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[Zireael]

For those interested, i noticed there's a public beta test you can play for ToME4 1.3 here :
http://te4.org/blogs/darkgod/2015/02/beta-test-13-has-begun

Not playing with, so i can't say what's new/changed as i don't see a changelog on the website and board at the time.

The changelog would be ridiculously long, believe me. 8k lines in the git changelog.

Here's a quick rundown by stuntofthelitter of ToME forums and reddit:

Total Chronomancy rework. Temporal Warden and Paradox mage changed very much (Too much to list, ask about specifics if curious)

Wyrmic change. This is the Wyrmic Tweaks MkII addon by SageAcrin if you want to look up what exactly was done.

New race. Ogres! The start to this unlock can be found on the third floor of the Halfling Ruins (30% chance, 100% if Shalore). Lore for this was written by Hogulus, the same person who did the demon lore in the Ashes DLC.

Redone icons for many things! Very nice looking icon changes.

Many, many quality of life changes. Seriously, too many to even list or recall. There's now a choice to skip to the last floor of a t1 or not when you're high enough level (rather than being forced), You can now see the actual effective stat change with diminishing returns taken into account.

Many bug fixes. Minor, but I'm most happy about getting noxius caldera's lost wife dream finally fixed.

So much more. I'm looking forward to the changelog actually getting put together, because I can't even recall most of the changes to list if I wanted to.

I'll add that the bug fixes include various performance improvements (looking at you, Classic UI & string display!) and level/ego generator improvements.

[Robsoie]

Thanks for posting this Oneir and Zireael, looks like it's a much bigger update than i thought.. and one new race ! i'll give it a play soon then ,

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 looks like my next character will be a Shalore to make sure to unlock the new guys

edit : running a Shalore Oozemancer , i'm crashing the game a bit too much, when doing a Slime Spit followed by an Acid Splash, a new bug i never experienced in previous versions.

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I was trying for a fast Ogre attempt of unlock, as Oozemancer are still unstoppable, but it looks like i'll have to try another class

[lemon10]

Just finished a game with the new paradox mage. Had no real trouble at any point and only died twice (the first time because I thought contingency always  auto-reactivated, even if it was disabled by antimagic). The bosses were just steamrolled, and they both died very quickly.

Managed to even kill amma and Linalli without even dying, and cauterize only getting triggered once. I suspect that it is in large part that I am now used to playing on nightmare, and felt like having a easy game (so I simply played on normal).

The class is way more fun to play then they were (in addition to being significantly more powerful). They have a ton of good damage abilities, as well as some pretty great synergy on their stuff.

The good:
+Tons of AOE damage.
+Tons of defensive options. Not only do you have a ton of great defensive sustains, you also have tons of defensive passives, and you can activate all your sustains at once without worrying too much about the paradox cost. Seriously though, so many defensive options, especially if you play cautiously.
+Quite a few escape options.
+Very respectable single target damage (not amazing, but endgame you will be dealing +1000 damage every turn with good artifacts. In the fight vs Linalli I was doing 1500 damage per attack 50% of the time, with a single 3k damage crit).
+Paradox is far less trouble then it was. It can still be a issue (especially if you set it high), but it is quite a small problem most of the time (since you can easily run away and get it all the way down again), and the pre 600 anomalies aren't that dangerous. The only real trouble I had with it was when I set it to 1000 and forgot to put it back down, and promptly got 4 major anomalies in the first 5 seconds of a fight.
+Very quick in both movespeed and casting speed. During fights you typically have a 30% casting speed buff after the first few spllcasts, which allows you to cast multiple spells and avoid getting hit too many time during any action. In addition to that tons of your abilities can be activated instantly, which really helps getting out of tricky situations.

The bad:
+You cannot contingency Shalore's Timeless ability.
+You want a ton of category points, because pretty much every one of their trees are awesome.

EDIT: Added some stuff to the post.

[Robsoie]

Finally did it with a Shalore Corruptor (i forgot how tedious Corruptors were with the vim management, i'm not going to bother with that character more now i reached that goal)

don't read the spoiler in case you'll want to find all the lore about it, as it's summarized in that panel.

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The new dungeon in which you can unlock the race is filled with Ogre, a huge very lot of them.
They're full of health, lots of reflective stuff etc...
I was level 19 with my Shalore Corruptor when i started it and while it wasn't very hard, it was really long, and really repetitive to get rid of them, not really fun (but maybe the fact i found out while playing that Shalore Corruptor that i really don't like playing corruptor didn't helped) .

Anyways, that's done now, going to see how those things play

[Uristides]

I'm not sure if I'm just having luck or whatever, but Sun Paladin is such a blast I just don't even.
I mean, I'm a damn careless player and I usually dive into silly risks without a reliable escape method and get pwned and stuff, but with SP I'm actually surviving that stuff quite well. Melee monster? Eat my shield. Ranged monster? Eat my nukes. Assorted popcorn? Get martyred away. All shields and (self-)heals on cooldown? I can Bathe in Light + Providence and still dish enough damage to kick you straight into the eidolon plane!
CC is kinda iffy and I did have trouble with the weirdling when he spanked enough pos out of me to force my sustains off(and then I went upstairs to recharge, went down again and bashed him away in a couple of hits) but overall I feel like a bulwark on steroids.

Still on the Daikara though, hopefully things will stay this way until I at least put the master down for once.

[XavierIII]

This just updated with 1.3. Chronomancers got reworked, wyrmics got a buff, and a new race was added. I figured I would give everyone a heads up.

Hope you all have a good ( insert time of your choice here)

[Robsoie]

Nice !

Here's the changelog

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ew content AKA: that's awesome:

    Temporal Warden and Paradox Mage classes completely reworked. Check them out immediately!
    Chronomancy spells can no longer fail or backfire (anomalies still occur).
    Spellpower for Chronomancy spells is -50% at 0 Paradox to +50% at 600 Paradox.
    Above 600 Paradox (modified by your Willpower), major anomalies will occur. Paradox bar now reflects how close you are to that threshold.
    A new race was revealed, a fruit of a long-standing war. Check what contemporary documents in the old halfling ruins might say.
    Slasul is no longer a pushover. That naga got gainz! Of course Ukllmswwik matches his performance.
    Added a bunch of new unlockable splash screens.
    Several sweet new icons for your talents.
    Wyrmic talents are reorganized and provide passive benefits. It's a HUGE buff!
    Angolwen sports a new fountain.

 
UI changes AKA: My stuff is in all the wrong places:

    Several graphical effects now update more frequently.
    Several graphical effects are now sweet and awesome.
    Automatic Talent Use will now refuse to use talents which cooldown is lower than their use time, so you don't lock yourself out.
    Tiles will flip depending on where they last bumped. All hail the sprite flip!
    New UI option to display a grid over the map.
    Addon list now shows addon version.
    "Inspect creature" now displays creature's talents by categories.
    More artifacts are shown up on player doll. Do brag before those custom tile users!
    Game options are directly accessible from main menu now.
    Dragging hotkey icons shows the place they'll end up on. If the hotkey would be dropped, it's clearly visible now.
    ASCII mode will not show symbols upon symbols, only the top is seen (does not affect ASCII with background mode)
    Better artifact power use descriptions
    New gameplay option to auto-validate the default target; thus requiring only one keypress to fire a talent
    Highlighted a few special grids for escorts and slime tunnels.
    Rare mindstars now have description hints for their sets.

 
New mechanics AKA: I didn't know they changed it:

    Some talents have been assigned "fixed cooldowns". That means they're immune to cooldown reduction and some cooldown-reducing effects.
    Talents have been assigned speed (which you can override in addons). Acceptable speeds include "combat" (unarmed), "archery", "weapon", "mainhand", "offhand", "spell", "summon", "mind", "movement", and "standard" (1 turn).
    Player rank (elite) and insteadeath immunity is universal across all game modes now. Hard game modes weren't being made any harder by fractional stat points.
    Forced starting zones no longer have rare+ rank enemies.
    Levelup dialog now shows error messages as flyers above Category points, instead of modal dialogs.
    Items modified with talents can now be placed in Items Vault, but will lose their modified properties.
    Reload is no longer granted to anyone. You'll still have it if you had it. You still won't use it ever!
    Unstoppable is no longer Timeless. Neither is Draconic Will. They both are "other" effects which means that they cannot be stripped or affected.
    Exploration mode now allows full respec anywhere. And I do mean FULL respec, with no puny "3/4 points" limitation.
    Run/Rest now spots projectiles flying your way (but not your own, so beware!)
    Run/Rest also stops if you saw someone for the fraction of time as they escape your field of vision at the end of your turn.
    AI now only catches a glimpse of you through stealth, making them look in your general direction, not get a lock-on. This helps a bit.
    Detrimental traps now have flat 5% chance to not trigger if you're bad at disarming them.
    Dream Altar in a certain caldera no longer can kill you or do anything bad to you.
    Waking up from a bad dream makes you lose life over several turns, not instantly.
    On that note, Sleep no longer causes you to skip turns, yet you still cannot use anything but instant talents.
    You can no longer wield an item by replacing another item that provided necessary requirements for it.
    Sandworm Queen will now seek you out tirelessly if you are late to her lunch.
    Tooltip now have a significant delay on up/down scrolling. Sidebars in levelup screen, prodigy screen, and birth screen now bounce as tooltips do.
    Arcane Destruction (Arcane Blades) now actually scales and is not effectively a 1-point talent.
    Shade of Kor'Pul got some cover around it. Now you can retreat when you get frozen! Well, after you get frozen. If you're still alive.
    Shield Runes are now material level 2, down from 3.
    You are now correctly afflicted with Cursed Aura as long as you have Unnatural Body, without having to be Cursed or Doomed.
    Several glove egos have got disarm immunity on them. Keep that grip tight!
    Phase Door runes now additionally grant you buffs "on teleport" from your equipment (adding to its own bonuses).
    Debuffs to your powers can now not only cancel buffs out, but bring them below your baseline stats.
    Rest should wait for air if you're able to catch a breath. It also waits for detrimental effects' durations and item cooldowns.
    Summons now count their turns down once per game turn, not their own turn. Bloated oozes are more short-lived now, but no one liked them anyway.
    You can now teleport within vaults and out of vaults, just not change your current vault by teleporting.
    Lite "damage" now reduces the unlit value of grids with darkness if it can't remove them.
    Nerfed Aeryn, buffed Argoniel. Now Argoniel can eventually kill Aeryn if left completely alone.
    Elandar no longer ignores irresistible sun since Argoniel no longer has it
    The Crystal Focus can now be applied to shields (updates the special_combat fields appropriately).
    Out of Phase/Time Shield effect reductions can no longer stack to 100% and stack inverse-multiplicatively (50% + 50% = 75%).
    Reduced the number of mental effects the Wintertide Phial will remove.
    Penitence cures a more reasonable (fewer) number of diseases.
    Cursed Sentry now remembers your weapon choice (which you can alter with a separate talent), the object is automatically picked up, but it's got a power level limitation now. Also it levels up them stats and uses better ammo.
    Shop selling now rounds the whole stack price to 1 cent, rather than rounding up each object's price individually to 10 cents. Alchemists gems, no longer as shiny.

 
Fixed known bugs AKA: Oh yes, I hated this so much:

    Tirakai's Maul no longer loses Weapon Mastery or becomes lower tier when gemmed.
    Pyromancer/Cryomancer unlocks no longer require damage to be non-lethal when counting total for an achievement.
    Randart generation is more consistent in its themes and power sources. You can no longer get something with conflicting themes... or get an antimagic item from a merchant if you don't want to. Hopefully. I know it's not the first time we say this.
    Gloom weakness correctly weakens the target instead of strengthening it.
    Slave brawlers in Ring of Blood now finally got gloves.
    Getting a Lua error on an enemy talent should no longer lock you out of existence. Some things still may, but it's rarer overall.
    Items on teleport traps will now be picked up before teleportation occurs.
    Steam Cloud Saves are now off by default, as we heard many complaints about levels regenerating with them on.
    Links can now be opened in an external browser instead of internal one.
    Sliders on Steam UI no longer look weird. In general, alternate UI sets handle better and cause no disfigurings and overlaps.
    Friendly fire (and alchemist bombs) no longer hits neutral targets.
    Damage done by passive/sustained talents now shows damage flyers.
    Summons no longer try to murder each other at random when you're frozen. They also actually might prefer hitting enemies over you with that 1000-damage Flamespit. Of course, if there is no enemies, best of luck.
    Your resting is not broken by being scared of yourself as you're frozen.
    Your Thunderstorm no longer hits you if you're next to the victim.
    Dreaming of your wife, you'll meet her every time, not only the first time on this game instance.
    Apprentice Quest now fixes item selection dialog. He'd be glad if you gave him your whole inventory, but he is polite.
    Hitting guards in Point Zero will no longer make them want to remove you. You're just a newbie, after all. There's no chance you hit them on purpose.
    Comparing gloves works correctly now, including showing real speed if you're a brawler.
    On that note, Inspect creature no longer shows unarmed attack speed if you're in fact armed.
    On that note, an option in Game Options to show power% and range on weapons instead of default "power: a-b" display.
    Being Cursed and completing a quest about your past no longer renders your character unable to die if you run Ashes DLC. Don't ask. Just don't.
    Goedalath Rock will tell you when you pick it up, and you won't do so automatically twice.
    Dragging alchemist gems onto a player doll now stacks them up correctly, if possible.
    Golem gem equipping fixed.
    Fixed lava patches in darknened zones (like a pyroclast daikara + thunderstorm)
    Borosk's Hate now boosts Two-handed assault category instead of an outdated one.
    Backup guardians consistently increase material level on all zones (hello never-dropping Crystal Heart). This affects Reknor, Deep Bellow, and Scintillating Caves.
    Skeleton's Reassemble talent won't prevent dying at the endgame dialog.
    Wintertide's winter storm graphic will expand in size to match its effect.
    Prox's Lucky Halfling Foot benefits from Charm Mastery.
    Resurrecting while standing on an an entity with on_move damage should no longer kill the player a second time.
    Fixed a bug with Butcher that could cause its rampage not to activate on damage. Now benefits from Charm Mastery.
    Mage apprentice no longer squashed by you if you happen to beam down from some obscure city.

 
Obscure bugs AKA: Wait what, that was broken?:

    Mindslayer rares should get their swords in the tight grip now
    Mindslayer talent descriptions fixed (ranges in particular).
    Arcane Power bonuses no longer affect itself.
    Generic talent tree on levelup dialogs is no longer clipped if a dialog is wide enough.
    Pouch of Subconsious no longer slows you down by 3000% and no longer disarms you.
    Crit shrug off now works on multi-type damage correctly.
    Significant performance improvements for map drawing, dialogs, and Classic UI.
    Unseen Force now shows up as a timed effect. Blast from the same tree can no longer hit a single target multiple times.
    Shield of Light now does shield attacks, not unarmed. Haha.
    Resizing the game in the birther screen no longer disables the mouse.
    Number boxes render correctly and have all functions of text boxes.
    HUD style change no longer makes map viewport to be off in position.
    Rhaloren inquisitor is Rhaloren now, meaning that his lackeys will no longer try to murder him if you are allied with Rhaloren. Haha.
    NPC list now works on Classic UI. Bet you never knew about THAT feature, eh? (No one did, because it didn't work. It still doesn't on Minimalist. )
    Celia is now rank: boss and carries a Rod of Recall. THis shoudl help with getting suck in the crypts for eternities.
    Call Shadows starts its internal cooldown only after summoning a shadow succesfully.
    Necrotic Minions and Cursed sentries no longer drop any additional objects on death. Ashes to ashes, and dust, to dust.
    Selecting talents by keyboard in levelup screen now shows up the tooltip for talents.
    Ice Core (Alchemist) tooltip is now correct.
    Fast As Lightning always required steps, not game turns to be spent, but tooltip was confusing. No longer.
    Sun Ray description used to say it's a beam. It never was a beam. It's a ray from the sky, not from you. You're not the sun. Unless you take that prodigy, but even in that case, it's still from the sky.
    Corrupted Heart is now an arcane artifact.
    Fixed scrolling on message log dialog.
    Clicking faded links in the chat log should no longer work.
    Fixed quest text on the storyline quest about the Staff.
    Eidolon now obliterates everyone following you, just to relieve their pain. This solves the problem of golem being forever stuck in the limbo.
    Time Skip, Rune of the Rift, and Maelstrom no longer render stairs underneath unaccessible.
    Weapon mastery is only shown if you know the talent.
    Tooth of the Mouth is no longer ubiquitous. Now you might actually use another pickaxe!
    Skate no longer increases the knockback vulnerability with points put into it. Gnarly.
    Blighted Maul's on hit shockwave will not hit the primary target.
    Changed Umbraphage's damage calculation to actually care about it's charge level (slight nerf).
    Stormlash's AOE effect is correctly centered on the target, rather than the user.
    Corpathus summons are now actually your summons and won't turn on you.
    Wands of Clairvoyance now dispel magical darkness like their description says.
    Pyrokinesis will no longer be cast by AI when too far away. Ditto Aura of Silence and several other AoE.
    Talents should no longer silently fail if they invoke a dialog and it's closed.
    Elemental Discord now correctly has sustain cost.
    Unique handwear now has accuracy bonuses.
    Reaving Combat, being a tree of passives, no longer grants a vim bar.
    Second Life/Shield of Light proccing while Healing Inversion is active no longer creates an infinite feedback loop.
    Killing a mindslayer rare will no longer unload their auras into your face.
    ASCII mode will not show multiple characters on one tile anymore.
    Thermal and Charged Aura used with gem/mindstar no longer eat loads of Psi.

 
Addon developer section AKA: UGH, now I have to update from 1.0.6:

    Added several callbacks, including "on block", "on run", "on levelup".
    Added hooks: "Zone:loadEvents", "GemColorAttributes", targeting.
    You can stick callbacks on items, the syntax is: callbackOnEvent(item, wearer, args...)
    "sustain_slots" attribute (sustain_slots="arbitrary id") to define mutually exclusive sustains.
    Map:scheduleRedisplay for when you're afraid of calling redisplay multiple times on the same tick.
    Dialog UI dependent top/left/bottom/right works properly.
    "calc_width/calc_height" on UI entry for it to be assigned width/height based on its position.
    callbacks can now be assigned priorities (callbackPriorities={callbackOnEvent=3}). Default is zero. Less means it gets called earlier.
    "passive_callbacks" on a sustained talent makes the callback system treat it as a passive.
    Zone:applyEgo and friends for dynamic ego changes on items! Check it out!
    Attempting to create an entity containing an upvalue (a function closure) will result in an error, as such entities cannot be saved. you can override that with a flag on your entity.
    Damage mod on weapons can now be modified, and weapons can have multiple masteries.
    effectsFilter/sustainsFilter and their remove brothers in Actor.lua! they have default filters aplenty and an ability to pass custom functions and limit the numbers.
    Entity:fromBase to emulate what "base" attribute for loadList was doing.
    "image" attribute on entities now supports absolute paths and paths in format of "addon+path" (which is data-addon/gfx/path)
    Actor:burnArcaneResources(damage) for your manaburn needs.
    "sustain_lists" and "learn_lists" attribute on talents to add talent IDs to lists on actors which you can then check. For example, "break_with_stealth" and "break_with_step_up".
    Addon version is "addon_version" {a, b, c} in init.lua.
    no_martyr is dead. Old no_martyr is tmp.no_reflect.
    drawColorString family now less slow. Please use Font.draw instead anyway.
    "iterCallbacks" for iterator that returns callback, priority, kind.
    callbackOnTakeDamage and callbackOnHeal coorectly work when multiple ones modify the value.
    tableSample and tableSampleIterator to pick N elements out of the array.
    "is_melee" and "is_special_melee" on talents that are melee/special melee. Also melee talents use their targets now, feel free to hijack them.
    "self_resurrect_msg" for your evil purposes.
    "only_element" on staves for Command Staff to lock on one element category.
    TMX (Tiled) maps are now supported directly for static maps.

[Frumple]

Teleportation inside vaults (i.e. they're now a lot more dangerous at low levels~) and squelching escortees if the player dies... ouch. Seems like lots of interesting other stuff, though.

E: Ach, this update seems to have pretty seriously buggered backwards addon compatibility. Having some hefty problems (including sporadic worn item deletion >_>) when trying out the new TW.

On the other hand, time hounds as a summons. That's a helluva' angband/T2 callback. You even have your own little mini-vault instakill thing going down, s'pretty nice.

E2: And they're actually pretty beefy. Just watched a full trio solo a dream horror. I was impressed :V

[Darkmere]

That's kind of reassuring, I was trying out a time warden myself and the dogs looked interesting. I assumed as per my usual picks it would be bottom of the barrel as far as skills go, but it sounded too fun not to try it.

They really did a number on them though, all that new stuff took a while to read through.

Anyone tried wyrmics? I was one of the three people who liked the older version, so I'm curious what the big changes bring.

[Frumple]

A lot's definitely changed, though I'm so-far actually having an easier time of it than I normally do, TW wise... though I am running chaotic races (which can give you a random extra talent level per level -- I mostly run it because I'm addicted to psi-wielding ), which makes things a smidgen easier.

Still, despite the loss of stat gains, they've also lost strength dependency entirely and have gained some pretty nice quality of life stuff -- never having to manually switch weapons is pretty amusing. Buncha' other stuff, too. It's pretty neat. They feel a bit more livable and still do some nice damage and whatnot.

And the hounds are kinda' amazing meatshields, especially once you get the third talent running -- something that literally can't die for 5+ turns at a minimum and shoves itself in the way of whatever's trying to kill you is pretty great. Still a level off from the 4th tier, though. I'm kinda' disappointed they went with C instead of Z for the ASCII symbol :V

Though speaking of mods, don't try to run the older faerie one with the new TW. While dark fae TWs are kinda' amazing (those clones are glorious), it also sporadically deletes your offhand and ammo items. Which is bad.

Haven't tried the wyrmic changes, yet. If it's anything like one of the mods that were running around, it's definitely a bit of a nudge upwards in regards to power, though.

E: Oh wow. 3 round max strength sashy with a 23rd level TW. Mostly due to the hounds, who were putting out ~450 damage/round total on their own, and completely surrounded her. That whole, "Yeah, I'm going to stay here and keep hitting you for another 6 turns after you flatline my health" thing is pretty incredible.

E2: Annnnd they just tanked pretty much the entire ambush. After dropping more or less the entire thing's (outside bossdude) health reserves to half on the first turn via overlapping breath. Not sure how they're going to hold up into the late game, but for the west? The hounds are entirely excessive. They've got more HP among the three of them than I do, do roughly the same damage per turn on average as the actual warden can at full blast (and more, when breathing or with the global speed buff going), and they can't die until at least seven turns after they are killed >_<

And the blink regen can reset the unkillable state! This is freaking bonkers. Also their stats are kinda' crazy. Their everything scales off my magic stat... apparently on top of a base. Which means with my 76 mag, they've got a flat 96 in everything. Any one of them was about on par with any critter in the melinda crypt. They're still matching 1-to-1 vs elite undead and junk (and, of course, they're very rarely alone). It's faintly ridiculous.

Have just noticed that blighted summoning does absolutely nothing for them, though, which is unfortunate. Putting elemental discord on something that does no fire, cold, acid, lightning, or nature damage is... perhaps something of an oversight :VScratch that. Discord's retaliative, not offensive. The lack of a t on dealt threw me off

[Darkmere]

So... finished up the Ogre unlock. Their racials look absurd at first glance. extra infusion slot, instant refresh on all infusions (and wipe saturation effects), mainhand a 2-handed weapon, and some active crowd control resistance.

So I went ahead and rolled an ogre sun paladin for when my Warden hits a dead end... or more likely wins.

For what it's worth, I thought the quest area/lore was more interesting than the old breeding pens without oozing genetalia at me. So that's a plus.

[Frumple]

Well, uh. Huh. Turns out that not only can the hounds solo a dream horror, they can one round a dream horror, with the blink buff going. That's... that's beautiful ;_;

E: Ha! Apparently someone's already won on insane with a 1.3 wyrmic. Turns out someone wasn't paying the most attention to Ice Wall's numbers :V

[Darkmere]

I unlocked the hounds.

Yeah they're... yeah.got lucky with the wierdling douche and he didn't purge them. dead from them and the echoing arrows in 2 turns. So........

Lol @ OP wyrmics. I guess it's about time they caught a break?

[Frumple]

That was interesting. I didn't know you could run into sashy twice in one run. I now have two crowns of burning pain >_>

E: Welp! Hounds just mostly cleared the armory death room by their lonesome. I helped a little with arrow echoes and spamming blink to keep the numbers up, but. Yeah. They did most of the work.

Seriously, decent damage + seven turns of invulnerability + unending supply = faceroll. Those hounds are kinda' ridiculous.

E2: Did it sub-40, too (if barely -- the last of 'em got me up to 40 ) and mostly t4 items. Critter hasn't even gone back west yet~

E3: And now they've solo'd all the backup guardians -- most my warden did was the occasional blink command to get them in place, or catch 'em back to a teleporter. Don't think the damage output can keep up with higher difficulties, but insofar as trivializing normal, the hounds seem to manage that without much effort. Eesh.

[Darkmere]

Hehe. Some glitch with dispelling sustains on a rare in Grushnak pride has given me 3 extra hounds. 6 of the bastards is beyond overkill. Yes, they still resummon to 6 after a few die. Looks like this game is over.