by choongmyoung on Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:40 pm
Working on two things: VT Assassin and Purist Gorgon.
VT Assassin: Assassinating up to tower 2, then starting the game in tower 3. Unfortunately, I have to leave some popcorns to mop the curse stacks so I need bonus EXP very much.
- Requirements -
Church - TT / Extra Altar
Race - Human / Goblin
Guild - Amulet of Yendor / Dragon Shield
Glyph - WONAFYT
- Lucks -
1st tower Cracked Amulet
1st-2nd tower Dancing Blade / Golden Statue / Bridge Troll / Dragon Elite / Illusion / Grim Malus
1st tower PM (only if TT is not prepped)
- Instant Restart -
2nd tower No EXP (This is kinda game-ending for every difficult runs anyway)
Didn't find WONAFYT
Didn't fight TT
Unable to see what's inside of 1st tower
Purist Gorgon: Gorgon has innate physical resists. That's pretty much all about it. The singlemost important thing is to max up the resists asap. Blood hunger seriously, I mean, seriously, ruins the run. After some runs, I found that Binlor, Dracul, PM approach all works in some degree but in different ways. It's not easy to sum this up. It depends when you meet the specific deity, whether you found HALPMEH or BYSSEPS, and what item you've found. I believe it's possible when the situation comes perfect. For example, Gloves of Midas + Stone Sigil + Platemail + Vampiric Blade + 1st tower PM + 2nd tower Binlor + 3-5th tower Dracul + BYSSEPS should do the trick.
- Requirements -
1st tower PM / Binlor / Dracul
- Luck -
Early Stone Sigil + 1st tower PM
Found Platemail and/or Vampiric Blade (Use bloodcows! It's extremely rewarding.)
Found BYSSEPS / HALPMEH
1st tower PM + 2nd tower Dracul
- Difficulties -
Golden Statue and Illusion (since you're only accessible one Fortitude Tonic and no Burn Salve).
Magic enemies, especially Warlocks (super high damage) and Wraiths (mana burn and poison immune). When there is like three Wraiths and a Warlock in a tower and you have under 20% magic resists, it's probably a game over.
- Playing Tips -
HALPMEH really should be used with caution, because you need to worship Dracul at some point, and you eventually need to convert out to use HALPMEH unless you found BYSSEPS. Try to use the bloodpools if possible when poisoned so that you do not need to use HALPMEH, when you are close to level-up.
The huge amount of statues you've created should eventually be destroyed to use sanguine. It doesn't matter if you worship Binlor→Dracul or Dracul→Binlor, but one thing is sure. You need both gods.
For Binlor, use Stone Skin to help level up and farm magic resists. You don't really need Stone Form if you found BYSSEPS, walls may be more important. I'm not sure.
Be aware that there is a bug in the prediction box when you lifesteal versus Dancing Blade. It will damage you 10 points more than what it shows you.
BYSSEPS can be used as a damaging glyph during the run. It's better to use with BURNDAYRAZ but it's not a requirement. You can use your spare mana to break a statue and gain stone skin. However, it does not help the poison.