ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Moon Paladin thoughts again: I was able to finish the Fens and kill the boss, but only because after clearing the the first levels went back to Gates of Morning and bought myself one more infusion (and the Restful Night is on automatic of course). Got killed some dungeons after, but that was due to not paying much attention to a pack of rares .

My only "complaint" is that the class plays as a pure mage (in the beginning at least), relying solely on the moonbeam. Being a paladin, I was expecting to have also some active melee outputs, for flavour at least.

As for the Starslinger - tried one, it looks more balanced, but here I also share Crim's sentiments that the class is bound to using slings. Well, of course it is a "slinger" and such, but having some more options to fool around with is always good and just one path for talent development - not so much.

These are just my gut feelings with very little actual playing, so I might be quite wrong. Just let me say that it is a really great start. And the looming sigils sound very nice

Cheers!

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Actually I play my moon paladin the opposite. Wax or Wane (whichever is first) can actually do some really nice damage with just 2 points in it. Its just the energy generation that kills me.

Hm, I was using Wax as a filler between the moonbeams, but the cost and cd are a bit harsh at the beginning (and probably I was lacking accuracy/dexterity). I was thinking more towards some stamina or stamina/negative hybrid talent, to make use of Restful Night as the Starslinger talents do.

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Maybe you could have moon paladin be similar to Stone Warden, how many of the talents resource cost is split between equi / mana, only have it split between negative and stamina.

Obviously you'd want some exclusives so if you are out of one resource but have a decent amount of the other, it dosent cripple you

So resource management at early levels sucks, and you want another resource to manage?

So Celestial Aegis isn't doing enough to make Moon Paladin able to survive?
Do Moon Paladin need to be tougher? Or more reliable damage output?

I hadn't expected anyone to try playing Moon Paladin as a caster to start with...

What other weapon options would people want for Star Slinger? You can do sling+shield and sling+dagger. I could squeeze in some caster options?

Would Disciple of Dusk be a better negative generation resource to start with? (or something similar cos I feel its too similar to Weapon Folding at the moment)

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Kind of. It's because Restful Night restores Stamina and that goes unutilized and wasted.


Never put more than one point in it myself, so I don't know. Will have to test it. And I was not using it because I start to put points in Armour after /if killing the Tidelady boss. Will have to test it.


I'm voting for the damage


And it seams perfectly logical that way . Everybody is weird in her own ways, I guess.


Not tested enough, can't say atm.


Also can't say much here - haven't played much with anorithils actually.

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Disciple of Dusk is in Celestial/Night... Anorithils don't have it.

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Boo to me for ignorance Sorry.

EDIT: Done my homework, Discipline of Dusk - some darkness damage and negative gain on hit. Probably it can work better, for sure it won't raise questions for more talents/resources toggling and will force weirdos like me to play it as a melee class

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Updated:

Now with Celestial/Sigils.
Buffed Celestial Aegis slightly.
Changed Moon Paladin to have Chants instead of Hymns. (lest they become unbalanced and fall into darkness)
Reworked Chants (and Hymns a little). Should make it slightly harder to decide which one to go with. And since you can swap them instantly, there is an extra benefit for training all of them. Each point spent increases the category mastery by 0.01. So its equivalent to spending a category point if you sink 20 points in.
Also buffed Sunburst: Added 100% extra fire damage over 5 turns.

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Are dwarf moon paladins supposed to start in Reknor, as mine did? It was easy then to progress, but I died in Bellows.

Will try again without dwarf, to see what everyone is talking about the Fens...

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ok, just tried thalore moon paladin, got to lvl 6 easily. But staves are much better than knives initially, due to spell power increase.

I"m enjoying this, so I'll try some different combos.

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For one thing: Only human and elf celestials start in the east, also racial starting zones override class starting zones (a dwarf archmage starts in Reknor, not Angolwen)

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ok - getting the hang of this. I'm running a skellie moon paladin and it is very powerful. Perhaps op, but I'll have to see.

One bug - Moongate sometimes causes me to swap positions, but sometimes I stay in the same spot. I can't see any pattern though

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Worked out the Moongate bug. If you target directly onto an enemy npc, you don't move. If you target to an empty square, you do move.

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Another bug: Two Moons with a shield offhand generates a lua error every time.

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