This is my latest attempt at reaching whatever’s at the bottom. I’ve learned from my previous mistakes and I believe I’ve got a better character this time. I even brought two akhs, a blessed one and a regular one (both lost in this same level). I’m still running out of food and health potions very quickly in the last levels. The bosses are really taxing in terms of health potions, and exploring takes a lot of time, which means I’m using many food items. Here are my items and skills:
Scale or plate armor plus 10, augmented for defense, and a reliable way to mitigate warlocks and scorpios is a near guaranteed win condition.
Warrior blinding talent is often enough, others I favor are a wand of blast wave to stun or knock them into pits, blinding darts, camouflage glyph on armor, a high level staff of prismatic light for a mage.
If you have the rat skull trinket, for the love of God drop it before going into the demon halls, acidic scorpios are brutal
Wouldn’t agument for defense
Would
Defense agument makes it so you have less evasion. So, your only current weakness (magic attacks) become more likely to hit, therefore more deadly.
Agreed.
Which is why in my original comment I mentioned having a method of range attack mitigation also being important.
Stone is a rare armor glyph for a reason. Increased mitigation at the cost of even all of your avoidance is a net benefit.