During-action-report of Saleya the dark elven wizard

[GordonOverkill]

Thrundarr is kind of a problem... just tried to provoke him by luring a fire drake to dwarftown, but the drake was unable to penetrate his defense. Are there no monsters which are able to harm him or do I just have to find something stronger?

[Stingray1]

Even fairly weak pets I've tamed have been able to slay him, they miss often because of his high DV, but eventually succeed.

Edit - If you have the Bless spell you can also improve their luck, I think it even stacks.

[zasvid]

Even fairly weak pets I've tamed have been able to slay him, they miss often because of his high DV, but eventually succeed.

Edit - If you have the Bless spell you can also improve their luck, I think it even stacks.

Thrundarr has small DV, his 100 PV is the problem usually.

If you want to slay him with a monster pet (or otherwise), you want a claw bug.

[Stingray1]

Thrundarr has small DV, his 100 PV is the problem usually.

If you want to slay him with a monster pet (or otherwise), you want a claw bug.

Oh yeah, it felt a bit weird while I was typing it. They take some time to harm him, but succeed eventually. I've used dogs at least twice and a cave lion at least once.

[GordonOverkill]

Well, I decided to finish off Thrundarr by brute force during a stylish Dwarftown massacre. I'm afraid that I also killed my chances to get something nice from the Mystic, right?
However, at least Saleya is diving again! Just finished the Water Temple and obtained the orb to increase the range of her fireball :-) I guess corruption will become an issue in the long term. Only one randomly dropped potion of cure corruption so far, Mystic angry, Khelly already dead, no teleport spell or seven league boots... gonna be exciting at least ;-)

[Stingray1]

Nice.

Did the elementalist run out of castings? I notice the wizard did not have fire resistance. The elementalist would have had fire resistance in the current prerelease.

Edit - I'm not trolling, just pointing out some facts, as this effort you are putting in, is to determine whether an elementalist is such an underdog as debated. But it also has been indicated that the real problem lies elsewhere.

[GordonOverkill]

Nope, the elementalist was doing fine! He was a little unlucky with his item drops and never got more than 2 or 3 points of PV, so he heavily relied on spells. Still he never ran out of firepower... in my eyes that's definitely a clear early game advantage. He finally died to a mimic which paralyzed him at sight.

[GordonOverkill]

Saleya has just entered the Tower of Eternal Flames... damn, already looking forward to the next session! She's got only one fireproof blanket and even no intrinsic fire resistance yet (just two rings and a pair of red dragon-hide gauntlets, so she still gets some damage). Gonna be bloody exciting! At least she's got a nice supply of healing herbs and Neather Bolt castings, so I hope that she will find a corpse rather quickly ;-)

[GordonOverkill]

Hmmm, any good idea how to get a source of deathray resistance during a Lithium game? Or alternatively: A good tactic against Nuurag-Vaarn without deathray resistance?

[Stingray1]

A good tactic even with resistance is to not be in a straight line with him. Deathrays can only be fired in straight lines. If you want to fight him in the corridor, blind or confuse him. What artifacts does she have? Bracers of resistance is also good, but maybe a bit rare? A wish for some pairs maybe?