Stealth...

[Sradac]

When does it, or does it ever become a useful tactic for a rogue? Trying to focus on stealth tactics early on dosent seem to work well because my cunning isnt high enough. Should I put stealth on the backburner till I can improve other areas of my character?

[greycat]

You can ignore it completely and do well. Or at least that's my opinion on it.

Maybe it becomes good in the endgame, but I never gave it a chance.

[Final Master]

Having NOT gotten a stealthed focused character past the Master - I can say this - put the stealth tree OFF [Don't Do It] until you can do resonable, relaiable damage. Stealth in T4 is an ambush tactic - not all powerful like in Angband. You really won't find it too useful until it is at tlvl 5, and you have don't break stealth talent at lvl 5 - and even then you need some stealth boosting kit. Note: This is just for the west - in the prides I don't even know if it is viable.

While gc is correct, you can do perfectly well without stealth at all - it MIGHT be a good tactic for stealth/trap rogues. But again, don't throw all your points into stealth first - get your base damage and survival chances up first. Stealth isn't a survival tactic in t4 - it's an additive attacking talent.

[paboperfecto]

That depends on what you mean by survival tactic. I've had a level 15 rogue on the lightning peak bypass large groups of P to go straight to finding the boss with high enough stealth.

[Predawn]

On a related note, does stealth have any effect for a non-rogue character?

Predawn

[Massimiliano Marangio]

On a related note, does stealth have any effect for a non-rogue character?

No, in the current version you need the stealth talent.