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Gods

2011-05-25T23:07:57Z

Vae96: /* The Earthmother */

Gods work similarly to other roguelike games, each giving themed bonuses and penalties.

No class begins with a religion, and must instead find an altar. Each dungeon has three altars, each assigned to a random unique god.
Stepping on the altar will display a brief flavor text description, and the option to begin worship if you have not selected one yet.
Please note that due to the recent changes to how gods work, this page is very much a WIP.

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===Summary===

Once you find an altar, you may pray at it to learn the different abilities the god offers, and may choose either to worship that god or leave the altar and continue exploring. Once you follow a god, you cannot leave them unless another altar offers the chance to convert from that god.

While following a god, certain actions may change your piety with a god, according to the behaviours they prefer. For example, Taurog, being a magic-hating god of battle, awards piety for killing enemies (and more for killing magic users), but causes you to lose piety if you use a glyph. If you would otherwise lose piety when at 0 piety, very bad things happen. On the other hand, you may pray at your god's altar to spend piety on boons, which vary between gods but are all almost universally good. Additionally, if you find an altar to a co-aligned deity, you may spend piety there to convert to that god, keeping the existing bonuses and penalties exacted upon you by your god. Choosing (or not choosing) a specific deity in a given game can be the choice that means survival over defeat a lot of the time.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse;"
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!Name
!Worship Bonuses
!Rewarded/Repent Actions
!Penalized Actions
!Boons
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===== [[Binlor Ironshield]] =====
|
* Creates ENDISWAL glyph on altar space
** Not created if glyph exists or was converted
* +5 Max Health
* Starting Piety equals acquired gold
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*Destroy a wall
** +2 Piety
*Gain a level
** +10 Piety
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*Use any glyph (except ENDISWAL)
** -1 Piety
*Kill a golem
** -3 Piety
*Less than 0 Piety
** -10% Resistances
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*Convert from Earthmother
** Cost: 45 Piety
*Convert from Glowing Guardian
** Cost: 35 Piety
*Boon: Mining
** Cost: 20 Piety
** Effect: destroys random chunks of wall
*Boon: Hardiness
** Cost: 30 Piety
** Effect: Sets Physical Resistance to 25%
*Boon: Heroics
** Cost: 80 Piety
** Effect: Instant advance to level 10.
** Effect: No further piety gain.
|-
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=====[[Dracul]]=====
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* Gain 1 level but don't get the usual increased stats or healing
* HALPMEH glyph is destroyed (when in inventory, or picked up later)
* Starting Piety equals the number of bloodstains visible onscreen.
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*Kill a living creature
** +3 Piety
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*Kill an undead creature
** -5 Piety
*Drop below 0 Piety
** Instant Death
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*Boon: Bloodpower
** Cost: 10 Piety, -5 Max Health
** Effect: +5 Max Mana
*Boon: Bloodfury
** Cost: 20 Piety, -5 Max Health
** Effect: +20% Physical Damage
*Boon: Bloodshield
** Cost: 25 Piety, -5 Max Health
** Effect: +20% Physical and Magical Resistances
*Boon: Bloodhunger
** Cost: 30 Piety, -5 Max Health
** Effect: +20% Life Steal
*Boon: Bloodswell
** Cost: 40 Piety, -5 Max Health
** Effect: Restore full Health
|-
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===== [[The Earthmother]] =====
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* Creates IMAWAL glyph on altar space
** Not created if glyph exists or was converted
* Starting Piety mechanism is unknown
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*Use IMAWAL on a monster
** +10 Piety
*Use IMAWAL on a plant
** +3 Piety
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*Destroy a wall
** -??? Piety
*Kill an animal (goat, snake)
** -3 Piety
* Convert IMAWAL glyph or Kill a plant
** -15 Piety
* Use Life Drain
** -??? Piety
** Lose Life Drain ability
* Step on a blood pool while playing Bloodmage
** -10 Piety
* Drop Below 0 Piety
** Lose natural regeneration
|
*Convert from Glowing Guardian
** Cost: 35 Piety
*Convert from Binlor Ironshield
** Cost: 45 Piety
*Boon: Greenblood
** Cost: 15 Piety
** Effect: Poison Immunity
*Boon: Plantation
** Cost: 15 Piety
** Effect: +10 Piety for every visible bloodstain
** Effect: visible bloodstains replaced by plants (1 Health, 100% Physical Resistance)
*Boon: Stoneform
** Cost: 100 Piety
** Effect: On leveling, gain +5 Max Health, +1 Max Mana, +2 Physical Damage
** Applies only if worship is maintained.
** Applied values maintained if renounced.
|-
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===== [[Glowing Guardian]] =====
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* Restores full Health
* BLUDTUPOWA is permanently deactivated
* Starting Piety based on prior Health spent
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*Become Poisoned
** +1 Piety
*Be saved from death (effect from CYDESTEPP or shop item)
** +1 Piety
*Kill an undead, snake, imp, warlock, or golem (equal or greater level, or BURNDAYRAZ)
** +1 Piety
*Use the HALPMEH glyph
** +1 Piety
*Use the CYDESTEPP glyph
** +2 Piety
*Gain Level
** +3 Piety
*Kill a monster N levels higher than you
** +N Piety
*Convert BLUDTUPOWA or APHEELSIK glyph
** +10 Piety
|
*Kill a monster which has a lower level than you (BURNDAYRAZ excepted)
** -1 Piety
*Use a potion
** -1 Piety
*Activate the BLUDTUPOWA glyph
** -20 Piety
** BLUDTUPOWA is not activated
*Use poison (Venom blade, APHEELSIK glyph)
** -10 Piety
** Lose ability to use the attack
*Use lifesteal (Vampire attack)
** Glowing Guardian renounces you
** Lose lifesteal
*Convert HALPMEH
** Glowing Guardian renounces you
*Regenerate Health by "sucking up" a Blood-stain
** -10 Piety
|
*Convert from Earthmother
** Cost: 35 Piety
*Convert from Binlor
** Cost: 35 Piety
*Boon: Healing
** Cost: 50 Piety
** Restores full Health
*Boon: Protection
** Cost: 50 Piety
** Gain Protection from next Killing Blow
*Boon: Absolution
** Cost: 100 Piety
** Gain +1 Max Health for all visible bloodstains
|-
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===== [[Jehora Jeheyu]] =====
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* Removes poison immunity
* Removes mana burn immunity
* Removes death gaze immunity
* Removes death protection
* Removes dodge
* Removes first strike
* Starting Piety is random from 1-25
|
* Destroy a wall
** +1 Piety
* Deal ??? damage
** +4 Piety
* Receive ??? damage
** +4 Piety
* Use the PISORF glyph
** +1 Piety
* Use the WEYTWUT glyph
** +5 Piety
|
* Use the CYDSTEPP glyph
** -10 piety
* Use the GETINDARE glyph
** -10 piety
|
*Boon: Chaos
** Cost: All Piety
** Effect: Either death or restore full health or mana or death.
*** Success correlates to amount of remaining piety (which is 0).
*Boon: Madness
** Cost: 25 piety
** Effect: +5 Physical Damage
*Boon: Bolstering
** Cost: 15 piety, 1 Health Potion
** Effect: +15 Max Health
*Boon: Retaliation
** Cost: 30 piety
** Effect: Gain Mana Shield (see [[Sorcerer]])
*Boon: Polymorph
** Cost: 50 piety
** Effect: Randomly change all enemies
*** Will become enemies of same level
|-
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===== [[Mystera Annur]] =====
|
* Sets Physical damage permanently to 1
* Starting Piety based on prior Mana spent
|
*Use a glyph
** +1 piety
|
*Destroy a glyph
** -10 piety
*Use a Physical Attack
** To kill an enemy that uses a physical attack
*** -1 Piety
** To kill an enemy that uses a magical attack
*** -5 Piety
** Note: BURNDAYRAZ or Mana Shield are Magical Attacks
|
*Convert from Tikki Tooki
** Cost: 60 piety
*Boon: Magic
** Cost: 20 piety
** Effect: +15 Max Mana
*Boon: Faith
** Cost: 20 piety
** Effect: Doubles piety bonus for glyph use (+2 piety)
*Boon: Flames
** Cost: 50 piety
** Effect: +25% damage for BURNDAYRAZ glyph attack
*Boon: Weakening
** Cost: 100 piety
** Effect: Removes all enemy Magic Resistances
|-
|
===== [[Pactmaker|The Pactmaker]] =====
|
* No Bonuses
* Starting Piety equals # of revealed tiles / 10.
|
*Gain Level
** +20 Piety
|
* None
|
*Convert from Mysteria Annur
** Cost: 30 Piety
*Boon: Experience
** Cost: 20 piety
** Effect: +10 Experience
*Boon: Learning
** Cost: 45 piety
** Effect: +1 Experience per enemy kill
*Boon: Mana
** Cost: 80 piety
** Effect: +10 Max Mana
*Boon: Health
** Cost: 80 piety
** Effect: +15 Max Health
|-
|

===== [[Taurog]] =====
|
* -2 Max Mana
* Removes Immunity from Mana Burn
* Inflicted with Mana Burn
* Starting Piety based on Number of bloodstains on the ground.
|
*Kill an enemy
** +2 Piety
*Kill an enemy that uses magical attack
** +5 Piety
*Convert a glyph
** +5 Piety
|
*Use a glyph
** -5 Piety
*Less than 0 Piety
** -50% Max Health after each glyph usage
|
*Boon: Fury
** Cost: 15 Piety, -2 Max Mana
** Effect: +5 Physical Damage
*Boon: Command
** Cost: 15 Piety, -2 Max Mana
** Effect: +5 Experience
*Boon: Mageshield
** Cost: 25 Piety, -2 Max Mana
** Effect: Sets Magical Resistance to 25%
*Boon: Penetration
** Cost: 50 Piety, -2 Max Mana
** Effect: Removes all enemy Physical Resistances
*Boon: Rage
** Cost: 90 Piety, Max Mana set to 1
** Effect: +50% Physical Damage

*Note that you may still take the boons which deduct 2 Max Mana after taking Rage.
|-
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===== [[Tikki Tooki]] =====
|
* Lose half of your gold
* Starting Piety based on amount of gold carried (up to 40)
|
*Kill enemy without taking damage
** +4 Piety
*Dodge an attack that would deal ???% of your health
** +5 Piety
*Poison an enemy (either using APHEELSIK or Poison Blade including the one begotten from Tikki Tooki)
** +1 Piety
*Use PISORF glyph
** +1 Piety
*Use WEYTWUT glyph
** +10 Piety
|
*Get hit too often(2+?) in combat
**-1 Piety
*Use a death protection effect
**-10 Piety
|
*Convert from Pactmaker
** Cost: 55 Piety
*Boon: Dodging
** Cost: 15 Piety
** Effect: +10% Dodge
*Boon: Gold
** Cost: 30 Piety
** Effect: +40 Gold
*Boon: Poison
** Cost: 60 Piety
** Effect: All Physical attacks cause Poison
*Boon: First Strike
** Cost: 80 Piety
** Effect: Gain permanent First Strike
|}

Alpha:Tinker

2011-05-25T03:25:38Z

Vae96: /* Factory */

{{DDClass
|title=Tinker
|image=[[File:HeroTinkerLarge.png|75px]]
|races=Human, Goblin (for gold farming)
|tier=Special class
|unlocked=Beat Factory with any character
|rewards=None
|skills=
'''Merchant''' - Map created with 6 extra shops<br>
'''Negotiator''' - 20% item discount<br>
'''Opportunist''' - Gain gold for killing monsters
|}}

The '''Tinker''' is one of the [[classes]] in Desktop Dungeons. It is unlocked by clearing the [[Factory]]. Tinkers are crafty adventurers that can gain gold from fallen enemies and buy lots of items.

===Skills===
*Merchant - Map created with 6 extra [[Items|shops]]
*Negotiator - 20% item discount
*Opportunist - Gain gold for killing monsters

===General Strategy===

Tinkers are the class of choice for people who want to either make use of as many shops in the dungeon as possible, or to farm up gold in between "serious" runs. They get the most mileage after the player has done several runs through the bonus dungeons, since their wallet will be larger and the plentiful shops will begin stocking rarer items.

Because of this, the build for a tinker is largely defined by what the shops have in stock. If you get lucky, you could have an invincible death bringer who fears nothing. Shops are almost always useful in the long run, though, so you're unlikely to be screwed into a poor character.

===Race and Deity Choices===
Tinkers are the one class for which the Goblin race is a solid tactical choice (assuming you tend to gather up gold in between serious runs), since they can toss glyphs to get that last bit of cash for a neat item. If you're uninterested in that, you should probably stick with human or dwarf to play the odds and ensure a useful all-around character.

The really interesting choice for a tinker is [[Tikki Tooki]]. Since it costs gold to join up, you need to ensure that you'll come out ahead if you gain the Gold boon, which isn't a very sure thing, so Tikki Tooki is probably to be disregarded. The other gods' utility is as defined by the shops as the rest of the tinker's playstyle.

===Challenge Modes===

====Factory====

Almost all races are useful for this dungeon, and as usual with the Tinker, it really boils down to whether or not you get good items and Glyphs. It really helps to try this later on, when you have lots of shops and high-level items available (though even lots of mid-level items can do you good).

Try to find [[BURNDAYRAZ]] early, and begin taking out the highest-level [[Animated Armour]] you can be fireballing them repeatedly. The exploration you undertake while doing this would hopefully reveal many shops with useful items, and/or [[The Pactmaker]], whom you should try to join early on. The key is to level up as quickly as possible, keeping low-level (4/5 and below) [[Golem]]s and [[Meat man|Meat Men]] unharmed as much as possible.

Once you reach level 7, set up a a level-up with the highest-level Golems and Meat Men remaining (since at this point killing Animated Armor will be more wasteful in terms of explored tiles). Engage [[Golem#Boss info|Iron Man]] and take him out using Glyphs (especially useful are [[HALPMEH]] and [[CYDSTEPP]], as normal for this dungeon). Level-up halfway, and if necessary use up a few potions and/or a shop item, but try to reserve resources for [[Meat man#Boss info|Super Meat Man]].

After Iron Man is down, set up another midfight level-up. Your remaining resources should suffice to take it out. Again, you really need to find a combat Glyph other than BURNDAYRAZ for this.

Another strategy, whcih is much easier but is only possible if you have [[APHEELSIK]], is to first attack Super Meat Men, at level seven. Keep hitting, poisening, and then exploring untill he is dead or you run out of tiles to explore. If you are lucky, you should be able to kill him without having to do a midfight levelup, and killing him will level you to level 8. At this point, convert [[APHEELSIK]], as it is useless against the Iron Man. Iron Man should now be very easy as you can set up multiple midfight levelups.

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Alpha:Wizard

2011-05-24T02:37:39Z

Vae96: /* Factory */

{{DDClass
|title=Wizard
|image=[[File:HeroWizardLarge.PNG|75px]]
|races=Elf, Gnome
|tier=1 (Basic)
|unlocked=Available at start
|rewards=
Unlocks [[Sorcerer]] class
Unlocks [[Crusader]] class (by clearing Factory)
|skills=
'''Magic Sense''' - Can see location of all glyphs<br>
'''Magic Affinity''' - Skills cost -1 mana, attack -25%<br>
'''Magic Attunement''' - +1 glyph on map, +1 glyph slot
|}}

The '''wizard''' is one of the four starting [[classes]] in Desktop Dungeons. Wizards are natural magic-users, being able to more easily find, prepare, and use magic glyphs, although they do less melee damage than other classes.

===Skills===
*Magic Sense - Can see location of all glyphs
*Magic Affinity - Skills cost -1 mana, attack -25%
*Magic Attunement - +1 glyph on map, +1 glyph slot

===General Strategy===

The Wizard's Magical Affinity disadvantage can be entirely offset by the [[BYSSEPS]] glyph, or being a [[Races|Human]], making the wizard highly effective at physical combat when maintaining his available enchantments. The Wizard also benefits highly from the already cheap costs of most physical combat glyphs, getting a 50% reduction of mana cost in [[BYSSEPS]], and a 33% reduction in cost of [[GETINDARE]] and [[HALPMEH]].

Since [[BURNDAYRAZ]] is always generated, finding it is one of the chief priorities for a wizard. Once you do, you'll be in a much better position to fight enemies of all sorts, especially the otherwise-dreaded physical resistant enemies.

===Race and Deity Choices===

Since wizards are almost completely defined by their magic, it stands to reason that magically-adept races make the best wizards. More importantly, the extra glyph on the map can amount to an extra glyph conversion, assuming you don't play to use it. Elves make for good wizards that can use their favorite spells almost endlessly, while gnomes can turn unwanted spells into valuable mana potions. If you want to have a decent physical attack to fall back on, humans can also work.

Wizards are one of the best-suited classes for [[Mysteria Annur]]. This does not mean that Mystera Annur is always the best choice for a wizard, however, since it turns your normally subpar (but still usable) physical attack into a completely useless one. Be sure to convert all the glyphs you don't need before joining her. The magic-hating gods, [[Taurog]] and [[Binlor Ironshield]], are naturally poor choices for wizards. The other gods can be useful in the right situations.

===Challenge Modes===

====Snake Pit====

Mages do very well in this dungeon. Use your glyph sight to track down [[BURNDAYRAZ]] as soon as possible, and you'll have little to fear from the anti-melee traits of the Snake Pit's denizens. [[BLUDTUPOWA]] makes your pyromania more efficient, as always. [[GETINDARE]] saves mana by letting you use your weak but serviceable melee attack to cherry-tap any nearly-dead monsters without reprisal -- aside from the first-striking [[Gorgon|Gorgons]], of course. [[HALPMEH]] will make [[Serpent]]-hunting easier until (and possibly even after) you find [[BURNDAYRAZ]].

====Crypt====

If you hate watching [[Vampire|Vampires]] inflate their HP at your expense -- and who doesn't? -- then the [[BLUDTUPOWA]] glyph is your best friend. The prevalence of [[Wraith|Wraiths]] means that you'll want to rely on a magic-heavy offense anyway, so you'll need to regenerate mana way more than health as you explore. Bear in mind that [[APHEELSIK]] and Venom Blades will not work on any of the undead here, so hit-and-regenerate tactics are sub-optimal. For the above reasons, [[Mystera Annur]] is a more attractive deity choice than usual, especially if you can find her altar early.

====Factory====

Using [[BURNDAYRAZ]] vs [[Animated Armour]] helps Wizard beat Factory with [[Strategy|Experience Catapult strategy]]. Since the armours only have one health and don't replenish their death protection, a wizard can even defeat a level 9 one as early as level 1 if they're lucky.

It's a good idea to leave a fair amount of [[Animated Armour]] with 1 life left using [[BURNDAYRAZ]] as you start exploring for the midfight leveling later on.

[[HALPMEH]] is very useful, especially in the fight against The Iron Man, since his 75% Magic Resistance essentially makes [[BURNDAYRAZ]] useless. It's also sometimes more worth it to attack physically and spend your mana on healing rather than casting [[BURNDAYRAZ]]. If you can't find [[HALPMEH]], [[CYDSTEPP]] would help against The Iron Man, though it's more costly for the other fights.

[[BLUDTUPOWA]] helps a lot if you find it early. Since you'll be spending mana on [[BURNDAYRAZ]] and possibly [[HALPMEH]] for healing most of the time, you'll gain a lot from exploring tiles with this glyph activated.

Other than Elf and Human, you might want to consider picking Dwarf so that you can take more hits during the boss fights. Most recommended is Human, as you are likely to be damaging the bosses with hand attacks only, and extra attack is more useful than a couple of relativly weak heals.

The best diety for this is [[Jehora Jeheyu]], as with some luck she can make the dungeon much more beatable with Polymorph. [[Dracul]] can be a good choice due to Lifesteal, which is highly useful against meatmen, and extra melee damage. [[Glowing Guardian]] can be taken simply for a heal, but not unless you really need it. [[The Pactmaker]] is a surprisingly poor choice, as you are likely to gain enough XP by fireburning high level Animated Armours. The mana boon is also not as effective as usually, as mana is less useful. One important point on the dieties is that you should NOT take [[Mystera Annur]]. She is guarenteed to show up in the dungeon every time, but this is a trick as she will only mess you up. While her Weakening boon will make The Iron Man a piece of cake, you will never be able to fireburn Super Meat Man to death, so having a 1 damage will absolutly ruin the dungeon.

====Library====

This can be a tough challenge for the Wizard, because defeating the Library depends on both casting spells and inflicting damage with physical attacks. Going magic only will leave you short of manna when trying to defeat [[Dragonspawn#Boss Info|Matron of Flame]] after first dealing with [[Warlock#Boss Info|Aequitas]]. Choose either a human (and make purchases / deity choices) which boost your health, or choose dwarf and emphasize gaining damage. It is possible to defeat Imps that are 3-4 levels higher than you using a combination of fireball, the HALPMEH glyph, and strategic tile exploration. You must have a deity to defeat this level with a Wizard. [[The Pactmaker]] is a good choice if you can get it early. You'll need the extra MANA boon to allow constant healing while fighting the Matron of Flame. Another route for those who chose to emphasize health, would be [[Dracul]], choosing his magic resistance and damage bonus respectively. In any case, be ready to do a lot of retiring and retrying to pass this level.

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