Quote:True enough-which is why my immortal hero rogues rarely make it past Nightmare caves. Of course, another reason is the damage done by skeleton archers and illusion weavers (unless an ROE is found).
Archers are always an issue.
Spell attacks are great; I'm currently playing a magic-heavy rogue in singleplayer (she's currently in caves). I already found Naj's Light Plate and I think that will be my final armor; this means I can get away with very low Strength, since the biggest bow Str requirement is 45 and I have plenty of +all stats from items (2 items "of the moon", which I hope to trade in for Heavens/Zod eventually). So I can boost Magic fairly high.