Lair Larrikin
Posts: 15
Joined: Tuesday, 3rd December 2013, 19:10
How to survive as a Naga
Forgetting my worship of Lugonu for a moment, I don't really understand how Nagas are supposed to survive. Sure, you have an awesome abilities from level 1 to shoot poison at people and have the innate rpois, so thats nice. the AK background gives me a +2/+2 weapon for which I chose a falchion, so early dungeon is pretty easy. But anything beyond that has been kind of terrifying.
Wish i had my morgue file on me (at a different computer right now) because RNG has not been kind to me this game (wore a ring of hunger on D2, didn't find a remove curse scroll until D9. Haven't found a branded long sword yet and I'm on mid lair now), but even that said, I don't think i understand Nagas. Aside from the early game benefit of spit poison, the -2 aptitudes for both dodging and armor seem pretty damning on top of the shit move speed you already have. I'm almost tempted to just hide behind some really heavy armor but I feel like I'll really need to be able to cast spells to survive as a naga.
The only reason im still alive at mid lair is because of banish and the blink you get under Lugonu (which are both really fun by the way).
So i don't know, you tell me, how do i live as a Naga?
I'm playing the last update of trunk that was downloadable (2-26, which by the way, do we know when that will be updated? I know it was server issues, but it's been almost a month)