tabs wrote:
At the end of the day such a list depends on what you think the goal of a early ToME player should be: learning the game? winning? unlocking content? Each would mix up a prospective "tier" list.
I don't think a early ToME player can be expected to win (and it's good, you need a long time in game to understand some of the things that make a character good).
I was merely suggesting that saying Wildfire Archmage is the best character in the game is hard for new players who cannot play it and are looking for a more "suitable" option to unlock some content.
For example, I read somewhere that Alchemist were a good option to unlock Wildfire (and it worked for me ;-)).
The game is probably too complex for it to have a clear roadmap, but I'm thinking something like "take a berserker, learn the importance of escape, take an alchemist, unlock wildfire, take a wildfire archmage, win the game" is a start (I'm still happy to have beaten the master for the first time today after something like 10 characters killed (I tried different races / classes, and I read a lot of posts to understand what went wrong)).
So I'm just wondering, in short, what is the best race / classe combination to start the game as a new player and not die in the first 5 levels ;-)