Today I Will Eat At Culvers

Rejoice in all the cold corners of Eyal for the Santascape has come!
Log on, jump on your characters and enjoy the cold feeling of deat...err...joy and merry presents!
Will you find your presents or your doom? You have until the 1st of january to find out!

Meet the friendly local elementals!

Have a hug with the cuddly snowmen!

And finally meet Nikolas to see if you deserve your presents!

The Santascape is a yearly special server event, triggered every 10 minutes by the server to all players currently logged in. There are others such events, come find them all during the year!

Rejoice in all the cold corners of Eyal for the Santascape has come!
Log on, jump on your characters and enjoy the cold feeling of deat...err...joy and merry presents!
Will you find your presents or your doom? You have until the 1st of january to find out!

Meet the friendly local elementals!

Have a hug with the cuddly snowmen!

And finally meet Nikolas to see if you deserve your presents!

The Santascape is a yearly special server event, triggered every 10 minutes by the server to all players currently logged in. There are others such events, come find them all during the year!

- Stat spread

• DEX > STR > CUN > CON? If considering Grappling
• DEX > CUN > STR > CON If not going Grappling at all

- Good talents to prioritize:

• Touch of Death for damage
• Axe Kick to make enemies braindead if not saved against, use against elites randboss
• Flurry of Fists and Double Strike should be on 4 points, due to 1.3x Mastery 4 points will let them proc the effects
• Combination Kick for sustain stripping
• Haymaker is good damage

- Keep an eye out

• Butterfly Kick and Concussive Punch don't offer much better damage than the above listed for damage scaling when put in points
• Exploit Weakness in the Cunning / Tactical tree only affects physres

- The grappling tree:

• Extremely good for 1v1, damage mitigation is nice
• Crushing Hold to 4 points for all effects
• Shut down mages and casters with grappling, dig zigzag to make optimal layouts to runaway if grappling fails to go through, and fight 1v1

- Races for the class

• Halfling / Dwarf: Bread and butter melee class compatible races
• Shalore: Save up points from Blinding Speed

- Prodigies

• Swift Hands
• Flexible Combat : good damage
• Maybe ICCTW / Superpower

- Note to self: Wyrmic lacks any flat damage reduc, and putting in class talent points for allres when it could be on damage prevention such as damaging talents or utility talents, be careful

• Force fights 1v1 with terrain manip. Extremely important

- Weapon Wyrmic stat spread is STR > WIL > CUN > DEX
- Breath Wyrmic is the same but WIL can be capped out more

- Open with Static Field, especially if levelled up. %healthDamage if failed to be saved can chunk off massive health.

• If playing with Drem, possible multiple times can trigger Static Field

- Ice Wall is transparent and can be used from range ( take note for myself, as I always use it in melee range ), use it to:

 -> Block projectiles
 -> Cut off enemies ( for meditate and seperating them )
 -> Confuse enemy ( They will still try and path around and away from it )

- Ice Wall blocks can be turned permanent if you use Quake, creating little islands. This takes time to setup, so do it as part of pre buff

- Using Reckless Charge ( two-hand offense tree ) with Burrow, move into diggable walls without digging that wall. Then move into another tile to dig that one, isolating yourself.

• NOTE: You will still suffocate. Bring a Belt with unlife ego to make use of this.

- Higher Draconic Ability is okay for melee Wyrmic, to be tested on Breath Wyrmic

• It's true value lies in the Poison, which cannot be saved against - and second to it is the respen

- Possible races:

• Drem - breath
• Halfling / Dwarf - melee
• Shalore - WIL synergy; Treants hit really hard and inherit your BlightRes to be converted to AllRes, higher points in the talent may result in Treants chainstunning due to (treantTalentLvl equals to TalentLvl)

- Prodigies:

• Flexible Combat, Cauterize, Draconic Will

start entry one.

it's somewhat strange... this game(?) is giving me more than one possibility to communicate outside of my head. great stuff! there is in-game chat, which is great. tried it once, got an answer... yay! there are the forum and steam discussions to read... i like to lurk rather than start new topics, though which is ok i guess. anyhow, here's something like a personal blog open to the public eye, ready to comment and i just started filling my first entry with some jumbled mess. but hey, that's ok too!

question to self: when do i find my pace?

i feel so rushed by this game. so much to try out. so many new things to digest. so much information to process. that's great! i like it. but, i'm also a little scared because... i don't want to burn out on this game soon! i want to stick with it. try to... at least... puh!

question to self: when do i stop playing this like diablo 3 or any kind of arpg?!

when i'm surrounded by enemies i fire up my shields and start attacking without reading. just click click click... bah! stupid me died AGAIN! this is NOT diablo!! LOL (btw, i'm playing cornack berzerker atm to learn my first lessons in tome - to draw some 'first blood'.)

cheers!

end entry one.

My retarded ass finaly fixed path to mage city getting your character stuck in black screen.

Today I met Reginald and nothing was gained.

What could be terrifying about little cute bunnies and eggs?
Nothing you say? Well, think again for the Pikataclysm has arrived to Eyal and will stay active until May 1st!
Beware of what lurks in this strange place, for sometimes, bunnies have big teeth.

The Pikataclysm is a yearly special server event, triggered every 10 minutes by the server to all players currently logged in. There are others such events, come find them all during the year!

Well I am back after a hiatus of a few years! And as such I have mostly forgotten how to play TOME, but as I am craving some Roguelike goodness (and masochistic punishment) I will be restarting all over again.

If any wish to watch me flail about I will be live streaming the game on Twitch (@ https://www.twitch.tv/geek_chef) and archiving the footage on youtube (Geek Chef Gaming)