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Well I was actually hoping he would gift me a flaming axe of some sort for the hydras I keep running into, but the Javelins he's given me may be useful for that, though I do think I will have to invest a little more than I'd like into Throwing. Do tomahawks sever hydra heads?I remember hearing that, at least.Am not totally sure.
It's from the wiki, which may not be as sure as diving in the source, but here it is :QuoteIt begins the turn you receive a gift, and decreases every time you gain piety (this piety is only applied toward ending the gift timeout)I read that as "piety goes in your gift timer instead of real piety stack", which means you "lose" piety each time you get a gift (because you'll miss some piety to feed the timer).
On the other hand, even with low skill, tomahawk and Javelins are good, especially when branded
Str increases damage, slightly increases accuracy, and slightly reduces the penalties to casting, stealth, and EV for armor.Well, Str it is then, because I plan on wearing heavy armor for the extended endgame. Also I regret choosing gladiator instead of fighter, because Okawaru seems to love giving me javelins and tomahawks I don't want to use.
Dex increases accuracy and EV, while slightly increasing stealth, damage, and the chance you'll deal aux. attacks (like headbutting with horns etc.).
Dex is always better for a lighter armored melee char, while I think Str slightly edges out Dex if you're wearing Plate or heavier. Int is better than both if you're ever going to cast. If you're looking at it purely in terms of what to spend your 3rd level stat upgrades on, it's almost irrelevant. The difference between ~6 Dex and ~6 Str (how much you'll get if you live until XL18) is not noticeable. If you start stacking stats with gear, you might notice.
Aw man, am I the only one who messed up not once, but twice in the last two days? Good. Congratulations, everyone! I had never played in a tournament before, this was surprisingly fun, even with the horrible latency I get on the webtiles servers. Feels fun knowing your win is contributing to a teamI THINK it's some time next year. I can't do this again anytime soon, because the only game I played this month was dungeon crawl. Right now my sanity is about to plunge into a state long past repair. Not really. But seriously though, I need a break. I do look forward to next year though.Also made me try a lot of things I probably wouldn't, seeing what was most popular and what other people were playing.
When's the next tourney, anyway? I kind of want to do this again
That Zot 5 was really stupid. After I picked up the orb, so many nasty things spawned. Two orbs of fire, an ancient lich, a bunch of draconians, and a few hellhounds to keep me preoccupied. I got down to 20ish health just on that floor and had to quaff all my healing potions. Probably could've done more than 3 runes, but whatever. Cheers for the end of the tourney.
Yeah great job Gravenous and TheSomberlain. Jeanjacques just watched your KoBe die in Snake on FooTV, sad death.Well, that was embarrassing. Given how I died I mean. I read that tele scroll and didn't realize constriction was screwing it over. YASD and all that. I can imagine jeanjacques shaking his head at that.
Well, the footie is about to start, time I got my feeble Tengu ass to the bottom of Shoals
Also... who's The Somberlain in this thread?I'm the Somberlain. Anyway, the tournament is winding down, so I'm gonna try to win another game, but if it comes down to where I have to start a new character and win within something like 12-13 hours, I'll be done with the tournament.
VICTORY AT LAST!Congrats on the victory. First win for the Bay12 Procrastinators.That was really darn close.
Some random notes for this playthrough:
- Simulacrum spam with Kiku is actually surprisingly powerful. I did this in Vaults:5 and Zot:5, and since the corpses you get there (stone giants, dragons etc) usually yield 4~8 chunks it's easy to quickly raise a group of around 20 very hard hitting units. And since they're undead they still fight normally outside of LOS. It's capable of taking down Orbs of Fire without too much trouble, but you do need to recharge after each fight to replenish the casualties.
- Speaking of Vaults, Vaults in 0.12 is a bloody deathtrap. Seriously what the hell.
- I actually killed Nikola by catching him in a throwing net and then stabbing him. That was pretty funny.
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So yeah, probably gonna take a short break. Haven't decided on my next character, probably a transmuter or something.
If it's lagging don't press any key that is a command. Just hit something like esc until you get the unrecognized command message.I unfortunately forgot that while I thought my *FLY* status was still fresh. It wasn't. Derped there, and cost me a potential 15-runer.
