Plus the only way to melee them is to use Verac's full set, of which you cant use at the moment. If you wish, Bolt Spells with Chaos Gauntlets are superior to Blast spells for accuracy and economic reason, I was using it all the time before i got my Magic Dart (and that was like 100 runs). 10 KC s a good number, the experiment Satenza is doing at the moment has some tables of drops from the chest versus the kill count number. I have found that getting 15 KC isnt all that much hassle to do (it takes about 2-3 minutes for me), but the chest drops are far superior in the long run because you can get bloods and bolt racks, as well as increased chance of death, all of which can be sold or kept at your disgression. I recommend keeping the bolt racks. For the first few runs, you should pray through all the brothers to get yourself farmiliar with the tunnel, after that, you can stop praying on the lesser 3 (Torag, Guthan and Ahrim, mage the first 2 in melee armor, and range the last).