Hello everyone

[filthyike]

Just started playing, and wanted to say that this is quickly becoming my favorite variant. I've played rogue-likes since the original rogue, back when i was 8-9 y/o. Got hooked on Angband in highschool. I have one winner (2.7.3 Zangband winner) and a few close ones.

I am currently playing a dwarf pally in portralis and man its rough...
I am save scumming to get a good handle on the game and my next character will be for real. Theres a couple questions I have that I couldnt find in the documentation (its probably there, just couldnt find it).

1) How do you use crystals? I assume they are for crafting wands, but it lets me equip them but I haven't discovered how to use them. I looked in the command list, but couldn't find anything.


2) My pally fear resistance doesn't show up in my resistance list on the character screen. I know I have it, but is there any particular reason that it still says I don't have fear resist?


I started pumping points into resist impure and a few in holy bolt, hoping that it would help out on the resistances, but it doesnt seem to be doing much. Until I found two rings of cold resistance, bought a suit of white dragon mail, and an amulet of reflection, the skeleton mages would kill me in a few turns. Im currently clvl 15 at dlvl 10 in the ruins. Maybe I am diving too fast or something, but for being a pally, it seems the only thing I can do to stay alive is holy bolt / phase door spam. Getting in melee combat with a skeleton warrior, for example, beats me silly, and Im setting at 424 AC. Im also at +7 speed. I'm Dual wielding some decent long swords. Maybe I should be using a shield? If so, I wasted 15 skill points..

I like the difficulty, but it seems that if I didnt put any points into holy bolt, I would be totally screwed. I wouldn't be able to kill anything besides skeletons or lesser zombies. I guess my main question is: Is there something about the pally I'm missing, or is holy bolt pretty much a requirement to do anything?

[argyle2001]

Crystals are Equipped to power Rods (which are Equipped as weapons).

[filthyike]

gotcha. I saw the .pdf guide after i posted this question and figured it out.

Thanks.


I also read about WIS casting spells, and that seems to be helping alot with my surviveability. I now have a reliable heal.

[Variaz]

You may want to post your character's build in the Character Builds or the Strategies forum, then we can help you out.

The Skeleton Warrior can be tough, as he's the first enemy you can meet that will always attempt to block your hits, has significantly more hp than other enemies at this point, and does a lot of damages.

You should really post more about your build, stats, skills, abilities and equipment.

[filthyike]

well, that character is no more, so I guess it doesn't matter much now.
The WIS casting helped alot with skeleton warriors and the like, so they weren't too bad.

I was kinda just looking for some general gameplay advice for the pally, which is why I didn't post all my stuff. Ah, well, I rolled a priest this time around. We'll see how that goes.


I'll post future characters in the forums you suggested. I mainly put it here because the post was a introduction post as well.