[1.0.5] Roguelike win: Brandt the Higher Pyromancer

[jotwebe]

http://te4.org/characters/4384/tome/39a ... f0b4ae7735

I've mostly been playing Stone and Ice mages before, forgot how hilarious Wildfire plays. The solution to every problem is moar fire - got stunned? Blastwave, it'll clear up.

Build: inscription, Wildfire, Temporal, inscription
Most of the game I ran regen, shield, mental+phys wild, manasurge, once I got the fifth slot I had a movement infusion at first but switched it out to a second shield when I could gear for 100% stun immunity.

Anyways, prodigies: Indomitable Will (help against silence!), then Cauterize (never used).

Difficulties:
1) one Dreadmaster Archmage rare from a vault on Dreadfell 8, I just couldn't seriously touch it and it kept silencing me (that was before Indomitable Will). Bypassed it.
2) The fire elemental boss at the end of the Charred Scar. Even with 50% fire penetration, against that 30% damage affinity fire was less than stellar in effectiveness. Plus his cleansing flames kept eating my Wildfire anyway. Good thing I had arcane as a fallback option.
3) Some Gorbat Pride rare caught me good with a manaclash.
4) Gorbat. Dude is nasty. He dishes out spectacular amounts of damage at ridiculous range, and he just... won't... die. I even had to run away once.

Things learned:
Got lots of thief escorts with this guy. Put 3 points in Charm Mastery, and have to say I hadn't really noticed how nice that talent is before. Neira's Memory between 30% charge time reduction and Aegis was
all the shield I needed (well maybe with time shield once in while), which was good since I had pretty mediocre shield runes until level 40 or so. Hadn't used Temporal before, don't much care for Essence of Speed on a mage, but Time Shield is a beast. Torques of Clear Mind are the poor man's silence immunity (or the man's who doesn't want to wear Vox instead of that fire affinity amulet). Invisibility is a comfortable way to keep mana down when using Disruption Shield.