Spider Stomper
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Joined: Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 18:53
Do I overestimate statue form?
- I often play trolls who are blessed with a to-hit and to-dam bonus of their claws but are weak in defense. This is overcome by >= 40 AC in statue form + stoneskin
- statue form is so strong in offense that gloorx or whoever won't survive much longer than something like 6,7,8 turns
- I usually go for 15 runes. Torment is one of the biggest threats in pan/tomb/hell even if you worship TSO, and statue form greatly helps here
- when I play a DsGl and start with axes ("ok, something else this time") I get sharp fingernails mutation when reaching XL 2 and switch to UC immediately
Recently my TrSt of Ash had so many problems in Tar that I decided to visit pan a second time just for getting the statue form spell, look at my notes at 66536 etc.
Alright, there are several ways to handle things like torment. One of the easiest ways seems to be a caster with necromut but I prefer fighters/hybrids. So Kiku's torment protection is another choice; I also won a MDFi with exec. axe enjoying TSO in the extended. Vampires might be another idea.
After all I think statue form is great for fighters/hybrids. Necromutation is much weaker concerning UC unless you worship Chei.
So the question is: is statue form really that strong or do I only think so because I'm used to it?