First Orc Sorcerer Paralysis Death

[MainiacJoe]

After a couple years playing I had my first YASD by this method. About 20 turns previous, at full health, I said out loud, "This doean't look good. Maybe I should teleport?" Yes, I should have.

[Airwolf]

Good! Now learn to change the feeling "Maybe I should teleport" to the action "I will now teleport" (and maybe a turn or two earlier—that's generic advice: I haven't looked at your morgue specifically).

Spread unending pain and darkness!

[Rast]

One of the things you get better at as you get better is bailing on fights before they even start.

[MainiacJoe]

Yes, I'm taking encouragement from this that it even occurred to me to bail before it started. I also learned, the hard way, that orc sorcerers really are dangerous. I've not ever been paralyzed by one in the past that I can recall, so I kinda overlooked them. It was the orc knight I was worried about here.

[Airwolf]

I think things like orc sorcerers are harder to evaluate because they have a fairly low probability of a highly dangerous attack (paralyze, banish, etc) than orc knights who are going to pummel your ass with probability 1. Plus, you can likely survive a solo orc sorcerer paralyzing you, but in a crowd with an orc knight etc, you are in real trouble if paralyzed. Keeping the sorcerer out of direct line of sight helps—e.g. keeping other orcs or allies between you and the sorcerer, fog—but retreating (or high MR) is definitely best.

As everybody says around here, luring is OP, especially for branch ends.