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Bob the level 7 Cornac Rogue by Repton

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.4
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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Many in Maj'Eyal have heard of "demons", sadistic creatures who appear seemingly from nowhere, leaving a trail of suffering and destruction whereever they go. Their Fearscape floats far above the skies, watching and waiting, but not idly; their agents scout the land, their legions build up their forces, and their scholars develop new spells and strategies. As the barrier between our worlds begins to crack under their scrutiny, helpless Eyalites have begun to disappear, whisked up to serve as their slaves and playthings. They imbue these victims with magical powers to better survive the ensuing stresses - can you use your new-found abilities to escape the legions of Mal'Rok?

Features:

  • Start with a new class, the Doombringer! These avatars of demonic destruction charge into battle with massive two-handed weapons, cutting swaths of firey devastation through hordes of opponents. Armed with flame magic and demonic strength, they delight in fighting against overwhelming odds, softening up the crowd with waves of fire, then feeding on the flames and suffering of their surroundings to stay alive while quickly reducing any group to a pile of ash and gore.
  • Unlock a new class, the Demonologist, with an all-new item enhancement mechanic! Bearing a shield and the magic of the Spellblaze itself, these melee-fighting casters can grow demonic seeds from their fallen enemies. Imbue these seeds onto your items to gain a wide array of new talents and passive benefits, and summon the demons within them to fight on your side! Ever looked at a gigantic demon-cursed minotaur and wished it was on your side for once? Well, now you CAN summon one to pound your foes into paste while you cast devastating spells from afar, or call forth a squad of Fire Imps to pelt your enemies to death while they exhaust themselves on your impenetrable defenses! Demons have persistent health, making them a little more precious than disposable necromancer skeletons or summoner beasts, but can be revived from death nonetheless.
  • Two new zones, with all-new art, foes, and bosses! You've seen the plains of the Fearscape before, now see the lairs and headquarters of the demons themselves!
  • Over 10,000 words of written lore to find! The demons were once an enlightened, peaceful race, hailing from a distant planet known as Mal'Rok; learn what drove them to plot Eyal's eternal torture! Discover monuments to each of the demonic species and noteworthy individuals, showing the place of honor each has among them! Get a glimpse into the culture and daily lives of these sadistic invaders and their brainwashed thralls!
  • Unlock a new race, Doomelves: Shalore who've taken to the demonic alterations especially well, corrupting their typical abilities into a darker form. Blink away to safety, transform into a shadowy dúathedlen to hide in the shadows or prey on your foes with blasts of darkness, use your new resilience to soak up status effects and critical hits, and assault your enemies' minds to leave them unsteady in combat!
  • Between the aforementioned classes and Doomelves, a whopping 75 new talents!
  • Unlock two new cosmetic options! You know you've always wanted demon-horns.
  • Two new events, appearing anywhere in Eyal!
  • 20 new artifacts, with unique and interesting effects. Collect the Obsidian Treasures to amass more and more power! Slip your hands into the Will of Ul'Gruth and watch your sweeping blows smash down walls! Wear a giant hideous hell-mouth as a fashionable belt!
  • 7 new achievements! Conquer the worst Urh'Rok's forces can throw at you, and hang their metaphorical skulls from your profile page!

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

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Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.
 

Features:

  • Explore a whole new campaign from level 1 to 50, one year after the events of the original Tales of Maj'Eyal campaign. Liberate the Orcs (or die trying) by rising up against the Sunwall, the Steam Giants of Atmos, and other dangers that may lie in wait...
  • Play as one of three new races: the battle-hardened Orcs, the brutal Yetis, and the unstoppable Whitehooves. Discover their stories, their pains, their hopes... and their awesome racial powers!
  • Risk your life in over 20 unique zones! Explore the ruins of a lost city, lay siege to the Sunwall forces at the Gates of Morning, and raid the Steam Giants' mining quarry - each has its own unique foes and hazards, leading each to feel and play different from the others.
  • Play as one of the four new tinker classes: Gunslingers, Sawbutchers, Psyshots and Annihilators! Plus a class evolution: Technomancers! Crush and rend your foes with heavy metal, electrocute and immolate them with your gadgets, charge across the battlefield or nimbly strafe in style - each plays differently, and none provide any shortage of ways to slay your foes.
  • Master steam technology to build powerful tinkers to augment your equipment. Need to close in a bit quicker? Turn your boots into rocket boots! Having a hard time deciding whether to shoot someone or stab them? Build a Hand Cannon into your gloves, or deploy a Weapon Automaton to do the stabbing for you! If you have a problem, steamtech has a solution, usually involving explosions; with over 80 different powerful contraptions to craft, enjoy unparalleled versatility and trying something different with every playthrough.
  • Master the tactical uses of over 140 talents! Fire bouncing trick-shots and psychic-infused shots, use your steamsaws as shields or wheels, terrify your foes with long mechanical arms - there are no "boring" talents here, everything has its own special applications and properties!
  • Use advanced technology in the world of Eyal! Burrow through sand, plant bombs to destroy tunnels, and discover that you aren't alone in using it...
  • Infusions and runes are for puny humans; implant new medical injectors to pump an array of experimental chemicals into your body! Injectors can use any (infinitely reusable) salve in your inventory as long as they're off their cooldown, giving you versatility you've wished you could get with a couple of inscriptions.
  • Loot over 70 new and powerful artifacts. Pump lead into foes with big guns, quick guns, and explosive guns! Shred them with saws that maim, saws that thirst for blood, and saws that aren't really saws! Violate common sense by strapping a rocket to your back and calling it a jetpack!
  • Enjoy dying in horrible and exotic ways at the hands (or claws, jaws, guns...) of over 140 new creatures! Not mere piles of stats and chain-stuns, these foes will provide unique challenges - suffer the Sunwall's newest cosmic spells, the new breeds of ritches that infest and multiply, the Steam Giants' elaborate defense systems, and find new strategies to adapt to each!
  • Earn a trunkload of achievements! Have your accomplishments recognized for liberating the Orcish people, displaying exceptional mercy or cruelty, or showing your prowess with impressive feats! Give a boss a fate worse than death, show Sunwall forces how frustrating it is to fight a Radiant Horror as a paladin, come out on top against impossible odds, display a suicidal lack of situational awareness, and wear a badge of pride or shame for each!
  • Read roughly 27,000 words of new lore to immerse yourself in the world! Learn how things have changed since the Scourge's campaign, feel hatred and/or pity for your foes, uncover grand schemes and sinister plots, and notice the elaborate connections between Var'Eyal's numerous factions. Every zone has a story behind it, and every story ties into a bigger picture; enjoy a tale of horror and humor, of intrigue and glory, of despair and hope.
  • Earn the right to use the classic (and Ashes of Urh'Rok) classes in Embers of Rage, and the new tinker classes in Maj'Eyal! Play a Brawler in the East to fulfill your life-long dream of suplexing an entire nation of giants, or play a Sawbutcher in Maj'Eyal to shred through Dreadfell in a whirlwind of sawblades and steam!
Embers of Rage 1.7.4

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Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Not all adventurers seek fortune, not all that defend the world have good deeds in mind.
Lately the number of sightings of horrors have grown tremendously. People wander off the beaten paths only to be found years later, horribly mutated and partly insane, if they are found at all. It is becoming evident something is stirring deep below Maj'Eyal.
That something is you.

Forbidden Cults is a big expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal to let you explore the horrors that lurk beneath the surface, to delve in long lost knowledge and lore and as usual to die a lot!


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

  • Writhing One: Give in to the corrupting forces and turn yourself gradually into an horror, summon horrors to do your bidding, shed your skin and melt your face to assault your foes. With your arm already turned into a tentacle, what creature can stop you?
  • Cultist of Entropy: Using its insanity and control of entropic forces to unravel the normal laws of physic this caster class can turn healing into attacks and call upon the forces of the void to reduce its foes to dust.

Both those classes use a new resource called Insanity that gradually makes you both more chaotic and powerful as it fills up.


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

  • Drem: A corrupt subrace of dwarves, that somehow managed to keep a shred of sanity to not fully devolve into mindless horrors. They can enter a frenzy and even learn to summon horrors.
  • Krog: Ogres transformed by the very thing that should kill them. Their powerful attacks can stun their foes and they are so strong they can dual wield any one handed weapons.


Forbidden Cults adds many new zones for you to explore and die in:

  • Kroshkkur: An ancient Sher'tul Fortress laying half in ruins that serves as a focal point, and home, for all kinds of creatures seeking lost knowledge.
  • The Maggot: A huge living corrupted worm about to destroy Kroshkkur! Teleport inside and save your sanctuary of horrors!
  • The Godfeaster: Deep undergroud the ground shakes as ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • The Scourge Pits: On the south of the Iron Throne lays a fool pit of ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • Forbidden Tomes: Find special artifact books of ancient lore. But, read at your own peril, for the story they tell may very well suck you in... quite literally.
    Maybe you will even find The One That Writes...
  • Occult Egress: A strange, extremely old, contraption of unknown origin. It seems to require some kind of code sequence to activate. Maybe you will find some during your adventures?
  • The Entropic Void: So you think you are strong? Powerful? Invulnerable? In the end, entropy always wins, as you will learn...


What would an expansion about horrors be without a bunch of new horrors to torment you with? Please give a warm welcome to:

  • Searing Horrors: You liked luminous horrors? You loved radiant horrors? You will absolutely adore their searing big brothers!
  • Nethergates: It sleeps. Maybe it should stay that way.
  • Netherworms: Vampiric worm masses that are bound to tickle your fancy! And tickle hard.
  • Fearful Symmetry: Geometry has never been so lively!
  • Entropic Shards: Take an entropic crystal, shatter it with tentacles. And die.
  • : And more ...


"DarkGod, is that all?" Obviously not! You will also find your usual addition of:

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexFemale
RaceCornac
ClassRogue
Level / Exp7 / 1%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
/ 0

Primary Stats

Strength13 (base 11)
Dexterity18 (base 18)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic10 (base 10)
Willpower11 (base 11)
Cunning24 (base 24)

Resources

Life217/217
Stamina110/110
Healing Factor1.12
Regeneration0.28

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite-997
Infravision3
Stealth25

Offense: Mainhand

Damage24
Accuracy25
Crit Chance12%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage14
Accuracy25
Crit Chance12%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower10
Crit Chance5%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower17
Crit Chance5%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)2 (38.594633868923%)
Defense26
Ranged Defense26
Fatigue0
Physical Save18
Spell Save7
Mental Save12

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Won't Break Stealth: 100%
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 100 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Infusion: Wild
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to instantly heal yourself for 50 then cleanse 1 wound, poison, and disease effect.
Infusion: Healing

Class Talents

Technique / Duelist1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your offhand weapon damage penalty is reduced to 40%.
    Up to 2.3 times a turn, you have a 17% chance to parry up to 7 damage (based on your offhand weapon damage) from a melee or ranged attack. The number of parries increases with your Cunning. (A fractional parry has a reduced chance to succeed.)
    A successful parry reduces damage like armour (before any attack multipliers) and prevents critical strikes. It is difficult to parry attacks from unseen attackers and you cannot parry with a mindstar.
    Dual Weapon Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: The flow of battle invigorates you, allowing you to press your advantage as the fight progresses.
    Up to once each per turn, while dual wielding, you may:
    Riposte -- If a melee or archery attack misses you or you parry it, you instantly restore 0.9 stamina and gain 0% of a turn.
    Recover -- On performing a critical strike with your offhand weapon, you instantly restore 0.9 stamina.
    Tempo
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Make a cunning feint that tricks your target into swapping places with you. While moving, you take the opportunity to trip them, pinning and dazing them for 2 turns.
    Switching places distracts your foes and allows you to improve your defenses: For 0 turns, Dual Weapon Mastery yields one extra parry each turn and you are 4% less likely to miss your parry opportunities.
    The chance to pin and to daze increases with your Accuracy
    Feint
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Exploiting a gap in your target's defenses, you make a lethal strike with your offhand weapon for 180% damage that causes them to drop their weapon, disarming them for 0 turns.
    Tempo will reduce the cooldown of this talent by 1 turn each time it is triggered defensively.
    The chance to disarm increases with your Accuracy.
    Lunge
0/5
Cunning / Stealth1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Enters stealth mode (power 25, based on Cunning), making you harder to detect.
    If successful (re-checked each turn), enemies will not know exactly where you are, or may not notice you at all.
    Stealth reduces your light radius to 0, increases your infravision by 3, and will not work with heavy or massive armours.
    You cannot enter stealth if there are foes in sight within range 9.
    Any non-instant, non-movement action will break stealth if not otherwise specified.

    Enemies uncertain of your location will still make educated guesses at it.
    While stealthed, enemies cannot share information about your location with each other and will be delayed in telling their allies that you exist at all.
    Stealth
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You know how to make the most out of being unseen.
    When striking from stealth, your attacks are automatically critical if the target does not notice you just before you land it. (Spell and mind attacks critically strike even if the target notices you.)
    Your critical multiplier against targets that cannot see you is increased by up to 19%. (You must be able to see your target and the bonus is reduced from its full value at range 3 to 0 at range 10.)
    Also, after exiting stealth for any reason, the critical multiplier persists for 3 turns (with no range limitation).
    Shadowstrike
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have a special affinity for darkness and shadows.
    When standing in an unlit grid, the minimum range to your foes for activating stealth or for maintaining it after a Shadow Dance is reduced by 0.
    While stealthed, your life regeneration is increased by 1.4 (based on your Cunning) and your stamina regeneration is increased by 0.2. The regeneration effects persist for 3 turns after exiting stealth, with 5 times the normal rate.
    Soothing Darkness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 41
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your mastery of stealth allows you to vanish from sight at any time.
    You automatically enter stealth and cause it to not break from unstealthy actions for 0 turns.
    Shadow Dance
0/5
Cunning / Trapping1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: This talent allows you to prepare up to 1 different trap(s) of tier 0 or less for later deployment. (Use this ability to select which to prepare.)
    Designs known:

    Tier 1: Disarming Trap
    Deals 70.48 acid damage, disarms for 0 turns.
    Tier 1: Bear Trap
    Deals 40.16 physical damage and pins, slows (30%), and wounds for an additional 40.16 damage over 5 turns).
    Tier 2: Springrazor Trap
    Shrapnel (radius 2) deals 50.40 physical damage, reduces accuracy, armour, and defence by 6.
    Tier 3: Pitfall Trap
    Deals 60.40 physical damage. Target removed from combat or pinned 5 turns.
    Tier 4: Flash Bang Trap
    Explodes (radius 2) for 75.40 physical damage, 50% blind/daze for 3 turns.
    Tier 5: Bladestorm Trap
    Construct attacks all adjacent enemies each turn for 4 turns.

    Traps prepared this way are difficult to detect (1 detection 'power') and disarm (1 disarm 'power') based on your Cunning. They gain +0% effectiveness, and can be deployed without breaking stealth 20% of the time.
    You are immune to the damage and negative effects of your traps, and traps may critically strike based on your physical crit chance.
    Most traps last 6 turns if not triggered, and refund 80% of their stamina cost on expiration.
    More designs may be discovered via disarming or learned from special instructors in the world.
    Trap Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Deploy a noisy lure that attracts all creatures within radius 1 to it for 0 turns.
    It has 27 life (based on your Cunning) and is very durable, with 1 armor and 61% resistance to non-physical damage.
    At level 5, when the lure is destroyed, it will trigger some traps in a radius of 2 around it (check individual trap descriptions to see if they are triggered).
    Use of this talent will not break stealth.
    Lure
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn new techniques for setting traps.
    Deploying one of your traps is possible up to 1 grids from you, takes 0% less time than normal, and has 0% less chance to break stealth.
    Advanced Trap Deployment
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You prepare an additional trap (up to tier 0) with a special primed trigger that causes it to activate immediately when deployed. (Use this ability to select the trap.)
    Not all traps can be prepared this way and each trap can have only one type of preparation.
    Known primable designs:

    Tier 1: Bear Trap
    Deals 40.16 physical damage and pins, slows (30%), and wounds for an additional 40.16 damage over 5 turns).
    Tier 2: Springrazor Trap
    Shrapnel (radius 2) deals 50.40 physical damage, reduces accuracy, armour, and defence by 6.
    Tier 4: Flash Bang Trap
    Explodes (radius 2) for 75.40 physical damage, 50% blind/daze for 3 turns.

    A trap with a primed trigger gains +0% effectiveness (replacing the normal bonus from Trap Mastery) and won't break stealth 20% of the time.
    Current primed trap: none
    Trap Priming
0/5
Technique / Dual techniques1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Attack with your offhand weapon for 111% damage. If the attack hits, the target is stunned for 3 turns, and you hit it with your mainhand weapon doing 111% damage.
    The stun chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Dual Strike
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Lashes out with a flurry of blows, hitting your target three times with each weapon for 40% damage.
    Flurry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Swiftly leap to your target and strike at their vital points with both weapons, dealing 100% weapon damage. This attack deals 1% increased critical strike damage.
    Heartseeker
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You quickly move up to 1 tiles to arrive adjacent to a target location you can see, leaping around or over anyone in your way. During your movement, you attack all foes within one grid of your path with both weapons for 60% weapon damage, causing those struck to bleed for 50% of the damage dealt over 5 turns.
    Whirlwind
0/5
Cunning / Dirty fighting1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You make a low blow against a sensitive point on the target, dealing 150% unarmed damage. If your attack hits, the target is left reeling and vulnerable, reducing their physical save by 0 and their stun, blind, confusion and pin immunities to 50% of normal for 4 turns.
    This effect bypasses saves.
    Dirty Fighting
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your quick wit gives you a big advantage against disabled targets, increasing your damage by 1% for each disabling effect the target is under, to a maximum of 2%.
    For this purpose, disabling effects are stun, blind, daze, confuse, pin, disarm, cripple and silence.
    In addition, for each disabling effect the target is under, your melee attacks have a 1% (to a maximum of 2%) chance to inflict a new effect on them (that they do not already have): either disarm, cripple (25% power) or pin for 2 turns.
    The chance to further disable the target increases with your Accuracy.
    Backstab
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 18
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Throw a cloud of blinding dust in a radius 0 cone. Enemies within will be blinded, as well as having their accuracy reduced by 3 and movement speed decreased by 15% for 1 turns.
    The chance to inflict these effects increase with your Accuracy.
    Blinding Powder
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Make a painful strike dealing 100% weapon damage that increases the duration of up to 0 negative effect(s) on the target by 0 turns. For each negative effect extended this way, the duration of a beneficial effect is reduced by the same amount, possibly canceling it.
    Twist the Knife
0/5
Cunning / Poisons1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Learn how to coat your melee weapons, throwing knives, sling and bow ammo with poison, giving your attacks a 43% chance to poison the target for 16 nature damage per turn for 6 turns. Every application of the poison stacks, up to a maximum of 63 nature damage per turn.
    The damage scales with your Cunning.
    Apply Poison
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: When you kill a creature, all of your poisons affecting it will spread to foes in a radius of 3.
    Toxic Death
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Learn how to enhance your Deadly Poison, adding additional effects. Each level, you will learn a new kind of poison enhancement:
    Level 1: Numbing Poison
    Level 2: Insidious Poison
    Level 3: Crippling Poison
    Level 4: Leeching Poison
    Level 5: Volatile Poison
    New poison enhancements can also be learned from special teachers in the world.
    Also increases the effectiveness of your poisons by 0%. (The effect varies for each poison.)
    Adjusting your weapon coating takes no time and does not break stealth.
    You may only have two poison enhancements active at once; applying a third will randomly cause one of the existing ones to be cancelled.
    Vile Poisons
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 14
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You strike your target with your melee or ranged weapon, doing 120% weapon damage as nature and inflicting additional effects based on your active vile poisons:

    Numbing Poison - Reduces global speed by 13% for 5 turns.
    Insidious Poison - Applies a standard poison that deals 20.51 nature damage over 5 turns.
    Crippling Poison - Places 1 talents on cooldown for 1 turns.
    Leeching Poison - Heals you for 21.
    Volatile Poison - Deals a further 12.31 nature damage to foes in a radius 1 ball.

    Learning this talent in addition to the Throwing Knives talent allows you to learn the Venomous Throw talent, which can be used to throw poisoned daggers at your foes, but is put on cooldown when this talent is used.
    Venomous Strike
0/5
Technique / Throwing knives1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 5
    Travel Speed: 1000% of base
    Usage Speed: Throwing (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Equip a bandolier holding up to 7 throwing knives, allowing you to attack from range. You automatically reload 2 knives per turn while resting, or half as many while moving.
    The base power, Armour penetration, and critical strike chance of your knives increase with talent level, accuracy increase with your accuracy, and damage is improved with Dagger Mastery.
    Throwing Knives count as melee attacks for the purpose of on-hit effects.
    Effective Throwing Knife Stats:

    Range: 5
    Net Damage: 32 - 45
    Accuracy: 37 (knife)
    APR: 6
    Crit Chance: +12%
    Crit mult: 159%
    Uses Stats: 50% Cun, 70% Dex
    Throwing Knives
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: 1000% of base
    Usage Speed: Throwing (100% of a turn)
    Description: You keep a special stash of 1 throwing knives in your bandolier, which you can throw all at once at enemies within a radius 5 cone, for 21% damage each.
    Each target can be hit up to 5 times, if the number of knives exceeds the number of enemies. Creatures block knives from hitting targets behind them.
    Fan of Knives
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You are able to target your throwing knives with pinpoint accuracy, increasing their critical strike chance by 0% and critical strike damage by 0%.
    In addition, your critical strikes with throwing knives have a 10% chance to randomly disable your target, possibly disarming, silencing or pinning them for 2 turns.
    Precise Aim
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 50
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You can throw knives with lightning speed, increasing your attack speed with them by 8% and giving you a 5% chance when striking a target in melee to throw a knife at a random foe within 7 tiles for 100% damage.
    This bonus attack can only trigger once per turn, and does not trigger from throwing knife attacks.
    Quickdraw
0/5

Generic Talents

Cunning / Survival1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Cunning / Scoundrel1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your melee and ranged attacks have a 39% chance to shred enemies inflicting an additional 100% of the damage dealt as a bleed over 4 turns.
    Lacerating Strikes
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your melee and ranged attacks inflict distracting wounds that reduce the target’s critical strike multiplier by 25% for 5 turns.
    In addition, your attacks have a 12% chance to inflict a painful wound that causes them to forget a random talent for 4 turns. The last effect cannot occur more than once per turn per target.
    Scoundrel's Strategies
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your abilities in sowing confusion and chaos have reached their peak. Whenever a foe attempts to apply a detrimental physical effect to you, they have a 5% chance to fail. If there is an adjacent enemy to you, you misdirect your foe into applying it to them at 20% duration.
    You gain 2 defense.
    The chance to apply status effects increases with your Accuracy and the Defense with your Cunning.
    Misdirection
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your melee and ranged attacks leave your foes unable to focus on any complex actions, giving them a stacking 3% chance of failure the next time they try to use a talent (to a maximum of -6%).
    If any effect causes the target's turn to fail they fumble and injure themself, taking 12.39 physical damage.
    If the turn loss was caused by this effect then Fumble is removed.
    The damage dealt increases with your Cunning.
    Fumble
0/5
Cunning / Lethality1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to find and hit weak spots. All your strikes have a 3.1% greater chance to be critical hits, and your critical hits do 9.4% more damage.
    Also, when using knives and throwing knives, you now use your Cunning instead of your Strength for bonus damage.
    Lethality
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Focus on a single target and perform a probing attack to find flaws in its defences, striking with your melee weapon(s) for 80% damage.
    For 3 turns thereafter, you gain 7 armor penetration, 9 accuracy, and 30% all damage peneration.
    Learning this technique allows you to permanently gain 1 armour penetration with all melee and archery attacks.
    The temporary armor penetration and accuracy bonuses increase with Cunning.
    Expose Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Drains stamina: 4
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Become a whirling storm of blades, increasing attack speed by 0% and causing melee attacks to strike an additional adjacent target other than your primary target for 100% weapon damage.
    This talent is exhausting to use, draining 4 stamina each turn.
    Blade Flurry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wits allow you to reset the cooldown of up to 2 of your combat talents (cunning or technique) of tier 1 or less.
    Snap
0/5
Technique / Mobility1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Jump back up to 3 grids from your target, springing over any creatures in your way.
    You must disengage in a nearly straight line directly away from your target (which you must be able to see).
    After moving, you gain 116% increased movement speed for 3 turns (which ends if you take any actions other than movement), and you may reload your ammo (if any).
    The extra speed and maximum distance you can move are reduced by your Fatigue level.
    Disengage
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 37
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wit and reflexes allow you to anticipate attacks against you, granting you a 9% chance to evade melee and ranged attacks and 0 increased defense for 4 turns.
    The chance to evade and defense bonus increase with your Dexterity.
    Evasion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 17
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: In an extreme feat of agility, you move to a spot you can see within range, bounding around, over, or through any enemies in the way.
    This talent cannot be used while wearing heavy armor, and leaves you exhausted. The exhaustion increases the cost of your activated Mobility talents by 97% (stacking), but fades over 30 turns.
    Tumble
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have trained to be very light on your feet and have conditioned your reflexes to react faster than thought to damage you take.
    While this talent is active, you instantly react to any direct damage (not from status effects, etc.) that would hit you for at least 44% of your maximum life.
    This requires 2.0 stamina and reduces the damage by 5%.
    Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
    The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
    Trained Reactions
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    (Note that wearing mail or plate armour will interfere with stealth.)
    Heavy Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 18 Defense, 9% Armour hardiness, and 12% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 9 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 18.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 34% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
1/5

Effects

talent
Stealth
talent
Apply Poison
beneficial effect
Has 7 throwing knives prepared:

Range: 5
Net Damage: 32 - 45
Accuracy: 37 (knife)
APR: 6
Crit Chance: +12%
Crit mult: 159%
Uses Stats: 50% Cun, 70% Dex
7 Knives
beneficial effect
Parrying melee and ranged attacks: Has a 16% chance to deflect up to 7 damage from the next 2.3 attack(s). Parried attacks cannot crit.
Parrying

Quests

You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
You have slain Bill. His treasure is yours for the taking.
Hidden treasure		done
Explore the caves below the ruins of Kor'Pul and the Trollmire in search of treasure and glory!

* You have explored the Trollmire and vanquished Prox the Troll.
* You must explore the ruins of Kor'Pul and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Of trolls and damp caves		active

Equipment

Tool
iron pickaxe of endurance (dig speed 36 turns)
Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: tool / digger ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Fatigue: -5%
Changes stats: +2 Str
When carried:
Talent granted: +1 Dig


Allows you to dig a wall, remove a tree, create ways.
iron pickaxe of endurance (dig speed 36 turns)
Main armor
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +3 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
In main hand
iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

Base power: 10.0 - 13.0
Uses stats: 50% Cun, 50% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Dagger Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
In off hand
iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / dagger ; tier 1

Base power: 10.0 - 13.0
Uses stats: 50% Cun, 50% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Dagger Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +4.0%
Attack speed: 100%


Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (10-13 power, 5 apr)
Cloak
enveloping linen cloak (7 def, 0 armour)
Crafted by a master
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloak ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +7 (+4 eff.)
Physical save: +5 (+3 eff.)


A cloth coat typically worn as a loose outer garment. It is spacious enough to be worn even over bulky metal armour.
enveloping linen cloak (7 def, 0 armour)
Light source
survivor's brass lantern of health
Infused by nature
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical save: +5 (+3 eff.)
Maximum life: +44.00
Light radius: +3
Healing mod.: +12%


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
survivor's brass lantern of health

Inventory

blooming mossy mindstar (2-3 power, 12 apr, mind damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 11

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 2.5 - 2.8
Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
Damage type: Mind
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +12
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Talent granted: +1 Attune Mindstar
Mindpower: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Healing mod.: +11%
Heals friendly targets nearby when you use a nature summon: +11


Mindstars are natural products. Natural gems covered in living matter, they are used to focus the mental powers of all nature defenders and psionics.
Using mindstars in the offhand does not incur the normal offhand damage penalty.
blooming mossy mindstar (2-3 power, 12 apr, mind damage)
River's Fury (23-32 power, 8 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 12

Powered by arcane forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: weapon / trident ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 23.0 - 32.2
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Exotic Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +8
Crit. chance: +5.0%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage (Melee): +15 cold
When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +10 (+5 eff.)
Changes resistances: +10% cold
Changes damage: +10% cold
Spellpower: +10 (+10 eff.)
Movement speed: +10%
Talent on hit(spell): Glacial Vapour (20% chance level 1).
It can be used to activate talent Tidal Wave (costing 80 power out of 80/80) :
Effective talent level: 1.0
Power cost: 80 out of 80/80.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a spell
Description: A wall of water rushes out from the caster with an initial radius of 1, increasing by 1 per turn to a maximum radius of 3, doing 3.48 cold damage and 3.48 physical damage to all inside, as well as knocking back targets each turn.
The tidal wave lasts for 3 turns.
All creatures hit gain the wet effect, which reduces their stun/freeze immunity by half and interacts with other cold spells.
The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.

This gorgeous and ornate trident was wielded by Lady Nashva, and when you hold it, you can faintly hear the roar of a rushing river.
River's Fury (23-32 power, 8 apr)
2 agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
When used to imbue an object:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
Latent Damage Type: Acid


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 agate
spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
When used to imbue an object:
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Latent Damage Type: Nature


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
spinel
Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns

Activation costs 202 power out of 239/400.

This rod is made entirely of voratun, infused with raw magical energies that can bend space itself.
You have heard of such items before. They are very useful to adventurers, allowing faster travel.
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
ametrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Physical crit. chance: +1.0%
Changes damage: +2% all
Spell crit. chance: +1%
Mental crit. chance: +1%
When used to imbue an object:
Physical crit. chance: +1.0%
Changes damage: +2% all
Spell crit. chance: +1%
Mental crit. chance: +1%
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
ametrine
4 citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
4 citrine
zircon
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
When used to imbue an object:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
zircon

Achievements

Log

You pickup 0.65 gold pieces.
Bob picks up (f.): agate.
Bob picks up (k.): citrine.
Bob picks up (l.): zircon.
Bob picks up (h.): spinel.
Bob picks up (l.): ametrine.
Bob picks up (m.): citrine.
There is a way to the previous level here (press '' or right click to use).
Ran for 20 turns (stop reason: at exit).

Bob wears: iron pickaxe of endurance (dig speed 36 turns).

Space around you starts to dissolve...
Bob deactivates Stealth.

Resting starts...
Talent Dig is ready to use.
Rested for 4 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).

Resting starts...
Talent Stealth is ready to use.
Bob activates Stealth.
Rested for 36 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).

You are yanked out of this place!
You gain 0.10 gold from the transmogrification of rough leather cap (0 def, 1 armour).
You gain 1.70 gold from the transmogrification of iron longsword of daylight (12-18 power, 2 apr).
You gain 1.50 gold from the transmogrification of wild infusion of the warrior (res 18%; mental; dur 2; cd 15).
There is a Passageway into the Trollmire here (press '' or right click to use).
You stride into this area without a second thought, while stifling a yawn. You feel your time might be better spent elsewhere.