New game, decided to just chill out with an easy game as a neutral human barbarian. It's a class I haven't done yet, and I need to relearn everything anyhow.
Not much besides me fumbling clumsily around in the Gnomish mines. I get lucky and the minetown altar is coaligned. Nothing real of note besides the fact that I forget that I shouldn't go down too far without MR, and I trigger a polytrap, turning into a bugbear and destroying my armor and my Cloak of protection! No! I like those cloaks! Anyway, it balances out when I find a magic lamp just moments later. Turns out to be cursed though. I come up with a brilliant plan however. Through careful manipulation, I lock all of the watch members in the various rooms, and I dig down into one of the fountains. I use the resulting puddles to dilute the miscellaneous potions I've been finding, and voila, holy water. Blessing and rubbing my lamp, I wish for a blessed greased fixed +2 magicbane.
I can't think of anything better. MR, engraving, effects, and most importantly, curse defense. Curse defense is HUGE, anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar! It's a shame that Magicbane is the only artifact that gives it.
Anyway, that's one artifact down, and I plan to use my next wish on an Orb of fate. I just hope I don't find a randomly generated artifact, however minute the chance is.
I forgot how much time this eats.