ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I'm fairly new to the game so I'm not sure how the later game plays out (over lvl 25. On that note: what is the cap?) Currently, however, it always seems that I'm better of on the not-dieing front taking enemies in a 1v1 situation even if I have multi hit abilities. Given that, my current character, a cursed, is using a 2 handed weapon and is working well, but I find I'm almost never in a position vs multiple enemies where using cleave to kill them safer is safer than just falling back. Later does this change? As aggressive as this class seems to be geared, it still seems better to use almost all the abilities without being piled on.

P.S. The first day I played I kept getting messages about connecting online, but then the game crashed once and since then I've not seen them, is my copy broken?

The level cap is 50, and the online server is a bit sketchy right now. Sometimes it works, but usually it seems to be too over-burdened to deal with logging in in-game. But this is coming from just a player, I don't know anything for certain.

I don't have a lot of experience with the Cursed class, but generally , yes, trying to fight enemies 1-on-1 will always be advantageous, but you won't always have that luxury. Multi-target capabilities aren't there for the good situations, they're there for the bad ones.