Grimrock

That requires slightly more gear swapping/hoarding then I care to do. The +25 air resistance is basically pointless and the frost resistance is also pretty much pointless since a farmer with meteor that early in the game destroys frost ele's. So the choice for me boiled down to 75% poison resist vs....

All lizardmen for poison immunity is pretty good. Makes a lot of fights relatively trivial. Being 100% immune to one of the more annoying types of damage from the get go is pretty baller. I'm not a fan of metabolism. I typically take either the +20 health talent for my front row and +20 energy for m...

You really aren't missing out on that much damage for about 80% of the game. Yes the Barbarian can hit 300+ relatively consistently mid-late game but the entire first 5~6 levels you're spending most of your time whiffing or hitting for 30~50 when your battle mage is hitting for 100~ish AND taking on...

Honestly casters make terrible back row characters. I've found in most of my playthroughs that a battle mage in slot 1 or 2 is insanely good. You can drop all your points into vit/will and enjoy 35 bonus protection due to orb/staff perk and shield spell. In my speed run I'm working on I use 2 battle...

Honestly if you're that worried about it you're powergaming and if you're powergaming then both suck compared to an alchemist if you want a caster.

I've been toying with a 3x lizardman battlemage /1x lizardman alchemist party. It's been going super fast early game not having to deal with crappy accuracy and whatnot. Now that I have freeze on everyone it makes most fights even easier. It seems to be able to overwrite itself and there's no hard l...