ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

WIP (I'll be updating it in the coming days)

I've been meaning to make a guide for Mindslayer since I became interested in them, but I was putting it off until I got a win (which came a few hours ago), so here it is

Winner

Took just under 14 hours to clear game (there was a lot of idle time too)
Character has managed to kill Linaniil and Atamathon with minimal problems, and has also done the 500 Sludgenest walls achievement with no stairscumming needed

Deaths

First one was burrowing into an undiggable wall on necro pride and suffocating inside
Second one was on first try on Atamathon with no dispel

Races recommended

• Cornac (really good since 1.5 patch if you wanna get tinkers)
  
• Shalore (Timeless amazing with Leaves Tide, Transcendent, Quick as Thought, Matter is Energy, Frenzied Focus)
  
• Ogre (Not as good anymore since we don't get free infusion, empowered infusions are still really good on mindslayer though)
  

Talent guidepoints

Talent points


Prodigies

lvl 30: Pain Enhancement System
If you don't have Embers, choose between defensive prodigy (Draconic will, Cauterize, Spine of the World), or offensive (Superpower)

lvl 42: Superpower


Class talents

Absorption

• Kinetic is best, it's worth it to max it around high 20's
  
• Thermal is second priority since you're getting Transcendant for both
  
• Charged it's worth it to get to shield spike breakpoint since you have Charged Strike, but I didn't end up using it all that much on my playthrough
  
• Force Field do 2/5 at least as soon as possible, more points to taste
  
  Projection
  
• The auras are good early for having a few ranged options, but they essentially become dispel padding late game
  
• What you're really here is for frenzied focus, the most stupid skill mindslayer has, 4/5 it ASAP for breakpoint
  
  Psi-fighting
  
• Telekinetic Smash is pretty good, 3/5 by midgame, more points to taste
  
• Augmentation becomes retarded once you hit lvl 30, I max it as soon as possible, but early game you can probably do with a few points on it
  
• Both Warding Weapon and Impale I leave for later, I max Warding since it blocks one physical attack every turn at >40% chance, and applies disarm on the mob that triggers it
  
  Focus
  
• 1 point in pyrokinesis is all you want when you get transcendent pyrokinesis
  
  Augmented striking
  
• You don't need more than 1 point in each of the skills, maybe 2 on the last one to have decent psi sustain
  
  Voracity
  
• 4/5 Thermal Leech for the radius breakpoint, more points for lower cd (also if you get a mastery mindstar 5/5 gives 1 extra radius)
  
  Kinetic mastery (locked)
  
• Investment on Transcendent to taste, it's probably worth it to max but I just didn't have enough points
  
• 2/5 on Kinetic Surge for awesome 8 range movement skill that can go through 4 walls and can also get mobs away from you while stunning them
  
• 4/5 on Deflect Projectiles for radius breakpoint, pretty good against steamgun classes
  
• Investment to taste on Implode, the skill is really good, but I already had Implode from Naloren
  
  Thermal mastery (locked)
  This one is amazing, adds Flameshock effect to your Pyrokinesis (stun but with 70% damage reduction instead of 50%, and Weakened to Thermal Leech (another 57% damage reduction))
  
• 5/5 transcendent for 11 turn duration so you can cast Thermal Leech 2 times if you maxed both
  
• Tier 2 and 3 skills 1 point so you can get to the last skill on the tree
  
• Thermal Balance is good for squeezing 1 extra turn or 2 from your forcefield
  

Generics

Combat training

• Max Thick Skin and Armor Training, float 3 points on weapon training so you can refund them when you switch to Exotic. Don't invest into accuracy if you can since you'll have more than enough at endgame
  
  Survival
  
• Didn't have any spare points for this, if using something like Thalore it might be worth it to get a few points into Charm Mastery and 1 into Evasion
  
  Mindstar mastery
  
• Invest here when you switch to mindstars
  
  Augmented mobility
  
• The only good skills here are Quick as Thought and Telekinetic Leap, invest by taste[/b]
  
  Finer energy manipulations
  
• 2/5 Realign for 2 phys cleanse
  
• 1 point each in t2 and t3 (Matter is Energy is really good for getting a few more turns off Forcefield or to regen psi if you're really low)
  
• Max Resonant Focus ASAP, boosts both your damage a lot and the stats you get from the TK gem that you use for Augmentation snapshotting
  


Category points order

• Inscription
  
• Kinetic mastery/Inscription
  
• Remaining option
  
• Thermal mastery
  

This is more taste, Charged mastery is also decent, but needs a lot of investement, so I went with Kinetic and Thermal since I find they're really good for survivability (especially Thermal)

Escorts

For this build you only really "need" to save 2 escorts (1 Warrior for Exotic and Alchemist betray for 1 Psiblade point), but the more escorts you save the more flexibility you'll have with generics, since they're very tight

Don't buy Mindstar mastery on Zigur until you get the Psiblades point from the escort (otherwise the category ends up at 1.2 instead of 1.3). Also you need to buy all the steps, don't skip

Other good escorts to save/betray


-Seer betray (Nature's Touch)
-Temporal explorer betray (Dream Walk)
-Thief (Piercing Sight/Charm mastery)
-Tinker (Tinker category)
-Warrior (Vitality/extra Exotic Weapon points)


If you play Ogre/Shalore it's worth it to delay investing into your racials until you get all the rewards you want for betraying

Early game tips


When to switch to mindstars?

Float 3 points on Weapon Mastery until you either find good mindstars (t5-4) and a good exotic weapon, or you get Naloren

But why mindstars?

-Respectable damage
-More survivability (Leaves Tide, Nature's Equilibrium)
-Very high mindpower so your shit sticks

Playthrough highlights

The entire playthrough is recorded on twitch, I'll post highlights when I create them from the footage


• Part 1 (finishes after Ardhungol)
• Part 2 (rest of East until High Peak)
• Part 3 (High Peak + post game challenges)
  
  Individual highlights
  
  -Suffocation death
  -final fight
  -Linaniil
  -Atamathon first try
  -Sludgenest 500 walls
  -Atamathon second try
  -Room of death
  -Shade (nice stats btw)
  

Finally the theorycraft from discord comes into fruition. Pretty much all i'd change is a couple personal preference skills (does 5/5 frenzied focus get an extra radius point with mastery mindstars?) and to not abuse the snapshot bug so heavily.

e: fun trivia despite having a million and a half sustains you actually don't care about sustain removal since your shields and auras still spike (don't spike auras they waste a turn though) and aug/BTF/skate all have 0 time to restart.

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<Shibari> You're full of shit
<darkgod #tome> ster is a troll
<Sheila> and ster, i do agree with you on most things game-related, but do try to not be such an ass!
<mex> your posts lead to people like me being abused and murdered

Please fix the augmentation bug darkgod

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MADNESS rocks

Note that you don't need to unlock exotic with an escort to get 10/5 with the Naloreen prodigy. The extra points the prodigy give doesn't prevent you from investing 5 generics in the mastery and it unlocks it automatically.

Nice guide and videos! You probably may beat atamathon in 1st try, as i can saw you had healing infusion+heroism ready for use. BTW your playspeed is really fast, i'm often need to rewatch/hold pause to understand what's going on.

I'm often see, that you use movement infusion/heroism/Quick as Thought/etc. by mouseclicking on them. Did you try the shortcut hotkeys for it(with modifiers, like ctrl/shift/alt+1/2/3...)? For me, alt + 1/2/whatever is very useful for prebuff/combat utility talents.

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Wyrmic "The static pain" - easy training dummy kill
So, apparently, this is why we have Fixed cooldown talents

I use mostly 1 to 6 and alt 1 to 4, everything else i just click

Is it true?, I always thought you had to max the skill before you get the prodigy

e: it got fixed and now suddenly this class has to worry about entropy

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<Shibari> You're full of shit
<darkgod #tome> ster is a troll
<Sheila> and ster, i do agree with you on most things game-related, but do try to not be such an ass!
<mex> your posts lead to people like me being abused and murdered

https://git.net-core.org/tome/t-engine4 ... c5284563cb

I have made my part

Cool. I've been meaning to do a Mindslayer run. I may have to try this.

So i guess prodigies are Pain Enhancement System and Legacy of the Naloren ? since i cant see it stated anywhere in the OP

anyway what would be interesting for me if this is considered a good mindslayer guide if you dont wanna/or cant use pain enhancement system? maybe youd like to add pointers for alternative builds which work without addon content or where the options are to build differently?

class is pretty weird and i didnt get into it much yet. so id like to try after the rework, but not if it is only good when bugusing



edit for comment below:

thanks, took some time for me reading your guide and wathing class talents was helpful.

Thermal mastery (locked)
This one is amazing, adds Flameshock effect to your Pyrokinesis (stun but with 70% damage reduction instead of 50%, and Weakened to Charged Leech (another 57% damage reduction))
5/5 transcendent for 11 turn duration so you can cast Charged Leech 2 times if you maxed both


you mixed up charged leech with termal leech in this paragraph, i believe.

hf

If you don't have Embers dlc, i'd say another good prodigy to take would be a defensive one (cauterize, draconic will, spine), or superpower if you wanna go for more damage

Thanks for the typo, fixed

PES is so strong on mindslayer it's hard to recommend even playing the class without it, but superpower works like a worse version of PES so it's not completely unusable

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<Shibari> You're full of shit
<darkgod #tome> ster is a troll
<Sheila> and ster, i do agree with you on most things game-related, but do try to not be such an ass!
<mex> your posts lead to people like me being abused and murdered

Can I say that it's actually ridiculous that you didn't put 5 points into the second Ogre racial?
Being able to wield Naloren, another trident and a mindstar is just insane; and you greatly benefit from the improved infusions as well.
Replacing a mindstar for a trident should increase your damage per turn by more than 30% if you get one with half-decent egos.

Now, you might start wondering if going mind blades is even worth it. That is precisely why I excluded that from my build. The benefits are not worth those generics.

Dual wielding mind blades works, but it's by no means optimal once you get Naloren.


This is by far my biggest critique of this build. I would literally spell out every single difference between this build and mine if I mentioned all of them.
And once again, this works, but it is not optimal.
Let's see if you can still finish Insane with this when the Augmentation bug, which I assume you heavily abused, gets fixed.

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Spamming Windtouched Speed since 1.5

i beat insane without snapshotting with this and used double trident, it was notably weaker dps wise - i didn't get trident of the tides though because dragon dude wouldn't drop it (i also didn't use thermal mastery though which was probably the biggest difference)

again; your build uses antimagic so by definition it is complete garbage


e; http://te4.org/characters/208724/tome/2 ... 29c2602604 ignore the level and hexes unlock, i thought i500 was a good use of my time (it's not). also took tinkers which was a huge mistake but w/e

e: e: wow that build was awful. i'll get a shalore one done next week

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<Shibari> You're full of shit
<darkgod #tome> ster is a troll
<Sheila> and ster, i do agree with you on most things game-related, but do try to not be such an ass!
<mex> your posts lead to people like me being abused and murdered

Ah yes, and because of that literally every other point is also garbage?

And you know what's good? Two tridents AND the benefits of a mind star! WOW! Think of the possibilities: a bunch of +phys damage and penetration, +healing mod or insane life leech with that life leech ring.

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Spamming Windtouched Speed since 1.5