[1.0.1]Dwarf Stone Warden - Nightmare Roguelike Winner

[Parcae2]

Behold! The weird name is so that all the death messages would say stuff like "You asshole, you killed Elandar!"

Swift Hands was the result of trying to be too clever by half - I figured that I could just swap in an appropriate shield. This did not work terribly well, and led to two deaths due to unblocked elements, although I fortunately had the Blood of Life and Ring of the Dead. I did use Swift Hands to swap in spellpower gear for casting Deeprock Form, although this caused my autouse block to stop working until I reselected it. Quite annoying.

Other than that, I was quite pleased with this character - the first Stone Warden to beat Nightmare Roguelike, and also my first Nightmare Roguelike win (although I had gotten to level 49 with a previous Stone Warden, and to the final fight with a necro). I might put up a guide later.

(This character won a week or two ago, by the way. I just didn't post him until now.)

[jenx]

How was eternal guard? And congrats!

[Parcae2]

It's mandatory for Stone Wardens. I'd even say that it's the only thing that makes them playable at high levels, since they probably have the lowest damage output in the game.

[SageAcrin]

I kinda disagree...they feel pretty good even without that, to me.

But ehn...I'm the only one that seems to think the block abilities of Stone Wardens can get too much, and I'm not so hung up on nerfs as to push it. If it works for other people, I don't care.