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Tormuse:
Ah, I see what you're saying now.  That's very clever!  :)  I like it when people come up with innovative ways of playing the game; it just goes to show how versatile it is.  :)

And yeah, if you want to get Conqueror, you need to invest a few levels in getting Berserker, (Or hope for a Hatred skull from City of Skulls/Abyssal Plains) and/or play some kind of melee or melee hybrid build.

Brickman:
I'm amused that I'm really the first person to think of this strategy. Because the second I saw a challenge that said "by luck", my first two thoughts were "What are the odds of success?" (quite poor) and "Are there any items that could raise the odds of success?" (yes, two such weapons). I just assumed people were going to say this was the standard way of getting it.

Similarly, I already did Conqueror on HMP a few months ago, using Malicious Blades because it seemed like the "obvious" choice (most of the advantages of a melee build, but you still get a boost when shooting things in the Mortuary, and a hatred skull can take care of the Angel of Death). You can expect a post incoming within the next couple days when I redo that on UV.

edit: Also, it just occurred to me that my solution gets all the loot while the "standard" solution does not. Which I find quite amusing.

Tormuse:
Well, as ZicherCZ said, the Napalm Launcher is quite rare (and the Acid Spitter is even rarer, not to mention much less functional for this purpose) and besides, it takes *a lot* of rockets (or a Nano mod) to make this work, so this strategy is incredibly luck-dependent.  You would be far more likely to get a handful of phase devices, which I would consider the more "standard" way of getting in there if there is one.

Brickman:
Maybe, but you can control how many rockets you're carrying a lot easier than you can control the game spawning a stack of phase devices. And a sufficient number of rockets takes up less inventory with the backpack (more than half the rockets I used spawn for free on that level, 2 full stacks plus a rocket box is enough). You can't expect a napalm launcher on any given run, but you can expect to get one eventually and modify the plan for that run accordingly.

edit: Aaaaand I just completed an actual Conqueror run on UV for the platinum badge. It doesn't even feel like enough of an accomplishment to make a thread, I just did the same thing again except with Malicious Blades, Lava Boots and Antigrav Boots. It just takes a long time.

Tormuse:
Well, it's up to you, but that sounds like something worth sharing for posterity.  :)

(Besides, the forums are pretty quiet; they could use some livening up)  :P

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