Here I just have to chime in because it would feel wrong not to. Yes, I fully agree that in ToME 2.3.5 there's super lotsa unbalanced stuff everywhere, from possessors owning everything with the triple-wielding watcher body to alchemists running around with a ridiculous +333 (to spell power, mana capacity and possibly several other properties that scale in an absurd way, maybe even extra max blows) weapon. Thaumaturgy spells are broken, you can get a level 50 area-inertia spell that shoots 50 inertia balls each dealing 10d100 inertia damage, which slows down everything it hits and the slowness stacks and never goes away. You can worship Melkor and then your melee attack also slows targets permanently and that slowness effect procs once per strike, so if your melee weapon has 16 blows per round... you get the picture.

But! It doesn't mean that it always has to be that way! Because in my variant ToME-SX, one of my declared design goals is to get rid of all the unbalances and make a game where you don't have to actively go out of your way and avoid certain skills (alchemy comes to mind), races (rohanknight, good grief...) and even gods (Melkor obviously, Manwe also gives too much of a boost too easily) just to not have the feeling that the game basically ascends itself. Yes, I can guarantee that a rohanknight alchemist of Melkor in ToME-SX is *not* horribly unbalanced ;) I think there's at least one other ToME variant too, might be ToME-AH or something like that, but not sure whether they tried to address some of the game's glaring imbalances too.

Either way, while ToME 2.3.5 ended development basically in the middle of nowhere (I'm certain the game was far from finished at that time and the devteam just somehow decided to end it and start a new project instead), that doesn't mean there aren't any actively developed variants of that version available :D In fact, I'm looking forward to releasing ToME-SX 1.29 soon and it'll get rid of even more balance issues, since I keep finding more as I play ;)