GRPD melee max counter that couldn't

Won DoD classic (no RoDG) today for the second time.
My first winner was a boring staves/armour/alchemy/promethean/blood/psionics/mathemagic. It wasn't any hard (staple it and bash it; had 50 noxious flasks when I killed Dred).

So my next char was GRPD sword/double/dodge/necro/fleshsmiting/archeology/assasin (with core skill rebalance mod). I was planning to max counter since crits are boring.
The hardest level was DL 2 without AA - every monster hurted me badly. But I've got one armed jacket (2AA) and I have never had any problems since. I was even curious whether I'm really on GR towards DL 7!
I had like 30 grenades and 10 holy bombs when I met Dredmor, as well as necro capstone rift. But I took pride finishing the last 30% of Dredmor's health in melee - was pretty easy double-wielding doul's swords!
Oh, and due to a bug my character got his counter stuck at 20 down from 50 at DL8! And the game crashed on me quite a few times on DL9. Still I rejoice.

Equip was warrior/mage - I don't like pure warrior equip. Sagan, plate pants with +3 magic regen, +6 AA on aux items, a pair of douls, a pair of white lies (backup). Too lazy to make screenshots - it's a pity Dredmor doesn't produce a morgue log. Nothing terribly interesting anyway.

I guess the classic game is too easy and RoDG would me much harder?

P.S. If any of mods is reading it, please change my nickname to 'alamar'
When creating account I entered my name under the field "your name" only later realizing it's a game forum and everybody would be using nicks and it would be embarrassing, which it is.

 

Thanks a lot Daynab!

 

Sure is.

 

I think I've been around long enough that no one can call me a noob for this (but feel free to call me a dunce) - what do you mean by AA, exactly?

 

Armour Absorption, that white stat that's the most important for a melee character.

 

Aha! I simply call it armor.

 

And I just take a look at all the secondary stats whenever someone mentions a contraction like that.
But each to his own.

 

I just say ""

 

As to dose that kick in before, after, combined with or instead of ?

 

I believe its combined with whichever is appropriate.

 

I did the exact same thing. I actually feel slightly better knowing that somebody else was just as dense as I was.

Could a mod please change my forum name to Gaidren please?