Shields protect you and turn absorbed damage into energy. This is the primary means of gaining energy. Auras project energy, doing damage to everyone around you. Running around with an aura on is a sure way to empty your energy pool.

I notice that neither of your two mindslayers in the vault has Beyond the Flesh or Kinetic Shield activated. Neither of these require energy to activate, though the shield does reduce your maximum energy. Turning both of these on will help a great deal. I see that you did at some point use Kinetic Shield on your first mindslayer, but didn't reactivate it when it cooled down. Try to keep it active at all times (cooldown intervals excluded, of course). Beyond the Flesh should stay on almost all the time. It has no cooldown, no cost, and no drawbacks. It is your primary means of doing damage.

I want to thank Yufra for all the help he's given me with this project. I literally new nothing about coding aside from the fact that it was logic based when I started this. I also want to thank Darkgod for giving me the chance to bring these ideas to life. Finally I want to thank everyone in IRC who day after day has either helped me along or encouraged me or just straight put up with me ;)

The flexibility in weapon choice was something I really enjoyed in my playtests. Mindslayers can make good use of the majority of weapon types. My next project is a sling/shield mindslayer with a gem in the telekinetic focus slot and a maxed out Focus tree. It should be a killer ranged character.

As for the flooded combat log, it's definitely a problem. Similarly, the floating combat text is unreadable with all the damage types done in a single turn. Hopefully soon we can get some display options to fix these issues.

Managing energy is a challenge, and an intentional one. I recommend keeping auras off by default and using them only when you know you have enough energy to produce a spike. They drain energy very quickly, as I'm sure you've noticed. The various leech talents, in addition to hindering and harming those around you, can return a decent amount of energy. Use them when near multiple enemies for best results. Perhaps the most important advice I can give is that mindslayers do not play like other classes. You don't have enough energy, particularly at the start, to just go around firing off your abilities whenever they're cooled down. Do your damage with Beyond the Flesh and save energy for when you need it. You don't need to be using energy-costing abilities in order to do competitive damage. The telekinetically wielded weapon does that just fine.

Another hint: Collect items that increase your resistance against blight (Vitalizing amulet, ring of blight, Girdle of the Calm Water,...)

Congrats on getting that far, and I sympathize. The crypt quest is one of the hardest in the game. In fact it is really a death trap unless you have a solid strategy for dealing with casters and even then you need to have the right Wild (cures hex/curse/disease) and a decent sized regen or heal AND an exit strategy (Rune of teleport or controlled phase door). Fighter is particularly hard because the class does not deal with any of these problems innately. Rush is the only real way to deal with Casters, along with Shield pummel and Assault.

My advice is: If you get this quest before you have solved these issues skip it. The reward is trivial and the end result does not make a difference to your character whatsoever.

I killed him with a level 2 or 3 mage without issue. He did pop regen. I just kept on him with Flame and it out dpsed his healing.

Thanks DG for your effort.

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For stats, I recommend pumping CON, last Archmage I made raised mainly MAG and CON, with just a tiny bit of WIL for a long while.

Having enough offense is also good. I liked the approach of having lightning bolt,flame and manathrust spells at decent levels quick, and just keep cycling between those. Get manathrust and flame up to beam-level and they should make short work of enemies. Phase door I used very little, mainly as a escape, not as a tactical spell. Because mana will be an issue with low WIL, so mana should be used to fry thine enemies.

Get weapons training at the weapons shop in Last Hope. After Trollmire you might consider doing the journey, if you have 50 GP. The key is opening up the 'health' talents which give +40 HP each. You need quite a bit of CON to select them, so hang on to any +con equipment (wear it, get 'health' talent, then wear your regular stuff. Not that wearing +con is a bad idea, though). I also like to get the 'heavy armor' talent too at some point, because of good helmets, gauntlets and metal boots that just might drop.

Lastly, keep your resistances up. When you find yourself in line of sight of enemy spellcasters, pop your wild infusion. Its a free turn, and will give 15-25% resist to everything. Also the talent 'premonition' is great, even though it takes a bit of mana to run it. It's pretty much 20% resist all. (So just wild + premonition gives close to 50%). Make a +6 resist all ring (your can probably buy the ingredients) and wear that instead of +3 all stats...and you should be pretty safe.

I understand the love, it's pretty much ...great.

As a general rule it's not possible, especially with a release as big as this one.

con is a must for any class, also any items that boost your resists will improve your survivability a lot.