I am almost at the end of a Random Skills run on DMPD and I am stuck - I have no idea how to kill Dredmor. Anyone got ideas? My skills are Sword, Shield (need 1 more level for full), Killer Vegan, Promethean, Astronomy, Archaelolgy (level 2) and Perception (only level 1). All maxed out except for where it is noted otherwise. My items are Full Helm, Cloak of Sagan (with possibility of swapping out for an Armour 12 armor which in turn kills off my Magic Power), I have a decent sword dealing, in total, about 65 damage of various types, about 140hp, crap rings, crap trousers, crap boots, crap necklace, crap crossbow, no arrows or bombs and the choice between the Astartes Tome (from Interior Dredmorating 1.2.4 I think?) which gives +10 Damage total and +8 Armour but no spell resist - OR A mirror shield with basically no physical defense but instead it has 49% spell reflect. I have no idea what to do here because he just rips me apart within a few turns. I ran away and am now exploring the last level from another entrance. Also, I have Diggle Gods but I dont have it activated as mode, so I am at Dungeon Level 10 with no invoked gods available. Edit: I guess my question, to narrow it down, is this: What do i actually do in the fight to survive, what off-hand should I go for and what armor should I use? And to clarify "crappy": my trousers are the Cut Offs which give +1 Dodge and nothing else. My luck has been horrible :/
A suggestion could be to go up a few floors and check bolt dispensers for squid/mass destruction, squid in particular is potent if you can get a shot off and get out of harms way with a teleport pad or such before he returns fire, rinse repeat a couple or three times should do the trick.
Already emptied all dispensers for Squid and not a single Mass Destruction showed up the entire game. I checked, literally every single dispenser I ran across while cleaning out every single level. I play on NTTG so I guess that limits my chances somewhat with respect to dispensers showing up
Hm. Your magic skills aren't the best for killing Dredmor. Aetherial damage hits him fine but he's got fire resist out the wazoo. Your best bet might be the mirror shield. I think a lot of his spells can be bounced. But then, taking that into melee is pretty chancy, and I think you'll need to hit him with your sword to close the deal. It's unfortunate that you don't have Diggle Gods available. They'd make thing somewhat easier.
Yeah - as I said, I was running for a Random build just to try something more challenging but now that I actually got to Dredmor, I am really having trouble. I can easily kill the rest of the level but I strongly doubt it will help me at all.
