07-14-2004, 09:05 AM
Hail Fragbait,
first thing that comes to mind for rogues is to have a look at the Chance to Hit (cth). Nobody pointed this out yet, but I think it's a little bit low. Just have a look at the following calculator:
http://www.dpsyche.com/cth.html
For your lvl, it gives an average useful-cth as 170. OK, this is for hell monsters, and I don't know how much lower it should be for Caves, but 116% seems just a little low to me. Especially for the caves (which I also hate to do with rogues *g*), where it can happen that you get "rushed" by big packs of monsters, and every arrow fired has to hit. I think this could easily be remedied by giving up some STR (for example, swap the helm for something more useful).
Also, Jarulf says in his guide (Chapter 4.2.1) that the Spitters attack is magic (I wasn't sure, so I had to look it up). So, you might get Magic resistance up, and raising Lightning resistance wouldn't hurt either, especially for the caves.
So, easiest thing to do would be, in my opinion, to go looking for a Resist Helm of (Dex suffix) for startes. It would mean some shopping, but I think it would help you quite a bit.
Also, for equipment, all I can say is "Do some Laz runs" (if feasible). The bow is great, but especially for jewelry, there's nothing like Laz runs. If you have a mage with good teleport, that would be the icing of the cake. OK, someone might say that a character should play with what he finds and be left untwinked, but I think that a mage just has a huge advantage here, just teleporting through DLVL 13 and 14 and then killing Lazarus and his pack. Don't want to do this with my warrior... If you need to put the items on another char then, I'd gladly be of help, as that's my problem: Playing multi with different chars and not being able to get those nice items my mage finds over to the other chars...
Also, I would probably forget the caves for now, seeing that you're just one clvl away from Hell difficulty. Get to where the money is and buy elixiers from Adria like there's now tomorrow. Tedious, yes, and maybe contrary to your style of play, but it's what I would do.
Well, I hope this helps, and if you're up for a game, just PM or EMail me, I'd be interested!
Take care,
Lord_Olf
PS: For the sake of completeness: Check out these excellent guides:
The Bible, Jarulf's Guide
http://members.core.com/~dfrease/JGFrame.html
Freshman Diablo
http://www.arewehavingfunyet.com/diablo/diablo.shtml
Some good calculators (and other stuff, too!)
http://www.dpsyche.com/
first thing that comes to mind for rogues is to have a look at the Chance to Hit (cth). Nobody pointed this out yet, but I think it's a little bit low. Just have a look at the following calculator:
http://www.dpsyche.com/cth.html
For your lvl, it gives an average useful-cth as 170. OK, this is for hell monsters, and I don't know how much lower it should be for Caves, but 116% seems just a little low to me. Especially for the caves (which I also hate to do with rogues *g*), where it can happen that you get "rushed" by big packs of monsters, and every arrow fired has to hit. I think this could easily be remedied by giving up some STR (for example, swap the helm for something more useful).
Also, Jarulf says in his guide (Chapter 4.2.1) that the Spitters attack is magic (I wasn't sure, so I had to look it up). So, you might get Magic resistance up, and raising Lightning resistance wouldn't hurt either, especially for the caves.
So, easiest thing to do would be, in my opinion, to go looking for a Resist Helm of (Dex suffix) for startes. It would mean some shopping, but I think it would help you quite a bit.
Also, for equipment, all I can say is "Do some Laz runs" (if feasible). The bow is great, but especially for jewelry, there's nothing like Laz runs. If you have a mage with good teleport, that would be the icing of the cake. OK, someone might say that a character should play with what he finds and be left untwinked, but I think that a mage just has a huge advantage here, just teleporting through DLVL 13 and 14 and then killing Lazarus and his pack. Don't want to do this with my warrior... If you need to put the items on another char then, I'd gladly be of help, as that's my problem: Playing multi with different chars and not being able to get those nice items my mage finds over to the other chars...
Also, I would probably forget the caves for now, seeing that you're just one clvl away from Hell difficulty. Get to where the money is and buy elixiers from Adria like there's now tomorrow. Tedious, yes, and maybe contrary to your style of play, but it's what I would do.
Well, I hope this helps, and if you're up for a game, just PM or EMail me, I'd be interested!
Take care,
Lord_Olf
PS: For the sake of completeness: Check out these excellent guides:
The Bible, Jarulf's Guide
http://members.core.com/~dfrease/JGFrame.html
Freshman Diablo
http://www.arewehavingfunyet.com/diablo/diablo.shtml
Some good calculators (and other stuff, too!)
http://www.dpsyche.com/
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