Alanpost: /* Goals */

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‎Goals

Derrek: remove Resting link

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remove Resting link

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Alanpost: copy from old_crawl.

2013-08-12T14:55:47Z

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{{Flavour|'''NOTE #1''': This guide is being written by someone who has ascended twice with the Orb of Zot. Consider the advice beta quality.<br />'''NOTE #2''': This guide is a reference to my personal play style. You might enjoy the [Deep Elf Fire Elementalist guide] for more general advice.}}

== Goals ==

Retrieve the [[Orb of Zot]].

[[Death]] is the only condition which makes retrieving the Orb of Zot impossible. We can thus restate our goal: Do Not Die. How do you die?

=== Find [Any] Armour ===

Not to wear, for scroll identification. This may later change to finding wearable armour that's worth burning a scroll of enchant armour on.

=== Identify Scroll of Detect, Remove Curse ===

Before you can effectively try on unidentified items, you should have these scrolls identified. This allows you to remove those with negative effects.

=== Early Scroll Identification ===

* [[Scroll of Detect Curse]]
* [[Scroll of Remove Curse]]
* [[Scroll of Identify]]
* [[Scroll of Teleportation]]
* [[Scroll of Enchant Armour]]: so rare that it's worth burning scrolls of enchant weapon, recharging, and identify to properly identify them.

=== Later Scroll Identification ===

* [[Scroll of Fog]]
* [[Scroll of Blinking]]

=== Cast Zero-Hunger, Low-Failure [[Fireball]] ===

Intelligence: 25,
Spellcasting: 14
Fire Magic: 10
Conjurations: 10

Modified down by god choice, rings of wizardry, rings of intelligence.

=== Worship a God ===

[[Vehumet]], every time it's reasonable. The rare game may require [[Sif Muna]].

=== Gets Traps & Doors Skill to 10 ===

There is no particular rush, this can be done when no other obvious skill needs to be trained: all of your spells can be cast without hunger and a 1% chance of failure.

=== Train Fighting ===

There is some urgency, as training fighting gets you hit points. Should only be done when spells are zero hunger and low failure.

=== See Invisible ===

Scrolls of Fog and in some cases Fireball will help, but the main dungeon eventually becomes impassible without this because of Unseen horrors.

=== Poison Resistance ===

Helpful, but not strictly necessary for the middle game. Helpful for extending the corpses available for eating and reducing damage.

=== Find a non-Fire Conjuration Spell ===

* [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]]
* [[Bolt of Magma]]
* [[Lightning Bolt]]
* [[Orb of Destruction]]
* [[Airstrike]]

=== Determine which Secondary School to specialize ===

This will be determined based on how the game progresses. In particular, early spellbooks will determine which schools to focus on.

==== [[Charms]] ====

The best option by far.

* [[See Invisible]]
* [[Deflect Missiles]]
* [[Swiftness]] or [[Haste]]

==== [[Earth]] ====

* [[Bolt of Magma]]: useful until [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]] or [[Orb of Destruction]] for fire resistant monsters.

==== [[Hexes]] ====

No experience here, but potentially useful.

* [[Slow]]
* [[Confuse]]
* [[Invisibility]]

==== [[Necromancy]] ====

==== [[Transmutations]] ====

=== Locate a [[Book of Annihilations]] ===

=== Cast [[Fire Storm]] ===

Requires:

Finding a [[Book of Annihilations]].

[[Spellcasting]], [[Conjuration]], and [[Fire Magic]] to all be at least level 19. I'm more comfortable with them being level 20.

== Hazards ==

A Hazard is any situation that could result in death. Some hazards are extremely basic, others result from the confluence of several events.

=== Running out of [[Mana]] ===

Being out of Mana severely reduces your tactical options.

Strategies:

[[Resting]] is the first option for restoring Mana. This strategy exacerbates [[Hunger]]. It cannot be done with a [[Monster]] nearby or may be interrupted by a wandering Monster.

[[Wands]], [[Scrolls]], [[Potions]].

[[Sublimation of Blood]]

=== Nausea ===

Main Article: [[Sickness]]

=== Making Noise ===

Main Article: [[Noise]]

Opening a door will sometimes cause it to creak.

Some spells are noisy when cast.

=== Contamination ===

You cannot stay continually [[Haste|Hasted]] without enduring significant contamination.

=== [[Poison]] ===

Main Article: [[Poison#Curing_Poison|Curing Poison]]

If a [[potion of curing]] hasn't been identified yet, quaff potions from highest quantity to lowest. Note that you may quaff a [[potion of poison]] doing this.

=== [[Hunger|Starvation]] ===

Can be an issue due to [[spell hunger]].

=== [[Miscast effect]] ===

You can kill yourself miscasting a spell. Trying to cast Fireball too early can kill you.

=== Cursed weapons and armor ===

=== Quaffing unidentified potions ===

* [[potion of poison]]
* [[potion of strong poison]]
* [[potion of confusion]]
* [[potion of degeneration]]
* [[potion of paralysis]]
* [[potion of mutation]]
* [[potion of slowing]]

=== Reading unidentified scrolls ===

* [[scroll of curse armour]]
* [[scroll of curse weapon]]
* [[scroll of curse jewellery]]
* [[scroll of immolation]]
* [[scroll of torment]]

=== Putting on unidentified items ===

* [[Cursed]] items
* [[ring of teleportation]]
* [[ring of hunger]]

=== Ranged Attacks ===

It is extremely dangerous to run away from [[Centaur]]s and other creatures with ranged attacks.

=== [[Resistance|Fire resistant]] Monsters ===

==== [[Crimson imp]] ====

strategies:

Imp Parking

With patience, an unarmed Crimson imp can be fought in melee.

Wands: [[Wand of magic darts]], [[Wand of frost]], [[Wand of disintegration]].

A [[Wand of yolymorph other]] will often turn a Crimson imp into a non-fire resistant monster. Alas, you will occasionally get an [[Iron imp]], which is also fire resistant.

Conjuration-only spells.

Secondary Specialty spells.

=== [[Mummy (monster)|Mummy]] ===

Because of their death curse, often not worth engaging. Stair dance, they're slow.

=== Invisible Monsters ===

* [[Unseen horror]]

A [[Scroll of fog]] will make an invisible creature appear as a disturbance, making them easier to hit with [[Sticky Flame]].

Area of effect spells, like [[Fireball]], will hit invisible creatures when you don't know exactly where they are. Unfortunately, you might be caught in the area of effect if they are closer than you thought.

=== Descending Stairs ===

As this character is a glass cannon, descending staircases can be extremely risky: you might find yourself surrounded with very few tactical options.

Ensuring you are not [[Burdened]] will make traveling staircases as fast as possible. [[Deflect Missiles]] helps to avoid damage from monsters not adjacent to you. [[Swiftness]] or [[Haste]] can help escape a hoard that follows you up the stairs. A [[Potion of invisibility]] can supplement good [[Dodging]] to avoid damage while retreating. A [[Scroll of blinking]] can cover more ground than running.

This is one of the few instances where something like a [[Potion of agility]] helps, as you won't normally need to deal with monsters adjacent to you.

=== Shafts ===

A [[scroll of magic mapping]] can be used to find staircases on levels too dangerous to explore.

=== Silence ===

This will prevent casting of all magic and reading of scrolls, substantially limiting your tactical options. Keep some potion or wand-based capabilities on hand.

* [[Wand of teleportation]]
* [[Wand of healing]]
* [[Potion of speed]]

== Strategy ==

=== Identification ===

You can risk quaff-iding potions earlier if you identify an amulet of resist mutation.

Does amulet identification precede potion identification? It requires scroll identification.

=== Magic Items ===

Under what conditions do you want more Mana vs. Intelligence, &c? How best to choose between Intelligence, Power, Wizardry, Fire, Conjuration?

tq: Lens

== Emotional Reaction ==

* Anxiety: practice tq: go slow: practice each step mindfully even if you know it's a NOP.
* Stress: The game is getting harder, shift to stress identification and circumvention techniques
* Focus: You're less able to focus on basic hazards, don't get caught off-guard.

== God ==

In a typical game, worship [[Vehumet]]: he will aide you in casting all of your primary spells.

In some circumstances, worshipping [[Sif Muna]] is the better option: If you find an early Sif Muna altar, or Vehumet is not in the [[Ecumenical Temple]], starting to gain [[piety]] early can help make spells available in the challenging mid-game.

== Branch Progression ==

=== Ecumenical Temple ===

=== The Lair ===

=== Orcish Mines ===

== Skill Progression ==

== Spell Progression ==

My current recommended end-game spell complement. Still tweaking.

{|class="wikitable"
! Name
! School(s)
! Spell Level
|-
| Controlled Blink
| Tloc
| 7
|-
| Deflect Missiles
| Air/Chrm
| 6
|-
| Flight
| Air/Chrm
| 3
|-
| Haste
| Chrm
| 6
|-
| Fireball
| Fire/Conj
| 5
|-
| Lightning Bolt
| Air/Conj
| 5
|-
| Sublimation of Blood
| Necr
| 2
|-
| Necromutation
| Trmt/Necr
| 8
|-
| Orb of Destruction
| Conj
| 7
|-
| Cure Poison
| Pois
| 2
|-
| Delayed Fireball
| Fire/Conj
| 7
|-
| Regeneration
| Chrm/Necr
| 3
|-
| See Invisible
| Chrm
| 4
|-
| Fire Storm
| Fire/Conj
| 9
|}

=== [[Fireball]] ===

You can have this memorized at Lvl6, though it likely is not safe to cast.

== Level Progression ==

This is the basic ladder for level progression. Some of these events also require Skill Progression to have reached a suitable point.

=== Level 2 ===

=== Level 3 ===

Increase your [[Intelligence]] to reduce [[Spell hunger]].

Memorize [[Conjure Flame]].

=== Level 4 ===

Memorize [[Sticky Flame]]. (This may have to wait until Level 5, depending on Spellcasting)

=== Level 5 ===

=== Level 6 ===

Increase your [[Intelligence]] to reduce [[Spell hunger]].

Memorize [[Fireball]].

=== Level 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 ===

Increase your [[Intelligence]] to reduce [[Spell hunger]].

Some of these levels may go to increasing [[Strength]], depending on the items found in the dungeon.

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 [[Death]] is the only condition which makes retrieving the Orb of Zot impossible.  We can thus restate our goal: Do Not Die.  How do you die?
 === Find [Any] Armour ===
 Not to wear, for scroll identification.  This may later change to finding wearable armour that's worth burning a scroll of enchant armour on.

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 Strategies:
-[[Resting]] is the first option for restoring Mana.  This strategy exacerbates [[Hunger]].  It cannot be done with a [[Monster]] nearby or may be interrupted by a wandering Monster.
+[[MP|Resting]] is the first option for restoring Mana.  This strategy exacerbates [[Hunger]].  It cannot be done with a [[Monster]] nearby or may be interrupted by a wandering Monster.
 [[Wands]], [[Scrolls]], [[Potions]].

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 === Early Scroll Identification ===
-* [[Scroll of Detect Curse]]
+* [[Scroll of detect curse]]
-* [[Scroll of Remove Curse]]
+* [[Scroll of remove curse]]
-* [[Scroll of Identify]]
+* [[Scroll of identify]]
-* [[Scroll of Teleportation]]
+* [[Scroll of teleportation]]
-* [[Scroll of Enchant Armour]]: so rare that it's worth burning scrolls of enchant weapon, recharging, and identify to properly identify them.
+* [[Scroll of enchant armour]]: so rare that it's worth burning scrolls of enchant weapon, recharging, and identify to properly identify them.
 === Later Scroll Identification ===
-* [[Scroll of Fog]]
+* [[Scroll of fog]]
-* [[Scroll of Blinking]]
+* [[Scroll of blinking]]
 === Cast Zero-Hunger, Low-Failure [[Fireball]] ===
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 A Hazard is any situation that could result in death.  Some hazards are extremely basic, others result from the confluence of several events.
-=== Running out of [[Mana]] ===
+=== Running out of [[Magic points|Mana]] ===
 Being out of Mana severely reduces your tactical options.
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 Wands: [[Wand of magic darts]], [[Wand of frost]], [[Wand of disintegration]].
-A [[Wand of yolymorph other]] will often turn a Crimson imp into a non-fire resistant monster.  Alas, you will occasionally get an [[Iron imp]], which is also fire resistant.
+A [[Wand of polymorph other]] will often turn a Crimson imp into a non-fire resistant monster.  Alas, you will occasionally get an [[Iron imp]], which is also fire resistant.
 Conjuration-only spells.

User:Alanpost/Deep Elf Fire Elementalist guide - Revision history

Alanpost: /* Goals */

Derrek: remove Resting link

Seriser6: fixed red links

Alanpost: copy from old_crawl.