What to do with this char now

[benigno]

Hi,
It's taken a lot of time to bring this char here... mostly just to get the master at paladin. I think I might have done wrong in working with martial arts instead of a weapon... thought behind this was that I would get the +to hit without needing to put points into Dex...
Anyway, now I was trying to capitalize on the con I have so I was putting hardiness and now saving for the counter attack.. Thought is to move afterwards to monk, or to fighter... monk for the magical attack ki punch, or fighter for the extra damages with the sheer power, and put points split into magical defense and martial arts all the way up...

I am just not sure if I am screwing this one up with all this. Leveling him to pal master has been such a pain....

Oh the reason for the mace is that so far I have not been lucky at all with gloves, or knuckles and seen no claws... I hope at some time I find any of these worth wearing.

[Portralis 0.3.0 Character Dump]

Name : Groo Age 18 STR: 174
Sex : Male Alignment 4 INT: 5
Race : Zulgor Death Count 2 WIS: 6
Class : Warrior DEX: 13
Element : n/a CON: 148
CHR: 27

Level 22 Max Hit Points 271031
Experience 7704 Cur Hit Points 271031
+ To Hit 1860 Max Exp 7704 Max SP (Mana) 0
+ %To Damage 2235 Exp to Adv. 8400 Cur SP (Mana) 0
+ To AC 10491 Gold 22460
Ability P 5 Stat Points 0 Blows/Round: 14
Skill Points 0 Blows/Round(2): n/a
Class Level 3 Shots/Round: 1
Class Kills 37 Wpn.dmg: 4753-38033
Wpn2.dmg: n/a
Sht.dmg: n/a
Sht2.dmg: n/a
Infra-Vision: 0 feet
(Character Background) 0
You were born from unknown parents, and grew in orphanage.
Your origins are a mystery, and so is the chaos inside you.
You have blue eyes, straight red and green hairs, and an
average complexion.
---------- CHARACTER'S SKILLS ---------- --- MISC. INFO ---

a) Fighting: 0 A) Polearms: 0 Wpn.dmg: 4753-38033
b) Spellcraft: 1 B) Daggers: 0 Wpn2.dmg: n/a
c) Shooting: 0 C) Axes: 2 Sht.dmg: n/a
d) Throwing: 1 D) Rods: 0 Sht2.dmg: n/a
e) Defense: 0 E) Martial Arts: 62 To_h : 1791
f) Agility: 20 F) Bow: 0 To_d : 2166
g) Stealth: 0 G) Crossbow: 0 To_a : 10491
h) Combat Feats: 15 H) Firearms: 0 AC : 4099
i) Dual Wield: 0 I) Elemental: 0
j) Leadership: 0 J) Alteration: 0
k) Alchemy: 0 K) Mysticism: 0 Dual Wield: No
l) Crafting: 0 L) Conjuration: 0 Press 'u' to toggle.
m) Swords: 0 M) Divination: 0
n) Blunt: 8 N) Magic Defense: 14


Remaining skill points: 0 Press one of the letters to increase the skill.
Press 'x' to view next skills page(if any).
-------------- ABILITIES --------------

Accurate Strike [1]
Hardiness [5]
Champion of Good [11]















-------------- RESISTANCES --------------

Fire: 0
Cold: 25
Electric: 0
Acid: 0
Poison: 0
Light: 10
Darkness: 0
Warp: 0
Water: 10
Wind: 0
Earth: 50
Sound: 0
Radio: 0
Chaos: 100
Physical: 0
Mana: 0




[Miscellaneous information]

Maximize Mode: OFF
Preserve Mode: OFF
Autoscum: ON
Small Levels: ALWAYS
Arena Levels: ON
Persistent Dungeons: OFF

Your body was a Player.

---------- CHARACTER'S SKILLS ---

a) Fighting: 0 A) Polearms:
b) Spellcraft: 1 B) Daggers:
c) Shooting: 0 C) Axes:
d) Throwing: 1 D) Rods:
e) Defense: 0 E) Martial Arts:
f) Agility: 20 F) Bow:
g) Stealth: 0 G) Crossbow:
h) Combat Feats: 15 H) Firearms:
i) Dual Wield: 0 I) Elemental:
j) Leadership: 0 J) Alteration:
k) Alchemy: 0 K) Mysticism:
l) Crafting: 0 L) Conjuration:
m) Swords: 0 M) Divination:
n) Blunt: 8 N) Magic Defense


Remaining skill points: 0 Press one o
Press 'x' to view next sk

------- --- MISC. INFO ---

0 Wpn.dmg: 4753-38033
0 Wpn2.dmg: n/a
2 Sht.dmg: n/a
0 Sht2.dmg: n/a
62 To_h : 1791
0 To_d : 2166
0 To_a : 10491
0 AC : 4099
0
0
0 Dual Wield: No
0 Press 'u' to toggle.
0
: 14


f the letters to increase the skill.
ills page(if any).

-------------- ABILITIES --------

Accurate Strike [1]
Hardiness [5]
Champion of Good [11]
















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-------------- RESISTANCES ------

Fire: 0
Cold: 25
Electric: 0
Acid: 0
Poison: 0
Light: 10
Darkness: 0
Warp: 0
Water: 10
Wind: 0
Earth: 50
Sound: 0
Radio: 0
Chaos: 100
Physical: 0
Mana: 0



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-------------- RESISTANCES ------

Fire: 0
Cold: 25
Electric: 0
Acid: 0
Poison: 0
Light: 10
Darkness: 0
Warp: 0
Water: 10
Wind: 0
Earth: 50
Sound: 0
Radio: 0
Chaos: 100
Physical: 0
Mana: 0



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You have defeated 1857 enemies.


[Character Equipment]

a) The Steel Mace of Dalunia (L:4, K:7/20) (6d8) (+69,+69) (+1366 Earth)
b) (nothing)
e) a Ring of Safety {25% off}
f) a Ring of Resist Cold
k) an Amulet of Hold Life
m) a Brass Lantern (with 6027 turns of light) {90% off}
n) a Leather Armor (L:10, K:9/50) (+15,+19) [14,+23]
o) a Heavy Cloak (+19,+17) [3,+6]
p) (nothing)
s) an Iron Helm (+1,+10) [10,+18]
u) a Pair of Cotton Gloves (+17,+7) [0,+0] (+800 Water)
x) a Pair of Shoes (+9,+4) [0,+0]
{) 29 Bronze Plated Bullets (3d5) (+12,+5)
|) (nothing)


[Character Inventory]

a) 2 Crystals
b) a Book of Mysticism Magic [Smite Undeads]
c) a Potion of Restore Stats (100 Restore Stats Rad: 2)
d) a Potion of Restore Status (100 Restore Status Rad: 2)
e) a Potion of Restore Levels (100 Restore Levels Rad: 2)
f) a Potion of Mana Recovery (50 Restore Mana Rad: 2)
g) 10 Scrolls of Magic Mapping
h) 3 Scrolls of Trap Detection
i) 6 Scrolls of Word of Recall
j) 19 Scrolls of Teleportation
k) a Ring of Resist Wind
l) an Amulet of Resist Acid
m) a Cloak (+11,+12) [1,+12]
n) The Steel Shield 'Blue Guard' [10,+30]
o) a Bronze Claymore (2d7) (+1,+14) (+608 Cold)
p) a Bronze Battle Axe (3d5) (+2,+11) (+305 Earth)
q) a Bronze Great Axe (2d8) (+12,+18)
r) a Bronze Great Axe (2d11) (+10,+4)
s) a Bronze Great Axe (3d11)
t) The Masterwork Short Sword 'Aria's Soul' (L:8, K:2/40) (3d7) (+54,+54) (+2382 L
u) 27 Steel Tipped Arrows (2d4) (+21,+32) (+1933 Darkness)
v) (nothing)
w) (nothing)


[Home Inventory (page 1)]

a) a Crystal
b) gold (7000 golds)
c) gold (1600 golds)
d) gold (18000 golds)
e) gold (77000 golds)
f) a Ring of Resist Fire
g) a Ring of Free Action (+10,+5)
h) a Ring of Resist Wind
i) (nothing)
j) (nothing)
k) (nothing)
l) (nothing)


[Home Inventory (page 2)]

a) (nothing)
b) (nothing)
c) (nothing)
d) (nothing)
e) (nothing)
f) (nothing)
g) (nothing)
h) (nothing)
i) (nothing)
j) (nothing)
k) (nothing)
l) (nothing)

[Gando]

Well Kensai requires martial arts so maybe you should try and get yourself some Kensai levels to make those skill points work for you. Then they will also help you with swords. As far as brands go....paladin has a light branded weapon ability. And the Kensai's 'Dragons Fury' Ability will give you a mana brand to boot at class level 6+. Hope this advice helps.

[benigno]

Thank you, I hadn't thought about kensai, but it might be a good choice yes. Do you think I should go for 3 more war levels to get counter strike? or just jump to kensai asap ?

[Gando]

You're welcome.
Well Kensai has Iajutsu which deals quite a bit of damage when it activates. In my Kensai builds I dont even use Warrior. Warrior is a must have class for Elemental Lord but you aren't going that route. However I think Portralis is strong enough as a game to stand variations on the theme. If you prefer to spend your limited Abilities in Warrior then do that. The thing to remember is ...you will probably stop leveling around 30-33. At this point leveling becomes a game of do I die? or do I kill the mob I want to level off of? It's russian roulette so to speak because your leveling mobs will be alot tougher than you unless you somehow maximize your abilities/skills/stats to the utmost. (Some players call this optimizing.) Since you aren't really going that route Id be more concerned with containing your ability pool within a slightly tighter than you are used to area...(choose in advance which abilities you think you will need and spend points on them.) My recommendations are: Kensai: Iajutsu (1-2 points), Dragon's Fury (1-2 points), Focus (all the rest) but thats because I think Kensai rules.

You will also need Swords 20 and Agility++ though with Agi I recommend using item levels once you start finding leveling items. By the way the lower levels of Flowed items can be quite good for finding vaults that contain blues if you dare to risk dying.

If you are careful you should walk out with at least 4-5 for a 10th level item. If the boss is too much to handle (30th level bosses minimum until the next patch) next time just Word of Recall out and sell any unwanted loot until you either find the levelables you want or get enough money to buy the scrolls (and eternalize them too). I see you have one already...make sure and eternalize it if you haven't

Be sure and learn some offensive spells too that you can make into wiscastables. This will make your life alot easier when you are outnumbered. (you dont need anything else to make this work for you really since you are already going wis anyway with Monk/Kensai.)

By the way Variaz is it possible you might make the item descriptions show in the dump? (for the ided items anyway)...it would be easier helping people with the point allocations if we could see what they have done so far.

[Gando]

Oh by the way...do not add another point to Con. You have more con and strength than you will ever need. The rest of your points should go into wisdom. (I dont know why I didnt notice this before.)

[benigno]

Thanks a lot Gando, thank helps quite a bit.

I really do need to concentrate my ability points better on my builds. And yes, I have gone wrong with this one... too little wisdom, so now I dont have much flexibility Hmmm...

Anyway, thanks a lot.
Benigno.

[Gando]

You're welcome

[Variaz]

By the way Variaz is it possible you might make the item descriptions show in the dump? (for the ided items anyway)...it would be easier helping people with the point allocations if we could see what they have done so far.

That could be a good idea indeed! Would make a lot of pages to the dump though, but that's probably worth it.

The thing to remember is ...you will probably stop leveling around 30-33. At this point leveling becomes a game of do I die? or do I kill the mob I want to level off of? It's russian roulette so to speak because your leveling mobs will be alot tougher than you unless you somehow maximize your abilities/skills/stats to the utmost. (Some players call this optimizing.)

The trick is to get levelable items, and gain some levels and spend some time leveling the items between depths 30-39(I recommed you do some random dungeons). Other than perhaps mature dragons, enemies should still be beatable without too much problems if you play your cards right. By depth 40+, it is assumed that you will no longer use standard purple magic items, and will have upgraded to higher class ones, most likely blue levelables or powerful crafted if you go that route.

Though your constitution is pretty high, you might want to get +% life items to complement it. High hp will always be very helpful, provided you don't neglect the defensive skills either. Your Magic Defense, for example, could be a bit higher.

What I recommend is perhaps to get more levelable items, and try to get an entire set of them before taking on 40+. This will greatly help you.

[Gando]

That could be a good idea indeed! Would make a lot of pages to the dump though, but that's probably worth it.

Awesome!

The trick is to get levelable items, and gain some levels and spend some time leveling the items between depths 30-39(I recommed you do some random dungeons). Other than perhaps mature dragons, enemies should still be beatable without too much problems if you play your cards right. By depth 40+, it is assumed that you will no longer use standard purple magic items, and will have upgraded to higher class ones, most likely blue levelables or powerful crafted if you go that route.

Though your constitution is pretty high, you might want to get +% life items to complement it. High hp will always be very helpful, provided you don't neglect the defensive skills either. Your Magic Defense, for example, could be a bit higher.

What I recommend is perhaps to get more levelable items, and try to get an entire set of them before taking on 40+. This will greatly help you.

heh I think we are getting confuseled in the terms here. I meant character levels not depth by which you go down....You should be by level 30 able to go down past level 40 without dying if you are careful. (Teleport is your best friend) but leveling on high experience monsters becomes MUCH MUCH harder past level 30 character level. I think my highest character to date is level 34.

[Variaz]

It's also due to the fact that the game isn't made for leveling higher than that at the moment. I may try to finish the second chapter of the main quest for 008, and I'll try to aim for the 40th character level.

I will probably resume coding soon, though it seems I might release another 007 fix again first, for the "home" bug.