Dumb questions thread

[Kalirion]

Ok, new stupid question from me.

Whats does the "effect duration after teleport" do? Does it decrease the duration of bad effects (stun, confusion, disease, etc) by "x%" after a teleport, or increase the duration of good effects (buffs, regeneration, etc), or something else entirely?

And what counts as "teleport" - just an actual teleport, or a phase door as well, or even disengage?


Oh, one more question - does "Evasion" work against spells, or only weapon attacks?

[lukep]

Whats does the "effect duration after teleport" do? Does it decrease the duration of bad effects (stun, confusion, disease, etc) by "x%" after a teleport, or increase the duration of good effects (buffs, regeneration, etc), or something else entirely?

IIRC, all new timed effects have their duration reduced by that amount.

And what counts as "teleport" - just an actual teleport, or a phase door as well, or even disengage?

Phase Door, Dimensional step, teleport, and some others. In short, anything that can not be used to enter a vault tile. Rush and Disengage are not teleports.

Oh, one more question - does "Evasion" work against spells, or only weapon attacks?

It only works against melee weapon attacks.

[Kalirion]

Thank you lukep!

So effect reduction is a double edged sword, if you want a disease/poison to end but the regeneration to keep going for example.

A couple more questions regarding vault / small level teleporting, as I've had teleports fizzle in small levels, and phase doors in vaults.

Will a phase door fizzle in a vault only if there is not a single tile outside of the vault within range of the spell? Or does it randomly pick a tile in range first, and then fizzle if that tile happens to be inside a vault?

Similarly for a teleport in a small level. If the teleport range is 15-100, will it never fizzle as long as there is a free tile available within that range, or could there be a free tile 18 spaces away and the teleport still fizzle?

[DarthImbreedous]

Dumb question: is there any way to switch the level-up interface back to the old one? I dislike the new one. It works badly with my mouse, the stat icons are ambiguous enough that I sometimes inadvertly misassign points, and it seems less wieldy than the previous one, in general. To me, at least.

[lukep]

Dumb question: is there any way to switch the level-up interface back to the old one? I dislike the new one. It works badly with my mouse, the stat icons are ambiguous enough that I sometimes inadvertly misassign points, and it seems less wieldy than the previous one, in general. To me, at least.

There is no in-game way to switch back, but I heard talk of someone making an addon that switched it back. I have no idea whether or not it actually happened though.

[achoice]

Did the bug with the game not working properly on Windows 7 64 bit get resolved?

Hope so - I run w7 64 bit.

[DarthImbreedous]

I have to ask: Is it really my fault that the Anorithil's AI went bad in that utterly broken old forest random dungeon in which there is a large castle vault filling the whole screen, and decided to drown himself in a puddle?

REALLY.... I've not felt that annoyed in weeks in this game. I was mostly bearing with equamity calamities. But I lost a life trying to save that anorithil only for him to kill himself stupidly with NO ENEMIES IN SIGHT, in what's likely the buggiest random dungeon layout in the early game. I am NOT happy... grr

[DarthImbreedous]

Dumb question: so undead can not use infusions, but can they use equilibrium talents acquired during the game? Eg: Can a lich use his previously acquired harmony talents?

[phantomglider]

Nope. Nature does not like the undead.

[Kalirion]

New dumb question: are characters "fated" to find items in a certain order? Twice now I've killed the ToME app/process, once for an in-game bug, once for an actual freeze, losing me artifacts found in levels entered after the most recent saves had been taken, and both times immediately finding those artifacts.

First time was in the Halfling ruins. Made save on level 3, found Serpentine on the ground of level 4 and Truth on the boss. Because of a bug killed the game, loaded the level 3 save, found Serpentine on the boss of level 4, Truth on an adventurer after exiting the ruins.

Second time was in Grushnak Pride. Autosave at the entrance, found the King armor in Grushnak 1. Game froze, loaded the autosave, found the King armor in Grushnak 2.

So I'm guessing this isn't a coincidence?

[ghostbuster]

It *is* a coincindence. Artifacts are randomly generated.

[Grey]

Artifacts have restricted level and material ranges, so you tend to find the same sort of item in the same areas, thus the chances of this happening aren't as odd as you might think.

[Kalirion]

Randomly generated - but with what seed?

And finding the exact same artifact but in an adventurer party ambush is not as odd?

Maybe after this character bites the dust I'll experiment some

[achoice]

DumbQ: My lvl11 Higher Berserker want to invest in "Technique / Bloodthirst" - but it says "Talent catebory unknown". Whats up?

(ivre read bloodthirst is good, right? )

Also, on items i see (x, y, WW apr) What is apr

[phantomglider]

Technique/Bloodthirst starts locked; you have to invest a talent category point to unlock the tree to be able to put class talent points into its talents.

apr is armor penetration. and is subtracted from armor before it is applied.