Gunner, just a gunner

[kipar]

All natural points goes to DEX and Firearms, defense skills\stats are raised by equipment - so first 20 levels were spend in suicide diving to chickatrice cave (until i've found first blue item).

Now I'm on stage of hopeless search for karingen firearms (or anything green ) on dungeon level 50.
Already replaced 2 blue items to depth 20 indigo items, but lost two 25depth guns in the Flow - first due to instakill with random generated monster, second due to underestimating final boss melee atacks.

I don't wear nightmare items, but sometimes carry them to boost chance of finding something good (with nightscouts nightmare ability). Sadly on misfortune level 200 most items are red, so finding green still seem impossible. 10 and 20 level nightmares are pretty easy to kill, but I always run from a more powerful ones.
With 2.8kk hp and 300k AC the only cause of deaths are instakills - crazy 100 level nightmare dealt over 22.000.000 hp with just one spell.

True shot is a main atack ability - because a lot of high level monsters just dodge 90% of shots and block the rest 10%. I have a normal gun in one hand and a fire-shooting in other, so have troubles only with monsters immune both to Physical AND Fire - against them i have to use piercing shots or let them live.
Immolating shot is a secondary atack - against monsters without fireimmunity and crazy dodge + block.
Ricochet shot are useful against packs of fire hounds, fire elementals, fire-immune imps.
Other Marksmen abilities looks fine, but True shot+Immolating shot are better.
Improve Ranged Weapon - well, I just missed it when planning.
Counter shots - fine for low levels, but later is just waste of ammo, so i turned it off.

By the way, some abilities seem little overpowered now -
1. with 3million hp i'm just afraid to imagine how powerful Light of Life will be (just 10 AP and you will wipe everything that is not immune to light and can use all your skills and rest of AP to do what you want).
2. with AC 33000 Defender Armored Might will give 150STR per AP?

[Portralis 0.3.0 Character Dump]

Name : F Alignment -2 STR: 5 34 1 44
Sex : Male Misfortune 0 INT: 5 3 1 12
Race : Elf Death Count 31 WIS: 5 6 0 11
Class : Gunner DEX: 75 57 0 132
Element : n/a CON: 5 173 0 178
CHR: 5 0 -1 5

Level 35 Max Hit Points 2864488
Experience 374955 Cur Hit Points 2864488
+ To Hit 19857 Max Exp 374955 Max SP (Mana) 302
+ %To Damage 2359 Exp to Adv. 450000 Cur SP (Mana) 302
+ To AC 331711 Gold 19375
Ability P 1 Stat Points 0 Blows/Round: 10
Skill Points 0 Blows/Round(2): n/a
Class Level 10 Shots/Round: 1
Class Kills 1000 Wpn.dmg: 29-237
Wpn2.dmg: n/a
Sht.dmg: 304321-2475711
Sht2.dmg: 681544-5489203
Infra-Vision: 0 feet
(Character Background) 0
You are one of several children of an elvish noble, and you
were born in Nimbraya. You have blue eyes, short black
hairs and a fair complexion.

---------- CHARACTER'S SKILLS ---------- --- MISC. INFO ---

a) Fighting: 0 A) Polearms: 0 Wpn.dmg: 29-237
b) Spellcraft: 0 B) Daggers: 0 Wpn2.dmg: n/a
c) Shooting: 0 C) Axes: 0 Sht.dmg: 304321-2475711
d) Throwing: 0 D) Rods: 0 Sht2.dmg: 681544-5489203
e) Defense: 102 E) Martial Arts: 0 To_h : 19683
f) Agility: 98 F) Bow: 0 To_d : 2042
g) Stealth: 0 G) Crossbow: 0 To_a : 331711
h) Combat Feats: 0 H) Firearms: 224 AC : 33710
i) Dual Wield: 0 I) Elemental: 0
j) Leadership: 0 J) Alteration: 6
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: 2 N) Magic Defense: 192


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

Ricochet Shot [1]
Counter Shot [1]
Piercing Shot [2]
Armored Spellcasting [1]
High-Velocity Fanning [1]
True Shot [15]
Magic Bullets [1]
Immolating Shot [12]
Eyes of Misfortune [5]
Ghostly Misfortune [1]


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

Fire: 40
Cold: 5
Electric: 0
Acid: 0
Poison: 18
Light: -24
Darkness: 30
Warp: 25
Water: 2
Wind: 0
Earth: 0
Sound: 5
Radio: 10
Chaos: 1
Physical: 21
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.


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

Ricochet Shot [1]
Counter Shot [1]
Piercing Shot [2]
Armored Spellcasting [1]
High-Velocity Fanning [1]
True Shot [15]
Magic Bullets [1]
Immolating Shot [12]
Eyes of Misfortune [5]
Ghostly Misfortune [1]


You have defeated 7852 enemies.


[Character Equipment]

a) a 6-Shots Peacemaker (L:34, K:106/170) (941%, 6/6, 1 ammos/shots) (+174,+317)
b) a Twin-Cannon Dragon Handgun (L:33, K:54/165) (1863%, 2/2, 2 ammos/shots) (+139
e) a Ring of Speed (L:34, K:106/170) (+182,+35) {25% off}
f) a Ring of Speed (L:34, K:106/170) (+42,+139)
k) an Amulet of the Golem (L:32, K:60/160) (+111,+174) [42,+182] (2 points.)
m) The Orb of Death Light (L:31, K:121/155) (+75,+75)
n) Red Dragon Scale Mail (L:34, K:106/170) (+121,+111) [805,+210] {90% off}
o) a Heavy Cloak (L:20, K:3/100) (+101,+90) [26,+210] (2 points.)
p) a Rune Bracers (L:31, K:121/155) (+31,+46) [0,+0]
s) a Steel Helm (L:19, K:52/95) (+185,+139) [48,+147] (2 points.)
u) a Pair of Steel Gauntlets (L:11, K:53/55) (+121,+141) [18,+126] (+8671 Poison)
x) a Pair of Steel Boots (L:24, K:4/120) (+85,+78) [29,+121] (2 points.)
{) 67 Copper Plated Bullets (4d8) {broken}
|) a Piccolo Flute (2d6) (+17,+59)


[Character Inventory]

a) 54 Scrolls of Phase Door
b) 2 Scrolls of Word of Recall
c) 33 Scrolls of Teleportation
d) 20 Bronze Plated Bullets (4d7) (+30,+33)
e) 80 Copper Plated Bullets (4d8) {broken}
f) 80 Copper Plated Bullets (4d8) {broken}
g) (nothing)
h) (nothing)
i) (nothing)
j) (nothing)
k) (nothing)
l) (nothing)
m) (nothing)
n) (nothing)
o) (nothing)
p) (nothing)
q) (nothing)
r) (nothing)
s) (nothing)
t) (nothing)
u) (nothing)
v) (nothing)
w) (nothing)


[Home Inventory (page 1)]

a) gold (100000 golds)
b) gold (100000 golds)
c) gold (100000 golds)
d) gold (100000 golds)
e) gold (100000 golds)
f) gold (100000 golds)
g) a Nightmare Licialhyd (Violet Nightmare, Power: 20)
h) a Steel Bracers (+16,+43) [0,+0]
i) a Steel Bracers [0,+8]
j) a Mithril Bracers (+38,+32) [1,+23]
k) a Rune Bracers [0,+1]
l) a Rune Bracers [0,+4]


[Home Inventory (page 2)]

a) a Rune Bracers [0,+0]
b) an Amulet of the Golem [10,+10]
c) an Enhanced Elven Cloak [5,+4]
d) The Pair of Mithril Gauntlets 'Ophelia's Hands' (L:1, K:0/5) (+60,+60) [15,+40]
e) a Pair of Mithril Boots [8,+0]
f) a Pair of Hard Leather Boots (+122,+91) [4,+30]
g) The Steel Mace of Dalunia (L:1, K:0/5) (6d8) (+60,+60) (+700 Earth) (2 points.)
h) a Sword of Balance (3d6) (+0,+0) (+5000 Grey)
i) a Twin-Cannon Battle Rifle (900%, 2/2, 2 ammos/shots) (+1,+3)
j) a 6-Shots Copper Revolver (333%, 6/6, 1 ammos/shots) (+163,+74)
k) a 6-Shots Copper Revolver (300%, 6/6, 1 ammos/shots) {broken}
l) a 6-Shots Copper Revolver (300%, 6/6, 1 ammos/shots) {broken}

[Variaz]

Thanks for posting your character! I see that you have focused more on defense than offense, judging by your high AC, hp and Magic Defense. A good idea, since enemies can hit quite hard.

True Shot is indeed a good ability, the ranged equivalent of Accurate Strike. Still, even though you use True Shot, the Marksman's Accurate Shots could still help boost your damages. If you don't know what to take, this could be an option. Remember that due to Portralis' multiplicative bonus, having 10 points in True Shot and 10 in Accurate Shots will result in more damages than 20 points in either of them.

By the way, some abilities seem little overpowered now -
1. with 3million hp i'm just afraid to imagine how powerful Light of Life will be (just 10 AP and you will wipe everything that is not immune to light and can use all your skills and rest of AP to do what you want).
2. with AC 33000 Defender Armored Might will give 150STR per AP?

1. Light of Life isn't as overpowered as it seems. Sure, at 3 million hp and 10 AP, it deals 30000000 damages. However, it's only a single magic attack, and can still be countered like any other magic attacks. This means that you need to raise your Int or Wis, and that you need to use it multiple times against enemies with extra lives.

2. Armored Might gives a bonus based on your base AC and the bonus from the Defense skill only. It does not use the to_a bonus provided by Agility. That said, in your case, I guess it would give 150 Str per points, and it's probably a bit overpowered indeed. Perhaps it should only provide a bonus based on your armor's base AC instead.

[Variaz]

Just realized that Light of Life may indeed be a little more overpowered than I thought, I forgot that the 30000000 damages is BEFORE spellcraft. With some spellcraft(not even that much), it does get incredibly high.

Spellcraft will no longer apply to this particular ability, since hp values are now much higher than they used to be.

[kipar]

I've tried light of life build) Yes, damages are very high and i didn't know about spellcraft so didn't spend points in it.
Tha main problem was - high level enemies blocks all of this light (well, 95-99%).
What should I increase against blocking of the ability - will INT and WIS help?
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edited: I've read again your post and checked source code - yes, Wis and Int will help so i'll rebuild this character.

[Variaz]

Yes, int and wis will help. It's considered a standard magical attack.

[Gando]

Hi level monsters will block your magical attacks at least 60% of the time no matter how high you get your int/wis. There doesn't seem to be a way around this.

[Variaz]

Aug 10, 2009 13:41:42 GMT -5 Gando said:

Hi level monsters will block your magical attacks at least 60% of the time no matter how high you get your int/wis. There doesn't seem to be a way around this.

It may be due to a dimishing return of benefits of int/wis after a certain point. For the purpose of bypassing counters, at least.

Let's take a level 50 monster with a mind of 100. That gives it a "power" of 150. A roll between your int+wis versus the monster's level and mind stat is performed. Here's the percentage of chance to actually hit it with a magic attack, based on int/wis(which I will now refer as "stat"):

Stat 10(Int/Wis 5, what you start with): 6.25%
Stat 30: 16.67%
Stat 50: 25%
Stat 100: 40%
Stat 150: 50%
Stat 300: 66.67%
Stat 600: 80%
Stat 1000: 87%
Stat 2000: 93%

As you can see, the benefits are dimishing somewhat after a point. Raising your "stat" by 140 points to reach 150 boosts your chance from 6.25% to 50%, a nice 43.75% increase!

However, adding 150 more points to boost it to 300 will only give you an additional 16.67%.

Of course, higher stats also means you'll reach the 50% point with stronger enemies.

[Gando]

ah well that explains at least some of the bouncing...though the 99% blocking by flow normal monsters makes it hash. Though I guess what that means is that formula is skewed by the higher general stats of flow monsters in addition to their exponentially higher levels. (level 50s on the first floor of a level 20 item for example which is so out of proportion to the normal game that the numbers are probably 25% of the ones above if that.)