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Samurai Sanders posted:They really needed some kind of localized damage, or elemental weaknesses, or ANYTHING so that you aren't just watching their health slowly, slowly tick down as you are unloading your most powerful attacks on it. Try lightning  . I know it's most likely the least used buff but it's good against Ogres, Cockatrices, Cyclops(es?) and probably a bunch of other small enemies. I've killed a Cyclops in 3 seconds flat with fivefold shot and lightning straight into it's eye.
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Fights with ogres were some of my most memorable fights personally. The Quarry in particular was one of my favorite parts of the game, and I was a female mage at the time.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:04
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ArcticZombie posted:Try lightning I've actually been struggling to find a use for dark, personally. I read it's good on bandits but I can't tell, though of course it's my pawns doing all the attacks with the buff so I don't see the effects very clearly. This was also in the sort of place where all the bandits are extremely hard at my level and a couple groups are outright impossible, so it may not be a very good impression, but I didn't notice it doing very much.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:07
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ArcticZombie posted:Try lightning
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Jun 13, 2012 20:08
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This game really needs a button you can hit to relay orders and queue abilities ala Mass Effect. Come, Go, and Help just doesn't cut it given how complex the pawn system is.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:31
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Ogres + combustion = fun times. Enough fire on them and they fall over for a good five seconds on their own.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:43
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I'm starting to get really frustrated with the pawn system. I'm currently a Sorceror, with my main pawn being a support Mage. I usually grab a fighter and a warrior pawn from the Rift to help keep enemies off me. But Sorceror really seems to gently caress with the Pawn AI because I'll try to back up to cast spells and my melee pawns will loving follow me. They'll stand there as they're being shot with arrows. This has happened with literally every pawn I've recruited over the past couple days and it's really frustrating me. I even get pawns that dont have guardian so I'm not sure what the problem is.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:44
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Cbouncerrun posted:I'm starting to get really frustrated with the pawn system. I'm currently a Sorceror, with my main pawn being a support Mage. I usually grab a fighter and a warrior pawn from the Rift to help keep enemies off me. But Sorceror really seems to gently caress with the Pawn AI because I'll try to back up to cast spells and my melee pawns will loving follow me. They'll stand there as they're being shot with arrows. This has happened with literally every pawn I've recruited over the past couple days and it's really frustrating me. I even get pawns that dont have guardian so I'm not sure what the problem is. Hire my pawn, he is great. Gamertag is T3scobag if you're on XBL.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:46
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Cbouncerrun posted:I'm starting to get really frustrated with the pawn system. I'm currently a Sorceror, with my main pawn being a support Mage. I usually grab a fighter and a warrior pawn from the Rift to help keep enemies off me. But Sorceror really seems to gently caress with the Pawn AI because I'll try to back up to cast spells and my melee pawns will loving follow me. They'll stand there as they're being shot with arrows. This has happened with literally every pawn I've recruited over the past couple days and it's really frustrating me. I even get pawns that dont have guardian so I'm not sure what the problem is. edit: near the blood beach or whatever there's an area with goblins and cyclopses and ballistas, the goblins will man the ballistas and fire them and your pawns will make no attempt to avoid getting hit, but I didn't want to go over there and take them out because moving that far away from the cyclopses would cause that "ambush!" quest to fail. My mage in particular was walking around slowly in front of the ballistas being hit by them like it was her job. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Jun 13, 2012 20:47
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Cbouncerrun posted:I'm starting to get really frustrated with the pawn system. I'm currently a Sorceror, with my main pawn being a support Mage. I usually grab a fighter and a warrior pawn from the Rift to help keep enemies off me. But Sorceror really seems to gently caress with the Pawn AI because I'll try to back up to cast spells and my melee pawns will loving follow me. They'll stand there as they're being shot with arrows. This has happened with literally every pawn I've recruited over the past couple days and it's really frustrating me. I even get pawns that dont have guardian so I'm not sure what the problem is. Did you try telling them to Go? I did that when escorting Selene, and the pawns cleared a bandit camp while I sat back and watched.
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Jun 13, 2012 20:47
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Get Utilitarian/Pioneer pawns. Don't get Guardians if you don't want them parking their asses on you. Use the Go order as well, yes. Go is a double edged sword because if you use mage pawns, the mages will go rushing out to their death so your other mage pawn might be a little less effective as a result.
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Jun 13, 2012 21:17
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Cbouncerrun posted:I'm starting to get really frustrated with the pawn system. I'm currently a Sorceror, with my main pawn being a support Mage. I usually grab a fighter and a warrior pawn from the Rift to help keep enemies off me. But Sorceror really seems to gently caress with the Pawn AI because I'll try to back up to cast spells and my melee pawns will loving follow me. They'll stand there as they're being shot with arrows. This has happened with literally every pawn I've recruited over the past couple days and it's really frustrating me. I even get pawns that dont have guardian so I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm having sort of the opposite problem but still the same deal with AI while playing Sorcerer. My pawns are actually all too eager to do something and will run off after whatever random enemy they please, including following lone fleeing bandits and wolves that won't be an issue for the next minute or so, leaving me to deal with all the enemies that still are a threat and I can't do anything about without cover. I have to be sort of close to cast anything since manual aiming takes a while, particularly with the spells that target an area, and the lock-on doesn't work until you're dangerously close to the target. On my first run I frequently played Ranger like a physical-based Sorcerer, standing in the back just using arrows instead of spells, and my Fighter/Warrior pawn was amazing. He would constantly deal with the biggest threat including the enemies that were coming for me, used skills well, and generally did whatever I wanted him to. My current main is still a Fighter with the same AI as Freighter S. but has been unimpressive; I just don't know what to do about it.
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Jun 13, 2012 21:42
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Are there any story quests to do in post-game aside from bringing 20 Wakestones? Or is that how post-game progresses? For reference, I have already dueled the duke and aggroed his men. I was annoyed that I couldn't abstain from fighting him, so I gave him an Arc of Deliverance for good measure.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:13
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Not happy! I don't play gay characters and yet, the character I had to save was a guy. I tried to let him die but the game won't let me continue afterwards. I'm restarting all because of this bullshit.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:15
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Sounds like your subconscious gayness is manifesting itself in your play-style, my homosexual friend.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:17
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Samurai Sanders posted:Huh, coulda sworn I tried lightning on the ogres and it did unremarkable damage just like everything else. They should've named Ogres "Trolls," though. When I think of ogres, I think of something much bigger and burlier and stupider, but TROLLS hide under bridges and run off with unprotected maidens and billy goats. 
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Jun 13, 2012 22:18
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Role Play McMurphy posted:Sounds like your subconscious gayness is manifesting itself in your play-style, my homosexual friend. Oh man, I'm getting New Vegas flashbacks here.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:21
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Firmy Shoyombo posted:Not happy! I don't play gay characters and yet, the character I had to save was a guy. I tried to let him die but the game won't let me continue afterwards. I'm restarting all because of this bullshit. It will actually only show up one more time after you complete the main game, and it can switch characters at that point to the one you most recently maxed affinity with, so you'll get another chance. I had the same reaction but didn't end up being forced to be a lesbian after all. Just keep going. God this game is so random sometimes. For some reason I didn't really notice it before, but it's such an incredibly out-of-place thing to appear in the ending of a game that is about lighting yourself on fire and scuttling around on large monsters like a flaming cockroach. Owl Inspector fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Jun 13, 2012 22:21
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Role Play McMurphy posted:Sounds like your subconscious gayness is manifesting itself in your play-style, my homosexual friend. Yep. He kept giving presents to that guy for a reason!
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Jun 13, 2012 22:27
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Hey, at least Reynard is cute! If he becomes my accidental gay crush, that's okay. If Valmiro or the inn-keeper show up despite all the times I threatened to cut them I will be much less pleased.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:29
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Seriously though maybe Capcom didn't expect users to interpret waking up in the hotel room like that to mean a romantic encounter. They could indeed be that disconnected from reality.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:33
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Samurai Sanders posted:Seriously though maybe Capcom didn't expect users to interpret waking up in the hotel room like that to mean a romantic encounter. They could indeed be that disconnected from reality. It's not an inn room, it's your own house and they remain there forever after. I don't what Mercedes must think of Selene hanging out in my house and blushing at me too.
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Jun 13, 2012 22:47
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I gave Selene the bond, saved the Duchess, and Madeleine was at the beach. 
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Where is Selene when not at her hut? I hauled rear end all the way to Witchwood to get a brew and she's not here. And how do you get that dead end out of the way? e: I guess it doesn't matter because I no longer have the herb I threw in my inventory for no apparent reason. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Jun 13, 2012 23:47
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Go out the exit by her hut (the one that leads to the Cassardis road), then go back in and she should show up again. She wanders around the garden, sometimes, though.
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Jun 13, 2012 23:56
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Argh doing the clear the fort quest and those stupid goblins firing nonstop explosive ballista arrows are ruining me. Can you actually make use of the one on the opposite side to take out those two? It seemed to be doing absolutely nothing when I was firing at them.
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Jun 13, 2012 23:58
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Overlord K posted:Argh doing the clear the fort quest and those stupid goblins firing nonstop explosive ballista arrows are ruining me. Can you actually make use of the one on the opposite side to take out those two? It seemed to be doing absolutely nothing when I was firing at them.
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Jun 13, 2012 23:59
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Schubalts posted:Go out the exit by her hut (the one that leads to the Cassardis road), then go back in and she should show up again. She wanders around the garden, sometimes, though. Is that the dead end way? I'm assuming it's a monster but poking it isn't doing anything.
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Jun 13, 2012 23:59
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Overlord K posted:Argh doing the clear the fort quest and those stupid goblins firing nonstop explosive ballista arrows are ruining me. Can you actually make use of the one on the opposite side to take out those two? It seemed to be doing absolutely nothing when I was firing at them. You can, but I wouldn't recommend it. They can hit you, too. And that destroys the ballista. That's more likely that you hitting them. You can get up to where they are once the door opens on the far side of the courtyard and if you stand near the wall over there they can't hit you.
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Overlord K posted:Argh doing the clear the fort quest and those stupid goblins firing nonstop explosive ballista arrows are ruining me. Can you actually make use of the one on the opposite side to take out those two? It seemed to be doing absolutely nothing when I was firing at them. I think I finally got it by using normal bolts (because they reload much faster than the explosives) and shooting their bolts out of the air when they fired on me.
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Brontide is my new favourite ability. Not because it is particularly great, but because it is super cool.
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Jun 14, 2012 00:12
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It is super great against cyclopses, though. I can take out two before my stamina drains now, it's pretty cool.
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At first i thought i must have been overlevelled when i encountered ogres because i've never had any issues, but come to think of it they also rarely land attacks on me at all. They tend to swing and charge and sort of glitch past me or otherwise miss, even when they're close to death which i guess is when they berserk.
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Jun 14, 2012 00:19
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Captain Diarrhoea posted:At first i thought i must have been overlevelled when i encountered ogres because i've never had any issues, but come to think of it they also rarely land attacks on me at all. They tend to swing and charge and sort of glitch past me or otherwise miss, even when they're close to death which i guess is when they berserk.
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RBA Starblade posted:Is that the dead end way? I'm assuming it's a monster but poking it isn't doing anything. No, it's along the wall east of her hut. There's a path there that leads out to a ledge overlooking the road to Cassardis. Those are monsters (golems), but they only become fightable after starting a later quest. Witchhunt, which starts by the Gran Soren fountain after meeting with the Duke.
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I don't really like Ogres much, either. They're neat to fight at higher levels, but as a level 20ish female mage I'm still getting my poo poo pushed in by them constantly. Chimeras and Cyclopes go down fine, but a single Ogre still destroys my party. Also what is the fastest way to grind vocation ranks?
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Jun 14, 2012 00:28
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Schubalts posted:No, it's along the wall east of her hut. There's a path there that leads out to a ledge overlooking the road to Cassardis. Can you fight the other golems near the witch hut?
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Killed the Ur-Dragon twice today. Had a go at online yesterday, thought I'd leave it a while, but offline he's perfectly manageable, and even quite fun. Got a nice sword off him too. Guess I'll just wait until he's almost dead online and jump on. Is that how people tend to do it?
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Jun 14, 2012 01:12
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Cbouncerrun posted:Can you fight the other golems near the witch hut? There's only one near the hut that you can fight which wakes up in the Witch Hunt quest, but there's a regular one and a metal golem in the back area that can come alive later. You can tell which ones are real because you can grab and crawl around on them.
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