I love graphs, and especially these ones with the amount of eyecandy they provide. Good time wasters for sure!

Might I suggest a logarithmic scale considering almost all of the graphs are inverse relationships which makes it very difficult to look at the later levels.

I have created 12 characters since i first used an online profile and i guess i created another 30 or 40 before that. Wouldn't place it anything higher than 50. Most of them died whilei was figuring hte controls, trying to figure out which dungeons i should enter, why i should desperately look for stun resist granting items, why i should run away from skeleton mages if underleveled etc.

But to be honest it's been only 3 characters i've started taking things seriously, focusing on 1 class at a time (archmage in this case), creating an spreadsheet to track my talent distribution and eventually optimize it when i die (third time seems to be workign better), using the search forum's function to look for past other players' past experiences etc.

So, no, i'm no natural at roguelikes, i've yet to beat any. But Tome4 is taking it easy on me, no food counter & the option of having some additional lives in case of a momentary lack of attention and/or an small error of judgment, that's quite lenient.

The link to the howto-guides leads to an empty page. I could have sworn it worked before.

Thank you, that makes sense!

The Berserk talent improves your stun resistance, but the cost (-10 armour and -10 defense) is pretty heavy. Increase Con and the Health talent for more hitpoints, and improve and use Ice Skin.

You can wear a second ring. Spend the 417 gp for better gear, e.g. your amulet, cloak and hat could use an upgrade (unless you intend to buy an artifact for 500 gp). Try to collect some rings and amulets for swapping.

But beware, in a few levels you can get a nasty and deadly encounter while travelling.

max_mana = 20000 that's how

Yup, saved you that premonition :)

He's not afraid of evil, but he's afraid of women :D

Don't know if you noticed, there's some interface difficulties with multiple dialogs on the screen; it popped up a window just now for me asking for donations... I think. It was behind "Exterminator! Killed 1000 creatures!" and when I clicked "Close" it closed the one that I couldn't see instead of the achievement. Hard to get donations that way. :)

I have to say, it's funny to think that people have literally beaten you at your own game. ;)

Congrats, I look forward to doing the same one day. Keep up the great work!

I think it's a bug, because there was mention of changing the savvy talent (which is part of that tree) in the patch notes for b20 - no reason to do that if you're getting rid of it altogether! I reported it on the forums.