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Quote from: Encased in burning magma on March 30, 2013, 03:50:50 am

Tried oozemancer in the arena. Went swimmingly until 3 enemy spellcasters critted simultaneously  .

This. I've had three deaths with my first Oozemancer, who is a Yeek. All three were one shots from spellcasters as I turn a corner.

Funny, my arena oozemancer was also a Yeek (wanted fast levels and global speed to aim for a high score). Still died despite maxing CON. Died to red crystalX2 + forest wight who all critted, despite being level 35.

And if you open up the Fears tree (although I don't have much experience with it)

It's shit. Not worth the points.

Good, i'm always suspicious of the telepathy brand, as sometime i'm really wondering if what i see through it is in fact seeing me as easily.

That's only a problem for things like saving the yeek wayist.

It looks like Blighted Summoning would have been excellent on an Oozemancer. I checked what it did to the oozes (it doesn't fit in the description, had to read in on the pride necromancer boss char sheet), and it gives ranged oozes Virulent Disease and melee oozes Bone Shield. Oooh mama.

How would you go about aquiring 50 magic on that kind of character? Gear can't really help since he's antimagic by default.

Goddamn.

At level 40, my cornac oozemancer hits for...

Acid splash fires
9 oozes fire beams in reaction, for 110 each
Unstoppable nature procs, 110 each again
Splash hits for 300 acid, sicks 50% nature vulnerability.
Slime take their turns, maybe 5 of them fire for 110 each.
Then slime spit hits for 1200+, on every target, but I could just back away as the mucus and the slimes would overkill everything by a large margin. Anyway, total ranged damage in 2 turns: about 4000. Wut. Total aoe damage is "only" 1500, but spores can remedy that for strong foes.

And also Oozemancer has a ton of mobility/defensive abilities. And here I thought the solipsist was overpowered.

Oh and I didn't factor ooze crit (20%). Nor prodigies.

I was completely facerolling the game with an Antimagic solipsist (maxed out every defensive passive ability I could find). Didn't even have to move for the orc ambush. Then in Vor I activated a movement rune, opened the overpowered wyrm  door, backed off a bit so as to be out of line of sight... and died. Fuck sand breath range is insane.

edit:
WHY DID I GO TO HIGH PEAK AT LEVEL 40
THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA
died like 4 times
got like 5 levels killing the final boss
got a "tactician master" achievement for not closing portals I didn't know you could close
thank fuck for inner demons

Also an interesting idea you guys could want to try is harmony yeek solipist with the meteor prodigy.
Yeek: 15% global speed
Solipist: 50% global speed
Elemental Harmony, standing in your meteor: about 40% global speed
Add gear and it gets silly. Sadly you need psyblade mastery as you act way too fast for your casting cooldowns.

In a recently released roguelike, I was playing a temporal archer and teleporting in my own shots for giggles. By mistake, I teleported into an especially powerful arrow just as an enemy squad popped out of thin air around me.