Ok so nobody agrees with me. Mods: feel free to move this to DCA because I'd like to discuss how EEs are typically played.
I only have two EE victories. The first, HuEE of Vehumet (6 runes, DCSS 0.13) memorized Passwall on D:2 and cast it like this:
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Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Passwall | | | | | | | 2 | | 15 || 17
And the second, DrEE of Ru (3 runes, DCSS 0.17) memorized Passwall on D:1 and never cast it.
Now in my current game (BaEE of Ru) I memorized Passwall after every other spell in the starting book. Sure enough, I have used it (I have the rune from Swamp and just entered Snake):
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Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Passwall | | | | | 2 | 3 || 5
I actually used it once for escaping and 4 times for just going in and out somewhere where I otherwise couldn't.
So I would like to know, when do your EEs usually memorize Passwall and how much do you use it? I think it's more important to get Stone Arrow before you run out of stones for Sandblast (yes this happens in the very early game now that Sandblast always uses stones). And then Petrify is really good...
As for
2. Passwall stabbings lead into petrify stabbings, which is a powerful way to play an EE.
that I don't get at all. How do you Passwall-stab something unless you took Ash on D:2? Do you train stealth and/or short blades or just do unskilled stabbing? In my experience, unskilled stabbing is not very powerful and for example in my current game (where I have used Petrify a lot), I much rather hit the petrified monsters with my +9 morningstar of crushing than the +3 dagger of draining that I also have... Granted, I have already trained M&F to 13 so there's that. But the actual question is, does somebody actually play EEs like that (first Passwall-stabbing(?), then Petrify-stabbing)?