He is deadly in short range. I had by then an teleport rune slot. When I first encountered him I teleported away, then found a nice long hallway and waited for him to track me (I actually got bored pressing '5' so I hurt myself with starfall to be able to speed-regen). I lit up one end (from where he would arrive) with sun blast to spot him at long range. When he showed up I crashed a star into him for a nice stun, then covered the whole approach area with a shadow blast, shot him with searing light, moonbeams and firebeams. He managed two steps at most.

I had problems keeping escorts alive, tended to fry them with residual searing lights or shadow blasts or twilight surges. But one escort thief gave me heightened senses, and I believe that has been absolutely VITAL in this chars survival. So either finding an early good light source or a successful thief escort quest is very useful for A-thils.

Edit: HAvent unlocked barrier yet. Mabye with higher magic level and more skill points, but I haven't gone there yet. (At level 18)

Hey,
I am currently playing an Anorithil now, after almost-successful fighter, wyrmic and archmage. (They all went east, one twice)

I share your opinion for the starting game. Trollmire is the easiest dungeon but I had more anorithil die there than any other character type. Bill the Troll had 4 notches in his belt before I finally had one of my acolytes kill him. After that it got a whole easier, and now my char is having a very easy time indeed. Kor'Pul, Old forest, Sandworm, Maze, City storm (easiest time I've ever had in here) and now in Daikara. Maxed out moonbeam first, put one point in a good many skills, saved up some generic points to level 8 so I could get the perseverance hymn up to speed, then resistance hymn. Shadow blast was next to max out, after I learned that the damage listed in the talent list is very wrong. It is a LOT more, It's a huge area as well, albeit short range. At level 10 I took another rune/infusion slot. Got 1 wild, 2 regen (keep looking for the best regen/healing there is) and a teleport (in case I forget jumpgate or run out of negative energy). Starfall next pumped, sun flare up to 5 radius blind plus some damage, and getting firebeam up to speed now.

Currently at level 18 I have not maxed out my magic for my level, and hardly worked on cunning at all. (twilight/twilight surge still give enough NE for now). Instead I did enough con to get health +2, and actually raised STR to 18 to get heavy armor ability, to use all those great helms and metal boots that keep dropping.

Got a shielding amulet and boots of stability, so feeling pretty safe nothing can kill me before I can teleport out.

By the way, melee is decent for the char. I do 30 damage per enemy per round. Only thing is, I dont hit them, they do.

Normal is not cheating. In short, normal will probably teach you how to play a class faster, while hardcore will teach safety and how to avoid dying faster. Getting as much +CON and health talents and resists is a priority, no matter what character I play.

-M

Thanks yes that does help a bit. I have a fondness for fortitude for some reason but resistance is probably better later on.

I am running in Normal Mode...just because I dislike the negatives applied to Roguelike(hardcore).

I'd forgotten about those (I glanced through them when I first signed up here.) They do seem relatively accurate and mostly mirror what I was doing already. The advice about keeping NE full seems to be the best one as that is where the game gets hard. If you run out of negative energy you need to do something to restore it before you can do anything else with it and the sustains really make it tough to keep it high.

there would seem to be quite a few places where escorts may appear. i encountered the same: no escorts in the trollmire. they turned up in other dungeons. that would be the RNG for you?

I've always loved to see a "real" ranger class in a roguelike (good archery skills + able to dual-wield light weapons while lightly armored). Usually, a ranger is designed as an archer or a fighter, rarely both. Added some talents too? This should be interesting...

At least twice I've had non-rogue characters find both "Moon" and "Star" daggers in the Maze. And selling them for ten cents on the gold piece really hurts.

Found a really really nice randart great sword just recently and wished it was on one of the two-hander classes instead of the fighter I am currently running. Sad right?

I realized that this Urist was wasting the shield skill set, but I got carried away by that stralite greatsword.

Congrats on the win! :) Try unlocking the mage city after you finish the Antimagic quest. That way you can get better infusions and runes there, and maybe some rings and wands.

Bugs should be reported here: http://forums.te4.org/viewforum.php?f=42 Also, you can try IRC channel: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=23463

That did not go well. Found that following the neutral burrowers around would eventually get Snik to a down stair. She made it to lvl 5 but then a gravity worm and three corrosive burrowers did her in. Twice. Bad tactics again, after she resurrected and decided to recall out she should have taken the up stairs to wait for the recall to kick in.