Liking half-troll warrior

[Petoften]

Are we talking about Medusa or Ungoliant? Medusa is a mid-level unique, who's somewhat annoying to fight, but not too bad once you get strong enough. Ungoliant, on the other hand, is one of the strongest uniques in the whole game. IIRC, she actually has more hp than Morgoth himself. Not worth fighting unless you've decided that simply winning isn't enough of a challenge, and you want to kill all the uniques.

Definitely had the name Ungoliant, I thought I saw Medusa also. Wasn't sure if it was part of her name or another attacker.

[Petoften]

One weird thing, she did big darkness breath damage AFTER I teleported her.

[Petoften]

The danger feeling of the level with her is the most dangerous, the first time I remember seeing the top one.

[Petoften]

'Medusa, the Gorgon' is attacking with plasma bolts that are VERY high damage, and she is hard to kill.

I'm doing up to 392/round at level 30 which seems very high and after a lot of hits, she's only down 30% while I'm at 24/312 (after CCW's).

[Petoften]

OK, yes, it was Medusa, the Gorgon and Ungoliant (and Wormtongue) on the same level...

I used my only *healing* to kill Medusa to see what she'd drop, looks like crap, a non-unique weapon with something unidentified, likely a slay.

Close behind her is Ungoliant - my first hit was 'great' with this weapon that does 392 and it didn't even take her down by one star. Time to leave.

[Petoften]

Medusa dropped a spear of acid 1d6 (+10, +6) branded with acid.

She also dropped a mace of lightning 2d4 (+10, +12).

Wormtongue dropped something strange, a pick of earthquakes 1d3 (+16, +14) +3 STR, +5 digging, also branded with acid.

So nothing useful. Waste of the *healing*. Reload perhaps.

[Werbaer]

Close behind her is Ungoliant - my first hit was 'great' with this weapon that does 392 and it didn't even take her down by one star. Time to leave.

You are lucky to be still alive.
She could have killed you from full health in one turn with a spell or breath attack.

[Petoften]

Found another unique weapon long sword 'Elgavil' that doesn't look worth keeping.

But people are mentioning 'heavier is better later', the spear doing about 90% more damage is 5 pounds, while the sword is 13 pounds...

[Petoften]

Wand of polymorph pretty useless because it won't work on strong things?

Or useful for something like 9 headed hydras?

[Petoften]

Potions of berserk strength looking useless - from 392 to 396 damage.

[Petoften]

Interesting - a ring of STR +4 lowers damage a good amount over DEX +3 or damage +12. Looks useless.

[wobbly]

Found another unique weapon long sword 'Elgavil' that doesn't look worth keeping.

But people are mentioning 'heavier is better later', the spear doing about 90% more damage is 5 pounds, while the sword is 13 pounds...

I don't know the vanilla artifacts well but the max. no. of blows for a warrior is 6 if that helps

[Petoften]

Dungeon level 40, Aduphinal dropped armor similar to but worse than armor found lying on level 34... used a potion of healing to kill her, sigh.

[Petoften]

Found a third 'thanc', Dethanc, only 266 damage so dropping it... (in a big vault that's the second most dangerous level feeling).

[wobbly]

Interesting - a ring of STR +4 lowers damage a good amount over DEX +3 or damage +12. Looks useless.

Look at the race/class modifiers. You wont have trouble getting str. It maxs at 18/220 with gear bonuses.