through this last 2 floors (was also mana-burned after the 8th and only recovered later in the 9th after killing 3 mobs).

Next, the "Good":
Glyphs were super useful, there wasn't Bysseps but 3 out of 5 glyphs were used for a large part of the run - I held Burndayraz, Halpmeh and Getindare before Dracul and Getindare especially helped me save tons of resources. Later I had to convert off Halpmeh while with GG in order to clear up inventory space for protections. Lemissi was used to recover some health while I was on the 9th floor. Also, I had to quaff my Burn Salve and desecrate EM while with GG as I couldn't really last much longer with the 6 or 7 corrosion on me and still not finding Dracul.

Patches was "cooperative" in the sense that I counted that I needed 61 gold (23 for Platemail, 25 for Vampiric Blade and 13 for Piercing Wand) and luckily Patches did help me reach this amount before I converted it off. I also got quite a bit of HP and resists from Patches.

The Health Potion near the end part, yeah, I only picked up Health potion right at the end. So thankfully, the 3 health potions came in handy and I had to use them all after running out of bloodpools in the end.

Luckily, I didn't give up when I got the fully revealed Binlor level on the 8th floor. Almost thought that was the killer for me.

[Tinker]

Really nice!

So which is next? Goat or Rat?

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Got screwed by RNG, I knew this was impossible, but just went along to see how far I could go. Was a good run, I could have got a good chance to win if I had landed with Dracul in the end, even GG or JJ might be enough and I had to get TT, what a twist of fate (I thought I finally had a decent chance and this had to happen, ).

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[Tinker]