by Blovski on Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:22 pm
First Naga City win - as a half-dragon (first try at the level) : ) Actually a really decent choice for this level just because your hulking 125-45% minimum knockback (I tend to prep the bear mace to double starting knockback, since you can usually get another threshold out of converting it if you need to) will hugely cut the number of hits you need to take from bosses, and you can deal both magical and physical damage without bringing Burndayraz, and you don't need to avoid resist-down bosses. Went Tikki Tooki (I think poison doesn't work with knockback, which is a shame, but still not a big enough problem) then Dracul for the health swells, and I had a couple of lifesteal things. I did luck out a bit in bringing the trisword and finding the Alchemist scroll but given I spent 50 piety on the usual poison trick which doesn't actually work for the half-dragon and I didn't really get any early piety farm god, I think it's definitely possible to do this without being so lucky. The fact you can definitely score a weytwut and instant convert out of JJ once you get down, so early Weytwut is nice but not needed. You can also prep JJ + compression if you want to without suffering too much, since you only really need weytwut as a glyph.