Re: [Tome] Declaration of Skill-pointless Artifactless Yeek Hermit Sorceror with intentions of killing Melkor

dzhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> So, after Round 2 against Melkor with a fighter type went by like a breeze, and
> seeing Timo's posts about Bookless Artifactless Hobbit Mage, I decided to put
> in my own try for hardest victory.  Here are some thoughts:
> 
> Things I'll miss:
> 
> Artifact armors granting +HP
> Artifact rings with +10 extra attacks
> Any decent fighting ability
> 
> Things I plan on (ab)using:
> 
> Creation scumming.  Recreate character until the character successfully steals
> one good piece of armor or weapon.  This is essentially the same as waiting
> hundreds of thousands of turns for shops to reset, except faster for me.
> 
> Stat-gain scumming.  Normally I don't do this, but if I see a dungeon potion
> shop, I'm putting on the best RoDex and AoSerpents I can find and stealing
> every potion until I max out my stats.  
> 
> Turnless town-scumming:  For early in the game, to raise cash I will repeated do
> "<" ">" to reset the town civilians, and kill off aimless merchants for
> "fundraising"
> 
> Dungeon scumming: For early in the game, I'll repeated do "<" ">" into Barrow
> Downs until I see immobile monsters in my LoS to hit with arrows.
> 
> Definitely going for the postive p-val Amulet of Doom trick.  
> 
> Other things:
> 
> In order to survive Mordor, Mt Doom, Nether Realms, I'm going to have to go for
> corruptions until I get Demon Skin, which grants fire immunity at clvl 40.
> 
> Since I can't use magic, a Dark Sword for end-game sounds good.
> 
> Any other question/suggestions?
> 
> Dave

I don't believe this is possible.  Yeek Hermit Sorceror doesn't have
enough HP to survive a single manastorm from Melkor. You need Weapon
of Life 40%, and maybe not even that will be enough. Furthurmore you
need CON boosts as well to survive Melkor's manastorm, and the amulet
of doom won't be enough. So this will seriously cramp your equipment
to the point that you.....

Make things easier on yourself ;)

k2