Mist Elves & Ratlings (spoilers)

[_Ln_]

Was it C? C MEs use regular necromancy (I believe this is in the manual, though not 100% sure)

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

[paivi]

Also, it seems pretty obvious to me that thomas likes mist elves a whole lot more than ratlings. Just look at the respective lengths of the manual entries...

I agree that the ME racial description looks silly and a bit... gushing next to other, much shorter entries.

I love ratlings too, they're surprisingly adept at a variety of things. Mist elves, on the other hand... I started a clean hiscore for pre7, and it's now populated almost solely by mist elves: explosive door, pit trap, vortex, crushed by a door, explosive door, sickness, pit trap, vortex, explosive door (and so on ad nauseam).

[Mobius]

I agree that the ME racial description looks silly and a bit... gushing next to other, much shorter entries.

I love ratlings too, they're surprisingly adept at a variety of things. Mist elves, on the other hand... I started a clean hiscore for pre7, and it's now populated almost solely by mist elves: explosive door, pit trap, vortex, crushed by a door, explosive door, sickness, pit trap, vortex, explosive door (and so on ad nauseam).

Sixth Sense - trap avoidance is key then. Or Detect Traps and two rings of searching.

I'm working my ratling weaponmaser, and he's doing OK. Just wish I could find a decent forge.

[JellySlayer]

I agree that the ME racial description looks silly and a bit... gushing next to other, much shorter entries.

I love ratlings too, they're surprisingly adept at a variety of things. Mist elves, on the other hand... I started a clean hiscore for pre7, and it's now populated almost solely by mist elves: explosive door, pit trap, vortex, crushed by a door, explosive door, sickness, pit trap, vortex, explosive door (and so on ad nauseam).

Mist elf farmer is the way to go. On my way to Mana Temple.

[SirTheta]

ME Beastfighters and ME Barbarians also seem pretty easy to do. Before a crash, I had an ME Beastfighter prepping for ToEF run. With a little luck you could get 16-19 To or so [depends on starting sing] w/o using potential trick.

[Grey]

Ratling gods:

L - Fiit-Ssaaar
N - Sssaass
C - Fiit-Yaaar

Mist elf gods:

L - Order
N - Balance
C - Chaos

Ratlings really do have super toughness by the way. On par with orcs, but without the sacrifices to learning and mana. They're also fast-levelling - seems about 20% less xp needed than normal. However they do tend to start with poor equipment.

[SirTheta]

There's definitely some weird stuff going down when Mist Elves have corruptions---looks like -x Wi, +x St, +x To, +x Dx, +x Ma where x is one for every, maybe, 3 corruptions?

this would mean that ME CKs get quite powerful as the corruptions roll in (though also easily confused).

[SirTheta]

Despite getting a message about impure metal destroying your skin, it's possible to take no damage edit: thanks to anon123--if you have Immune to Pain

[bl_dw]

scale skin corruption will look good for this

[biomateria]

How is everyone doing with their Mist Elves? I'm having a really hard time being successful with such a low HP pool. Wanted to try the new ME Necro but even at level 7~ I still only had around 14 HP, and without Healing... I also had a ME die on the FIRST step off a staircase (dlvl 1 VD) to a fireball trap. I'm guessing the Sixth Sense trap-dodging talent I took doesn't help with those :/

Seriously how do these guys live thousands of years with like 7 HP. They would die if they broke a finger.

Edit: Played a little ME Duelist, Necro, and Paladin. So far, satiation has been acting exactly like other standard R/C combos. I get hungry just as frequently as I normally do. Maybe the never-ending satiation thing was a bug Thomas fixed? I don't remember seeing it in the patch notes.