I typically have dex in the 30's Agi in the 20's to low 30s and Astr in the 30's. I use boots of Agi and gauntlets of strength. I have stood my ground against Petrus and won with these stats, of course clad in GEF and Valpurium gear and, oh yeah Petrus was usually hobbled by valpurium bear traps.

Of course you can also change the material to a lighter stronger material. E.g., Ur Khan's ruby halberd is easily used one handed.

try taming phantom decos

yeah its only worthwhile if you have highly enchanted the item otherwise its easier to just use one SoCM make a new ommel tooth armour.

Yeah Al, I've used loricatus many times to harden gear to Adamantine. I went through a phase in my early IVAN days when and Adamantine Turox was my weapon of choice. Of course I always ended up kiling myself with Turox explosion side effects not to mention all the wonderful scrolls I've burned. In a game where you find no Artifact weapons an adamantine flaming sword is pretty decent. Adamantine beartraps are also quite usefull for dismembering named baddies.

I have never worn adamantine platemail, just too damn heavy. If you find an SoCM or an ommel bone or bone platemail plus SoHM, an ommel tooth platemail is even better than adamantine, light and stronger (375 vs 350), zap it a few times with those numerous wands of slow that pollute the game and it will last a long time. If you have spare SoCM's and highly enchant your ommel tooth armour and it has too many flies you can always change it to another material and then back to ommel tooth.

Hmm. Maybe I should go play an all ommel tooth game of IVAN.

you ate testicles!

nut as in Petrus' left nut, testes, balls, cahones, gonads, prairie oysters, juevos, family jewels. Eating human flesh is an evil deed. Apparently dwarves aren;t human so feel free to pick up a Kamikaze dwarf head for lunch after he assplodes himself next to you

Congrats on the win. That is a neat trick getting Elpuri stuck to a wall and quadruple zapping him; worth noting as tips tricks and secrets post. I think with your stats you could have walked up to elpuri and hacked off his head in straight melee (as opposed to gay melee? lol)

So this was no ommel cerumen int boost tips, but for completions sake...

Pray to sophos when missing limbs and you have a reasonable chance of getting an ommel cerumen limb (hopefully a leg because they weigh more). Time to play with your collection of mithril bear traps in New Attnam or Attnam and then eat that yummy treat. if you want to clone your limb its an easy 50 int/wis without using the heinous ommel cerumen large chest cheat. I think this method is totally legit (though cheap) although i don't use it since I have no prob sci talking to 100+ int/wis.

you are fucked

Looking good is probably the most important part of charisma though. There's nothing quite like the feeling of strutting through a dungeon splattered with the blood of the monsters you have dismembered and knowing that you look good doing it. Think of Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness: "All right, who wants some? You want some?"

If you guys are too young to have seen this classic I highly recommend you hit the video store. (or download it you theiving little bastards!)