Whoops, I'll fix that. Thanks for the report!

I don't think i've ever personally used the fortress for storage, so its certainly possible to get by without it. I typically don't have more than an extra set of gear at any given time (typically stuff i can't equip yet because i'm waiting for levels, stats, or something else before doing so). Normally its not a full set though, and a full set of gear isn't 200 pounds. I do use the fortress extensively near the end of the game on the randomly generated levels though, which you didn't mention here. Different strokes for different folks i guess.

I've beaten nur several times without water breathing, and that would have been impossible without the bubbles, so they definitely aren't useless.

I'm not convinced its possible to miss out on water breathing gear by the end of the campaign. It would be something like an extreme statistical anomaly. The odds of not finding any water breathing gear before you go east are more relevant, but one should be able to access nur by the end of the game extremely consistently.

A lot of characters don't need to stop and rest to clear a level at all, let alone a level thats on the easier side like underwater nur. It would be more correct to say "water breathing gear isn't optional for every character".

I personally think nur is one of the more interesting "gimmick" zones in the game. It prompts you to play a little differently in what is otherwise a pretty monotonous genre. The sandworm cave on the other hand... With that said, unlike the OP i also see nothing wrong with modding the game to be more enjoyable to yourself. Games are meant to be fun after all.

I came from other roguelike games like DCSS, ADOM, etc, so it felt natural for me to play on roguelike and I get more enjoyment out of the risk to die, I don't have that many wins, still working on my insane difficulty win, and I use 0 mods (except the dlc), this style of play may not be for everyone though and I think you should play whatever way makes you have the most fun, for example DCSS I have 2 wins out of 4265 games. I am pretty terrible, but I still love playing it even knowing I will probably loose the vast majority of games... that however is not for everyone. as for the lake nur thing, maybe my way of thinking is crazy but I have never actually used water breathing for it, I always save an item if I get one with waterbreathing but I have never actually switched to it during lake nur, and I am pretty sure I have never died in Nur, I have died to the boss after it before though.

I'm enjoying this class very much. While I have a few questions, I don't remember the specifics right now, so I'll get back to you on them, but I do have something to add to this comment thread, which is that Prio's Prismatic Eye caused an error when I tried to use it to craft a voratun ring. It was the first item I added, so there wasn't any conflict with any other elements. I soldiered on and tried to create the item even after that error, and the item simply didn't come into existence. Not a huge issue, considering how many other things I could create without a problem, but I figure I should give you a heads-up.

Thanks, that helped. Actually I'm not on steam, but gog version also has 32bit version.
One new note - it seems some troubles with old lua jit may be the reason.

hi,in The Game Later period,i discover this log"you may only sustain two auras at once,Aura activation cancelled."
Maybe you know what's going on?

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How's that beta coming along? *crickets*

Yea, unsurprisingly facts are not really that hard to "guess". It's kinda like if you made an addon that just makes the player invincible and wrote "But wääh, now there's no challenge in the game as the player can't lose" as one of the "objections"

…wow. I think you managed to hit every single one of the objections I anticipated in my initial write-up:

Objection #2: "Oh, but you don't need to do Nur. You can always just carry around 200 pounds of potential swap-in gear in your pack for the entire game. I mean, what did you think the I Can Carry the World prodigy was there for?" Storage is what you need the fortress for.

Objection #3: "Water breathing? Pfft. Wimp. You're supposed to just hold your breath really hard and hope you get lucky and find the down stairs before you asphyxiate." Water bubbles run out, especially in a protracted fight. A resource (air in this case) that's finite and non-renewable is useless.

Objection #1: "Aww, but where's the fun if you can't randomly miss out on vitally important gear?" If I can't sit in that water buble and rest my life and resources all the way back to full and my cooldowns down to zero, as many times as I need to, then no, water breathing gear is not optional in Nur.

Water levels as "challenge" is the most boring approach known to man. (And for the record, water breathing gear is an in-game tool; all I'm doing is arranging for that tool to be available when the player needs it.)

Completely is accurate. You don't need to do it, and I'm really curious what you might think a player gains from it that will help them progress in the game. You can access the item vault there if you are a donator, but using vaulted items is expressly not the way the game is intended to be played and if anyone feels they need vaulted items to succeed, they really should spend more time mastering the basics (how to engage tactically, which tools are available universally and when they are useful, when to abandon a fight as a lost cause, which talents and effects to look for when inspecting an enemy and whether they are particularly debilitating to your current character, how and when to prioritize certain stats on gear, etc.).

To the original point of the post, playing on Adventure mode is fine, but if your aspiration is to beat the game on rougelike, then you should play on rougelike to reinforce the habits that will actually make that possible. Learning which zones are worth skipping would be a good one, for a start.

Whenever i use the scorpions stealth skill and the turn it off the stealth never goes away and can be toggled to stack infinite stealth