Sidestepper's Newbie-Friendly Annotated Playthroughs

[Darvin]

Instructions for use:
1) Snigger at name
2) Quaff Potion
3) ????
4) Profit!

[Darvin]

http://www.qcfdesign.com/wiki/DesktopDu ... agma_Mines

Annotated playthrough of Magma Mines (feeling parched as priest) is up.

[The Avatar]

Nice! I really need to re-locker my crystal ball. I had to junk it to get in an orb of Zot for my Demonic Library Gorgon. The nice thing about that level is he has crappy hp. Heck I took a Demonlord with more hp than him at level 4! With a fireball strategy!

[Murdus]

I would have a request. Gorgon. Any Hard, if possibile. (Preferably the -really- hard ones.)

Or if someone feels ballsy, Vicious.

[Kuranes]

[The Avatar]

Vamp is just broken, but I enjoy playing Half-Dragons so I might do a Namtar run with one!

[gjaustin]

[Kuranes]

I also have a pretty intresting one to add. Ding MAX badge in Hobbler's Hold. I have begun the completion run (also to simply amass gold) and I began wondering would it be possible to even reach level 10 in Hobbler's Hold? The easy dungeon with a level 8 boss.

[xspeedballx]

Goblin Fighter + Elite items(yendor) could probably do it.

[CznRhubarb]

I just got the Ding! Max badge in Hobbler's Hold with a Goblin Assassin and without Yendor, but xspeedballx's method should do it even easier.

The monsters are real weak, so you should be able to consistently fight things way above your level for bonus XP, then convert everything. I would also wait until after or around when you are fighting the boss to start converting things as it is easier to get bonus XP from fighting higher level monsters while you are lower level.
Take the 50 gold prep so you can buy more things to convert. The best items to look for are the soul orb and the viper ward, as they both have more than a 4:1 ratio of conversion points to gold spent buying them.
Conversion Seal is good to have, and you could bring a Sensation stone if you want.

I don't use Dracul's +piety boon often, but that may help as well. Gives you a useless extra level up.