ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Something I'd like to add to the discussion which is less of a balance issue & more of a "how fun is this class to play issue?" is: Whenever I play a shadowblade most of the early game seems to be mass blasting the whole screen with illuminate, wait for illuminate to come off cool down...

I had similar problems. Would be curious to know if anyone's tried it with the time clock-add on.

though quite a few people do Lake Nur with water breathing where using auto-explore is quite reasonable.

Why not push the "full strength please" button? Except for the few places with time pressure. Thematics for me. I do wish there was more time pressure in the game to be honest. Hence why I don't use rest. The pressure isn't programming into the game, so I add it artificially in my play-st...

What makes you think it's necessarily a low opinion of the tree? I'd love to have a controlled phase door + a teleport on a beserker. I'm just not sure they really need it. If you'd normally take a controlled phase door rune it's freeing up that slot too, which equates to an extra heroism infusion o...

I remember constantly getting fried by red crystals I couldn't see on my Shalore starts before the changes in FoV/LoS. I prefer the new LoS rules. I find it makes it easier for melee characters.

I like SageAcrin's idea of getting Conveyance locked...But you'd give reavers, corruptors, sun paladins access to access to phase door, teleport, displacement shield, so I'm not sure if that's the way to go. Reavers in particular you'd have to decide if having a hit & run teleport from the proc...

I dislike conveyance just from the standpoint that a melee character has no reason to ever switch probability travel off. Bulwarks & Berserkers constantly walking through walls seems a little off thematically in my books. You could pick up arcane eye off an escort to. Would we see melees rushing...

I've seen it fail to stop altogether, particularly for snakes (all fast movers?).

Though much longer summon cooldowns would make them more like their description of fighting alongside their summons & less constant summon spam. Not necessarily suggesting it, it would make it a very different class. I'd probably find them more interesting to play that way, just as long as they ...

I usually try to get a point in Dagger Mastery as fast as possible, followed by a point in Accuracy. As for class talents, get the two stunners. And never be afraid to run away, and reposition yourself where only one enemy can hit you. Put stealth on autouse, it's not very good early on but it migh...

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Can we have the glove procs for non-brawlers too? My melee characters start doing weird stuff when disarmed.

Honestly, it's a thing that bugs me as well, 1.0 mastery is the mastery level guys without combat training get when they train it from a weapon shop. Sure, Wyrmics start with it, but... heck, that means, theoretically, that Archmages can be as strong as Wyrmics in melee. Now that sounds off to me. ...

I'd be a fan of stuns being weaker and stun-resistance rarer. A lot of the early game for melee characters seems to be chain-stuning your enemy.