Thanks for your hard work, really appreciate it!

Thanks; good to know.

On a sour note, my rogue just died to a skeleton archer. Ah well. I think I'll play on adventure mode instead of roguelike until I get a better handle on the game. Or maybe.. I'll keep playing on roguelike so I learn to be more cautious. Heh. I want to remake him, because this class is just so much fun. I had a lot of fun with Nightshade while I had it.

Thanks! I figured as much, though resistance gear seems to be quite lacking in the early game.

For the new update, I started a rogue, and just killed Bill. I am loving this class! I have fallen in love with traps. I hope they scale well into the later game.. I've noticed monsters are starting to resist the pinning effect of the bear trap more often, and I'm worried that the damage of the fire trap won't scale with stats.

I'm planning on investing heavily in traps and the stealth-ish skills. So far it's served me well. I basically never get into melee range at the moment, and if I do, I just stun and run, maybe hitting the enemy a few times if the coast is clear.

I'm finding it difficult to pass up Dex and Cunning in favor of Con. :P Too many juicy abilities..

By the way, does anyone know if it's possible to use my characters from beta 18 in the new version?

I just discovered this game 3 days ago and have been playing nonstop, and look, an update already! Awesome! :)

Like in the subject. No sleep today...

Thank you DG!

Oh! Thank you for letting me know.

Note : I swear i've seen the text appear even when the spell didn't actually hit anything - for example, i tend to scout corridors in the old forest with Flame bolts.

Shadowblade works pretty well

You can find tons of gems in the game if you pick them up. I have a fighter with several suits of armor with onyxes in them because I took the imbue ability 3x. Perhaps it was a little silly and it would actually be meaningful if one could imbue more than just body armor but at 3x Onyx gives +3 to all stats.

To fight Bill with an Archmage simply blast him with spells and move away as he gets closer until your cooldowns wear off or phase door if he closes too much. You should find a rune fairly easily and in the early stages that is more useful (usually) than Wild since you should not be engaging in hand to hand.

sophers died.. rather quickly.
but, im enjoying it quite well, thank you for asking. :)

Im currently playing on Limbo, he's level 11.
Male.
race: higher.
and he's a fighter.

he's lasted the longest.. by far.

this game is definitely THE best roguelike ive played.

the only downside is i cant get other modules loaded, in the te4.

Playing mages like warriors is like playing the game backwards. Instead of putting points into attack spells in the beginning you just focus on defense. When I played I did not put any points into will power because I did not need the mana. If I had gotten to the far east I imagine I would have started pumping willpower. As far a game play went this was very similar to playing a wyrmic. I could ignore melee creatures but feared spell casters. This was what doomed me given I died to elven blood mages in the spellblaze. If I play this way again I think I will a)try to get more beam spells (useful for sniping spellcasters) and b) not play a skeleton (this would allow me to get a few more levels and probably get premonition) other than those 2 things I believe this is a feasible way to play until the far east.

ive considered doing this too! tell me how it goes!

I love that idea, see how far you can push this :)