On my Ranger that just won i found on turn 176 at DL1 Found the Dagger 'Nimthanc' ... Basically in the first room i entered in the dungeon, i think it was the first loot I saw. That carried me for a good while.
On my newest character I was on DL8 with my HE Mage and it was an 8-9 level!!! The Jelly Pit took a good while but i cleared it to find a bunch of junk and a iron chest with the Phial in it. But chest contents don't count towards level feeling so I kept exploring. In one corner of the level I found the classic 4 rectangular rooms room which once i cleared it had a couple of unseen potions among the loot. Infravision wasn't much but the OTHER potion was an OOD !Experience. I went from CL17 to 29 in one gulp!
You are morally required to read every scroll of deep descent you see, and squelching them is cheating!
I did no such thing
The problem was that my dwarf ranger had enjoyed all those alcoholic brawn/toughness potions and almost all of them lowered my wisdom, so when I donned that PDSM my mana pool was down to 20, just barely enough to cast my best spell. My weapons were abysmal for the depth (longbow +7 and melee damage 30ish), the only thing he had going for him was speed +10 from a RoS +6 and a randart ring with +4 speed and not much else - but that also meant that I couldnt use mouse rings so stealth wasnt great.
With such low damage, playing him like a warrior would have been painful and using spells meant resting a lot which is difficult to do in dangerous depth.
If I had wanted to dive, I would have done so without using the PDSM. Instead, I glued the thing to my chest and went onward slowly with a lot of rest breaks to regain mana.
Eventually I found a great xbow and then I went straight for the endfight.
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