Sudden massive drop in Strength

[Grotug]

The good fortune continues; picked up Amulet of Trickery and Avavir. Does Avavir burn minions resistant to cold and freeze minions resistant to fire? It says "you freeze the hill orc, you have slain the hill orc" but when I attack the Ice trolls it just says "you have slain the ice troll". It never says "You burn the Ice Troll". I assume I am burning the Ice troll? But maybe the burn or freeze only works on minions with neither of those resistances? (That would be rather dumb).

This is rather nice; I have excellent stealth; all the high resists and am doing 300-400 damage per round. DL47 / CL33. Aside from early rings of speed or one time early boots of speed; never had such a powerful character this early. My speed is respectable anyway, at +4. DEX and STR sustained. Have Thorondril (cap of ESP) at home. Now just need Caspanion or something like it.

Jeez, this 3 feeling level just keeps delivering the goods! (Killed Itagast with hardly a fight; you found a Star).

Next level had a vault, but it wasn't in the vault that I picked up: Turmil (swap for frost immunity if I ever find another good source of FrAct), Anárion, Himring, Golden Dragon Scale Mail (rSound). Akhorahil the Blind dropped all 4 of these items and he didn't put up any fight at all. There was a gold crown in the vault that disappeared after I TO'd Sire of Werewolves; so not sure if he picked it up before I drilled through the wall into his hideout? Searching the actions history didn't show anything with the crown. There was nothing good in the vault. But I found cloak of ESP in the store. So I got a helmet of detection, ESP, Magic Mapping, Protection from Evil, all high resists, high damage, some speed and very good stealth. Looking very promising.

Latest character dump: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=19788

[Grotug]

I did have slay evil arrows that dealt more damage than the holy might ones in my quiver. I may resuscitate the character as I had force quit after Huan breathed something on me (probably shards) when I died.

[Derakon]

Do Holy Might arrows do extra damage to Morgoth compared to other evil creatures?

This specific question has been answered, but in general if you have multiple applicable slays, you only get the best slay. Holy Might arrows simply have Slay Evil (x2) and Slay Undead (x3) on them. So if you shoot an undead, you get the x3 slay, but if you shoot something like Morgoth which is "only" evil, then you get the x2 slay.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Do Holy Might arrows do extra damage to Morgoth compared to other evil creatures?

No, evil is evil. But, I do tend to save every Holy Might arrow (or Bolt or very, very, rare, shot, depending on the @ class and launchers) for the final fight with the Big Boss. There's a reason Holy Might ammunition are called "Morgoth killers".

[Estie]

Do Holy Might arrows do extra damage to Morgoth compared to other evil creatures?

No; though on average, I think they have higher enchantment.

[Grotug]

So I thought I could tango with Huan. Why? Cause I was doing well against other strong uniques. Dispatched Dreaglin with ease. Well, Huan different story. Much like the Sun Maia unique that I was smart to TO. Why didn't I TO Huan? Stupid. Very stupid.

In other news, started another HT Warrior and just having glorious good fortune with my finds. Nothing crazy, just the good stuff!

Dump!

Do Holy Might arrows do extra damage to Morgoth compared to other evil creatures?

[Pete Mack]

Unless you are using the bow heavily, go for the damage. For a warrior, this means ALWAYS. Just teleport other the monsters you would rather fight with a bow...which is to say, any monsters you should not want to fight in any case! Monsters like The Phoenix, The Tarrasque, High level demons or dragons where you don't have a suitable immunity.
If you are fighting Morgoth and bothered to save some Holy Might arrows, that is the time to take along Belthronding and an extra speed ring as a swap.

[Grotug]

Well, the Bard bow turned out not to be as good as I thought. I keep collecting good gear, though. Getting my melee damage up some more. 900 to dragons anyone? Now I am being presented with a most interesting proposition: Cubragol. With this xbow granting another +10 speed, I could increase my damage with another +15 damage ring. I've reorganized my gear so I am using a shield of sustain and hLife. Picked up cloak of thingol for the +3 DEX I needed and swapped out the Cammithrim gloves for the +4 DEX gloves which brings up the damgae substantially. I think I saw a +15 ring of damage somewhere on this level, too (I'm still in the dungeon). Also stumbled upon Firestar, a Morning Star which grants fire immunity. I can sort of control fire to an extent by either TOing or stashing my stuff and coming back after the fire fights. My damage output is also so high that I can usually rip through whatever is burning me pretty quickly, keeping the damages down. Protection from evil is working out nicely, too, with this Himring armor. I dunno; I have sooo many arrows again and they're all good I don't know which ones to drop. The combination of my speed, damage and double shots is so devastating. Kinda tempted to ignore Cubragol and carry on as I am. :-/

I decided to take cubragol to my home for now and I'll see if using Firestar as a swap makes sense. I have options; it's just a matter of figuring out the best combo of stuff. I have to say getting my stealth up was really nice (it's now back down to fair). But when it was Excellent, it was great not being chased all the time.

Char dump here

I'm again needing to free up a slot in my home; trying to decide what to drop; I think the teleport scrolls are probably the most disposable. Will I need them for the final fight?

[Grotug]

I have 5 banishment scrolls left. That number has slowly been rising the last 10 dungeon levels. And, yep, 66% of the ones I've used have been on Time hounds. I am carrying both thalkettoth and hithlomir; hithlomir has been good a couple times; once against a G unique.

The double shots of Belthronding are really serving me well, so I don't think it's worth the slightly better melee damage to switch out with short bow of Lothlórien.

I don't know that I have enough health potions to keep myself at full health all the time. So sometimes I rely on my regen to get me back up or a combination of regen and several CCWs. I have had bad experience in the past of using my health potions more freely and then find myself in a situation where I have none. (I also have bad experiences of dying, too, from letting my health get too low. ;p)

The Undead aren't too bad most of the time, so maybe hauling wrath around isn't worth it. I'll stow it for a round and see if I miss it. I'm at CL50 now (after getting held back 150K by a death drake and a death mold). Usually the hLife does its job, but sometimes it forgets to?

EDIT: Finally! Found a DEX <+6> Ring. Brings Aulë up to 6.0 blows a round. Also was rewarded taking on a Great Wyrm of Balance with a RoS [+12] (so, +1 over my current ring).

EDIT: Dang, Anband crashed while I was in the middle of slaying Glaurung to some epic LOTRish music.

EDIT: Well that was a good haul! Dump coming soon. My stealth is now Superb. Hahaha, not bad for a HT warrior. All resistances are covered except shard and sound, now. Damage is slightly less, but I am going to carrying along trickery to swap with telepathy for Unique fights. Picked up Himring armor: rChaos, rNether, rPois. Improved boots and cloak of same kind with better stats, so stealth and speed went up.

Wow, yes, store is rewarding me well for the depth of 4200'! Just replaced my back up shield artifact AnĂ*rion with a preservation shield rChaos, rDisench, Hold Life. sustains what matters: CON, DEX, STR.

Here is the dump.

Longbow of the Bard, what. I am in another vault; poorly guarded one at that. This bow is ridic. Will return home after this outing and get the Large Elven Shield with rDisenchant. Gear saving starting to pay off.

[Estie]

The reason for Celeborn is Time Hounds.

That, too

[Pete Mack]

The reason for Celeborn is Time Hounds.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I picked up Hithlomir armor (rDark, rNether) after near death with Ungoliant. I figured her darkness blasts would reduce in damage when she was near dead but, nope, she had two red healthbars left and I was hacking away at her at under 400 health for a few rounds. I then quaffed a healing potion that brought me just over 500HP and right after I quaffed she did her thing with the darkness and brought me to 26 health.

Don't be fooled. Breath damage declines with monster health, BUT, spells do not. Ungoliant may breathe poison or darkness, but also can CAST spells which invoke darkness storms for 475 points of damage. That's what your @ got hit with, not her darkness breath.

[Estie]

"Hacking away at under 400 health" is generally a very bad idea. The problem with high resists is that, unlike base + poison, they have a random element to them and, if youre unlucky, you can have the damage reduced by only 1/7 or so. On the plus side, the damage is less also; if you are not worried about the side effect (in the case of darkness: blindness), you can pretty much ignore them. Given that Ungoliant is about the biggest threat that throws around darkness attacks and she is dead, I wouldnt worry about the resistance anymore. Just stay close to full health all the time

Low AC isnt ideal, but the last thing to worry about. The reason to use Celeborn is to free the bow slot from disenchantment duties, not the AC.

If you want to carry Wrath as a switch for undead, by all means do so; personally I wouldnt, given that the main weapon already has good damage versus undead - theres nothing undead you cant handle with Aule. Constructs are not affected by the slay.

I missed that you have very good arrows; in the end, it might be best to actually use archery for the end fight. Youll see when you get there.

[Grotug]

I picked up Hithlomir armor (rDark, rNether) after near death with Ungoliant. I figured her darkness blasts would reduce in damage when she was near dead but, nope, she had two red healthbars left and I was hacking away at her at under 400 health for a few rounds. I then quaffed a healing potion that brought me just over 500HP and right after I quaffed she did her thing with the darkness and brought me to 26 health. So, yeah, think I'm gonna rock the Hithlomir for a bit. Plus, if memories of past lives serve me, nether attacks get real harsh deeper in the dungeon (I'm at 3950'). Prolly shoulda been using Celeborn, but now that I have nether covered, think I will stick with Hithlomir.

My AC total is utter crap. Hithlomir's total AC is a puny 30.

Trident of Wrath is good against Undead. Btw, does the Undead brand affect "Nonliving Creatures"?

I'm down to 56 mithril arrows. They are serving me very well.

[Estie]

Things to throw away:

Numenor, Wrath, Arvedui; all non-artifact armours; fur cloak of the magi (stunning). Maybe there is more, but this should do for starters.