Mines Malingerer
Posts: 31
Joined: Friday, 1st April 2011, 19:48
Some general help for a sort-of-newbie.
The two I linked to: The DEIE died in Vault:2 soon after that dump when he opened a door on a rock troll skeleton and a red wasp two squares away. I had no healing potions as they all got used up in a daring escape in V:1 where I also ran out of all my teleport scrolls. My V:1 welcoming party included a couple dragons, two Yaktuar squads, and two stone giants scattered across the floor, with roving bands of Orc knights and warriors backing them up and perforating me with crossbows and javelins.
The MDFi was less "dignified" and more "dinged". I got surrounded 3 deep soon after the dump in Orc3 without teleport scrolls, and got smited 4 times a turn, died crazy fast.
Looking at the dumps, am I just doing stupid stuff with skills or armor? Should I worship different gods? Should I have more of a certain kind of item that I might be running through too hastily? I can pretty reliably (1 out of 3 with the MD, 1 out of about 2 with the DEIE and much less reliably with the SpEn) get all the way to Lair and at least through a few areas. My order is usually Lair to 7, sometimes clear out the non-vault part of 8, then Orc down to 3, then Hive, Orc 4 if I'm feeling brave (warlords have a 4-0 score on me), then L8 and then on to vaults. I never make it further than that.
I don't think I'm utterly clueless, but what am I missing?