tself55 wrote:One of the most uninteresting ways to die in this game is being banished on the first turn in LOS with a monster. Such a death can occur without any input of keys from the player and the only way to avoid such a death is to have found enough MR to get the percentage chance of banishment to 0.
This is a statement: 'Only', 'without any input'.
I'll give you: stealth
You're running around in plate (heaviest armour you've found so far), making a lot of noise in a dungeon where your life is at risk.
You had 10747 turns where you could have upped your stealth (0.4->1.0 is very cheap, heroism+5 = 6) and equipping leather/ring mail but you decided not to.
This is what I do when I'm interested in not dying:
- stay stealthy for as long as possible. This way most monster with hexes have a 'zz' or '?' above them when I see them for the first time.
- I'll upgrade to heavy armour somewhen but usually I know by then what I'm trading it for.
- Keep a stealthy armour in your inventory.
- Heroism increases stealth by +5
I'm not saying that you shouldn't wear plate. It's up to you to think about pros/cons.
The very moment I would have been abyssed at low level I would have swapped my armour, trained stealth only (centaur have the speed to break los ) and might be burning my piety for heroism to remain as stealthy as possible.
Again: I would only do this when I'm seriously interested in not dying.
tself55 wrote:my 6 streak in the 0.21 tournament was ended after auto-exploring into range of Erolcha who proceded to instantly banish my CeHu
She was awake, also noticed your clanky tanky centaur by a mile and since she is not stupid she gave you what is to be expected to get sooner or later in a game where mr is low. There are a lot of monster with ugly hexes and * all * of them will notice you that way.
I emphazised * all * because unlike your 'only', 'without', etc. the 100%-claim is true this time.
You might say now that wearing non-plate would make you more vulnerable in many other situations. Choices … but they are there.