12-31-2003, 05:33 PM
I am only level 23 so far playing SC.
I found a blackbog's in 1.09 and waited till 1.10 to start my daggermancer so I didn't screw him up :)
Anyway's I'm having fairly decent success using a defiance merc, since I'm not planning on pushing my strength past 75 or so the defiance merc will definately help with my low defense.
Early on I found that terror worked wonders to help clear the room as DM seemed to wear off to quickly and I died a few times when I got stuck surrounded by a bunch of DM ranger critters when the DM wore off.
I cast terror a couple of times get most of the critters to run away and then use life tap on the ones that remain so my merc can survive. This worked rather nicely here in the early stages. I found a +3 to DM wand and with this larger radius and duration I now see it's use and plan on pushing it to at least 10 or so.
Even still when I'm getting swarmed I still use terror as it really helps clear the area.
Another strategy I've found that works nicely is to block a doorway with a bonewall, my merc, or myself so a limited number of critters can get through at a time and once I kill one of them with my dagger, just start casting poison explosion on the corpses in the doorway and watch them just start to fall.
I found a blackbog's in 1.09 and waited till 1.10 to start my daggermancer so I didn't screw him up :)
Anyway's I'm having fairly decent success using a defiance merc, since I'm not planning on pushing my strength past 75 or so the defiance merc will definately help with my low defense.
Early on I found that terror worked wonders to help clear the room as DM seemed to wear off to quickly and I died a few times when I got stuck surrounded by a bunch of DM ranger critters when the DM wore off.
I cast terror a couple of times get most of the critters to run away and then use life tap on the ones that remain so my merc can survive. This worked rather nicely here in the early stages. I found a +3 to DM wand and with this larger radius and duration I now see it's use and plan on pushing it to at least 10 or so.
Even still when I'm getting swarmed I still use terror as it really helps clear the area.
Another strategy I've found that works nicely is to block a doorway with a bonewall, my merc, or myself so a limited number of critters can get through at a time and once I kill one of them with my dagger, just start casting poison explosion on the corpses in the doorway and watch them just start to fall.