This build focused primarily on Dexterity, which meant that a Skeleton would be the best race by far, and it evolved to include a sling, Rapid Shot, and later Precise Strikes and the Light tree as main parts of the character.
I focused on Dexterity throughout the game, as it boosted accuracy, natural defense, as well as Shield Wall, and other talents. This allowed me to stay ahead of most enemies, and they could not hit me at all. If they did hit me, I had enough armour to
nearly negate the damage. Another dexterity synergy with this class was that it boosted damage of melee attacks as well.
Most of my damage throughout the early game, up to the start of Prides was due to damage-on-hit effects from Rings of Blasting and other sources. This meant that the +55% attack speed bonus from Rapid Shot meant nearly +55% damage per turn (althoug the damage penalty is almost never significant). Around the start of the Prides, the balance tipped, and I switched to focusing on boosting the base damage of the attacks, and started using Precise Strikes, as the 10% slower attack speed was worth it for some crit rate.
I rarely used my sling for attacking, instead using it for the bonuses that it provided my character. The bow-ego expansion addon made this useful, and gave a diverse range of choices. Using it also showed me which parts needed to be nerfed as well as illustrating gaps that could be filled. The sling was, however still useful in niche situations. It softened up enemies as they approached (if I remembered), and it killed dying enemies as they fled.
This character also used many addons, as follows:
- Sustain Protection alteration (starting in the Master fight, one turn after it would've been useful)
- Inscription Expansion (though I never used any, being undead)
- Inspect Enemy EQ (handy, but not very powerful)
- Shadowstrike Alteration (also not used, I didn't have the skill)
- Bow Ego Expansion (made sling choice meaningful)
- Non-Leveling Towns (starting with the East)
- Wands (in tool slot and recharge. I carried a bunch, but never used them)
- Amulets of Mastery (I found three, but none boosted a good category)
- Gem Bomb Alteration (not an alchemist)
- Glove Stats (essential)
- Stable Sandworm Lair (nice, it made it quicker without removing the feeling for me)
The Fights: (Prides and onward)
I was remarkably resilient in all of the Prides, helped by having 4 shields, a couple of heals, and good resistances.
Vor Pride was my first one. I had the Fiery Choker and 70% Fire resist at this time, meaning that I could simply ignore the Pyromancers, instead picking off the Cryomancers, cutting my danger greatly.
Undead Pride was also quite easy, as I could mostly ignore summons due to my DEF, and pick off the corruptors and Blood mages. It helped that I had the Sanguine Shield for Blight resistance.
Wyrmics Pride was the easiest. I could completely ignore summoners, as their melee summons couldn't hit me, Spiders couldn't poison me, and flamespitters and drakes didn't damage me.
Berserkers Pride was harder, as some enemies, especially the random bosses, had enough accuracy to hit me, and the bosses hit quite hard, even through armour.
High Peak was quite quick, as I decided I didn't care about 100% completion, and ran for the stairs, bypassing a few of the more difficult guardians.
The Final Battle was moderately hard. I left the Dragon portal open, but closed the others. This provided distractions, blocks, and AoE damage against the Sorcerers, while the fire dragons actually healed me (due to 70% resist fire, >100% heal mod, and often Healing Nexus as well). I killed the melee one first, havinf enough DEF to avoid and riposte many attacks, then the mage was easy, if time consuming and invisible.
Atamathon: I had enough DEF to avoid 80% of its attacks, and the rest were half absorbed by my armour. I still had healing due to fire and 4 shields/2 heals, so I never got into too much trouble with the fight, though I did need to phase door and cool down once.
And there you go, a shield/sling/striking Skeleton Bulwark.
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Sex : Male STR: 103
Race : Skeleton DEX: 119
Class : Bulwark MAG: 35
Level : 50 WIL: 49
Exp : 1172% CUN: 64
Gold : 1110.44 CON: 108
Accuracy(Main Hand): 78 Life : 1916/1916Encumbrance : 123/303
Damage (Main Hand): 97 Stamina : 364/364 Difficulty : Normal
Permadeath : Adventure
APR (Main Hand): 5 Mana : 429/429
Crit (Main Hand): 52% Positive : 181/197
Speed (Main Hand): 0.57
Range (Main Hand): 9
Fatigue : 13% Spellpower : 40.67
Armor : 114.14 Spell Crit : 31.8%
Armor Hardiness : 95% Spell Speed : 1
Defense : 67.1
Ranged Defense : 71.1
All damage : 7%
Physical damage : -5%
Fire damage : 17%
Cold damage : 2%
Light damage : 13%
Temporal damage : 17%
Physical Save : 78.2375
Spell Save : 65.625
Mental Save : 59.55
All Resists: 22%
Physical Resist(cap): 29%( 74%)
Arcane Resist(cap): 30%( 70%)
Fire Resist(cap): 69%( 70%)
Cold Resist(cap): 34%( 70%)
Lightning Resist(cap): 34%( 70%)
Acid Resist(cap): 60%( 70%)
Nature Resist(cap): 45%( 70%)
Blight Resist(cap): 70%( 70%)
Light Resist(cap): 36%( 70%)
Darkness Resist(cap): 42%( 70%)
Mind Resist(cap): 13%( 70%)
Temporal Resist(cap): 38%( 80%)
Poison Resistance: 100%
Disease Resistance: 17%
Bleed Resistance: 100%
Confusion Resistance: 100%
Blind Resistance: 54%
Disarm Resistance: 5%
Pinning Resistance: 40%
Stun Resistance: 100%
Fear Resistance: 100%
Knockback Resistance: 100%
Number of NPC killed: 5971
Most killed NPC: brittle clear ooze (482)
[Winner!]
Well done! You have won the Tales of Maj'Eyal: The Age of Ascendancy
The Sorcerers are dead, and the Orc Pride lies in ruins, thanks to your efforts.
You have prevented the portal to the Void from opening and thus stopped the Creator from bringing about the end of the world.
The orc presence in the Far East has greatly been diminished by the loss of their leaders and the destruction of the Sorcerers. The free people of the Sunwall will be able to prosper and thrive on this land.
Maj'Eyal will once more know peace. Most of its inhabitants will never know they even were on the verge of destruction, but then this is what being a true hero means: to do the right thing even though nobody will know about it.
You may continue playing and enjoy the rest of the world.
[Talents Chart]
- Technique / Shield offense (mastery 1.30)
Shield Pummel (class) 4/5
Riposte (class) 5/5
Overpower (class) 1/5
Assault (class) 1/5
- Technique / Shield defense (mastery 1.30)
Shield Wall (class) 5/5
Repulsion (class) 1/5
Shield Expertise (class) 5/5
Last Stand (class) 0/5
- Technique / Archery training (mastery 1.10)
Steady Shot (class) 1/5
Aim (class) 5/5
Rapid Shot (class) 5/5
Relaxed Shot (class) 5/5
- Technique / Combat techniques (mastery 1.30)
Precise Strikes (class) 5/5
Rush (class) 5/5
Perfect Strike (class) 1/5
Blinding Speed (class) 5/5
- Technique / Combat veteran (mastery 1.30)
Quick Recovery (class) 1/5
Fast Metabolism (class) 5/5
Spell Shield (class) 5/5
Unending Frenzy (class) 1/5
- Technique / Combat training (mastery 1.30)
Thick Skin (generic) 5/5
Armour Training (generic) 10/10
Combat Accuracy (generic) 2/10
Weapons Mastery (generic) 0/10
Knife Mastery (generic) 0/10
- Cunning / Survival (mastery 1.00)
Trap Detection (generic) 1/5
Heightened Senses (generic) 1/5
Trap Disarm (generic) 0/5
Evasion (generic) 0/5
- Celestial / Light (mastery 1.00)
Healing Light (generic) 1/5
Bathe in Light (generic) 1/5
Barrier (generic) 1/5
Providence (generic) 1/5
- Undead / Skeleton (mastery 1.30)
Skeleton (generic) 5/5
Bone Armour (generic) 5/5
Resilient Bones (generic) 5/5
Re-assemble (generic) 5/5
- Cursed / Cursed aura (mastery 1.00)
Defiling Touch (generic) 5/5
Dark Gifts (generic) 5/5
Ruined Earth (generic) 0/5
Cursed Sentry (generic) 0/5
[Inscriptions (4/4)]
Rune: Controlled Phase Door
Rune: Shielding
Rune: Shielding
Rune: Controlled Phase Door
[Current Effects]
- Rapid Shot
- Premonition
- Shield Wall
- Precise Strikes
- Curse of Madness
- Curse of Misfortune
- Curse of Corpses
- Curse of Nightmares
[Character Equipment]
In main hand
a) frigid reinforced leather sling of precision (Misfortune)
Type: weapon / sling
Attack speed: 80%
Firing range: +9
Default ammo(infinite):
Base power: 43.5 - 52.2
Uses stats: 50% Cun, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Armour Penetration: +5
Physical crit. chance: +5.5%
When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +14
Physical crit. chance: +12.0%
Changes stats: +6 Dex / +5 Cun / +9 Con
Damage when the wearer hits(ranged): 12 ice
Damage when the wearer is hit: 8 ice
Curse of Misfortune
In off hand
b) Sanguine Shield (14 def, 4 armour) (Madness)
Type: armor / shield
When used to attack (with talents):
Base power: 40.0 - 48.0
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Physical crit. chance: +9.0%
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +14
Ranged Defense: +14
Fatigue: +19%
Changes stats: +5 Con
Changes resistances: +25% blight
Life regen: +5.00
Curse of Madness
On fingers
c) Glory of the Pride
Type: jewelry / ring
When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +10
Physical power: +10
Armour: +10
Defense: +5
Fatigue: -15%
Changes damage: +8% physical
Talent cooldown: Rush (-6 turns)
Physical save: +45
Confusion immunity: +50%
Maximum mana: -40.00
Maximum stamina: +40.00
d) Armystir
Type: jewelry / ring
When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +15
Defense: +2
Fatigue: -17%
Changes stats: +10 Str / +9 Con
Changes resistances: +9% acid / +6% blight
Critical mult.: +2.00%
Maximum encumberance: +78
Disarm immunity: +5%
Pinning immunity: +15%
Life regen: +2.60
Maximum life: +100.00
Spell crit. chance: +3%
Healing mod.: +27%
Around neck
e) Fiery Choker
Type: jewelry / amulet
When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +5 Mag / +4 Wil / +3 Cun
Changes resistances: +20% fire / -20% cold
Changes damage: +10% fire / -5% cold
Damage affinity(heal): +30% fire
Blindness immunity: +40%
Spellpower: +7
Spell crit. chance: +8%
Talent on hit(spell): Volcano (10% chance level 3).
Light source
f) Eldritch Pearl
Type: lite / lite
When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +12
Changes stats: +4 Str / +4 Dex / +4 Mag / +4 Wil / +4 Cun / +4 Con / -5 Lck
Allows you to breathe in: water
Spellpower: +12
Light radius: +6
It can be used to activate talent Tidal Wave (costing 80 power out of 150/150) :
Effective talent level: 4.0
Use mode: Activated
Power cost: 80 out of 150/150.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Description: A wall of water rushes out from the caster with radius 1, increasing 1 per turn to a maximum eventual radius of 4, doing 20.84 cold damage and 19.41 physical damage as well as knocking back targets each turn for 5 turns.
The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.
Dropped by Slasul
Main armor
g) Plate Armor of the King (opal) (15 def, 20 armour) (Madness)
Type: armor / massive
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +20
Defense: +15
Fatigue: +26%
Changes stats: +2 Str / +2 Dex / +2 Mag / +11 Wil / +2 Cun / +2 Con
Changes resistances: +10% arcane / +25% fire / +25% acid / +25% blight / +25% darkness
Physical save: +15
Spell save: +25
Mental save: +25
Stun/Freeze immunity: +30%
Knockback immunity: +30%
Maximum stamina: +60.00
Light radius: +1
Curse of Madness
Cloak
h) Threads of Fate (10 def, 0 armour) (Nightmares)
Type: armor / cloak
When wielded/worn:
Defense: +10
Changes stats: +6 Mag / +6 Wil / +10 Lck
Changes resistances: +20% temporal
Changes resistances cap: +10% temporal
Changes damage: +10% temporal
Talent masteries: +0.10 Chronomancy / Timeline Threading +0.10 Chronomancy / Chronomancy +0.10 Spell / Divination
Physical save: +20
Spell save: +20
Mental save: +20
Confusion immunity: +40%
Spellpower: +8
Curse of Nightmares
It can be used to activate talent See the Threads (costing 1000 power out of 660/1000) :
Effective talent level: 1.1
Use mode: Activated
Power cost: 1000 out of 660/1000.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Description: You peer into three possible futures, allowing you to explore each for 4 turns. When the effect expires you'll choose which of the three futures becomes your present. Note that seeing visions of your own death can still be fatal
This spell splits the timeline. Attempting to use another spell that also splits the timeline while this effect is active will be unsuccessful.
This spell takes no time to cast.
Dropped by orc necromancer
On head
i) Crown of the Elements (0 def, 5 armour) (Nightmares)
Type: armor / head
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +5
Fatigue: +5%
Changes stats: +5 Con / +3 Wil
Damage when the wearer hits(melee): 10 fire / 10 cold / 10 lightning / 10 acid
Changes resistances: +15% fire / +15% cold / +15% lightning / +15% acid
See invisible: +15
Curse of Nightmares
Dropped by Ukllmswwik the Wise
Around waist
j) Girdle of the Calm Waters (Corpses)
Type: armor / belt
When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Wil
Changes resistances: +20% cold / +20% nature / +20% blight
Healing mod.: +30%
Curse of Corpses
On hands
k) drakeskin leather gloves 'Lustrevenom' (0 def, 3 armour) (Nightmares)
Type: armor / hands
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Changes stats: +10 Dex
Damage when the wearer hits(melee): 6 light
Changes resistances: +9% nature / +18% light
Changes damage: +6% light
Critical mult.: +33.00%
Physical save: +10
Spell save: +10
Mental save: +10
Pinning immunity: +25%
Stun/Freeze immunity: +25%
Knockback immunity: +25%
Life regen: +2.00
Stamina each turn: +1.30
Mana each turn: +0.40
When used to modify unarmed attacks:
Base power: 38.5 - 42.4
Uses stats: 40% Dex, 40% Str, 40% Cun
Damage type: Physical
Armour Penetration: +3
Physical crit. chance: +23.0%
Attack speed: 60%
When this weapon hits: Haymaker (10% chance level 1).
When this weapon hits: Second Wind (10% chance level 1).
When this weapon hits: Healing Nexus (10% chance level 1).
When this weapon hits: Set Up (10% chance level 1).
Damage when this weapon hits: +21 physical
Curse of Nightmares
On feet
l) pair of drakeskin leather boots 'Cuthoreroddarak' (0 def, 5 armour) (Misfortune)
Type: armor / feet
When wielded/worn:
Armour: +5
Fatigue: -5%
Changes stats: +6 Con
Changes resistances: +5% physical
Stealth bonus: +14
Spell save: +9
Blindness immunity: +14%
Poison immunity: +25%
Disease immunity: +17%
Confusion immunity: +16%
Maximum life: +53.00
Movement speed: +10%
Curse of Misfortune
Dropped by Nerylaith the orc master wyrmic
Tool
m) Pick of Dwarven Emperors (dig speed 12 turns)
Type: tool / digger
When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +3 Str / +3 Con
Changes resistances penetration: +10% physical
Physical save: +7
Spell save: +7
Mental save: +7
Maximum life: +50.00
It can be used to dig a wall, cut a tree, ..., costing 1 power out of 1/1.
Quiver
[Player Achievements]
'A dangerous secret' was achieved for Found the mysterious staff and told Last Hope about it. At 2012-02-09 23:07:48
'Against all odds' was achieved for Killed Ukruk in the ambush. At 2012-02-09 22:18:39
'Atamathoned!' was achieved for Killed the giant golem Atamathon after foolishly reactivating it. At 2012-02-11 20:46:08
'Back and there again' was achieved for Opened a portal to the Far East from Maj'Eyal. At 2012-02-10 18:08:07
'Brave new world' was achieved for Went to the Far East and took part in the war. At 2012-02-10 00:07:57
'Curse Lifter' was achieved for Killed Ben Cruthdar the Cursed. At 2012-02-07 18:21:49
'Destroyer of the creation' was achieved for Killed Slasul. At 2012-02-10 18:41:26
'Destroyer's bane' was achieved for Killed Golbug the Destroyer. At 2012-02-09 23:50:32
'Earth Master' was achieved for Killed Harkor'Zun and unlocked Stone magic At 2012-02-07 23:49:14
'Evil denied' was achieved for Won ToME by preventing the Void portal to open. At 2012-02-11 20:15:10
'Explorer' was achieved for Use the Sher'Tul fortress exploratory farportal at least 7 times with the same character. At 2012-02-10 19:26:51
'Exterminator' was achieved for Killed 1000 creatures At 2012-02-07 21:26:28
'Eye of the storm' was achieved for Freed Derth from the onslaught of the mad Tempest, Urkis. At 2012-02-07 22:07:18
'Flooder' was achieved for Defeated Ukllmswwik while doing his own quest. At 2012-02-10 18:45:49
'Home sweet home' was achieved for Dispatched the Weirdling Beast and taken possession of Yiilkgur, the Sher'Tul Fortress for your own usage. At 2012-02-07 21:42:18
'Level 10' was achieved for Got a character to level 10. At 2012-02-07 19:17:43
'Level 20' was achieved for Got a character to level 20. At 2012-02-07 22:52:42
'Level 30' was achieved for Got a character to level 30. At 2012-02-09 22:20:41
'Level 40' was achieved for Got a character to level 40. At 2012-02-10 18:05:24
'Level 50' was achieved for Got a character to level 50. At 2012-02-11 19:45:20
'Orcrist' was achieved for Killed the leaders of the Orc Pride. At 2012-02-11 18:23:58
'Portal ender' was achieved for Fought the two Sorcerers and closed three invocation portals. At 2012-02-11 20:15:07
'Race through fire' was achieved for Raced through the fires of the Charred Scar to stop the Sorcerers. At 2012-02-10 23:48:32
'Rescuer of the lost' was achieved for Rescued the merchant from the assassin lord. At 2012-02-07 18:16:48
'Sliders' was achieved for Activated a portal using the Orb of Many Ways. At 2012-02-09 23:54:44
'The Arena' was achieved for Unlocked Arena mode. At 2012-02-07 18:04:09
'The secret city' was achieved for Discovered the truth about mages. At 2012-02-07 19:22:27
'There and back again' was achieved for Opened a portal to Maj'Eyal from the Far East. At 2012-02-10 13:19:58
'Treasure Hoarder' was achieved for Amass 3000 gold pieces. At 2012-02-10 17:57:52
'Treasure Hunter' was achieved for Amass 1000 gold pieces. At 2012-02-08 16:31:00
'Vampire crusher' was achieved for Destroyed the Master in its lair of the Dreadfell. At 2012-02-09 22:09:10
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