I’ve never played Nethack – pretty much the only two roguelikes I enjoy are ADOM and DoomRL. That said, yesterday I completed my first ultra ending (Avatar of Order) after more than five years of playing, which is pretty awesome.

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I had another character that was aiming for an ultra ending earlier, but I messed up and had to restart. The problem was that I couldn’t gain enough experience; I went through the quickling tree and ate everything so my base speed reached over 200 and caused my character to suffer extreme penalties to experience gain, which made it impossible to get to level 45 in order to receive the Filk quest from the bumbumin prince. This time I was a lot more careful. I made it a point to kill the Eternal Guardian several times in order to ensure that I had enough experience to proceed. I recommend the Eternal Guardian since he respawns when killed and does not have a ranged attack. It is trivial for a spellcaster with seven league boots to kill him any number of times. It is also worth casting Slow Monster on oneself right before slaying him to get a bigger reward.