video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsxsZ06QUCgAngel of berserk = You're only allowed to use melee weapons
Angel of darkness:
(-) your vision is reduced,
(-) you cannot see previously visited tiles
(-) map revealers and stair sense do not work
(-) enemy respawning is enabled (to no effect on nightmare! though)
(+) but xp is doubled
difficulty: platinum
attempts: 11
skill: 40/100
luck: 50/100
while the early game can be annoying from the reduced vision, the double xp makes you powerscale really hard after the first few floors
the thing about pure melee is that you're relatively weak at first,
but once you get your mastery (or around ~level 6 for masterless), the "early game" is over and you can start going ham without much consequence
(^this is also why i consider shotguns into melee the most fool proof way of beating the game)
if you go for a melee-tank build, then the later floors are going to become a cakewalk no matter what the game throws at you pretty much
and since angel of darkness doubles xp gain, you're going to make the oh-so brutal early aob on n! go by much quicker.
as such, I think I'll rate this one at platinum
(my first N! win years ago was actually with this exact angel combo of aob+aod and the overpowered v0.9.9.8 vampyre)
(i definitely would not rate my skill level at the time above platinum)
also this is one of the combos for cheesing the gargulec cross (if you don't mind the annoyance that is 100%'ing in angel of darkness)
if you are gonna go for the garg, you may also consider going nightmare instead of uv for this one
"uv is harder than n!" is a common opinion that I used to subscribe too,
but after doing the angelics... yeah, i don't really agree with that anymore in most cases
(there's still more enemies on n!, most special/boss floors are way harder, enemies are more accurate, bosses have more hp, early game is tougher, etc.)
build order:
Bru, Bru, Ber, Int, TaN, TaN, Bru, Bad, HR, HR, Fin, TaN, HR, Fin, WK, WK, Fin, Bru, Bru, Bad
i went bru bru ber into int, since levelling is faster and I'm gonna be relying on powerup chains instead of throwing knives
intuition still reveals powerups, not sure if that's intended or not (you'd think it wouldn't in aod since computer maps and stair sense don't work?)
i went masterless since i wanna tank up due to the reduced vision
and then after that it's just the usual suspects: hellrunner, finesse, whizkid, etc.
you get so many levels from the doubled xp, eventually there's more than you know what to do with
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also that's it for the aob+X dual angels, or world 1 as i called it.
the last one is aob+aoms, but i already beat that as berserker angelic
and there's also aob+aop that i skipped since it turned out to be stupidly difficult, so i'll save that for last
mortem:
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DRL (0.10.8) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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aob and aod, level 20 Cyberdemon Chaos Marshal Scout,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 59157 turns and scored 1799210 points.
He played for 56 minutes and 7 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1303 out of 1388 encountered hellspawn. (93%)
He killed 1442 out of 1579 enemy spawns total.
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Berserk!
He was also an Angel of Darkness!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 12
Levels visited : 7
Levels completed : 5
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Cyberdemon's Head Killing the Cyberdemon w/o taking damage
UAC Star (gold cluster) 100+ kills without taking damage
Aurora Medallion Found more than 3 uniques in one game
Experience Medal Reach experience level 20+
Grim Reaper's Pin Clear the Mortuary/Limbo
Hell Armorer Pin Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 50/50 Experience 301925/20
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +10 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +15
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Brute (Level 5)
Berserker (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 2)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Int->TaN->TaN->Bru->Bad->HR->HR->Fin->TaN->HR->Fin->WK->WK->Fin->Bru->Bru->Bad->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[ Armor ] duelist armor [2/2] (100%) (A)
[ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[ Prepared ] ripper (6d6) (T)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
onyx armor [4] (PT)
Necroarmor [6/6] (100%)
Lava Armor [4/4] (100%)
Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
large med-pack
lava element
hatred skull
Hell Staff
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
bullet - internal 50% torso 50% feet 50%
melee - internal 50% torso 95% feet 50%
shrapnel - internal 50% torso 50% feet 50%
acid - internal 105% torso 100% feet 100%
fire - internal 105% torso 100% feet 100%
plasma - internal 80% torso 80% feet 80%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
108 former humans
110 former sergeants
54 former captains
27 former commandos
144 imps
115 demons
480 lost souls
48 cacodemons
36 hell knights
47 barons of hell
31 arachnotrons
49 pain elementals
39 revenants
27 mancubi
48 arch-viles
17 nightmare imps
25 nightmare demons
25 nightmare cacodemons
3 nightmare arachnotrons
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
Melee kills : 1175
Unarmed kills : 15
Other kills : 252
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He arrived at the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 30 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 10 he found the Necroarmor!
On level 12 he assembled a chainsword!
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.
On level 33 he assembled a tactical boots!
He found the Tower of Babel.
On level 18 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 19, hell froze over!
On level 19 he assembled a ripper!
On level 19 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 35 he assembled a fireproof boots!
On level 35 he found the Longinus Spear!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 36 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 21 he was stumbling in the dark!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 37 he found the Lava Armor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
On level 23 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
Level 23 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
Then at last he found Dis!
He nuked level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
This is it. This is the lair of all evil! What will you meet here?
You start running!
You are hit!
You hit John Carmack.
You hit John Carmack.
You dodge!
John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
You hit John Carmack.
You hit John Carmack. You are hit!
You hit John Carmack.
You hit John Carmack. You feel like a killing machine! You're going berserk!
You need to taste blood! Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
You hit John Carmack.
You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! John Carmack dies.
Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1659 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1426 of those were killed.
6 of those were killed by something unknown.
80 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 47 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
100 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
10 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
62 killed the bitch and survived.
28 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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