So, I have a marksdwarf who I have trained up to be legendary in: Marksdwarf, Archer, Hammerdwarf, Dodger, Fighter, Shield user, and Armour user. She began as a legendary marksdwarf, who I then decided to use as my test subject in a danger room, after I first heard about them. She is missing an ear, and has a scar where a spear pierced her guts, because I accidentally put an iron spear in one of the traps.
She is: Basically unbreakable, unbelievably strong, extremely agile, and indefatigable, but slow to heal. She has an astounding feel for the position of her own body, a stunning feel for spatial relationships, an iron will, a great ability to focus, a natural ability with music, and a good sense of empathy, but an iffy memory and a shortage of patience.
I figure most of these are really good. Slow to heal I hope I don't have to worry about, since that can't be helped. Music is useless at the current time (right?). The shortage of patience means she'll just get into the killing quicker. She's also getting used to tragedy, and has no relationships more than passing acquaintances, which means less likely to go nuts. What of these physical and mental skills should I try and get more of in her, and how would I improve them?
I'm thinking I might start training her on the other weapon skills, as well as striker, biter, kicker and all those other ones as well. How is it best to get those skills up? I don't want to use the danger room any more than I have to now that I've seen how overpowered it is. It's now just a punishment for my vampire (put it in butt naked after she decided to feast on 2 of my dwarves, then after she became unhappy I locked her up for 402 days straight (let's hope this thing doesn't go beserk).
I believe I have just captured a werebeast, which came into my fortress as a human child, so if at all possible, I'd like to infect her, so she can get the full healing powers of that, and get her ear back. But... how can I get the thing to attack her without her absolutely slaughtering it.
Despite the danger room training, she has proven her worth in battle, with about 40 notable kills, as well as about 10 trolls and other minor threats on the list too, and was the last surviving marksdwarf from my near loyalty cascade... Fortunately she killed the rest outside before the fighting came inside, saving the fortress.
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