ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Hello All:

So far I've gotten an Archer and a Alchemist to around lvl 14. Now I'm trying an Archmage---I find she falls down a lot, and is constantly stepping on traps. Looking in the talent trees it doesn't seem like there is a disarm spell to be had.

Am I missing something about the strategy against traps? Most of them seem completely unavoidable.

This might be on a thread somewhere else. If it is I didn't find it.

TA

There's really no strategy to traps whatsoever. There's one talent tree which a few classes have unlocked, a handful locked, and all have indirect access to that can detect and disarm traps. You can find gloves with a bonus to trap disarming, though I don't know if they work without the base trap disarm talent. As far as tactical use goes, the traps that can freeze or stun have mild utility. By late game, there are so many ranged attackers that there's really no point in trying to use traps tactically.

Excusing rogue's traps, of course. Those are crazy useful.

I think I know how I might get disarm---but short that I am just going to have to step on them?

I am walking around Nargos lair and a trap or two has put me into a world of hurt. Mix that with unfortunately placed bad guys and I am a goner.

Maybe I have scars from too many Lost Souls with killer shooters sneaking over to a stack of ammo, with every step like Russian Roulette. I really don't like stepping on ^s.

Meanwhile---I just happened upon escort where Disarm was one of the potential rewards. Wasn't even the kind of disarm I'm looking for.

Yeah, the poison vine traps can be a killer in the early levels, they don't scale well. Most damage traps become entirely trivial after level 10.

tomeaddict-T4 wrote:Meanwhile---I just happened upon escort where Disarm was one of the potential rewards. Wasn't even the kind of disarm I'm looking for.

Disarm traps should not be confused with 'disarm' that prevents target from using its weapon ^_^.