Re: Unable to proceed past the early game
Lasty wrote:Hopeless: rPois+ is the most resist poison players can get under normal circumstances, so wearing extra rPois+ items doesn't help. You can see this on the % screen, where rPois is listed with a single pip of resistance.
Sar's advice about orb spiders is solid, but as for why you were having such troubles with poison otherwise, can you give more detail? What were your defenses like? Did you rest off the poison you had before fighting additional monsters w/ poison? Did you draw out spiders in the smallest groups you could?
I'm sure you're sick of questions like these, but they're the best way for the community to get a sense of what might be helpful advice at this point.
I've found that if I have a decent killing tool and good defenses (say 30+ AC and 10+ EV or 20+ AC and 30+ EV) poisoning isn't too awful in the spider's nest with careful play, though I prefer to either have rPois or regeneration (or ideally both) so that I can get back up to fighting shape more quickly after each fight.
I am aware of the fact that rPois doesn't stack. I think it should. Clearly poison can get through even if you have rPois so having more of it should be more helpful. (Imho.) Defenses:159 hp 33 AC 12 Ev 14Sh (buckler of protection giving +5 to ac). I played the game as I know how. There were tricky moments (ambush is a apparently word meaning "Spiders attack from all around you!") and definitely situations where I could have hid better or run better. And it is ALWAYS the case that it is my own damned fault for dying. Again. And Again. And again. No point in not blaming the victim, eh?
The poison was a nuisance mainly because whilst being jumped by spiders orbs of destruction would track me and make a mess of my hp so the small amounts lost to poison added up. And quaffing cures didn't help, nor did regen because theyd keep hitting with more. (it was mostly the zillions of redbacks coming out of nowhere that screwed me poison-wise. The multiple orbs at once did the rest. I did manage to let quite a few spiders jump to my rescue as orb blockers but that tactic only worked so much when there were 3+ orb spiders tossing them. In the past I have not had such trouble with spider at all. The worst mobs were the moths which I had a trident with sInv for, and Emperor Scorps who weren't so much a threat as a never dying menace. But didn't see either of those this run.
As for a morgue, I deliberately chose to not post one as I don't think critiquing my play at this point will help me at all except to increase my rage. because: CLEARLY IT IS MY DAMNED FAULT.