Re: Asking for the latest in itemscumology


"erisdiscordia" <erik@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Adam Hollins wrote:
"erisdiscordia" <erik@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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spoiler space
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working
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walking
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meditation
watching
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science
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make
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So. I want an ultra ending. I'm not going to settle for a normal one.
I've even got a boar skull, for cripe's sakes. No AoLS. EVERYTHING
pre-Khelly has been cleared except the Minotaur Maze and a part of
ToEF:4 (I was in a hurry to cash in the guardian corpse). I've been
s*** ID:24/25 for an RoDS (item level 8*3 = 24... right?) for two
evenings now. Two long evenings. Hours and hours. And it's about to go
past day 90.

I have lost all pride. I now will stoop to nothing. (Except save
s***, of course.)

If you'll really stop at nothing, then try a gremlin bomb in the water
dragon's lair.

It's actually what I did in the end. Manually, however. Yes, my fingers
hurt badly by the end. But holding out until the needed =oDS was
generated was a bearable process, about one hour. I described it in
more detail (and closer to the time of the event) elsewhere in the
thread. I use Winbeta, so I don't have the copy-paste possibility
without taking the trouble to switch to another version (if the saves
are even compatible). Unlike your approach, I used darkness so I
wouldn't have to see the drowning messages for the gremlins.


The trouble with using darkness is that all the naturally generated
creatures in the cave surround you after a while, and they don't take
drownding damage. That said, best results would be doing it for a while,
casting light and killing all the cave monsters, then darkness and continue.

For quickest results I'd use the wondows clipboard...
:
1. Play adom in a window (not fullscreen)
2. Go into the water dragon's lair. Clear out dragon turtles.
3. Wield a fluff ball
4. Using Skill hotkeying (capital A by default) bind '2' to 'pick
pockets'
5. Make sure you have no 'bad food' (stomachemptia, burb roots etc), and
a
few hundred stomafillia herbs
6. Copy the following into your windows clipboard:
A27 A28 A29 A24 A26 A21 A22

Don't you mean "a27 a28 a29 a24" etc.? "A" would call up the hotkeying
screen, I should think.

Ah yes, my bad, sorry.

[...]
After you do the above, you'll have a good few AoLS, RoDS, maybe a WoW or
2,
and enough stat-boosting potions and water to get 99 in every stat, along
with hundred of other nice <10s items. It'll take a tiny amount of game
time,

It took a game-day or two -- hardly a tiny amount of game time -- to
get the RoDS, zero WoW's, and not nearly as many stat-boosting potions
as you mentioned. Are you really speaking from experience?

Sorry, I consider a few weeks of game time tiny compared to the amount of
time taken to find one in the tomb of the high kings or ID. I didn't mean to
mislead you.


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