sturgeonslawyer <danldo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:a0a70a49-e967-456f-a92a-
fb4ee42d4ee5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> After reading about the "fling the bling" challenge here, I was
> inspired to give it a try.
>
> Some
> spoiler
> space
> because
> this
> might
> be
> slightly
> spoily,
> though
> not
> very
> spoily
> at
> all,
> come
> to
> think
> of
> it.
> Proceed
> at
> your
> own
> minuscule
> risk.
>
> Goldflinger, a female Hurthling merchant, got off to a good start:
> found some decent ****elds in the SMV and double-wielded them from that
> moment on, upgrading where possible. At the time of her death she was
> less than 5000 points from grandmastery with ****elds.
>
> I noticed quickly that there was a drawback to this challenge: it
> takes a long time to kill anything tough. There's only so much damage
> a flung gold piece does, and you don't gain levels with them.
True. I think the best way to improve your damage is by wi****ng
for the 'find weakness' skill. This will allow some of your shots
to bypass your enemies PV. This was the only way I could inflict
damage on some monsters in the game. Wishes aren't guaranteed, by
any means, but if you are fortunate enough to get one, I think
the 'find weakness' skill is more valuable than an amulet of life
saving. Of course orcs and dark elves start with 'find weakness'.
>
> On the other hand, it's fun killing dopplegangers with missiles.
It *is* isn't it! I also loved not having to worry about ever
being disarmed. Sweet.
>
> I took her from the SMV to do the Carpenter quest, so she could have
> the much-needed Healing skill. She then dove into the CoC, made her
> way to Dwarftown, and got crowned with the Crown of Leader****p. She
> took the first two dwarf quests, and missed her chance at the pyramid
> because I wanted to get the guaranteed fireball wand first.
>
> Because of the slow combat, I decided to try to maximize efficiency
> and combined the Dwarven Graveyard and the Ring of the High Kings into
> a single above-ground adventure. She got to level twenty-two doing
> these and I decided to throw in the ToEF. (Her crowning immunity had
> been fire.)
>
> Here I evolved the basic tactic that would stand her well in _almost_
> all her big fights: stand in a narrow point where only one enemy
> could get to her at a time. Still, the worm nearly got her down to
> zero before dropping before a combination of gold and cold cones (from
> wands).
I don't think that offensive wand use is allowed in the 'fling the
bling' challenge. I think the only allowed method of inflicting
damage is thrown coins. Even saccing monsters is forbidden, I think.
>
> After the fire temple, the water temple was a doddle -- the only thing
> was that she needed to charge her cold wands to get to it, and she'd
> no booze or charging. She wound up blowing up one on a final charge.
>
> Most of the rest was routine until the end. She picked up Preserver in
> the Casino shoppe, but missed Nature's Companion somewhere. The only
> really difficult fight was the Earth temple -- in order to avoid
> getting surrounded, she popped up and down levels, letting one or two
> elementals/grues follow her at a time. By this point she was dual-
> wielding tower ****elds (one eternium, one crystal) so was pretty hard
> to hit if she didn't get surrounded. Eventually the ASB came out after
> her and she used a combination of coins and fireballs-from-wands to
> take it down.
>
> Even the Mana temple wasn't too bad. She stood behind the doorway,
> wearing two rings of the clear mind (the only time she took off the
> cat ring once she got it), and coined things to death.
>
> Alas: it was well into the fifth month by the time she got to CoC:48.
> She closed all five rifts, descended to the ice level ...
>
> ... and it was there that she turned into a WMoPC. She never saw a
> potion of cure corruption in the entire game, and she didn't save
> Khelly and get his ?oCRs.
>
> Alas, poor Goldflinger. She could have been a contender.
Were you able to get the SoCR's from the dwarven mystic? I
have a theory about that. I think you have to hold either
N- or N+ for about 2000 turns, before chatting with the
mystic, in order to get the scrolls. Otherwise, you get the
single PoGA and the two potions of training.
There is a 'fling the bling' thread over at the HoF. If
you try this challenge again, you should consider giving
it a look. There might be something helpful in there.
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