It's been awhile since I've made a post here, but that doesn't mean I haven't been playing roguelikes lately. On the contrary. I've been nearly obsessed with DCSS over the past month, more so than ever before. I was fortunate enough to beat my all time high score just last week with Grurn the Troll Monk of Trog. I really thought I'd make it to Zot for the first time. I really did. But it was not to be.
I did learn some valuable lessons, though.
1) Trolls are awesome. Troll Monks are killing machines. Troll Monks of Trog are so powerful it's almost not fair.
2) Kill Ogre Mages immediately. They can ruin your game by banishing you to the Abyss. It happened to me twice, the last of which did me in.
3) Blinking and teleportation scrolls and abilities do not work normally in the abyss. At least I don't think they do. I had a blink scroll crumble right before death.
4) The Abyss really is escapable and Labyrinths aren't as intimidating as they sound.
So it's back to the drawing board. I'm already trying some more Trolls, both Fighters and Monks. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully, I can come up with another high score. Until next time...
Rogue On!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)