Thankfully, golems are easy to avoid! I wouldn’t want to face that beast.

I always go with Nature’s Power. Having extra speed and bow fire rate can be very helpful, especially when you miss with your missile weapon and you can’t recover it right away.

/me bows in reverence!

Well done, congrats! I didn’t have the stamina to ascend on my T1 run, getting the amulet was enough for me…

Gotcha – for me it was the first time. Also, I was thinking that maybe I had food issues early on because I started with a single RoH +0, so fights in the jail took a long time. Once I had both rights with a few upgrades, things got better. I seem to recall your seed gives you both rings at +2 early on, right?

Good luck with Yog! When I got the RoH + RoSS and saw how well they work together, I thought you had been right to plan your run around those :-)

This strategy sounds like it would definitely work for a T1 run. Combining ring of arcana with camouflage and rogue abilities is quite ingenious. Getting all the pieces does require a good amount of luck, though (I like to go with the roll of the dice and don’t often play known seeds).

One question, isn’t this a bit slow and repetitive to play? Having to wait nine rounds per enemy sounds like a lot of waiting.

I think it’s there just to give you one more option. Besides, it looks pretty cool B-)

When playing with a duellist-champion, though, the runic blade has a very attractive ability: it increases the power of its enchantment by a ton. Once I got a projecting runic blade, and I could hit enemies all the way across large rooms. Very entertaining!

Nice! Congratulations.

Yes! That’s what I did. I needed to upgrade the leather armor to survive the jail and the first few levels of caves. Once I got the ring, I used the SoU on the ring and my thrown weapon (to activate the sniper shot). With the shared enchantment talent, the fishing spear became grim as well!

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Nice! It’s a nice change of pace to see runs with lower-tier items. I chose to go with the gladiator since I knew the combos would supplement the low offense, and the extra shielding would do the same for armor. Trying with a freerunner is an intersting idea, though.

Thanks!

Upgrade scrolls: actually I haven’t upgraded my weapon at all (I found the sword +1 somewhere in the jail). I’m hoping to find a +2 or +3 tier-3 weapon. I also have an enchantment stone, waiting for the right weapon. Also, I’ve only spent two SoU on the armor (found at +2, another +2 from the troll).

Interesting idea to use a freerunner. That’s a class that I’ve never tried, though, and it seems difficult to use well (like the duellist monk).

Regarding rings and wands, I don’t put any restrictions on them, since (as you said) they don’t have a tier, so they’re fair game.

Each level in the demon halls (levels 20-24) has one. I always go after them at the start of each level; otherwise you’ll have to deal with lots of demon rippers.

Amazing!

Just keep trying and you’ll get there. It took me many, many games, and I still lose much more than I win with two challenges. Sometimes it feels like a whole different game, once you enable a couple of challenges.

After being able to consistently win without challenges, I activated three and then two challenges, only to consistently lose! I had to take it slow and learn new strategies for each challenge, and then learn to apply them all at once. You also need to be lucky and get the right equipment!

TLDR, take it slow and keep trying to improve your strategy, eventually you’ll get there.

Good point!

Nice! For me, 17 is by far the most I’ve ever finished with.

To add to other comments:

• This wand is much more useful when upgraded, since you get more powerful wards/sentries.
• The first three zaps produce wards, which shoot a specific number of times.
• The next three zaps produce sentries, which will zap once every two turns until killed.
• You can place wards anywhere you have vision, even across walls.

I’ve tried playing with a staff of warding once or twice, but I don’t think I’ve managed to win yet. It’s a fun wand but it requires planning and careful management of charges. One thing I enjoyed doing was placing a couple of sentries in a spot that mob patrols would frequent. No more random mobs to worry about!