The dissonance of design in Deep Dungeons

[ThurinTurambar]

i think that is a bit of an unfair design, i remember when i died to a frog trap on floor 90+ in potd, i was fighting one bomber, got frogged and he used sef destruct. no matter how far you run away or around courners, that thing kills you instantly in the entire dungeon.

Sorry to say, but its a bit of a skill issue. Floor 81-90 bombs do 70% of max hp, so you did not have a sustaining potion running or let yourself get hit when vulnerable.

Mimics and pox i believe are very fair design. While some jobs do suffer from it, its not a tragedy if it happens, but also those jobs are often rewarded with high damage output. There are very few edge cases where its truely neccessary to get rid of it (no items enchantment for example or using transformations on deep sets).

Also lets boil down what jobs truely suffer from it. Healers basicly can ignore it, red mage also. Picto can kill them before infatuation cast happens all the way to 170, sometimes further.
Summoner while vulnerable to it gets very good kiting abilities, good shield and very solid damage, which usually makes up for it.
Melees are generally more vulnerable to it, but if one was stubborn, you can live even through no items with bloodbath and additional defensives.
Sooo that leaves black mage as pretty much the only job that really suffers from it.
But thats basicly in terms of PotD.

Both HoH and EO offer you more tools to deal with pox. While in case of HoH its a bit drastic, as magicite is way to powerful to use on inconvinience of pox, it is still an option instead of using serenity to clear no items floor.
EO has demiclones, 2 of which have the ability to heal you.
So in short: Learn what can be used to deal with pox or prevent it instead of deeming it unfair.