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[Frumple]

Nope

At least not currently, anyway. Dunno about for the future.

[Seriyu]

Off to an easy mode unlocking extravaganza then.

[Lmaoboat]

Made a Dwarf Fighter on Easy. That should help with the unlocking.

[Seriyu]

Is there any difference between infusions and runes besides runes being arcane powered and as such considered magic?

[Frumple]

Sure. They run off different saturations, for one thing. The other thing is that undead can't use infusions. At all.

That's the major differences, though, that I can recall off the top of my head.

[Robsoie]

Good to know easy does not disable unlocks, i was playing on normal from fear of that.

Anyways, in a previous page i mentionned a -very- dangerous strong unique in Daikara that had the ability to cast Fearscape, launching you in a lava world that deal to you very high fire damage each turns spent there, often a death sentence.

On my previous Dwarf Berserker run, this unique and his fort populated by dozens of Giants was not in it, but i'm currently running with a Cornac Berzerker (at that point i feel the difference in XP you recieve as a Cornac instead of the lowered XP you recieve as a Dwarf as i'm 2 level better at Daikara as a Cornac than i was as a Dwarf) and encountered the Giant fort, in fact there are a Giant fort in 2 of the Daikara levels !

But this time i was prepared and didn't opened the door of the main building, i prefer to keep my character alive

If you encounter something like this in Daikara :

It should be where you're going to find the "I cast Fearscape on you and you die in a few turns from fire damage because you were logically having cold/electricity resistance instead of fire considering Daikara enemies are all about cold/electricity damage.

[Frumple]

Yeah, the snow giant villages are by and large unique to daikara. The big building always has a random-unique snow giant of some sort in it, along with a junkload of other snow giants and possible Burb. The random unique one can have corruptor levels (but usually won't) and potentially cast fearscape. It's not terribly likely, though, and there's considerably more dangerous things they can have than fearscape

There's some loot, though, and the random unique'll usually have solid drops. S'not bad to drop the place if you're able.

[Robsoie]

I think it's better to avoid the place on your original Daikara exploration and cleaning , then come back later when you have a few more levels, and have equiped item giving fire resistance instead of your usual cold resistance ones (and so a good idea to have cleaned the level before going in the giant fortress).

This should get you more chance to survive in case the unique has the Fearscape spell (and with the kind of luck i have, he'll always have it ) so you'll be able to resist the high fire damage (my character had a few fire resistance but he took a bit more than 70 fire damage by turn).

In this run i have been surprised by the Daikara end, there was the usual Daikara boss, but in the same room there was a 2nd one, a warg unique (fortunately much less dangerous than your usual uniques).

Good that i had a Cornac with 2 levels of experience more than when i was playing a Dwarf in the same situation, as the difference in level (and so skill points) really showed , making that battle (despite the presence of that 2nd unique) easier than before.

[Tnx]

Ok I just downloaded this to play it and WOW.  the UI and graphics have changed ALOT, it looks great!  Now, I remember the last time I played I played a shadowblade and I was kind of a glass cannon.  Are shadowblades pretty good now?  I'm reading the wiki and it says they're susceptible to magic dmg and stuff, any tips for that?

EDIT: Where are the save files located?  I'd like to save scum if I can.

EDIT2: Not sure if this is a bug, but all my skills on the lower bar disappeared.  I can still use them by right clicking on my character though.

[ChairmanPoo]

Reply to edit 1: In .tome, in your home folder. Assuming you use linux. In windows it's in some user folder, I think.


Reply to edit 2: that's due to the mouse wheel.


Unrelated, but found some decent cursed advice in the other forums:
http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=27352

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

More willpower, less strength. Go 2:1 will/str until will is maxed, then 1:1:1 will/str/con on levels you hit the stat cap on will. Once will is 60'd, go 2:1 str/con, or reverse. Consider throwing in dex occasionally to hit dagger reqs or increase accuracy.

Go straight to armor 4, as fatigue shouldn't be doing anything to you.

Bugger cleave until everything useful is done. It's not particularly useful.

Don't bother 5/5ing RC until other things are done. The damage boost from willpower will be plenty after 2-3 points in it, if that.

You're ignoring gloom. Bad idea. You want weakness and life leech 5/5'd asap, and 5/5ing base gloom isn't a bad choice. Consider putting a catpoint into the gloom tree. 5/5+mastery weakness is reason enough for this. Weakened enemies have a massively harder time of violently murdering you. Maxed out weaken will cut enemy accuracy and damage by nearly a third. Max will + max gloom/weaken/life leech is a serious combat multiplier for you.

You probably don't really need so many movement talents. Pick up movement infusion+tele rune if you're that worried about it.

As you noted, grim craft is apparently bugged (?), at th'mo. Invest in the other three talents -- that's where spare generic points go. You've only got unnatural body, relentless, and combat acc/health (once armor 2-4 is achieved, depending on how heavy armor you want. P.S. You want the heaviest armor.) as other generic targets, so you should have plenty to invest. Don't underestimate the initial fateful aura skill -- it reduces the chance of getting bad curses.

Have axe+shield on weapon swap, and use that for your primary weapon set. Use elemental weapons (axe+dagger) plus frenzy for damage.

Otherwise, you seem to be doing mostly alright. Consider getting combat acc twice in those first two levels, instead of armor training. I tend to leave AT alone until I've actually got something I need it to wear, and landing RC hits is probably going to be a bigger deal than a little extra armor, in the early game. You'll probably want acc 5 or so, eventually.

Anyway, s'all I can think of at th'mo. Well, for build-to-this-point.

Later on... RC and a dominate'd frenzy seem to be your major single-target damage dealers, and cursed are (perhaps ironically) a little too flimsy (not much in the way of good burst healing, due to the healmod) to be doing much group fighting. Group fighting's a bad idea for pretty much anyone, anyway, most of the time. Other than that, all you've really got is smash and... assail, I guess. Slash, if you count it. All that's not terribly impressive, so... consider unlocking and investing in the rampage tree, at least through brutality and reflexes. Eventually 5/5ing torment might not be a terrible idea -- it's not very controllable, but it does hit fairly hard.

Mostly, though, you're just going to want to stack willpower through the roof and let gloom murder as much as it can for it. Bit slow going, sometimes, but cursed don't have much in the way of solid dakka.

[Tnx]

I'm confused as to where I can stash my stuff.  The past discussion on here mentioned sealed doors.  Now on the first level of that korpul dungeon I opened a door that said something but I clicked twice and then it disappeared.  It had a boss skeleton inside and 6 smaller individual rooms that had items/skeletons in it.  Is that a vault?

[beorn080]

Yes, you can stash items there until you get your home.

[ChairmanPoo]

what does rampage do exactly?

[Seriyu]

Sure. They run off different saturations, for one thing. The other thing is that undead can't use infusions. At all.

That's the major differences, though, that I can recall off the top of my head.

I never actually quite figured out what the saturations did actually. Can't use any runes while a rune saturation is up, can't use any infusions while an infusion saturation is up?

[ChairmanPoo]

They increase the cooldown counters