Advice on mist elf

[blunk]

Got my first mist elf (also first duelist) to lvl 16, got around 90 hp.

I've gone porter line and will most likely finish it since my luck with potions of potential str = 0 (str 12/12).
I did however find a very useful +4 str belt.

Toughness is better and up to 17 at the moment.
Lost my bracers of toughness, new at troll shop hmw is 10k and selling in shops ... does not provide much gold.

Does the penetration ability affect darkforge golems?
Currently wield nonnak, nice for defence/cold resist but not that hot for dps.

Anything in particular I should beware of?
Is it worth going whip w/o a snake whip?

Everything is too heavy

[Blank4u47]

Whip of snake is worth it, especially with your str at 12. You can handle darkforge imo, just need some healing items as backup.
As for str fix, FGJC's are worth a trip really soon.

[blunk]

Whip of snake is worth it, especially with your str at 12. You can handle darkforge imo, just need some healing items as backup.
As for str fix, FGJC's are worth a trip really soon.

Only ordinary d3 whip available at the moment.
I will probably test the first upper golem when thrundarrs quests are done, if too difficult I'll go look for sinister R3 dungeon.

I'll probably need fgjc to get the gold needed for crowning, unless I luck with a good altar somewhere mob intense.

[blunk]

Girdle of carry was better than +4 strength even at base value 12.

Also Glod gave me a present:

Right Hand    : blessed eternium warhammer of devastation (+0, 8d3+14)[29s]

[Blank4u47]

That's an awesome hammer! Glod is soooo generous

[gym21]

Watch out for annihilators!

[blunk]

Had to grind for baby frost dragon in tothk to build me a bridge.

Watch out for annihilators!

Yeah, there is that point of using artifact weapons.
I did barely scrape together enough gold which together with moon scythe and black torc was enough for a crowning, I got the rapier Needle.
Not over enthusiastic but I guess I'll go with that for now, possibly swapping to bp after toef.

Ice queen granted me some gold in the sense that fire side won with 2 very hurt fire giant kings as winners, I quickly picked them off and scraped up what was worth from the ground.
Fire used to win in maybe 20-30% of times but this was the first fire win since I switched to steam (roughly 15 visits to the area).

Frost giant caves felt a bit dangerous with 20 pv then I realised I have 70 dv on agressive!
113 hp is not much to write home about, speed is sadly ramping up, sad for my exp that is, currently lvl 19.

Vault was great undead vault, hrm, while I don't care about ghosts, the stat draining liches are no fun.
I have managed to grind bow skill to 3 with 32 dex it's not too shabby.
15 undead slayers will however now last that far.

Edit: Ops no confusion resistance, I dealt with haggar and bailed, be back later.

[blunk]

Anyone know if using pickaxe of fumbling in tool slot abuse dex?

After a lot of work I managed to get 2 points of str to 14 and a potion of potential str on top of that.
Toughness and will power stuck below 20.
Exp is abysmal at 125 speed.

Will test new weapon on frost giant jarl tension room on dh1.

Right Hand    : uncursed brutal mithril scimitar of devastation (+0, 6d8+9)

[Blank4u47]

If it's any consolation, the xp would be abysmal just playing a mist elf! They are like troll extra lite version. Sweet scimmy btw! Lucking out with weapons eh?

My cousin said he had one equiped in tool slot no prob, but I never did it myself because I hate potential stat drains. Probably won't be a big deal just to use Big U button instead of equipping.

[blunk]

If it's any consolation, the xp would be abysmal just playing a mist elf! They are like troll extra lite version. Sweet scimmy btw! Lucking out with weapons eh?

My cousin said he had one equiped in tool slot no prob, but I never did it myself because I hate potential stat drains. Probably won't be a big deal just to use Big U button instead of equipping.

The exp sort of fixed itself and things went a bit bonkers.
Right after toef I hit 24 which in my case ment Fire Orb +10 strength and immune to pain ==> gauntlets of strength +5 .
In casino I bought a girdle of giant strength +15!

I killed cat lord in melee while slowed (3 cats killed), did get use of 2-3 extra heal.
Used slow self in earth temple.
Used slow self on special golem vault on d41.
Didnt dare but could probably have used slow when clearing tension room of great blue wyrms, I melee them all on a corner.

So I'm lvl 33 on D46 not far from 34, oh and d46 have a GGV.

Killed Monsters
     13 great blue wyrms