Unless you consider the Slayer wand a bug, then no. Slayer Wand, STR potion, Dodge Potion and Reflex as preps really get you those levels fast.
Incidentaly, I've just done a Rogue Elite run. The difference between finding Drac and not finding Drac is about 2000 damage to a 50% resist enemy. If I had the good sense to save LEMISI, I would have still done it with TT's poison, but still, even if you scale it down for a regular run, a Taurog into Drac %res stacker is morbidly overpowered in my book.
All this probably means I've found way sto sneak %res stackers through 2 curse floors, so it's bussines as usual concerning Gaan'Telet. It was never really hard with that approach, I'm not even prepping dragonshield...