Yeah I've read through a coupleof the other threads, wishes are just one of those things you don't want to feel you wasted.
Status of current character -- level 20 Orc Paladin, going for first Ultra (haven't decided L+ or N=)
Khelly saved (AoLS dropped by random monster before D:8, where the first altar was generated and I was able to ID a bunch of stuff.)
Mystic gave me SoCR so I have 9 now. 2 corruptions (TP and regeneration, so not bad ones)
Water temple down with little issue, Didn't save the corpse due to being a moron and not immediately blessing the corpse. Though I tried to cook it with all my wands of fire and failed. But I have one blessed PoCC from Keethrax and one uncursed found randomly (for Gaab'Bay).
- Have scroll of danger for Gaab'bay.
- Need boar skull, but it's already past 90 days, so I can scum for this. Have a ring of doom to make it go a little quicker.
- RotHK acquired
- Using Big Punch as weapon. Swap to Nonnak if planning on heavy casting (Snake was magic missiled to death with an awesome 9 effectivity MM). 2nd best melee weapon is lawful mithril scimitar, which is solid against chaotics, but kinda measly against Neutrals or lawfuls.
- No intrinsic FR yet. Rest of ToEF set is pretty set. RotHK + Elemental Gaunts + intrinsic FR for resist. Ring of ice + blessed fireproof already acquired through helpful RNG. Best armor in Darkforge was eternium ring mail [0,9]. I use AMW most of the time for SeeInvis and other benefits (like the low weight given I'm using Big Punch), however will likely use the eternium for ToEF. Mithril chain mail of speed is another option [-2,+7], but it's even heavier.
- Sitting on 3 blessed PoGA for use after casino pays for some extra stats, also one potion of Strength. Potentially casino will get Le to 20-22ish though $$$ for Garth, but that's slow work. Nothing but potions will get my mana stat up, right? Considering PoEx for stat swaps. Currently at:
25 St / 17 Le / 25 Wi / 25 De / 26 To / 16 Ch / 11 Ap / 15 Ma / 25 Pe
Assuming I can get Le to 20ish from Garth, that leaves only 3 that could be dangerous to swap with STR. Ending up with 11 perception would suck too, but paying to get that ~18 isn't horrible. I'm leaning towards using one on PoEx.
Would like to get Learning and Mana up for some casting options after Rift, I think PoEx has the potential largest gains there, It's somewhat risky, but with my current stats seems like risk is low and fairly recoverable. The stats that can't be Garth trained are already quite poor, so it can't get much worse. Others are all correctible in time if I don't end up with low numbers on the easy to herb buff up Wi / De / To.
Used one already on seven league boots. Got 4 pair. Willing to sacrifice one or two in ToEF:4 to ease that a bit, though they might not burn to a blessed ring of ice, I'm willing to let them for the movement advantage.
So my current list for my remaining four wishes is:
- save 1 for "just in case" for SoCR or other need not apparent at this time
- Eternium tower shield (right now using medium crystal [9,7], which is somewhat heavy, but not too bad. Crystal is good and [9,7] is decent enough at this stage in the game. I think I can live without an eternium tower until the RNG decides I'm worthy. )
- Ancient Red Dragons -- hoping for corpses. no Food Pres may make it backfire. also I'm not 100% sure I could handle that at level 20, though with Wyrmlance and Polearms at 9 I should be able to, as long as I don't get breathed to death with only 2 resistance items.
- Alternate method of handling ToEF: Kill the Druid for Shield of Raw Steel and wish for SoCR to make up for the lost PoCC and extra corruption of the shield using it in the tower. Also gives an artifact I don't mind feeding to the ratling. Difficulty is that I don't know how to kill the druid without making the whole town angry at me, which would be a problem when Khelly shows up.
- Alternate method 2 of handling ToEF, Scum floors 1 & 2 for corpses in an indestructible set. Fire Giant Kings could be a problem, but should be rare on 1 & 2. I'd bring rocks for missiles and use in a set like that, But I think I'd be over 30PV, should be okay.
- GoGS, but I know I will carry too much then get it destroyed from a random acid vortex or something, I'm skeptical here
- Ring of Weakness, but I don't want to be too scummy. Plus I don't have too many reliable methods of removing curse. I suppose the library will have at least one copy of that book.
- Bracers of Resistance, probably higher up than GoGS, but has the same issue, I've had 3 sets of bracers destroyed already, how long would these really last?
- PoEx -- Would likely be able to significantly improve my casting potential by bringing mana and Learning to 25, may potentially kill my STR though, and with Big Punch my only available weapon doing more than 12 damage to neutral or lawful beings, that could potentially hurt a lot.
- Food Preservation. It's still early enough to raise this.
- Alchemy. will be a chore to raise with low learning and already Level 20, but I have enough time left for it to be useful
- Find Weakness - Character is an Orc, she already has this.
- Archery - I like throwing rocks and pew-pew with bows is pretty overpowered when you have blessed SLB... as long as you ammo lasts.
What are your opinions.
I think at this point I'm leaning PoEx + Food Pres or Archery + Something for ToEF for Fire resist, RDSM or one of the listed options for intrinsic fire resist + save one for rainy day.