Survive... Die... Who cares? I save every 2-3 kills. When I die, I just reload. I'd much rather use my level bonuses on something that matters EVERY time I attack (or am attacked by) a monster - AC. Will I ever bump my HP up to 65? Sure, eventually. But I'd be surprised if I take it that high prior to reaching level 40.Dreia wrote:Given that a gargoyle could hit you for up to 60 damage in a single round (improbably but possible) I didn't think that having 65 HP was too low. Considering that I have been hit for 57 damage once and survived... For the mountain it may be a little bit high but for the gargoyles and trainers it wasn't.Rory Mac wrote:Well I'm glad I went ahead a tried it. Not really having any significant problems. I leveled up in Flagstone to 25, and headed in with 700 bonemeal, 150 regular potions and 90 meat. I've been all around the areas near Prim, up and back down the mountain, back up again and I'm about half way down the second time. I sided with BW. I currently still have 666 bonemeal, 144 regular potions, and 69 meat. So I think I was plenty tough enough to take on BWM at level 25. Personally, from looking at your stats I think you put too much into HP and not enough into AC. That may have been your issue when you were in the mid 20's. Other than that extra HP, My character stats at 26 are just about equal to yours at 33.Dreia wrote:The issue isn't that you *can't* do the mountain at mid 20's, the key word here is safely. You could spend dozens of meat trying to take down a single wyvrn, or multiple bonemeal potions. Even then the possibility is that you could still die (It happened to me at 32 so. . .) You need both HP to survive and AC to hit and Damage to actually do enough per hit to really matter. currently I have 9 levels devoted to HP and the rest to either damage or AC and I still felt the need to retreat and get a bit more AC.
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The way I look at it, more HP is a convenience while more AC is a necessity.