crate wrote:The main drawback of chei is in fact probably worse for nagas than other races. 2.8 move delay is really super bad, you pretty much cannot move around in combat at all. 2.0 is much more manageable.
In general most nagas who aren't worshipping Trog should wear a robe. Dragon armours are acceptable if you have enough enchant armour scrolls.
Moving from a move delay of 1 to 1.X -- the difference between most other races and nagas -- is really bad, too. Once you can't run away from speed 1 monsters, the game gets much harder.
To deal with combat positioning, it's important for nagas to develop ranged damaging and disabling attacks. Conjure flame, meph, evap, missiles help a lot until (semi) controlled blinks come online.
I assume you mean fire and ice dragon armour -- of course, mottled and steam are usually stronger than robes. Or am I missing something?