1st R/L win: mindstar cursed-aura antimagic cornac cursed

[Noel]

(now that's a mouthful...)

http://te4.org/characters/1768/tome/36a ... 488510344d

I started focusing on Cursed Aura pretty early -- the stat boosts help out quite a bit in the early game. Found a +0.28 Cursed Aura mastery amulet that allowed me to eventually stack Shrouds to 7.7 and get 33% resist all from moving or killing something. Added to a 21% base res all, that's pretty useful. For longer fights, I ended up dancing to keep the res all up: hit, sidestep, hit, sidestep, etc. Adding 60% damage reduction from Ruined Earth is even nicer.

Used the Blood of Life (thanks, Bill) when stupidly opening a Dreadfell L1 vault and not paying attention to how hard the shadows were hitting...

The one real pain was the stun/freeze/disarm debuffs, especially in a High Peak vault with resurrecting armoured skeleton warriors. Strange thing, though. Char sheet shows 100% stun resist, but strangely I was regularly getting stunned/flameshocked/frozen.

Used the Respec Anywhere addon so I could keep floating one point in Combat Accuracy and one in Weapons Mastery until I was able to buy mindstar mastery. Got Elixirs of Focus and Foundations, and never really felt pinched for points. Cat points went to Rampage, Cursed Aura, and Fungus.

[HousePet]

You would have picked up the Pearl of Life and Death which gives stun resist when you carry it.

[Noel]

Ach, that's it. I hadn't equipped any stun resistant items, so I only had the 49% from Relentless. The 0% Disarm resistance was even more silly.