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[StarStorm]

Hey kids, it's been a while. I've not been playing DoomRL much (high hopes for Jupiter Hell), and... well.

Okay there's one thing that's been bugging me for-fucking-ever. The secret of the Dragonslayer. Anyways, I'm going  along, and there's apparently a hint about it if you complete Ao100.

So you know what, why not? That said, it didn't feel as long as I thought it would be... I was getting somewhat bored near the end, but I still wanted to shoot everything. If it moves, it's dead. I don't like leaving things alive. So uh, why isn't it 100%?

About 20 levels or so in there was a lava fort level, only the bridges to one of the rooms didn't spawn. Two demons, far out of my sight, and me lacking the armament to kill them properly. Such a shame. I might have to retry this.

So, some thoughts.

I'm still a chain whore. MAc has yet to do me wrong like ever, so I saw no real reason to change my playstyle now. My plan was fairly simple. Get MAc, get Whizkid, get Badass, work things out from there.

Equipment-wise I didn't really have much of a plan. I found duelist armor, so that became my early armor (I actually found THREE what the hell), and found an energy-shielded vest. Decided to make that into cybernano armor.
I also found acid-proof boots early on, which was nice, but I was fairly set on getting cerberus boots once I had full Whizkid.

Finding Malek's armor was interesting, I decided to make it my backup armor when my Duelist's and backup Red got too banged up, but seven levels later I found the Boots and quickly *didn't need anything else*. Late game, there's some plasma and acid, sure, and the rare bullet, but most of the dangerous late enemies do fire, and ignoring lava was a lovely too. Between that and badass, I pretty much never used a med kit. When I finally assembled the Cybernano armor though... okay, the Power Cybernano Energy-Shielded Vest was neat, but after spending most of the game pretty much immune to about 60% of what I dealt with, it felt like a downgrade. Great armor, great assembly, and I was very lucky throughout. But man, it felt like a letdown after Malek's + Nyarlahotep's. I have no idea why. Fortunately I had my cerb boots.

I'm also annoyed that the gothic boots spawned.... some 20 levels after I ditched the gothic armor. Oh well, the RNG was lovely to me anyways so I'll forgive it.

As I'm going MAc, I naturally want a plasma rifle. I found one, started to the high-powered rifle, then found the laser rifle. After some thought I decided that was better, and ran with it. Eventually, I just decided not to bother with anything else: any other weapon I got after ditching my gatling gun and double shotty was basically something to mess with.

All said... it was mostly grindy really. Early worries yes, but after getting set up (AKA about Badass 2) there were a few tense moments but mostly grindy. Still I think I'll do this again, if only because of the MOTHER FUCKERS WHO GOT AWAY.

So any thoughts?

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Atrele, level 21 Imp Sergeant Major Marine,
 completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
 He survived 219181 turns and scored 685342 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 41 minutes and 33 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 1661 out of 1663 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 ----------------------------------------------------

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Experience Medal
  Centurial Bronze Badge
  Centurial Silver Badge
  Centurial Gold Badge

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

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

  Health 200/100   Experience 432828/21
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +4  ToDmg Melee +4

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

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 4)
    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 4)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 2)
    Ammochain        (Level 1)

  SoB->SoB->TH->TH->Rel->Rel->MAc->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->Bad->Bad->SoB->SoB->Iro->Iro->HR->HR->Iro->Iro->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   cybernano energy-shielded vest [7] (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   laser rifle (1d8)x5 [40/40] (P1S1T3)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   cerberus plasteel boots [0/0] (200%) (B)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   minigun (1d9)x8 [200/200] (A1N1P3)

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

    [a] Revenant's Launcher (7d6) [1/1]
    [b] rocket (x10)
    [c] power cell (x50)
    [d] power cell (x50)
    [e] power cell (x50)
    [f] power cell (x50)
    [g] power cell (x50)
    [h] power cell (x50)
    [i] power cell (x50)
    [j] power cell (x41)
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] homing phase device
    [s] Hell Staff
    [t] gothic boots [10/10] (200%)
    [u] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (98%)

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

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 100%
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 100%
    Plasma     - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   

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

    70 former humans
    110 former sergeants
    104 former captains
    117 imps
    53 demons
    195 lost souls
    49 cacodemons
    47 hell knights
    277 barons of hell
    69 arachnotrons
    4 former commandos
    18 pain elementals
    80 revenants
    135 mancubi
    160 arch-viles
    12 nightmare imps
    34 nightmare cacodemons
    75 nightmare demons
    20 nightmare arachnotrons
    1 elite former human
    2 elite former sergeants
    1 elite former captain
    1 elite former commando
    21 bruiser brothers
    5 shamblers
    1 agony elemental

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

  On level 14 he assembled a gatling gun!
  On level 17 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 19 he stumbled into a complex full of imps!
  On level 20, hell froze over!
  On level 20 he found the Railgun!
  On level 22 he stumbled into a complex full of hell knights!
  On level 24 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 24 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
  On level 27 he found the Hell Staff!
  Level 28 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 31 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
  On level 33 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  He sounded the alarm on level 37!
  On level 37 he assembled a cerberus boots!
  On level 42 he found the Malek's Armor!
  On level 43 he found the Charch's Null Pointer!
  On level 45 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 45 he assembled a cerberus armor!
  On level 48 he ran for his life from acid!
  He sounded the alarm on level 49!
  On level 49 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
  On level 51, hell froze over!
  On level 52 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  On level 56 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
  On level 60, hell froze over!
  Level 61 was a hard nut to crack!
  Level 68 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 71, hell froze over!
  On level 73 he found the Trigun!
  On level 76 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  Level 77 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 80 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  On level 82 he found the Subtle Knife!
  Level 83 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 89 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 91 he assembled a cybernano armor!
  Level 92 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
  On level 93 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  On level 100 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 demon. The missile hits the nightmare demon. The missile hits the nightmare
 demon.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a nightmare demon (heavily wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the nightmare demon. The missile hits the nightmare demon.
 The missile hits the nightmare demon. The missile hits the nightmare demon.
 The missile hits the nightmare demon. The nightmare demon dies. You feel
 relatively safe now. Boom! Boom!
 There is a small med-pack lying here.
 There is a small med-pack lying here.
 You reload the laser rifle.
 There are stairs leading downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
 <Enter>...

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

 22 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 14 of those were killed.
 And 1 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 7 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 3 killed the bitch and survived.
 4 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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[Sereg]

That's pretty much the story of my Ao100 and AAo666 life, right there. I'm right with you on MAc builds - by far the most effective for someone like me, who doesn't appreciate doing too much inventory management.

All I can tell you on Dragonslayer is to think like a true berserker.