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Nice to see it's still undergoing very active development. Wonder what that new Doomed tree is like.

In the meantime, I decided to give my reaver a rest, and started a Marauder, because I love all forms of rogues in games.

Level 20, entering the Ruined dungeon right now. Got some nice fixedart daggers, doing pretty decent damage with decent crowd control.

Died 3 times, but for a change I actually know what I did wrong the first two times - I got surrounded by 12 000 rogues and a rogue rare in the Labyrinth, and not even Marauder levels of defence can save you from 13 different poisons killing your infusions and your health and your wild infusion doesn't do shit and oh you respawned hohoho go take another break now sonny.

Marauder seems reasonably fun. Headbutting things will never not be hilarious, and from what I hear, you get insane levels of defense so that leaves only spellcasters to worry about.

Which is actually what everyone worries about but hey.

Ye things tend to have a very ...wavering... kill potential. God knows I've whined about this enough, but it just keeps happening. Do cooldowns reset after respawning? If they don't it might explain the impotence of threats in a second life.

My reaver's doing OK, just arrived in the Sunwell, haven't died in a while, got Arcane Might as a prodigy because there wasn't anything else available. Wanted Draconic body, but apparently I'm not close to the draconic world, whatever the hell that means.

Think I'll just minimize the risk on this feller, not open a single vault and play safe as hell.

Gonna try a sun paladin afterwards - this bastard apparently cleared the room of death at level 39, so maybe I can at least feel a bit powerful with it? Who knows.

My problem is getting 25k $ for this. It's pretty stupid and I think the teams would be kind of bummed about this, especially considering TSM won against what is basically an amateur team.

If it were only bragging rights - be my guest, stupid points system all the way, but with an actual cashmoney prize tacked on - nope.

Meh.

Man I just love watching Gambit play. Their teamfighting is so good.

"Playing support amumu is disrespectful" Damn right it's disrespectful, Doublelift, buddy.

In other news I really like this new Pastry dude who comments. His voice isn't skinning my nerves alive and he appears to know what is happening, which is a lot more than Rivington and Kobe can boast.

So my reaver's coming along nicely... or at least much better than any other reaver I've had. Currently on Level 2 of the Dark Crypt, 3 deaths to random rares because I've given up on understanding how and why I die. I guess I'm just bad at checking rares and remember abilities and calculating risk.

Beat the shit out of the Master, then beat the shit ouf the Orcish ambush which honestly kind of scared me, because I don't have the best track record when it comes to the ambush. The master took some hide-and-seeking, I had carved an anti-summon tunnel, but I couldn't stay in it for long since the Master likes going invisible and stunning my non-see-invisible ass for extended lengths of time.

I feel pretty good about my defences [as much as a Reaver can have defenses] - I got the Anorithil escort light tree, I have Wrap of Stone for the stone wall, 2 regeneration infusions [just found a 450-regen one, better not forget to put it on], a teleport rune and a movement infusion, alongside Dark Portal and maxed Bone Armour.

I had great luck with weapons, finding a tier 4 randart stralite waraxe of slaughter or whatever that ego is that boosts damage, and the Unique sword that "gets more powerful with every death" and occasionally spits disgusting oozedemons around, so I've hit enemies for upwards of 700 damage in one ability.

I seem to nearly always be autoattacking, though, since if I try to use my abilities liberally I run out of vim like a blind chainsaw juggler. Thank god I have the light tree. Am I doing anything wrong? How am I supposed to get vim back? Since the guy whose build I copied only had like 2 points in Drain, and no points in Leech. I have a point in leech, so I can get decent returns when surrounded, but ideally I shouldn't be getting surrounded, right?

All in all, I kind of want to cheat-unlock myself an oozemancer and give that another go. Winning an oozemancer was definitely my most fun win ever [considering the other competitors are a Wyrmic and a god damn Cursed it's not much, but hey]. Melee classes in Tome are really boring, with the exception of Arcane Blade, and to some extent Wyrmic and Reaver, since autoattacking things to death is so slow as compared to Crawl. I want to play something like Brawler, but attacking really fast in Tome isn't as fun as it sounds.

Man, Frumple, you and your reasonable advice and cautious playstyle  I want to run into the middle of great fights and AOE stuff to death, dammit [but please not as boring as Cursed oh god please never again].

In other news, rolled a reaver, died once to a Oozemancer rare, got a randart Stralite waraxe with 50-70 damage from the maze.

I'm still going to die in a second, but it's pretty amusing so far.

Honestly I love going into the Dark Crypt, and I'm yet to do it without a loss of at least one life. The odds of descending into a room packed with 70 XTREME Corrupt0rz are way too high. If you have religiously collected every piece of blight and acid resistance out there [does acid even help? I've no idea] - give it a shove.

You can get decent gear in there, but if it's gear you're after, and you're sure you're the meanest, baddest sonofabitch around, go do the elven crypts.

I've done them once pre-east, on a Shadow Blade, because hey, what is anyone going to do to a shadow blade? It was fun.

Other than that Robsoie's tier list is really nice, and it minimizes the risk of death. [Don't ever go in the Last Hope graveyard pre-east the undead that spawn are the grim black wind that envelops the last flickering candle of humanity's hope].

Tried Storm Archmage, seems rather fun to play. Hurricane does excellent single [and multi!] target damage over time, dazing stuff all around is quite helpful, and it seems relatively low-manahungry. Seemed to take quite long to get going, since the various spells do low-ish damage on their own.

If only I hadn't lost all my 5 lives by the Daikara to various random things instagibbing me through my fifteen shields.

Swear to god I am yet to die in Tome and then go "Oooh, now I see what I did wrong!", unless we count "I was fighting the thing" as doing something wrong. It's always "... ok...". Maybe I should be more thorough in examining rares, but then more than half the things that kill me are standard enemies which after I respawn proceed to do 0 damage to me as I effortlessly destroy them.