Davion Fuxa wrote:Not sure what I'll be doing next - I'm thinking of jumping straight in with a Higher Brawler but I'm wondering if I should continue with the mostly pre-played runs and go with perhaps a Cornac Cursed next. One thing for sure though is that I'm getting some decent experience with all the races and finding out which ones I like and don't like.
I'd save Higher for a magic using class, preferably something that specializes in a single element. Born Into Magic is really nice for that these days. Higher Reaver is great, just won with one. Barring that, something that needs willpower so the regeneration talent gets decent, or something that can use the extra light radius from Overseer of Nations. Don't see any synergies for Brawlers. For those I'd go Halfling, Dwarf or Thalore.
Cornac Cursed is solid, of course, and probably the best introduction for the class.
Still following the Shalore TW's adventures for now.
Might do the Cornac Cursed first then and then follow with a Higher Reaver.
Thinking about possibly actually doing a Shaloran Brawler after those - along with a bunch of other Shaloran whatever runs. I think I like them the best out of all the races since their experience penalty isn't too high and I like their racial talents.
I was going to hold off on announcing that I had had started the Cornac Cursed - but I figured I should get attention about it now. Have cleared all the Tier-1 Dungeons as well as the Cursed Only dungeon and uploaded those videos to YouTube.
So why I'm drawing attention is that I currently just did a run with the Ruined Dungeon - cleared every part of the dungeon but one of the Guardians either didn't spawn or spawned somewhere I can't find him. I know Mirthless had this problem in one of his runs (can't remember which) but he didn't exactly show how he got around it (if he did); figured I'd see if anyone else knew.
Currently I am in the process of uploading the video. Only sad thing of note is that the video is silent - but just viewing the video you'll see that one of the orbs is not lit and I do a fairly thorough search for the other guardian.
Just a quick note that I'm finishing up with my Early Roguelike Runs playlist with one last run with a Cornac Cursed. The last couple episodes are being uploaded as we speak. From these episodes I'm already thinking about another playlists I will be setting up.
I'll be moving on to make another playlist which is more centred on playing outside my comfort zone with the intention to learn the aspects of other classes and species, unlock things, and so forth. The first run will be with a Yeek Bulwark - which I've progressed all the way up to the 2nd Tier Dungeons already.
So my Yeek Bulwark died today, started to upload the videos for it already. I basically failed to do what I wanted to do with it - that being save the Yeek from Subject Z, but I also failed to complete two dreams in Dogroth Caldera. I'm thinking about using Yeek again though I'm not sure what class I should try to save the Yeek in the Halfling Ruins as well as to survive long enough to get to level 20. Open to suggestions if people have them.
Anyhow, most likely the next two planned runs are going to be Higher Reaver and Halfling Shadowblade - Higher Reaver to demonstrate what I'm seeing already to be my least favorite class and a Melee build that just doesn't catch my eye really. The Shadowblade I'm mostly aiming to hit 600 damage with and not much more.
Also planning to do some Mage runs as well since someone had requested it. Figure I'll hit up Archmage since it may be a good class to explore with due to synergie with Shadowblade and Arcane Blade. Thinking maybe Higher Archmage for it since someone suggested using a Mage class with them.
I'm thinking about using Yeek again though I'm not sure what class I should try to save the Yeek in the Halfling Ruins as well as to survive long enough to get to level 20. Open to suggestions if people have them.
Archmage works very well for that: have phase door or teleport at 4+ by the time you're up against Subject Z, 'port the Wayist away, blast to smithereens with your three beams. Long term your Yeek AM will get one-shotted sooner rather than later, but it'll be fun until then. No Abashed Expanse either, in case you've got trouble with that.
Higher Reaver run has ended and I'm in the final process of compressing/uploading for last video. Run did fairly will - until I dismally got it killed.
Anyhow, I've run everything except what is locked for races so time to start picking favorites.
So I started up the Yeek Archmage. I've done several recordings and... THE YEEK STILL LIVES! Already I've compressed and uploaded videos up to the first unlocked accomplished - Yeek Mindslayer. There will be several more videos to come after though - the unlocking of Solipsist and Necromancer being included in them.
I'm doing so well that I think that I'm going to be cutting my 'Unlock' Playlist a little short to start a Playlist centered around just trying to accomplish a Win - Personally I could unlock Undead (and I may very well will) but that wasn't exactly what I was setting out to achieve on characters from this list.
A while ago after my Yeek Archmage was felled I had decided to try out the Normal Adventurer Difficulty in an attempt to uncover a bit more of the game and reach the areas of the Far East. I would also focus on the race I really like from the roster with this task as well - the Shaloran. One other tidbit is that I am going to choose class backgrounds that I have some general knowledge in.
The first character, the Shaloran Berserker, has been played for a little while now. I'm happy to advertise that he's manage to visit and uncover quite a bit of new content in the forms of the Exploratory Farportal, Sludgenest, a whole run of Dreadfall, and much more afterwards. Some Stuff is also getting unlocked too. The run is also starting to wind down (sort of) as I've died 4 times on the character and only have a limited amount of lives remaining, but I hope I might pull off a win against say the Grand Corrupter or that stupid Corrupted Oozemancer that killed me twice in Sludgenest - after unlocking Sun Paladins.
Figured I'd drop a note then about the progress of my Shaloran Berserker.
He's managed to travel to the Far East, unlocking Sun Paladins, complete the quest to create the Farportal back to Maj'Eyal, beat the Backup Guardians, complete the quest to create the Farportal back to the Far East, defeat the Corrupted Oozemancer to unlock the Oozemancer Class, apparently deal 1 million Fire Damage and unlock Wildfire for future use, AND PERHAPS MOST SURPRISING - side with the Grand Corrupter to destroy Zigur and unlock the Corrupter Class.
So happy right now I figured I tell the world about it because I've pretty well done everything and anything I ever wanted to do in this run - will be cool beans if I perhaps also add unlocking the 'Doomed' Class to the list, though I'm wondering if perhaps I should tackle an Orc Pride first....
Caution about doomed unlock. Currently, there's a bug due to the change in bone shield. The enemy there summons the boss that grants the doomed unlock when bone shield turns off. Bone shield, no longer turns off. The workaround I've heard is to turn the sustain off yourself. Disperse magic, Gloves of dispersal (same thing), Spellhunt remnants (tier 5 version), and corrupted negation can do this. Spell Feedback can also manage, but might take many turns for it to decide to flip off that particular sustain.
Having not been back to that crypt, I cannot definitively confirm this, but it's what I've been told will work.
Thanks for the explanation Crim. It's too bad though that before you wrote it I had transmogrified my Remnants though.
Anyhow, I guess another update is due. I crushed the Shadow Crypt and failed to get the Doomed class due to the aforementioned bug with Bone Shield. I continued on to do the Underwater Dungeon, crushing Shasul and eventually killing the old Drake as well.
That's means I'm left with the Orcish Prides. I randomly decided to pick one of them and ended up in Vor's Pride. I quickly mopped though and got the quest that eventually leads into the Charred Scar. Failed to understand what I had to do there since I sat back with the Sun Paladins to mop through the Orcs, and then eventually ran down through all the Charred Scar Denizens.
Just finished recording a video today of me mopping through two more Orcish Prides as well. Started out in Rak'Shor Pride and with some difficulty cleared through that one. Then moved on over to Gorbat's Pride where things were quite a bit easier.
All that's left now is Grushnak Pride, and then the End Game - wonder if I'll abruptly die somewhere at this point. I'll likely do it after I do a bit of compressing and uploading of the current stuff.
Well, my run is complete and all that's left now is to fill up the YouTube playlist with the last videos I have yet to compress. A Guess there isn't all that much to say, other then to drop a couple links and think about what my next plan of attack on Tales of Maj'Eyal will be....
Btw, as a note since I'm sort of at such a loss as to what to do now, I am taking suggestions on runs to do next. I will be aiming to do an undead run (leaning toward Ghoul Necromancer Normal Roguelike), a Sunwall started run (Maybe a Shaloran Sun Paladin Normal Roguelike), and perhaps another Shaloran specific run from plain old Maj'Eyal (Shaloran Wyrmic Normal Roguelike); but I'm totally up at this point to doing requesting runs - on any Normal Adventure or Roguelike difficulty and with any Race/Class combination currently available.
