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[Robsoie]

I have explored the 3 first Vaults floors, and Freezing Cloud is really usefull, and in combination with the level 6 Deflect Missile, it allowed my character to destroy several packs of centaurs and yaktaurs.

During this exploration i got in a wizlab

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This wizlab was some kind of graveyard with a mansion in the middle.
The nameless graves surrounding the mansion soon had each an undead rising from them, fortunately nothing powerfull at the time, so i could use my +5,+6  "demon wip of freezing" and destroy them all without using any spells.

I had learned Summon Demon (could have took Summon Demonic Horde but it looks like an useless spell as it can summon only the lowest level of demons, the one that are one-shotted by any monsters at the time you can actually learn that spell) from a recently gifted Sif Muna book.

The mansion had several skeletal warrior, and with a few of powerfull demons we managed to destroy them.

Then we went in the center of the mansion that had doors to some nice looking loots.
But there was a differently looking grave with a name on it "Zonguldrok".
I knew there was something going to happen anytime, as all the other graves had their occupant rising, so i summoned a bunch of powerfull demons while i moved away.
Just in time as an "Antique Lich" just rose from the grave.

But my army of demons proved more powerfull and "Zonguldrok" died again.
Got a bizarre sword from the loot rooms, but looks like it's not worth it as it will spawn hostile undead very often, no something i need in the middle of a battle, so i threw it away once out of the wizlab..

Henzell says...
    +9,+9 bone longsword. 20% chance per turn of hostile animate dead. Note that fighting these hostile undead provides more exp and piety than sacrificing corpses would. Not as much food, though! Even wielding this is bad if you worship one of the good gods.

It's nicet to see those mini-branches having different themes and visual that go with them.
The last wizlab i found was a fleshy themed one , with horrible ugly flesh walls and tons of mutating clouds , abominations and other ugly things

It looks like with 3 or 4 more points in intelligence/spellcasting, my character may soon cast level 7 spells hunger free.
That's great, as there are some that look very interesting.

Deep Elves are really as great as spellcasters as they mentionned it, though getting them to not die can be very tricky especially in the first half of the game.

[beorn080]

Also, if your using Sif, fill out your spell book with utility spells. 30 levels left, that should be ZERO. Sif's amnesia means you should have all those levels filled in, and forget spells when you need to swap out.

Haste, Apportation, Blink, Teleport, Control Teleport. Learn spells. You have the spellcasting ability to be able to cast basically any spell level 3 and under at at least Great. If your playing the latest trunk version, even something like Animate Skeleton is useful, since it both makes a meat shield and auto butchers for you, producing chunks for food. Dispel Undead. Anything that possibly fills a niche and might save your life once.

[Dakk]

Out of the four elemental spell schools, fire is the one that suffers most in the late-mid/late game, were lots of monster are fire resistant or even immune. Cold suffers quite a bit less, but you can forget killing anything vaguely undead with it, or in cocytus. Air and earth are the best in the late game, and earth is probably even better then air. The highest level earth spells do tons of damage ad are mostly unresistable.

I'm trying to put more magic into my summoner by training up earth, but training up earth magic on a mummy takes a while, but it doesn't matter a whole lot now since summon hydra + summon demon + summon demonic horde can take care of most of my needs. I should really start training translocations soon though.

[Mr.Person]

Not true. I cleared Crypt using nothing but Throw Icicle and Bolt of Cold.

[Mindmaker]

Am I wrong in assuming, that this saber is worth keepeing around on my ice elementalist, as long as I don't plan on going into melee?

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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Uncurse it but otherwise I would think so.

[Soadreqm]

Yeah, those are some nice resistances. Definitely keep it.

My aspiring kobold demonologist was steamrolled on D:9 by a horde of orcs followed by a deep elf followed by a troll.

[Mindmaker]

Fact:
When you're fleeing with low HP, through a corridor you just cleared, then a eight-headed skeletal hydra will be waiting around the next corner, striking you down before you can react.

Damn you Crawl.
That was supposed to be the second character, to grab a rune :/

[G-Flex]

Fact:
Skeletal hydra are slower than you. You could have run.

[Mindmaker]

Fact:
Skeletal hydra are slower than you. You could have run.

Wel it doesn't help me, if discovering the hydra and my death happen in the same turn...

[Antioch]

fact: fleeing through discovered territory significantly reduces the chance of discovering a hydra.

[Ochita]

Fact:
When you're fleeing with low HP, through a corridor you just cleared, then a eight-headed skeletal hydra will be waiting around the next corner, striking you down before you can react.

Damn you Crawl.
That was supposed to be the second character, to grab a rune :/

[Mindmaker]

My point is that there wasn't a single thing I could have done to prevent it.

[Ochita]

Being hit by a undead king that should be immortal hurts. I kinda skipped level 3...

[freeformschooler]

Being hit by a undead king that should be immortal hurts. I kinda skipped level 3...

What are you crazy skipping levels in the early game you need every bit of that precious XP you can get at that point.