ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I just had a quick question about unlocking things through achievements. I know it is explicitly stated that you can't unlock certain things playing on Easy, since you don't get achievements, but do the (Exploration) version of achievements unlock classes/races/skilltrees?

I'm asking because I want to unlock Wildfire and Ice for archmage, but have grown tired of having my poor alchemist being blown to bits on Adventure.

Those achievements DO work, I believe, however they're only tracking damage for that difficulty, so all the damage you've racked up on normal won't count towards them, effectively making you start from 0 again...

And remember that those are global achievements across all characters, so just playing those classes racks the damage up, even if they die.

Also, once unlockables are unlocked, they stay so regardless of difficulty.

Wildfire had a glitch (and may still have it, dunno) where it didn't count damage that killed. This made powerful fire attacks actually worthless toward building it back then.

That was fixed in 1.3, so alchemists can now usefully progress with them.

Awesomeness.