Tomi the thief

[Zoltan]

I heard about there's a thief named Tomi. I'll play a fighter and I like to have a cleric or mage. I dont want a thief in my party. If I take a few thief skills that will do the trick?

[Willard]

Yeah, I didn't get Tomi. I just put a few skills into Disarm Traps and Search. To open chests I just have my trusty Grimgnaw (tm) handy and he does all of the dirty stuff for me. The only traps I cannot disarm are some of those Spike Traps and those Deadly Electrical Traps. Watch out for those!

[Morgeruat]

Originally posted by Zoltan: I heard about there's a thief named Tomi. I'll play a fighter and I like to have a cleric or mage. I dont want a thief in my party. If I take a few thief skills that will do the trick?

the cleric NPC isn't all that useful, except in undead areas, if you're a fighter you should be able to take the damage from setting off a trap without dying, at least after 4th lvl and if you choose dwarven or elven you get bonuses to detect traps (in certain situations ie, dwarves are better underground, or in buildings) and with a weapon (including arrows) that do elemental damage you can smash any chest, making the rogue class all but obsolete, the monk (grimgnaw) is a powerful henchman, as is Daelan (barbarian), the others that cast spells tend to use them rather foolishly, and since you can rest at any time and regain ALL hp's there really isn't that much use for a cleric (esp since potions of healing are everywhere)

[Lrd Feanor]

I used all my henchman and did all their quest for greater experience and usefulness. The stone of recall facilitates the ease of switching between each henchman.

[Wurm]

Tomi is really a great thief and an ok fighter to boot.

He is also a good chioce for your first henchman.

I had him for the prison break quest and he saved my bacon more than once.

I am going to try working with all the NPCs to finish all the quest in the game.

[Zoltan]

I'm undecided about NPC's. Spellcasters one are really stupid as I heard. So should I play as a spellcaster and got a fighter henchman?

[Tanis]

I started out as a human fighter and gave detecting traps a few points in a couple of times when levelling up. When I got to level 10 I dualed as a rogue (I am level 2 now) and no more problems with traps. I can use magic items now and cast some (fairly basic) spells, apart from being a tough fighter. I use Grimnaw as my henchman and boy, do we crush some bones!

[AndyG]

I'm currently playing a fighter, with a few thief levels. I have Sharwyn, the bard, as my henchwoman. She's okay. She'll cast all her spells quickly, usually wasting them, but they work from time to time. She'll cast a strenght buff that lasts a number of hours. Recently, she got haste as well. I haven't determined how long that stays on. Her bard song adds a whole number of buffs, but they only last about one fight. She's supposed to be able to sing once per level between resting, but she only sings once. Overall, she's pretty good.

[Willard]

Originally posted by Tanis: I started out as a human fighter and gave detecting traps a few points in a couple of times when levelling up. When I got to level 10 I dualed as a rogue (I am level 2 now) and no more problems with traps. I can use magic items now and cast some (fairly basic) spells, apart from being a tough fighter. I use Grimnaw as my henchman and boy, do we crush some bones!

Why dual to thief? Just put a whole bunch of skill points into search and disarm trap, then choose the feat Skill Focus for search and disarm trap. I did that, traps don't seem to be a problem anymore. Plus, I have all my levels in Barbarian, so they are not spread out needlessly across a great number of professions.

[Kaltia]

I have tomi as my henchman (you can find him the temple of tyr, act 1) and his sneak attack works on balors, which kind of toned down the difficulty.