There's a bug with this addon in 1.6.7 and the Adept prodigy. It goes something like:

- Get the Adept prodigy
- Use a category point to increase a category's mastery, and you'll get a .6 improvement: The .2 is mutiplied by Adept's x3 instead of being simply added. (So if your category was 1.0, Adept increases is to 1.3, and improving the category with a point increases is to 1.9 instead of 1.5.)
- Now remove the category improvement, which you can do with FlexSpec. I can't remember the exact result, but it decreases by .2 or something like that, so now your example category from above is at 1.7.
- Improve the category again with the point you just removed, and once again it increases by .6, and now you're at 2.3.
- Repeat for infinite category mastery.

I believe this bug also exists if you have already improved a category prior to taking Adept, but I can't remember how it plays out. (But it's a variation of remove category point, add it back, and repeat.)

I may have gotten the precise numbers incorrect, but if you try it out, it's pretty easy to reproduce. To verify this is a bug with FlexSpec and not T-Engine, I disabled the FlexSpec addon (via desc.lua) and didn't have this issue (both with adding a cat point post-Adept or removing it on the same screen).

This addon still mostly works with 1.6, but I'll wait for 1.7 before polishing it up. I have not tested the current 1.5 version of the addon with Cults races or the shimmer packs.

(If anyone is motivated to take over this addon and maintain it, I'd be cool with that. I tend to go for long periods without playing ToME, until a new DLC comes out.)

That should work just fine :)
And if it does not, I'll try to make it work anyway ;)

much more interesting. Still, Undine rulezz supreme. Gnome probably needs some improvement? PArticularly, his block feels weakish - many opponents justt punsh through it... And lvl 12 power , whiile passive, feels least useful of tier-4s. Also, shouldn't lightning jump get some range increase with investment? Actually, most class skills feel perfectly good at 1 point, with no need for improvement.

Great!
How about a beta for Steam?

It was indeed ^^
And yes, it really is AoE siege engines, except no trebuchet :p no steamguns though, can't build anything with a steamgun and pickaxes are more fashionable !
tell me what you think after trying it out :)

Well, guess it's really hard to implement. Involving AI in this would end up AI doing stupid things. Players are always more clever than AI.

very cool concept,but the screams from Dark Psyche are very disruptive.I would much prefer taking that tree if the sounds were changed.keep up the good work .

understood, thank you.

Sorry for off top, but - are you planning to update your bigger mods to be 1.6. compliantt? Races pack seems to work (though you can't add cosmetic options for some), but Celestial Oddities crash in some instances. A pity as I like these mods.

The decoy is quite useful, but suffers due to range 1. Especially as you can't cast it behind you then switch places. As for gap closer, I see another problem in you only having one such, especially as it is unreliable (if you are dazed by, say, slime Psyshot, neither of its options qould work, e.g.). Even Sun Paladin has 2 (actually more as 2h talent is a useful short-range closer).

Thanks, those specifics are helpful.

The class is a melee fighter that augments their combat will spell casting, so there is really not meant to be a great "ranged option". That said, there are a few talents that would probably benefit from having a fixed range so that you have a bit more reach early on when your melee is still a little weak, especially the gap closer. I have an idea to rework Icy Blast into a bit of a rush-like mobility talent instead of a ball AoE.

As far as defense, I think the class is pretty well outfitted in that regard, but it might benefit from having some things shuffled around to make some of the stronger defense available a bit sooner. Cryochamber stops killing blows and with Ice Infusion you can escape after Cryo triggers. Plus they have a damage bubble, crit reduction, all res, a decoy that pulls aggro in a large area and pins when it dies, a debuff to reduce enemy damage, a hard single target lock, and a large AoE freeze. Some of these take a while to really come online, but I don't think classes need to be super strong right out of the gate.

Overall I think the class is in a good place, but it may need some tweaks to give it bit more survivability early on so that it's not as difficult to reach a place where you really start to feel strong. Your feedback, and that of others, has given me a few ideas on how to tweak things a bit to accomplish that.