How important are temporary elemental resists?

liches are undead things, thus dracoliches are undead things, thus they
breathe cold (and nether). Dracolisks breathe fire (and nexus?). So
yes, it is the other way around.

Pretty much all problems can be solved with enough hit points. Keep you
con/hp high for the time being.

Timo Pietilä wrote:

> David Vestal wrote:
>
>> I'm a Dunadan Warrior around 2500'. Am I asking to die by having no
>> elemental temporary resists? If so, are they all equally important, or
>> are rFire and rCold the important ones? And what are the nastier
>> creatures (in terms of elemental attacks) at that depth?
>
>
> Around 2500 nastiests are probably Dracolich and Dracolisk. -lich
> breathes fire and -lisk cold (or was it other way around). Not too bad
> with single resist.
>
> There are some monsters deeper that are nearly impossible to kill with
> warrior without double-resist. Worst of those is definitely Tarrasque.
>
> Timo Pietilä
 >> Stay informed about: How important are temporary elemental resists? 

Big deal is vanilla warrior doesn't have access to temporary resist
acid, lightning, or poison, barring the rare and juicy find of Colluin
(or its randartification, which would have the same activation).

Of these, acid and poison aren't so significant, because poison is
capped half as high, and so long as you keep all normally-AC-granting
equipment slots occupied (but none with [3,-3] armours or the like,
i.e. none granting zero or less AC in those slots), acid effectively is
as well.

Which leaves lightning. Storm Wyrms breathe somewhat under full
strength, fortunately, but there are some other heavy hitters with
lightning down deep. Most are dragons. This makes Taratol invaluable
swap for warrior if they can find it -- it grants immElec and has
xdragon to boot. Just don't leave FA or something similarly critical
uncovered when you swap ...
 >> Stay informed about: How important are temporary elemental resists?