Jesus damn. I know this game for like 4-5 years now and always loved playing it on my laptop whenever I'm not at home beeing bored at night or something along those lines.

I decided to not look up any guides or anything for this game and enjoyed the trial & error aspects of it, I have lost lots of charakters on it, but it was always a fun time.

But today I finally did it. I finally beat the game.
Stupidly I wanted to fight the big golem in th graveyard too, but I didnt know I wouldnt have a chance after defeating the wizards.

Though I probably must thank the Dev for the Christmas event, as I recieved a crazy good T5 helmet with a small level of 20.

There are probably a crazy amount of good Items in the game, but a couple I found were crazy good. If anyone wants to check out my character page; https://te4.org/characters/47305/tome/2f033439-1638-408b-afe9-19ac2eed24ea

I would just point at my Weapon "Warmaster Gnarg's Murderblade" as it's probably the best weapon for my berserker build I couldve ever found.
The neck & ring - Grakul's Teeth and Ring of the War Master are insanely good for Berserkers aswell.
Plus Unbreakable Greaves and the Cloak beeing really great for the run too, but i got all those items (aside from the weapon) way past the point of beeing too strong to kill.

I'd say the reason why I managed to win this time were small tweeks in prioritization in Talents and Stats.
1) Always looking out for disarm immuntity Gloves.
2) Putting less priority into getting magic resistance at all cost, thinking Antimagic or Spores would be "really good to have to not get one shot by magic". Whereas a high HP pool and alot of regen does the trick too. (Though a big magic resist is always nice)
3) Carrying a physical effect removing Infusion and a Magic & Mind removing Infusion - to remove Blinds, Disarms, Pinning and other disorienting effects.
4) Fungal Blood as Prodigie is amazing. It gives you so much healing in combination with Healing increasing effects which are desirable on a high hp bloodlust berserker. - Bloodspring is kinda neat too - if you get bursted by magic when fighting alot of enemies.

This is probably not the best build, but its one ill advance my Berserker on, if i happen to get into Nightmare and other difficulties - as I need a class to brain afk ;)

So my minions, have you been naughty?

If so you may want to log in and wait for the corresponding message and then head straight to Last Hope or Kruk Pride (or the next level in the Infinite Dungeon) and see what naughtiness got you ! :)

PS: Only active from 24th to 26th december!

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!

after playing this game for who knows how long, finally won (normal roguelike) for the first time on a gimmicky anorithil named MOONBEAM!

this is my only roguelike win ever in any of the main roguelikes after playing those for years too (ADOM, soupcrawl)

heck yeah

post-game: took out atamathon using an awakened staff opener without much difficulty but got swiped left by linaniil. rip.

Hey All!
My ToME Based YouTube Channel has been silent for about 6 months, but today, today I Have Returned!!!

All is explained here: https://youtu.be/imlfBC9NAVo

and Here's the link to my new ToME twitch Channel!
https://www.twitch.tv/theofficlaltome

It's Good To Be Back! :D

Enjoy!

When I upgraded Bone Shields on my Corruptor to level 5 I got 6 flying around skull effects but it seems they don't regenerate well. Ability description says every 5 turns (for maxed out) 1 piece will regenerate so from 0 to max it should take 30 turns. In my case I don't know why but this shield regenerates after about 140 turns. I tested this also on Reaver and it happens again. Is it bug? Or is it working as intended but BS's description mislead?

... sometimes makes want to die. On the inside, you know?

I was playing tales and i finally got to the final boss after beating all the orc prides and i was fighting them for about 2-4 turns when they vanished along with the sun paladin. I got a portal back to the world map and i went and closed all of the spawners but i cant beat the game with this character anymore because the bosses are gone. please help. thank you.

So, what was intended to be a ~2 week break turned into a two month one. Unfortunately a lot of things happened and are going on in my personal life and that's kept me away from the community and save fixing. There has been some pretty serious financial strain due to all this and at least for a little while this will keep me from being able to give 100% to the community.

The help desk is not forgotten, although it will still be a bit longer before I can start getting to the backlog of tickets. If you're waiting for a save to be fixed I apologize and thank you for your patience; it might be a bit but I'll still fix everything that I can!

I've started to play ToME and I've got no idea what I'm doing. I'm using experience from other RPG's to build characters. I notice I need to run away more often. I don't understand everything that is going on. Or how to build a character for the long run.

I am playing on normal difficulty. Have died plenty of times.
Some areas (despite being lvl 1 ' friendly') are hard for me to finish (especially final boss). Sometimes feels I'm missing part of my build to do it.
And what if I run, where can I go level instead... That's a question I'd like the answer to.