Acid Mage

The Acid Mage is a role specific to SlashTHEM. They are a spellcaster class, and can be neutral or chaotic doppelgänger, drow, elves, humans, illithids, incantifiers, or orcs.

An Acid Mage starts the game with equipment and abilities related to acid magic, including acid resistance. Their starting pet is an acid hound pup.

The Acid Mage quest sees you fighting Lightningrod for the Flute of Slime; their first sacrifice gift is Acidfall, a neutral athame with +5 to-hit and +5 acid damage.

Starting Equipment

• a blessed +1 quarterstaff
• an uncursed +0 studded leather armor
• 2 uncursed food rations
• a random scroll
• a random potion
• a random ring
• a wand of acid
• a spellbook of acid sphere
• a spellbook of acid stream (special spell)
• an equal chance of a spellbook of confuse monster or a spellbook of sleep
• a blindfold (80%), an oil lamp (16%), or a magic marker (4%)

Techniques

Acid mages gain techniques at these experience levels:

• XL 1 : reinforce memory
• XL 3 : power surge
• XL 5 : draw energy
• XL 7 : sigil of control
• XL 10 : sigil of tempest
• XL 20 : sigil of discharge

Intrinsics

• XL 1: Acid resistance

Skills

Acid Mage Skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: polearms, spear, javelin, trident, lance, whip Spellcasting: attack spells, divination spells, body spells
Skilled	Weapons: knife, long sword, quarterstaff, unicorn horn Spellcasting: healing spells, protection spells  Combat: riding, twoweapon, bare hands
Expert	Weapons: dagger Spellcasting: enchantment spells, matter spells

Gods

• Lawful: Tartarica
• Neutral: Acetica
• Chaotic: Hydrocloria (sic)

Acid Mage rank titles

The status line shows you to be one of the following ranks when you reach the specified experience level:

• XL 1-2: Oozer
• XL 3-5: Slimer
• XL 6-9: Sludge Mage
• XL 10-13: Spiller
• XL 14-17: Corroder
• XL 18-21: Acidsplasher
• XL 22-25: Dissolver
• XL 26-29: Dissolver
• XL 30: Acid-Master

Strategy

The Acid Mage is a battlemage similar to the flame/ice/electric mage, with the main difference being that they specialize in acid magic. Their starting pet is also acid resistant, making it much safer to use acid spells/wands. Upon leveling up enough, the acid hound pup will grow into an adult acid hound which is very strong and capable of taking down lots of enemies. Compared to the other elemental mages, acid mages are at an advantage intrinsic-wise since acid resistance is otherwise very hard to obtain; however, their starting wand cannot burn permanent Elbereths.

The Acid Mage quest mainly spawns drow and titans, and there are lots of pre-placed spellcasters as well, making it one of the harder quests in the game. Beating the Lightningrod quest nemesis quickly is recommended since the quest goal level has obnoxious titans hiding behind non-diggable walls, and they can freely summon monsters and cast other spells while the player is running around. However, the Lightningrod also moves very slowly and starts out surrounded by sessile monsters that are hard to take out.

Origin

The Acid Mage is an acid-based pendant to SLASH'EM's flame and ice mages.