Well, I started playing this game... er... years ago now. 2002? Before v2. I finally quit because it was too buggy. But I haven't seen one bug yet in this version (2-j) and I want to say once again that damn I love this dungeon! I can't tell you (Zyx) how impressive this is. The amount of time you must have spent on this is phenomenal!
But damn I suck! I've been trying to just get my barings on this game and I'm only just barely getting to the point where I can get to (but not back from) Moria easily, and to various other places like the Temple. But after reading this thread I've come to find I don't even know where to find some places. Like this tower of manpang. <sigh>
I've gotten a great party together though. I've opened all the guilds up except for the mages guild now. Still need at least two more corbums. On the other hand I have so many extra maces it's pathetic. :p
Leveling has been easy enough though. I get my characters to craftsman ninja and fighter using the fountain in the cellar that spawns the screamers, then use the snake staff I found to up my mana enough to gain some levels in wizardry and priesthood. From there I just drop down into moria and fight the never-ending supply of yellow antmen. In less than an hour I can have a character up to low master everything, with about 500 health and 180 mana.
I did it the hard way with Leif alone for a long time until I opened up the guilds to the point where I could get the characters I wanted. But with Sonja, Chani, and Layla it was quite easy to get them to be quite good.
Now if I could just figure out how to get into the dwarven forge and open the door to the temple, etc. :p I think I'm gonna grab some graph paper and start mapping though. I get lost waaaay to easily. In any case thanks for the dungeon Zyx, it's awesome!