Monday, 19th July 2021, 11:48 by svendre
The decision between a dagger and quickblade is this: if you need maximum stabbing damage, I believe the dagger will do more damage (last I checked). The quickblade will do more damage in a non-stabbing fight. In particular, for quickblades, you get the most mileage out of them with certain brands like draining, poison, electricity.. since the brands get applied rapidly. Outside of the quick application of brands, on paper they still seem pretty good, but in practice armour slows them down quite a bit. It is for this reason that I tend to gravitate more to a dagger/rapier for pure shortblades builds, not that I won't use a good quickblade if I find it, or even in combination with the other two.
I rarely build pure stabbers unless I'm feeling like incomplete runs. They splat really easily. If I want a stealth run, I'm much more likely to build a hybrid melee/stabber and use a dagger/doublesword or demonblade combination where you go for a stab but if it doesn't work out, you hack away with the sword. My preferred armour then is shadow dragon armour, and breaking with my usual gods, Dith would be my choice, and is usually pleasantly, surprisingly strong.
Forgetting blink scrolls on the run is painful. Also, don't forget fog scrolls. One neat trick that I use is to escape is to read fog, to create a situation where the probability of blinking away from the enemies is high or guaranteed (because you won't blink into squares outside your LOS), then use a normal blink spell and take at least +1 or more squares in distance in the direction you wanted to go. It's handy if you don't have blink scrolls or just want to save them a bit. When you worship Dith, you get lots more fog, and the tactic really becomes notable.