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Title: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Flame_US3r on April 26, 2013, 12:45
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My first Ao100 win. Dlvl 18 dragonslayer was tantalizing... I had been building rapidfire weapons the whole way. I cautiously cleared the level before staring at the dragonslayer for about an hour. Then, somehow, I managed to lift it (I tried so many things at once, I'm still not sure of the exact conditions, heh). Easymode from there on out. Or rather, once I combined the weapon with assembled cerberus boots and cybernano armor. In hindsight, I wouldn't have assembled the cursed armor because I had a chance of encountering the berserker armor... but I didn't run into it. Scavenging the early uniques got me nano and onyx packs for those assemblies, and helped to assemble a few more along the way (just for filling out my list).

I finally scavenged another nano pack for antigrav boots; I used those to speed through the levels without much lava. But the cerberus boots were on about 75% of the time. So good.

Dlvl 100 was Nightmare A's and I actually almost died by standing still with 3-4 in line of sight. Despite my stupidity, I survived with ~25% health and a large medpack carried me to victory. I'm a bit pissed about the 2 unobliterated demons. I played over about a week off and on (I left the game running) and I must have left a few behind to save my life on dlvl 11.

So, is finding that many (9?) uniques common in a Ao100?
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: SageAcrin on April 26, 2013, 12:53
9's a little high. Solidly good luck but nothing ridiculous.

Also, I keep not finding Dragonslayer, despite now knowing how to pick it up, in Ao100. Sadness. Good on you to find it. :)
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: ParaSait on April 26, 2013, 14:31
I know someone who found 6 on a normal 25 level game. >_>
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Flame_US3r on April 26, 2013, 14:40
Quote from: ParaSait on April 26, 2013, 14:31
I know someone who found 6 on a normal 25 level game. >_>

Sickening. Haha

Quote from: SageAcrin on April 26, 2013, 12:53
not finding Dragonslayer
My problem exactly until now. Good luck finding it! Or puzzling out the conditions for receiving it in N! Unholy Cathedral. (There is a way, right?)
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: White Rider on April 26, 2013, 14:49
It makes me sad that I found a Dragonslayer on my ArchAo666 run, spent a grand 15 minutes mucking around with it, and left without really trying anything else, and then you said that it took you an hour of experimentation. Goshdarnit.

Also, nightmare-variant Arachnotrons are terrifying.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Q2ZOv on April 26, 2013, 16:44
heh 1 hour is not a long time. I recall keeping my computer on for three days only because i didn't want to leave DS behind. I gave up after 3 days though.
(these days I begin to think that I am the only one stupid enough to not manage to pick it up after thinking about it for a while)
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: SageAcrin on April 26, 2013, 16:45
I think it took me a grand total of two Dragonslayers and ten minutes of mucking to pick it up.

I just haven't actually gotten a chance to use it for a full run.

In fairness, I might have never gotten it picked up were it not for a friend going "If I got it, I plan on trying X" and I tried that.

...Then again I haven't gotten it again, so I don't know if that was important. Probably, though.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Flame_US3r on April 26, 2013, 17:18
Quote from: Q2ZOv on April 26, 2013, 16:44
heh 1 hour is not a long time.
I didn't spend all the time trying things, fyi. Most of it was just musing. What tools did I have, what could I rule out, what could I try without screwing it up. The solution ended up being one of the last things I would have tried. (Yet I'm still not 100% sure what the exact requirements are; need more Dragonslayers to experiment with)

Quote from: White Rider on April 26, 2013, 14:49
Also, nightmare-variant Arachnotrons are terrifying.
Agreed. I hate spiders; arachnotrons follow suit.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: ParaSait on April 26, 2013, 17:31
By the way... 7 days and 9 hours is freakin' loooong man.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Flame_US3r on April 26, 2013, 17:47
Quote from: ParaSait on April 26, 2013, 17:31
By the way... 7 days and 9 hours is freakin' loooong man.
Like I said, I left the game running instead of saving and closing it. I probably actually played the game ~6-7 hours.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: ParaSait on April 26, 2013, 20:29
Quote from: Flame_US3r on April 26, 2013, 17:47
Like I said, I left the game running instead of saving and closing it. I probably actually played the game ~6-7 hours.
Ah. Okay I missed that lol.
But why not just save? This isn't nightmare.
Title: Re: [HNTR|Ao100|99%|YAVP] *9 Uniques* including dlvl 18 Dragonslayer
Post by: Tormuse on April 26, 2013, 21:22
This made me wonder about my own Ao100 games and how many uniques I found...  6... (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4905.0.html) 6... (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4894.0.html) 7... (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4860.0.html)  (Neighbour of the beast)  :P  So yeah, 9 *is* pretty high for an Ao100 game!  :o  And then there's my AAo666 game (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6289.0.html) where I got every friggin' unique in the game *except* Dragonslayer!  Grrr!  Why is everyone finding it but me?  :(

*Ahem...*

And yeah, with 7 days of game time, you're lucky you didn't lose it all to a power failure or something!  :o