Well, after being smote by the dreaded inverse buff integration bug one time too many... ...I proceeded to play and fall victim to it 4 more times. Now that I've fallen victim to it FIVE times too many, I've decided I'm going to attempt to invoke it on purpose, for fun, and create the most ridiculously overpowered character imaginable. How, you ask? Two words: Fallen Vegan. I don't know what triggers the bug, but the sheer variety of buffs it's happened with suggest to me that no buff is safe from its potential effects. I don't know exactly how to trigger it, but I'm going to continuously attempt to trigger it throughout the whole adventure. This will also possibly provide some potential insight into exactly what causes this bug. The character I'm going to be using on this quest will be the most ridiculous parody of Mary Sues that I can make. However, assembling a practical skillset with this rule is rather tricky, so I figure I'll ask for your input on build suggestions, along with arguments for the sueishness of each of the skills you suggest. This will hopefully be a lot of fun to do, and I'm looking forward to it! But please, I really do need suggestions! EDIT: Oh wow, embarassing mistake in the thread title. If a mod could remove the "the" before "XIII", I'd really REALLY appreciate it
Vegan plus Emomancy (the Cure) or QiGong (Open Meridians) or Wand Lore (restart until you get a Zodiacal Wand) is all good. You don't want to suffer when you're not trying to activate the buff, after all. Since you're abusing, get something with a pet so that you can kill animals for fun and profit. I suggest Fungal Arts as it offers a quick pet for those annoying DL1 diggles and a powerful pet for the lower floors as well as being Fungal Arts and therefore the shit. Myco-vegans FTW. If you're going to go Emomancy, the next obvious choice is Necronomiconomics. Mark of Cthoth+Mark of Black Eyeliner+Pact + Blungecap Vampirism+ Veganism's massive stat boosts makes for one hell of a melee mage. So, let's see: Killer Vegan Necronomiconomics Emomancy Fungal Arts Astrology (for the 1-point Necro resist; that + Little Black Book will get you through till Mark of the Black Eyeliner easy.) SwiftStriker or something else to get you out of animal crowds for when you can't wait around for your pet to take care of them. and...well, Runecaster of course. That's my suggestion.
