ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Great guide. Just got my first insane win with it https://te4.org/characters/235359/tome/2d24330b-8b3e-47da-8473-9c52eedc8fde. Also it gives me a choice to play ghoul with. The whole game is pretty easy. Both deaths are to orc cyromancers in high peak hidden vaults. I underestimated them too much a...

There is a "quick weapon swap" property, I think only on Shantiz the Stormblade, that lets you swap to it without spending a turn. If you happen to find Shantiz it can be worth keeping in the alt set as in the right circumstance it's very powerful even if you don't have 1 handed weapon tal...

There's a few things you can do to make sandworm lair safer. First you can try and find an item which grants undeath (usually belt), not needing to breathe means you won't get suffocated, you can just hang out for a sandworm to come along. Try looking in shops the belts are fairly common. Failing th...

Thanks for you help-Are you active on the ToME Discord channel BTW? Nope. The Talents you take at Lvl 20/36 etc-I'm pretty sure as a Thalore you will go Lvl 20 Munitions, Lvl 36 Technique/Conditioning or another Inscription? I see your Thalore winner took an inscription I reckon at lvl 36? Truth be...

Armour removes damage very early in the calculations, so 7 points of armour is much better then 7 points of flat DR. Armour basically reduces the char sheet damage value of the attacker, before all the weapon damage calculations are applied, making it much more effective then it would seem. 7 armou...

Would you take a shield with Block 80 Armour 2 over a Shield Block 60 Armour 7? Yes. Once you have maxed out Agile Defense you have a 52% chance to eliminate block value damage from any incoming damage. 7 Armor can remove up to 7 damage from attacks (depending on armor hardiness). 20 extra block va...

Thanks-I sorta was thinking the same thing-using Armor as the most important stat on Armour of course correct? Also-many shields five up armor to have better block. Would you always take the higher block? Armor is a useful stat but there's no particular reason to value armor on your torso slot more...

In the very top you describe an Archer that wears Massive Armor then all other references are mostly Heavy Armor. Which is it? Prefer massive armor, but it's entirely possible the RNG will give you better heavy armor (at least before prides, by then you'll probably find some nice artifact massive a...

I've been playing around with Block recently, and it's actually pretty savage when combined with 4pts in Riptose. Counterstrike doubles (or adds +100%, not sure which) to weapon attacks, not just Attack but also Assault, Bleeding Edge, Rush and maybe more (It should be noted that Counterstrike damag...

Activating Block or Shield Slam (and a very few other abilities) puts you in a blocking state, absorbing "Block Value" worth of damage from any attacks for a turn - actually it's not limited to attacks and it doesn't block attacks per-se, only damage, if the shield resists a damage type, i...

Shields blocking all damage types would be a good change. That would only affect a couple of talents, and I think a have a decent idea for replacements already. DarkGod only know how far off 1.6 is, though, so I'll worry about that when it drops. This is actually how the Archer Agility tree (slings...

I think the main thing that holds Dwarf back is their talents are extremely focused around defense and that defense is further specialized around attacks and statuses (both of which can be largely mitigated with good equipment) and doesn't do a lot against ye old soul rot and such. Dwarf does precis...

the only good thing thalore has is nature's pride, 5 generics for 6.5% resist all is a bad investment except on classes that have no good generics (like alchemist) and maybe on things like psyshot. uh, that 6.5% resist all also comes with 75% disease immunity and an extra 10% blight resist. If you ...

I tried Vault lvl4 in game and you really do get to both block AND a chance to deflect, the same attack. Sounds cool but I uninvested the points. it takes a perfect storm of conditions to actually be useful. You need a shield which is lethal enough to justify using it instead of a damaging shot skil...

This isn't necessarily intended to be a guide to building the optimal archer, it builds a different kind of archer. An Archer, who uses a sling and shield and wears massive armor. Instead of shooting people from over the horizon he's just as happy caving in their face from point blank range. A Conce...