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Srid: Dracul's initial worship only rewards non-undead kills. I tested it.

2022-06-21T20:13:37Z

Dracul's initial worship only rewards non-undead kills. I tested it.

Choongmyoung at 10:05, 3 February 2018

2018-02-03T10:05:20Z

Choongmyoung at 01:50, 17 November 2017

2017-11-17T01:50:03Z

Choongmyoung: /* {{boon|Blood Hunger}} */

2017-11-17T01:42:42Z

‎{{boon|Blood Hunger}}

Choongmyoung: /* {{boon|Blood Tithe}} */

2017-11-16T20:20:27Z

‎{{boon|Blood Tithe}}

Choongmyoung: /* {{boon|Blood Hunger}} */

2017-11-16T20:18:41Z

‎{{boon|Blood Hunger}}

Choongmyoung at 20:15, 16 November 2017

2017-11-16T20:15:44Z

Choongmyoung at 20:14, 16 November 2017

2017-11-16T20:14:27Z

Choongmyoung: /* Strategy */

2017-10-07T16:36:35Z

‎Strategy

Choongmyoung: /* Strategy */

2017-10-07T16:35:46Z

‎Strategy

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 |ShortHand=DR
 |InitialWorship=
-* {{Piety|+2}} for each killed enemy
+* {{Piety|+2}} for each killed non-{{t|Undead}} enemy
 |Punishment=
 * -20 Max Health, -1 {{t|Life steal}}

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 * -20 Max Health, -1 {{t|Life steal}}
 |PrepPenalty=
-* 20% of enemies are bloodless
+* 25% of enemies are bloodless
 |RewardedActions=
-*Attack with {{t|Life steal}} (once per monster):&nbsp;{{Piety|+1}}
+*Attack with {{t|Life steal}} (once per monster, xp-valuable only):&nbsp;{{Piety|+1}}
 *Kill a non {{t|Undead}} monster:&nbsp;{{Piety|+2}}

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-== Strategy ==
+== Boons ==
-Dracul is difficult to gain piety with under most circumstances. There are only four ways to do so: killing non-undead monsters, converting a "holy" glyph ({{s|CYDSTEPP}} or {{s|HALPMEH}}),  converting a {{i|Health Potion}}, and using a {{t|Life steal}} ability.  For most characters, the only way to get a {{t|Life steal}} is with one of Dracul's boons, which means it's imperative for Dracul worshipers to purchase either {{boon|Blood Hunger}} or {{boon|Blood Tithe}} as soon as possible to begin racking up real piety.
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-Dracul's boons all grant ways to restore your hit points or (in the case of {{boon|Blood Shield}}) prevent incoming damage.  This gives a Dracul follower greatly increased staying power in combat, and Dracul often makes an excellent last-ditch choice in the end-game since none of these are dependent on exploration space.
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 === {{boon|Blood Curse}} ===
 '''Never purchase it at low level!''' The purpose of existence of this boon is getting quick piety gain at endgame. Dracul is very petty with your piety, and {{piety|20}} is incredibly valueable to you. The perfect timing of this boon is when you purchase {{boon|Blood Tithe}} for two or more stack. It will be described below.
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 After you consume all your bloodpools, you'll probably at 3-4 stacks of {{boon|Blood Tithe}} and plenty of piety left. You can choose to consume health potions or convert into other religeons like {{g|Tikki Tooki}}, now. This boon is one another way to leverage with remaining piety. If you have any resistance or damage reduction you want to kill popcorns to remove curses. You should think carefully and conserve right amount of popcorns when racking piety to take stacks of {{boon|Blood Tithe}} in this cases.
+Dracul's boons all grant ways to restore your hit points or (in the case of {{boon|Blood Shield}}) prevent incoming damage.  This gives a Dracul follower greatly increased staying power in combat, and Dracul often makes an excellent last-ditch choice in the end-game since none of these are dependent on exploration space.
 When combined with the {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} glyph, Dracul becomes an awesome force for spellcasters. {{boon|Blood Tithe}} and {{boon|Blood Swell}} boons can be used to farm hit points, and then {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} can be used to convert them into [[mana]].  This allows Dracul to fuel some of the most powerful spellcasting spikes in the game, turning any character into a {{c|Bloodmage}}.  However, without this glyph he offers no synergy with spellcasters.

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 === {{boon|Blood Hunger}} ===
-If you are worshipping Dracul on early-mid stages, it is very hard to rack up piety without desecration. Purchasing this boon will greatly increase your piety gain, from {{piety|2}} per monster slain to {{piety|3}}. Having a {{i|Vampiric Blade}} is equally good, and {{i|Stone Sigil}} works fine as it is. After you get {{t|Life steal}}, you can attack some monsters but avoid killing them to gain some quick piety. Converting {{i|Health Potion}}s or desecrating some harmless altars are often a good way to start with Dracul.
+If you are worshipping Dracul on early-mid stages, it is very hard to rack up piety without desecration. Purchasing this boon will greatly increase your piety gain, from {{piety|2}} per monster slain to {{piety|3}}. Having a {{i|Vampiric Blade}} is equally good, though having both does not increase your piety gain. In order to increase your piety influx, {{i|Stone Sigil}} works on top of the {{t|Life steal}}. After you get life steal, you can attack some monsters but avoid killing them to gain some quick piety. Converting {{i|Health Potion}}s or desecrating some harmless altars are often a good way to start with Dracul.
 For characters who can raise their resistances substantially above 45% you should virtually ''never'' purchase the {{boon|Blood Hunger}} boon, although some expert players can carefully manage the drawback. Only one stack of this boon is preferred at most cases. If you purchase this boon twice your maximum resistance would be decrased into 25%, which is nonsense for resistant-stacking characters. Also {{piety|45}} is too expensive under Dracul. With this much piety either {{boon|Blood Shield}} or {{boon|Blood Tithe}} is preferred.
-If you happen to get 2x lifesteal, especially with {{i|Platemail}}, some lower level monsters' attack will be actually weaker than healing from lifesteal. Attacking these monsters will heal you instead. If you avoid killing those monsters they can heal and you can steal life from them again. They are called bloodcows, and is one of the healing source that Dracul can provide. {{c|Vampire}} has his playstyle completely build around this feature.
+If you happen to get 2x life steal, especially with {{i|Platemail}}, some lower level monsters' attack will be actually weaker than healing from life steal. Attacking these monsters will heal you instead. If you avoid killing those monsters they can heal and you can steal life from them again. They are called bloodcows, and is one of the healing source that Dracul can provide. {{c|Vampire}} has his playstyle completely build around this feature.
-You can overheal from lifesteal. Because {{boon|Blood Tithe}} nor {{boon|Blood Swell}} can heal you above your maximum HP and blood tithe decreases your maximum HP, sometimes you cannot even tank a hit from the boss. Of course not making those situations is the best. But if it already happened, lifesteal is often the only way to deal with it.
+You can overheal from life steal. Because {{boon|Blood Tithe}} nor {{boon|Blood Swell}} can heal you above your maximum HP and blood tithe decreases your maximum HP, sometimes you cannot even tank a hit from the boss. Of course not making those situations is the best. But if it already happened, life steal is often the only way to deal with it.
 === {{boon|Blood Shield}} ===

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 === {{boon|Blood Tithe}} ===
-The most powerful boon of Dracul, and also the real reason why Dracul is the king of the endgame spike. You don't actually need this boon halfway through the dungeon, as you don't want to accidently waste your bloodpools. Unlike {{boon|Blood Hunger}}, only one stack of blood tithe is not very efficient for the usage of limited bloodpools. Drinking bloodpools with one stack of blood tithe will not heal you much and give you mere {{piety|1}}. When you reach {{piety|25}} to get another stack of blood tithe, your bloodpools would mostly be depleted. In order to avoid this inefficient movement you want at least two stacks as fast as possible, favorably even before consuming any bloodpool. This is the perfect timing which {{boon|Blood Curse}} kicks in. Because you would be facing the boss around then, exp is not a problem and blood curse doesn't actually have any drawback. Collecting piety sparkles you've saved, killing popcorns, desecrating some altars, or taking {{boon|consensus}} from {{g|The Pactmaker}} are also some great moves here.
+The most powerful boon of Dracul, and also the real reason why Dracul is the king of the endgame spike. You don't actually need this boon halfway through the dungeon, and you don't want to accidently waste your bloodpools. Unlike {{boon|Blood Hunger}}, only one stack of blood tithe is not very efficient for the usage of limited bloodpools. Drinking bloodpools with one stack of blood tithe will not heal you much and give you mere {{piety|1}}. When you reach {{piety|25}} to get another stack of blood tithe, your bloodpools would mostly be depleted. In order to avoid this inefficient movement you want at least two stacks as fast as possible, favorably even before consuming any bloodpool. This is the perfect timing which {{boon|Blood Curse}} kicks in. Because you would be facing the boss around then, exp is not a problem and blood curse doesn't actually have any drawback. Collecting piety sparkles you've saved, killing popcorns, desecrating some altars, or taking {{boon|consensus}} from {{g|The Pactmaker}} are also some great moves here.
 Each stack of blood tithe also reduces your maximum HP, and since blood tithe and {{boon|Blood Swell}} heals a certain percentage of your maximum HP, it's better to find a way to raise your maximum HP to compensate and it will cost a significant amount of piety. This usually means you'll need to convert into Dracul's religion with a large amount of piety already accrued, and found some way to increase your hit points. The need for improved hit points means {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}}, {{g|The Earthmother}} or {{g|Glowing Guardian}} all make excellent deities to worship prior to converting to {{g|Dracul}}. Followers of {{g|The Earthmother}} should take note that {{boon|Plantation}} will remove bloodstains. Followers of the {{g|Glowing Guardian}} must tread carefully with {{boon|Absolution}}; removing a monster will also prevent you from harvesting its blood after you convert. {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}} is difficult to manage, as most players will want to use {{boon|Chaos Avatar}} before converting out, which may leave you with insufficient piety, but this combo is very powerful when you do have enough piety to pull it off. Preparing additional health boosters, being {{r|Dwarf}} or purchasing some items are also a great options.
 Note that if you leave Dracul and convert back, you only get 1 piety from drinking a bloodpool no matter how many blood tithe you have purchased.
 === {{boon|Blood Swell}} ===

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 === {{boon|Blood Curse}} ===
-''Never purchase it at low level!'' The purpose of existence of this boon is getting quick piety gain at endgame. Dracul is very petty with your piety, and {{piety|20}} is incredibly valueable to you. The perfect timing of this boon is when you purchase {{boon|Blood Tithe}} for two or more stack. It will be described below.
+'''Never purchase it at low level!''' The purpose of existence of this boon is getting quick piety gain at endgame. Dracul is very petty with your piety, and {{piety|20}} is incredibly valueable to you. The perfect timing of this boon is when you purchase {{boon|Blood Tithe}} for two or more stack. It will be described below.
 This boon synergies with regen-fighting, {{boon|Blood Hunger}}, {{g|BURNDAYRAZ}} and {{g|HALPMEH}} (only for {{c|Paladin}}) since this features use your level, not the power of your character. Also note that {{t|Life steal}} ability gets doubled versus lower level monsters than you.

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 '''Dracul''' is the unholy deity of death, undeath, evil... your archetypical Lord of Darkness.  Dracul's boons are well suited to brawler-type characters, and with only a few very narrow exceptions is largely useless for spellcasters or striker-type attackers such as the {{c|Rogue}}.
-Dracul is unlocked in a subdungeon to the east.  When you enter this subdungeon, you will be pitted in combat against a doppelganger of yourself.  However, there is a known bug where the subdungeon exit doesn't seal itself off until you move one tile.  If you adjust the visible tabs, you can leave the subdungeon and avoid unlocking {{g|Dracul}} in this fashion.
+Dracul is unlocked in a subdungeon to the east.  When you enter this subdungeon, you will be pitted in combat against a doppelganger of yourself.  However, there is a known bug where the subdungeon exit doesn't seal itself off until you move one tile.  If you adjust the visible tabs, you can leave the subdungeon and avoid unlocking Dracul in this fashion.
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 Dracul's boons all grant ways to restore your hit points or (in the case of {{boon|Blood Shield}}) prevent incoming damage.  This gives a Dracul follower greatly increased staying power in combat, and Dracul often makes an excellent last-ditch choice in the end-game since none of these are dependent on exploration space.
-Both the {{boon|Blood Tithe}} and the {{boon|Blood Hunger}} boons provide a balance of piety gain and healing.  They both have serious drawbacks that must be managed, but with a large number of weaker monsters to "farm" for lifesteal healing they can allow a significant boost to your end-game healing prospects.  For characters who can raise their resistances substantially above 45% you should virtually ''never'' purchase the {{boon|Blood Hunger}} boon. {{boon|Blood Tithe}} can offer some reasonable healing if you select it multiple times, but you'll need to find a way to raise your maximum HP to compensate and it will cost a significant amount of piety.  This usually means you'll need to convert into Dracul's religion with a large amount of piety already accrued, and found some way to increase your hit points.
+=== {{boon|Blood Curse}} ===
-The need for improved hit points means {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}}, {{g|The Earthmother}} or {{g|Glowing Guardian}} all make excellent deities to worship prior to converting to {{g|Dracul}}. Followers of {{g|The Earthmother}} should take note that {{boon|Plantation}} will remove bloodstains. Followers of the {{g|Glowing Guardian}} must tread carefully with {{boon|Absolution}}; removing a monster will also prevent you from harvesting its blood after you convert. {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}} is difficult to manage, as most players will want to use {{boon|Chaos Avatar}} before converting out, which may leave you with insufficient piety, but this combo is very powerful when you do have enough piety to pull it off.
+This boon synergies with regen-fighting, {{boon|Blood Hunger}}, {{g|BURNDAYRAZ}} and {{g|HALPMEH}} (only for {{c|Paladin}}) since this features use your level, not the power of your character. Also note that {{t|Life steal}} ability gets doubled versus lower level monsters than you.
-{{g|Taurog}} into {{g|Dracul}} is a very powerful conversion chain. Taurog's easy piety generation lets you convert into Dracul with nearly full piety, and his armor pieces combine with {{boon|Blood Shield}} for a very easy way to get 30%/30% resists, making the chain one of the best ways to stack resistances. Combine with {{i|Patches the Teddy}} and the {{i|Dragon Shield}} and baby, you've got a stew goin'.
+As you cannot levelup above 10, purchasing blood curse will limit you at level 9 effectively, in the sense of maximum HP and base attack. While this is not a problem for most dungeons, for some longer dungeons which most important fights happen at level 10, you should never purchase this boon.
-When combined with the {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} glyph, {{g|Dracul}} becomes an awesome force for spellcasters. {{boon|Blood Tithe}} and {{boon|Blood Hunger}} boons can be used to farm hit points, and then {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} can be used to convert them into [[mana]].  This allows {{g|Dracul}} to fuel some of the most powerful spellcasting spikes in the game, turning any character into a {{c|Bloodmage}}.  However, without this glyph he offers no synergy with spellcasters.
+=== {{boon|Blood Hunger}} ===
-Overall, Dracul is a very difficult diety to consistently worship, but is by far the best diety for a late-game health spike. With even a moderate store of piety, Dracul can fully heal most characters several times over with {{boon|Blood Tithe}} and {{boon|Blood Swell}}. While he is rarely a good choice as a first diety, his incredible late-game power is virtually essential in {{d|Vicious Gaan-Telet}} and can be incredibly impactful in other difficult dungeons as well. Just be sure to drink your health potions and kill off any {{m|Wraith}} and {{m|Zombie}} popcorn before converting.
+For characters who can raise their resistances substantially above 45% you should virtually ''never'' purchase the {{boon|Blood Hunger}} boon, although some expert players can carefully manage the drawback. Only one stack of this boon is preferred at most cases. If you purchase this boon twice your maximum resistance would be decrased into 25%, which is nonsense for resistant-stacking characters. Also {{piety|45}} is too expensive under Dracul. With this much piety either {{boon|Blood Shield}} or {{boon|Blood Tithe}} is preferred.
-Note that if you leave Dracul and convert back, you only get 1 piety from drinking a bloodpool no matter how many {{boon|Blood Tithe}} you have purchased.
+If you happen to get 2x lifesteal, especially with {{i|Platemail}}, some lower level monsters' attack will be actually weaker than healing from lifesteal. Attacking these monsters will heal you instead. If you avoid killing those monsters they can heal and you can steal life from them again. They are called bloodcows, and is one of the healing source that Dracul can provide. {{c|Vampire}} has his playstyle completely build around this feature.
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	Overall, Dracul is a very difficult diety to consistently worship, but is by far the best diety for a late-game health spike. With even a moderate store of piety, Dracul can fully heal most characters several times over with {{boon\|Blood Tithe}} and {{boon\|Blood Swell}}. While he is rarely a good choice as a first diety, his incredible late-game power is virtually essential in {{d\|Vicious Gaan-Telet}} and can be incredibly impactful in other difficult dungeons as well. Just be sure to drink your health potions and kill off any {{m\|Wraith}} and {{m\|Zombie}} popcorn before converting.		Overall, Dracul is a very difficult diety to consistently worship, but is by far the best diety for a late-game health spike. With even a moderate store of piety, Dracul can fully heal most characters several times over with {{boon\|Blood Tithe}} and {{boon\|Blood Swell}}. While he is rarely a good choice as a first diety, his incredible late-game power is virtually essential in {{d\|Vicious Gaan-Telet}} and can be incredibly impactful in other difficult dungeons as well. Just be sure to drink your health potions and kill off any {{m\|Wraith}} and {{m\|Zombie}} popcorn before converting.
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		+	Note that if you leave Dracul and convert back, you only get 1 piety from drinking a bloodpool no matter how many {{boon\|Blood Thite}} you have purchased.

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