ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Yes, the shield synergy is something that was added in 1.6

You can wear gear that gives you Dex and that would give you the ability to select the prodigy. Shantiz the Stormblade gives 20 Dex when equipped which is a huge help.

So when I was new to the game and wanted some unlocks I did a Doombringer run on Exploration MOde and won with it, given how you have infinite lives and enemies don't regain HP it feels a bit bad that it's on the table along my roguelike wins.

Is there a way of removing it?

When you autoexplore in Yetis Cave "a crude mural painting" is treated as a door and the character keeps trying to walk into it.

There are currently two issues with the damage tracking for the achievements Pyromancer/Cryomancer: 1. It doesn't track properly across games. It always reset to a low number for me (but not zero) whenever I start a new character. 2. If you log out of the game and go back in the number also resets. ...

It seems to some conflicting info in here?

Like, you say you don't care for weapon damage by not putting points into weapon mastery and use mindstars instead but then you take ICCTW? Isn't that one a bit wasteful with a mindstar build?

You can only upgrade your mastery with gold if it is below 1.2, this also applies for Staff Combat.

What I mean is that gear that disrupt spells also reduces your spell power. So if you go both Arcane Might and antimagic you have two types of sources you can't use, arcane and arcane disruptive gear. This would make it much harder to gear.

If you go AM + AM you are limited by gear extremely though, since Arcane Disruption halves your effective spellpower which will also reduce phys power.