A thought occurred to me while planning out a technician pistol build: SoG5 is not a master trait, nor does it require MSs. Furthermore, any build with SoG5 in it is worth it for pistols. MSs blocks SoB, which leads to less average damage output (in the very long term) with most pistols.
With that in mind, I went for MSc, which had the added benefit of snagging Intuition much earlier. The beginning of the game played mostly with automatics, as I didn't start picking up SoG until after MSc.
Apart from Malek's Armor (which was awesome), I had basically 0 luck this game. I didn't get any unique/exotic pistols (and hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side) and none of my scavenged uniques turned into unique modpacks. It didn't matter, though, because MSc almost guarantees Firestorm and Sniper packs, which I used to make a wall-cutting laser pistol and a sickeningly damaging Storm Bolter.
The last level being full of formers was hilariously anticlimactic.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.5) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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RSO, level 22 Arch-Vile Captain Technician,
completed 100 levels of torture on level 84 of Hell.
He survived 249028 turns and scored 1153473 points.
He played for 4 hours, 11 minutes and 15 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 2383 out of 2397 hellspawn. (99%)
He was a real killing machine...
He was an Angel of 100!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Cyberdemon's Head
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Experience Medal
Centurial Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 93/50 Experience 502115/22
ToHit Ranged +6 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +5 ToDmg Melee +5
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Hellrunner (Level 1)
Son of a bitch (Level 5)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Reloader (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 3)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
EE->EE->Int->Int->WK->WK->MSc->SoG->SoG->SoG->SoB->SoG->SoG->SoB->SoB->SoB->SoB->EE->Rel->Rel->Rel->HR->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] energy pistol (2d6) [6/6] (P1)
[c] [ Boots ] phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] storm bolter pistol (1d9)x6 [6/30] (S1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d8) [40/40]
[b] 10mm ammo (x100)
[c] 10mm ammo (x78)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] 10mm ammo (x100)
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] homing phase device
[m] envirosuit pack
[n] envirosuit pack
[o] thermonuclear bomb
[p] power mod pack
[q] power mod pack
[r] power mod pack
[s] bulk mod pack
[t] firestorm weapon pack
[u] sniper weapon pack
[v] Hell Staff
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Fire - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
232 former humans
256 former sergeants
292 former captains
75 imps
44 demons
137 lost souls
24 cacodemons
58 hell knights
325 barons of hell
110 arachnotrons
19 former commandos
12 pain elementals
158 revenants
163 mancubi
226 arch-viles
15 nightmare imps
63 nightmare cacodemons
86 nightmare demons
46 nightmare arachnotrons
1 nightmare arch-vile
31 bruiser brothers
3 shamblers
4 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
2 Cyberdemons
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 17 he found the Malek's Armor!
On level 26 he stumbled into complex full of arch-viles!
Level 38 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 39 he stumbled into complex full of revenants!
On level 39 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 49 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 50 he assembled a energy pistol!
On level 51 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He nuked level 53!
On level 54 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 55 he stumbled into complex full of arch-viles!
On level 55 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 56 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 59 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 62 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 66!
On level 68 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 68 he assembled a storm bolter pistol!
Level 73 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 76 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
Level 84 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 85, hell froze over!
He nuked level 88!
On level 90 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 94 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 96 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 98 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 100 he stumbled into complex full of former humans!
Level 100 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
There is a plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] lying here.
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
There is rocket (x4) lying here.
There is 10mm ammo (x24) lying here.
There is 10mm ammo (x24) lying here.
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
You feel a deadly chill!
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
There is a chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40] lying here.
There is a Large Health Globe lying here.
There is a pistol (2d4) [6/6] lying here.
You feel a deadly chill! There are stairs leading downward here.
You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
<Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1142 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1070 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
12 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 46 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
14 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
9 killed the bitch and survived.
2 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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