DDwiki - User contributions [en]

Talk:Alpha:Classes

2010-03-27T18:29:19Z

71.174.183.123:

Seems like something would be better than nothing on these pages. Post any tips/insight on each class you have? --[[User:Cls4lions|Cls4lions]] 12:30, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I feel like the special races should be treated as classes rather than races, with their info on this page and a brief reference to it on the race page.

Alpha:Monk

2010-03-27T02:20:13Z

71.174.183.123: Created page with '===Skills=== *Hand to Hand - atack damage reduced by 50% *Diamond Body - 50% physical and magical resistance *Discipline - health regeneration rate doubled ===General Strategy==…'

===Skills===
*Hand to Hand - atack damage reduced by 50%
*Diamond Body - 50% physical and magical resistance
*Discipline - health regeneration rate doubled

===General Strategy===
Monks are a rather easy character to play. In general, your initial strategy should be to kill low level monsters, seeking out anything which can mitigate your initial attack penalty. Any shop items which reduce damage are of special interest to monks. A platemail or mage plate will bring armor up to an insane 70%.

After the first few levels, monks should seek out higher level enemies with low damage and high health. Because of monks' faster healing and high armor, they can often refill health via exploring without the monsters having enough time to do the same.

Glyphs of special interest to Monks are:
*Bysseps - Mitigates damage penalty
*Halpmeh - High armor makes health more valuable
*Lemmisi - Useful to avoid exploring accessible areas of the dungeon prematurely, and to heal between attacks against some bosses. Fast regeneration makes this especially effective.
*Burndayraz, Getindare, and Cydstepp are also helpful.
===Race and Deity Choices===
Playing as a human to mitigate the hand to hand ability is the best choice. Attack damage bonuses have a higher proportional effect for monks due to the lower initial damage.

Monks are incredibly effective fighters once their damage reduction is canceled out, but the high value of their health makes sacrificing Halpmeh and Lemnisi to painful to make Taurog a strong choice. The Pactmaker is an excellent choice for any class, Monks included. A free potion from Tikki Tooki is helpful despite Monk's poor ability at achieving one shot kills.

===Challenge Modes===
The Factory:
<br>Once you have reached level 3-4, the combination of high armor and fast regeneration should make it fairly easy to kill higher level animated armors. Attach the highest level animated armor you can that cannot kill you in one hit. The assistance of Burndayraz will make this more efficient, though Halpmeh or Lemmisi are a reasonable substitutes.

Super Meat man is rather easy to defeat with monk, particularly if you have bought tower shield or platemail. Try to be at level 8 or higher before fighting the bosses. It should be possible to heal (via some mixture of Halpmeh, Limmisi, and exploring) faster than Super Meat man can damage you.

The Iron Man doesn't have much health, so killing him should be fairly easy. You should still have most or all of your potions at this point, but you may want to time this fight to enable you to level up in the middle of it to assist further.

Alpha:Races

2010-03-27T01:22:13Z

71.174.183.123:

__NOTOC__
==Regular Races==
There are seven regular races, each of which can convert [[glyphs]] (magic spells/skills) into a different permanent bonus.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class
|- style="background-color: #EEEEEE"
!Race
!Converts glyphs to...
!Unlock
!Strategy
|-
| Human
| +10% Damage Bonus
| Start
| Great for beginners and Rogues/Berserkers
|-
| Elf
| +2 Maximum Mana
| Start
| Amazing Wizards.
|-
| Dwarf
| +1 Max Health per level*
| Start
|
|-
| Hafling
| +1 Healing Potion
| Start
| Great for many challenge missions, and for thieves.
|-
| Gnome
| +1 Mana Potion
| Start
| Great for thieves.
|-
| Goblin
| +10 gold
| Defeat the Crypt challenge with any race.
| Natural fit for tinkers. Goblin Wizards are useful for farming gold.
|-
|Orc
| +5 experience
| Defeat the Library challenge with any race.
| Extra experience at will makes leveling up to heal much easier. Good for Assassins.
|}
* Health Powerups and the Dwarf's Glyph Conversion gives you 1 Max Health per Level. This means the bonus scales while you level up, your total bonus Max Health equals Level * (Dwarf Conversion + Health Powerups). This is NOT a percentage bonus. Buying a +10 Max Health item will not increase the bonus from Health Powerups or Dwarf's Glyph Conversion, and likewise worshipping Dracul will not decrease the bonus.

==Special races==
In addition, 3 special races exist as unlockables, that are a both a race and class together. Each of these three cause significant changes to the core mechanics of the game.

===Gorgon===
* Starts with ENDISWAL Glyph
* -50% Damage Bonus at start
* 50% Physical Resist
* Poison Attack (can poison Undead)
* Immune to Death Gaze
* +2 Mana per kill
* Every enemy killed in any manner will become a wall
* 10% Death Gaze, gains an additional 5% for every glyph converted

Once the enemy's HP is below your Death Gaze percentage, attacking them with melee will cause your damage to be exactly the HP required to instantly kill them. The Death Gaze percentage and resulting damage is unaffected by resistances. This damage may be lower than your actual current Attack, so keep this in mind for increasing the Damage score in Ranked games -- though this often won't matter so much with the Gorgon's low Damage Bonus.

You do not have First Strike, unlike enemy Gorgons. The petrification on kill counts towards the [[Gods|Earthmother]]'s reward, but it does not count towards any Score rewards. However, since all enemies you kill will be petrified, you may have to use ENDISWAL a lot: plan for this extra mana cost requirement, and note that the Earthmother will punish you for using it if you choose her. And remember that the Gorgon only starts with Physical Resistance: Dragonspawn, Warlocks and Wraiths will still do full damage to you.

===Half Dragon===
* 200% Max Health at start
* Magical Attack
* Increased Sight Radius (same effect as [[Items|Scouting Orb]], all tiles touching an explored tile will be partially uncovered, allowing you to see what type of object lies there)
* BURNDAYRAZ glyph costs 99 Mana, preventing its use
* 20% Knockback, gains an additional 20% for every glyph converted

Knockback causes enemies to go flying one square in the direction you hit them when you use a melee attack, unless another enemy is in the way. If they land on a wall, they will destroy it. Knockback is calculated from your Base Damage and applies damage when an enemy destroys a wall or hits another enemy, ignoring resistances. When knocked back into another enemy, Knockback damage is halved and applied to both enemies. Finally, the enemy you knocked your target into will never die from the Knockback: they will be left at 1 HP minimum and lose a level of Death Protection if they have one.

Since they can't use BURNDAYRAZ, it's best converted as soon as you see it. Knockback is a good way of breaking walls past high-level enemies or even dealing early damage to them by knocking enemies into them. Knockback damage is also left unaffected by [[Gods|Mystera]]'s restriction and is not affected by damage resists. Be wary of enemies with Magical Resist, as Knockback is the only solid way you have of dealing damage to them. And note that if you deal more damage to a particular enemy if you knock them into a wall instead of another enemy. Finally, although they have high max health, remember that they still have the same health regeneration as standard classes.

===Vampire===
* 30 Max Health at start, instead of 10
* 3 Health Potions at start, instead of 1
* Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5
* No Health Regen - you lose 1 HP per tile explored instead
* First Strike
* Immune to Poison
* Immune to Mana Burn
* Can sense the locations of all monsters of equal or lower level
* Spells cost Health instead of Mana
* Restores 10% of Max Health from blood pools
* 25% Life Steal, gains an additional 5% for every glyph converted

Life Steal causes you to get back a percentage of your Total Damage you dealt as Health when you use a melee attack. So if you hit a monster for 50 damage, you'd recover 12 Health with 25% Life Steal.

Vampire is tricky at the start since you're reliant on enemies you can kill being close-by. You can only explore 30 tiles before you need to drink a Health Potion or steal some life. Once you've gained a couple of levels though, your increased Health and Damage makes taking on almost any enemy a breeze. Do note that the extra Max Health to begin with is simply an increase of 20: unlike the Half-Dragon, you will still only get an additional 10 HP per level barring Health Powerup bonuses. Also, First Strike does not let you go before other enemies with First Strike, and the lack of regen means that Gorgons can pose a minor threat if you're not careful. The increased Base Damage means that effects that increase your Damage Bonus are even more potent as well. Once you get BURNDAYRAZ, the Vampire can beat bosses almost immediately, because they draw mana from health.