From my first win on UV through Ossuary route, I noticed that two ranks of Eagle Eye boost shotguns well, so an idea was born how to tackle Diamond badge for Angel of Shotgunnery challenge, which demands you to win N! without taking a mastery.
Key decisions:
1) armor replaced twice: ablative -> combat -> infiltration. (Didn't care about loss of dodge)
2) Second Chamber rerolled into Critical 40 at Tyre Outpost. Actually was supposed to rerolling on another gun (auto-shotgun), accidentally rerolled on main shotgun. But Critical 40 proved to achieve kills in one hit, meaning I didn't miss Second Chamber in practice.
3) snatching that poison immunity in Rift (and thus also be able to upgrade it in Mephitic Mines) - I think I got Filtered helm to go at this, otherwise too low chance to succeed at claiming that one to bother attempt it.
4) heading for exit elevators in Dante, only killing encountered/aggroed enemies, but avoiding drawing more opposition, and sometimes using stealth ability to reach the exit (but make sure that elevators aren't blocked, including by some exalt spawning with a specific elevator-blocking trait - just one of these could ruin this entire run)
I am a stranger to Nightmare difficulty, so luck factor was great in my victory, and I also burned three military stims and a couple of phase kits at the final boss. So somewhere the build power wasn't apparently enough (then again, where is my relic? didn't get any good one).
Vigilant, level 15 Scout,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.
He survived for 6631 turns.
The run time was 1h 3m 54s.
World seed was 12142.
He scored 9296 points.
He opposed the NIGHTMARE!
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
CALLISTO L2 - Volatile Storage
CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Rift L1
Callisto Rift L2 - The Hunt
Callisto Rift L3 -> The Rift
CALLISTO L6 - Secure Vault
EUROPA L3 -> Europa Dig Zone L1
Europa Dig Zone L2 - Secure Vault
Europa Dig Zone L3 - Secure Vault
Europa Dig Zone L3 -> Tyre Outpost
IO L2 -> Mephitic Mines L1
Mephitic Mines L2 - Exalted Curse
Mephitic Mines L3 -> Noxious Hollow
Noxious Hollow - found Firecrown
Dante Station L3 - Exalted Summons
Awards
CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
* 25+ kills without taking damage
Neophyte Ribbon (+50)
* Reach Io without picking a master trait
Neophyte Medal (+100)
* Reach Dante without picking a master trait
Neophyte Cross (+250)
* Win the game without picking a master trait
Shottyman Platinum Badge
* Complete AoSh on Nightmare!
Shottyman Diamond Badge
* Complete AoSh on N! master-less
He killed 698 out of 911 enemies.
36 former grunts 18 security sentries
1 former CRI grunt 4 military sentries
4 former grenadiers 9 CalSec bots
1 corrupted grenadier 10 security bots
13 former soldiers 1 military bot
9 corrupted soldiers 30 reavers
6 hellish soldiers 30 cryoreavers
1 former CRI soldier 19 toxic reavers
6 former sergeants 25 archreavers
3 corrupted sergeants 4 kerberi
2 hellish sergeants 15 cryoberi
1 former CRI sergeant 4 toxiberi
16 former guards 6 medusae
6 former commandoes 5 archmedusae
7 corrupted commandoes 12 ravagers
5 hellish commandoes 11 armored ravagers
1 CRI commando 5 siege ravagers
1 former heavy 4 plasma ravagers
2 corrupted heavies 15 CRI marines
10 fanatics 13 CRI bots
11 security drones 7 guardians
2 combat drones 3 frost guardians
65 fiends 3 sentinels
20 fire fiends 7 warlocks
26 ice fiends 1 archwarlock
19 toxic fiends 1 watcher
9 CalSec sentries 2 cryowatchers
Traits
Skilled L1
Eagle Eye L2
Hellrunner L3
Son of a Gun L3
Executioner L2
Hacker L1
Dodgemaster L1
Whizkid L1
Trait order
EE->EE->Hr->Hr->Hr->SoG->Hak->Whk->
SoG->Skl->Exe->Exe->SoG->Dm
Equipment
Slot #1 : plasma shotgun +BVC
* Vampiric 3
* Auto-calibrated
* Autoloader
* Freezing 2
* Slowdown
Slot #2 : AV2 12ga shotgun +BA
* Autoloader
* Critical 40
* Auto-calibrated
* Calibrated 1
* Frenzy 12
* Slowdown
Slot #3 : - NONE -
Body : IDR infiltration armor
* Io Defence Reserve
* Fire-resistant
* Ambush
Head : marine helmet P2BA
* Crit Enhancer 25
* Danger Monitor
* Long-range tracking
* Durable
Utility : AV2 shotgun AMP
* Shotgun shred capacitor
* Shotgun pellet boost
Relic : - NONE -
Permanents
Mephitic Taint
Crystal skin
Inventory
energy cell (x38)
12ga shell (x46)
gas grenade (x2)
CRI phase kit (x1)
large medkit
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Topic: [1.8h|N!|Sc|YAVP] Shottyman Diamond (masterless) opening with Eagle Eye (Read 14 times)