Almost YASD -- rogue kobold

[Bogatyr]

My level 46 kobold rogue has been very glib about traps for a long time with his 100% disarm rate, and I forgot to check a chest for a trap after clearing a vault before opening it on dlev about 70, it was a summoning runes trap, and I got the Mouth of Sauron, a DracoLisk and a few others, the mouth instantly hit me with a mana storm, taking me down below 50%. My only 100% escape is teleport level and there were some artifacts I wanted to haul back home, so I risked a wand of teleport other on the mouth and the DL and got lucky both succeeded. I didn't have my speed/melee kit equipped either so it was pretty dicey. I have a lot of speed (about +38 temporary) so I've been able to pillar dance just about anything that doesn't wall-walk so I took out the mouth when I had a chance to prepare . Normally after fighting I always walk around with my stealth kit on which is more like +20 speed so I was definitely caught with my proverbial pants down!

[Estie]

I think you dont need a stealth kit if you already have a speed kit as speed also increases your stealth by reducing the amount of checks sleeping monsters make while you do your stuff.

[Bogatyr]

I think you dont need a stealth kit if you already have a speed kit as speed also increases your stealth by reducing the amount of checks sleeping monsters make while you do your stuff.

Hmm well I have experienced individual monsters spontaneously waking up (rare but it happens) when my stealth kit is not equipped, and they basically never wake up with it equipped, I can even rest right next to them (I generally don't do that but still). The melee vs. stealth kits have a difference of 7 stealth (10 if I switch out Hithlomir for Isildur), so that's a pretty hefty difference. It does explain however them generally staying asleep with my melee kit equipped. I'm wading through the middle of some really nasty groups so a single wake-up and breath attack can be catastrophic as it then sets of a chain of wake-ups. But thanks for the note, good to know that!

[Derakon]

If you were in the vault, then Phase Door would have taken you outside it. Always carry phase door scrolls for that if nothing else.