ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

http://te4.org/characters/36/tome/8adf9 ... b2191892e3

Died once... I think it was in Dreadfell. I might be mixing up my characters though.

I completely ignored stealth, in favor of stabbing, and mobility, and more stabbing. Took Giant Leap at level 30, and Arcane Might at level 42. Mostly, I selected talents and equipment for defense, saves, stats, physical power, physical crit chance, crit multiplier or accuracy.

I turned off Shadow Combat once I got Essence of Speed going, because it kept draining all my mana, which would bring down my other sustains. But I used it through the early-to-mid game.

My typical mid-to-late game combat went something like: shield rune, Shadowstep or Giant Leap (depending on whether I have unblocked line of leaping to a target tile near the victim), Deadly Strikes if it's still alive, Rush or Shadowstep or Giant Leap to the next victim (if there's a group of victims with an empty tile near them, prefer Giant Leap so I kill 3+ enemies at once), finish off stragglers, rest.

For the final battle, I Shadowstepped to the magey one and poured some pain into him while Aeryn walked toward the fightery one in slow motion. After a few rounds, with the magey one stunned, I movement-infused over to help with the fightery one, and we beat on him for a while. Retreated south to recover life and cooldowns halfway through, then back up to finish off the fightery one with Aeryn's help. Then we finished off the magey one. World saved, go us.

Gratulation. (and a good new year;))
Interesting build, and the first one i see who skips the ambuscadetree.

I would be interested in you opinion regarding the stun effect of backstab.
I tried to take the arcanemight too in a build before the new version and had the impression it didnt work. (should double my actually magicvalue wit 2 weapons if i got it right, will it double points from equipment too?
I wonder also why you didnt put more points in the lighttree, you got from the escort. Do you have taken the prodigy just for the displacementshield? Do you have used it often, in my opinion it is a little embarrissing, that you always have to name a target for it.

Tagedieb

Tagedieb wrote: I would be interested in you opinion regarding the stun effect of backstab.

It never seemed to trigger very often. But by the endgame, it didn't really matter, because things died very quickly. I invested in Backstab mostly for the extra damage against things that I stunned with Dirty Fighting or Dual Strike.

I tried to take the arcanemight too in a build before the new version and had the impression it didnt work. (should double my actually magicvalue wit 2 weapons if i got it right, will it double points from equipment too?

Daggers normally have stats of 45% Dex, 45% Cun. Arcane Might means they have 45% Dex, 45% Cun, 50% Mag.
See http://te4.org/wiki/combat-damage for how that works. It definitely increased my damage a lot.

I wonder also why you didnt put more points in the lighttree, you got from the escort.

Not enough Generic points. What skill would I have sacrificed to have a slightly larger Barrier or Healing Light? Anyway, I'm sure there's some flexibility there.

Do you have taken the prodigy just for the displacementshield? Do you have used it often, in my opinion it is a little embarrissing, that you always have to name a target for it.

I don't understand the bit about "prodigy" in this context. I used Displacement Shield whenever I thought something would survive long enough to justify spending a turn setting it up, rather than stabbing things.

It was a lot more important in the mid-game when combats took longer and there were more things that could actually hurt me.

Thx for your answer,
I totally misunderstood the arcane might prodigy, thats why my question were kind of senseless
I thought it would add to your magic score and not to your weapon damage. Anyway quite interesting prodigy for a shadowblade. Iam stealth adicted, never built a shadowblade without it, but the prodigy should be stronger with stealth muliplying the dmg.

Tagedieb