Dark Mage Ascended
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I am proposing a new challenge to all experienced EK players. As far as I know, no one ever suggested anything like this before, because it is so counter intuitive to play the game in this way. But I think it will be a good experiment to see just how good you are at the game and how much you know about it. Please do tell if you ever tried this before and how you went about handling it.
The challenge itself is pretty straight forward: start a new Iron Man game, with whatever class you prefer, and attempt to complete the game. There is only one rule: No consumables of any kind.
Simple enough, right?
This means:
-Absolutely no potions, be it healing, mana, might, or resist elemental damage.
-No one-time use items, like the Ankh of Life.
-No scrolls of recall, teleport, no circles of Restoration, not even a God damned Secret-revealing scroll. And yes, this means you have to beat the Underking and connect the Sunken Citadel to the Inori the very first time you go to the Ashen Wastes because no scrolls are allowed to get out. The ONLY tolerated use of a scroll is during the completion of the Dead God quest to exit the Forgotten Temple.
-You CAN pick up consumables that drop from enemies, but you can only sell them,not use them.
-There is no actual scoring system to this challenge, but you get Bonus Points for defeating any Non reoccurring enemy in the game (rumour bosses not included).
Obviously, I am not expecting anyone to make it. The goal here is to get as far as humanly possible, and then die trying to go beyond. No one, regardless of skill, wit or luck, is gonna make it through the Ark without medipacks, so you can forget about it. The point to this is to put all you've learned to the test and see how far you can go.
If this is something you've tried before, please do share your experience.
The challenge itself is pretty straight forward: start a new Iron Man game, with whatever class you prefer, and attempt to complete the game. There is only one rule: No consumables of any kind.
Simple enough, right?
This means:
-Absolutely no potions, be it healing, mana, might, or resist elemental damage.
-No one-time use items, like the Ankh of Life.
-No scrolls of recall, teleport, no circles of Restoration, not even a God damned Secret-revealing scroll. And yes, this means you have to beat the Underking and connect the Sunken Citadel to the Inori the very first time you go to the Ashen Wastes because no scrolls are allowed to get out. The ONLY tolerated use of a scroll is during the completion of the Dead God quest to exit the Forgotten Temple.
-You CAN pick up consumables that drop from enemies, but you can only sell them,not use them.
-There is no actual scoring system to this challenge, but you get Bonus Points for defeating any Non reoccurring enemy in the game (rumour bosses not included).
Obviously, I am not expecting anyone to make it. The goal here is to get as far as humanly possible, and then die trying to go beyond. No one, regardless of skill, wit or luck, is gonna make it through the Ark without medipacks, so you can forget about it. The point to this is to put all you've learned to the test and see how far you can go.
If this is something you've tried before, please do share your experience.