Reaching level 20/25

[darkgod]

Hello

So what is the max level you have reached ? doing what ?
I have 6 more zones planned but I think that can be a bit too much and maybe only 3 more would be fine to reach level 20 ?

[Yottle]

I think that I have gotten to level 8. I have finished Amon Sul and the Old Forest. I have gone into the Trollshaws but not finished it. I have never descended in the Maze or Sandworm Lair, but I have cleaned out the first level.

[darkgod]

Ok
You can try to grant yourself lots of HP and see how far you can go:

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Press CTRL+L
Type: game.player.max_life=100000
Type: game.player.life=100000

See what level you can reach

[Yottle]

My problem hasn't been getting killled; it has been the game crashing and ruining my save file.

Of course now I can't duplicate this- I am at level 10 and have completed the Old Forest and Amon Sul and am heading to the Trollshaws.

I am playing an elf archmage. I haven't seen anything that caused me any trouble so far. I can kill anything using Manathrust + Freeze without it being able to melee me.

[darkgod]

Freeze is too powerful ?
Maybe it requires a bigger cooldown and not be granted by default ?

[madmonk]

Freeze is not too powerful... Create NPCs immune to Cold!

[darkgod]

In next RFT freeze will be considered a stun so stun immnue characters will not be affected (by the stun they will still take damage).
Athough I prefer that we try to limit the immunities, that is Angband big problem IMO, you get powers and then you only ever meet monsters immnue to them. So I'd rather keep stun-immunes limited but instead make freeze ands other stun have a longer cooldown or cost so their use is more strategic than "always on"

Thoughts ?

And you madmonk what level could you reach ?

[madmonk]

In next RFT freeze will be considered a stun so stun immnue characters will not be affected (by the stun they will still take damage).
Athough I prefer that we try to limit the immunities, that is Angband big problem IMO, you get powers and then you only ever meet monsters immnue to them. So I'd rather keep stun-immunes limited but instead make freeze ands other stun have a longer cooldown or cost so their use is more strategic than "always on"

Thoughts ?

I like that, and I agree about limiting immunities. After a certain point (around level 5) I am doing so much damage from Flame and Manathrust that Freeze is only used occasionally as a last ditch resort to make some distance!

Once Flame and Manathrust is maxxed out the amount of damage that Freeze does is so small compared to the others that I find that a single shot from the others solves the kill problem much more effectively than Freeze!

And you madmonk what level could you reach ?

Been up to level 12, but I too have been the victim of game crashes and so on.

[darkgod]

Even in RFT9 you got crashes ?
I really need your logs/savefiles :/

[Yottle]

Even without Freeze, I could use targeted Phase Door to safely kill anything without a distance attack.

The reason that mages are so powerful now is that there are very few monsters that have a distance attack (at least that I have seen). Skeleton mages in Amon Sul and honey trees in the Old Forest are the only ones that come to mind. In Tome 2 there were giant slugs, novice mages, novice priests, and novice mindcrafters right from the start; and then dark elven mages and priests soon after.

[Shoob]

yeah, I should put in some breathers... and mages too... right now I am waiting on some archery equipment to put in humanoid archers of all sorts

oh yeah, and the highest I have gotten is lvl 15

[madmonk]

Even in RFT9 you got crashes ?
I really need your logs/savefiles :/

OK, I will start sending them as they occur. I will also post to let you know!

[darkgod]

You can put in mages at least
I am planning archery currently. But I'd like to squash those crashes first