ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

For example, Nethack had both the wizard, the valkyrie, and the tourist classes. The point is for the classes to be fun and different and viable. "Balance" of the sort you're looking for is impossible given the drastic imbalance in the game between a single player character fighting agains...

What'd you stick your yeti tissue bonuses into? It looks there aren't any extra talents or categories, so did you just boost dexterity?

It's pretty easy to save the wayist as an Archmage. When you first get to the ruins, immediately recall out of the dungeon and come back after you've cleared the rest of the Tier 1 dungeons. Once you've cleared the rest of lvl 4 of the ruins, you should be able to open the door and use a targeted te...

From what I can tell weapon manifold counts as a spell for proc on spell hit effects. Am I off on this? I also thought weapon manifold was quite useful.

As soon as you get exotic mastery from a warrior escort you can start putting points in it, and if you float only three points in dagger mastery you can avoid wasting any generics.

If you can find a wand of clairvoyance you can locate any oozing horrors before they have a chance to grapple you, and you might be able to nuke them from orbit. It's the only safe way.

I actually don't think you can teleport ahead in that zone. I failed that quest when I was a lich because I had no movement speed or movement infusion or any way to go faster, and I normally have no problem with the quest. Also, you won't be able to use infusions as a lich. There are several items t...

It absolutely sucks on rares, though, especially with the low CD on repulsion blast. You get knocked around all over the place.

This may be a dumb question, but how do I test RC1 with Ashes DLC?

I won once with a rogue a long time ago on Normal/Adventure, but it's been some time. I've been trying to get a Skeleton Rogue going in Nightmare and it's absolutely miserable - I finally managed to beat the Master but it took a lot of deaths to get there. The lack of movement infusions especially j...

For starters, I wouldn't put any points into Con until you've maxed both Dex (first) and Cun (second). I also think your talent distribution is a bit out of whack. It's been a while since I played rogue, but I don't think there's much point in maxing Hide in Plain Sight, Flurry, Deadly Strike, or Wh...

Yeah, it was Guardian Unity, I hadn't unlocked Threaded Combat so I didn't have Warden's Call.

Does that Mean Guardian Unity clones would also use Vital Shot? I assume Vital Shot would pass through allies.

Arguably this is intended, but I just had my temporal clone use Windblade and hit me for 350 damage and kill me. Since bow abilities pass through friendlies it never occurred to me that my temporal clones even used melee abilities, let alone that they could hit me with them. Anyhow, ideally you'd ma...

FYI, I haven't done extensive testing, but as soon as I took off the Void Orb ring a lot of the slowness around what I assume is related to clones went away. I also have Life Drinker as my dagger, so I have two different on spell hit effects (that I really like) that might be causing some weird loop...

Yeah, I pretty much just used Stasis for Time Shield with Contingency for most of the game, but I could have easily put Contingency to a damage shield to give me enough time to escape (or played smarter such that I never really needed it in the first place). And Threaded Combat seems to be a nice bo...