A few questions from more experienced players

[cane]

Been playing this game way too much the last week after having got it from the humble bundle but despite having cleared it twice on normal there are still a few things that I am fairly unclear about.

*Automatic talent usage. I've found the button for it in the keybinds but I have no clue how to get them to work, the tutorial doesn't cover it at all and I feel like it is something that could make some parts less tedious.

*The master jewelery quest. I have yet to find the tome needed for the quest in any of my games, am I just super unlucky?

*In my current game I'm playing a corrupter but I can't help but feel that either I'm super unlucky or the game just doesn't have a lot of artifacts with +blight damage/vim. It feels like it's really unbalanced and at the same time im drowning in "+nature damage" items.

*How many escorts are there to be found? I have cleared all western dungeons and managed to succeed in saving all the escorts yet I haven't gotten the achievement. According to the wiki I have cleared all potential escort dungeons

*I only checked the workshop quickly but is there any addon that helps me find useful items for my current character? Often times it's very tedious reading through every single equippable item and some kind of rating based on my ideal stats would be amazing

*Online events. I encountered the bearscape today but I'm curious what other online events exist and how often they appear?

Thanks in advance for taking time with my questions!

[grayswandir]

*Automatic talent usage. I've found the button for it in the keybinds but I have no clue how to get them to work, the tutorial doesn't cover it at all and I feel like it is something that could make some parts less tedious.

Right click on the given talent in your skillbar. Several auto use options should show up. There's also an addon that adds a few, but I'm not sure how current it is.

*How many escorts are there to be found? I have cleared all western dungeons and managed to succeed in saving all the escorts yet I haven't gotten the achievement. According to the wiki I have cleared all potential escort dungeons

Sometimes an escort won't generate if there isn't a clear path from you to the portal. This is usually because of a closed door. If you enter a level where this occurred and the path is now clear, the escort will properly appear. So basically, just run through all the potential escort dungeons with doors again.

[Danton]

*The master jewelery quest. I have yet to find the tome needed for the quest in any of my games, am I just super unlucky?

Basically, yes.

*In my current game I'm playing a corrupter but I can't help but feel that either I'm super unlucky or the game just doesn't have a lot of artifacts with +blight damage/vim. It feels like it's really unbalanced and at the same time im drowning in "+nature damage" items.

Almost all the usual caster gear is excellent for corruptors, and there's loads of corruptor flavoured stuff at material levels 3+.

*How many escorts are there to be found? I have cleared all western dungeons and managed to succeed in saving all the escorts yet I haven't gotten the achievement. According to the wiki I have cleared all potential escort dungeons

9. They're probably stuck in limbo on a Dreadfell level as grayswandir described.

[twas Brillig]

*The master jewelery quest. I have yet to find the tome needed for the quest in any of my games, am I just super unlucky?

Probably just unlucky. It spawns, rarely, in the East. I think I've gotten it on roughly half of my characters who make it that far.

*Online events. I encountered the bearscape today but I'm curious what other online events exist and how often they appear?

They appear whenever Darkgod says they appear. It depends on being online at the same time as him, when he feels like passing out random events. There are a few zones that can spawn any time of year, and then several for major holidays (Easter, Halloween, Christmas) that I don't think need to be specially triggered. There are also a few random buffs and stuff you may get.

[Radon26]

"There are also a few random buffs and stuff you may get."

yeah, there is bunnification whenever you crit, and the buff of invincibility for x turns.

[Danton]

and then several for major holidays (Easter, Halloween, Christmas) that I don't think need to be specially triggered.

Yeah, they go off automatically every once in a while in the appropriate season (or possibly DG just set one of those drinking birds over the "spawn funzones" button).

[cane]

Alright I figured out how to use the automatic talent use, wish the tutorial would have at least mentioned it though.

I also did manage to find the last escort and he was in dreadfell as mention here.


One more question, is possible to somehow zoom out the game? It's so annoying have to encounter enemies off the screen and it's even worse now having to realize that the original hotkey bar would never be enough

[grayswandir]

You can change the graphics tile size in the options, but it's slow enough that you wouldn't want to use it to zoom in and out.

You can resize the hotkey bar to whatever dimensions you want. There's also a ui option for how big the talents are on the bar itself.

[Coldbringer]

other events are the lost land of Poosh, the Ooze dungeon, a few others I'm forgetting

[HousePet]

The Ooze dungeon is not an online event.