Hi everyone. This is my first post here, and I would like to share a build that worked wonders for me. I have played a little over 100 hours of dredmor, and even though I believe most people here know the game a lot better than I do, I still feel this short guide might help some people that are either new to the game, or that are just struggling. By the way, I'm not a native speaker, so I apologize in advance for any english mistakes. Disclaimer: This is going to be a long post, I'm sorry, but I want to go over the details, for this is directed at newplayers. First of all, I want to give a quick explanation on why it is a simple build. This is the list of things you don't need to worry about with this build: 1) Crafting (no crafting skill required). 2) Encrusting (to be honest, I have no idea how this even works). 3) Corruption (it is a mage oriented build so you won't have problems in this area). 4) Mods (none necessary). 5) Monster zoos are a breeze. 6) Throwing weapons, arrows, wands. That being said, lets jump to the build: Egyptian Magic Leywalker Blood magic Psionics Golemancy Burglary Archeology Skill order: 1) Animate Mustache, 2) Lucky Pick, 3) It belongs in a museum, 4) Golemancy up until the mortal machine. The logic is that lucky pick and it belongs in a museum (abuse it belongs in a museum) will generate a big boost in experience meaning you are always some levels ahead, while mustache golem and the robot that loves will easily carry you through the first few floors. After this start, the next step is getting egyptian magic/enough mana regen to sustain it. This is done by getting gear with mana regen and leveling ley walker. I suggest going down the egyptian magic line up to glyph of anubis, then going leywalker until channeler (leave invisible geometries for the very last skill, it sucks compared to move in mysterious ways). After channeler, you can either finish the egyptian magic for the eye of ra, or, if you feel you have enough damage for the time being (it happened to me) or not enough mana regen to sustain it yet, go for burglary first, which is an amazing tree). Once you have glyph of anubis, sandstorm combined with unliving wall and blood magic will absolutely tear apart monster zoos, thaumaturgic tap must be used almost every cooldown to keep mana up. Once you have enough mana to sustain all egyptian magic glyphs, you are a force to be reckoned with, and you don't need the summons anymore, also, you are extremely hard to kill because you have invisibility with low cooldown, teleport (from burglary), and the amazing unliving wall. Plus you get trap affinity from both archeology and burglary. Even on the lower floors, like 14-15 you should be destroying everything with 1-2 sandstorms, with zero downtime, except for one monster: Lord Dredmor. When I first tried something similar to this build (except I ad alchemy instead of psionics), he simply took zero damage from my sandstorm, even with over 100 magic power. Which brings us to the next point: Psionics: the main reason for taking psionics (besides shove and crystal healing, which are great skills), is that you are going to kill lord dredmor, very easily, by spamming Pyrokinesis while keeping dredmor behind unliving walls. The best way to do this is, when you reach the 15th floor, Ninja Vanish before opening every door (it is a low cooldown any way), when you find dredmor, close the door and use unliving wall on the door, afterwards just proceed to open the door and set him on fire. This is also the tactic for monster zoos (except you use sandstorm instead of pyrokinesis) very easy and very safe. That's it, I hope it helps. If anyone wants a fun and simple build to win the game, give this one a try.
Excellent first post, Psyy (and nice name, too!). Your build is very well-made and well-thought out -- you might want to consider cross-posting it to either the Builds That Won thread, the Builds For A New Player thread, or both!
I just posted on "the builds that won" thread. Funny thing, when I posted there I realized that the idea for this build probably came from a game I played a random build that contained its core, egyptian magic, leywalker, golemancy and psionics.
