ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Kruzifixxion wrote:guys I did it Id like to thank minmay for telling me the op strat ^^

Does this strat involve having two Invisibility Runes? Or was that just showing off?

Arcvasti wrote:

Kruzifixxion wrote:guys I did it Id like to thank minmay for telling me the op strat ^^

Does this strat involve having two Invisibility Runes? Or was that just showing off?

no i changed my runes after i killed master

This is my current best attempt: https://te4.org/characters/46113/tome/2 ... ab59ff90e4
Managed to beat half of Master's first form but sadly shields eventually all ran out.

Bonus stupidity points for dying three times in Temporal Rift 1.

Path taken: Norgos -> Troll -> Korpul -> Bill -> Rest of T1 -> Ass Lord -> SWL -> Maze -> OF -> Nur 1 (entered Nur 2, made one step, saw luminous horror, exited ) -> Halfling -> Slavers -> Ruined (only died once because I am an idiot and don't heal immediately after finishing a fight) -> Daikara with Rift -> Dreadfell

Still going, just starting the second T2 dungeon. Got down to -200 life in the sandworm lair

I've got a run going. Not sure how far I'll make it before the end of the week, just due to time, but it's going pretty good so far. Nightmare Adventure, playing Higher. T1's, OF, Maze, SWL, Tunnels and Halfling Complex cleared. Zero deaths so far. I'm regretting a few build choices, but they haven't hurt me (yet).

nsrr wrote: I'm regretting a few build choices, but they haven't hurt me (yet).

They hurt me. Lost all of my lives in various places from Daikara to Dredfell. While playing the run I started to put together a build that I think will work better, so I'm going to give that a go.

Also, out of curiosity since I wasn't involved in the discussion that started this, how were the categories chosen? Was it blindly random, or X random class and Y random generic, or was it not random at all?

Made it pretty far on Normal Roguelike, but died on Dreadfell 8 to a rare vampire and a Dread pack. I think I'll wait for the next challenge, in hopes of more interesting trees.

https://te4.org/characters/190198/tome/ ... 8ff138bf40

It was mostly random, some categories have been excluded (MS trees because you would ALWAYS take the TK slot, hounds for carrying the game by themselves,...)

Then 10 random class trees and 5 random generic trees.

Next week will be different and more user friendly since you won't have to pick every tree by hand every time you restart (and navigate through adventurer's dozens of trees.)

Good to know. I can understand why some were excluded.

I'm guessing next week's challenge is going to be packed into an add on as a new class? That's a great idea. I had a couple of times where I was picking a new tree and had to check the thread to see what was available, and messing with the Adventurer level up screen is a hassle in general (praise be to DarkGod for the 'hide' checkbox). Looking forward to it

Yup

https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/weekly-adventurer

What's the seed?

pizdabol wrote:What's the seed?

Ask me on the 12th. That’s when next week’s restarts.

I think learning tinker should be allowed.
It is understandable escort trees are not included in the poor of talents, since you don't need to make them available in the first place with an escort. But for tinker, you actually have to choose to learn it and then get the permission to buy for 500 gold.

My point is, unlike other escort trees(which are available from start), learning tinkering is part of the natural game for adventurers. So I don't see a point to dismiss it, unless you think it will make the game too easy, and ban it as a restriction from normal game play. And by this, we also implied that all steam talents will never be part of this challenge.

fateriddle wrote:I think learning tinker should be allowed.
It is understandable escort trees are not included in the poor of talents, since you don't need to make them available in the first place with an escort. But for tinker, you actually have to choose to learn it and then get the permission to buy for 500 gold.

My point is, unlike other escort trees(which are available from start), learning tinkering is part of the natural game for adventurers. So I don't see a point to dismiss it, unless you think it will make the game too easy, and ban it as a restriction from normal game play. And by this, we also implied that all steam talents will never be part of this challenge.

No because tinkers make it too ez

In fact the eor addon itself should be on the banned addons list since just having it enabled makes the game 100% easier with sawrd/ewh/spb being able to drop in last hope or the t2s

fateriddle wrote:I think learning tinker should be allowed.
It is understandable escort trees are not included in the poor of talents, since you don't need to make them available in the first place with an escort. But for tinker, you actually have to choose to learn it and then get the permission to buy for 500 gold.

My point is, unlike other escort trees(which are available from start), learning tinkering is part of the natural game for adventurers. So I don't see a point to dismiss it, unless you think it will make the game too easy, and ban it as a restriction from normal game play. And by this, we also implied that all steam talents will never be part of this challenge.

of course it makes the game too easy, its tinkers.

Steam talents aren't a part of the challenge either. Nor is any of the ashes stuff. It was made to be as accessible as possible.