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Got bored of my Ranger (and a bit sick of BBI apparently turning my pawn Rose into a drooling moron again and again, she was fine in the main game!) so I started a new game on my other PSN id, based on the PC from my favourite play-through of Baldur's Gate. Pictured: Orlan the Ginger Half-Orc and faithful Imoen. She's a ranger with Challenger/Scather, which seems to get her to use her bow a lot. Is there an agreed 'best' inclination for rangers?
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Man, this game really brings out the indecisiveness in me. I simply can't set my mind on what Vocation I should focus on and instead end up trying everything. I really hope that Bitterblack Isle doesn't require a min-maxed Arisen since my stats are starting to look like a bloody patchwork by now due to my extensive dipping into both melee and magic vocations.
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May 9, 2013 08:20
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Had a good day in Bitterblack. Got to Warrior's Respite and took the Moonbeam Gem there to a Duskmoon Tower door to get the Dragon's Ire shortbow(fire enchanted) which was a huge upgrade over the one I had. Also got the Immortal Helm from a quest, that thing is pretty sweet. Now I just need to get the rest of the set... EDIT: Crap, according to the wiki the helm is the only piece of the Immortal set that can be worn by Assassins. Can anyone who has the set confirm or deny this? RatHat fucked around with this message at 08:26 on May 9, 2013 |
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May 9, 2013 08:23
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Yeah, I believe that's true. I think Gibbed had the fortune of discovering that  Sylphosaurus posted:Man, this game really brings out the indecisiveness in me. I simply can't set my mind on what Vocation I should focus on and instead end up trying everything. I really hope that Bitterblack Isle doesn't require a min-maxed Arisen since my stats are starting to look like a bloody patchwork by now due to my extensive dipping into both melee and magic vocations.
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May 9, 2013 08:32
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Good grief, went around town this afternoon looking for this expansion, no-one has it anymore! EB Games only got 2 copies in, and there's no more at head office they say! It's like Capcom doesn't WANT my money! Guess I'll have to order it online and wait for next weekend. Unless you can download it? Is there any drawback to that?
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May 9, 2013 08:42
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This Beholder is totally kicking my rear end. I caught Sex_Ferguson's sorcerer pawn trying to climb it for some reason..
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May 9, 2013 08:52
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Konig posted:Good grief, went around town this afternoon looking for this expansion, no-one has it anymore! EB Games only got 2 copies in, and there's no more at head office they say! It's like Capcom doesn't WANT my money! Guess I'll have to order it online and wait for next weekend. Unless you can download it? Is there any drawback to that? You can get a digital version on 360 and PSN Store, same price and it will be installed to the hard drive, but you need at least 24gb free on your hard drive. The only drawback is that you don't get the box. I sort of regret not just getting the physical copy but when it came out I really wanted to play  As for anything technical no not really, and having it installed to the hard drive might be better overall for performance. kirbysuperstar posted:This Beholder is totally kicking my rear end. I caught Sex_Ferguson's sorcerer pawn trying to climb it for some reason.. Destroy the tentacles as they come up to you, and then he tries to use 4 tentacles for a magic spell at the bottom of the arena, then you destroy those tentacles, and you get a Great cannon-esque spell that you can use to fire magic bolts at him, and once you do that, he dies in seconds.
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May 9, 2013 08:58
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Lunethex posted:Destroy the tentacles as they come up to you, and then he tries to use 4 tentacles for a magic spell at the bottom of the arena, then you destroy those tentacles, and you get a Great cannon-esque spell that you can use to fire magic bolts at him, and once you do that, he dies in seconds. I've cacked the main tentacles, then beat the poo poo out of his eye for a bit. Then he does the four tentacle thing and I take it out and continue doing that, but last time I narrowly missed killing the four tentacles (WAUGH A TENTACLE, LET'S DEAL WITH THESE TENTACLES  ) and it nuked us all. I'll give it another go, I guess.
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May 9, 2013 09:11
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I finally beat the big beholder. No one told me that giant spectral eye it summons turns into a magic cannon if you kill the tentacles around it, that's just weird. Good thing I love the magic knight class, so I knew just what to do with it.
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Lunethex posted:You can get a digital version on 360 and PSN Store, same price and it will be installed to the hard drive, but you need at least 24gb free on your hard drive. The only drawback is that you don't get the box. I sort of regret not just getting the physical copy but when it came out I really wanted to play Thanks, but YIKES. 24GB is a bit too much for my poor Australian intertubes to handle, it'd almost be faster to order it online. I think you can install it to hard-drive anyway, but that might just be the "HD" textures.
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Konig posted:Thanks, but YIKES. 24GB is a bit too much for my poor Australian intertubes to handle, it'd almost be faster to order it online. I think you can install it to hard-drive anyway, but that might just be the "HD" textures. Well that's the way it installs on PSN anyway, the game is actually just 12gb, but you download it first (which is 12gb) then install it while it sits there on the HDD, so 24gb. Are you on PS3 or 360?
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I've not gone into Bitterblack Isle yet since I wanted to spend some time in the Everfall and get a few levels as magick archer to improve my stats. I'm using the Gimble Gyre though because I locked out the quests to get Madeleine. Looks like the best magick bow I can get can be bought. Is farming Wakestones the fastest way to earn money to buy all of the Everfall merchant stuff? Should I not bother and just spend all the money on curatives and just go to BBI instead?
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Konig posted:Good grief, went around town this afternoon looking for this expansion, no-one has it anymore! EB Games only got 2 copies in, and there's no more at head office they say! It's like Capcom doesn't WANT my money! Guess I'll have to order it online and wait for next weekend. Unless you can download it? Is there any drawback to that? Holy poo poo, I had the same problem with EB Games. I went in not 4 days after release to learn that all 3 stores in my city were sold out, and they 'had none at the warehouse'. Ended up just getting it at JB HI-FI for cheap.
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May 9, 2013 09:59
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The Doomhammer posted:
This would make the best pawn chatter. Heya! It's me, Imoen! My blade will cut them down to size! ... what a large tree. As far as inclinations for shooty class pawns, you can't go wrong with some combo of challenger / scather.
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May 9, 2013 10:03
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Lunethex posted:Well that's the way it installs on PSN anyway, the game is actually just 12gb, but you download it first (which is 12gb) then install it while it sits there on the HDD, so 24gb. Are you on PS3 or 360? PS3. Just ordered it online though, so yeah. I'll be darkly arising in a week or so. Hopefully I won't be too late to ride the wave of goonhires, but chances are ill do my stock-standard solo run. I love the silence too much!
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May 9, 2013 10:13
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Welp, killed the Beholder/Gazer/whatever it was. That was a pretty fun fight, and the music was good.
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May 9, 2013 11:07
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Scott Bakula posted:I've not gone into Bitterblack Isle yet since I wanted to spend some time in the Everfall and get a few levels as magick archer to improve my stats. I'm using the Gimble Gyre though because I locked out the quests to get Madeleine. Looks like the best magick bow I can get can be bought. Is farming Wakestones the fastest way to earn money to buy all of the Everfall merchant stuff? Should I not bother and just spend all the money on curatives and just go to BBI instead?
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bonzaisushi posted:Ahhhh i cant wait to get off work so i can get back to playing this game. I just love getting that message that pops up and says your pawn was rented followed by getting some rad level 1 level 2 gear. I did the 15 potion trick thing posted at the beginning of the thread earlier today on my mage so hopefully herpina performs better now. All of the goons pawns i have rented(the only pawns i deal with) Are so freaking BADASS!
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May 9, 2013 12:13
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Rain looks like she'd make a better Arisen than my wispy magick archer. I guess that's what happens when you use a sword bigger than you are tall. Also man do I ever love the "looks like butt' filter that DA seems to apply to its screenshots.
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May 9, 2013 13:03
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I put my pawn's details in the spreadsheet for Xbox. He is a big burly fighter man named Logen and he is a pretty swell fella. XBL name is Billy Bullfrog.
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May 9, 2013 14:06
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Implicate on Elder Ogres is ridiculous. Kept him stagger locked the entire fight. Didn't even swing once.
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May 9, 2013 14:06
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I just had death appear to me on a bridge in BitterBlack Isle. Shot at him with a Magickal Gleam and got a one shot kill as he was stunned and fell to his doom. Seems awfully anticlimactic.
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gibbed posted:And post-Daimon, Duskmoon Tower spawns a dire drake there of various types, too (Nahxela mentioned this earlier). Most of the time. The one time I leapt straight off the bridge intending to land on a drake and grab on in style? Nothing there. Splat. Of course, just jumping off is my usual method of going through that area. And a lot of areas. The Arisen must have a strong face, if the amount of falls stopped with it are anything to go by.
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Thanks either Marogareh/or private guy for the blood red gem. One was marked as private so I don't know who it was exactly, but thanks both!
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The new goon pawns are being condescending to me.  I was escorting Fournival's spoiled brat around, she started whining about water and I handed her a bottle to an off-screen chorus of: YOU DID IT! WELL DONE MASTER!
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May 9, 2013 15:26
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Donnerberg posted:The new goon pawns are being condescending to me. I fell in some water while trying to clamber to new horizons, and when the water threw me back all my pawns started chiming, "Don't worry, master, it's not like you mess up ALL the time."
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Lotish posted:I fell in some water while trying to clamber to new horizons, and when the water threw me back all my pawns started chiming, "Don't worry, master, it's not like you mess up ALL the time." Ha, their snide comments when you end up in the drink are great.
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New fun encounter for the day. Death spawns as I'm running up to the door for Daimon. Death sleeps pawns. All pawns die. Not enough RC to repair the last riftstone. Reload last save. Reloaded, Jump on Daimon's face and stabbed him over and over for 25 seconds. He died. Ironsolid fucked around with this message at 16:31 on May 9, 2013 |
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I started with strider then moved to assasain (after butters hooked me up with some EPIC daggers) then switched to ranger (after butters hooked me up with an EPIC bow), then switched to fighter for the encumbrance augments that you guys suggested. Now im going magic archer, advice? My gear is poo poo right now but at least i have some epic daggers! I just got to the great wall mission. Thanks again for the loot butter and other who rented my pawn. You all rock!
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May 9, 2013 16:17
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Is the demo of this game representative of the final product? I am a pretty big fan of Dark Souls and I've seen a few comparisons here and there, but the demo was nigh unplayable for me.
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silentpenguins posted:Is the demo of this game representative of the final product? I am a pretty big fan of Dark Souls and I've seen a few comparisons here and there, but the demo was nigh unplayable for me. It's a big open-world RPG. The demo is literally two fights without any kind of context or instruction. So no, the demo is really not a fair representation of the final product.
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McDragon posted:Ha, their snide comments when you end up in the drink are great. I like how the pawns bust on Valmiro during his side quests too. If I use the help command my pawn shits on me as well, she must have been set to "Arrogant" when asked what to say if she aids me. "Wounded by this trifle? Please master, don't be so careless." For emotionless robots they throw a few zingers out every now and then.
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Dominic White posted:It's a big open-world RPG. The demo is literally two fights without any kind of context or instruction. So no, the demo is really not a fair representation of the final product. Uh didn't they release a new demo at some point?
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I'm starting BBI and need a little help, so just signed up on the Google doc. Xbox gamertag: LIGONATOR7 Pawn: Balrog. Big demonic sorcerer.
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I'm really going to miss Autonomy and Bloodlust when I get DA. It's amazing how atmospheric and generally better the game can be when there aren't a bunch of clowns running in front of the camera and babbling nonsense all the time. Dealing with specters and phantasms is still a huge pain solo but otherwise throwing my pawns in the ocean was a pretty big improvement.
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kirbysuperstar posted:
You can try loading the image into irfanview first and using the Image -> Auto Adjust Colors option, and then an Image -> Sharpen. Makes them look better to me at least.
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silentpenguins posted:Is the demo of this game representative of the final product? I am a pretty big fan of Dark Souls and I've seen a few comparisons here and there, but the demo was nigh unplayable for me.
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Added myself to the doc, GT is The Brionic Man, pawn is Emyr. I hope he makes himself useful out there, please let me know if there's anything that needs fixing! He doesn't seem to do the usual dumb pawn things like throwing himself over cliffs, at least. If he's going over a ledge it's because he's beating something to death on the way down 
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Surlaw posted:It's a good game that's nothing like Dark Souls outside of some of its setting.
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Hah, the kind of zingers that your pawn tend to throw around itself when it has the "Arrogant" personality makes for some pretty funny stuff.
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