Q&A: How does this work again?

[Blank4u47]

I'm guessing that you aren't sword or dragon born, so my guess is that you'd make it to skill 10 to 12 by endgame depending on your playstyle. So at skill 11 you'll have a energy cost around 585 if I remember right, as opposed to 370 at grand mastery with the other weapons. You'll lose about 4 dmg and 8 DV, but the DV will be made up with polearm skill.

So I say, keep using it until you find a cooler weapon. Duelists train skill so fast in other weapons that it really doesn't matter if you switch mid-game.

[Sian]

add an additional -2ToHit/Damage from baseline Dualist which gets +1,+1 per 2 weapon skill levels ...

So lets say Grand Mastery (lvl15) in Swords vs lvl11 Polearms

Random Sword gets +25 ToHit, +19 Damage, +36 DV at 370 Energy
Random Polearm gets +17 ToHit, +12 Damage, +36 DV at 585 Energy

Closer than I anticipated ... Would the additional damage from the suffix be enough to make the slower swings and lower ToHit acceptable?

[Blank4u47]

At higher levels, I'd say no. Mainly because more swings gives you more room to retreat, more chances to crit and penetrate. However, at low levels before you find anything else good, I think using it would be a good idea.

[Sian]

Adamantium Warhammer of Slaughtering (+0,3d5+9) ... eh, close enough

[Sian]

Gotten back to my Ultra attempt after letting it rest for a while and have just gotten Medal of Chaos by the old bitch ... Is it possible to go to my Alignment of choice and getting crowned (want to be Lawful) or is there something else that have to be done before?

[Grond]

Yes. The only alignment check remaining (aside from extreme alignment for entering the gate) is being non-chaotic to receive the trident.

[Sian]

okay then, beefed my gear a bit so now (with Vanquisher equipped) I'm at DV/PV 76/64 on normal tactics, with these intrinsics

You are fire resistant
You are poison resistant (also through an item)
You are cold resistant
You are acid resistant
You are lucky (also through items)
Fate smiles upon you (also through an item)
You are sleep resistant
You are teleporting
You are able to control teleportation
You are strun resistant (gained through an item)
you are paralyzation resistant (gained through an item)
You are resistant to death rays (gained through an item)
You are shock resistant
You are able to see invisible things (also through an item)
You are immune to shock attacks
You are immune to fire attacks
You are immune to acidic attacks
You are able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item)

You naturally heal one hit point every 30 turns
You naturally regenerate one mana point every 38 turns

Only thing that for me springs to mind as missing is Petrification resistance ...

Currently wearing Preserver, Vanquisher, Ring of the Master Cat, Bracers of War and Orb of Fire, and a load of heavily smithed items.

How deep should I be able to dive without major issues? ...

[timeywimey]

I'd say you're perfectly set for the rest of the game. Head for the blue dragon caves to grind for xp / items and finish the quest there.

Also a friendly tip: no reason not to be at least on aggressive tactics. The +hit and +dmg bonii vs the dv lost are way +ev imo. At least if you have the skill, which you absolutely should always have.

[Sian]

Also a friendly tip: no reason not to be at least on aggressive tactics. The +hit and +dmg bonii vs the dv lost are way +ev imo. At least if you have the skill, which you absolutely should always have.

I usually default into using Very Aggessive ...

my skills are:

Appraising 100
Athletics 100
Backstabbing 100
Bridge Building 19
Climbing 86 [+1d3]
Concentration 100
Courage 100  ---  First kill were a Giant Frog, and I've killed 21 of them so Flik shouldn't be stupidly far away
Detect Traps 78 [+1d3]
Find Weakness 100
First Aid 64 [+1d5]
Gemology 100
Haggling 30  [4d5]
Healing 100
Listening 100
Literacy 100
Metallurgy 100
Mining 100
Pick Pockets 74 [+1]
Smithing 100
Swimming 89 [+1d3]
Tactics 64 [+1]
Two Weapon Combat 47 [+2d4]
Ventriloquism 44 [+3d3]

[timeywimey]

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very aggressive works perfectly fine too as you obvously seem to know. I read you wrong, sorry about that. For some reason I had the impression you knew how it works and still used normal tactics etc etc.