CiP -> YAVP DrWz of Veh -> TSO / Zin 15 rune
Posted: Friday, 22nd March 2013, 20:21
Hello everyone! I have restarted playing more frequently after a looong time and this is the second char that I have been able to get to very strong power. I already have one win under my belt (4 runes SEEE of Chei), so now I wanted to go for a full 15 rune, but I must say, I am very scared by hell \ pandemonium. Been once in each: the once i went to Pandemonium I manged to get the "random" rune, but was not able to defeat Cerebov and had to run, later I died (I don't even remember how, I think in Tomb:2 in some stupid way), and didn't see any of the other Lords. The time I went to hell didn't go much better either, didn't make it to even see any final level because I always got too injuried \ scared by hell mystical forces.
For this char I have good hope: I have decent gear, can get with no problem rF+++ (randart weapon with rF++), rN+++ (TSO) and rC+++ (staff + rings), coupled with decent AC\EV and huge SH (and some 45 int), so I am pretty confident that my defenses are adequate. So far I have the 4 "easy" runes, switched to TSO and cleared Crypt, now my plan is hitting Pandemonium and Tomb, then switching to Zin to get the abyssal rune and max piety, then clear Hell. The reason that I am not going to abyss now is not that it scares me, but I want to make sure to be at full piety with Zin before entering Hell (man that place scared me a lot).
On the downside, no rMut so far, I still have one pot of cMut so if things were to ge really bad I guess I could switch to Zin earlier for the mut wash...
Oh by the way, weapons are for losers I am 100% a pew pew caster so far (is that a stupid idea? So far things have worked out pretty alright), but I have a +7\+9 demon trident in my stash to bless as soon as possible, then I guess my next move is getting polearms to at least hit min delay. Am I missing any obvious strong spell so far?
Also, was that shield 21 an overinvestment? I got to a point in the midgame where I didn't find tornado, had pretty much every other spell needed but was lacking in resistances and general defenses and that shield was sooo tempting...
For this char I have good hope: I have decent gear, can get with no problem rF+++ (randart weapon with rF++), rN+++ (TSO) and rC+++ (staff + rings), coupled with decent AC\EV and huge SH (and some 45 int), so I am pretty confident that my defenses are adequate. So far I have the 4 "easy" runes, switched to TSO and cleared Crypt, now my plan is hitting Pandemonium and Tomb, then switching to Zin to get the abyssal rune and max piety, then clear Hell. The reason that I am not going to abyss now is not that it scares me, but I want to make sure to be at full piety with Zin before entering Hell (man that place scared me a lot).
On the downside, no rMut so far, I still have one pot of cMut so if things were to ge really bad I guess I could switch to Zin earlier for the mut wash...
Oh by the way, weapons are for losers I am 100% a pew pew caster so far (is that a stupid idea? So far things have worked out pretty alright), but I have a +7\+9 demon trident in my stash to bless as soon as possible, then I guess my next move is getting polearms to at least hit min delay. Am I missing any obvious strong spell so far?
Also, was that shield 21 an overinvestment? I got to a point in the midgame where I didn't find tornado, had pretty much every other spell needed but was lacking in resistances and general defenses and that shield was sooo tempting...