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Chook the level 1 Dwarf Cursed by Hydrak

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
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Genuine Veteran 1.6.6

A Combat Veteran tree rework, because the base tree isn't very attractive. Full details in the forum thread.

Quick Recovery: Quick Recovery and Fast Metabolism merged. Lifegain scales with CON.
Warrior's Determination: If more than one enemy is visible, take reduced damage, improving as you see more enemies.
Spell Shield: Spell save unchanged. 4-15% Arcane/Fire/Cold/Lightning resist added. When you save against a magical effect, daze the caster for 1-3 turns.
Unending Frenzy: Once a turn when you hit an enemy in melee you gain a 3 turn 0.7%-2.5% combat speed bonus which stacks up to 10 times. Kills restore life/stamina, lifegain scales with CON and occurs once per turn.

This version has seen a complete playthrough main AoA campaign on insane roguelike without major issues, however it's still being tested and subject to change.

This addon overloads the combat techniques tree, and is therefore incompatible with any addon or future versions which change that file.

0.9.5: Tooltips clarified, small numerical adjustments.

Genuine Veteran 1.6.6
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexMale
RaceDwarf
ClassCursed
Level / Exp1 / 13%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
/ 0

Primary Stats

Strength19 (base 15)
Dexterity8 (base 10)
Constitution13 (base 10)
Magic8 (base 10)
Willpower17 (base 14)
Cunning10 (base 10)

Resources

Life122/122
Hate91/100
Healing Factor0.98580374318754
Regeneration0.24645093579689

Speed

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

Vision

Sight10
Lite5

Offense: Mainhand

Damage28
Accuracy20
Crit Chance4%
APR1
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower8
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower18
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)6.3350939529706 (47.857809501309%)
Defense0
Ranged Defense0
Fatigue12
Physical Save11
Spell Save8
Mental Save9

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)
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

Cursed / Strife1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Turn your attention to a nearby foe, and dominate them with your overwhelming presence. If the target fails to save versus your Mindpower, it will be unable to move for 2 turns and vulnerable to attacks. They will lose 1 Armour, 1 Defense and your attacks will gain 2% resistance penetration. If the target is adjacent to you, your domination will include a melee attack.
    Effects will improve with your Willpower.

    This talent will also attack with your shield, if you have one equipped.
    Dominate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your preternatural senses aid you in your hunt for the next victim. You sense foes in a radius of 0.0. You will always sense a stalked victim in a radius of 10.
    Also increases stealth detection by 0 and invisibility detection by 0.
    Stealth and invisibility detection improves with your Willpower
    Preternatural Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: With blinding speed, you suddenly appear next to a target up to 6 spaces away and attack for 21% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Your sudden appearance catches everyone off-guard, giving you 2 extra Defense for 1 turn.
    The Defense boost improves with your Strength.
    Blindside
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Rather than hide from the onslaught, you face down every threat. While active you have a 3% chance of repelling a melee attack. The recklessness of your defense brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Repel chance increases with your Strength and by 20% when equipped with a shield.
    Repel
0/5
Cursed / Slaughter1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You slash wildly at your target for 116% (at 0 Hate) to 153% (at 100+ Hate) damage.
    At level 3, any wound you inflict with this carries a part of your curse, reducing the effectiveness of healing by 34% for 15 turns. The effect will stack.
    The damage multiplier increases with your Strength.

    This talent will also attack with your shield, if you have one equipped.
    Slash
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Assault nearby foes with 4 fast attacks for 15% (at 0 Hate) to 30% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Stalked prey are always targeted if nearby.
    At level 3 the intensity of your assault overwhelms anyone who is struck, reducing their Defense by -8 for 4 turns.
    The damage multiplier and Defense reduction increase with your Strength.

    This talent will also attack with your shield, if you have one equipped.
    Frenzy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Charge through your opponents, attacking anyone near your path for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Small opponents may be knocked away from your path. You can attack a maximum of 2 times, and can hit targets along your path more than once.
    Reckless Charge
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: While active, every swing of your weapon strikes strikes other adjacent enemies for 25% (at 0 hate) to 25% (at 100 hate) physical damage. The recklessness of your attacks brings you bad luck (luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Cleave will deal 25% additional damage while using a two-handed weapon.
    The Cleave damage increases with your Strength.
    Cleave
0/5
Cursed / Endless hunt1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: When you focus your attacks on a single foe and strike them in melee for two consecutive turns, your hatred of them overcomes you and you begin to stalk them with single-minded purpose. The effect will last for 40 turns, or until your prey is dead. Stalking gives you bonuses against your foe that grow each turn you hit them, and diminish each turn you don't.
    Bonus level 1: +0 Accuracy, +4% melee damage, +0.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 2: +1 Accuracy, +9% melee damage, +1.00 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 3: +1 Accuracy, +13% melee damage, +1.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    The accuracy bonus improves with your Willpower, and the melee damage bonus with your Strength.
    Stalk
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Harass your stalked victim with two quick attacks for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 67% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Each attack that scores a hit disrupts one talent, rune or infusion for 1 turns. Your opponent will be unnerved by the attacks, reducing the damage they deal by 41% for 2 turns.

    This talent will also attack with your shield, if you have one equipped.
    Harass Prey
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: The connection between predator and prey allows you to speak to the mind of your target and beckon them closer. For 5 turns, they will try to come to you, even pushing others aside to do so. They will move towards you instead of acting 5% of the time, but can save verses Mindpower to slow the effect. If they take significant damage, the beckoning may be overcome altogether. The effect makes concentration difficult for your target, reducing Spellpower and Mindpower by 1 until they reach you.
    The Spellpower and Mindpower reduction increases with your Willpower.
    Beckon
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Let hate fuel your movements. While active, you gain 2% movement speed. The recklessness of your movement brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Sustaining Surge while Dual Wielding grants 1 additional Defense.
    Movement speed and dual-wielding Defense both increase with the Willpower stat.
    Surge
0/5
Cursed / Predator1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improve your predation by learning from past hunts. You gain 0.00 accuracy and 0.00 armor penetration against foes for each foe of that type you have previously slain, to a maximum of 0 accuracy and 0 apr.
    Predator
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Upon making a critical melee attack the savagery of your predation causes a Cursed Miasma to begin permeating your hunting grounds.
    The miasma will seep from 1 locations, including your own, within radius 4, deals 1.09 damage split between Darkness and Mind and blocks sight.
    Prey lost within your miasma have a 0% chance to lose track of you and may mistake friends for foe.
    Savage Hunter costs     8 Hate on trigger and does not trigger when you're in Cursed Miasma.
    Savage Hunter
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: While shrouded in cursed miasma you gain stealth (2 power) and 2 physical power.
    The stealth power and physical power will increase with your mindpower.
    Shrouded Hunter
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Focus your predation on the most worthy prey. Upon entering a level for the first time, up to 1 foes are marked as your prey. You gain vision of them, wherever they are. Additionally, all damage you receive from their subtype is reduced by 0%.
    Mark Prey
0/5
Cursed / Gloom1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: A terrible gloom surrounds you, affecting all those who approach to within radius 3. At the end of each game turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have a 8% chance to suffer from slowness (30%), stun or confusion (30%) for 3 turns.
    The chance increases with your mind speed.
    This ability is innate, and carries no cost to activate or deactivate.
    Each point in Gloom talents increases your Mindpower (current total: 2).
    Gloom
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have a 2% chance to be crippled by fear for 3 turns, reducing damage they inflict by 14%. The first time you melee strike a foe after they have been weakened will give you 2 hate.
    The chance increases with your mind speed.
    Each point in Gloom talents increases your Mindpower (current total: 2).
    Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Every turn, all enemies in your gloom take 0.35 mind damage and 0.35 darkness damage.
    This damage is increased by your global speed but only happens ever game turn.
    The damage scales with your Mindpower.
    Each point in Gloom talents increases your Mindpower (current total: 2).
    Mindrot
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your gloom has become a sanctuary from the outside world. Damage from any attack that originates beyond the boundary of your gloom is reduced by 0%.
    Each point in Gloom talents increases your Mindpower (current total: 2).
    Sanctuary
0/5

Generic Talents

Race / Dwarf1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Call upon the legendary resilience of the Dwarven race to increase armour (+8), armour hardiness (+20%), spell (+13) and physical (+13) saves for 8 turns.
    The bonuses will increase with your Constitution.
    Resilience of the Dwarves
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Dwarf skin is a complex structure; it can automatically react to physical blows and harden itself.
    When you are hit in melee, you have a 15% chance to increase your armour total by 0 for 5 turns and fully ignore the attack triggering it.
    There is no cooldown to this effect; it can happen while already active.
    Stoneskin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Money is the heart of the Dwarven Empire; it rules over all other considerations.
    Increases Physical, Mental and Spell Saves based on the amount of gold you possess.
    +1 save every 95 gold, up to +0. (currently +0)
    Power is Money
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: While the origins of the dwarves remain clouded in mystery to the other races, it is obvious that they share strong ties to the stone.
    You can target any wall and immediately enter it, appearing on the other side.
    This can pass through up to 1 tiles (increases with Constitution and talent level).
    Stone Walking
0/5
Cursed / Cursed form1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your body's strength is fed by your hatred. This causes most forms of healing to be between 50% effective (at 0 Hate) to 100% effective (at 100+ Hate). In addition, after each kill, you store the waning life force to invigorate yourself, restoring 9 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 21 at any time). You can heal no more than 7.2 life per turn this way, and it is not affected by your hatred level or other effects.
    Healing from kills improves with your Willpower.
    Unnatural Body
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +11% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You have learned to hold onto your hate and use your suffering to fuel your body's rage. Every turn you take damage, the damage you inflict increases, until it reaches a maximum of +17% after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus.
    Seethe
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You rise to meet the pain that others would inflict on you. Every turn you take damage, your Strength and Willpower increase until they reach a maximum of +1 after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus. While in effect, your body also has a 5% chance to overcome poisons and diseases each turn.
    Grim Resolve
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: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 2, Armour hardiness by 18%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 3% 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
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    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 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 5% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • 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: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 34% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

talent
Gloom

Quests

You were part of a group of dwarves sent to investigate the situation of the kingdom of Reknor.
When you arrived there you found nothing but orcs, well organized and very powerful.
Most of your team was killed there and now you and Norgan (the sole survivor besides you) must hurry back to the Iron Council to bring the news.
Let nothing stop you.
Reknor is lost!		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


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
Main armor
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training
- Strength 14

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
In main hand
iron battleaxe (14-22 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

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

Base power: 14.5 - 21.8
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
iron battleaxe (14-22 power, 1 apr)

Inventory

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.
agate
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
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
2026 Little Gems
Powered by unknown forces
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Legendary]
Type: gem / gift ; tier 3

When carried:
Light radius: +2
It can be used to explode a sphere

Activation costs 1 power out of 2026/2026.

A set of 2026 tiny explosive spheres.
2026 Little Gems

Achievements

Log


Chook receives 1 healing from Unnatural Body.
Norgan uses Stunning Blow.
Norgan hits White worm mass for 60 physical damage.
Norgan killed White worm mass!

White worm mass uses Multiply.
White worm mass hits Norgan for 3 physical damage.
Norgan hits White worm mass for 38 physical damage.
Norgan killed White worm mass!

White worm mass hits Norgan for 3 physical damage.

Norgan misses White worm mass.
White worm mass misses Norgan.
White worm mass hits Norgan for 3 physical damage.

Chook hits White worm mass for 28 physical damage.
Chook killed White worm mass!
Norgan hits White worm mass for 35 physical damage.
Norgan killed White worm mass!

Chook receives 1 healing from Unnatural Body.

2026 is upon us.

Let's celebrate: I am happy to say I've slipped up a little present in your inventory too!
Cherrish it, nobody else on the whole planet will ever get it again!

Message from DarkGod: Brrrrrrrrr! It is so cold. The Santascape has come!
This is an event to celebrate the end of year, look for a snowman on your worldmap!
This event will be sent regularly during the festive days of the year's end!
Level 15 recommended.
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