Thanks for the words of encouragement, Al, and even for the barbed jabs. *practices his riposting skills* It will be a ton of fun, that's for sure!
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First runewords were Booster in a belt and boots, of course. +500 points is a nice addition to... zero! Harken runewords in a tall charm and hex charm were next. I love me some Faster Run/Walk, that's for certain. For other armor pieces, he has a studded leather with 102 defense and two sockets that still have not been filled. A large shield with three sockets which are still empty. An Infernal Cranium set cap was set on his bald pate, but then I remembered that, duh, it ain't allowed. He's wearing a two-socket helm, and there don't seem to be many options for two-socket helms for a melee-based character who isn't using mana yet.
For weapons, he started with a run-of-the-mill spiked club, then at around level 4 or 5, a spiked club with 2 x chipped topaz and chipped sapphire. This lasted until level 17, when I made Vision in a two-socket sceptre.
Splitting stat points between dex and str, heavy on the dex to keep blocking around 65%. None in vit so far. Put three points into find potion, which is really useful at low levels. Not only does it give free healing, but all those potions that he doesn't use means that the monster dropped an extra 50 gold!
He's been using Bash since level 10; it is level 7 now. Adds good damage, but it is slow. It must depend on faster cast rate, because my normal attack has been getting faster with the Harken runewords, but Bash has not changed in attack speed at all. Will do more testing, with the new Vision sceptre, to see which is better – slow Bash or faster normal attack. After a little testing, it is almost a complete wash. The faster attack speed makes it seem like things are moving along faster, but the lower damage means things die at the same rate. For meaner monsters, like Ogre Demons and Bishibosh, the guaranteed knockback of Bash means that they get fewer hits on Bloodmist, but for normal monsters he's sticking with normal attack for now.
At level 15, Howl became available, and makes Cold Plains a lot easier with the crowd control aspect. Howl until everything flees except a couple that Blood can manage at once, then chase down the groups of two or three that fled in different directions.
Added hp3 to any charm to the Harken tall charm. I wanted to wait for the “right charm,” but with a melee character, the players X setting is going to be low (tried p3 and p2 around level 12, but it was just too slow), which means that the drops are not going to be flowing in like I am used to, which means that I could be waiting for a long time for the “perfect” charm to which to add cube scrolls. He needs more life now! 120 hp was a nice boost. Bloodmist currently has 289 life at level 17.
No merc yet. Of the characters that I've had so far, the merc has been nothing but a big fat pain in the arrears, so I'm not sure if I will put any effort whatsoever into maintaining even the free one once the time comes.
@Ssergit: I took the liberty of adding you to the table.
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Player Character/Class RW CHoM POST AC EM TOTAL
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John11 PewPew/Ama 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
Al-T Dora/Ama 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
gogodanny Black_Death/Assa 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
Hellwolf_36 Blivarticcil/Sorc 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
AngusT Aphelandra/Ama 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
Metro RiseandShine/Nec 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
Bucky Buckassin/Assa 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
Montex Xeon/Barb 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
czg Eve/Ama 500 1500 3000 5000 1.000 10000
wolfwing wlft/Druid 500 1500 3000 5000 0.990 9900
Mithendil Kage/Nec 500 1500 0 5000 1.000 7000
Xeigho Cassilyn-lok/Assa 500 1500 0 0 1.000 2000
Billybgame Michelle/Sorc 500 1500 0 0 1.000 2000
Przemo Lukrecja/Ama 500 0 0 0 1.000 500
JrEye Jayarih/Pal 500 0 0 0 1.000 500
Nanobots Godel/Assa 500 0 0 0 1.000 500
Clersius Bloodmist/Barb 500 0 0 0 1.000 500
Hans Ni-TheKnight/Pal 0 0 0 0 1.000 0
Rodsur Imazon/Ama 0 0 0 0 1.000 0
Misfulness Dolphin/Barb 0 0 0 0 1.000 0
the_bogan Evolutioned/Nec 0 0 0 0 1.000 0
Ssergit Aldur/Druid 0 0 0 0 1.000 0