ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Dethroned is _also_ possible if you slap the golem with Healing Inversion and he is low enough in Life that the inversion kills him. I also got Overpowered! (did more than 6000 damage at once) out of that. His healing factor must have been insane...

Dethroned is also possible if you have wormhole - put one on the throne and he teleports away instead of getting to it.

Philosophical Ghoul Level 30 Notes The character is probably dead, despite running in Adventure mode, but the build still looks good. Basically, I made three mistakes: 1. Effigy and visage were completely right about Ethereal Form - unless you go with a build with at least decent Defense, Ethereal F...

Philosophical Ghoul Level 20 Notes Build • 1/1/1/0 Doom Shield • 1/5/0/0 Demonic Pact • 2/1/1/1 Solipsism • 1/1/1/2 Matter • 1/1/1/0 Absorption • 0/3/0/1/1/0/0 Combat Training • 1/2/2/0 Ghoul • 1/2/1/1 Feedback • 1/1/2/2 Spacetime Weaving • 1/1/1/0 Rot • 1/1/1/0 Guardian Notes 1. Should have said th...

1. Ethereal Form is a cool prodigy, but I have some doubts about using it on a Madness melee build. On Insane you can get 90+ defense with it so you should be able to get it considerably higher with Madness gear, but I suspect a lot of the melee enemies you fight will have higher accuracy. I'm just...

I have a significant variation on this build I call Philosophical Ghoul or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Solipsism (Yes, Solipsism – stop laughing and keep reading.) All numbers are approximate. Long post, but each idea has it’s own separate paragraph. Pun refs: https://en.wikipedia.or...

When the character reads The Day It Came, the character gets entropic backlash on the first heal and then never gets it again, meaning the book can never be finished. Tried: 50+ heals; waiting for several hundred turns; starting ASAP; starting after other students completed their attempts; healing w...

Thanks for the Hypostasis hint - I didn't see it because my focus in High Peak was 'find the guardian' > 'kill the guardian' > loop. Another question: I have seen several posts, including this one, equate speed to energy, e.g. 200% global speed equaling 2000 energy. Is this stat visible? Can I make ...

The description for Arcane Combat says: While dual wielding or using a shield, the chance is reduced to 50% for both weapons. That is unclear in two ways: is that reduced (multiplied), reduced (subtraction), or reduced (forced to 50%) and, for many characters, a shield is not a weapon. It would be c...

Your diagnosis is correct: I was leaving Timeless on cooldown and had ditched some 'defense on teleport' items for penetration and damage. Once I got the items back and remembered to close my buff session with Timeless ready, it was mostly OK. I still got killed without recourse when something dropp...

The reason I wanted a good build is I am a sloppy player and have been unable to beat insane difficulty because of that. I tried several strong builds to try to offset my playstyle problems: wildfire archmage (really didn't do well with sloppy play), meteoric martial artist (apparently nerfed from t...

At a certain point about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way along, you should end up with a companion. If you teleported forward you may have missed that event. The companion helps you get out (but the boss is strong even then).

I can't believe this doesn't have any posts, so I will get the ball rolling. Thanks for the guide, especially the video walkthrough. I am at level 19 trying this build (Insanity, Adventure) and it seems viable so far, but of course, the super-stacking powers have nowhere near matured yet. I do have ...