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[Dr Feelgood]

I haven't played this game in awhile (b40). Any new hard bosses or areas? I heard there was a new class. How do I unlock it?

I hear good things about overkill (especially on a corruptor) and blood vengeance, too. Blood lock's kinda' situational, and even beyond that is kinda' useless when you've got curse of death.

Overkill basically turns all your spells into AoE attacks. It's ridiculous. Blood Vengeance is only useful if you get hit. By the endgame, you can kill everything before they touch you.

[Frumple]

Spoiler: Re New Class (click to show/hide)

Solipsists. You go into a new zone, do some stuff (I still haven't gotten the damn zone to show, so I have no idea about the specifics, there), and get the unlock. The "get the damn zone to show" part is thus: Every race except yeeks have a 1/3rd chance to cause the zone to appear when they reach the world map for the first time after hitting level 20. For yeeks, it's guaranteed.

It's worth noting that they're, ah. Still doing balance work on the solipsists, really. They're still a titch OP, but in better shape than the last few versions.

E: There's also stone wardens for donators, though it's not so much an unlock as an addon DG made and pushed out. Personally don't intend to count it as a new class until it gets released to the general public, bleh.

As for new areas... ehn. Nothing major that I can recall, but there's been quite a lot of balance tweaks here and there and a new difficulty added that's in between normal and insane. Amatathon got buffed again, prodigies got distributed around, and there are some new unique enemies, some of which can get pretty nasty, but difficulty in general hasn't shifted too much, I'd say. Except for the LoS thing, which has made things rougher in general on melee dudes.

[dei]

Spoiler: Re New Class (click to show/hide)

Solipsists. You go into a new zone, do some stuff (I still haven't gotten the damn zone to show, so I have no idea about the specifics, there), and get the unlock. The "get the damn zone to show" part is thus: Every race except yeeks have a 1/3rd chance to cause the zone to appear when they reach the world map for the first time after hitting level 20. For yeeks, it's guaranteed.

It's worth noting that they're, ah. Still doing balance work on the solipsists, really. They're still a titch OP, but in better shape than the last few versions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I unlocked Yeek recently, and I want to play Solipsist and possibly Mindslayer. Should I make a Yeek Archmage and then go from there, and if so is Freeze useful against Subject Z?

[Robsoie]

I found that difficulty is a lot dependant on what combo you use and in which zone you are.

Be warned that Yeek Archimage despite being very powerfull combo is an extremely low health one, meaning that you can be killed extremely easily, and even 1 shot-killed regularly.
So you must invest some point in Constitution to avoid many, many 1 shot-killed situations.

A tactic i have used to unlock Mindslayer with a Yeek Archimage :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

An Archimage Yeek is powerfull and is able to kill Subject Z.
But that's not the immediate concern, the primary goal is to avoid Subject Z killing the other yeek, and he will kill him quicker than you can kill Subject Z.

So get the Freeze spell, it is a must to stop the Subject Z
Additionally, you must take Phase door and improve the skill so you can target the helpless yeek and teleport him far behind you, as even frozen the Subject Z can still kill your poor little buddy.

With a good Freeze and a good Phase Door (and other offensive spells), you should unlock Mindslayer easily

Prodigies are awesome (most of them, as some have a questionable usefullness), definitively improved the survivability of my characters late game instead of the festival of frustrating death it was.

[Un67]

Spoiler: "Unlocking Mindslayer" (click to show/hide)

If you've unlocked Necromancer, it's even easier. Pump up Invoke Darkness first on the class side and Phase Door on the generic side, and then go for the undead minions talent after that on the class side. When you've cleared out both the ritch pit and Murgol's lair (not too hard, Invoke Darkness is really strong early on), go to the tunnel and slowly walk to the left. The moment you see the Wayist, Phase Door him away to the very end of the room near the entrance as Robsoie has suggested, then summon your minions in front of you to be meatshields and do some damage, before blasting Subject Z with Invoke Darkness (once you've maxed it, it doesn't hurt your minions). Should be an easy unlock, I did it on my first try.

[Zyxl]

Anyone else find it impossible to get much past lvl3 of the infinite dungeon? Or do my character builds just suck that damned much? I find a rouge with a focus on traps, stealth, and awareness manages to fare the best by being able to spot things first, do damage without actually engaging, and being able to hide or flee at all.

Any tips for infinite dungeon mode?

[Frumple]

Any tips for infinite dungeon mode?

Don't. Open. The Goddamn. Vaults.

Then you're pretty much peachy until the stair guardians start coming in, at which point it's basically just a really long farportal with sporadic bosses. Really, that's my best advice without knowing more in particular about your builds and/or playstyle. Just. Don't open the vaults. Until you're at least in your, like, twenties or thirties.

Anyone that opens an ID vault before that point is implicitly stating their willingness to reroll their character. Infinite dungeon vaults do not, at all, play fair. They do not have sanity checks on them. They will spawn OoD creatures you cannot escape from. Those creatures will be carrying tier five equipment that they won't drop on death. This will happen on ID (2). You will die. You will die repeatedly. Do not. Open. The vaults.

[dei]

I found that difficulty is a lot dependant on what combo you use and in which zone you are.

Be warned that Yeek Archimage despite being very powerfull combo is an extremely low health one, meaning that you can be killed extremely easily, and even 1 shot-killed regularly.
So you must invest some point in Constitution to avoid many, many 1 shot-killed situations.

A tactic i have used to unlock Mindslayer with a Yeek Archimage :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

An Archimage Yeek is powerfull and is able to kill Subject Z.
But that's not the immediate concern, the primary goal is to avoid Subject Z killing the other yeek, and he will kill him quicker than you can kill Subject Z.

So get the Freeze spell, it is a must to stop the Subject Z
Additionally, you must take Phase door and improve the skill so you can target the helpless yeek and teleport him far behind you, as even frozen the Subject Z can still kill your poor little buddy.

With a good Freeze and a good Phase Door (and other offensive spells), you should unlock Mindslayer easily

Thank you for the advice, I will have to try that sometime.

Spoiler: "Unlocking Mindslayer" (click to show/hide)

If you've unlocked Necromancer, it's even easier. Pump up Invoke Darkness first on the class side and Phase Door on the generic side, and then go for the undead minions talent after that on the class side. When you've cleared out both the ritch pit and Murgol's lair (not too hard, Invoke Darkness is really strong early on), go to the tunnel and slowly walk to the left. The moment you see the Wayist, Phase Door him away to the very end of the room near the entrance as Robsoie has suggested, then summon your minions in front of you to be meatshields and do some damage, before blasting Subject Z with Invoke Darkness (once you've maxed it, it doesn't hurt your minions). Should be an easy unlock, I did it on my first try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't have Necromancer. I have all of the lore but I haven't completed Last Hope Graveyard or Dreadfell with the lore.

[Robsoie]

Currently running in Easy mode a Dwarf Bulwark with antimagic path, and thanks to that i have been able to survive a lot of farportal exploration and was able to kill all those near-unkillable boss that have plagued my normal difficulty attempts (easy mode is the only way i managed to get an antimagic guy surviving Dreadfell )

But whatever, in my last farportal adventure ... big spoiler happened

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't put the screenshot in image tags if you clicked accidentally on the spoiler tag and don't want to know, so you'll have to click :

... http://i.imgur.com/wC7JC.jpg

And even bigger spoiler
... http://i.imgur.com/4NGj6.jpg

And the spoiling achievement
http://i.imgur.com/fcwEm.jpg

First time since i play and explore farportal that i see this and i explored a lot of them with my many characters, so is there more to this ?

[Frumple]

Near as I can recall, not as of yet.

Also, no, you can't kill the blighter. Invulnerability flagged.

[Robsoie]

Couldn't even try to kill him anyways, as

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 after the "continue" i'm just thrown back into my fortress, i couldn't even put my cursor on the guy to check his stats.

[dei]

When is someone usually able to go into the farportals in this game? Is there some sort of requirement that has to be met?

[Dr Feelgood]

First time since i play and explore farportal that i see this and i explored a lot of them with my many characters, so is there more to this ?

If you encounter him while carrying the staff of absorption he has slightly different dialogue.

When is someone usually able to go into the farportals in this game? Is there some sort of requirement that has to be met?

Your fortress needs a certain amount of energy. And there's a mini boss in the room.

[Robsoie]

Argh, couple of years of playing the game before finally  encountering him , and i was without the staff.
If it take another couple of years before i can meet him again when i have the staff ...

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Decided to play aq character in non standard way. Halfling archmage with self imposed rule to not put a single point in magic attribute... Expected it to be hard...

steamrolled to lvl 21 almost without serious problems... (nearly died to farportal boss with manaclash, but barrier saved my ass)  celestial\light + aegis is a broken combo
And, spellpower? 52. By inventory (and Arcane power, of cause) alone.  Spell crit 22% without halfling racial ability active

Really should stop playing archmages in a - all points in magic and other attributes receive what is left.