ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Well, sure, I'd like to have more armor too, but there's only so much space on item affixes and lots of the items won't roll the way you want them to. I'll send a PM with a link to the save. Also remember, strategy wise the primary damage isn't from the bow in the long term, its from the melee attac...

If anyone has a file locker, I can upload the save too if you want to screw around with it in dev mode or something. You can see that this is a lot stronger in practice than it looks in paper, and see how quickly you can get razor blade and seal fate to do absurd damage on a training dummy. That mig...

Also, as great as armor is on lower difficulties, on madness sometimes it really loses its luster. Enemies regularly have base weapon damage in the several hundreds in madness, and I saw a high peak warhound get to over 2k. It goes from an extremely reliable defense on lower difficulties to much les...

I deleted my very long list of failures from the unhollowed morass from my character sheet a long time ago. I think it took me about 20 tries, I was just trying to get the achievement and was tilting a bit the night I did it, and didn't think that I was really going anywhere with the TW that finally...

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That link is to my madness TW winner, that I just won yesterday. It's up to you whether or not you want to believe it, I did vault over mercy so that doesn't count under the "S" rules listed, but it doesn't really matter that much. Having it in B tier is totally wrong though.

Yeah, but balancing that other stuff is hard. I guess I'll just content myself with being the devil's advocate for artificial stupidity.

The AI changes is actually the thing that worries me the most. Enemies can get a lot stronger and more numerous than the player on higher difficulties, so if they act intelligently that can make it hard to overcome that. Seems really bad for melee classes, since usually there are a limited number of...

Oh, and darkgod gave out invulnerability when I was in the final fight, too, when Elandar was in middle health range. If there ever was a time to get invulnerability, its hard to choose a better one.

TW should be an A+ class: https://te4.org/characters/150226/tome/a016b2bc-6629-491c-b452-f23e6fcf35a7 I only vaulted over the mercy dagger, so madness should be possible without the vault if you hate yourself enough to start over or farm Maj'Eyal patrols if it doesn't drop for you. I've never stream...

https://te4.org/characters/150226/tome/a016b2bc-6629-491c-b452-f23e6fcf35a7 Biggest enemy: memory leak. I had to regularly close and reopen the program as it started to get bogged down on clones, and towards the end of the final fight it started getting really bad for some reason. The only "che...

As of posting it looks like the spellhunt remnants graphic is breaking the w-scroll of this page (it's too wide a picture). Might want to break that up for readability.

I looked at the code for the winterchill tinker, and I'm not fully sure how they work, but it looks like the turn_procs on that might be the attacker instead of the target. It sets the turn_procs for the winterchill_edge on the very ambiguously named "who" variable, but that is different t...

Keep in mind at least some of the "lose x% of a turn" procs are handled as turn_procs on the target, at least the one I checked in the scoundrel tree worked that way. If it is handled that way, that means that proc will only work once until the target gets another turn, not the source appl...

Blade horrors, and their cousins saw horrors which were added in EoR. Look at their character sheet next time you run into one and weep. They are the guys who do those cloud of blades or saws abilities and have that crushing or imploding slow ability from the mindslayers. I couldn't figure out that ...

I've been learning about speed and energy as part of my madness building shenanigans, so I think I have a pretty good idea how this works. So here's a long answer to your question. Typically, without modding or other sorts of oddities, there are 10 ticks per game turn, and actbase is called once per...