# Acid Mage

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The Acid Mage is a role specific to SlashTHEM. They are a spellcaster class, and can be any race or alignment.
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 the Lightningrod for the Slow Blade.

Contents

1 Starting Equipment
2 Techniques
3 Intrinsics
4 Skills
5 Gods
6 Acid Mage rank titles
7 Strategy
8 Origin
9 References

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
spellbooks of acid sphere and acid stream
Techniques
Acid mages gain techniques at these experience levels:

XL 1&nbsp;: reinforce memory
XL 3&nbsp;: power surge
XL 5&nbsp;: draw energy
XL 7&nbsp;: sigil of control
XL 10&nbsp;: sigil of tempest
XL 20&nbsp;: sigil of discharge
Intrinsics
XL 1: Acid resistance
XL 7: Polymorph into baby yellow dragon form
XL 14: Polymorph into adult yellow dragon form
To use your polymorph ability, you must use the extended command #youpoly.

Skills

Acid Mage Skills

Max
Skills

Expert

Weapons: knife, dagger , axe , short sword , long sword , scimitar , saber , paddle, mace, morning star, flail, hammer, quarterstaff, polearms, spear, javelin, trident, lance, bow, sling, crossbow, dart, shuriken, boomerang, whip, unicorn horn
Spellcasting: attack spells, body spells, healing spells, divination spells, enchantment spells, protection spells, matter spells
Combat: riding, bare-handed combat, two-weapon combat

Gods
Main article: Religion
Lawful:  The Lord of the Pit
Neutral: Goldblight of the Flame
Chaotic: Warpfire Hellspawn
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: Hazardous Materials Specialist
XL 26-29: Laboratory Science PhD
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 matrons 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 arch-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.

References