Now, I know at least one person has played through the entire game without killing anything (using pets to do all the killing), but has anyone done it with their starting pet?
I was just playing a dwarf bard, and got the gauntlets of peace right away upon entering the UD, so I thought, 'OK! I'll just let my bear kill everything!'
And that just kinda snowballed from there.
By the time we got to the HMV, the bear was extremely experienced ... it had 6 (or 7) attacks, about 120 damage per hit on crits, and killed the resident stone giant lord in one round of combat without even getting hurt.
And I remember that there's no limit on monster XP (including pets).
So, do you think this is possible? I know it's a challenge game and has a lot of downsides, but it would be very funny to manage it!
(I'm convinced you'd want detect traps and awareness. Anything else you'd absolutely need to make it do-able?)