Tuesday, 27th August 2013, 02:14 by TwilightPhoenix
Many characters have access to summons. A follower of Trog, Yred, and several other gods can all can produce summons. There's also summoners. And also the Box of Beasts. These can either kill the Oklobs or give you a distraction to run by.
Earth Elementalists can LRD the walls near the Oklobs. If there's a monster near an Oklob, Petrify + LRD works great. They, and also anyone with the wand or found the spell, can either Dig their way to the stairs or create passages that lets them deal with one Oklob at a time.
If there's water nearby, any fire spell, ideally Conjure Flame, can produce steam to mask your passage.
Air Elementalists get Repel Missiles and Swiftness, limiting their exposure. As said, there's also creative use of bouncing electricity.
Characters who are sneaky enough can just waltz by without even using Invis. Of course, Invis works better.
Fire Elementalists can drop Fireballs from out of LOS (and so can anyone with the wand). If they have access to summons who don't mind it, they can also use Inner Flame to create suicide bombers.
Straight Conjurers can just use the prism spell whose name I forgot. Though they can also AoE from out of LOS with IMB, though this is a bit unreliable.
Yellow Dracs resist acid, so they're not as scared of Oklobs.
Followers of Fedhas can, of course, just waltz on by and, in fact, can create their own Oklob vault if they feel like it.
Anyone who's fast or has access to a source of fast (Swiftness spell, Speed potion, boots of running, whatever) can just attempt to run by.
A durable melee character in full armor can just tank the acid and kill them (though should keep an escape plan in mind... though really that applies to every solution). There's plenty of junk armor available in Orc if yours isn't enchanted or randarted enough to shrug off corrosion.
I could probably keep going if I wanted to because there's probably at least another dozen solutions, but I don't feel like it.
Edit: And this topic got moved in mid-post. Woot I guess?
The best strategy most frequently overlooked by new players for surviving: not starting a fight to begin with.