Talk:Tourist

What would you suggest for wishing for a tourist if he had an early wish? Would he go with the ordinary fooDSM or something else. I have played a bunch of tourists now, seems pretty tough to have your hands on a unihorn or so. How about other tactiques you have been practising with Tous? In addition, what (quest) artifact would be most worth wishing for a Tou? The article mentions MB which is easily achieved by sacrificing anyways. Maybe EoA? OoF? Progo 17:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Heck, as no-one is answering to this, I'll tell how I overcame a Tourist. Like any tourist else, I collect daggers to my main weapons, and on some cases, I even #name an elven one to Sting, but I'm not sure if it's been a wise action, as I don't know if the to-hit bonus applies to all enemies, not just orcs. Heck. Anyways I'll do daggers (usually get Expert on those very quickly which makes life easier).

When I face a unicorn, I'll use the horn as my weapon (unless I have found a nice shield, then I prefer a long sword or a scimitar). I have gotten to Gehennom twice as a Tourist. First with frosty and silver saber (that game ended badly) but the second coming involved Vorpal Blade and silver saber. It's really worth to try twoweaponing as a Tou. What comes to the Quest, it's easy to do with a +1 vorpy as I did. There are no problems in beating the nemesis.

And as said, the post quest is very easy to tourist. Only the bag of tricks is been a slight disappointment as the charging doesn't add much, only a bunch of charges to that. (The chargings' been clearly optimized to wands.)

What comes to tous spellcasting, they can cast ID with 0% without a robe, so polypiling or even wishing for the book is advisable. Gauntlets of power have their use in the early game but there's no need to wear them in gehennom.

If I had an early wish, I'd go with SDSM. No questions about it. But that's a normal wish anyways.