/roguelike/ - Roguelike

>>943
I'm just trying to beat the base game as valkyrie. Starting to get the hang of it.

>>944
Same here, only with a Knight. I want to get decent enough until super bad luck day and then see how far I get with extreme bad luck.

Very likely not very far.

Favourite version:
>UnNethack

Classes:
>Valks, Wizs, Monks

Advice:

Valks:
Go to mines to get some armor, a stack of daggers a pick-axe and reach town to check what goodies do I have available. I try to get Excalibur before reaching the Sokoban. Then go to sokoban and get my prize. By this time I may have ditched my pet. I do both of these while keeping an eye on get poison resistance. Hopefully I get reflection to have an easier time. If not, I'll always try to stay away from a direct line of sight against enemies that can use wands. After this is a long journey to Medusa. I'll steal things from shops if I get a magic whistle. Try to get the essential intrisics. Go to vaults. Buy protection. Dip every potion I have with an arrow to check if I have a potion of polymorph. After that I'll dip my unicorn horn in every potion. From there I'll quaff any unID'd uncursed potion. I'll also try to price ID stuff. I ditch spellcasting entirely, too much of an hassle. Get some dragon armour. Get magic resistance. If I don't have MR by the time I have reached the castle, I'll genocide liches. Once I get Medusa I'll use alchemy to get potions of full heal, bless them and quaff them to raise my max HP. I'll save around 5 of them. My wishes usually are blessed fixed cloak of magic resistance, boots of speed, magic markers. I'll eroproof my stuff, enchant my weapons and armor, (reverse) genocide some monsters. Then I'll go for the quest. In the mean time, if I get any wishes, I'll wish for an athame. By this stage in the game, I am ready for an ascension. Hopefully I'll get gauntlets of power and a bag of holding but are not really essentials.


Wizs:
Wizs have a similar strategy as Valks. I'll use force bolt if things go sour. Try to get magicbane ASAP. I'll be throwing daggers most of the time. Quest also has a bigger priority because of my artifact. Around quest, I'll probably have spellbook of polymorph. I'll polypile equipment and get my ascension kit a lot faster than the Valk.


Monks:

I'm playing monks in SLASH'EM and getting my ass kicked. They hit very hard barehanded and make very good spellcasters. The #techniques they have are insane. In SLASH'EM credit cloning has more priority, since we can buy shopkeepers to ID stuff. Makes amnesia less of a threat. Quest has priority once I got two potion of invulnerability.

>>956
I've been trying to play neutral valkyrie, but the beginning seems a lot harder without excalibur. Recently mind flayers have been spawning in the mines for me, too.

Well now I have a run where I got a magic marker, bag of holding, slow digestion, and unicorn horn by mines end. And now to make it even better I've polymorphed into a spooky skeleton.

And then I accidentally hit a floating eye when walking down a corridor.

;_;

I've been watching some Knight plays on YT and noticed that most don't use their horse at the start and sometimes never.
Is there a good reason for that?
I always feed it some apples and mount. What's the point of playing Knight when one doesn't use the speed of the horse?

fuckin eels man

>>963

There must be a polymorph trap somewhere.