Best race/class combo to win with?

[Pete Mack]

@sky--
Legendary stealth is essentially a zero-fail for rogues. I once snuck through a small room with 3 sleeping high level monsters, including Huan (mostly because I could.) Very good stealth (Heroic or better) gives you almost complete control of gameplay. It is very, very powerful. And good to_hit combined with 5x (hero/berserk/haste/shield/resistances) makes for powerful melee. (Yeah, rangers eventually get Rune as well, but their melee sucks.)

[SethaWetha]

If you want to stick with mage, high elf has more hit points than gnome, though it still takes a while to get to the critical ~650 mark where youre all but safe from 1-shot.

I took your advice but chose half-elf mage which has the same hit points as high-elf but not the xp penalty. I'm happy to say I won my first game!

[Pete Mack]

Half-elf is a hard choice, actually! Half-elf has serious stat issues. I don't find the high elf EXP penalty to be an issue until pretty late in the game (sometime after cl 35.)

[SethaWetha]

Half-elf is a hard choice, actually! Half-elf has serious stat issues. I don't find the high elf EXP penalty to be an issue until pretty late in the game (sometime after cl 35.)

The EXP penalty was actually somewhat annoying to me at the beginning with high-elf. It wasn't bad, but I was used to leveling up faster. After getting to around DL40 with under 200hp was really bad though, I have hundreds of hours in Moria so I just played slowly and strategically. Only had about 2-3 close calls. After I got my CON maxed I got some good gear and ended up with 910hp just before Sauron and Morgoth

[Derakon]

Half-elf is a hard choice, actually! Half-elf has serious stat issues. I don't find the high elf EXP penalty to be an issue until pretty late in the game (sometime after cl 35.)

Half-Elf got its stats improved awhile back. It's still not what I'd consider especially great, but their HP is now only a little under par instead of being really substantially penalized like it used to be.

[Estie]

I took your advice but chose half-elf mage which has the same hit points as high-elf but not the xp penalty. I'm happy to say I won my first game!

Congratulations!

[Moving Pictures]

Half-Elf got its stats improved awhile back. It's still not what I'd consider especially great, but their HP is now only a little under par instead of being really substantially penalized like it used to be.

My first win (after months of sloppy and ill-guided play) was a half-elf ranger.

Just as Grotug is hopelessly addicted to half trolls, I grow quite enamoured with half-orcs. I've had some success with both paladins and fighters, including one win as a straight-up fighter. Hey, illness and part-time employment mean a lot of hours to waste, as i did last month.