[YAVP] My first caster win

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Hello there!

UPDATE: I won with this character! My first caster win, and it was surprisingly smooth. Here’s an updated morgue: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.33.1 (tiles) character file.Game seed: 2 - Pastebin.com

My draconian of Vehumet does extremely well, and they just survived the most brutal shaft I’ve ever experienced in this game. In the middle of Depths:4, near the entrance to Zot, with lots of hostile draconians. Here’s my character’s triumph after clearing this cursed floor:

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Anyway, as I’m nearing Zot I start to get a bit nervous - I’ve only ever done this branch as melee brute so I want to make sure I have all the tools necessary to deal with the dreaded Orbs (I’m playing 0.33 btw).

My skills are basically 20 Conjurations, 14 Alchemy and negligible amount in other magical skills, plus 17 Spellcasting. My full character morgue is here.

My spells:

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I also have Golubria in the book, gonna learn it soon. There’s also Bombard but I’m pretty sure I don’t need it if I have Orb of Destruction. Is it right?

My resistances are all covered except for see invis. A bit annoying but so many of my spells ignore invisibility that I don’t care much. SH is good from a +9 tower shield. My EV isn’t great but my artifact amulet of acrobat boosts it when I kite enemies with Fulsome.

I don’t rush Zot of course, I still need to do Elf, Vaults:5 and probably Crypt but I want to use my time in these branches to patch up my weaknesses in skilling or whatever.

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Nice work on the win. Congrats! What’s next for you?

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Thanks!

Well, given that both of my winning runs were with done with almost bare minimum branches (third rune from vaults, elf and crypt as the only optional ventures), I’d try getting a win with 5 runes. I got the slimy rune twice but one of these was with Jyiva’s help (lucky altar in the sewers) and another with an OP character. I’ve never even seen the abyssal rune, this one is a true mystery to me.

There are still plenty of species, gods, and builds I want to try. I have a save with a poltergeist (older than my two wins actually) that just cleared elf so this one might be my first stabber win if I don’t splat. They seem pretty powerful, took elf:3 with no close calls (despite me playing like a complete fool :D).

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