Re: Obvious Question

Little White Mouse wrote: 
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:02:34 -0500, Jove wrote:

 Wizards work a lot harder to survive the early game.  Plus
you need to know a lot more about Nethack's various skill systems and
other workings (prayer, altars, spell effects, etc.) to best play a wizard
(imho, at least) while Valkyries have their own deep and subtle strategy
of "Valk smash!"  (Roleplaying for the hard of thinking? ;^)  The
"thinking optional" role I believe someone called it.



I think wizards are actually not too bad.  Once you get identify and Magic
Missle, (and of course MagicBane), everything else is kind of minor.  My
first ascention was with a Wizard, and IIRC he (she?) hacked everything to
pieces with a +2 MagicBane, or blasted it to pieces with top-ranked Magic
Missle/FoD.  I think there was a cone of cold in there too...  But ID is
key - it makes re-supply in Gehennom a breeze, and Eye + FoD is a great
combo!  I even went to level 30 (yes, I know, it's frowned upon) and maxed
out all my skills.  It took a looong time, but I was never in danger of
dying once I got past the quest.


Actually I'd say that levelling wizard to max is not frowned on.

But writing that I realize that it isn't true to some persons writing in this newsgroup so if you think they own the truth feel free.

Writing that I strongly suggest that this issue is noted as one of the controvercies in the FAQ and promise if it added there never to mention it again.

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