Thursday, December 19, 2002
Yes, it's been a long long while. Finals does that to you. But they're over, and break has begun. After reading a few books, I decided to turn my attention to something that I hadn't done in a long time. This is the game Dungeon Hack. We got it about 8 years ago or so, and it's one of the best dungeon crawl games I've played in a long time. With over 4 BILLION possible dungeons, you can play this over and over again.
Right, so now that I am no longer an advertisement...this game is soooo good. I played the end of my last character again, and tore right through it. I believe I was a fighter/cleric on the 25th and final level of the dungeon. I came across to the end creature and annihilated it with one fire storm. How very anti climactic. That is SUCH a great spell. Anyway, I am at the top of the hall of fame at some 6 million xp, with second place being somewhere around 2 million. I can't be touched. For now. So I decided to make a bard, because I thought it would be fun being able to do a little bit of everything except healing. It was fun going through as the cleric and not being able to ID stuff, but boy am I glad that's over. Alright, so my bard. I get a good roll, but I still reroll a couple of times and get a good stat selection. Without tinkering thank you very much. So level 4. I start off, and it becomes highly apparent that I am getting my ass kicked. My only two spells are magic missile and burning hands, and I can't even use them with my armor(as my dexterity is something like 12 I get no bonuses there for defense). So this is bad. I quickly ifnd a shield and a sword +1, so I can sort of stand up in a fight without dying. Still bloody hurts. I'm resting for a LONG time, and food is becoming a problem. Then I find a ring. Keep in mind this is still on the first floor. I ID it, and I cannot believe it. A ring of regeneration. All my healing problems are solved. I just have to wear this when I sleep and I am fine in a couple of hours, instead of having to wait 90 hours and starve to death. So that is fabulous. I am less afraid about fighting toe to toe now, as I can heal fairly fast. I then come across some bracers +2. now we're cooking. I've got a 5 AC, not bad for a bard still on the first floor. I can last long enough in a fight without having to rest afterwards. So I am progressing at a goodly rate. I find a couple of wands, and use them when I am in a real jam. I also figure out burning hands awesome potential. I was all of a sudden facing 4 orcs and very little hit points, so I fired off a burning hands spell. And they died. ALL of them.
Cool.
New strategy now. If there's more than two of them, burning hands is used once I get them together. Otherwise I'll just hack away with my sword, retreating in between blows, and once i'm down to one I'll just sit and wait it out. Works well. Then I get another pair of bracers and some gauntlets. The bracers are bracers of archery, not much use for them. But the gauntlets. Damn. Gauntlets of fire ginat strength. This jumps my strength from a measely 10 to 22! I'm going to try them out. Sure enough, I go from doing an average of 3 or 4 damage and hitting once every 5 times to an average of 14 and hitting about every other time. And killing things in one shot. I have just become lethal. I keep the rbacers, but stow them in my bag. I figure once my spells become more and mroe powerful I am going to be using those more and more and defense will matter more than physical strength. But damn I like those gauntlets. I also found a robe, but it wasn't magical. Which sucks, but that's okay. Things are progressing nicely. My bard is smiting major monster ass with her short sword +1 and gauntlets of godly giantess strength. I won't even have to use my spells unless I'm swamped by monsters. I also founbd a couple of wands that will be very useful. Frost and distance. Distance will definitely come into play later on when I am shooting off spells left and right. Woo hoo! So I stopped at the stairs to the second level, with my bardess still at level 4, but with her eyes set on level 5. And between my ring and my gloves, I foree very few problems for quite some time. Woo hoo!
Right, so now that I am no longer an advertisement...this game is soooo good. I played the end of my last character again, and tore right through it. I believe I was a fighter/cleric on the 25th and final level of the dungeon. I came across to the end creature and annihilated it with one fire storm. How very anti climactic. That is SUCH a great spell. Anyway, I am at the top of the hall of fame at some 6 million xp, with second place being somewhere around 2 million. I can't be touched. For now. So I decided to make a bard, because I thought it would be fun being able to do a little bit of everything except healing. It was fun going through as the cleric and not being able to ID stuff, but boy am I glad that's over. Alright, so my bard. I get a good roll, but I still reroll a couple of times and get a good stat selection. Without tinkering thank you very much. So level 4. I start off, and it becomes highly apparent that I am getting my ass kicked. My only two spells are magic missile and burning hands, and I can't even use them with my armor(as my dexterity is something like 12 I get no bonuses there for defense). So this is bad. I quickly ifnd a shield and a sword +1, so I can sort of stand up in a fight without dying. Still bloody hurts. I'm resting for a LONG time, and food is becoming a problem. Then I find a ring. Keep in mind this is still on the first floor. I ID it, and I cannot believe it. A ring of regeneration. All my healing problems are solved. I just have to wear this when I sleep and I am fine in a couple of hours, instead of having to wait 90 hours and starve to death. So that is fabulous. I am less afraid about fighting toe to toe now, as I can heal fairly fast. I then come across some bracers +2. now we're cooking. I've got a 5 AC, not bad for a bard still on the first floor. I can last long enough in a fight without having to rest afterwards. So I am progressing at a goodly rate. I find a couple of wands, and use them when I am in a real jam. I also figure out burning hands awesome potential. I was all of a sudden facing 4 orcs and very little hit points, so I fired off a burning hands spell. And they died. ALL of them.
Cool.
New strategy now. If there's more than two of them, burning hands is used once I get them together. Otherwise I'll just hack away with my sword, retreating in between blows, and once i'm down to one I'll just sit and wait it out. Works well. Then I get another pair of bracers and some gauntlets. The bracers are bracers of archery, not much use for them. But the gauntlets. Damn. Gauntlets of fire ginat strength. This jumps my strength from a measely 10 to 22! I'm going to try them out. Sure enough, I go from doing an average of 3 or 4 damage and hitting once every 5 times to an average of 14 and hitting about every other time. And killing things in one shot. I have just become lethal. I keep the rbacers, but stow them in my bag. I figure once my spells become more and mroe powerful I am going to be using those more and more and defense will matter more than physical strength. But damn I like those gauntlets. I also found a robe, but it wasn't magical. Which sucks, but that's okay. Things are progressing nicely. My bard is smiting major monster ass with her short sword +1 and gauntlets of godly giantess strength. I won't even have to use my spells unless I'm swamped by monsters. I also founbd a couple of wands that will be very useful. Frost and distance. Distance will definitely come into play later on when I am shooting off spells left and right. Woo hoo! So I stopped at the stairs to the second level, with my bardess still at level 4, but with her eyes set on level 5. And between my ring and my gloves, I foree very few problems for quite some time. Woo hoo!
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