Arch-mages and experience

[Gozer]

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I've repeated this post in the ADOM HoF spoiler group - so apologies to
anyone who has seen it before.

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Ok - got an arch-mage up and running. Decided to use orb of mana rather
than praying to get my wish engine going after my last arch-mage
screwed things up by sacrificing my spellbook of wish accidentally!
Anyway, my question is: what is the best way to get a high score?

I am assuming experience becomes the greatest factor after maxing out
all stats and all skills. I am further assuming that the best way to
get XP quickly is wishing for emperor moloch in the SMC (please correct
me here if I am incorrect!)

So my plan is to clog up the SD with doors (wand of door creation) to
create a long corridor with myself at one end and a short buffer of
doors between myself and the rest of the corridor. Then wish for
emperor moloch and full the corridor with greater molochs before
opening the buffer doors and letting rip with magic missile. Any
feedback on this plan would be appreciated.

Assuming this plan is as good as I believe it is, I obviously want to
max my XP by slowing myself before destroying the GMs (hence the buffer
area to delay the GMs as much as possible). I know speed and XP are
closely linked. But are any other stats similarly linked? In
particular, does XP decline as HP increases? If HP and XP are not
related, then I intend to boost my HP to INSANE levels before
attempting this (don't want uber-GMs pounding me into mash - even with
busloads of AoLSs!) Are skill scores and XP related? (i.e., should I
boost all skills to 100 before or after scumming for XP)

 

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gozer wrote:
> I've repeated this post in the ADOM HoF spoiler group - so apologies to
> anyone who has seen it before.
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> Ok - got an arch-mage up and running. Decided to use orb of mana rather
> than praying to get my wish engine going after my last arch-mage
> screwed things up by sacrificing my spellbook of wish accidentally!
> Anyway, my question is: what is the best way to get a high score?
>
> I am assuming experience becomes the greatest factor after maxing out
> all stats and all skills. I am further assuming that the best way to
> get XP quickly is wishing for emperor moloch in the SMC (please correct
> me here if I am incorrect!)

Piety is a large factor in your score. Insanely high piety will boost
your score greatly.

> So my plan is to clog up the SD with doors (wand of door creation) to
> create a long corridor with myself at one end and a short buffer of
> doors between myself and the rest of the corridor. Then wish for
> emperor moloch and full the corridor with greater molochs before
> opening the buffer doors and letting rip with magic missile. Any
> feedback on this plan would be appreciated.

Greater Molochs can smash doors, and I think they can dig through
stone too.