Turtles

[StarKeep]

Artifacts:
-Rock Lobster is now a loner.

-New Artifact: Cold Shoulder
-It cares not for anything but it's owner.


New Subrace: Ice Turtle. (Talents on the main post, updated to show them.)
-Not adding racials to NPCs, as they already fufill their job well enough.
-It would simply provide more annoyance to melee players.

[Doctornull]

Is the Turtlemire still just pure turtles?

IMHO it would benefit from a bit more variety, with turtles as the heavy-hitters (just like trolls in the Trollmire).

Rock Lobster would be a fine addition as a mook who could attack you with claws, rocks and a guitar solo.

[StarKeep]

While I can see the positive side of that, Turtlemire, dispite the name, isn't meant to do what Trollmire does.

It's a dedicated, and simple dungeon designed on one thing: Turtles.

This allows the player to use their lower global speed to help in all encounters.

And is also in flavor for how Turtlemire 4 is structured.


Rock Lobster as a unique? It all makes sense...

[Doctornull]

Maybe the Rock Lobster was a snow giant boulder chucker, now cursed by the turtle god to wander his swamp forever in the form of a lobster... and he lobs rocks.

Regarding your purity of vision, I can respect that, even if the alternative would be more fun IMHO.

[StarKeep]

Ice Turtle:
-Second Racial changed to pull + pin.
-Fixed the most obvious typo ever on the Third Racial.
-Fourth Racial now has a chance to freeze enemies who hit you.

Earth Turtle:
-Properly updated the description for the fourth racial.

[StarKeep]

Artifacts:
-Pawnch's Shell stats lowered.
-Pawnch's Shell now grants bonus stats to turtles.

-New reward for killing the Turtle God.

NPCS:
-You can now find Earth, Ice, Moss, and Mega turtles outside of Turtlemire.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Does this mean that it's turtle version is the same as what we had before, and just non-turtles got lowered, or did both get nerfed (again)?

[StarKeep]

Normal stats got hit, and turtle stats you'll find higher than before.

[loimprevisto]

Lots of fun!

Mega turtle summoner seemed to make nightmare fairly easy until I got lazy marching around the turtlemire. Has anyone managed to save Melinda on Nightmare? I was completely out of luck with that... not a single escort survived either.

[StarKeep]

Lots of fun!

Mega turtle summoner seemed to make nightmare fairly easy until I got lazy marching around the turtlemire. Has anyone managed to save Melinda on Nightmare? I was completely out of luck with that... not a single escort survived either.

Escorts are... fairly impossible later on, but can be done early with enough pre-planning.
Jay had managed to get within site of the Scarred Char ending, and to even MAKE it to Melinda, you'd need 4 movement infusions, rampage, and time travel.

[StarKeep]

Turtle Npcs:
-All non Turtlemire turtles have had their life regeneration greatly lowered.

Brand new Artifact, Kudos to CreepingDusk for the idea.

[loimprevisto]

Been playing a lot of turtles on nightmare lately and I keep meeting a horrible death between levels 20 and 30. I've tried archmage, necromancer, mindslayer, solipist, sun paladin, and summoner and I've noticed a few things:

Speed is one of those things that doesn't scale evenly. +20% doubles your speed as a megaturtle and makes a HUGE difference. The solipist was only a little slow and the archmage with essence of speed and harmony actually got up around 120% global speed.

Turtles are one of the few classes with an easier early game than late game. The tier 1 dungeons are fairly easy, but it gets rough after that.

Turtle archmages don't get the teleport to Angolwen spell. Not a big deal, just a bit of a surprise.

Overconfidence is your greatest weakness.

Melinda and the yeek wayist are just there to taunt you. It's hopeless.

I think I'm going to try and adventurer next and stack as many effects as I can that will damage the enemy when they hit me...

[StarKeep]

Turtle V 8.5 - Multiple Turtlemire changes | Earth/Ice Turtles buffed
Pick it up here: http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/turtles

Earth Turtle
-Global Speed increased to 66%
-Movement Speed increased to 75%
-XP penalty reduced to 25%
-Life rating reduced to 19
-Player tile updated

Ice Turtle
-Global Speed increased to 66%
-Attack Speed increased to 85%
-XP penalty reduced to 25%
-Life rating reduced to 19

Turtlemire
-Lore Updates

Turtlemire npcs
-Turtle and Mega Turtle given higher base health
-Ice, Earth, and Moss turtles lost their shields and spiked shells
-Ice and Earth turtle's global speed increased to 66%
-Ice Turtle's shell can now freeze you
-Earth Turtle's offensive potency has been increased
-Moss Turtles now have Mucus

Ancient Turtle Cave
-Drops set to proper quality
-All enemies gained an increased level
-Touched up on a few bosses

Rex/Kim
-Life Regen lowered to 4

[MisiuPysiu]

Hey,

great addon, I play it even only for the new artifacts.
One comment - the 2 lev 5 staves are a bit to strong. Looking at all the bonuses they are one handed...
A bit of an overkill, i think.
Cheers:)

[StarKeep]

Turtle V 8.5 - Turtlemire Finishing Touches | Rebalanced Staves
Pick it up here: http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/turtles

Finishing touches on Turtlemire changes
-Will find them more grouped together

Rebalanced some of the higher tiered staves
-They were all leading more towards caster, despite their original goal of being a melee/caster hybrid

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I don't want to hit the final Tier 5 too hard, since you have to slay a physical god to claim it, but I do respect that it was on the higher side.

I am saddened however, that some people used adjustable xp to reach and slay him.