ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Danton wrote:At least you don't get arcane disrupting staves any more.

I kind of miss them.

That would upset me even more than an amulet.

An arcane disruptor item which enhances spell skills.
Well at least I got corrupted Gaze, reflection shield and good +hp +vim items, therefore I can't say RNG hates my Ogre Corruptor in this playthrough, much.

Greets. Unrelated to post's topic, have to say recently I have been trying for first time melee based characters and the only ones I found entertaining were the Time Warden(hybrid but mostly focused in melee without neglecting ranged) and Shadowblade. Anyway, the Ambuscade skill tree two last skills...

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think it's not so much a problem with opening chests as it is being able to deal with rares/uniques. On normal mode, I think you should be able to handle pretty much anything that comes out of a chest. Now, normally I am about 12th level before I hit any chests (or po...

I played "normal adventure" for my first games (always died before lvl 25) then normal roguelike games by now (still dying, btw...). And I always open chests. I died once or twice the first times, but even if some guardians are tough, I've always managed to eventually beat them. And belie...

One thing that helps is to open chests after you've cleared the level so teleportation is safe. That's what I'm doing lately. Saving a slot for teleport in early game even for characters I planned to make them antimagic aftewards (movement infusions with 300% speed or below don't help to escape at ...

What difficulty are you on? I play on Normal, and have only very rarely had a problem with things spawned from a chest. Well I mostly have problems with chests in early game during the so called tier-2 with rares casting instantaneous skills. Since I started more or less a week ago. I play normal/r...

I'm quite fan of loot everything and leave nothing behind. And after cleaning a floor if there's a chest or vault, I prepare always escape routes before open any of it (dig my way to any exit mostly). Then, when I open those, these are the most common scenerarios: - 10% of times-, big relief, nothin...

My dwarf summoner taking a break at Daikara's sauna with his wyrms after a fairly tough battle against Massok the Wyrmslayer.