The fantabulous adventures of the wizard Jiffy

[Sky]

all we need is tile support and i would live there.


DL36

snow trolls, creeping coins (these hurt as i have low AC and do not resist poision). Level feeling 5-4, however i do have to get my head back in the game so i kill mobs for a while.
I kill my first lesser maia, some ologs, a 5-headed hydra, and hit CL28 188hp 223sp. I also find a bunch of Mamuks which are always a welcome find. I'm at 1% fail on all my bolt spells. The 4- turns out to be a rod of Recall, but this time i avoid recalling by reading one of my scrolls; instead, i go down the stairs.

DL37

Level feeling 5-3, i get it by lighting up just 1 room. Ok, maybe 2 rooms. I see no stairs so i TS to the other side, and find a phantom that i kill for testing purposes. I also kill a mature red dragon and for my efforts i am rewarded with a potion of CON, now at 202hp.
Stairs.


DL38

Stone giants, ghouls, another M red dragon, levle feeling 6-7.

However, i might not see what it is. I am hit by something invisible and not detected by ESP and in 2 hits i am down to 70hp, so i TS out.

As i try to gather my wits, i find a graveyard. At this level they are nothing to worry about, i light up a corridor, light up the graveyard itself, make a hole in the wall, and start nuking - mummified trolls, ghosts, grave whights, skeletons .. my prize is a helm that prevents blindness, finally:

The Metal Cap Of Goromin [3,+19] +3

+3 WIS, +3 CON, +3 Tunnelling, pBlind, rNether, A: staff of confusion.

Turns out there's quite a lof of stuff here, not the 7 i wanted, but enough for a substantial haul, 2 dwarven chains, an unidentified rod, and unidentified scroll, all stuff i will now sell.

[Sky]

as you can imagine, pBlind is rather a major thing for a mage.
I sell my dwarven shirts for 30k, and buy a single scroll of Acq from the BM.

DL38 6-

The scroll gives me a Pick Of Earthquakes (which sells for almost as much as i paid the scroll for) which i keep as cash loot. The rod is a rod of Treasure Detection (i will sell in in just 2 CLs, as i get the spell), and i now have *almost* all the gear i need for midgame.
I light up several rooms and get a rather unimpressive 6-5, but, you never know.

There's not much resistance in this dungeon for a 6-, i kill one white mature dragon, one ranger, a plasma vortex, and i hit CL29 228hp AND 228sp. I find a Plate of Resistance which disappointingly is very likely to be the source of the level feeling.

I realize what that undetectable creature was earlier - a Trapper.

I find another one that hurts me but, since i'm pig-headed, instead of bailing out, i blink and cast Reveal, and see him. He can't move so i kill him (just after accidentally casting phase and needing to kill some werebears .. no Beorn in sight), and then move on to the human pit right in the next room.

Now, there's three Berserkers here, i *don't* think acid bolt is gonna cut it.
nope.
I try a few miserable bolts but the berserker is on me having lost barely 2 stars. I decide to reset the level and try again... by recalling.

Back in town, i buy a !STR, ?Acq, and !Enlig, plus another rod of recall .. you never know. That pick of earthquakes sells just shy of 10k gold. I'm down to 21k gold, but i guess i could probably buy another stat potion if there is one, on my next trip.

See, once you beging finding armors of resistance, with relative ease, you can just grind money for stat and even Augmentation potions, without worry.

DL38

ok, i have made a major mistake.

remember that +5 CON amulet i had? that i left at home?
yep, that was my rNexus.

I get both warped and teleported by a nexus vortex. Which is not good because i'm on a 7-7 level, and while i can TO the 7-, i really want to stick around for the -7.

Well, i quaf my Enlightement potion, of which i always carry JUST ONE, so that when i need it, using it also frees me a slot for carrying loot.
I see a vault, with an unidentified ring and unidentified amulet.

If i could find another potion of INT i could trade back my amulets .. rNexus is really important, not for the damage, but for the side effects.

time to go to work, i will wrap it up later, at lunchbreak.

[Sky]

lunchbreak now, i have since managed to kill that nexus vortex .. assuming it's the only one on the level.

as i approach the vaul, i notice Uvata, The Horseman. I prepare for battle and, well, it's rather easy. He drops a weapon which will likely be pretty good once i get my stats up a bit:

The Broad Axe 'Targor' 2d6 (+5,+9)
+4 STR, +4 DEX, +3 CON
*slay dragon, slay giant, slay demon.

i still get a miserable 1.3 blows with it.

So, that was *not* the only nexus vortex on the level. This time, i only get scrambled, but i kill another one.

In the vault, i see a greater maia, Gorlim, Betrayer of Barahir, and an ancient green dragon. Two of these can one-shot me. erm.. TWO green dragons.

The first one goes walkies as i TO it. I reach the amulet, and it is

The Jewel Of Egind
+3 WIS, +5 Spd
pFear

could be useful on a late build.

I fumble my fingers on the keyboard as i try to TO the second dragon, and i notice that next to the vault are, sleeping, Eol, The Dark Elf, and Nar, The Dwarf. And a shadow drake, for good measure. I better hurry before this stuff starts waking up.

Some water trolls get in between me and a woken Gorlim (and the maiar), and i decide for safety to TO the trolls as well, can't risk Gorlim casting water bolt.

I pick up everything useful, TO another couple mobs not worth risking for, and recall without even resting(cannot risk those big mobs coming back).

In town, i find my haul consists of, aside from the aforementioned jewel,

The Broad Sword 'Aryathor' 2d5 (+10,+11)
+3 INT +3 DEX +2 tunnel *slay demon
poison brand, rLight rNexus rDis SI

eh ..

The Short Sword 'Cirimar' 2d7 (+14,+11)
+3 DEX +1 blows
*slay demon, slay undead, giants, oprcs, animals.
Poison brand, rAcid, rCold, pFear, SI.

does more damage, and i get 2.6 blows, but still not likely to make the list, AND my ESP staff is still more important, despite the fact that i do a whopping 26 DPS vs animals, and 20 vs everything else. Look out kobolds!

In all the excitement i also found a scoll of Acq, not sure if bought or waht, but i forgot to read it.

Time to go back to work.

[Sky]

ok, so it turns out that rNexus, wasn't on the necklace, but is rather on the first sword i found, so i'm out of rNexus for now. Instead, i decide to slot in the +5 Spd, which drops me down to a miserable 141sp. I will have to take is slow, until i can buy some more potions of INT. Yup, because i just blew all my money on a Rod Of Healing, thank you very much mr Black Market guy.

And i also lose a point of STR and gain one of CON as i ID the Potion of Toughness, and on top, that Acquirement scroll drops me a cash weapon.

Oh and i sold most of my artifact weapons to buy the rod of healing, since the weaponsmith caps at 10k gold.

I visit DL38 twice, to clear 7k Xp and hit CL30 240hp 146sp. One of the victims is Boldor, King of the Yeeks, and his son as well, Orfax, Son Of Boldor. No notable drops.
The important thing about CL30 is that now i cast Treasure Detection, which frees up one of my slots.

I decide to try to get lower, and when i recall, i kill some minor mobs, a neflashee .. and i find an amulet. OF TRICKERY!

Not the greatest Amulet Of Trickery ever, but i get rPois, rNexus, and +2 Spd (which is a drop of 3 Spd, but i can live with that).

Also, i stumble upon a Helm Of Telepathy, in the next room, unguarded. And i find a Cloak of The Magi (this level is 6-8) and suddenly realize i had earlier picked up a Cloak as well, which i had worn and did not list in the previous haul,

The Fur Cloak Of Antarment [3,+26]
+1 light, rShards, pFear, pBlind, SI.

this works perfectly as i replace the helm i have with Telepathy, and can wield a weapon .. the only weapon i have left at home.

..aaand that doesn't work. My INT drops too much.

I try the Cloak Of Magi, and i ID pConf. Ok, when Angband closes a door, it opens another, except those cases where it opens a door and you walk through it and you die because an invisible monster not detected by telepathy killed by summoning 3 OOD uniques who move very fast and breathe 1k damage on you before you can act.
But i digress.

Back yet again at DL38, i immediately run into Lokkak. He seems to shrug off all my bolts, despite not resisting any of the base elements. I then try those 8 arrows of poison i still carry, and his hp goes down fast.
He drops:

The Lance 'Ulkron' 2d8 (+11,+18)
resist base, weak cold brand, Regen.

cash drop.

The level feeling is 6-6, so i explore. I soon meet the Umbar bother, and i'm too strong for them, they die without putting up any resistance.
Sangahyando drops

The Zweihander Of Ancarad 5d6 (+7,+10)
+3 WIS +3 DEX +3 Spd
weak lightning brand, rPois, pBlind, blessed.

Nice damage dice but .. probably not worth keeping.

I keep exploring, and there's a lot of uniques here. Next in line is Uldor The Accursed, who normally shows up on DL28. He dies.

I grab a cash drop and a potion of WIS.

Next room, another unique. Draebor The Imp, who .. well, he's dead. I'm more worried about a big bunch of Inertia Hounds next to him.

And in the same room, Ulwarth, Son of Ulfast. Also dead.

And in teh room below, The Queen Ant.
I did not see her, but i saw warrior ants, and i figured she was there. As i was resting, she shows up alone, and i, stupidly, teleport her away. I should have taken this chance in a nice big room. But, i do kill her escort.

I cannot find anything warranting a 6, but the haul is large enough to put me over 60k gold, which i immediately spend in the BM to buy Raal's Tome Of Destruction. Test-casting the first six spells nets me 2500 XP as well .. Rift will have to wait a bit longer.

I'm not entirely sure, but i suspect my next CL will cost 50k XP, which is painful. Being a dunedain, you do get less SP than a high elf, and advancing is even harder, but in the end you will have a tasty CON and STR bonus. But, i cannot just to take on Great Wyrms now.

Ok, so..

I recall AGAIN to DL38.

The level feeling is a measly 5-3, and i recall to a room in the corner with only one corridor, with The Queen Ant in it. She can tank a lot of damage, and doesn't die, but i have killed a lot of her summons for XP, so i bail out with 40sp left.

And i find myself dangerously close to Lorgan, Chief Of The Easterlings.
Now, Lorgan has this annoying habit of calling you to him, and he hurts big, so i leave him alone and plan to ditch this level right away .. and i find two nice potions of healing just lying there. And a crappy lantern .. which turns out to be:

The Lantern Of Aragorion

+5 STR
+2 Light

well .. what can i say. pStun is great, but +5 STR beats +3 WIS anyday.

DL39

5-4, a death drake, some fire hounds .. i drop down a trapdoor.

DL40

starts as 5-, and i see some annoying and not profitable mobs. And then i get the level feeling 5-8, and i decide to stay ... it's a cave level.

I kill an ancient white dragon, and hit CL31 249hp 183sp.
I find a Potion of Experience, which is the -8 here. It brings me to CL32 253hp 189sp.

I tiptoe past a Patriarch and grab also a Godly Insights (Priest6 ?) for cash. Time to recall.
I rest a while to make sure i find good stuff when i go back.
(nope. There wasn't anything)

[Sky]

i'm bored

i read a Scroll Of Deep Descent.

DL45

Level feeling 9- (don't disappoint me)

Booyah, 9-9. I quaff Elinghtment .. and it's a HUGE vault.

Ok, first off, i see two identical unidentified potions. I reach the first, and it's a Potion Of Augmentation. (and so is the other)
I also quaff a Toughness as i will recover whatever i lose with the second Aug.
I TO a Marilith and a Ancient Green Dragon.
I am now 317hp. 253sp

I suspect Lorgan is somewhere here (i saw a bunch of easterlings) and i dont want him (or anyone else) chasing me. I TS to the other side, and since the level is 50% vault, i get right next to it.

The first target, at the edge of teh vault, is Lugdush, The Uruk. He dies dropping nothing. I TO a Mystic to avoid his summons.

I pull out a line of Mamuks, and a phantom follows. One drop is a small chest that drops a Ring Of Power:

The Band Of Erenetir

+5 STR +5 WIS
rSound rNexus rNether
FA, ESP. A: Confuse monster

this will replace my staff as soon as i find an artifact weapon, which, in this vault, should not be a problem.

Well, i will spare you the mob-by-mob combat. It would have been fun if i had remembered to count turns to see how long i stay here.
I do manage to kill Adunaphel The Quiet, as i push him away 2 times and he keeps coming back.
I will probably avoid the areas of the vault where the worst mobs are ..

This is the vault that has 4 equal sections, arranged in an X shape, and two large sections of each side, with a cross going through it, and a small center with 3 spaces. It really looks like the UK flag. (God save the Queen)
Many mobs are encased in small 1-square cells, and i can see Fundin Bluecloak, a Great Chaos Wyrm, Ithengast The Fire Drake, The Learnean Hydra, and a Balrog, and i might just avoid all these.

Well.. i don't.

Turns out i don't find quite as much as i had imagined. I mean, still a good haul, but. I teleport away all the nasty uniques and find, in total:

The Broad Axe 'Urthrim' (2d6) (+13,+26)

+4 STR +3 WIS (dude, did i have to be a priest? just say so, ok ?) +3 Infra
*slay undead + dragon + demon, slay troll, animals.
rLight, rDisen, FF, Blessed. A: TO.

The Set Of Gauntlets 'Onuruth' [3,+14]

+5 INT +1 Light
rDark rChaos
NO FA, but with the +5 Int i still go up to 197sp.

The Quarterstaff 'Ithor' (1d9) (+9,+7)
+2 blows, FA

not impressed

The Mace 'Curedh' (6d4) (+15,+26) (bonk on head - you are cured)

+3 Tunneling
*slay demon, slay undead, giants, orcs.
rAcid, rLighting, rCold, rNexus
FF, Regen, ESP, FA.

The Elven Cloak of Melena [6,+17]

+4 CON, +1 stealth, +1 Spd

not gonna replace my pConf .. for now.

More important, i get a set of Alchemis Gloves Of Thievery +3 DEX, and a Ring Of Speed +8.


While i breifly gloat over the 80k worth of gold in haul, my joy is quickly washed away as the Black Market has no other than Kelek's Grimoire Of Power for sale .. at 270.000 gold.

i'm .. just 160.000 shy of what i need. THANKS TO THE ARMORER CAPPING AT 10k. Oh well.

[Sky]

well, time to go to bed.
I grind one more time DL45 and i find a small vault (the two oval rooms, barely 6-7 spaces long, attached at both ends) with Ren The Unclean in it. As all the other Nazgul, some bolts from my new heavy crossbow of accuracy make short work of him.
There are also some Hellhounds and not one, but two Death Knights, both of which i TO.

In this small vault, i find TWO Boots Of Speed (+7 and +6),

The Set Of Gauntlets Of Eanar
+2 CON, +2 Tunnel

which i sell, and a ton of cash drops (mostly weapons of Gondolin and Westernesse).

I convert 150k in an Augmentation from BM, and that's it. I'm up 90k, but too late, Kelek's is gone.

a micro dump, my character is now

CL33 - 344 HP - 193 SP

STR 18/186 - INT 18/204 - WIS 18/60 - DEX 17 - CON 18/106

AC 123 - Base Speed +17

rBASE, rPois, rDark, rSound, rNexus, rNether, rChaos, pBlind, pConf, Regen, FA, FF. With a total +6 Tunnelling, i SUS CON/DEX/INT.

Melee 244 vs demons, 180 vs undead/giants/orcs, 116 vs rest. 100+ DPS shooting.

[Sky]

just some quick grinding before work.

DL46

6-6, a vault and a special room, the vault is the snail shell which i don't like as it takes forever to go around, and there's nothing aside from two Priest5. The room has Beorn, The Shapechanger which drops nothing, a crown of the magi, and in another room a Priest7.

DL47

more grinding, i meekly reach CL34 359hp 199sp by racking up small kills. Otherwise useless 4-3 level.

DL48

Just Smaug The Golden on an otherwise unremarkable 5-3 cave level. I kill smaug mostly through melee, but he's a harmless. 2 cash drops.

DL49

nothing

DL50

small vault, the one with 8 rooms. Two treasures and no notable mobs.

The Pendant of Hatil

+3 Stealth
rFire rDark rNether pBlind FF FA Digestion

not terrible, but not something i'll even bother saving a home slot for.


The Flail Of Mandil (4d6) (+8,+21)

+3 Spd, Slay dragon trolls evil
Weak poison brand, rCold, pFear, FA.

i'll store it for now but will probably sell it. Actually, scratch that, i'll just sell it.

DL50 again

nothing

DL51

nothing

DL52

i decide to finally kill my first vampire lord of the game, and the payoff is that he drops a potion of Aug.

(Deep Descent)

DL57

not much, i do find medusa who summons a rather large number of hydras compared to what she normally does, and i even have to quaff a Restore Mana potion and a few CCW, but eventually she dies, dropping Resistances OF Scarabatrice.

Of which i only bother to learn Resistance and Shield.

level feeling 4-4, and my friends are calling me to play Quake - i recall.

[Sky]

DL58

nada

DL59

zip

DL60

zilch

DL60 again (quick recall to play some more quake)

level feeling 5-7, which is (after a !Enlight) a small demi-vault with a Ring Of Power

The Band Of Sirerindi

+2 WIS +4 DEX +2 Shots

*Acid pConf


ok, not amazing, unless you know, you're playing a ranger, in which case your primary DPS would go up by 66%, but hey.
I'll keep it.

I also accidentally trample The Queen Ant (20+ levels overdue) and she drops

The Morning Star Of Lorwen (2d6) (+7,+8) [+8]

+2 STR +2 COn +4 Spd
Weak Cold brand, *slay demon, Slay dragon, giants, evil.
rFire rCold rChaos pStun.

at home, i swap out my Gauntlets +5 INT for some Gloves Of Thievery i had from earlier, and go upo from 200 to 240 SP.

Also somewhere down the line i reached CL35, 401hp, 243sp.

[Sky]

DL60 again, somewhat more interesting.

The very first room i recall in, there's the Learnean Hydra, and i decide to kill her. And, somehow, i forget that this is a unique, not a normal mob. She tanks a ton of damage and i even try to melee her, even while she is summoning 7- and 9- headed hydras.
I should really not play when i'm tired.

Anyway, one potion of mana later, i start pulling out my Ice Storm spell and just AOE everything, eventually she dies. No drops (i dont think she ever drops, just like the other hydras).
Killing her however put me up yet another level. Not *just* her, it's just that i wasn't paying attention.

CL36 413hp 250sp.

Right next door, and the only connected room, is a skull vault. In the skull, there's a group of Barbazus; now, for some reason, i keep thinking "do not melee Vrocks", but i keep confusing them. It's actually the Barbazus that melee like .. well, demons.
I quickly find myself down to 60hp, but a simple phase and then i nuke them from afar.
And i find a potion of WIS and a ring of speed +7.

(Deep Descent)

DL65 6-3

i dropped my Mage1 because i wanted to carry loot, so i simply recall. And i discover i have picked up not one, but two scrolls of *Acquirement*.

DL65

off my two scrolls of *Acq, i get 3 cash drops and a Kelek's.

Now, i just need Mordekainen's.

And, in a special room not far, i TO a berserker, ranger chieftain, and bile demon, and find

The Band 'Halas'

+4 INT +2 Infra +2 Blows

*Acid, rLightning, pFear, sWIS, sDiges, ESP, FA, SI. A: Haste

It's what a warrior wants. And a mage too, why not.

Level feeling 5-8, understandably, and i find Kavlaax, The Many-Headed, sleeping in a corridor. I enter his dreams and violently rend his soul out of his body. He drops nothing.

I test Mass Banishment on the Bile Demon & Co, and it works .. at the 4th try.

I go back home to reorganize, and find i have been carrying for some reason 3 rods of TO.

[Sky]

DL65 6-5

I start in a large room with Saruman Of Many Colours, who starts advancing. As i expect him to teleport away, i nuke him, but he instead summons a Osyluth, who starts nuking me back.

I run low on mana, and decide to TS.

On the other side of the map, i run into another, sleeping Osyluth, and i decide to Banish all (U) Demons from the level.

Also, in the same room, is Mim, Betrayer of Turin. He resists fire, acid, cold, lightning, poison .. BUT YOU DON'T RESIST SOUL REND, UH?

He drops me a potion of CON, and an artifact bow:

The Long Bow of Gilin (x3) (+17,+5)

+5 CON

rFire, rCold, pFear, FA, SI.

not likely to keep this but, you never know. That CON bonus is substantial. It's just that the damage is pathetic.


Low on mana, as i rest Saruman shows up, and i send him away.
I spot a hydra pit, and a Titan.

stairs.

DL66, level feeling 5-7.

I burn another !Enlight.

I fail a ridiculous number of times MBan, but when i succeed, i can count a Sling of Thinking It's Buckland But It's Only Extra Might, and

The Metal Lammelar Armour Of Ingloki (-3) [58,+8]

+4 INT +4 DEX
rBASE rLight rDark rNether pConf A: acid bolt

eh, it's not bad, but for now i'm sticking with my +2 CON Dwarven.

I decide i am too tired to make good decisions, and i call it a day.

[Pete Mack]

Mim is alignment evil, so he has 50% resist on rend soul (though it's work fine on his sons.) Meteor storm is a better choice.

[Sky]

DL66 again

i've since been playing a Rogue who's been doing very well, and i didn't want to get back to Mage without warmup ..

I recall next to a Priest7. I haven't does any notable resting on this game, but have otherwise been rather lucky with Augmentation.

Near by is Gorlim, Betrayer of Barahir. There are no other mobs nearby, so this is a perfect occasion to kill him. I start with Haste and Slow, and he loses a star to each single Rend Soul. It's over very quickly and i don't even need any CCW.
He drops :

The Trident Of Tureg (1d) (+22,+9)

+5 INT, +4 Spd.
*Slay undead/demons, slay troll. weak lightning brand.
rFire, FF, SI.

cash drop.

Later on i find The Balrog Of Moria, in an otherwise meek 7-5 level.
I don't have Mordekainen's, so no Rune. Which would be nice to block him. In the end, i handle him poorly an di use several CCW. Another Ethereal Dragon nearby costs another 4, so i'm down to 12 CCW. I might have to rest-scum some more from town . For my trouble, i get another Raal's, 2 DD, and a ring of speed +10 (cursed). The curses turn out to be steelskin, cowardice, and siren, all 56. No chance.


Deep Descent ...

[Sky]

DL71

a special room with a potion of Experience and two Augmentation; at this point, i'm just banishing anything i can't be bothered to melee.

Deep Descent ...

DL76

i accidentally roll over Mugash, The Kobold Lord while killing a conga line of kobolds. No drops.

I find a Tenser's and .. i decide to sell it. A slot is not worth Greater Recharging and Elemental Brand. I really resent the Mage not having two spells lifted right out of the Mage spellbook in D&D, Heroism and Berserker.

DL76 again

greater vault, with Khamul, The Black Eastering, which i teleport away, and Saruman Of Many Colours, which i also teleport away. I MBan the rest of the vault, feeling 7-9.

The easy haul is

The Leather Boots 'Goriennon' [2,+20]

+1 Spd, FA

The Maul 'Hanfauren' (6d4) (+8,+19)

*Slay undea, Slay evil. weak poison. rPois, FA. A: Staff of Slow.

The Scimitar 'Nilyar' (4d2) (+6,+16)

+4 INT +3 Spd

*Slay undead/demons, slay trolls/animals. Weak fire.
rLight, SI.

and a Wrath Of God. I keep the boots (base speed +21) and sell the rest.

[Sky]

DL76 again

i'm basically too bored to look for stairs, i just wait for DD to show up.

The Necklace Of Hundel

+4 WIS +5 DEX +2 CON
rLight rShards SI

and an Amulet of Trickery both just lying there.

A Storm Of Unmagic reminds me i have no rDisenchant. Not much damage, but i lose a point of AC.

I noticed since the last big update, i'm finding MUCH less armours and waaaay more weapons. It used to be a fair 50/50 previously, with many standard armours showing up in my FOUND ARTIFACT list, but these days it's 2-3 armours per game.

I MBan a couple useless mobs and find a Mordekainen's lying on the floor, of which i learn two spells, Rune Of Protection and Recall. Don't even need Door Creation, Teleport Level or Stairs Creation.

DL77

i find Lorgan, Chief Of The Easterlings, sleeping. I Haste, Slow, and nuke him with Rend Soul. There's also Ugluk, The Uruk in a corridor, and i casually steamroll him. The Mouth Of Sauron, instead, can keep sleeping.

DL78

stairs before i can see the level feeling.

I'm looking for DL90 at this point, because i feel i need something quite major to complete the build.

I find, casually,

The Short Sword 'Nethil' (1d7) (+9,+5)

+4 INT +4 WIS

*Slay dragoin, slay animal
rLight, rChaos, pConf, SI, A: Dispel Undead

and i also picked up The Necklace Of Hundel, somewhere

+4 WIS +5 DEX +2 CON

rLightingn, rShards, SI.

doesn't matter, i'm still using Trickery for rNexus and rPoison.

I slot in the +2 blows ring instead of the +5 STR.

[Sky]

picking this up again after killing like a moron my CL50 warrior and my CL49 rogue.

let's hope i don't kill this one as well.

DL79

I find Castamir, The Usurper, sleeping without anything else around him. He does not resist Soul Rend. No drops.

In the next room is Al-Pharzon, The Golden, who instead taken much more effort to bring down, including arrows and melee. He summons and Enchantress who summons a Great Wyrm of Thunder, which i teleport away.

He drops a pretty good helm:

The Steel Helm 'Miomir' ()+5,+2) [9,+7]

+5 Spd, pConf, sDEX, SI, FA.

Later in the dungeron i find a special room, with Ji Indur Dawndeath in it, which i want to kill, but also a Great Crystal Drake, a Great Wyrm Of Many Colours, A Great Ice Wyrm, a Greater Titan, a Black Reaver, and to top it off a Druji and a Master Mystics.
I'm gonna have to teleport a whole lot of stuff. I might even have to miss Ji Indur.

I dig in, and Ji wakes immediately. I teleport away the Ice Wyrm, a death mold, and let Ji pass by. I turn a corner, lay a Rune, and bash him. Nazguls don't really have many hp, and he dies quickly.

Nothing else wakes up. I TO everything and grab:

The Zweihander of Hirin (3d6) (+8,+11)

*Slay undead/dragon, slay demon/giant/orc.

which i will sell, and :

The Rapier of Aranfal (1d6) (+20,+11) [+15]

+5 STR, +3 INT, *Slay undead/dragon/demon, slayy troll/orc/animal/evil.
Weak cold brand, rCold, rLight, rDark, rDisen, pFear, SI. A: restore STR.

which woul dhave been nice at the start, but by not it's useless, with a 230 DPS vs *slay.

DL79 again

i see from the start Ariel, Maiar Of The Sun and i know i will leave the level.

I melee a Great Ice Wyrm, with haste, slow, shield, and resist. No derops, nor any drops from a *Acquirement. Level feeling 7-8. A normal scroll of Acquirement instead gives me:

The Light Crossbow 'Glirienos' (x4) (+11,+22) [+8]

+6 INT, +6 DEX, SI, FA.

now way this can compete with my +5 CON bow.

There's a greater vault here, with Saruman, Pazuzu, Huan, Harowen, Lagdulf (!), but aside from Lagdulf i TO everyone. No artifacts in the vault, just a Mage9, two Priest8, and a Mage7.

Somewhere along the road i hit CL38 and i found 3 !DEX and 1 !Aug, and i am now 685 HP, 298 SP, STR 150, INT 210, WIS 117, DEX 180, and CON 210. I also upgraded my Dwarven chain to a Bar Chain and now have AC 164. I learn Chaos Strike, which is at 36% fail, but Rend Soul is at 0%, for 11d38 damage.