Between that one with 20% less health, the djinn with his shared mana - health, looks like recent additions are about easy to get YASD characters , though i didn't played much with the lava orcs when they went in.
Probably to counterbalance the Gargoyle that was a though race addition.
I'm still having a lot of fun with my Deep Elf conjurer in that 0.14.
And i love that ring of sustenance that i found very early , it simply removed all the tedious food minigame that often made me simply quit playing because i found it really too boring, you still need to eat , you still need to keep an eye on spell hunger, but it's so much more relaxed when wearing that ring that you can then focus on the much more interesting parts of DCSS gameplay.
Anyways, i was attacking the Snake Pit, hoping to get the 2nd rune from that run, i finally landed in the last depth of it and was reminded why those Greater Naga are dangerous, shooting high damage, and able to teleport you (thanks to my own teleport scrolls to escape 2 times the very bad situation it had lead me into).
So i must say there's a big satisfaction when you kill those Greater Nagas with an humiliating very low damage spell
But a bit risky too
The rune big area was full of nagas, it was a big battle of attrition, moving in, frozen clouds, battlesphere, mystic blast, haste , running away , coming back etc... but i finally managed to get the upper hand and defeat that army (thanks poison resistance ring too
) .
Ah, the reward of that big dangerous enterprise, the 2nd rune
After all that experience and skills improvement, checking at how i had improved the Firestorm chances since i got it from Vehumet during the Shoals invasion (99% chance failure at the time)
Yes much better , a bit more and i'll finally get it online and ready.
So far i've been oddly more lucky than usual, and while i learned to not rely anymore on Battlesphere (thanks to my real damaging spells finally being usable) i'm still very cautious in what Crawl is preparing to throw at me soon.
I guess next destination is Vaults , hoping i'll keep the same lucky status