I noticed that as I enchanted a fire sword it burned much more frequently than when not enchanted. Although it could have something to do with accustomization or weapon class skill, I really don't know if any of these are correct.

Also, the fire damage doesn't seem to hurt uniques at all and sometimes other monsters like orc officers aren't hurt by it. I mean when you read "It is not hurt".

Another question, what do you consider that is better: wielding two weapons or a weapon and a shield? I have a valpurium two handed sword+6, a valpurium shield and a flaming ruby sword+6, and I seem to do quite well with the two swords as I block many attacks and have two strikes in one turn... but I would like to know if having a high skill with the shield will make me almost untouchable and would be better that way. Right now my char has 41 dex and 24 agi.

Here's a question...

Is the fire damage of a fire sword increased when enchanted or just the physicall damage?

Actually you can, I tried that with meteoric steel bear traps in diferent tiles wearing a belt of levitation and sometimes I would catch my arm in the trap the moment I set it... Was quite risky as Sherarax moves really fast. In one turn she moved 3 tiles all with traps and breaking free from them all. Also I use the s key to search when I want to wait for opponents to move, it takes less time than pressing "." or 5.

About the "You should perhaps move a bit closer" is the message you receive when you try to examine a character pressing the c key when you are not making visual contact, that is, seeing in this case Sherarax through ESP.

Yes when I got it from Mortifer I had 40+ str as a result of a wand of cloning and four bottles of ommel urine

Unfortunately, due to leprosy I lost 5 points in strength til the end of the game, I had a hard time dealing with leprosy as I ran out of antidote liquid past the portal, so I just hoped that Mellis gave me some, but my bottles were broken and he kept giving me water or sulphuric acid, in wich case the bottle is wasted for a future pray.. ahh it wasn't easy...

Well, as the title says finally I won. It was really tough and fun and I spent a lot of hours playing it.

I used no artificial limbs.

I defeated Elpuri, continued through the portal, managed to clear the mage room with patience, wands, flying quarterstaffs (it helps to throw items at this point ) and the help of an archangel.. then defeated Oree. Afterwards I managed to achieve the high priest ending, though not the way I would like. I did it while polymorphed into Sherarax (I killed her in a loooong battle described below) using her two spider silk whips, Attnam was a piece of cake this way. Limbs flew everywhere, it was a limb party I guess the correct way would be in my true form, but anyway.

Well here some screenshots:


The first time I saw Sherarax... I didn't stand a chance against her.



Sherarax's death...



Note that it took me 2 ingame days to kill her. I did the following:

I resurrected a mystic dark frog and tamed 3 master necromancers, then I went to the level where she was... After that I locked myself and my party in a small room, safe from her where the dark frog could cast spells and the master necromancers raise zombies constantly. She tried to open the door quite a few times, but I got permanently hasted (thanks to the mystic dark frog) and was able to close it before she could move, then lock it again (didn't know that last bit), then the frog would telep her away. I was hoping for the frog to desenchant her stuff so I cloned it twice, now I had 3 frogs, but this didn't work that much. The best thing was her catching leprosy by fighting legions of zombies raised by the necros. Her right arm dropped to the ground after some time but that wasn't enough... I kept praying to chaotic gods and spawned an archangel, Sinistra. So we went to fight the one handed Sherarax, I just watched from behind the archangel (too scared to die ) and Sinistra was killed, lost his amulet of life saving and with her second life killed Sherarax, but as she has an amulet of life saving too she recovered her arm and killed the archangel. I teleported away and again to wait. After a while I could spawn another archangel, this time Pestilentia, so we went again to fight, this time I managed to connect one or two blows, and the Archangel (with one arm less and his weapon stolen by Sherarax whip of thievery) gave her the final blow.

Xinroch spawned by a friendly necro



Oree defeated:



Finally Attnam destroyed and me sitting in the throne:

Yes, thanks for the advice

I'll try it with the new character I've been playing with if I survive Sherarax... Right now I'm in Ivan's level and Sherarax showed up, maybe because of my invisibility state (granted by a mystic dark frog) and the amulet of life saving I'm wearing. So Sherarax may have thought "Oh, I sense an amulet of life saving, I've gotta have another one!" and she's after me right now. I'll let you know what happened later

I really can't tell. I didn't have any acid resistance at the moment. Had I known I was going to be gangbanged by a bunch of acidous blood golem I would have equiped 2 rings of acid resistance. I think that was the problem.

Yeah, absolutely.. and what about that screen you have in your avatar? Was that with artificial limbs?

Have you managed to kill Oree with natural limbs?

I managed to kill Elpuri and bring the head to Petrus, but I did a backup save to try getting through the portal and the far I got was to Oree's Lair (didn't kill all the mages and such, just took the portal) where a bunch of Elite Dark Knights and Acidous Blood Golems welcomed me happily eventually killing me. Even though I got there, the previous level was extremely hard for me, zombies kept coming like mad, and when I say like mad I mean like MAD. Sometimes I couldn't even give a step forward before the zombie I had just killed was alive again. I got leprosy twice which I could cure with antidote and if I got near the mages room I was shot with electricity bursts simultaneously which hurted pretty hard.

All this with natural limbs.