Hello everyone. I am currently trying to get an UNE with a trollish barbarian. I know that is a terrible idea, but I am not good enough to survive the early game with melee-weak classes. I am currently on level 23 after doing 4 of the temples, have obtained the Medal of Chaos, and am trying to get the quest to kill Filk. I was not lucky at all with wishes, which was what I needed to get wish for the Emperor Moloch to get levels. Now I am stuck at a crossroads: Either continue on to a normal ending, or try to gain the 22 levels I need without being corrupted to death.
I have an idea, though, and was hoping to get some input on whether or not it would work. I know that stairhopping for items has been fixed in the latest version of ADOM, but can you still stairhop for tension and threat rooms? I think I will go to level 30-40 in the ID, stairhop back and forth, and search the level if I get the message for a threat or tension room. Hopefully I will get rooms filled with high-experience monsters to kill, get to level 45, and get back to the surface before dying (maybe I will get some wishes, too). Thanks in advance for any help.
As an aside, does anyone else think it is a bit much for trolls to require at least three times the experience to advance to level 50? They have a terrible maximum age, and huge penalties to learning spells (along with huge penalties to every stat but strength and toughness). Maybe requiring twice the experience would be enough, because it is painful to try to get an ultra ending with trolls as is.