Here comes my first attempt at doing a lvl1 bosskill by meeleing. Warning, serious textwall ahead!
The rest is as I wrote down stuff during play, with minimal editing (removing math, adding screenshots).
Slime Pits with an Orc Warlord of Binlor
Bosses: SMM 58/1140, Tower of Goo 90/380
Preps: Binlor, CB, Bearmace, Compression seal, more att. boosters, potion shops and gold
potions: Whupaz, Reflex, Quicksilver, Schadenfraude
Started the game by joining Binlor and farming piety with pissorf and KB. Most monsters were too weak to survive a hit, or too high leveled though.
Found the subdungeon early: vegetarian vampire sub. One of my fave, but the plant composition was horrible.
Also I had to dig out the walls to reach most of my plants without wasting the bonuses, so I bought an endiswall. In the end I got: +1 MP, +1 basedamage, +5% att, +5 health.
I realize after some wall crunching that I should only consume the walls in my sub first, to get my boons sooner, and save them for useful KB damage on the top.
After some exploring I take stoneform and stonefist. I find both of my remaining altars: Dracul and GG. Quite good.
Dracul could give me some little basedamge, but the real deal is GG. He will award me with tons of piety for my conversions and his boons are great too.
Humility allows me to benefit from a ding during the bossfight and will give +5 basedamage, and protection will be awesome for mana refilling.
Trying to shoot for Enlightenment is also possible, but I need to see my shops and secret subdungeon first.
I also found some more glyphs: weytwut (which I picked up to slow a lvl2 muck walker for my future ding, will come in handy in placing SMM too), imawall, burndayraz, and later gettindare!
Awesome combination so far. I could brick some monsters for +2 gold each, use gettindare on my 5 saved plants underground and 3 more monsters without dinging for 40% dodge chance.
A saved getteindare is essentally +1 hit on the boss for measly 3 mana.
http://s22.postimg.org/i09mib269/slimelord1.pngI found 3 shops: poisonward, fine sword, dragon soul - nice. I'm torn on buying the dragonsoul later, it costs 25 gold that I could use for more CP and therefore damage.
My 1st sub gave me no gold and if I meet Glenrick in my secret sub I'll be sad. If I find it too late I may even have problems with generating gold via imawalling.
On the other hand a good sub and some lucky shop items could provide me with so much power that I could win parched too
While continuing exploration I realize something. If I'll use protection, that will heal me over 50% and cause constant damage loss. I won't be able to smack monsters for damage either - my might bonus would disappear and I'd probably kill my foe, or if not, then he would kill me, cause the monster had to be really high level.
This is only a problem if I use 2 protections in a row. If my max mana is high thanks to items and enlightenment, single helpings will be fine as well. Or drinking manapototions after protections is a solution too - but I want to get parched
Some wallbreaking later my piety reaches 89 and I find a spare pissorf. Too bad it's not B2P - that would have made things hillarious, at the cost of forgetting parched.
By this point my blackspace is down to 25%, and I haven't seen an apothecary. Did I forget to prep it? That would be too silly. Now I wish we had an in-dungeon panel to check our preps.
At 99 piety I convert to GG, and with 50 piety left I start to wonder if Enlgightenment is worth it. In that case I should desecreate my altars now and claim it.
http://s10.postimg.org/ntnenom61/slimelord2.pngI'd gain piety by converting and leveling up, my ding would be stronger and protections would give 6 mana intead of 4. So far I'm not convinced. If I forgot to prep the apothecaries, then I must use more protections.
I really want to pick up Imawall so I can start building my walls next to SMM, and brick some useless popcorn. But what to convert for room?
I decide to go for enlightenment because it will be easier to manage leftover mana that way. After that I convert pisorff since there's a copy, and start making walls.
I'm happy to see there are multiple apothecaries, but when I find out they don't sell quicksilvers or reflexes I facepalm myself. LOL. You can tell how often I check these if I thought they sell such potions
http://s28.postimg.org/8ef4tm6d9/slimelord3.pngOkay back to the drawingboard.
To do something with my mana I build long walls around my Bosses and start bricking some bad popcorn.
What I find next results in long swearing:
http://s30.postimg.org/kns6jxotd/slimelord4.pngNow I'll definitely need to brick more monsters. Unfortunetaly I lack the blackspace so I end up with this:
http://s30.postimg.org/o4yu0nd9d/slimelord5.pngMy shops: soul orb, viper ward, bloody sigil, fine sword, bm ring, dragon soul, alchemist scroll, keg o health. With my 58 gold I buy the dragon soul, fine sword, and keep 20 gold for a schadenfraude and a CB charge. I decided to go with this after some really long calculations, and lots of scrapped challenge ideas. Hint: I'll do a level1 double bosskill some other time.
I'm worried about my 3 hp causing problems with protection, so I take one absolution atfer I made room for in my inventory. I convert all my glyphs except gettindare and cydstepp, convert my healthpotions too. My basedamage is puny 20 points, but I've done the math, with 2.9 combined attack multiplier it will be more than enough. Let's kill SMM!
Let me show you a nice trick
If you combine whupaz with quicksilver
you will take down the boss to 9/16 of it's health.http://s14.postimg.org/dwmb2m5ip/slimelord6.pngOr not. I quaffed whupaz and reflex, but the damage is not what I expected. I should have tested things like this before
There goes parched.
I keep hitting SMM through walls and I mix in some gettindare strikes between cydstepps. When I drain my mana to 0, I level catapult and take humility. I end up with 3 dodges, 3 mana refills by DS, I drink all my manapotions an 1 schadenfraude. I did some stupid mistakes which resulted in extra hits like not noticing the lake tile under the gore and screwing up the wallsmashing, or not saving any blackspce for 'cutting corners'.
Despite my basedamage being only 20-25, 2 protections were enough for this.
http://s27.postimg.org/jsp5ecuz7/slimelord7.pngBut before dealing the killing blow I do kill 2 popcorns with gettindare for CB charges and dodge. Slash! SMM is dead.
http://s29.postimg.org/7wn75djnb/slimelord8.pngI'm lvl 5 now and wonder if I could gut the goo without any cleansings. I wasted a lot of time already, so I'm not calculating it. If I fail to, I can still make up my mind an take cleansings.
I hit a lvl5 meatmen to prep it for killing and lose my nice stack of dodges
http://s16.postimg.org/h9bdw2f2t/slimelord9.pngI go on to hurt some more popcorn and put my health below 50%. I really regret not keeping any blackspace now with 19 max mana.
To increase my damage I buy the 2 wards and the bloody sigil. I'm hitting the goo through walls and slowly destroy his resistance. I take a protection and use CB when it's fully charged.
I level catapult off a lvl 8 by gettindare and reach lvl 6. One more ding and I'll be able to tank the goo's hits. Goo is around 33% health. Well, no cleansings today.
http://s16.postimg.org/5qpooxmmt/slimelord10.pngAfter mopping up some popcorn the meatmen begin to rot. Whatever. I reach lvl 7 and see this.
http://s17.postimg.org/gc4vhvgan/slimelord11.pngIt's over. The goo goes down and not a single cleansing was used. Just for fun I wipe the rest of the floor and reach level 9.
http://s29.postimg.org/92vshwxbr/slimelord13.pngIn cases like this I always regret my lvl 8-9 petrifications. That probably blew 2 badges on it's own. I wonder how many badges I'll get in the end.
http://postimg.org/image/3tka0132n/LOL not much. And HOLY CRAP I spent so much time. New record for needlessly overthinking stuff, yet still piling mistakes on top of another
So let's recap. All was well thanks to my good god selection, but I wish I had better luck with my subs, and managed my blackspace better. It's infuriating to think about how close I was to 20 max mana, or 24. I could have got parched too...
At least I experienced what it feels like doing a lvl1 bosskill and commentating (even if not by speech), and having my attention somewhat divided. If I came down as harsh with my earlier remarks, sorry Lujo!
Anyways I hope you enjoyed this, next time I come back with the Avatar's head
Edit: just my luck. When I'm uploading the screenshots my net goes out. Two hours have passed and it still didn't come back. Yay!
At least I had time to check that parched was still a possibility after my whupaz accident. I just had to be ballsier and convert all my manapots, spend all my unspent gold on an extra schadenfraude and CB charge and take more protections . Goo would have been still doable thanks to the +25 gold afterwards. Whatevs.