I just used dragon armour (-3 EV) but I would have used storm dragon armour (-5 EV) if a hide had dropped before I was doing Zot. When I went into Zot I had killed a few Storm Dragons but they didn't drop hides, so I decided to use my enchant armour scrolls on my dragon armour. I had a randart storm...

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/Excedrin/morgue-Excedrin-20110313-010944.txt So, I played a few MDEE before this one. My goals were to play a heavy armour caster and go earth because it was new to me (actually heavy armour was new too). With this guy, I cast sandblast for a very long time, it ...