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I got a bit tired of tiptoeing around on eggshells with mages, so I decided to play a human warrior. Human to gain levels fast and be a bit of a challenge with no extra abilities, and warrior to be able to hack 'n slash my way through the game, without needing LOS tricks like my gnome mages do.
Never bothered with any attack magic, especially towards the end, where the Lothlorien x4 bow did way more damage than any wand can do, even with mediocre arrows.
Early artifact dagger got things started well, and early light spear of gondolin with telepathy really made things great. Pretty much nothing could stand against him until about dlevel 65-75, when he really slowed down.
Basher achieved clev 50 pretty early.
He went full stealth and vault raided for a while (which is my favorite thing to do BTW), partially destructing one vault and betting all my TO charges on a hunch on an unknown ring, and sure enough, it was Narya, woohoo.
That turned the corner, and things started speeding up again, with Thorin, Nenya, speed rings, the Trident, and Basher dove quickly. Ringil showed up and I kept it through the final fight (but f^&*ing Sauron disenchanted it, a$$hole!).
Basher stockpiled !*Healing*, !Life, ?Mass Banishment, ?Rune of Protection, and some !Speed for the final fight. Way more than were needed. The ?RoP were very handy and Morgoth almost didn't touch Basher at all throughout the fight (thus the low usage of healing). 7 ?RoP lasted until Morgoth had 2-3 stars left. About 3 mass banishments were needed, and no uniques were summoned. One !Life and a couple !*Healing* is all. Never phased and didn't TO Morgoth once. Basher could have done more damage with a =Damage, but he thought sporting two Elven rings while fighting Morgoth was the height of style.
Now to get back to gnome mages, although I may give the new classes a try, or run a priest again as I really enjoy sticking it to the undead.
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