Talk:Master Kaen

Disintegration

Won't the quest artifact be disintegrated along with Master Kaen? Astral vision and slotless magic resistance are quite handy, so perhaps this strategy is more of a last-resort method. Tjr 22:25, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Just tried it in wiz mode. He dropped the silver bell and eyes of the overworld when disintegrated. Only took 3 tries as well, so as long as you have enough power it's a fine strategy. -- Qazmlpok 23:22, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Melee with conflict

While wearing a ring of conflict, I only took 18hp damage from Master Kaen over ~10 turns of melee without sleep/paralysis/regeneration, but I didn't check the battle spam and can't see any longer if that was thanks to conflict encouraging him to hit other monsters instead or RNG favor and -27 AC. Maybe conflict should be suggested for meleeing him? --207.244.66.70 11:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Polymorph

Master Kaen is easy to beat: take down a wand of polymorph and polymorph him. He drops his stuff and is done; even better, read a scroll or zap a spell of charm monster and he'll even become your pet .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrRTFM (talk • contribs)

That's kind of a swingy method. You might get a newt, or you might get a titan or arch-lich who fills the level with nasties and has too much MR to be polymorphed again. --Darth l33t (talk) 14:38, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

In which a guy named RTFM thinks he's the first person to consider polymorphing a quest nemesis. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 16:47, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

The worst results of polymorph are preferable to Master Kaen. There isn't a more damaging monster, I don't see the need to be rude. It's currently not documented on the page.

In any case, it should be included. The worst results of polymorph are still easier to kill than Master Kaen. For example, you can kill a lich with genocide, and titans are far less damaging. Note that polymorphing him before he picks up the Eyes risks polymorphing them into a random tool. --Luxidream (talk) 07:35, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Mm, fair. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 20:59, 30 June 2021 (UTC)