Meanwhile, I tend to recommend the opposite: a half-troll warrior. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! You may well die quickly from an undetected monster, but getting a new character to the deeps is very fast.
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Hmm ... i find half-orc rogue to be the easiest class to level up. And maybe half-orc warrior.
On 4.1.3 then half-orc blackguard is really all you need to win. Maybe. Depends on the shield bash nerf, i havent played in 5 months.
Mage is the class i most easily die with when high level; tele self, gravity hounds, #ded.
Dunedain Ranger 4.1.2 or earlier is the easiest win character: buy 40 CLW, 10 food, and 5 Mage1. Grind DL5~10 until you find a red worm mass.
Drop your recall scrolls, let them breed, kill 3000 of them. BAM! CL20+ and double bow damage.
Buy a longbow of power, and you are ready for morgoth."i can take this dracolich"Comment
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Oh, ugh. Farming is just a hopelessly boring way to level up (if you must farm, use black oozes to get a bit of loot out of the process.)
You are better off using magic devices to do damage. A few light rods will take out tons of trolls and orcs.Comment
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FrogComponsband weaponmaster Polearms. As usual drops are wrong weapon type. I played with a +2 then +6 standard weapon until I found this.
Five brands, resist fire and poison, and light. Quite an upgrade!
a) a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2) {FiPo;Lu|AEFCoP}
Dropped by an Algroth on level 27 of Orc cave.
Identified: Day 8, 11:00, at CL 24.
Code:Hand #1: a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2) Accuracy Weight : 10.0 lbs AC Hit Profic : Beginner (+8 To Hit) 25 88% To Hit : 7 + 21 = 28 50 80% To Dam : 2 + 14 = 16 75 73% Blows : 3.90 100 66% Damage 125 58% Crits : 1.07x (5.4%) 150 51% Normal : 111 [1.07x] 175 44% Acid : 180 [2.56x] 200 36% Elec : 180 [2.56x] Fire : 180 [2.56x] Cold : 180 [2.56x] Poison : 180 [2.56x]
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Wow, I did not know townspeople could carry things better than 24gold pieces or scrolls of darkness.Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM
Detailed account of my Ironman win here.
"My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --FizzixComment
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He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.--
Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.Comment
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Farmer Maggot has a guaranteed good drop (=at least armor with a plus to AC).
He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM
Detailed account of my Ironman win here.
"My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --FizzixComment
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Currently
speed +32
AC 281
Thanks to these ego items that put most artifacts to shame:
Balance Dragon Scale Mail (Dwarven) (-2) [50 +29] <+1, +2, +3>
Found lying on the floor in a vault at 4900 feet
+1 strength
+2 constitution
+3 infravision
Provides resistance to sound, shards, chaos, disenchantment.
Prevents paralysis
Mithril Shield of Preservation [16 +44]
Dropped by a master mystic at 4800 feet
Provides resistance to shards, disenchantment.
Sustain strength, dexterity, constitution
Sustain your life force
Highest AC from shield I've ever seen, but all resistances are redundant, including sustains.... Could replace it with:
Wicker Shield 'Tancar' [2, +9] <+9>
Found lying on the floor in a vault at 1850 feet
+9 speed
Provides resistance to lightning
speed +32
AC 281
or
speed +41
AC 232
Either way, I think Sauron will be very dead soon (grinding at DL98 for elusive Wrath of God. Maybe I don't even need it)Comment
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And strictly worse, because it has the net effect of removing rCold from the rest of your equipment if you have it.--
Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.Comment
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