by Blovski on Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:15 pm
Bwahahaha my financial crisis is over.
Bit of storytelling rather than strict update discussion....
Orc Rogue GG Slime Pit win. Took in gloves of midas because when I don't know what else to take and because they are a ridiculously good item... GG, transmutation scroll, sword, bet on boss (flaming slime pit has been haunting me for so long), whupaz, quicksilver.
Anyway, a couple of quick level or two ahead kills, absolution to get +15 HP or so, maybe a bit more I guess. Found Cydstepp and hung onto that for a while, got wonafyt so had that around for levels 1-4ish for a little extra XP. Went for humility to drop myself to level 1, took a few biggish catapults for a while and started fighting Goo (Slime Goo is nasty, loads of physical damage) at level 6 with a level up ready. Got wolfalok and fireball, two fireballs meant I could survive an attack, and starting using the cleansing boon to give magic damage. Eeked out 2 hits (resisted one, dodged the other with quicksilver, levelled, repeated, some *very* tight inv. management went on to give me space for cleansings, even converted wolfalok after I'd got a second free hit off. 1 cydstepp, another cleansing and boom. Cleaned up most of the rest, whupazed meaty (think I wasted some regen on cleaning popcorn while I was fighting him), got viper ward and lemissi, regen fought him down quite a long way. Had desecrated binlor so used up three healing potions. Must've levelled again at some point. Converted cydstepp as well. Used a protection, I think, and did some unnerving regen fighting with lemmisi in that temple of doom subdungeon.
Anyways, got him down to fourish hits left, had 4 manas left (and maybe 1 healing, but I don't remember). Needed 20 XP to level up, one level 7 and a level 9 medusa were the only things around. Was on around 80 piety. Then I realised I had 13 prayer beads and 76 piety. So, everything must go potion conversions... (I'd been reading this and thought it was 10, apparently 5 at the moment, that was close). Got to 96 piety, then because I'd brought in Midas I could buy up two items to hit 100 *exactly*. Took out the 7 with a dodge, so I got a bonus hit on Meaty. And Enlightenment. level up, so 2 more fireballs, another hit, protection from the level up piety, another hit and first strike.
I don't think I'd have got enough from protections or potions to actually make it.
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Anyways, being relevant again, new GG can work beautifully for a rogue as a full game god. The magic attack side effect of cleansing is a big situational plus and leveraging enlightenment like that felt awesome. Managed to get off a load of boons and enlightenment, even prepped. Inventory management got a bit chary, which is only fair . A higher potion piety gain thing (say, 10) wouldn't be bad (would allow for some pretty cool early game things for anyone going for parched).