Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Past the bronze age, greydwarf battles are for skilling-up. I like to preserve the Shamans as long as possible.

Finally I see someone in the wild who gets it! The folks who complain about greydwarves just being "an annoyance" are also the people who complain about skills taking too long to level up and the death penalty to skills being too severe. Then they complain about standing torches needing resin, like it doesn't just walk up to you. Then they complain about long corpse runs because they don't have an abundance of convenient portals since they can't be bothered to collect greydwarf eyes.

I try to get at least one parry in on every enemy that attacks me, even if I can one shot them, and as a result my block skill is quite high. I also use basic workbench weapons on weak enemies so that I'm not damaging the durability of my weapons that require a forge to repair while I'm out and about. Bonus points if that makes the enemies take two hits to kill -- double the XP.