Halls Hopper
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Joined: Monday, 28th May 2012, 06:29
CIP - DrFE - choosing Zig way
For example, hunter, a nice stout fighter with a long sturdy bow! Backuped by some spells, of course: I've got FireStorm (1%), IceStorm (2%), Shatter (2%), Haste (1%), CBlink (1%), NecroMut (8%), SummonDragon (2%) and LCS (1%) (and some minor spells like RMsl) just in case something will go in the wrong way. Yes, I've made one Zig already with the pure offensive mage build, but now I'm going to try it with a bow.
As usual, I'm asking some questions.
1. Which bow is better? I've found Piercer (+2,+10 longbow of velocity), I have a longbow (now +3,+6) of velocity and a plenty of EW 1-3 scrolls, so smth like +8,+8 is quite real. Arrows (about 1k of those) are enchanted to +8, don't want to spend more EW2 on them. My bow skill is about 20, btw.
2. I'm worshipping Vehumet right now. I feel very confident with him because of significantly lower fail rate and because of mana kill-refunding. But that's not a honest choice for a bowman. I thought about switching to Nemelex because I've collected a huge pile of precious staff and I really enjoy that "Tomb" card; some other cards seems to be useful too. Or maybe TSO (Pan will give me piety)? Or somebody else? Is there any god that will make me feel as confident as Vehumet does?
3. I feel that my defences are very poor actually. I have AC about 20 and EV about 27 or so without shield. I've got a shield of resistance, but it slows fire rate a lot. Is it possible to mitigate the penalty by SH skill? Or maybe for buckler?
4. Is it a must to have high Dex and/or Str? My Str is enough to carry as many arrows as I wish as well as some loot, and my Int for some reasons is quite high (37-38 with boosting equipment). Easy to guess that my Dex is quite poor...
5. Maybe you can offer me some more interesting concepts to try in Zig? The only problem is that I'm short on scrolls of amnesia, so it's quite hard for me to learn a completely different set of spells.