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‎Endgame

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 [[Silence]]
-[[Flight]]
+[[Flight (spell)|Flight]]
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 ==Endgame==
 ''*If you are planning on extended and feel powerful enough, enter Abyss through one of the portals, descend into Abyss:3 and wander around till you find the rune. Bring food, buff-spells and some resistances.''
-''*If you are planning on extended and feel powerful enough goto one of the portals into Hell. Activate Dragon Form, Haste, Swiftness and Repel Missiles; enter and shred Geryon asap. Leave if you atracted to much attention and kill things by carefull stairdances. Clear the vestibules.''
+''*If you are planning on extended and feel powerful enough goto one of the portals into Hell. Activate Dragon Form, Haste, Swiftness and Repel Missiles; enter and shred Geryon asap. Leave if you attracted to much attention and kill things by careful stairdances. Clear the vestibules.''
 *Do Zot:1-5 exempting the Orb vault. You want mutation resistance, poison resistance and insulation in your active gear, or pain (and death) will ensue. By this time Draconians and Dragons should have nothing on you, kill them quietly. Orb of Fires always are trouble, but Dragon Form+Haste+Repel Missiles (again) will do the job against a single one or two. If you cannot reach the Orb of Fire or if several show up, hide and/or make a run for the stairs. In general explore very carefully here, retreat ''(behind a corner)'' when you find enemies and kill them one by one. Do not enter the vault chambers until you have drawn most of the resistance out and killed it.
 *Decide for or against extended. Pick the Orb up and run for the surface or leave it and pick whichever rune seems the easiest to you to get next from the article below.
 ==Extended==
 *Extended isn`t actually a bad choice with this character. My recommendation is that you avoid ziggurats, but try to go for all runes, if you have already won a game.

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 *For Snake:5 and Swamp:5: Use shouting and preplanned running to lure the the monsters away from the runevaults and take them out in smaller packs.
 *For Spider:5: Clear the level carefully and silently. Lure monsters by throwing stuff, retreat a bit then splatter over the ground.
-*For Shoals:5: The most dangerous featuring fast, deadly and intelligent packs of opponents. Make it a priority to always have an escape route! Explore carefully and rather silently. Skip if you don`t fell safe.
+*For Shoals:5: The most dangerous featuring fast, deadly and intelligent packs of opponents. Make it a priority to always have an escape route! Explore carefully and rather silently. Skip if you don`t feel safe.
 ==Midgame==
 *Do Elf:1-2, by now you should be a killing machine when using your "scythe like hands".

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 *Learn [[Sticks to Snakes]] on lvl 2, use this spell, when you meet a dangerous monster and want to overwhelm or flee from it.
 *Learn [[Spider Form]] on lvl 3 and get some [[Poison Magic]]. This will be your main combat form until you can cast [[Blade Hands]], but the movement speed is also great for fleeing during your whole game.
-*Learn [[Ice Form]] next, but get Spider Form reliable first. You`ll need it versus hydras, poisonous stuff (if you miss that resistance)(do remember that you can eat poisonous corpses in this form), float over water and ignore freezing clouds (for taht ice cave later).
+*Learn [[Ice Form]] next, but get Spider Form reliable first. You`ll need it versus hydras, poisonous stuff (if you miss that resistance)(do remember that you can eat poisonous corpses in this form), float over water and ignore freezing clouds (for that ice cave later).
 *Get [[Ozocubu's Armour]] for [[Ice Form]] as it will make fighting those hydras easier. (Also good for spider form)
 *Learn [[Blade Hands]] as soon as possible. This will be your main combat form. slaughter anything that is not a living hydra with it.

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 *''No HP from potions or wands''; kind of bad, but usually you should avoid situations where you have to rely on these anyway. (Barring the very early game where your regeneration achives much of to the sam effect) Potions of Magic will add as much to your resilence as a potion of heal wounds for other characters. Keep one or more on your person if possible.
-==Races==
+==Backgrounds==
 ===Transmuter===
 The obvious choice start with your book and all the forms you need for the dungeon, lair and orc. If you have particularly bad luck Blade hands and Ice form can carry you all the way through Zot.
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 Gain a headstart in killing things barehanded (or is is bare-vined?) and in Ashenzari piety, but you have to rely on luck to find the transmutations that are vital for your build. Though you can just go for an unarmed medium-heavy armour fighter if no suitable books turn up.
 ===Other===
 One can build a Transmuter out of most backgrounds as you will generally need all stats and all skills aside from the weapon skills. It is generally a waste of XP to start as something else as monk or transmuter for this build, but should your wizard happen upon some early book of changes and no conjurations at all by all means turn your build around and go with it. (Use your own judgement)
 ==Gods==

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 Middle:
 *Focus on UC!
-*Get Dodging and some Armour until you can stay in fight without loosing to much life.
+*Get Fighting, Dodging and some Armour until you can stay in fight without losing to much life.
 *Pick up Evocations to around 10.
 *You can pick up stealth but dont really need to.
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 ''Slice, bite, enjoy and walk away with 15 runes.''
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 Middle:
 *Focus on UC!
-*Get Dodging and some Armour until you can stay in fight without loosing to muhc life.
+*Get Dodging and some Armour until you can stay in fight without loosing to much life.
 *Pick up Evocations to around 10.
 *You can pick up stealth but dont really need to.
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 *Do Elf:3 avoiding the vault. Do not try the vault without some magic resistance. Dig a narrow, bending passage at the vault entrance. Made correctly this will force the elfs into melee combat without allowing them sight of you during their approach. Draw the Elfs out of the vault, retreat to your passage when you feel in the least threatened. It might be necessary to withdraw further if things go wrong. Loot the remains of the now extinct elves and their vualt.
 *Do Vaults:1-4 carefully.
-*Do the Depths:1-5 and clear Blade.
+*Do the Depths:1-5.
-*Do the Crypt, but be very carefull if you have no life protection.
+*Do the Crypt, but be very careful if you have no life protection.
 *Enter Vaults:5 with Haste, Spider Form and Repel Missiles up. Blink (with a scroll if you have to) to a corridor, read a scroll of fog and run away from the Vault Guards. Usually activating Blade Hands now and switching beetween killing whatever stands in your way, killing some of the vault guards that follow you and running further works, but stay sharp. Use Scrolls of blinking, Potions of Magic, Potions of Haste, Might and Agility when you feel things spiraling out of control. Also do not forget to use your monster detection to plan ahead.
 ==Endgame==

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 This is a guide for [[Vine Stalker]] [[Transmuter]]s going for [[Ashenzari]] as a god. Other options will be discussed, but the guide mainly focuses on the peculiar details of this specific build.
 =Starting Options=
 You can skip this part if you just want to follow the guide. Read it if you want to learn about similar options.
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 [[Confusing Touch]]
-[[Haste]] use sparringly, use with a form for dangerous fights, rest afterwards to give contamination time to disperse
+[[Haste]] use sparringly and with a form for dangerous fights, rest afterwards to give contamination time to disperse
 [[Repel Missiles]] keep always up, unlearn when you get Deflect
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 [[Blink]] not that good, but cheap, unlear when you can control it.
-[[Controlled Blink]] the ultimate escape spell, always play so you can use blink to run if things go wrong.
+[[Controlled Blink]] the ultimate escape spell, always play so that you can use blink to run if things go wrong.
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 ==Extended==
 *Extended isn`t actually a bad choice with this character. My recommendation is that you avoid ziggurats, but try to go for all runes, if you have already won a game.
-*Pan-Lord strategy (really worked for all of the Rune-guarding Uniques):
 **Find the important enemy with monster detect, clear stuff surrounding it as silent as possible.
 **Read a scroll of fog if you are in the open, else hide around a corner. Get your buffs up. All of them! Drink Might and Agility if you can. Turn either into a Dragon (Dispater, Asmodeus, Antaeus only if you got enough rC, and all Pan-Lords) or into a Lich (Ereshkigal) and attract the enemy by shouting.
 **Wait for him/her/it to close the distance. (read another scroll of fog if needed) Close the distance if needed and start mauling ahead.
-**This is needed because you usually can not do controlled blinks to close the distance. If you already got the rune by some strange stroke of luck, feel free to just use controlled blink to get near.
+**This is needed because you usually can not do controlled blinks to close the distance. If you already got the rune by some strange stroke of luck, feel free to just use controlled blink to get near your target.
 **Having Aura of Abjuration active and strong is a must versus any of the summoning Archdemons. (You might make it without, but that`s not at all recommended.)
-*Slime is rather easy if your defenses are good and you have Conservation. Enter, explore, clear carefully. When you reach the Vault at the bottom (and cleared the surroundings) walk up it and get your back to a wall (so only 3-4 jellys can attack you). Usually this should`ve attracted the royal jelly already, else shout and move closer. Kill it using all your buffs (My suggestion is to use lich form as it provides rN+++ and rC+), ignoring his spawns. Deal with the spawned jellys now or blink/haste run away and take them out, when they have scattered.
+*Slime is rather easy if your defenses are good. Enter, explore, clear carefully. When you reach the Vault at the bottom (and cleared the surroundings) walk into and get your back to a stone wall (so only 3-4 jellys can attack you). Usually this should`ve attracted the royal jelly already, else shout and move closer. Kill it using all your buffs (My suggestion is to use lich form as it provides rN+++ and rC+), ignoring his spawns. Deal with the spawned jellys now or blink/haste run away and take them out, when they have scattered.
-*Enter Pan with some extra food and spare carrying capacity. Always enter Portals in a combat form and at least hasted (more buffs are better) use the Pan-Lord strategy mentioned above. As soon as you have the demonic run (and are not one of the Unique realms) you`ll want to just search your way to the nearest next portal and move on.
+*Enter Pan with some extra food and spare carrying capacity. Always enter Portals in a combat form and at least hasted (more buffs are better) use the Pan-Lord strategy mentioned above. As soon as you have the demonic rune (and are not one of the Unique realms) you`ll want to just search your way to the nearest next portal and move on.
-*Enter and explore the Hells in Lichform, clear the bottom level, and use the Pan-Lord strategy mentioned above. Wander around Pan or Abyss if you lack Necromutation and search for it.
+*Enter and explore the Hells in Lichform, clear the bottom level, and use the Pan-Lord strategy mentioned above. (You ca wander around Pan or Abyss if you lack Necromutation and search for it, though there are games where the Necronomicon just will not spawn.)
-*Tomb becomes rather trivial in permanent Necromutation (+Aura of Abjuration, Sustain Abilitys and Haste). Clear level 1 by slowly killing the groups of enemies (beware of attracting too many sphinxes). Enter level 2 fully buffed, read a scroll of teleport (or more if the first places you badly) and retreat into one of the rooms at the edge of the map. Use this place as a place to retreat to and lure mummies into. Clear the level, clear the route to level 3, then clear level 3 by repeated stairdances. Greater Mummies can only smite you and will spend many turns summoning monster, that will immediately be abjured by your aura.
+*Tomb becomes rather trivial in permanent Necromutation (+Aura of Abjuration, Sustain Abilities and Haste). Clear level 1 by slowly killing the groups of enemies (beware of attracting too many sphinxes). Enter level 2 fully buffed, read a scroll of teleport (or more if the first places you badly) and retreat into one of the rooms at the edge of the map. Use this place as a place to retreat to and lure mummies into. Clear the level, clear the route to level 3, then clear level 3 by repeated stairdances. Greater Mummies can only smite you and will spend many turns summoning monster, which will immediately be abjured by your aura.
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 *''Grab a good branded weapon if you find one (think: [[venom]] or [[electrocution]] short sword, artefacts or unrands).
 *''Grab stuff you can [[throw]] to soften enemies up at range. (If you got lots use them every occasion, but you might want to save javelins for dangerous stuff like [[Ogre]]s.
-*''Grab poisoned [[needles]] and [[curare]] and a [[blowgun]]. (Use on vulnerable monsters like [[goliath beetle]]s and [[killer bee]]s)
+*''Grab poisoned [[needle]]s and [[curare]] and a [[blowgun]]. (Use on vulnerable monsters like [[goliath beetle]]s and [[killer bee]]s)
 *''Pick up some extra arrows for [[Sticks to Snakes]].
 *Learn [[Sticks to Snakes]] on lvl 2, use this spell, when you meet a dangerous monster and want to overwhelm or flee from it.
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 *Earn piety and enjoy the benefits of increased magic skills and all the other stuff mentioned above.
 *Later you`ll want to use one scroll of remove curse to swap several pieces of equip at once.
 ==Early Branches==
 *Enter the Lair when you find it, kill stuff carefully. Beware of the Death Yak packs and Hydras if you cannot take them on. (Try wands or power-up potions to take them out) When you feel stuff gets to dangerous here, take out Orc:1-3 and D:-12 and return then.