Originally Posted by
SinsI
If you are playing wizard - yes, if you luck out and find the right books(and ID stairhop is still the easiest way to do it).
But if you are playing an orcish merchant, you need every trick up your sleeve - gold doubling, stairhop for blink dogs, herb farming to get pre/crowned... And uberjackals become a problem because you have no reliable way of quickly dispatching jackalwares.
You can't just "steadily advance" because old monsters have already grown strong and give very little exp, and new monsters that should've replaced them in your kill list are still too strong and are a sure way to die.
Orc merchant, no ID, no herbs, no gold doubling, gremlin bombs, piety scum or other obvious exploits? Sure, I'll take that challenge.
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.