ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Here it is:

http://te4.org/characters/6820/tome/37f ... f20218869a

So I've always been meaning to play through with a shalore temporal warden. As I suspected, things come together amazingly well by the end. Using a combination of timeless and invigorate, you can walk around with 200% global speed, 150% movement speed, a shield, 15 turn regen and 70% resists, and more that I can't properly remember. The character is a bit of a glass cannon though, which makes it all the more exciting. All the powers that you have to balance leads to a very fun and tactical end game.

What changes that though is a synergy coming out of somewhere that I couldn't figure out. Someone online told me it was from arcane might. Essentially, my temporal damage spells (i.e. stop and temporal wake) at some point starting hitting enemies with mana thrust. And then eventually mana thrust x10 and more. By the end of the game, temporal wake and stop were doing about 5000 damage each. I cleaned up the final bosses with just a few attacks.

Atamathon was especially funny. I softened him up and then I hit him with my two spells, which killed him outright but also killed me with reflection damage. At that point I was all out of lives so the blood of life brought me back and I had defeated the golem.

Whatever was causing the manathrusts definitely needs to be fixed, but this character was still a lot of fun to play. It was fun rolling over everything at the end, but still the character was vulnerable enough that I had some close calls. Can anyone explain exactly where the manathrusts were coming from?

Your Crystalline Vorantum Dagger had a Manathrust proc (10% chance).

Yah, that might be related, but also when I took the dagger off the 6000 damage effect would still happen. i.e. when I switched to my bow I was still exploding everything with arcane damage.

Hmm, interesting about the arcane damage. And good job on the win.

Re: glass cannon

My recent Yeek TW winner was almost entirely immune to damage by the end of the game by stacking temporal resist and using Damage Smearing all the time. Reduce the cooldown with Invigorate and/or that other cooldown reducing skill that I can't remember the name of, and if you're lucky enough to find the TARDIS and some +max temp resist items (I was), you've basically got permanent 80% or so resist all. Here's my character:

http://www.te4.org/characters/3123/tome ... a3d5a8e4e8

It sounds like you had some kind of bug that stacked the manathrust procs on your dagger every time you swapped out of it until you had it occurring multiple times on everything. Or something. Hard to say, but it definitely looks like a weird bug of some sort.

I've noticed something similar, actually: An Archmage I was playing briefly had the complete Crystalline set before tossing them out in exchange for Tarelion's Staff and the Black Robe, but the Manathrust kept proccing. I think the Crystalline set is glitched.