Sangband Dwarf dual wielder

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So I start my descent, get to dlv45 in a hurry. Greeted by a mature mh dragon. No big deal. Then his friends showed up. ALL 44 of them (45 tot). Much easier this time with my new armor.

As I'm scanning the ridiculous amount of loot (some burned, some crushed by a quickly executed for it water elemental), I get this: You have a bad feeling about this place. Okay, how many of those dragons did it take idiot to realize that?

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Cleaned out his first vault since dlv29 (54). Two uniques who died quick (ar-pharazon and vargo), and crap else. No arts this time. Did get a stone skin mushroom though!

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Wow a worthy unique! Ariel queen of air almost made me use a tele scroll. If she had whirlwinded me on her first attack instead of lightning ball xor would be dead as he didnt have his res shield on (his fire/cold/lit swap with a 2hsw with an extra blow (2d15!). Sting is his primary, due to stat bonuses and slays.

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Dlv60 was kind to me. Cambleg on the floor and bill the stone troll gives me the phial.

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He's bi-polar (mania)!! Good and bad. Found a greater vault on dlv61. Cleared the two side rooms and finally (I think) found a way to the center. Found dwar under granite lol. He gave me tulkas and the star of elendil!!! Xor doing a happy dance.

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Wow. Shelob, waldern. Both tough. But NOTHING compared to the solar. THAT should be a unique. 300 damage with a holy lance? What resist blocks that??? (Its not light). After several teles, I got lucky and it didnt do that. Tough as granite to kill too. I hope I never see more of those! Thankfully he has over 700 hp and +24 speed (+/- 10 due to mania). Nothing of note in the trap infested center. Thankful for tulkas. Came at the right time!

His score is sick - like 7441. Thank you dwar 11 levels ood. Plv 68 I think. 80/80/60/26 sw/sr/dod/dis (I wish I hadnt done disarm now oh well. Only adds 104 to skill total. Im going for high score for those too lazy to read all 4 pages. So I wont be adding much more to those skills. Thinking either 100/90 or 95/100 for sw/sr. Dodge probably wont rise anymore he didges a fair amount. Puts him about 2200 base skill points.

Found large chest on outer rim - angrist and the cris______ exec sw. Sweet!

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So ended up killing a few more uniques - none as hard as that solar! Quake was annoying cause I had ran out of ccw, so I used my +24 spd to get away and rest. Not to mention I hit him about 1/8 of the time! Speed = God in bands.

And dodge I think is underrated as a skill - quake got dodged at least half the non-misses.

Couple more arts too and probably a couple I left unided due to no more ways to id. There was SO much to id! I skipped any non-sword weapons after awhile, for ex.

Char dump is up.

Hoping for nether, chaos, and/or sound resist (sound=wind???).

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Well the shield of thorin from an acq scr provides 2 of them plus acid imm - nice swap shield (xor is a dw char, I love the near 100% chance to hit). A moment later a master mystic drops the ring of barahir.

Hmmmmm ... I have tulkas and a +8 spd ring. Tough choice.

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Xor just got the holy grail from his lich player ghost chest. Ringil!! And, I actually NEED the frost resist from it. Makes other equip easier now.

However, thanks to a bug I forgot about during my elation, I lost angrist!! Bug is if 2 weapons equipped and you equip a new primary, you lose the secondary.

I mean, ringil >>>>>>> angrist, but angrist > everything else I have. Especially the 4 dex.

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Got this little baby off an acq scr.

Dagger of Tirya. 1d4 (+18/+15)
+5 con +3 tun +1 wis
Sustain int, con
Slay: animal, undead, demon, orc, troll (damn near everything except dragons lol).
Res: shards, chaos, disenc, conf
Feather fall, free action

Explosion of chaos (22 x 34) every 100 turns


Now THAT's a secondary weapon.

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Mania is gone - yay! The worm that breathes cold was a problem - tele had to be used a few times and 2 very annoying chaos vortexes dealt with first. Max cold breath hurts! (With cold res). Need to start carrying my res potions.

The necro king was a joke - he popped up in a corner and died in 4 rounds. Dragon father himself not hard - his friends had to tele away a few times.

Wyrms of ____ showing up now - thankfully I get in a couple swings to kick down their hp first!

Several arts - most notable fingolfin (yes!) and feanor (amazingly, I dont really need them since I had +10 spd boots, and now +31 with. But every bit helps).

Really need nether not on a xp drain ring!! Better source of poi res would help too.

The random arts are nice, i've used 3 or 4 - still have a cloak on.

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And that dagger.

So, he cleared a massive undead pit on dlv71. After killing 20+ G, and having to tele several times, Xor found a new best friend. Then he introduced all the G's to it.

Scroll of Genocide.

G's being mainly 3 different dreads. Summon each other plus nether lances. Oh how I love genocide.

He must have killed over 100 undead, plus the scroll. And Saruman. And not 1 art, despite the obscene amount of loot! 300k in au alone!

He's plvl 75 now, 85 sw, 75 dodge, 90 sr, and 26 dis which I wish I could take off.

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Ive officially found the stupidest monster. Hand druj. ALL it does is tele away. Despite its monster description (which lists darkness and curse you/equip), that is literally it. Nothing else. Whats the point?

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After careful thought, decided to go with 85 sw/100 dodge/94 sr for my assault at the #1 score.

From earlier observation, seems +sw and +sr as skill are only 1/5(!!!!!!) as effective as items. I mean, Xor has heroic throwing!! And legendary shooting with NO skill. Saving throw is what clued me onto this. The x5 seems to be spot on as to how items work. So elendil is same as 10 sv skill. Fingolfin would be same melee boost as 50!!!! sw. Makes skills almost meaningless? But, dodging has no equip to boost it. Just dex and how much weight and shield/no shield. So, I went with it.

His equip currently gives +20 sv and +36 skill (48 w/ com ring). Which for skill boosts him up a ton compared to sw. May not be 5 to 1 but certainly isnt 1 to 1. So, dodge won out. So far, its nice say, dodging all 3 blows of a dracolisk (he did).

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Lungorthin: Narya!!

Clearing a greater vault. That's the 4th unique and 1st art. Score over 8k now.