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Joined: Tuesday, 20th March 2012, 04:01
Tuesday, 20th March 2012, 04:24
Help with avoiding rot in lategame lichform blaster mage
Hi all,
So I have a 27 DeWz that has cleared all the branches and gotten all the runes except the hells, pan, and the abyss. I managed to get the staff of wucad mu, which is very nice in terms of damage and the channeling ability is great. Combat and damage from enemies is not too difficult - my enemy is GLOW/ rot and statdrain.
I am down to my last 7 potions of heal and heal wounds, I can't afford to keep rotting at this rate. The int drain from crystal ball/ wucad mu is also what forces my character to stop fighting.
My skills are roughly 14 fighting, 11 dodge/stealth, 20 evocations, 27 spellcasting, 22 conjurations, 12-15 for ice, summoning, necromancy, and transmutations. I started out with Sif muna and dropped her after I got most of the spells that I wanted. Currently I have full piety with Vehumet.
What I want is advice re: gearing and playing my character to avoid rot and stat drain. Without any enhancers my worst failure rates are ice storm, 6%, lehudib's crystal spear, 4%, and necromutation, 10%.
The gear I have been using (without success due to too much glow/rotting) is staff of wucad mu, amulet of clarity, ring of sustain abilities and ring of teleport control. That seems pretty optimal in terms of preventing combat deaths. The problem is that even 6 or 10% failure rates have SEVERAL failures in a row way too frequently. I have gone from gray glow all the way to red glow with just one critical failure, and have easily sustained a total of 20-30 points of rot damage thus far. I am running out of potions and don't have any wands of healing.
My second problem is stat drain / mana issues. Licheform characters seem to recover stats very slowly, if at all. I started Gehenna with 35 int, after clearing 2 vaults in Geh7 I was at like 21 int, and the Wucad Mu staff was barely functioning at all. Supposedly I could stack 2 rings of sustain abilities - I was wearing one and still took 14 points of int dmg.
I don't spam haste, and I use semi-controlled blink fairly infrequently, most of my glow comes from getting several miscasts in a row.
Any advice? I don't think rmut prevents lich rotting, does it? Last time I played was like .6 or .7 and I never have had such significant rotting problems on a late game mage. I guess I could just avoid lichform entirely (and thus the spell failure) unless I am facing enemies with torment... but it is so lovely. I would really rather not do that, and if I do, I will probably get nasty mutations. Only one potion of cure mutation thus far in game. I could also avoid using high level spells, but it takes forever to kill high level demons with things like iron shot.
Oh, and I am NOT under penance with Sif Muna. She forgave me a long time ago.
Thoughts? How can I prevent/mitigate rot and stat drain?
So I have a 27 DeWz that has cleared all the branches and gotten all the runes except the hells, pan, and the abyss. I managed to get the staff of wucad mu, which is very nice in terms of damage and the channeling ability is great. Combat and damage from enemies is not too difficult - my enemy is GLOW/ rot and statdrain.
I am down to my last 7 potions of heal and heal wounds, I can't afford to keep rotting at this rate. The int drain from crystal ball/ wucad mu is also what forces my character to stop fighting.
My skills are roughly 14 fighting, 11 dodge/stealth, 20 evocations, 27 spellcasting, 22 conjurations, 12-15 for ice, summoning, necromancy, and transmutations. I started out with Sif muna and dropped her after I got most of the spells that I wanted. Currently I have full piety with Vehumet.
What I want is advice re: gearing and playing my character to avoid rot and stat drain. Without any enhancers my worst failure rates are ice storm, 6%, lehudib's crystal spear, 4%, and necromutation, 10%.
The gear I have been using (without success due to too much glow/rotting) is staff of wucad mu, amulet of clarity, ring of sustain abilities and ring of teleport control. That seems pretty optimal in terms of preventing combat deaths. The problem is that even 6 or 10% failure rates have SEVERAL failures in a row way too frequently. I have gone from gray glow all the way to red glow with just one critical failure, and have easily sustained a total of 20-30 points of rot damage thus far. I am running out of potions and don't have any wands of healing.
My second problem is stat drain / mana issues. Licheform characters seem to recover stats very slowly, if at all. I started Gehenna with 35 int, after clearing 2 vaults in Geh7 I was at like 21 int, and the Wucad Mu staff was barely functioning at all. Supposedly I could stack 2 rings of sustain abilities - I was wearing one and still took 14 points of int dmg.
I don't spam haste, and I use semi-controlled blink fairly infrequently, most of my glow comes from getting several miscasts in a row.
Any advice? I don't think rmut prevents lich rotting, does it? Last time I played was like .6 or .7 and I never have had such significant rotting problems on a late game mage. I guess I could just avoid lichform entirely (and thus the spell failure) unless I am facing enemies with torment... but it is so lovely. I would really rather not do that, and if I do, I will probably get nasty mutations. Only one potion of cure mutation thus far in game. I could also avoid using high level spells, but it takes forever to kill high level demons with things like iron shot.
Oh, and I am NOT under penance with Sif Muna. She forgave me a long time ago.
Thoughts? How can I prevent/mitigate rot and stat drain?
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