Beholder race/classes

[ajfluffy]

Hi All,

New add-on featuring more of my insane ideas + rex's graphics.

Adding a new race of beholders(technically property of wizards of the coast, but that doesn't matter since its gpl)
I have a few classes planned, but am releasing it with just the "mage eye" class for now.

LINK: http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/beholder-raceclasses

example class tree:

spell/fire-eye
Flame Laser -- "Laucnhes a bolt of fire from your eyestalks, doing %0.2f fire damage.
The range will increase with your talent level and damage will increase with your Spellpower."

Fire Focus -- "Increases your critical chance with your fire eyestalk by %d%%.
Your flame laser will cause %d%% percent splash damage within %d radius of your target."

Blast Beam -- "Causes your Flame Laser to burn victims for %d%% of the original damage over 4 turns.
Reduces self inflicted damage by %d%%"

Fire Mastery -- "Focus your fire eyestalk, increasing all your fire damage by %d%%, and ignoring %d%% of the fire resistance of your targets.
Only two masteries may be active at once."

[StarKeep]

Incompatible with Arcanum, due to sharing the talent name Disintegrate.

[ajfluffy]

grr ok adding shortname.

any other feedback? I know that the quest has slightly wrong info at growth level 4 heh.

[rexorcorum]

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Lo and behold, the mighty [ok, initially squishy (beware of Bill)] "Beholder" (tm) for your laser madness galore!

EDIT: OK, and for all TENTACLE admirers as well

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

This thing has TENTACLE COMBAT?!?!?!?!?!

SOLD!!!

[ajfluffy]

lol wait til you see the class specifically for tentacle combat... so many tentacles flying around it should be played by adults only

[kemott11]

Awesome class, didn't experience any bugs yet.
I'm lvl 20, done all t2 except daikara. The class is quite powerful, but it's easy to die if you are careless ;p Tried it on Intense difficulty addon, I die mostly to physical bosses. That 70% armour hardiness doesn't help much with 0 armor ;D

1. Are there only 2 transformations? I got the 3rd form still in t1 dungeons ;o
2. It's kind of sad there are only 3 inscription slots, guess I will dump reg and go for 2 shields and phase shift.
3. Does Arcane Might prodigy work with tentacles?
4. What about removing one ring slot and adding 1 extra necklace slot for more diversity? Beholders don't have a neck anyway

Can't w8 for more beholders.

[ajfluffy]

Ok, so this class of beholders doesn't have a way to really improve armor as they are meant to be squishy. I may need to change that a bit as they do tend to explode from pure melee bosses...

arcane might and everything else should work just fine with the tentacles.

There are only three forms, but I am looking at changing how those function as you can get to the third one really quickly and the game is fairly brutal without at least tri-laser.

I will take a look at the feedback over the weekend and probably post an update to make things a bit more balanced. In the meantime, enjoy?

[Zonk]

Edit: playing this NOW!

There's quite a few typos in talent descriptions, but that's minor(Lauchnes->Launches...). By the way, is the race meant to get full equipment slots?

[ajfluffy]

I've already fixed the launches, but yes they should have 8 ring slots and hat and necklace and tool and lite.

[jilladilla]

The cold laser seems to have a bug after you get the 2nd talent... Sometimes it deals damage, most of the time it won't deal damage to anything...

[ajfluffy]

There is some kind of interaction with it and I think zomnibus?

I think that the cold laser is only one effected.

[jilladilla]

But beholder and added difficulties are the only addons i have up?

[ajfluffy]

Odd... I'll take a look at it. Probably something small I missed.

[Zonk]

Feedback time!

1. Definetely need some way to boost armor or all that hardiness is mostly useless. Perhaps a talent that lets you gain armor based on your Con score? The 'non squishy'beholder race could get a better effect from that. Could grant 25+TL*10% of Con as armor or something like that.
Maybe this could be granted as a special effect from Thick Skin if you don't want to add a completely new talent or edit an existing beholder one...

2. You've changed levelup function so they don't get category points - is that truly necessary? What if they want extra rune slots or want to boost a tree they particularly like?

3. Eye ray 'saturation' is nasty, as unlike runes/infusions you're likely to use eye beams basically every turn. Perhaps a talent to reduce it? Like X% of not triggering the drained eyestalks effect.

4. Quest text says you gain death eye at stage 4...but from the code, it's actually learned at stage 5.