[1.0.0] Cornac Summoner - Nightmare Roguelike Win

[Gnius1]

http://te4.org/characters/30723/tome/15 ... 2a6dfcb78f

Talks With Animals got to a point where winning was quite easy - even on nightmare difficulty. With meditation always on, I had telepathy, and no issues with equilibrium. The damage reduction made fights twice as long but, as I was never in the firing line, this was rarely a problem. The only time I needed to turn meditation off was with big healing enemies. Being able to play tactically - never being in sight (or at least never in range) meant I was very rarely damaged let alone put in a difficult spot. Getting dragged to an enemy was probably the worst thing that happened - but a movement infusion or a phase summon got me out of there quickly.

This character was going to be a good win but then I got the second merchant artifact ring just before heading off to kill the wizards: +7 Will, 18 Mindpower, heal from summoning, 76!! defense and a little improvement in Cunning of +38!!! Both my herosim infusion and my physical wild ran off of cunning, so they both became insane. After the win, I did a little test with maxed cunning equipment and I was getting 50% resist all with the wild infusion and +34 stats and -1200 for the heroism infusion. (I was able to get to 200 cunning with the heroism infusion).

After the relatively easy win against the wizards, I took this seemingly invincible character against Atamathon. Somewhat perturbed by the storm (and gwelgoraths it caused), I nevertheless awakened the champion.... and proceeded to get stomped! I left a minor gap early in the encounter and he hit me into negative territory with a rush attack but I escaped and healed. The second time I was not so lucky. I summoned my drake and drakelings in front of him, then died. I went from full health, heroism potion and 32% resist all to dead in one turn. The log on the character sheet doesn't show the final killing blow but from memory it was a 2200 point blight damage attack - and I had 49% blight damage and 10% increased blight cap in addition to the resist all! This is the second time Atamathon has stomped my winner - clearly I am not doing something right against him.