Purist + Vicious Challenge!

[Darvin]

[Astral]

Why, it's so fun?

If noone wants it, fine, I'll take it:
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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.

[Tinker]

[~'(^ + ^)'~]

Just went with what I felt would be the best to beat this dungeon, went smoothly on first try as expected (well, was expecting about 50% chance to win since this is technically the first dungeon with 3 bosses to beat, but obviously not as tough as the Vicious dungeons),

[Tinker]

[~'(^ + ^)'~]

[~'(^ + ^)'~]

Was feeling bored and didn't have that much enthusiasm to try and get 1 more of my remaining Vicious Dungeons badges completed (I play real slow + may need multiple attempts, and it's close to bedtime, so ...). Tried this instead and was a little surprised to get it on the first try:



Talk about luck. Binlor was there to help with Knockback, Pisorf and the occasional Stoneskin. Really had fun blasting walls and re-adding more back via killing (destroy -> create -> destroy ... endless cycle). Was excited when I found Crystal Ball because it meant more mana to do more Cydstepps / Pisorfs. Was even more ecstatic when I found EM, yet more mana, yes! Having WeytWhut (and Getindare) helped tons with the early leveling and also to place the bosses side by side.

Had fun with this one!

[So, I just noticed half (3 of 6) of my entries are all done using the Gnome Race. Gnomes are powerful! ]