Healer melee advice (warning game spoliers included), please.

[Joe]

I beat the skeleton king yesterday without any useful weapon (mithril spear) and being confused alot but it seems that if you try some wands the damage is pretty good once one connects. Undead slaying ammo also works nicely but he has pretty good DV it seems nowadays. Anyway, Executor will make short work of him =)

[mjkittredge]

Have an amulet of free action and ring of mental stability ready to put on. Paralyzation from mimics is how I predict you will die. You walk up to some funny colored item and boom, chain paralyzed and dead before you can move again. 2nd most likely is being aged to death while surrounded by undead as a lich king/emperor/master summons faster than you can kill them and you're stumbling around confused.

[blunk]

Whoo progress galore!

Went to wilderness to read some books, most worked well but lost 1 point of T (down to 25+5) from book I didn't need to read :/

Tomb of the High Kings
With frost bolt, ring of mental stability and ring of the clear mind I had no trouble beating the king to a pulp, I even forgot to wear cloak of invis
No threats anywhere.

ToEF
I went to Coc, blessed my second ring of ice, dumped some stuff at stairs then proceeded to Tower of Eternal Flames with 2xblessed ring of ice equipped. (fire immune from crowning, fire blankets in inventory)
Mostly a breeze until I dug (with wand), elementals were tough but I used some frost bolt, ate some pepper petals (can i "U" use spenseweed from inventory?) and gave them a good spanking.
I got crit by a demon 2xsame round and corrupted (no corruptions).
Ancient chaos wurm was up next, I used dragon and demon slaying ammo, used a prayer once (maybe should have used potions?) when invisible breath hurt a lot.
Anyway, killed him and thought "what the hell, lets eat corpse, nice stat boosts to have, I got 5 cure corruption scrolls and a potion".
Gained 10 extra eyes (-ap +pe) and tough scales (-dex +8pv), GRRRRREAT!
Swapped to fire orb.

Water Dragon Cave
Went over towards Terinyo, hopped into water, insta found cave (10 eyes maybe?).
(had teleport control from eating a corpse early in game)
Jumped in and derped some, cast teleport at wrong target, went up, blessed ring of fish, wore it and re blessed doh!
Wore cloak of invis, cast teleport on me! chat with mother and teleported back (should in hindsight maybe looked for loot and stolen).
Popped over to Terinyo and chatted with blup.

COC
Back down to dwarf town, sold what I don't need, tried to sacc for post crown didn't get there so gold wasted oh well
Drank some potions.
There is a LOT of encounters in wilderness now, I've been dillydalling a lot.

Main strenghts
PV: 58 (56 if I somehow need girdle of carry again).
112 speed in coward mode w/o quick talent. (quickling corpses and bracers of speed).
Spells with 200+ castings: burning hands, firebolt, fireball, frostbolt, identify, light, slow monster, teleportation. (still possess the frostbolt and identify books, will read out them).
Intrinsics: acid resist, poison resist, teleport control, Para resist, Fire immune

Questions
Got 2 potions of willpower, bless and drink or wait until I get my 25 --> 27?
Got 2 potions of gain attributes, bless and drink or wait until more stats are maxed out?
Will also visit hidden place in dwarf town for extra potion of gain attribute right now....
I guess then it's just down we go....

Talents:
Got treasure hunter, mithril skin and long stride.
Next will be quick-> very quick or immune to pain.

[blunk]

Berserker vault, one prince did crit and actually did damage (less than 10).
Got down to casino (now that money would have been useful ....).
So as I understand it if I rob casino I will get doomed and cursed right?
Will curse matter (i already have ank+executor wich is luck+curse) ?
I can post a list later of interesting items ....

[Moeba]

Will curse matter (i already have ank+executor wich is luck+curse) ?

Ankh is fate smiles and lucky, executor is cursed. Cursed is OK, doomed can be nasty even at this stage. Maybe especially at this stage, with monsters able to crit 200+ damage. When you're doomed, it is costumary that such crits come in threes, especially when your enemies have 2 turns in a row.
Although fate smiles will compensate, being doomed has a larger effect.

edit: but if there's an altar nearby, you can easily remove the effect by sacrificing 1 gold.

[Joe]

If the Casino doesn't have much great stuff it's generally easier to just buy it by some gambling at the cost of 1-2 corruptions rather than robbing it.
If you're feeling unsafe due to low hp or dangerous crits, I'd start drinking blessed PoGAs (gain attributes). If you have the right herbs to increase it and it's not at max potentials yet I'd try to delay to gain more. But in the case you don't have the herbs at hand I'd advise against hoping to find some and delaying the stat increases.

There is a LOT of encounters in wilderness now, I've been dillydalling a lot.

Be careful about this: it often means that you're doomed. You can find out by drinking a Potion of Insight or just sacrificing enough on an appropriate altar.

[Mobius]

Being doomed is very dangerous in the dark.

[blunk]

If the Casino doesn't have much great stuff it's generally easier to just buy it by some gambling at the cost of 1-2 corruptions rather than robbing it.
If you're feeling unsafe due to low hp or dangerous crits, I'd start drinking blessed PoGAs (gain attributes). If you have the right herbs to increase it and it's not at max potentials yet I'd try to delay to gain more. But in the case you don't have the herbs at hand I'd advise against hoping to find some and delaying the stat increases.



Be careful about this: it often means that you're doomed. You can find out by drinking a Potion of Insight or just sacrificing enough on an appropriate altar.

I did rob casino went up to surface and looted most of darkforge on my way.
Items of note robbed:
Ring of slaying +6+6
Bracers of protection +0+6
Bracers of regen + crown of regen
Tower Eternium shield +13 +7
a decent amount of slaying ammo
potions and scrolls (This was nice so I could up my dex a bit more with moss)

Sacrified and got rid of doom, seems I wasn't cursed.
Also sacrified crown of science.

Went back down and got a vault area on D33.
Meleed small room with ancient reds, 62PV with girdle of carry helps.
Now to see what the vault will bring.

[blunk]

I dropped all non fodder on lvl above and went back down.
big vault was black dragons, wow healer is nice ....
:k (display killed monsters)
1 ancient blue dragon
18 ancient black dragons
26 baby black dragons

All meleed (with a little help of found rocks).

I think next lvl is battle bunnys, need to read up on that.

[blunk]

Was a decent number of views on the thread so I'll keep updating if that's ok.
D34: I followed the advice to dig straight south to kill battle bunny, no sweat.
D35: ringshop maybe here is where I bought the slaying ring +9+6.

D36: (cat lord) Scumbag cheater me, yeah I won't pretend, I wasnt sure about messages and kills so I tested first if cat lord was aggro. (in 1.2 messages doesnt always trigger when cats are killed but I think it still enrages the pussymaster).
When I reloaded it was still very close, however, luck with arrow of darkness and L+ shrine saved me. Yeah feel the wrath of god!
If more experienced I should have used scroll of magic mappng and tele to exit but this was better since I got access to shrine also
I've seen some nice tricks recently from Gordon Overkill so next time maybe I'll get the ring ...

D37: This was a messy level, a room with a lot of black unicorns!
I managed to get a decent position and then the grinding begun.
Ate some pepper petals here and there that I still have left but regen and very agressive finally did most of the hard work. 26 black Unicorns was a Ton of exp and several levels.

D38: Air Temple, I read up and left most non arti on level above. Got corrupted by demon or something twice (no forth corruption yet) summoner went down in 2 hits (executor is human slaying).
He managed to summon twice tho, the ancient blues were a bit annoying and they fried a spellbook of teleport on the ground
Lost some fodder from background and dragons, no biggie.
Went back to check status, ID and pick up stuff from above, notable was an eternium girdle +0+9!

D39: Very dull.
D40: You fell very excited, I used my scroll of monster detection, see picture (will try link someway)undeadvault.JPG
This undead vault looks very scary, the ghosts arent any trouble (I've drunk several longvitey and I got a pot of youth) but thats a lot of high level liches.
However, I enjoy grinding so I will probably adjust some items and give it a go.
Advice needed: is there a way to protect from king/emperor item cursing and stat draining or is ranged combat the only way to be safe?

75 PV! with 7 league boots but something needs to be swapped for death ray resistance.