[b42] Solopsist Win and Class Feedback
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:51 pm
Got a win with a Dwarf Solopsist:
http://te4.org/characters/2164/tome/29a ... 0b5b2ac34c
This is an interesting class. I played it to maximize saves (thus dwarf) and to emphasize feedback and sleep / nightmare.
More than the normal share of deaths for adventure mode - mostly from glitches. Level 60+ shadows outside of vaults are dirty pool.
This character also had an uncommonly large number of glitches, usually when returning to the wilderness. This would involve the game freezing at 23% of a saved game. Two such freezes (last hope and unremarkable cave) caused me real game-play problems.
Notes:
The distortion tree is a good concept, with multiple abilities that play well with one another. There is a non-trivial chance to hurt yourself badly with it, however.
The sleep abilities are great crowd control. Inner demons is extremely powerful on boss or elite monsters, and it makes some things, like the overpowered Wyrms in Vor, a bit easier than for some other classes. Granted, most classes have something cheesy up their sleeves, e.g. damage around the corner with an alchemist.
The "avoid damage with saving throws mechanic" works surprisingly well most of the time - this makes specific immunities less important for this class than for most. However, every once in a awhile you get hit for a lot very quickly - it's not obvious at all what the main threats to the class are in terms of damage.
http://te4.org/characters/2164/tome/29a ... 0b5b2ac34c
This is an interesting class. I played it to maximize saves (thus dwarf) and to emphasize feedback and sleep / nightmare.
More than the normal share of deaths for adventure mode - mostly from glitches. Level 60+ shadows outside of vaults are dirty pool.
This character also had an uncommonly large number of glitches, usually when returning to the wilderness. This would involve the game freezing at 23% of a saved game. Two such freezes (last hope and unremarkable cave) caused me real game-play problems.
Notes:
The distortion tree is a good concept, with multiple abilities that play well with one another. There is a non-trivial chance to hurt yourself badly with it, however.
The sleep abilities are great crowd control. Inner demons is extremely powerful on boss or elite monsters, and it makes some things, like the overpowered Wyrms in Vor, a bit easier than for some other classes. Granted, most classes have something cheesy up their sleeves, e.g. damage around the corner with an alchemist.
The "avoid damage with saving throws mechanic" works surprisingly well most of the time - this makes specific immunities less important for this class than for most. However, every once in a awhile you get hit for a lot very quickly - it's not obvious at all what the main threats to the class are in terms of damage.