Strangely, I did things the opposite way. I played on roguelike until I got the hang of things (and beat the game), and now I switched to mostly doing adventurer. I think the initial kick of roguelike helps teach you to really focus on every move and figure out what does and doesn't work, even if it is somewhat harsh.

welcome to tome my friend, hope you enjoyed your deaths :P
my main suggestion here are that: the event's dungeons are better when you reached something like level 22 to unlock some skills that could help you in both killing and surviving, in your case you could have gone there when you first leveled unstoppable.
second one: check what tipe of debuff you had to get free with a wild infusion or a rune, if i remember, strangling is a physical effects and using a wild infusion that cured you from a phisical effect would had set you free, otherwise killing the enemy that applied it is another solution before you die by strangling.

Time to create another char whom awaits the same fate :p

shit happens when u play a kind of a squishy class and open the chest without preparing something to escape in case of danger :c
i might suggest you to play on adventure rather than roguelike to learn more about the game.
i hope u have a better luck with your next characters! :3

get wrecked :b

No need to respond - this is performed on character creation :)

Thank you

Is the update from the download page. spose to be 316mb?

The RNG is a harsh mistress. There are so many damage/resist types that you cannot build a guaranteed safe character, and the corridor-heavy character of many zones makes summoners particularly dangerous. Phase door and teleport runes are popular early on, psychoport torques I find are usually later game (so much so, in my case anyway, that I usually don't need them by the time I find them).

I am not very experienced, but I do have a Yeek Mindslayer winner. In reading through your original post, two things stand out.

First, I push the Derth lightning fest out until I have some decent lightning resist, because the elementals are not always spaced out enough to take them on one at a time. That's just one of those areas that requires a specific set of things to address to minimize danger, otherwise it's a crap shoot.

Second, Lake Nur is one of those areas I'm always scared of - I *always* push that out, though I know it scales, because there are just too many things that can smoke you early. You need to be resilient in a host of different areas, and have a lot of capabilities, and even then it's still dangerous (rare worm-that-walks, shivers). That's one area I don't try to clear.

In the end, no, you cannot plan for all OODs. Sometimes you get hit with a bad crit, or a speedy tough regenerator, or a one-shot. That's just how it goes.

I have to admit when I was playing DoD regularly I often stopped to read if I saw a new insult.

Ah yes forgot the Zig shop though I don't recall ever finding anything interesting in those shops aside from the Stars. I don't really have trouble usually finding regens/heals/wilds on the floor.

Yeah Dwarf may be better though I understood from certain players that Yeek was advantaged by having a bit more experience % mods so that would in theory make up for the collective lack of HP. I guess they were wrong.

Typically I start Weirdling at level 14 or so so I figured with level 16 I'd be fine. C'est la Vei.

RE Augmentation, force of habit from playing Adventurer style builds those stat gains are huge. And they were instrumental early on since you don't start getting Mindstars until after you leave the early areas and even then I only started using the ones I had earlier than I expected because I recently did an escort that gave me Psiblades (Old Forest 4 I think). Otherwise I would have stuck with the 2hers. It is true I didn't account for the change from being reliant on Str/Dex to being Reliant on Will/Cun. I guess I have to plan the beginning a bit better since the two don't styles/choices don't mix well.

As for going Antimagic, I assumed the Fungus line would be excellent with my heals. But of course I didn't get that far.

I agree about causes of death typically and a lot of that I don't mind but when it is something like an OOD monster I see red because there is no predicting that. As the fellow below you commented my priorities are usually to make sure I can escape first and then fight. But Mindslayer does not seem to be very good at escaping or fighting for that matter. Being super squishy of course does not help.

My experience with the shields is they suck. I might have it wrong because Psionics in general are abstractly done here and don't make a lot of sense to me as implemented but they are newer from my pov than much of the rest of the game, so I may just need to learn what works/doesn't work. But even though there are all these holes (thanks for showing me them) in the build it was doing well. On par for its level until this point.

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I think I forgot to mention that a lot of this advice I intend to put into practice (build wise) on my next mindslayer. So thank you.