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Ente the level 1 Shalore Archer by spaga

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.5.10
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexFemale
RaceShalore
ClassArcher
Level / Exp1 / 13%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
1 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength10 (base 12)
Dexterity19 (base 18)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic12 (base 10)
Willpower15 (base 10)
Cunning13 (base 12)

Resources

Life110/110
Stamina112/112
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage18
Accuracy23
Crit Chance2%
APR5
Speed0.80

Offense: Spell

Spellpower12
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower15
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)2 (38.536585365854%)
Defense21
Ranged Defense21
Fatigue0
Physical Save7
Spell Save9
Mental Save13

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport randomly in a range of 10.
Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
Rune: Phase Door
Runes
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 spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 100 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 192 life over 5 turns.
Its effects scale with your Cunning stat.
Infusion: Regeneration

Class Talents

Technique / Archery prowess1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a precise shot dealing 171% weapon damage, with 8 increased armor penetration and 100 increased accuracy. This shot will bypass other enemies between you and your target.
    Only usable against marked targets, and consumes the mark on hit.
    The armor penetration increases with your Dexterity.
    Headshot
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 16
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: You fire countless shots into the sky to rain down around your target, inflicting 60% weapon damage to all within radius 0.
    If the primary target is marked, you consume the mark to fire a second volley of arrows for 45% damage at no ammo cost.
    Volley
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: You fire a disabling shot at a target's throat (or equivalent), dealing 70% weapon damage and silencing them for 0 turns.
    If the target is marked, you consume the mark to fire two secondary shots at their arms and legs (or other appendages) dealing 18% damage, reducing their movement speed by 50% and disarming them for the duration.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Called Shots
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each time you consume a mark, you gain -1% increased attack speed for 2 turns and the cooldown of 0 random techniques are reduced by -1 turns.
    Bullseye
0/5
Technique / Combat techniques1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 22
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 44
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (80% of a turn)
    Description: Rush toward a target spot with incredible speed.
    If the spot is reached and occupied, you will perform a free melee attack against the target there.
    This attack does 120% weapon damage and can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
    You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
    Rush
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (80% of a turn)
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 3%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +19 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next 0 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 3% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
0/5
Technique / Reflexes1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your reflexes are lightning-fast, if you spot a projectile (arrow, shot, spell, ...) you can instantly shoot at it without taking a turn to take it down.
    You can shoot down up to 1 projectiles.
    In addition, your heightened senses also reduce the speed of incoming projectiles by 19%, and prevents your own projectiles from striking you.
    Shoot Down
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Activating this talent enhances your reflexes to incredible levels. Each time you are attacked in melee, you have a -15% chance to fire off a defensive shot off in time to intercept the attack, evading it and dealing 20% archery damage.
    This cannot damage the same target more than once per turn.
    Intuitive Shots
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: 6
    Fixed Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (80% of a turn)
    Description: You take close notice of the target for the next 5 turns. If they attempt to use a non-instant talent you react with incredible speed, firing a shot dealing 25% damage that causes the talent to fail and go on cooldown.
    This shot is instant, cannot miss, and puts 0 other talents on cooldown for 0 turns.
    Sentinel
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You put all your focus into escaping combat for 4 turns. While under this effect you gain 2% increased resistance to all damage, 2.2 increased stamina regeneration, immunity to stun, pin, daze and slowing effects and 39% increased movement speed.
    Any action other than movement will cancel this effect.
    Escape
0/5
Technique / Combat veteran1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate stamina faster (+0.0 stamina/turn).
    Quick Recovery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate life faster (+1.4 life/turn).
    Fast Metabolism
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Rigorous training allows you to be more resistant to some spell effects (+0 spell save).
    Spell Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You revel in the death of your foes, regaining 0.0 stamina with each death you cause.
    Unending Frenzy
0/5
Technique / Archery training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a steady shot, doing 141% damage with a 22% chance to mark the target.
    If Steady Shot is not on cooldown, this talent will automatically replace your normal attacks (and trigger the cooldown).
    Steady Shot
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 9
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: You fire a shot for 100% damage that attempts to pin your target to the ground for 1 turns, as well as giving your next Steady Shot or Shoot 100% increased chance to critically hit and mark (regardless of whether the pin succeeds).
    This shot has a 20% chance to mark the target.
    The chance to pin increases with your Accuracy.
    Pin Down
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: Fires a shot that explodes into a radius 0 ball of razor sharp fragments on impact, dealing 100% weapon damage and leaving targets crippled for 0 turns, reducing their attack, spell and mind speed by -74%.
    Each target struck has a 20% chance to be marked.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Fragmentation Shot
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Archery (80% of a turn)
    Description: Fires a wave of projectiles in a radius 4 cone, dealing 70% weapon damage. All targets struck by this will be knocked back to the maximum range of the cone and stunned for 2 turns.
    Each target struck has a 20% chance to be marked.
    The chance to knockback and stun increases with your Accuracy.
    Scatter Shot
0/5
Technique / Marksmanship1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 13 and increases weapon damage by 25% when using bows or slings, as well as your reload rate by 0.
    In addition, your Shoot has a 15% chance to mark targets on hit.
    The mark lasts for 5 turns, grants you visibility of the target (even through walls and other concealment), and causes them to become vulnerable to Headshot, Volley and Called Shots.
    Master Marksman
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You take advantage of unwary foes (those at or above 90% life). Against these targets, Shoot, Steady Shot and Headshot bleed targets for 0% additional damage over 5 turns and have a 50% increased chance to mark (if capable of marking).
    In addition, your Steady Shot, Shoot and Headshot now restore 0.0 stamina on hit.
    First Blood
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 4
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 7
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (80% of a turn)
    Description: Fire a shot at the target tile that blinds enemies for 0 turns, marks them for 2 turns and illuminates the area within radius 2 for 2 turns. Enemies within the illuminated area lose 1 defence and stealth power and cannot benefit from concealment.
    The status chance increases with your Accuracy, and the defense reduction with your Dexterity.
    Flare
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Enter a state of heightened focus for 2 turns. While in this state your ranged attack speed is increased by -15%, your shots do not consume ammo, and all shots capable of marking have their chance to mark doubled.
    Trueshot
0/5

Generic Talents

Cunning / Survival1.00
  • 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 -1%.
    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)
    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').
    Attacks against you have a 0.0% reduced chance to be critical hits, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 6%.
    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
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 0.1%.
    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.
    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 light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 18 Defense, 9% Armour hardiness, and 6% 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 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5
Technique / Mobility1.20
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (80% 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 111% 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: 54
    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: -16
    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 130% (stacking), but fades over 32 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 72% of your maximum life.
    This requires 2.0 stamina and reduces the damage by 4%.
    Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
    The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
    Trained Reactions
0/5
Race / Shalore1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 46
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Call upon the grace of the Eternals to increase your general speed by 15% for 5 turns.
    The speed bonus will increase with your Dexterity or Magic (whichever is higher).
    Grace of the Eternals
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Reality bends slightly in the presence of a Shaloren, due to their inherent magical nature.
    Increases critical chance by 1% and critical strike power by 0%.
    Magic of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 61
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: As the only immortal race of Eyal, Shaloren have learnt, over the long years, to use their innate inner magic to protect themselves.
    12% chance to become invisible (power 8) for 5 turns, when hit by a blow doing at least 10% of their total life.
    Secrets of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 50
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: The world grows old as you stand through the ages. To you, time is different.
    Reduces the time remaining on detrimental effects by 2, most cooling down talents by 1, and increases the time remaining on beneficial effects by 1 (up to 2 times the current duration).
    Timeless
0/5

Effects

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a renegade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active

Equipment

On fingers
psionicist's copper ring
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +2 Wil
Mental save: +4 (+4 eff.)


Rings can have magical properties.
psionicist's copper ring
Main armor
rough leather armour (1 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +1 (+0 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (1 def, 2 armour)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


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.
brass lantern
Quiver
quiver of elm arrows (23/23, 110% power, 5 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: ammo / arrow ; tier 1

Power: 110% Range: 1.4x
Uses stats: 50% Str, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Master Marksman
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +5
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Capacity: 23


Arrows are used with bows to pierce your foes to death.
quiver of elm arrows (23/23, 110% power, 5 apr)
In main hand
elm longbow
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot

4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longbow ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Mastery: Master Marksman
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Attack speed: 125%
Firing range: +6


Longbows are used to shoot arrows at your foes.
elm longbow

Inventory

heat beam rune (40 fire damage)
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / rune ; tier 2

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: 8
Cooldown: 18
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to fire a beam of heat, doing 40.00 fire damage over 5 turns
The intensity of the heat will also remove one random detrimental physical effect from you.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the rune.

Magical runes may be inscribed onto your body, granting you an on-demand ability.
heat beam rune (40 fire damage)
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 Asphyxiation (24/24)
Powered by unknown forces
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: charm / rod

Activating this item is instant.
It can be used to asphyxiate an unsuspecting target, costing 1 power out of 24/24.

A devilish artifact, this rod only harms friendly strangers in towns. Only the mad and insane would consider such an item useful.
Rod of Asphyxiation (24/24)
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), costing 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

Achievements

Log


Ente shoots!
Ente's Shoot hits Copperhead snake for 34 physical damage.
Ente's Shoot killed Copperhead snake!

Talent Steady Shot is ready to use.

There is a ladder to worldmap here (press '' or right click to use).

Ente wears: psionicist's copper ring.

There is a Entrance to the Scintillating Caves here (press '' or right click to use).
Saving game...
Today is the 75th Pyre of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 01:28.
There is a Elvala (Town) here (press '' or right click to use).
Ran for 3 turns (stop reason: interesting terrain).

Saving done.
There is an exit to the worldmap here (press '' or right click to use).
Saving game...

Saving done.
Elvala guard is asphyxiating!

Shalore rune master is asphyxiating!

Ente uses Steady Shot.

Talent Steady Shot is ready to use.