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[Mulch Diggums]

77. Thats how many people you need to kill to slaughter a village. 1. Thats how many arrows it takes to mangle your lungs and heart and kill you.....

......losing is fun!

[JoRo]

So there I was, wandering around the goblin fortress, knocking them unconscious with thrown rocks and then strolling up to chop off their limbs.  Suddenly, an elite goblin bowman shows up and loudly proclaims his intention to end my life!  I looked around, but I didn't see him anywhere.  Suddenly:
MORTAL WOUND!
HEAVY BLEEDING!
UNCONSCIOUS!
DEAD!

I'm coming back for you, jerk.

[Kagus]

A dwarf who slaughtered pack after pack of wolves, and beat numerous cougars to squishy death with his mighty hammer.  A dwarf who lived through not one but two goblin mobbings wihout so much as a scratch, actually passing out from exertion in one of them.

A dwarf who was instantly killed when an arrow struck him in the chest and removed his lungs and heart.

Seriously, that guy was a tank.  No cheap tactics, just plain smashing.  I was swarmed by goblins, several of them armed guards, and I managed to beat them all back, until I was the only one standing and could survey the twenty-some corpses.  And then some green dork sitting in a tower sees me, yells down at me to introduce himself, and shoots two arrows.  

One missed, one didn't.

[Deon]

quote:Seriously, that guy was a tank. No cheap tactics, just plain smashing. I was swarmed by goblins, several of them armed guards, and I managed to beat them all back, until I was the only one standing and could survey the twenty-some corpses. And then some green dork sitting in a tower sees me, yells down at me to introduce himself, and shoots two arrows.

Poor Boromir.

[Patarak]

Almost the exact same thing happened to me. Accursed arrows.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

quote:Originally posted by Deon:
<STRONG>
Poor Boromir.</STRONG>

Hey, it took more than one arrow to kill Boromir!

[Cthulhu]

He would've died from the first one after a few minutes, Lurtz just felt like overkilling.

[umiman]

I've never died from arrows in Adventure mode before.  :confused:

I see this message a lot though:

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You dodge the incoming arrow!

Or something like that.

Then again, I've never died from Giant Cave Spiders either and I've killed tonnes of them.

I wonder if we're playing the same game... Is there some harder version of the game that you guys keep secret?

[Kagus]

How do you set you set up your skills as an adventurer?  Accomplished shield user or something?

I tried that once.  You don't start with a shield, but if you can get your hands on one, you're pretty safe.

[umiman]

quote:Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>How do you set you set up your skills as an adventurer?  Accomplished shield user or something?

I tried that once.  You don't start with a shield, but if you can get your hands on one, you're pretty safe.</STRONG>

I go for one weapon skill, armour, shield, and two levels of swimming.

The thing is that I always wrestle. In fact, usually my wrestling skill is the first thing to go legendary as adventurer. I can't help breaking every limb off every opponent, then gouging out both eyes, throwing them around, and strangling them to death.

And if I'm not wrestling, usually I'm throwing the bodyparts of fallen enemies at enemies.

When you get high wrestling, I *believe* you can dodge a whole lot of attacks.

I didn't even know shields did anything. Thought it increased defense points or something.

[Kagus]

Shields are the most powerful defensive item in the entire game.  And I wasn't asking what combo of points you use (and you don't need two levels in swimming, one will save your life), I was asking what amount you put into each skill.  

Shields provide a slight amount of base armor, true. But their main use is their ability to block blows entirely, something which is a teensy bit bugged right now (for instance, a sleeping guard can block a blow without waking up).  If you've got high enough shield skill, nothing can touch you.  I learned this the hard way recently, when a modded-in centaur axe lord who must have gotten legendary in the shield user skill, singlehandedly killed three giants that were armed to the teeth and fully armored (well, alright.  First guy didn't have anything except a small rock.  Still, size 16 versus size 9...), simply because I couldn't hit him.  I'd get into a smacking contest with him (after removing his axe, which kept instakilling my guys) which would last for an entire day.  An entire day's combat log full of "you strike at the axe lord but the shot is blocked!".  It was a war of attrition, and he was the better shield user.

They're also the only item in the game that can provide a halfway decent defense against missile weapons, although they tend to get past anyways.