ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Alchemist was on my to-do list of buffing, so glad someone else got to it first. I might prod DG to review as he did want them buffed in the main game.

One thing this addon hasn't touched (yet) is Smoke Bomb. Vanilla Alchemist could amplify bomb damage by a huge amount by using Fire Infusion+Smoke Bomb, which I thought was pretty silly (and made the other infusions questionable), so I have no urge to reintroduce it. However, now that Smoke Bomb's burn replicating effect is probably harmful rather than helpful, since it prevents the LOS-blocking and the class no longer inflicts large burns, I'm thinking it might be better to get rid of the burn replication altogether. (It behaves really stupidly when more than one monster is already burning anyway...)

Smoke Bomb really makes more sense as exclusively a control/LoS blocking tool.

I have given it a short spin yesterday in the ID and I think it plays really nice and way more fluidly than the normal alchies. Still though, I think that the complete removal of any gem use for attacking is a bit too much. Mind you, this feeling comes mostly from the fact that I'm not seeing my lovely gem bag doll art, so it is not entirely objective, heh. But aside from that, I still think that using gems for augmenting the bombs can be retained, without the silly consumable side of course. Just equipping a certain gem in the quiver slot can give you some more tactical options. Then again, the vanilla gems are in a bad place as well and most probably due for a rework along with the alchemist .

On a different note, I really like the new staff tree and the overall cleaned up design of the infusion use. I have always found Smoke Bomb to be a very odd talent that feels completely out of place (personally I have never used it when playing an alchie, but I haven't played them very much anyway).

My two copper coins, that is. Cheers!

yeah, that's already fixed in the current version

I don't think auto-update works for anyone

The current version is actually 1.0.2 and was uploaded prior to your report, I was just too lazy to edit the OP. The changelog for my addons is always in the init.lua but since the Web page for addons doesn't update the description automatically when you upload a new version (WHY) the description will often be out of date. The only changes so far from 1.0.0 have been bug fixes though.

Auto update of addons depends on whether you are running to steam or non steam version.
eg. The steam version only updates addons you are subscribed to via the workshop.
Also, problems with the version numbers in the init.lua file can upset the addon auto updating.

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1.0.3 is uploaded. The tooltip bug is fixed (as far as I can tell) and Elixir no longer depends on max life/mana, to make it consistent with 1.6 changes to similar talents.