People seem to confuse Chess Madness with Triple Duels and bring dwarf warriors packing loads of Parry. Often they also have Monstrous Hide from an OP item like Snarlcub Hide heavy armor. Which I still don't have *sniff*. So my plan is to use a Silver wizard with not just one but two True Silver staffs. That's so much silver there are attacks coming out of every orifice. To make it hurt more I use Focused Silversmith i.e. I use an Elf Wizard. I have done extensive research and it turns out your opponent will always want to kill your Elf Wiz first. Even if your priest and/or warrior are standing on the victory squares. So you need some guaranteed methods of keeping the Elf Wiz alive. I use loads of Telekinesis plus Force Field and Swarm Of Bats. The latter usually causing my opponent to waste an attack, cry out a profanity then immediately rage quit. Spoiler: The Dark Knight Spoiler: The Bad Bishop Spoiler: The Sacrificial Queen Spoiler: Cheque, Mate? Ganddreng Level 1 Dwarf Priest Healing Hand Mace St. Xarol's Mace Sanctified Shroud Aegis Of The Defender Captain's Gumshoes Fingerbone Of St. Ob Fingerbone Of St. Ob Fingerbone Of St. Ob Raging Battler Focused Healer 3 x Talented Healer 2 x Sacred Shroud 1 x Twin Heals 3 x Team Heal 2 x Blind Rage 4 x Greater Heal 2 x Defender's Block 1 x Weak Chop 3 x Sundering Strike 2 x Mighty Bludgeon 1 x Toughened Hide Strips 8 x Sapping Spear 1 x Lifesaving Block 1 x Team Shift 1 x Investigate 1 x Sparkling Cloth Armor Eara Level 1 Elf Wizard True Silver True Silver Asmod's Telekinetic Chain Asmod's Telekinetic Chain Asmod's Telekinetic Chain Forval's Chain Turnbull's Energy Vest Vampire Knight's Greaves Focused Silversmith Novice Teleportation 1 x Wild Run 3 x Stone Spikes 1 x Force Field 1 x Swarm Of Bats 1 x Arcane Shell 2 x Dimensional Traveller 1 x Escaping Run 3 x Fey Silversmith 2 x Path Of Knives 1 x Short Perplexing Ray 2 x Inquisition Bolt 10 x Silver Bolt 6 x Telekinesis 1 x Force Bolt 1 x Reliable Mail Dhonearera Level 20 Elf Warrior Blocking Mace Warrior's Mace Stolen Torch Spiked Tlahuiztli Quinn's Buckler Bubble Helmet Galvanized Zombie Boots Escapist Reckless Lycanthropy 1 x Slippery 2 x Strong Bash 1 x Powerful Bludgeon 1 x Barbed Platemail 1 x Subtle Parry 2 x Dodge 1 x Cloth Armor 1 x Skip 1 x Elvish Insight 2 x Force Field 1 x Brutal Charge 1 x Lycanthropic Form 1 x Unreliable Block 3 x Creature Of The Night 2 x Flaring Torch 1 x Ouch! 2 x Lunging Hack 6 x Mighty Bludgeon 1 x Hardy Mail 1 x Lunging Bash 1 x Mail 3 x Parry
Sad that I have missed you this time around, you always bring something interesting to the game... I'm surprised you didn't load up on force cannon again! heheh I played boring on this one 2xDWar: Nova Axe, Troll's Ire, Bubble Helmet, Advanced Ferocity etc.. 1xDPri: Knife Of St. Blenko, 2x Crespin's Shroud etc..
I started the month with Force Cannon (see Blasting Amulet). But my opponents would usually avoid line of sight (LOS) by using a step attack. However I realised this can be used to an advantage with Telekinesis (TK)... 1. Position the wiz with LOS to both friend and foe 2. Foe uses a step attack to break LOS 3. Use the TK on the friendly to close the gap 4. Mighty Bludgeon in the face I also switched to using Dimensional Traveller to aid this strategy. Historically, Novice Teleportation is only used in Volcano builds. But I think it is invaluable for a direct damage wiz on this map.
I've always preferred delivering large attacks to the back of the skull rather than the face, but go with whichever you prefer. It seems to be working for you. Good to see you posting on the forum, @woshinibaba !
I can vouch for Dim Trav on a sniper elf. (I can also vouch for enemies always trying to kill the elf wiz first -- except for some rare players who know better, lol!) I've posted this before, but back when Myx'd Mess'zh had dual Electro-Lasers in ranked, I absolutely loved hiding in safety and stealing a Cantrip pass to end a round, then Dim Trav'ing into LOS and (often top-decking it, lol,) firing Strong–Powerful Hack damage from behind a wall of allies at range 6. Oh yes. I hope to get past some annoying business soon. I'd love to make some time to watch rinco's twelve Silver and eight Mighty Bludgeon attacks hit their marks. $:^ P P.S. Somebody's gotta say it. I love the various ridiculous chess references/puns in the first post. $F^ }
