Want Cryomancer now? Here's how!

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Can be done in infinite dungeon or standard campaign. ID is typically faster. To prepare, clear one level of enemies, barring vaults. Play an Archmage who starts with a regen infusion. Set Glacial vapors to tier 2, and then set your regen infusion (That you start with) to autocast when available. Do the same for your manasurge rune, and then set Glacial vapors to autocast as available. Voila. You are now immortal and taking ice damage. Weight down your 5 key with a rock and go read a book for a bit. Using this method, with default regen infusion, and no ice boost from staff, or invested Mag beyond the normal for a cornac, net around 10 points of damage per turn from the cloud, which lasts for 5 turns. roughly 50 damage per casting. In one minute doing this, I went from 918287 to 919953 of ice damage dealt for the cryomancer achievement. Keep in mind, I ran a slow comp with 512 meg of ram, your mileage in Damage over time would likely be more effective then mine.

Using this method, one can effortless acquire cryomancer WITHOUT having to edit savefiles or grind tedious games with classes one might not WANT to play as.

How can you speed this method up further? Adjust fps to a lower value, particles to a lower value in video menu. With a better regen infusion, one can buff glacial vapors to a higher tier, or magic stat to a higher tier. This was designed to be available to a level one character. Could also adjust (via command staff)y our staff to increase cold damage, or have a better staff. All of these offer a means to speed the process up, but I can only guarantee safety using the existing build above. Be sure to test how frequently you heal versus damage self to make certain you won't be committing suicide.

Congratulations, Cryomancer shall soon be yours!

[64legos]

Can't get it to work. When Glacial Vapour activates, it needs a target, even on autocast.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Odd. The default if there's no enemy around is to use you as a target. System? Version?

[64legos]

Odd. The default if there's no enemy around is to use you as a target. System? Version?

I'm using 1.0

While it does select me as a target, it doesn't use it on me, I have to press enter and say yes to the "really hit yourself" thing. I can't just hold down 5.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Found the problem. Choose 'auto use when no enemies are visible'. (For glacial vapors) Now there's no prompt, and you can successfully hold down 5. If you just choose 'auto use' it WILL demand a eemy target choice,m and WILL give a chicken prompt. Just be sure to use 'auto use when no enemies are in sight'. The other 2 (manasurge and regeneration) can probably be set to either.

[64legos]

Found the problem. Choose 'auto use when no enemies are visible'. (For glacial vapors) Now there's no prompt, and you can successfully hold down 5. If you just choose 'auto use' it WILL demand a eemy target choice,m and WILL give a chicken prompt. Just be sure to use 'auto use when no enemies are in sight'. The other 2 (manasurge and regeneration) can probably be set to either.

It works now, thanks!

[Dekar]

Does that really make you feel better than just editing the text unlock file?

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Very. It's also a lot easier to set up and do then learning how to edit the files, which not everyone knows how to do. And it's not cheating the way the file edit would be. Mind you, it's not QUICK to net a full million this way, but if you have a good book and a few hours, it doesn't take all that long. And anyone could do this, even from level 1.

.....I'm also looking at using a similar strategy to set up disruption shield bombs, but haven't pinned the necessary numbers down yet.

[lukep]

.....I'm also looking at using a similar strategy to set up disruption shield bombs, but haven't pinned the necessary numbers down yet.

I had this idea back before it was a 10 turn DoT, and was planning on killing the final bosses in one blaze of glory. I hope you have a potion of invulnerability along when you set it off...

[Hachem_Muche]

I consider this strategy to be extremely cheesy!

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

I consider this strategy to be extremely cunning!

Fix'd, in bold.

[Kaja Rainbow]

I'll note that if you happen to like the alchemist class, getting to late game with one makes getting both the Pyromancer and Cryomancer achievements not that difficult. Late game fire and ice bombs really rack up the damage quickly. There're likely other good options for unlocking those, just saying the one that I happened to notice.

And I consider using the methodology suggested in this post to be about the same as editing a file (though I understand it might feel different for you). Though, I don't really consider bypassing the unlock requirements a negative thing.