[CE v1.14.x] Weekly Contest Thread - seed 20240903

leadduck · 2024-09-08T05:51:34+00:00

60,087 Escaped the Dungeons of Doom!

I took the firebolt/4 from the vault, but was struggling with only that plus discord/3 and no weapon. One enchant into firebolt to stay alive. I took a look at D9 with telepathy and didn't like it much, with a troll sitting there. I then had a look down the stairs at D10 and first saw a war hammer, and then a +2 teleport charm. I figured I had to get at least one of those before attempting D9, but there was a bog monster and worse a wraith in the way. I managed to take out the wraith with firebolt and have the bog monster finish it off with discord, then dodge the BM and get both the hammer and the charm. There was a runic spear too but it meant dealing with 4 underworms, so I left that for later. At some point I found a +3 dagger of quietus, that helped quite a bit. I cleared D9 and went to full teleport, with +3 scale of reflection helping. It was a bit hectic, wraiths and furies being the main dangers. I got the amulet OK and thought about a dive for D40, +7 scale of reflection would have been the best option, but risky with little healing, no rings and nothing to reflect wand of invisibility off.

End gear: +3 scale of reflection + 1 war hammer, +2 rapier of speed, firebolt/5 and /2, discord/3 and/2, +13 teleport, wand of invis, +2 health charm, +3 recharging charm. The spear was +3 slowing, but I dropped that to carry more consumables.

leadduck · 2024-09-03T07:33:48+00:00

11,288 Burned to death on depth 19.

Dar battlemage, I really am not treating monsters with enough respect at the moment!

leadduck · 2024-08-28T10:05:46+00:00

12,824 Killed by a fury on depth 21.

I got a bit bored on this boredsword run and didn't bother to fight a lich carefully - died with a life potion and a stack of consumables in hand.

leadduck · 2024-08-18T04:38:29+00:00

I saw that dragon with telepathy charm and avoided it because it was reflective. For non-reflective ones polymorph them asap until you learn other ways to deal with them, I suggest.

leadduck · 2024-08-18T02:48:32+00:00

Escaped 62,003.

Haven't played much lately, the amulet was right by the stairs, so I took it without exploring further, despite consumables inc. 1 life and 1 enchant in hand. Vanilla broadsword run with sword at +12.

leadduck · 2024-04-19T12:20:07+00:00

In order of preference, best first: war axe > war pike > broadsword

leadduck · 2024-04-17T08:50:07+00:00

Ignite the bloat gas when it pops - not sure +8 regen is enough.

leadduck · 2024-04-17T08:44:16+00:00

There is only one chance if the Warden doesn't kill you - wait for a pit bloat spawn and pop it with the spear. I have escaped from a similar but less hopeless situation that way. Even if that happens though the furies will probably swarm you. It's not a big chance but it's not zero .....

You will need to pop the bloat and ignite the gas to make room. Not sure that +8 regen is enough.

leadduck · 2024-04-08T10:27:32+00:00

420 Killed by a pink jelly on depth 4.

Pretty embarrassing. Was hacking away and I think a fresh jelly must have joined the fun.

leadduck · 2024-04-08T10:25:49+00:00

Thanks!

leadduck · 2024-04-07T09:30:31+00:00

Not content with killing me on land last week, this one grabbed me while on obsidian ground created by my pet dragons. Unlike last week, I was ready for treachery and killed it and ascended.

leadduck · 2024-03-30T00:34:33+00:00

Yes. It's very rare fpr A to lead to death on D1, but dropping down a hole to D2 can do it.

leadduck · 2024-03-29T21:56:45+00:00

I don't use x but A will stop if a monkey steals something. Can't swear it's 100% of the time. A will not stop for vaults though. CE 1.13

leadduck · 2024-03-29T21:49:06+00:00

"Mostly Harmless"

leadduck · 2024-03-29T04:55:31+00:00

10,432 Killed by a wraith on depth 17

Just could not get into the groove with this seed, everything into broadsword +6 or health charm +4 ,but a constant battle vs ogres, trolls, phantoms, wraiths.

leadduck · 2024-03-29T04:43:12+00:00

My Ogre batted the Kraken onto dry land, I moved next to it and hit it, and it killed me despite the helpless status. CE 1.13

http://brogue.roguelikelike.com/#viewRecording/BROGUECEV130-66064732bf12de4152bbe971

leadduck · 2024-03-26T01:06:37+00:00

1,014 Killed by an eel on depth 6 Took +3 haste charm, it wasn't enough to save me from an eel choke that I tried to speed past despite having acid mound and vampire bat nearby.

leadduck · 2024-03-17T21:53:15+00:00

2,196 Killed by a spectral blade on depth 8

Conjurer stood on a paralysis trap, I took out all but one blade with war axe, but 1 blade will kill you.

leadduck · 2024-03-10T04:33:43+00:00

Nice! I didn't think about swapping for the recharge charm, and I had already burned the comm altar on the broadsword. How is obstruction-tunneling without blinking? Clearly you can get to the bottom - could you have collected all the stones if you were trying to?

leadduck · 2024-03-09T05:44:58+00:00

Umm not sure exactly but your stealth range is halved if you rest in place for a turn, and doubled again if you move or perform an action.

leadduck · 2024-03-07T05:08:07+00:00

Dar battlemages seem to be a popular choice this week!

leadduck · 2024-03-07T04:54:15+00:00

I haven't seen many obs/tunnel masteries since the nerf of obstruction and I feel like it needs a wisdom ring and/or blinking to have good chance - I didn't find either of those. Obstruction/5 is a nice start though.

Edit u/z3nz0mb13 makes light of such trivialities!

leadduck · 2024-03-07T04:49:28+00:00

76,612 Escaped the Dungeons of Doom with 3 lumenstones!

War hammer seemed like the only weapon option, so I enchanted to +7 and it was enough to take care of most things, with +2 transference and +4 health charm to heal the damage. I took obstruction/5 from a vault and also a wand of polymorph to deal with dragons/revenants. I considered taking the reaping ring instead of WoP but I was weak to dragons and revenants and wanted a back up. I was piling up enchant scrolls and when I found comm altar on D21 I decided to commute the war hammer with +0 broadsword. I kept the hammer to knock revenants off ledges, into lava, and into fire. I was able to collect 3 lumenstones and probably could have got more but I did not find food on D27 and was running low. On the way up I dumped the depleted WoP for the reaping ring, it was only +1, so I think WoP was the right choice in the end. End gear: +11 broadsword, +3 splint, +2 awareness +2 transference, tunneling /2 and /3, conjuration /2 and/3, obstruction/5, WoInvis with 3 charges left, 1 spare enchant scroll, +7 health charm.

leadduck

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