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[drugon]

My first AoB victory! Is it a bit simple than in previous builds? Anyway it was pretty hard only at the beginning. And more than just hard at Chained Cort. Luckily I could've cleared it spending all my medkits and armors. Cause staff of Arena's Master helped me later more than once. And I almost died on the Wall (4% hp and plenty of barons and knights around) because I jumped right in the monster crowd. That was incautious but luck sat in my pocket this time. After that almost no difficulties at all. Berserker and Vampyre traits helped really much. I'll try AoB with other classes definitely, but later.
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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 drugon, level 13 Former Human Sergeant Major Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 138785 turns and scored 130829 points.
 He played for 5 hours, 39 minutes and 33 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 740 out of 740 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Berserk!

 He saved himself 5 times.

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Medal of Prejudice
  Aurora Medallion
  Explorer Badge
  Conqueror Badge
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Gargulec Medal
  Hell Champion Medal
  Heroic Bronze Badge
  Berserker Bronze Badge
  Berserker Silver Badge
  Longinus Gold Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 141/90   Experience 74084/13
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 3)
    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->Iro->MVm->TaN->Fin->Bad->TaN->Iro->Iro->TaN->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [11/11] (99%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Longinus Spear (8d8)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   piercing combat knife (2d6)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] tower shield [12/12] (150%)
    [b] gothic armor [6/6] (200%) (A)
    [c] nanofiber bullet-proof vest [1]
    [d] large med-pack
    [e] large med-pack
    [f] large med-pack
    [g] large med-pack
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] phase device
    [n] phase device
    [o] homing phase device
    [p] homing phase device
    [q] power mod pack
    [r] lava element
    [s] fire skull
    [t] fire skull
    [u] gothic boots [10/10] (196%) (A)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 90% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 90% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    100 former humans
    71 former sergeants
    12 former captains
    89 imps
    69 demons
    205 lost souls
    34 cacodemons
    30 hell knights
    26 barons of hell
    24 arachnotrons
    6 former commandos
    13 pain elementals
    10 revenants
    17 mancubi
    13 arch-viles
    12 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 Arena Master

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he assembled a piercing blade!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  He sounded the alarm on level 15!
  On level 15 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Longinus Spear!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he assembled a ballistic armor!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Railgun!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
  On level 22 he assembled a tower shield!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 22 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  On level 23 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 3 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1 of those was killed.

 2 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 killed the bitch and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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thelaptop: Use mortem tags instead of code tags for mortems.  =)

[MaiZure]

That's a lot of medkits!

[ParaSait]

Grats. I know for a fact that a player's first longinus spear & AoB victory is always very exhilarating. :P

[White Rider]

Nice, Conqueror Badge and a Gargulec Medal! Definitely something to feel good about.

[LuckyDee]

What were your tactics for the Arena? Apart from the fact that I'd usually rather skip it and have a chainsaw handed to me on a silver plate, I really don't understand how you beat the Arena on melee unless you're packing a serious amount of medkits and armors. And since it's been moved from "maybe on dlev 3" to "always on dlev 2"... I don't mind with most other builds (although I changed my mind halfway through the first wave on AoMr as well), but with melee I'm still not really comfortable with that.

[Klear]

It's best if you can get a zerk just prior entering and the monsters spawn close. It's usually a close call, but the Arena spawns a large health globe (which triggers zerk) on AoB after the 2nd wave, so that helps.

From my experience, Arena is quite difficult on AoB, but the rewards will replenish your stuff and so you'll basically leave with extra XP.

[LuckyDee]

Yeah, but it kinda is the "leaving at all" that worries me...

[White Rider]

My personal experience with Arena on AoB is only with 0.9.9.6, when Arena was on either Floor 2 or 3.
If Arena appeared on Floor 2, restart.
If Arena appeared on Floor 3, attempt. I usually make it past the first wave, and then the second wave kills me because berserker loves to proc when nothing is around to berserk on. Argh.

On another note though, I had a Blademaster Sunrise Iron Fist + Conqueror run on ITYTD earlier where I finished Arena with 3 levels into Brute instead of getting Berserker, since from prior experience, Berserker probably would not proc at the times I wanted it to proc (see definition: RNG). In a similar situation, I wonder if a point into Hellrunner or Tough as Nails would have been useful, but I doubt one extra point of armor would help as much as some more dodge chance.

[Klear]

Yeah, I also found it useful to get Bru 3 before Ber in the Arena when attempting AoB UV (I never finished the game, but I got thru the arena occasionaly, I must add). Ber just doesn't trigger often enough and with unfavourable monster placement tends to run out before being useful.

[LuckyDee]

BRU3, eh? Have to keep that in mind...

[drugon]

LuckyDee
I tried to save all medkits and my blue armor (gives plasma resistance which is very useful against cacodemons). I also throw knives in some cases. It works for pinkies for example or for any other monster that you're killing with corner tactics if you know what I mean. Usually you have enough time to through one knife and then turn to the prepared weapon - another knife. And yes as it was said - large health globe helped really much. BTW - I advise you to keep at least one knife with you all the time even if you'll find good melee weapon. You can destroy not opening doors with throwing knife into them.

[LuckyDee]

Thanks, the plasma resistance goes without saying of course - provided you manage to hold on to the armor you get at the start or find another one.
The throwing knife thing is something I've never tried as of yet. Thanks for the tip!