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Originally Posted by Jeff W
I routinely finished ADOM in low 30s XL and never reached XL50 in ~8 wins. I would generally just skip post-TOEF level except Casino & Cat Lord and dive straight to temples and use teleport hopping+wands of destruction on D:50(too boring to bother killing everything).
Man, I would have thought killing orb guardians alone would get most characters to 40+. Maybe you had a lot higher speed than I typically have. But I can see how diving might do it, as oftentimes I get to 50 from clearing a greater vault in that lower part of the dungeon.
The Casino was probably the scummiest part of my game, as I'd always just use a blessed girdle of wealth to rack up enough gold in a single game turn to clean out the gift shop of any artifacts, slaying ammo, girdles of giant strength, corruption removers, etc. I'm assuming making the slot machines hugely +EV was intentional to encourage people to play a bunch and eat a few corruptions but the possibility of playing thousands of spins on one game turn renders that meaningless, unless you're more honorable than I.