Rokirem wrote:https://pastebin.com/PZW476
This has to be the best character I've ever had, in terms of gear, and xp. With my current setup I have 66 AC, 19 EV, and 28 SH, as well as max resistances and a +8 eveningstar. I have access to a plethora of other gear and I already have Fighting and Armour skills maxed. Anyways I've beaten the game four times by now, and I am looking to go past three runes. My question is, how do I go about this? Do I complete Zot first (not grabbing the orb obv), for extra xp? Then do Tomb:3? (I've already done the crypts and Tomb:2, tbh I tabbed through everything, looking back that was pretty dumb after reading what the enemies in there can do.) Help required!
Also how the hell do I get rid of negative (red) mutations you get from enemies? They removed potions of cure mutations right? I haven't found a single one. I've lost like 20 HP. Zot is brutal (kinda)
Tomb is probably the last rune you should get it's (arguably) the hardest one.
I would say if you've got the S branches and Vaults, and you want 15, you probably want to go: Abyss, Slime, Pan, Hell, Tomb, Zot
If you do the Abyss before Pan, then it's a lot less annoying to leave Pan when you're done (Although I suppose you could do the Abyss on the way out of Pan)
Zot is harder than the Abyss, and probably harder than slime (Slime is really clearing out a bunch of middling critters, so you aren't interrupted, then one big fight to get the rune, TRJ is harder than most of the individual critters in Zot, but there's only one of him, Zot throws lots of stuff at you)
Zot's slightly easier than Pan and Hell difficulty wise the end of the Tomb just sucks, mostly because it's such a slog and the death curses mean you can't really power through killing things quickly with giant damage effects, but the stuff in there does enough non-death-curse damage that you can't just tough it out and soak the damage until everything dies at a slow pace either, plus the current incarnation doesn't easily let you retreat (you go down with no upstairs, you have to fight your way over to an up staircase to be able to leave)
I would say that if you want a step below going for 15 runes you could do a 5 rune win and grab Abyss and Slime then go Zot and done, Pan and Hell are long and time consuming, and if you've never done anything but a 3 rune, a 5 rune is the next step up. It sounds like your character does have the power chops to get through all 15, but maybe do Abyss and Slime and see if you want to call it a win.