Last few skillpoints

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budswell
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Last few skillpoints

#1 Post by budswell »

Hi everyone,
Currently on my best character ever in any version of tome or angband.
http://te4.org/characters/1471/tome/e84 ... 1cc000edf0
The multiple lives does make a huge difference. My deaths:
1 - Hit the hotkey for jupgate as opposed to teleport to jumpgate
2,3,4 - Boss of the elven ruins, until I figured out I needed to get him in a long corridor and shadow blast.
5,6 - Orc ambush, man I hate those

Anyway, I am assuming that this will max out at level 50 like the old tome. Right?
So I don't hve many skillpoints left, so wondering what you guys would recomend. Have 5 class points saved up, 1 category, and 1 or 2 generic.
My standard operating procedure is shadow blast everything. This is a fantastic spell, duration is one turn less than cooldown. So I find a corner for the "hockey stick" and just shadow blast away. Anyone who gets around the corner (bosses) cops beams/stun/surge. Has been remarkably effective since the maze onwards.
So looking throug the skills there's not much left in the class area I reall want.
For generic I like the sound of the Hymn which blasts things, but don't like the sound of the negative energy drain.
I think the category point is going into another healing or shielding rune.

So what tips do you have? Anthing else about my character I should look at changing/fixing.

Thanks

greycat
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Re: Last few skillpoints

#2 Post by greycat »

I'd boost Sun Flare some more (for the radius, not for the piddly light damage). Maybe Corona -- I'm still not sure how well that does in the endgame.

The problem with switching to the fourth Hymn is that you have to turn off the Hymn of Preservation. That's a much, much larger price than the negative energy drain.

shwqa
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Re: Last few skillpoints

#3 Post by shwqa »

[quote="greycat"]I'd boost Sun Flare some more (for the radius, not for the piddly light damage). Maybe Corona -- I'm still not sure how well that does in the endgame.

Corona is pretty awesome at high level. 7 or 8 hits all doing 100 damage. It is possible to line enemies to cause all hits to hit one enemy. I can tell you that a 800 hit from twilight surge plus another 800 damage while shadowblast as in effect really kills end game enemies.

budswell
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Re: Last few skillpoints

#4 Post by budswell »

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely up Corona. Been using wands of illumination instead of sun flare, so I'll think about that.

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