Seriously. In 31.25, I had no issue with keeping adventurers alive as long as I kept them away from non-titan megabeasts and bogeymen, but had nothing to do. In 34.01, I am having trouble keeping the inevitable goblin/dwarf/human/fucking kobold ambushes from killing me. Oh, and of course I never start in towns, only hamlets, so I need to travel the bandit-packed wilderness between human settlements to get to anything interesting. If I don't die when getting to town, I die to a mummy's curse or get all of my limbs crippled by a couple goblins in a dungeon.
All that aside, this seems like a great update to play an adventurer in, if I can get anywhere. Does anyone have any advice on how I can, say, get to the point where I can defeat a necromancer and learn the Secrets of Life and Death without dying before then?
Walk everywhere instead of fast travelling. You won't get encounters at all.
I finally managed to get my peasant human outsider to the ultra slayer status just recently. What I did was sneak
EVERYWHERE. It sucks at first, but once you get good skill in it, it actually becomes really fast.
Once you get to around adept or expert, you can sneak right next to enemies. Once I got to that point, I asked the locals about the surroundings and found out where the bandit camps were.
I then snuck into the camps and stole their loot until I got a full bronze/iron armor set. I couldn't find a mail shirt or breastplate, so I bought some from an armorsmith in town with the profits of my thieving.
After getting the armor, I went around jumping weak animals from stealth. I would start off by grabbing their upper body or head with my upper arm or hand, and throwing them to the ground to stun them. That made it easier for me to either A.) Strangle them to death or B.) break their arms and legs and let them beat on me to level dodge and armor.
If you don't know how, you can break their legs by either grabbing their upper leg with your upper arm, then locking the joint after that turn, then breaking the hip on the next turn, or using your lower arm to grab their lower leg, then lock, then break the knee.
To strangle you can just grab the enemy by the throat with your upper/lower arm or hand, then put them in a choke, then strangle. Once you have them in a strangle, you can just hold the directional key to your enemy and you will repeatedly strangle them, this levels your wrestling
AND fighting skill really fast.
Once I got to decent skill levels and courage :p I decided to actually fight one of the bandit leaders. Wouldn't you know it? It was a elite marksman with a masterwork copper crossbow!
I snuck up to him and grabbed his crossbow with my free hand. I got possession of it on the first try! >:3 Now that he no longer posed a threat I choked him out and smashed his brains in with his own crossbow.
That crossbow is now my main killing weapon. Crossbows normally suck because of the slow shooting time, but they make up for it because they apparently do monstrous damage.
The slow shooting time doesn't matter when attacking from stealth since the enemies don't even notice. One shot is usually enough to cause an injury so bad that they go unconscious, if not kill them. I then run up and bash their heads in.
The masterwork copper crossbow is actually a pretty decent melee weapon to boot, I got my hammer skill really high with it. Now I just have to get a good slashing or piercing weapon skill and I am all set!
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