General-Purpose bragging topic!

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@William: Nice win!

I am sure you will catch up with me in no time as in complete most of the class badges. Who knows, you might beat me and get the Rainbow for VGT first,

[The Tapir]

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I supposed there's not one specific way to win, but you will need some luck. Found my winning screenshot:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.c ... A3FE7D6C1/

As you can see, I have Elven Boots (+Mana, +Magic Resists for Aequitas, Tormented One, the final boss). Also took RBS, can't remember if I have used it against the Bosses (pretty much only useful against Tormented One and Gobb). Fewer Glyphs for more Lifesteal, Platemail could be useful against most bosses.

I see I got Gloves of Midas, and Venom Dagger - one allows more purchases and CP (Lifesteal). The other would be super useful against most bosses (might have converted it due to inventory space. EDIT: actually it is pretty useless since not much regen fighting you can do against bosses, and bloodcows are the bosses themselves, probably if you get both SMM and Frank, you can regen off 1 to kill the other).

Yeah, and I got Lemissi for scouting and Weytwut (must have used it for the early leveling phase).

I am thinking if you chance upon Dragon Soul or Crystal Ball and especially if you have Pisorf or Halpmeh, those can be useful too.

[The Tapir]

Oh my god I love you:




That RBS was crucial in taking down the Goo blob, and would have been used for the Tormented one had I not converted it to make space for grabbing Yendor and the Kegs. Transloc'd a lucky Elven Boots to complement the platemail I found 2 steps away from the entrance and found a vampiric blade later on, which I picked up with the help of the signpost subdungeon that provided that oh-so-crucial second schadenfreude. I was lucky to find that by the 3rd wave I healed off of Jormungander, and I did the same with Tomithy with some careful curse management. I came close to not being able to take the first hit from Kinissch, but I had one remaining health potion to send me just over the damage threshold and an extra mana potion to ensure I could remove all of his DPs safely.

Still one of the closest runs I've had in a while, and I'm going to tackle Dragon Isles and Namtar's Lair before I go for the final Vamp run in Vicious Steel. I'm still not entirely sure how to level effectively in NL, though despite the less-than-ideal monster roster getting through the first two forms makes the run a whole lot easier. I'm thinking of taking a similar prep loadout to what got me the NC win since RBS makes frozen trolls better blood cows as well as allowing for meaningful health use during the third form, and translocation seal has its uses for nabbing stuff like yendor or elite items. Going to test my theory now, so wish me luck!

EDIT: Took a few tries, but success!



Bled out to Namtar's 2nd form a lot due to sloppy popcorn/blackspace/bloodpool management, but managed to nab it this run by getting to level 8 before starting the boss fight and using the Sir Thrawn subdungeon to not only heal the bloodcows above (mainly a poor lvl 5 frozen troll who was the only one that could take multiple hits from me) but also as a heal in between Namtar's phases. Had all of my health potions left over at the end as well as an extra Schadenfreude.

I was right in that getting past Namtar's first 2 forms would be the hardest, as everything beyond those two were pushovers to standard brawling or casting. My strategy for the first form was using as many health refills as I could get from level ups or bloodcows before starting to dip into bloodpools, while simultaneously using my mana to soften up the higher-leveled zombies for use during the 2nd form as curse removers. Dodge + Whupaz went into that form alongside a second level up, and I cleaned up the topside with my mostly untouched bloodpools before converting random junk and heading down.

That leaves DI and VS as the only two dungeons I haven't completed with Vampire (technically VGT is missing a win, but I had a victory that got erased due to using the wrong cloud save).

[William]

@The Tapir Wow, nice wins! I dread thinking about doing those runs myself.

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@The Tapir: Great! Glad that my post helped you, Silly me, totally forgot that RBS is, of course, important for that Goo boss in NC,

Nice to see you have NL down too, Hope to see you complete the rest of the Vampire badges, and VGT is really the easiest (you should try to nab Vicious Token while you are at it).

[The Tapir]

Thanks all! Started doing DI but apparently didn't have the mental fortitude to do more than a few runs. VS is completely out of reach for now, though VT VGT certainly looks doable...

[Tinker]

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Improved a little but victory still eludes me:

H: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.c ... A5183A9B9/
Results Screen: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.c ... 4DC9AD74F/

That's the best I could manage, given how I only found Dracul by the 7th floor and last floor was fully explored with Dancing Blade. Converting to GG in the end was really only out of desperation, I had nothing left (no potions, bloodpools, bloodswell to use, no gold for purchase refills). Had to do so, so that I could at least reach H for the first time,

Also, I only had Halpmeh and Mage Plate that were useful this time around (and Tower Shield for a few floors before I converted it off). Nothing to protect against Mana-burn,

I really need some luck! Wish me more luck! Any run with Halpmeh, Soul Orb and an early Dracul floor (floors 2 or 3) should be enough for me to get another decent shot at H, and hopefully nothing too run-killing like fully explored Binlor level, early fully explored level, etc.

[Tinker]