A DE mindcrafter, my first character who advanced that far without savescumming , was killed recently in a greater vault of the frost giants by a great red wyrm. I was so disappointed that didn't got the memo page.
The beginning was a peace of cake. Found a natural altar in the puppy's cavernous room. Got precrowned with the Trusted One. That gave me no worry of nasty stuff like ghuls, mimics, gorgons etc. With a beggar as the first victim, I was hoping to save Khelavaster. I went to the UD after completing the puppy and healer quests. First tough moment was in SMC. Got the blanket pretty fast, but didn't find the exit for a long time. Among other bad guys, green worms started breeding. Had to use \oDigg to get to the last unexplored room and \oAcid to fight a skeletal warrior. No problems in UD and CoC till DT. Got a quest to kill another skeletal warrior. Got to the level before DH with no luck. Then grinded for a while in the big room. Than got annoyed and went to ToHK. Found a skeletal warrior on the first level, lol.
Was in a short of !oW so grinded the Big Room for a while also was looking for a way to save Khelavaster. Then grinded the cavernous level in PC. While grinding got bows, Xbows and thrown knives via a pair of returning daggers to lvl 7. I had some great fun in the DH. The only little threat was a black unicorn. I believe the char was lvl 15 by then. Cleared the Dark Forge - no problem at all. At some point I got an adamantium sword of mayhem, used it to fight high PV enemies. No luck in the pools of DF. Tried to kill animated trees with a wand of far slaying - not a perfect idea since there still lots of trees so you can't get the loot conveniently. So grinded the caves in ToHK. Got ring of immunity and the Nature's Companion.
Then I went to the Ice Queen, and to headed to slay the jarl. In the vault I meleed confused red dragons including the ancient ones with a bit of speedsweet. GMB worked really cool. The char was lvl 27 by than to with DV/PV 75/45 and speed of about 130. I tried to kill the wyrm with slaying ammo, made it halfway. Sadly I had no dragon slaying ammo. Then it engaged me in melee. Sadly I've forgot about the scroll of teleport and the Phial. I attempted to confuse it while wearing all my Wi+ gear. I had Wi 49 but that was no enough. In two turns my char was pretty dead. At last now I know that one should not try melee a great red wyrm with a lvl 27 mindcrafter.