Advice

[Mondkalb]

Don't bother with death molds. Teleport them away or find away around them.

[Nicodimas]

Ya I had like 3 rods/4 wand of TO .. at my home. So lesson learned.

When I say I was greedy I opened a vault and he was between me and the all gear behind him...

[Pete Mack]

TO is *the* most important escape/evasion mechanism in the game. (Phase door is a close second)

[Nicodimas]

Made it to charlevel 41 so far this run.

Having a tough time in dl50s as I keep running though all my healing stuff. I have a nexus and sound resist now. Is there anything against that resists time ? Have a feeling... time hounds are coming up soon right ?..

Anchient blues have my number. Almost died with two in the same Room.

I need to probably start figuring out what some of these crazy uniques do! Basically not touching them. Have a feeling I’m going to get TPd into someone crazy room.

(No rings of speed or boots yet!!)

[Pete Mack]

If you're running out of !Heal, try Paladin. It really is the only class designed to kill almost everything, at least once *heal* spell gets down near 5% fail.
Early on it's a bit weak, until you get a third blow and a good weapon. But even minor heal lets you take out big mobs of orcs and trolls, and any monster that doesn't put out too much damage at once.

[Nicodimas]

Yea my heal stuff is way too low.. been saving my *heals* but grabbing some of those this run... to back off these levels and go back a little. I need to find a P pit I think...

It’s probably cause I am running around with 170 AC in DL 50+

I have could up it 200AC with multi hued armor, but lose -4 speed this artifact armor provides. My equipment provides 11 speed atm.

[Nicodimas]

Does anyone know what is hitting me and reduces my charges ? I swear someone thing hits me and my charged items are losing charges. Is this items being destroyed and I am getting the least amount of charges or something.

Went down a few levels and found some P/H pits and doing better for tomorrow. Changing gear helped my resists/AC at the cost of 4 base speed. Some is coming back! Still a ton to remember ..

[Sky]

obviously something invisible. You need a ring of SI.

As for *what* is hitting you, some stupid monster added in 4.2 by Nick, surely.

[Julian]

Is there anything against that resists time ? Have a feeling... time hounds are coming up soon right ?..

Nothing resists time

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

[Nicodimas]

Working hard today on resists

Lv 45 909 hp 217 AC + 6 natural speed +2 stealth
4x cold
2x sound nexus dark acid light fire
1x poison nether disenchantment

Nothing on chaos and shards. Can’t resist time. /sigh
(Found a blade of chaos holy avenger that’s neat.. if I ever find anything else of speed would be great..)

[MattB]

Does anyone know what is hitting me and reduces my charges ?

Have you been meleeing liches? Or Balrogs?
If so, that's a very silly thing to do.

[Pete Mack]

or certain human uniques? But liches are indeed the usual suspect here. All of them drain charges, and they're pretty common.

[Nicodimas]

I have fought a lesser balrog just to see how I would do..liches seem come up quite often. I encounter grand master mystics far more often than I would like too.. if thats the guy. Otherwise the only
Unique person I keep bumping into summons the Phoenix as his go to move so I scoot out of there.

Last night right before I crashed I walked around a corner and bam time hounds everywhere. Must have been tired cause I swore I used staff of detection, but might have been walking around on a 6-8 level... a bit too fast./playing tired Anyhow .. low hit point warning ! Oh shoot really low 200ish hit points. I stepped away and then fled and recalled back home before calling it night. I still have aether hounds coming up? Yikes. Anything else I should be avoid dl60-70s that I might not remember. Playing super risk adverse now

(I love fighting summoners who summon more summoners as a note)

[Pete Mack]

The main point is: if you see the message "energy drains from your pack", you are losing charges. It means you can't face M and S with staves or wands in melee, and for other such monsters, either avoid them, or hide your devices before beginning battle. (An extra 2 squares in an antisummoning corridor is enough, so long as you don't back up.)

[Adam]

Isn't it sometimes risky to drop the staves near the battlefied? The balrog breathes fire, those staves are lost for sure.