ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Did you try unequipping everything and disabling all sustains?
Your Ring of Growth in particular is going to amplify your Vitality strength.

Windows Reset should only replace the OS files, unless you tell it not to. Look up some guides about how to do it. It isn't the same as reformatting the drive. But also make sure you have your backups up to date just in case. It is still a big pain though. So maybe try a few Windows integrity checks...

Are people aware that using Fire Infusion causes Throw Bomb to only do half damage on the first turn, with the rest as burning damage over three turns?
And also that the tooltip on the talent will not apply your damage modifiers? And certainly not the Explosion Expert modifiers?

I don't know why this would only affect TOME, but if the Win10 installation was done over the top of a previous version of windows, or there has been hardware changes since installation, there can be faulty driver issues that won't appear to normal detection methods. So, one other option is to try a...

Thanks. I'd like to say that that helps narrow it down. But it just rules out an obscure bug from the OS.

GPU specs are needed too.

One other thing that could be checked: Is the lockup just tome, or can you switch out of tome and then open up an explorer window to look at the folders on your hard drive? (Yes, going all the way to being able to see the folder names is important.)

I guess it could be corrupted. Try deleting the orcs dlc file and have the engine download a fresh one?
I don't trust uninstallation of anything to actually remove bad files.

And we likely need to try removing the world.teaa file as well. This is located in your documents folder instead.

Search your TOME4 folder for 'orcs.teaac'. There should only be one of these.

The only other thing that could cause that error is an addon inexplicably trying to define a timed effect used in the orcs dlc.

Not 100% sure, but that error typically means that it tried to load the ORCS dlc twice. The location of the DLC mods was changed a while ago, and for some people they end up with a copy of the files in both locations, and the engine tries to load both. Easiest solution is to delete the entire instal...

This isn't true however, as gem bombs do not scale with the relevant damage mod - therefore making them literally the worst offensive spell in the game. I have 150% fire damage mod and despite flame infusion converting gems to fire damage; as you can see by https://te4.org/characters/203959/tome/ef...

There is nothing obviously wrong in the log file, but you could also check the web log file. It should be mostly empty.

This will likely be something weird that will never be solved, but will just disappear for no apparent reason. But anyway. First thought is that you may have a non-SSD drive, and the files are somehow extremely badly fragmented. But this shouldn't be an issue anymore. Second thought is that antiviru...

Yep, it was that one. XD

I recall reading something like this in a skills guide somewhere. Not sure whether said guide still exists.

Nothing further mentioned, so I've uploaded the patch to fix Bone Spike.