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[Hureg]

Once you get past church you're probably going to want all 4 members to stick together. Once you get past cats, you're definately going to want all members to stick together. This is basically because the experience points shared between 4 characters is going to put you at a very big disadvantage than if you were just running 2 characters. Not to mention the fact that if you're scouting in two directions at once, any overdraw is probably going to cost you res scrolls. The problem with not leveling enough is you have less chance to stun, which as Lang pointed out is crucial because if you're not stunning your enemy then your warrior or 'tank' is taking a pounding. Dex maxes at 60 so your not going to get a great deal of use out of your shield and even if you do stumble upon a dex add or two you're still not going to be blocking all that convincingly.

As for not taking a sorc, your second rogue is going to be a lot less effective with her bow and if you're going to take a character just for spells then you should take a sorc. Firstly because the points he spends to magic are going to give you a lot more mana than the points a rogue would spend and then also because a rogue doesn't get the bonus mana a sorc gets for consuming a small blue.