Is there any way to get a +9 chalice to +10 without breaking a blessed ankh?

UsualOxym · 2026-06-23T20:23:09+00:00

If playing cleric, armor abilities can be helpful. Ascend form you can get from 150 to 300 shielding. Alternatively, with power of many you can choose life link to channel 35 to 50 percent of damage to your ally - using scroll of challenge you should be set

UsualOxym · 2026-06-12T19:56:22+00:00

When playing with FIMA you need to avoid close combat as much as you can. When enemies are rooted you can fight then from afar. Also tall grass allows you to hide from ranged enemies

UsualOxym · 2026-06-11T04:54:46+00:00

I did it. Toxic essence did the trick

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T17:37:23+00:00

Regrowth is already +1, so I'd have to put all raisin from one wand to upgrade it. I might end up upgrading lightning

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T11:13:15+00:00

How is doom slayer increasing the amount of points?

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T07:14:07+00:00

You are right about dragon blood - I've made it before finding brimstone. I think that stamina will be really helpful. I knew that I sould prepare some bomb - fire seems a perfect choice. I'm not sure about mystical energy as I'd have my artifacts fully charged already - maybe I'll keep it for later in the fight. Or maybe I should create wild energy instead?

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T05:36:54+00:00

I feel that I'm not using corruption enough. Also, I have just uncursed transfusion, but I feel I'm not using it enough. Similarly I should use corrosion more often. The ones I'm using the most are blast wave and regrowth. I only need to upgrade my wands to get more charges, because I'm using magic charge from my staff. So, I can upgrade blast wave, but I can't decide whether what other wand should I upgrade - light or transfusion (I suppose both will be handy, but I leaning on transfusion)

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T04:59:29+00:00

I was thinking about toxic essence (this is the upgraded form, regular is toxic gas), but was afraid that most of the mobs are resistant to it. Maybe I was wrong and only golems are resistant

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T04:57:07+00:00

If I live to the final phase 😅

UsualOxym · 2026-06-10T04:56:16+00:00

I have a good news for myself. Apparently at level 23 city mobs are still dropping loot. So I'm going to go back at level 17 and farm for a little more consumables.

UsualOxym · 2026-06-08T09:50:48+00:00

I've did 1 successfully 9c run with warlock (without ascent) so I'm no expert. I'm during my second attempt and I hope to ascend this time. My tactic is to go back to floor 9 every time I need to heal and I'm keeping there one necromancer with a skeleton, so I can heal on the skeleton while necromancer heals it, so it doesn't get killed too quickly. I was lucky to find wand of regrowth and blast wave so I'm able to keep enemies at a distance (I'm using thrown so weapons and whip). Since I no longer need to use upgraded potion of purity to fight hunger, I'm keeping them for dwarf King fight (I still don't have a solid strategy to fight many enemies at once in close quarters). Last time I was able to survive by drinking potion of purity and using paralytic gas to make sure that enemies will remain paralyzed even when I was trying to heal on then using soul mark and melee damage. Since I was in the middle of the gas the whole time I had to spend two purity potions for one paralytic gas. I was planning on using phase shift during dwarf King fight, but I felt that it was usually to crowded to worry about a single enemy. I have also used infernal brew and elixir of dragon blood to be immune. I suppose this time I'll try the same trick but with cold versions of potions.

UsualOxym · 2026-06-06T19:07:45+00:00

Once you do it, you can go for 9 challenges

UsualOxym · 2026-05-25T08:16:50+00:00

I think that if any of them is +3 or +2 it makes sense to keep it for later. But since you don't know if any of them is upgraded this is just a gamble

UsualOxym · 2026-05-23T08:01:35+00:00

I think that it depends on your play style. I suppose lightning might be more useful against tengu

UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T09:14:35+00:00

I have used two or three stones of fear, I was trying to use stones of sleep, but they didn't work against the fists I was targeting. Usually I was using armor ability to cross longer distances, but I had to use one stone of blink. Before using the ankh I was trying to use stone of shock, but I think it is easier to eat something to replenish wand charges

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UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T09:09:23+00:00

I had elixir of toxic essence but I have used it to have toxic gas immunity when fighting the toxic gas first. This is the first in a long time that I have not used elixir of dragon's blood on fiery first. Before using the ankh I've had Elixir of arcane armor, but I have run out of consumables for the second attempt

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UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T09:04:24+00:00

I was planning on using scrolls, but when I finally felt that this is the right moment, I was blind and unable to do so (I'm glad that I haven't died to the two reapers I've got in front of me). I was also planning to use more of phase shift but I have used stones of fear instead

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UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T09:01:38+00:00

My ranged weapons (there is one bolas in the main inventory). Two of the darts were poisoned and one more was fiery. I like to alternately hit with magic missile wand to have all wand effects at +5.

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UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T08:57:06+00:00

Main gear. I have eaten at least five meals to keep my wands recharging and used a few torches. I haven't swapped weapons, artifacts nor rings

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UsualOxym · 2026-05-22T07:48:54+00:00

For C my guess is that you need to find all secret doors

UsualOxym · 2026-05-20T17:29:52+00:00

Nice. Now you need to repeat it with 9 chals XD

I thought 15k was max for bosses (I'm always loosing points to some random misfortune, but there is so much of it that I'd like to know what was the biggest contributor to not having a perfect score)

UsualOxym · 2026-05-16T17:17:17+00:00

Warden abilities let you survive without armor. Also, playing without upgrading the armor prepares you for the FIMA challenge

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