Most Lethal and Most Irritating Non-Uniques?

[Derakon]

Translation: Derakon thinks Aether hounds should breathe only Time, Gravity, Force and Plasma.

Sounds good to me!

[mushroom patch]

Hm, perhaps my fear of Aether hounds is irrational. I don't remember ever letting them breathe on me in vanilla, so maybe you're right.

[AnonymousHero]

Translation: Derakon thinks Aether hounds should breathe only Time, Gravity, Force and Plasma.

Hm. Maybe they should breathe Aether? You know, like a Vacuum only less true.

[jasric]

1. Grandmaster Mystic
Only because I didn't know about "knocked-out" status the first time I fought one.

2. Ochre jelly
Can't get away from them and they ruin your gear.

3. Gravity hound
If you don't know a pack is in the room you're in, you have a high chance of ending up dead.

4. Hummerhorn
If you don't have pConf, these breeders can spell disaster.

5. Great Wyrm of Balance
Very dangerous until you have all high resists covered, they often summon more Great Wyrms.

6. Magic mushroom patch
Hallucination

7. Nexus hound
"You sink through the floor."

8. Pit Fiend
Summoner able to deal massive damage.

9. Nexus quylthulg
Often teleports you away, cannot be detected by telepathy.

10. Greater balrog
Summoner that often burns up everything on the floor.

[Egavactip]

Aranea!!!!!!

Really? I haven't found them that irritating.

[Egavactip]

For me, I think gravity and plasma hounds are top of list, I have lost quite a few chars when I teleport away from tricky situation into room where there is pack or two of mentioned houds, knocked char out and then slowly killed.

Grand master mystic are real PitA like mentioned earlier posts.

Drolems are killers when they manage to suprise you, and since they are not seen by ESP, running to detection edge is occasionally risky when drolem is out of sight

11 headed hydras in pack are also lethal, as they breath hellfire which stuns

Chaos hounds irritate me, I think, more than Gravity and Plasma. I don't find Drolems irritating, just scary. The hydras are definitely irritating until/unless you can do enough damage to very quickly kill them or you get immunity. But they don't usually come in packs, like hellhounds.

[Egavactip]

Black Reavers.

Yes, definitely.

[Egavactip]

Irritating: acidic cytoplasms
Lethal: agree with the above, I'd add Death Drakes and Ethereal dragons - both show at level 45, are invisible, go through walls, and can breath light/dark/nether for a fair amount (they have 1848hp)

I find the cytoplasms irritating; at the very least I have to swap gear to get my acid immune item on. I haven't found the other two all that irritating; perhaps I typically only encounter them when I am powerful enough to deal with them.

[Egavactip]

5. Great Wyrm of Balance
Very dangerous until you have all high resists covered, they often summon more Great Wyrms.

Yes, definitely an irritating one. I virtually always simply avoid or get rid of them rather than trying to fight them.

[Lord Tom]

Umber hulks can be both irritating and deadly in the early game since they melee to confuse and can be hard to get away from since they tunnel.

[Bogatyr]

Umber hulks can be both irritating and deadly in the early game since they melee to confuse and can be hard to get away from since they tunnel.

Yes especially deadly for mages, I've lost a number to those horrible "X"s.