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... which has zog all to do with this thread. Again.

Hey guys I need some help in having fun in Tome. I want to make a sort of Ultimate Mage-y Melee Adventurer.

Yeah, you'll be wanting to go AB.* Iirc, you don't need corrupted strength to dual-wield staves, if you're going for that (you might still want it, for the extra melee procs)... though it's been so long since I've actually seen two decent short staves at the same time on a character I could definitely be misremembering. You're also definitely going to want to splash one of the mindslayer trees to open up triple-wielding -- I usually go for psi-fighting (and possibly the TW strength of purpose/quantum feed one, to further make everything scale off more things) to get that extra scale on willpower/cunning, but any of them will do. Every single adventurer build in existence wants to do that, actually. It also massively simplifies meeting stat requirements, since the beyond the flesh stat boost from gems is vaguely ridiculous.

If you've got ashes and you're aiming for further silliness, you might consider the demonic pact tree (demon seed... and that passive life steal at the end of it's pretty sexy). You'd have to do some weapon swapping to get the seeds, but having a 15th level firebolt -- mainhand seeds are, in fact, weapon seeds, and can be stuck in both in the psi-wield slot and your offhand... and the granted talent levels stack -- blasting off on top of everything else (to say nothing of what the other slots bring to the table) is... pretty great.

Mostly my advice just boils down to "Do whatever, but don't forget the mindslayer". You're more or less going to be wanting to pick up stone, the arcane combat tree, and then basically whatever. Survival-y stuff, because those two are mostly going to cover your offensive needs. Flurry or that acid-flurry wyrmics have (or both!) is usually a good idea, too. Think cursed have something similar as well.

As for those addons, Rob, outside of escorts enhances (Escort easymodo -- it makes them follow you around and gives 'em something like 2% max HP regen) and the succor one (alchies prefer to not choose alch potions you've already accepted when deciding which potion to complete, you get to choose your escorts) they're all UI stuff.

*Well, arcane combat. Probably stone (earthen missiles) as your primary proc, unless you've got Ashes and are also splashing doombringer (incinerating blows/burning sacrifice, etc), in which case fire/wildfire (stone is less category points. Go with stone.).

E: Oh, right. A shalore for the timeless/unstoppable combo? Shalore for the timeless/unstoppable combo. You want to do that. Everyone wants to do that. It's honestly kinda' broken, especially when paired up with draconic will as well.

*blinks*

When the zog did SC2's custom maps apparently go free to play?

... wouldn't the whole decision of canon stuff de facto mean (at this point, anyway) that biblical authority is, in fact, church authority? It's been the church, in its various forms, that has decided over the years whether any particular text is actually an authoritative source, after all...

Climbed it to eat everything. More or less. The point of being an apex predator is being able to tell lions to fuck off when you want a delicious apple. And then eat the lion. After garnishing it with apples.

Seriously though, I'm going to take my dominion over nature and eat the goddamn trees, too. Omnivorous rex! Or something like that.

... just got back from seeing Mannheim Steamroller live. It was... pretty good. Only really liked about a quarter of the songs they played,* but considering I'm not the biggest fan of christmas music and the percussion was kinda' overpowering for several of the pieces, that's doing pretty good. Decently fun to watch, too.

*Notables going up in music thread... tomorrow. It is midnight, and I am sleepy. I was really impressed by the one that sounded like it came straight out of a seiken densetsu soundtrack, though.

E: Also, goddamn finally cold enough to notice. I shivered for the first time this year! Sure, that was probably from only the low 50s/mid-to-upper 40s, (fahrenheit, obviously) but whatever. It finally feels something besides miserable outside ;_; <-- Those are my happy tears.

But it doesn't trump the Bible, it's seen as extra things you're supposed to believe in. So the Pope cannot just add an 11th commandment in Genesis, but he could decree that not wearing pink pants is an article of faith of the Catholic church.

Huh. Wasn't it the catholic church that shifted (or claimed to, anyway) the day of the sabbath around in a display of hilarious authority abuse?*  Wasn't that fairly explicitly trumping the bible, or...? Just kinda' skimmed that bit a little while ago, so I don't remember the particulars, but... yeah.

*And possibly damning a great many people

Mm. That's a fairly extreme aberration, then. Shouldn't have happened, and should be fairly unlikely to happen again. Not sure if that's much of a consolation, but... if you can get through OF and the Maze, it should be very close to impossible for Kor'pul to actually throw anything dangerous at you. That it did was something very, very strange.