by Darvin on Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:35 am
Taurog is -40% attack, Binlor strips you of all your resists.
The Glowing Guardian's now has stacking piety gain from level-ups. First level-up while worshipping him grants 3 piety, second grants 6, third grants 9, and so on. If you get in the door really early then the stacking benefit picks up and will easily pay for your piety loss (though drinking potions to fuel a trisword is definitely a disqualifier). Because you can usually level up off of a single higher-level kill when you're a low-level character, and the piety loss has now been normalized to a much lower -2 regardless of the level difference, low-level characters can handle his punishments no problem.
Unfortunately, GG remains a total wasteland for level 4-7 characters. His piety gain will never take off, the sweet spot for his early-game boons has passed but has yet to arrive for his late-game boons, and piety loss from killing higher-level monsters will be at its most penalizing at this stage (since you need to kill many to level-up).