ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I apologize if this information is available elsewhere, I couldn't find it in the site or through google searching.

In Daikara dungeon, I just had the event "you witness a large meteor fall from the sky". Very cool, nice effects and interesting. I'm curios-what, besides the meteor, achievement, and cool graphics, does this do?

-Hrafnskald

Very little. You have a unique event and it counts as "witnessing a meteor crash" for the Meteoric Crash willpower prodigy (any enemy that drops meteors also counts). Assuming the Wiki is accurate, it looks like it's supposed to be a "7% chance in an outdoor zone", which sounds oddly high given how rarely I've seen it happen.

Gameplay wise it destroys walls.

Generally on normal this is ok. On harder difficulties particularly Madness but also Insane its actually quite dangerous. The reason being as you go up the diff ladder you need to a) play well which means using things like corners well and b) on Madness specifically everything in the zones starts chasing you and get telepathy and the meteors can destroy rabbit hole hiding spot zig zag tunnels.

So if you are throwing AoEs around a corner a meteor can destroy the corner and cause your enemies to get LOS on you they will actually start hurting you. Or you could be resting in a zig zag tunnel and have meteor open it up and get flooded with enemies.

Edit Oh hold on I may be confusing this with the daikara specfic alternate that has meteors. I guess that is volcanic alt daikara.

cctobias wrote:Gameplay wise it destroys walls.

Generally on normal this is ok. On harder difficulties particularly Madness but also Insane its actually quite dangerous. The reason being as you go up the diff ladder you need to a) play well which means using things like corners well and b) on Madness specifically everything in the zones starts chasing you and get telepathy and the meteors can destroy rabbit hole hiding spot zig zag tunnels.

So if you are throwing AoEs around a corner a meteor can destroy the corner and cause your enemies to get LOS on you they will actually start hurting you. Or you could be resting in a zig zag tunnel and have meteor open it up and get flooded with enemies.

Edit Oh hold on I may be confusing this with the daikara specfic alternate that has meteors. I guess that is volcanic alt daikara.

I mean, it still destroys walls. But it only happens the once (now, a zone-wide sky-is-falling event sort of like the thunderstorm forest would be interesting! and terrible) so it's not as much of a concern. (and for completeness' sake, newer players should know that the volcano boulders/meteors/whatever in alt Daikara don't count as seeing a meteor for the prodigy)