But 70 poison on hit is amazing.

Woh :)

Survival over damage.

If you have the choice to wear an item that gives stun resist or saving throw bonuses or one that increases your damage go for the former. Also 300 hit points seems kinda low for a berserker at that level. You should be investing in Con and the health talents already (zerkers really have no better place for stats then strength and con and this is part of the reason they're an easy mode class).

So no, bosses don't need to be toned down pteriforever. Your play style needs to be adjusted. An old adage I used to tell the dpsers in my WoW guild. You do no damage when you're dead.

I dunno your personal circumstances, but thank you so much for your efforts in the community! Looking forward to your speedy return! :-)

Though I think guides are useful, as you said, the game is changing much too rapidly at the moment to make them worth while. But with a release candidate these things can definitely add a huge amount of value for noobs like me.

Racial talent trees... I love the concept, and I do think that they'll add a lot of richness to the game.

I love the arena... Got to lvl 20 once. But it is so hard, and is vastly different from the "real" game. I still want to try a fighter, because armor helps a LOT.

Artifact sets are something that adds a great deal of richness to the game. Hope it gets more focus later...

Id recommend adding 5-10 levels before confronting any of the "beginner" area bosses in b20. (So around level 17-27). Been busy playing Elona lately so haven't been playing b20 much but it seems much much harder than previous tomes and the frustration level spiked a bit, so I am waiting until the shops situation gets fixed at least (though not holding my breath) before I get back into this again.

It took me a while to figure it out too

Thanks sooooooo much!

Not really - he nuked a single d - that's hardly an achievement.

Her favorite trick was swinging in front of me while I was trying to distance summon something to save our lives. Which meant I got to switch places with her, eat a spell, and then summon my blocker. If I couldn't have healed her with nature spells it would have been impossible.

My only character who ever managed to kill the 4 cultists within 30 turns was an archer. But then Melinda got killed when we were attempting to find the exit. Apparently being a prisoner of deranged cultists had sucked out her will to live. Or maybe she had Stockholm syndrome. She seemed to like taking arrows meant for cultists.

You could also dig your own way out if you have a pick-axe or Burrow talent. (probably, anyway - never tried)

-One character died to a glitch ad mentioned here: http://te4.org/blogs/pteriforever/2011/02/silvertail-level-18-cornac-berserker

-Two characters later, I died after forgetting what my keys were after all the text that told me what powers I had and what keys to use totally vanished. I could still access the other tabs, just not the talents one. Oh, and the square things around all the characters and enemies vanished.

-My most recent character has a problem whee several windows -- Levelup window, inventory, and so on -- would have white backgrounds making the text totally unrteadable.

The latter two may be problems with my own computer, but it still seems like a pretty unstable game -- After 20 beta tests it should be mostly stable.

It also runs freakishly slow for being a relatively graphics-light game.