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... I liked the sequel better, iirc.

But yeah, they're both bloody sexy, sexy games. Have a multiplayer component too, at least SS2 does.

On one hand, I initially read that as chai chocolate, and my previous attempts to combine chocolate and tea have failed miserably.

On the other hand... share your secrets?

Thalore are in a pretty good place right now, but not exactly optimised for archery. Willpower scaling on the first and forth tier talents and primarily defensive on the other two. Forth tier's a summons which can be pretty useful for archers, though, as meatshields and distractions, and the damage buff from the first tier talent's a'ight. Still thaloren are generally better for either more tanky classes (to further emphasize that) or flimsier ones (to help shore that up). They're not going to do poorly on archers, though, as with the recent buffs they do pretty alright with everything (no one's going to argue too hard with two meatshields and an extra 10% passive resall). Downside being a XP penalty but... eh.

Halflings... I just don't play much. Their racials I hear are good (and with lucky day and a couple pieces of luck kit, can provide a few turns of 100% evasion) and they've got a good life rating, so they're fairly sturdy. Looking over the racials again, they're actually pretty decent insofar as offense goes (solid crit buff, especially if you're pumping cunning which most archers will to some degree for the crit, plus an alright physpower booster). Halflings are pretty standard go-to slingers, since they've got the cun scale going. Halflings make pretty good everything, really, since cunning's nice in general and they're fairly sturdy. Downside being... a XP penalty _{(there may be a pattern building, here)} and a minor strength penalty which makes getting a bow archer off the ground slightly (but only slightly) more annoying.

White elephant in the room, though, are skeletons. Skeletons make basically freaking ridiculous and terribly hard to kill archers since bone armor scales with dex and their first tier bumps up both dex and strength (a bow archer's primaries). Downside being no infusions and I guess XP penalty but eh. You get to skeleton master archer back at them, heh.

I like ghoul archers, too, heh, but I like ghoul just about anything so eh. Still, leap helps with archer mobility and the fast attack speed on bows/slings helps offset the ghoul global penalty, so it's a pretty good (if somewhat aesthetically silly) combo. Downside being, y'know, ghoul. _{And a XP penalty.}

Bloodbath's still fairly solid -- 25+ hp regen isn't really anything to laugh at, and the stamina boost plus some unending frenzy is still enough to keep shattering impact running fairly easily. Mortal terror is still incredible and unstoppable is still unstoppable. Endgame 'zerkers continue doing what they do by murdering everything with violence.

If you still want crazy regen, go antimagic and pick up fungus.

My level 36 corruptor died in Vor's Armory. I got bored with one-shotting everything with impunity, so I started playing recklessly. Elemental Harmony still stacks with other speed sources. I started every fight with a 90% global speed boost. It was fun.

I was thinking of doing a Let's Play of this game on nightmare/roguelike. Any interest?

S'pretty much always interest of some sort in T4 let's plays, methinks. We don't have nearly enough of them yet

Thinking on it, there's... something innately hilarious(ly hypocritical) about a(n ostensibly) capitalistic society seeming to be afraid of competition on the global scale. Maybe it's just me. But that seems like it's got a really good punchline somewhere in it.

Like. Link of some sort?

Recycling bins for this town have apparently been removed. Considering the general nature of the folks in the town, I'm not entirely surprised, but... bleh. Have to go to the next town over sometime tomorrow