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Is there an item unique more confused as to who it wants to benefit then the Desiccated Visage? It gives CON, MAG and WILL, I believe. It gives minor SPELL CRIT and MIND POWER. It gives +Blight and +Arcane damage, but also +Temporal resist and +Temporal Resistance Penetration. Additionally, it grants VIM. For the Paradox Mage / Archmage / Corruptor / Solipsist on the go, I suppose.
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James Totes posted:Is there an item unique more confused as to who it wants to benefit then the Desiccated Visage? From the wiki: quote:Decayed Visage Helm Arcane 24-32 Generated with semi-random properties
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Aug 20, 2017 00:38
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James Totes posted:Is there an item unique more confused as to who it wants to benefit then the Desiccated Visage? That one and the Dream Malleus are uniques that are generated with a few random properties added to their fixed stats, so some weird combinations can come up.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:38
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Huh! I never saw it much so I never looked closely and didn't realize. Consider me fooled.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:51
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So Brawler sure seems to have benefited a lot from the light armor buffs along from Rogue. I died ultimately but mostly from getting into dumb spots more than real class problems.
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Aug 20, 2017 04:51
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Got a question for you knowledge-having sorts in the thread - do the two-handed combat skills still work if you're wielding a 2H weapon in one hand thanks to rank 5 of the second Ogre racial skill?
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Aug 20, 2017 22:45
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vdate posted:Got a question for you knowledge-having sorts in the thread - do the two-handed combat skills still work if you're wielding a 2H weapon in one hand thanks to rank 5 of the second Ogre racial skill?
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Aug 20, 2017 22:55
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MagusofStars posted:Yep. It's the primary reason to do Ogre actually - you can run a Normal 2H with the benefits of a shield or a mind star in your offhand. Some classes have 2-hander skills with long cooldowns which hit like a truck. It can be quite worthwhile to block one turn prior to apply the Counterstrike debuff and then hit for a bajillion damage. Think of it like a Parrying Dagger in Dark Souls -- you aren't really using it for its defensive properties, you're using it so you can more easily turn your enemy into a smear on the floor.
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Aug 20, 2017 23:26
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Think I have my first winner. Nothing has challenged my temporal warden for the last thirty levels and I'm now in high peak busting heads. Not too happy about my equipment but I can't really be bothered going through all the vaults and secret levels. Is there anything good tjere?
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Aug 21, 2017 16:48
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Affi posted:Think I have my first winner. Nothing has challenged my temporal warden for the last thirty levels and I'm now in high peak busting heads. The Orc Pride vaults have the best loot in the game, it's basically pages of artifacts -- even on Normal, if I remember correctly.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:13
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:The Orc Pride vaults have the best loot in the game, it's basically pages of artifacts -- even on Normal, if I remember correctly. Yea i feel like I have every artefact there is after those vaults. I'm talking about high peaks vaults . Horrible places.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:27
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Affi posted:Yea i feel like I have every artefact there is after those vaults. I'm talking about high peaks vaults . Horrible places. High Peak's vaults are basically just the same vaults you see in earlier portions of the game (so the loot is tier 5, but not particularly good otherwise) combined with ludicrous level scaling on the monsters so I probably wouldn't.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:34
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After I ran into an enemy that created another doomed clone of my insanely powerful archer in High Peak I immediately popped my movement infusion, ran away, and refused to enter another High Peak secret level again.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:40
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It's nice to see that you've absorbed more about good play from reading this thread than I have in all my years of playing the game. (I almost never book it when I should.) ...wait, if you were running from a clone of your dude, wouldn't the clone have popped its own movement infusion and run you down?
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Aug 21, 2017 23:02
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vdate posted:It's nice to see that you've absorbed more about good play from reading this thread than I have in all my years of playing the game. (I almost never book it when I should.) I was 5 steps from the stairs since it showed up very quickly from when I climbed down the collapsed hole that leads to the vaults.
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Aug 21, 2017 23:06
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Artificer posted:After I ran into an enemy that created another doomed clone of my insanely powerful archer in High Peak I immediately popped my movement infusion, ran away, and refused to enter another High Peak secret level again. Yeah, those vaults man. Made me question my sanity. Those loving wildfire demons and their 400 dpt burnings in tight spaces. Luckily the sorcerors were pushovers and my only problem was keeping Aeryn alive. Got my first chicken dinner and on nightmare too! Temporal Wardens are pretty overpowered.
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Aug 21, 2017 23:06
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Your first win was on Nightmare? poo poo. What was your TW build? Edit: honestly if I wasn't so close to the stairs I would have had to pop Evasion and all my defensive abilities and hope I could make it to the stairs before taking a Vital Shot to the skull. Artificer fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Aug 21, 2017 23:10
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Artificer posted:Your first win was on Nightmare? poo poo. What was your TW build? https://te4.org/characters/223913/tome/b77d7d8c-2f32-4815-97cb-dd2c23e92697ah=06291a6c-4c53-4261-ba45-0526330c2b9ead=223913 Huh, link doesn't work? Weird. It ran itself really, I kinda sorta followed some outdated guide with some tweaks. Basically had good gear and my temporal clones did massive amounts of damage and procced lots of debuffs.
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Aug 22, 2017 00:28
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Affi posted:https://te4.org/characters/223913/tome/b77d7d8c-2f32-4815-97cb-dd2c23e92697ah=06291a6c-4c53-4261-ba45-0526330c2b9ead=223913 Huh, link doesn't work? Weird. Hmmm. Gimme your TOME 4 account name and maybe I can find him in your vault manually? edit: Wow sometimes your escorts just get screwed huh? Portal was right next to multiple thunderers and boulder throwers with a chieftain or two. RIP Artificer fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 00:31
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Artificer posted:Hmmm. Gimme your TOME 4 account name and maybe I can find him in your vault manually? Should be Affi and the charname znorelag.
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Aug 22, 2017 00:43
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Yeah given how much damage that combo of giants can do I don't think I could've done much. No way I would've been able to tank for him long enough to kill all the giants on the path to the portal.  Edit: Yeah I got your TW. Looks kind of similar to the one I'm building towards.
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Aug 22, 2017 00:55
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Affi posted:https://te4.org/characters/223913/tome/b77d7d8c-2f32-4815-97cb-dd2c23e92697ah=06291a6c-4c53-4261-ba45-0526330c2b9ead=223913 Huh, link doesn't work? Weird. https://te4.org/characters/223913/tome/b77d7d8c-2f32-4815-97cb-dd2c23e92697 you got some extraneous poo poo in your URL, this works
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Aug 22, 2017 01:18
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Wow uh I got utterly crushed by my future self. Was that supposed to happen? I got a sweet looking bow out of the ordeal after my death sent me to an out of time zone? Edit: I wish the combat log told you what the sources of damage were because I feel like I am doing inexplicably large amounts of damage. Is it my procs? Is it just my physical power? Edit: huh I am fairly certain I died to the future self but it sent me to the fight with Epoch anyways. I unlocked paradox mage and got the achievement when I got sent to fight Epoch but when I returned my future self was nowhere to be seen. I also got the achievement for 6k damage done in a single attack so did my future self crit me for insane damage, kill me, then die to my damage reflect? Artificer fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 01:26
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So.. how do I play a yeek possesionist? What's the gameplan here?
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Aug 22, 2017 11:29
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Affi posted:So.. how do I play a yeek possesionist? Step 1: Find the Watcher in the Water Step 2: Inhabit its corpse Step 3: Pr- no, wait, that's something else. I genuinely have no idea how Possessors work in this game. I assume you Mind Crush anything that you don't want to possess and might pose a threat, though.
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vdate posted:Step 1: Find the Watcher in the Water Possessors appear to be pretty nuts. Bpat recommended this guide: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=47900 which basically made me go 'oh okay I guess I'm not ever playing possessor'. It seems way too complicated.
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The guide in three sentences: 1: Invest in the weapon tree you like 2: Invest in the skill that lets you possess better things 3: Possess things that are good and strong and cool Possessors are a little hard to get running, but it's not rocket science.
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the biggest advice is that you should asap run to last hope and drown some guards and possess them right before they die
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vdate posted:Step 1: Find the Watcher in the Water Oh man now I want to go play ToME 2.3.x again. Deathmold LostSoul Possessors always seemed like such a hilarious gimmick that I could never pull off. e: and of course the first one I look up on the angband ladder has the Watcher No Safe Word fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Artificer posted:Wow uh I got utterly crushed by my future self. Was that supposed to happen? I got a sweet looking bow out of the ordeal after my death sent me to an out of time zone? Your future self basically severs your lifeline which deals several hundreds of thousands points of temporal damage to you, killing you more of less instantly, but since your future self killed its past self (you), there is no future self to be killed by, thereby creating a paradox. But that is all okay since messing with space and time is what Paradox Mages do best.
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Icetongue posted:Your future self basically severs your lifeline which deals several hundreds of thousands points of temporal damage to you, killing you more of less instantly, but since your future self killed its past self (you), there is no future self to be killed by, thereby creating a paradox. But that is all okay since messing with space and time is what Paradox Mages do best. But I didn't kill him. At least I don't think I was close to taking him down when I exploded and unlocked paradox mage, and then arrived at the fight with Epoch. My future self was gone when I killed Epoch; I thought I was supposed to fight him again after returning from the Paradox Zone?
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Aug 22, 2017 23:53
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Artificer posted:But I didn't kill him. At least I don't think I was close to taking him down when I exploded and unlocked paradox mage, and then arrived at the fight with Epoch. My future self was gone when I killed Epoch; I thought I was supposed to fight him again after returning from the Paradox Zone? He killed you. It's just that with you dead, there is no you from the future to go back and become the him that killed you. Chronomancy! (The future paradox mage you meet as a timecop has a special spell than goes off after a middling-long amount of turns that deals enormous damage.)
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Glidergun posted:He killed you. It's just that with you dead, there is no you from the future to go back and become the him that killed you. Chronomancy! Ooooooooooh. Thanks.
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Yessss, finally got my first win, Normal/Adventure Archer. Died three times, twice in a random fortress farportal and once to a bad orc patrol. https://te4.org/characters/194270/tome/c4982850-4965-4177-aa3b-644775a74b88
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Well, that's unfortunate. I fought my way to the bottom level of the Halfling Complex, opened the door to the Yeek Wayist and found... Subject Z's golem servant standing where the Yeek would normally be. Either he spawned there and overwrote the Yeek or activated early and killed the Yeek before I could intervene. No free confuse resistance for me.
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Magitek posted:Well, that's unfortunate. I fought my way to the bottom level of the Halfling Complex, opened the door to the Yeek Wayist and found... Subject Z's golem servant standing where the Yeek would normally be. Either he spawned there and overwrote the Yeek or activated early and killed the Yeek before I could intervene. If anything gets in there besides Subject Z himself, it'll kill the Wayist and he won't even defend himself. It sucks, I've had teleporting skeleton mages get in there and murder him two games in a row.
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Aug 24, 2017 02:09
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Is it a known issue that Medical Injectors don't trigger Arcane Shield?
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Aug 24, 2017 16:03
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Does global speed slows on hit from multiple pieces of equipment stack? 15% + 15% = 30%? I assume arcane resource burn on-hits stack?
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I'm pretty sure multiple mana(ish)-burn on-hits do stack, since they each generate an instance of Arcane damage that nukes the appropriate amount of a Magic resource. I'm somewhat less sure that multiple global slow on-hits only refresh each other (to little avail since they're all getting applied in the same turn); if they do stack at all it's probably multiplicatively.
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I'm pretty sure multiple slows on hit stack but they are multiplicative. You can always check an enemies character sheet before and after you hit them to find out for sure. I decided to step up from nightmare to insane and its mostly not been too bad. But I think Paradox Mage is covering for me since I was able to clear the room of death at 43 without much trouble.
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