Fathomer

About

• Rodpedia: Fathomer
• Genre: Rogue
• Races: Human, Half-Elf, Sea-Elf, Gith, Tiefling
  • Race Recommendation: Any. Check what gear you dream of wearing and make sure it doesn't have race restrictions.
• Alpha Attack: Vindur Gong
  • Energy Spell Attack
  • Based on Dex/Lck and Movement. Capped (Max stats hits cap).
  • Cannot be cast in room with terrain type Swamp or Underwater.
• HP Gained per Level: 11 - 17 (avg 14)
  • Prestige: 12 - 19
• Average Hitpionts: (non-prestige) You should land between a 13.5 and 14.5 average gain per level.
  • Avg 13.5: 685
  • Avg 14: 709
  • Avg 14.5 733

In my experience between 685 - 700 is where most fathomers fall.

Stats

• Primary: Dexterity
• Secondary: Intelligence
• Deficient: Constitution

Max Warrior Stats

CLASS	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Lck
Fathomer	20	22	20	25	18	20	20

Suggested Stats: It's tough to have great fatty stats, you'll want high Dex/Con but also Luck.

Fighting

• Weapons: (95% Adept)
  • Short-Blades - "Piercing, Stabbing"
  • Long-Blades - "Slashing - Slicing"
  • Fathomers get "Dual Wield" weapon skill

Alpha Attack

Attack	Type	Damage Modifier	Damage Type	Resist	Suscept	Saving Throw	Restrictions
Vindur Gong	Spell	Dex+Lck & Moves	Energy	Ethereal Shield	Ethereal Funnel	None	Not Swamp/Underwater Room

• Vindur Gong damage calculation seems to multiply your Dex x Lck as its first factor, and then moves are added in some sense.
  • Pretty sure the equation is roughly: (Dex * Lck) + (Movement / 5)
  • Having max Dex/Lck is enough to hit the damage cap alone, moves won't even be a factor.
• Cannot cast in Swamps or Underwater rooms.
  • If you run a client that supports MSDP the room terrain is sent as a numeric value in the ROOM_TERRAIN var.
    • If you run MY MSDP Script for tintin++ that var is $msdp_info[ROOM_TERRAIN]
    • In either case - see Room Terrains for a mapping of the numeric values to terrain types.

• Tactics:
  • Prestige Skill - Retreat: Flee to the last room you were in (directional flee).
    • I've never used this as a tactic to kill something, but could theoretically be handy to flee/heal/kill a mob in certain scenarios?
  • Glass-Eye / Salinate: Fattys can empty their stomach and cast true-sight with native skills, which makes them very handy to fight mobs to punish drinking, or purge springs, or blind a shit ton, or are in rooms where you cannot quaff.

Combat Passives

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
12	dodge	95	fighting (aggressive)
18	second attack	95	fighting (berserk)
21	enhanced damage	75	fighting (aggressive)
23	parry	90	fighting (aggressive)
36	third attack	65	fighting (berserk)
43	fourth attack	20	fighting (berserk)

Combat Styles

Level	Skill Name	Adept
1	standard style	95
3	evasive style	95
11	aggressive style	75
13	defensive style	90
30	berserk style	65

Combat Actives

Alpha Attacks

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
2	strike	95	fighting (aggressive)
9	jab	80	fighting (aggressive)
10	water spout	95	fighting (aggressive)
20	laesa tronada	95	fighting (defensive)
22	isscyll	95	fighting (defensive)
26	lunge	80	fighting (aggressive)
31	thrust	95	fighting (aggressive)
35	diminue geysir	95	fighting (defensive)
44	isfundere	95	sitting
47	vindur gong	80	sitting
48	feign	85	fighting
50	tronada macecle	95	fighting (aggressive)

(Isfundere & Vindur Gong are room attacks)

Combat Skills

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
19	disarm	75	fighting (aggressive)
24	salinate	95	fighting
29	dual wield	90	fighting (aggressive)

Salinate empties the stomach, similar to drinking from a magical spring, it is used at mobs/locations where you cannot drink from springs due to mob progs that damage upon drinking.

Buffs & Debuffs

Buffs

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos	Effect
15	submerge	95	standing	aquabreath (only applicable when not underwater already) (440 rds)
17	seasight	95	fighting (aggressive)	scry (500 rds)
37	aquaeforme	95	fighting (berserk)	+10 Resist Slash/Pierce, +10 Susceptible Blunt (300 rds)
38	iceshield	85	fighting (evasive)	elemental shield (210 rds)
45	mutiny	95	standing	Group Buff: +3 HR, +1 Lck, +50 AC (+ AC is a bad thing!) (70 rds)
49	glass eye	70	fighting	truesight (14 rds)

DeBuffs

Level	Skill Name	Affects	Adept	MinPos	Effect
33	vindur gust	95	fighting (defensive)	blind, -max mana (level of caster*4), and +ac (per level of caster) (5 rds)
40	seasting	75	standing	-50mv, -1dex (24 rds)

Skills

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos	Effect
2	fish	95	fighting (evasive)	go fishing
4	pilfer	95	standing	steal
5	fog	95	standing	hide + sneak
6	broach	70	standing	pick lock
7	windwalk	95	fighting (defensive)	float
8	rummage	95	standing	search (faster, costs 5mana)
10	scan	85	standing
14	create spring	95	fighting
16	peek	95	can see mob's inventory
24	salinate	95	fighting	empties stomach like magical spring
34	swap	80	resting	exchange primary/dual weapons
39	control weather	95	standing	change weather

Usuals: cook, climb, dig, mount

Equipment & Align

Fathomer's have low base Con, so end up with low HP. Thus Fathomer's typically just dress in gear to compensate and get their HP up as much as possible. Their alpha attack (Vindur Gong) is base on stats (Dex & Luck) so secondarily dress for Dex/Luck.

Align: Fathomers can be any align and are not difficult to dress in any case. Historically most fattys were Neutral so they could wear the best of both evil/devout gear to min/max their hp/stats. These days, devout is pretty popular (since they removed the primary item used to maintain neutral align, so now its more of a bitch to manage). Evil is also doable, but like all evils would be subject to decreased damage if the mob has the protection spell on it (1/4 damage reduction).

Whichever you align you go you'll need to max Dex/Luck as best as you can, since Vindur Gong is based on those. Beyond that, your gear is purely aimed at increasing your survival chances so grab all the HP/AC and Con you can. Pick whichever alignment is a good fit for maxing Dex/Luck as best as possible and buffing HP/AC/Con based on which mobs you can run and gear you can actually obtain.

Equipment Info: Fathomer EQ

Gameplay

Quests:

• Rogue Genre Quest: Guise of the Falcon
  • Rewards
    • The black ring mail spaulders of the Falcon
    • The black ring mail greaves of the Falcon
    • The black leather boots of the Falcon
    • The Mask of the Master Rogue

• Seafarer's Research Quest: Rodpedia Page
  • Rewards
    • The feathered hat of the sea captain
    • A mariner's astrolabe (Unlocks 'track' skill for fathomers)

Runs:

Fathomers are useful on a lot of runs, though nobody is sure why you would ever use one instead of something more powerful/versatile. I've used them to clear the path to Seth (Onyx, Steps, Darkness), they're required for Inishie, and I've been using my Buccaneer as my primary quester for over a year and he kills quest mobs rather well. Overall Vindur Gong hits enough stuff to make them useful in a wide variety of places.

Summary

Fathomer are... fine. Buccaneers are also fine. It's a rogue with some spells. They get those spells, but also much less damage output than Thieves.

Vindur Gong is a good spell - however it also frequently misses, which nerfs your overall dps significantly. A significant frustration is watching your fathomer cast and miss vindur over and over and over.

The issue is that MANY other classes would probably be better on most runs. Especially when you consider Prestige options, a Dread Vampire or Hunter is a way more powerful/useful character than a Buccaneer. But whatever floats your boat - fattys/buccs are totally fine and you'll be able to run shit with your friends just fine if you like the overall pirate flavor here.

Prestige

Buccaneers get all the usual prestige bonuses, and 3 specific skills.

They are better than regular Fathomers, faster and more damage output, have more hp, but not by a huge degree. By comparison, a Ranger that prestige's into a Hunter gets a huuuuge increase in damage output. Bucc's less so.

I have no real complaints about buccaneers, but they're not very exciting. They're a bit more stout and less squishy, but not a ton.

• Buccaneer