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DEFE of TSO. Fire mages are one of the easiest classes to get through the regular game with. Pick up iron shot and OoD as soon as you can for fire resistant things. Holy brand a weapon of your choice for tight spots. In extended firestorm tough stuff that isn't fire resistant and angel spam/cleansin...

I kinda like finding an early ring of wizardry to tell the truth. With DE stats you can start training dodging almost right away.

Xom loves that shit.

Always potions at first. Necklaces later, because amulets of faith suck when you are already at max piety and need the other amulets for something. Wands of healing/teleport to see how many charges there are. Randarts and other jewelry when I have a bunch extra.

I wasn't sure and was weighting the answer to no until I found the knife of accuracy and thought that would be sorta amusing with a pain brand.

Don't worry dude, I think you did something cool.

Ghoul Venom mages of vehemet are pretty fun. Just get meph cloud castable, and you can dump it on yourself if needed. Work your claws for a bit, and eventually your casting will go down when you get 2 pips in piety. Dump all stat raises in to int, and level claws until you start getting gifts then g...

Started this character off as just messing around and ended up getting pretty far. Kept taking breaks because I always forgot he was worshipping TSO. I kept going under penance because I was blasting stuff with fireball or hitting an angel with an orb of destruction or whatever. It was fun, and my f...

bah nevermind got corner hydrad.

Started messing around with a Naga stalker and found Devastator on an early dungeon level, 4 or 5 I think. Anyways, how far will this combo take me? I just petrified an orc warlord and basically one shot it with the shatter effect from Devastator. Is it a potential end game item?

This was part of challenge from another site, the theme being hobbit based and all. It took a few tries before I got a decent start, and ended up getting an early Rpois ring, staff of fire and ring of fire so I just went berserk and blew anyone up that got close without worrying too much about defen...

Gaaaaary.

I remember one character hadn't found poison resistance through all of lair and orc. Used up all my cures fighting a spiny worm vault on L8. I turned the corner looking for vaults on like D15 or 16 and a gaggle of kobolds were there with blowguns. As soon as they hit me I went red in poison and died...

Ammo sink. Har har.

If I know I am going Vehemet, I usually stop leveling fire at 7 and take conjurations to 11 or so. Then I stop and dump everything in to dodging and a little fighting. When you start getting gifted books pump earth magic. Once you get Iron shot castable, you are set. IS and fireball will take you th...

This started as a mess around build to see how far I could get, and it ended up doing decent. I just had a few questions regarding end game. Should I try to max out my fighting or invocations first? What exactly does shatter do, and is it effective against the royal jelly? How much should I work bow...

Running a DEFE and was wondering what the optimum armor level I should shoot for to reduce the misfire chance on the top tier spells with a fire dragon armor.

Maybe change poison magic to alchemy and throw in some acidic/corrosive attacks for late game.

Eh, this was kind of lame, it had been one of my favorite characters so far too. Got lucky with an early wymsbane, and pretty much breezed through most of the game, even zot was easy. The only stumbling stone was Zot 5. There was a zot trap on each entrance to the lungs, so I couldn't get to the orb...

Just a wishlist type thing, but I really would like to see Takumas Dance become a charm spell. It seems like such a cool thing for a skald to work for, a bunch of branded weapons dancing around him ready to attack. Maybe there could be some sort of level 9 spell that would add +1 to either attack or...

Hell I always just went with TSO when I was on my OgHu kick. They level clubs so quickly, it isn't long before you can swing GSCs decently. You don't have to worry about switching gods for end game, which can save some hassle. Ogre Hunters are pretty good at early game though, their stones can knock...

Ok guy, what if time! What if demigods were able to use amulets of faith to convert creatures to follow him/her? First of all, they could get an ability to "create" amulets of faith by spending piety to change any amulet in their inventory to an amulet of faith. This would cost a decent am...

Thankskilling is a cult classic, really underground stuff. You should check it out.

How about a mummy wizard of Kiku? He just woke up after a long slumber and seeks revenge on those who stole his power. The orb of zot is the first step in this or whatever.

I gotcha, maybe I should have had a bit more detail. My low level draconian FE found an early staff of fire and I was curious how much of an investment it would take to seriously train to use it in melee. I already had about 5 levels in evoc, and I turned purple so it didn't take much to get it to 1...

So anything I kill with the caster staff will only give my guy half xp? That kind of sucks.

I was gonna make fun of your suggestion, but I would hate to be labeled as a ferrum troll.

Just curious how many levels I should put in to staves and evoc to use a staff of earth or fire. Thanks in advance!

I am going to second or third the fire elementalist suggestion. Try following Vehemet too, it is great for a 3 runer. I usually get conjurations and fire magic up to 7 then switch to spellcasting. 14 SC is about where you get sticky flame hungerless, but whatever you are comfortable with. Once you s...

Hey TehDruid, sorry for the misunderstanding. I wasn't sure what you were talking about and went back to re-read my posts and saw how my nooby noob post could be misconstrued. I was referring to myself as the noob. Sorry about that! I have tons of favorite combos too and I post silly stuff all the t...

Eventually you will need to max throwing and stealth. Stabbing you can just use the book as you level the other stuff. Put maybe 20% or so in it as you work stealth. Be careful in vaults though. A lucky hit by a stone giant will ruin your day.

Oh ok, just wait till you get a scroll of aquirement and ask for gold. That armor does sound pretty nice.

Usually with my trolls I try and dive swamp to look for an early dragon. Swamp dragons are great because Rpoison is super useful and frees up a ring slot. Just be careful when you throw rocks in the swamp, you don't want to have one land in deep water and lose it.

TrMo of Oka is pretty easy in early game. OgHu following any god, DSMo of Mahkleb is fun for random games, SpAs following Trog is fun. Easy early game, work towards needlestab for mid/late game, HOBe is probably one of the easiest games you can run.

If you want a fun combo just to goof around with, Demonspawn Monk of Mahkleb is pretty fun. The random mutations are at least interesting, and it doesn't take much to get invocations up to 10. Tier 3 demons can wipe out most uniques you run across besides the big nasties like Mennas, Borus and Mara ...

I thought I was gonna get bored after my first 15 runer, but I have been playing about the same. I do play a wide variety of characters though, and tend to play more for fun and just to see what turns up than any need to win. I did sorta set a goal to win at least a 3 runer with all the races. Anywa...

I usually just try to find a randart to cover some resistances. RPoison is great because it frees up an armor/ring slot. Early game I use venom or elec daggers for casters with confusion spells. I eventually use caster staves. Even without a resistance, staves of conjurations are versatile enough to...

Ugh, I hate it when that happens. The only thing that is worse is when it is D4, and you are looking for the temple.

I am pretty sure just about anyone could have won this game. Found an early hat of alchemist, shield of resistance and 3 armour manuals. Dove swamp for a good dragon armor and got a swamp dragon on level 2 or 3. Spent most of mid game breezing through with 30s Ac and shield. Switched to unarmed beca...

Minotaur are a great race, and probably the most popular for a first win. Mino Berserker is the most popular from what I have seen. Mino monk of Okawaru is pretty strong too, and plays similar. The retaliatory headbutt helps a ton in the lower levels until unarmed catches up in damage to weapons aro...

Congrats!

If it is a life or death situation, scrolls of fog break LOS for a few turns. Work Invocation. Most of my melee guys end up with at least 10 in it, and it has saved my butt a few times. Mostly you are going to try and lure them to you one by one. It is a pain in the butt, but a necessary tactic for ...

NeedleStab builds can be fun. Like Blacksheep said, you don't use Trog for berzerk as a SpAs. His brothers in arms ability is amazing for spriggans when you need to powerhouse through some tough baddies. You need to level throwing though to hit the higher level creatures. the last character like thi...

haha sorry man, didn't even think of it that way. Hell I hate crabs in real life, I dunno what I was thinking about putting them in game.

One thing I noticed about spellcasters is that once you get to Zot you pretty much should be prepared for end game already. If you find the book of the dragon, or really anything with summon dragon in it, it is worth it to dump all the rest of your XP in to summons and get that castable. Even if you...

Maybe some early game crabs that utilize the constriction mechanic, except it would be with pincers. They would be submerged in water. When they do come out to attack the player they could attempt to drag the PC in to shallow water and hold them there where they fight with a penalty. Possibly steam ...

My last win was won a lot easier due to a SoA dropping a resist mutation amulet when I asked for jewelry. I had cleared elf, snake, swamp and vaults and no RMut. My last hope without hitting slime was the scroll and it pulled it out for me, I was hyped. I don't really like doing slime as melee unles...

I didn't even have to roll an AK.

Congrats! First win is always a load off.

I have a demonspawn FE I have been messing with and he has the level 2 claws mutation pretty early. I enjoy hybrid characters, and I was wondering a something about unarmed. How effective are high levels of unarmed while equipping another weapon like a caster staff or a venomous short blade? I just ...

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