ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Tarelion seem optimal for an arcane build, Yes, teleport is a better solution for most of situation, still it won't help you to save Melinda and is quite risky, when you just arrived at a level and there is a lot of dangerous places. Well, maybe I'm to caucios of a player - I tend to hoard escapes. ...

For a second prodigy, I would highly recommend Cauterize - it's easily the best prodigy in game afterall. Espicially so for archmages who are somewhat fragile and also posses ways to get away from battle and soak Cauterize damage through shields. Saved my chars alot. As for metaflow, it seemed to me...

Antimages vs archmage. What to do? I'm going through orc bastions and at the start of each one in one turn all my sustains are gone. Wildfire, Burning Wake, Shielding and all shields, etc... All in one turn. Up until now I was able to tackle the problem with teleport and killing from distance with a...

This bug can be avoided in two ways:
1) Refit your golem while in plane of the dead.
2) Later in game if you get advanced golemancy, supercharge golem will solve the issue

Is there any way to fix the bugged character? Current mindslayer should have been my first winner, so I really would like to finish with him.