On a run playing a paladin

[Petoften]

You can't teleport to a vault. (This means ?Phase Door is a (nearly) guaranteed escape, so long as there are no nasties just outside.) The only way to get into a vault is to tunnel there.

That said, big open vaults like that are pretty much impossible. There will be other chances.

Also: medusa is the very first really dangerous monster in the game. There is no way you will kill her.

Sounds like I'm lucky to have a chance to teleport and get away at all. Let's hope the teleport staff works...

[Petoften]

Make the decision yourself, based on the info you have available to you already.

If that's the only comment in response to asking for opinions, you can post to other threads and not this one.

[Pete Mack]

You can't teleport to a vault. (This means ?Phase Door is a (nearly) guaranteed escape, so long as there are no nasties just outside.) The only way to get into a vault is to tunnel there.

That said, big open vaults like that are pretty much impossible. There will be other chances.

Also: medusa is the very first really dangerous monster in the game. There is no way you will kill her.

[Derakon]

No opinions on this one? Can't play until I decide which to do. Some uniques have good drops, others don't. Never saw Medusa before.

Make the decision yourself, based on the info you have available to you already.

[Mondkalb]

Medusa is quite dangerous and probably not worth the risk until you can dispose her easily.

[Petoften]

No opinions on this one? Can't play until I decide which to do. Some uniques have good drops, others don't. Never saw Medusa before.

[Petoften]

Option 1: teleport, get to stairs and next level.

Option 2: teleport, and come back and use speed/slow monster/chant and see if I can kill them.

The advice here is caution right, so option 1... killing the unique Medusa not worth the risk?

[Petoften]

One of these times my teleport staff isn't gonna work.

[Petoften]

Ugh. Remember that ancient blue dragon teleported from?

I just found it again. So I cast chant, to get ready to see how it'd go, and it came and attacked.

But guess what, that wasn't the only message.

Medusa, the Gorgon, points at you and incants terribly! He has a friend.

Down nearly 100 HP just from that first round.

[Petoften]

Detect. See who's in the vault.

But as I mentioned, I don't have detect evil now, so no way to check.

[Petoften]

Stuff is getting harder now.

A death knight took me to little over 100HP, and then there was an ancient blue dragon in the same room that breathed and got me pretty low.

Did a teleport other on it, but yeesh.

[Sideways]

So, good idea to just say 'screw the vault' and next level? The fact I'd be able to tunnel in does make it safer to face stuff more one at a time to try it.

Detect. See who's in the vault. Then make the call.

[Petoften]

With my rings of damage +12 and Dex +3 and other gear having lightning protection, I should drop my ring of lightning 14 right?

[Petoften]

You can't enter a vault by teleporting. You have to find a spot where there's a hole in the permanent wall, and dig there.

Also, if it's a murderous greater vault, it will likely have monsters capable of doing much more than 100 damage in one turn.

So, good idea to just say 'screw the vault' and next level? The fact I'd be able to tunnel in does make it safer to face stuff more one at a time to try it.

[Petoften]

The room isn't actually all that large - maybe 20 squares in an irregular shape.

But 1 shot risk doesn't seem worth it though the loot might be good.