ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I just reviewed all no_npc_use talents, this is a list of all `no_npc_use` talents and guessing reason why they appear in this list.

Talents that should never appear on NPC

• Buggy on NPC: Produce too many bugs
• Item Altering: Irreversibly affect an item, which should not be suitable for NPC, because you don't want it to destory your drop
• Only player can use: NPC can't use it.
• Split timeline: Split timeline won't act well for NPC.

Talents that is too strong / too weak for NPC

• High burst damage: Really high burst damage that likely to 1hko player
• Strong passive: High amount of passive bonus and can easily make the enemy too strong.
• Extremely strong disable: Very good disable talent that make actor feeling pain.
• Useless against player: This talent just does not work against player. It may affect player's summon though.
• Useless on NPC: Does not work will for NPC.
• Require killing: Requires killing some enemy to have effect, which should be nearly impossible for enemy NPC.

Talents that is too annoying

• Annoying
• Damage redirection: Likely to make player get killed by damage recoil without noticing what happened.
• Terrain Altering: Affects the terrain, which is annoying to the player and can not be used smartly
• Strange reposition: Cross wall repositioning, which is hard to write AI and make player feel they appear from nowhere

Talents that can be made more NPC-friendly if people love seeing this talent

• Tracking talent: Enemy do not need to track, but some tracking talent will buff the enemy, so should we retain its status, or let enemy simply use them as a buff?
• Need dialog: This talent generate a dialog, though it can be fixed to automatically choose one option for enemies
• Need better AI: A good tactical table/function will fix it.
• Need review: The power level of this talent needs some further review.
• I don't know why: I don't known why this talent get banned, maybe this tag is added before some class revamp and somebody just forgot to delete this line, or the reason it get banned no longer pesent.

These are talents that I want to released from no_npc_use jail at most.

Misc

• Require: It requires another talent.

List of now no_npc_use talents

• Most possessor talents: Buggy on NPC and Require killing

Ashes DLC

• Wheel of Fate: Item Altering
• Reckless Strike: High burst damage
• Blighted Path: Need dialog
• Demonic Blood: Strong passive, but Need review
• Abyssal Shield: Strong passive, but Need review
• Maw of Urh'rok: Suicidal and Annoying
• Blazing Rebirth: I don't know why
• Link of Pain: Damage redirection
• Hope Wanes: Extremely strong disable
• Fiery Torment: I don't know why

Cults DLC

• Fatebreaker: Damage redirection
• Grand Oration: Need dialog
• Twofold Curse: Need dialog
• Revelation: Need dialog
• Reverse Entropy: I don't know why
• Foul Convergence: Need review Friend of the worm have bad damage output
• Digest: Require killing
• Suspend: Annoying
• From Below It Devours: I don't know why
• Take a Bite: I don't know why

Orcs DLC

• Solidify Air: Terrain Altering
• Vaporous Step: Need better AI
• Inhale Vapours: Require Vaporous Step
• Metaphasic Spin: Need dialog
• Rocket Pod: Strong passive
• Incendiary Powder and Lock On: Require Rocket Pod
• Death From Above: Maybe Strong passive? Need review
• Saw Wheels: Need review
• Craftsman's Eye: Strong passive, but Need review
• Fumigate: High burst damage
• steamtech/chemistry and steamtech/physics: Item Altering
• Awesome Toss: Need review
• steamtech/heavy-weapons: Strong passive
• Mecharachnid Chassis: Need dialog
• Mecharachnid Piloting: Maybe Need better AI and Require Mecharachnid Chassis

Main Game:

• of illumination: I don't know why
• Jumpgate: Need better AI

chronomancy/*

• Precognition: Tracking talent
• Contingency: Need dialog
• See the Threads: Split timeline
• Wormhole: Terrain Altering
• Time Stop: Extremely strong disable, but Need review
• chronomancy/spellbinding: Need dialog
• Cease to Exist: Split timeline
• Temporal Reprieve: Only player can use

corruption/*

• Domination Hex: Useless against player, Need better AI
• Bloodcasting: I don't know why
• Healing Inversion: I don't know why
• Vile Transplant: Extremely strong disable
• Vimsense: Tracking talent

cunning/*

• Umbral Agility: Strong passive, but Need review
• Kill Shot: High burst damage
• Dirty Fighting: I don't know why
• Expose Weakness: Maybe High burst damage
• Shadowstrike: Strong passive
• Shadow Dance: Strong passive
• Track: Tracking talent
• Lure: I don't know why, maybe Useless against player? It can trigger some traps though

cursed/*

• Defiling Touch: Item Altering
• Cursed Sentry: Item Altering
• Shadow Senses: Tracking talent
• Shadows Empathy: I don't know why
• Shadow Transposition: Switch place
• Predator: Require killing
• Savage Hunter: Strong passive?
• Shrouded Hunter: Require Savage Hunter
• Mark Prey: Tracking talent

wild-gift/*

• Meditation: Bad on NPC
• Earth's Eyes: Tracking talent
• Mergeback: I don't know why
• Chromatic Fury: High burst damage
• Swallow: I don't know why
• Quake: Terrain Altering
• Detonate: Need better AI
• Phase Summon: Switch place

race/*

• Stone Walking: Strange reposition
• Dominant Will: Useless against player, Need better AI
• Wayist: I don't know why
• Ogric Wrath: I don't know why

psionic/*

• Form and Function: I don't know why
• Matter is Energy: Item Altering
• Projection: Buggy on NPC
• Telekinetic Grasp: NPC don't need it
• Dreamscape: Buggy on NPC
• Over Mind: Buggy on NPC and Useless against player
• Probability Travel: Strange reposition

spell/*

• Drawn To Death: Require killing
• Arcane Eye: Tracking talent
• Vision: Tracking talent
• Refit Golem: Useless against player
• Invoke Golem: I don't know why
• Runeskin: Useless on NPC.
• spell/stone-alchemy except Stone Touch: Item Altering
• Body of Stone: Useless on NPC

technique/*

• Called Shots: Maybe Extremely strong disable?
• Marked for Death: High burst damage, but Need review
• Unending Frenzy: Require killing
• Light Armour Training: Strong passive
• Haymaker: High burst damage
• Hurricane Throw: Need better AI
• Sentinel: Annoying
• Bombardment: Strong passive
• Concealment: Annoying
• Snipe: High burst damage
• Berserker Rage: Need better AI
• Last Stand: Maybe Annoying

Things that also need to put into no_npc_use if using the above criteria

• The whole demented/slow-death tree: Require Digest
• Materialize Barrierm, Ice Wall, Forge Bellows and Stone Wall: Terrain Altering
• Displacement Shield and Weapon of Wrath: Damage redirection