Tartarus Sorceror
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Is tomb too difficult?
A character can safely do tomb if he can use controlled blink to ninja the rune.
A character can safely do tomb if he can use necromutation or if he is a mummy or ghoul.
A character can safely ninja the rune if he has Dithmenos shadow form and a few blink scrolls.
It could be possible to more-or-less safely do tomb if you got lucky and just have a dozen blink scrolls.
It is possible that controlled blink is unnecessary and the same plan can be done using passage of golubria. Having not tried it, I can't say for certain; there may be issues with getting surrounded and monsters entering the portals.
It may be possible to safely do tomb if you have just silence and a lot of cancellation potions. It has been done this way, I can't say whether it was done safely. Having darkness too would make this safer.
It may be possible to safely do tomb if you have firestorm or other level 9s, even without the other tools mentioned.
Some extremely powerful melee characters can *un*safely clear tomb by relying on TSO or Makhleb healing. I have seen no evidence that doing this is safe. I would expect anyone trying this to hang out in the 40 HP area even if they have rN+++. Anyone disagree?
Any other ways to do tomb *safely* that I neglected? Perhaps W:3 could be done with Disaster Area, but I wouldn't expect that to be safe. I've seen one game in an earlier version where the mummy death curses killed a guy trying to do it that way.
My own experience in my last 2 games when I reached tomb as a melee brute, was that I spent much of extended preparing Controlled Blink with Zin, and I really freakin needed it. In neither of the 2 games was I able to clear W:3, or kill more than one or two greater mummies on W:3. In the first game I had rN+++, in the second rN++. Recite would clear out lesser enemies but any time I tried to sit around tabbing a greater mummy I would get tormented to the danger zone very quickly. I had to ninja the rune both times despite being a powerful melee brute each time.
In the first of the 2 games I also wasn't able to clear the narrow corridor on W:1 coming from W:2; it was the one with a lot of g. mummies as soon as you arrive. I only managed to reach W:3 in the first game by randomly teleporting in W:2.
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