Midnight (v1.13)

[nukularpower]

There are a lot of OP no brainer options, like the whole Celestial escort tree.. Fortitude was good, but Premonition is way better. Etc etc.

If it was up to me, the Light tree wouldn't be an escort reward, but hey. Either way, going from "good" to "savescum if you get a Paladin escort" is a pretty big difference Also, forcing actual Sun Pallies to dump Cun just to get chants isn't very nice!

Also, didn't realize you made this and Arcanum both. Cool. Been a while since I played Anorthil, just figured the 1 thing was from the addon.

[malboro_urchin]

Is the Polished Disc supposed to require 40 strength to use? That seems a bit much for a tier 1 shield

[HousePet]

No, its not supposed to be that high.

[malboro_urchin]

Could Midnight please include more 1 handers with caster stats? I've always wanted to make a holy/divine magewarrior-type char, and Celestial/Sun wasn't anything worth having in vanilla.

[malboro_urchin]

I've tried a starting a few starslingers, mostly as halflings and star elves (though star elves are easier, because unlike halflings, star elves actually get stat points at 1st level).

Early on, they have no killing power whatsoever, doing 9-15 damage a turn often doesn't cut it for one strong mob, let alone when there are multiple to deal with. Can they get some kind of early offense please?

Edit: also, Stealth on autocast doesn't work with Restful Night, seeing as Restful Night on autocast is pretty much required to keep up negative energy reserves (at least for those first few levels). Is this intended?

One more question: Is stealth supposed to seem worthless? Every single enemy I've come across has spotted me.

Final edit: I should mention that Celestial/Deep Space and Celestial/Shooting Stars look *insanely* cool, and I'm super-excited for when I get to use them!

[HousePet]

I'll move one of the starting talent points into Sling Mastery, so you can do better damage at start.

You don't have anything to spend negative energy on in early levels, so why bother with autocasting Restful Night? (Its also more useful as a status cure)

Stealth can be a bit confusing because the spotted message comes up when a creature has seen something. They haven't actually spotted you, they have just been alerted that something is sneaking around. You are still hidden.

[malboro_urchin]

One of the Starslinger's only damaging abilities (Shadow Shot, iirc) costs negative energy, and at that stage in the game, Starslingers need all the damage boosts they can get. That starting point in Sling Mastery helps out a good amount.

Edit: after 5 attempts, I can't make it out of either Trollmire or the Tenebrous Glade with a Starslinger. Am I doing something wrong?

[HousePet]

Try using Shadow Shot while stealthed.

Are you doing the Orchards before the Glades?

[malboro_urchin]

Yep, doing the orchard, and having little to no problems completing it. <3 worm that eats!

Shadow shot while stealthed, with shadowstrike, does about 40-some damage, after which I proceed to miss vs snakes that are right next to me, repeatedly bump attacking me without moving (and this is with 2 points in combat accuracy).

Shadow shot & Restful Night seem to give me variable amounts of neg energy, so I can't always Stealthed Shadow shot -> Restful Night -> light damage beam shot as I'd like to against those shadows. Every enemy in the Tenebrous Glades does fairly large amounts of damage, and has enough health such that they take a while to go down. I've been doing these as Star Elf for the stats, as their racial stat bonuses are pretty much made for Starslinger. In these runs, I've gone out of my way to try and afford a better sling or a better set of ammo, but to no avail.

[HousePet]

Shadow Shot has a negative negative cost when you are stealthed.
You are missing those snakes because they are stepping back to avoid the projectile, then moving forward again. Accuracy has nothing to do with it. Try aiming past them.

[Orangeflame]

Path of Light (Sun paladin Glory tree, 4th skill) hurt friendlies, including yourself. It does not play nice with autoexplore, because whenever it backtracks, it stops because I just took a small amount of damage.

[malboro_urchin]

I don't believe that it's physically possible to get a Star Elf Starslinger to beat the Astrologer and survive.

[HousePet]

A brave Paladin need never backtrack or retreat! (Unless they have light affinity from Radiant Soul)

Star Slinger will have a better start next update. In the mean time, you should be able to squeeze another level by visiting the Slazish Fens before facing the Astrologer.

[devilindupriest]

I get semi-common lua error cascades with an adventurer trying to hit me with sigil of fascination pointing to a damage value nil. Most of the time I've been able to close all and carry on so I've ignored it, this latest one was of the endless errors variety and had to reboot. If it happens again what do you need?

[HousePet]

I don't need anything except some time to get around to patching these things.