Famov wrote:I took the run away option, at least long enough to put on my magic resist gear.
Magic Resistance lowers the chance that hexes like confuse and paralyze will work on you. Magic Resistance doesn't lower the damage you take from magical attacks.
According the the
bots, Boris's spells are iron shot (3d37), bolt of cold (3d32), invisibility, animate dead, and orb of destruction (8d17).
Most of these are direct damage spells, and none of them are affected by magic resistance. So you want high armour class, shield factor, and/or evasion to beat iron shot, bolt of cold, and OOD. Cold resistance doesn't hurt. See invisible can help, and don't leave powerful corpses around without butchering them or you'll have to fight things like hydra zombies.
If you kill Boris here, he can show up again in nearly any level you enter. If you escape and leave him alive, he'll stay in the bottom of the swamp.