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Not sure what the ideal strategy for the Swine God is. Unlike the earlier forms, Wilbur completely fucks you over with constant AOE stuns that lock down half your party each turn. My only guess would be an arbalest throwing a flare too remove the stun with guys decked out in protection gear up front. Not exactly eager too try again though after losing a champion bounty hunter. Gabriel Pope posted:
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so, uh, midnight tonight or tomorrow afternoon?
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Jan 18, 2016 21:12
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"Now, like me, YOU ARE A PART OF THIS PLACE." Maybe we're going to learn why the dead-guy is narrating. Or maybe dying in the estate traps your soul to fuel some eldritch horror's ascent, or something.
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Internet Kraken posted:Not sure what the ideal strategy for the Swine God is. Unlike the earlier forms, Wilbur completely fucks you over with constant AOE stuns that lock down half your party each turn. My only guess would be an arbalest throwing a flare too remove the stun with guys decked out in protection gear up front. Not exactly eager too try again though after losing a champion bounty hunter. A good party is Arbalest, Occultist, Houndmaster, Bounty Hunter. Occultist marks, heals, and weakens if he has a spare turn, Arbalest clears stuns and marks if necessary, Houndmaster and Bounty hunter capitalize on the marks and just go to town. Houndmaster and Bounty Hunter can provide a backup source of mark if the Occultist is busy healing or if you want the Occultist to focus on weakening curse instead. Houndmaster isn't strictly necessary since the boss doesn't have any protection, but you may have trouble in fights getting TO the boss if you bring two bounty hunters. You'll be short on back-row damage. Try to give speed + stun resist to the Arbalest so she can keep the rest of the team rolling. The Swine God only has 2 speed so you should be able to get in front of him 100% of the time if you get her at 10 speed or higher. Marching Plan can help. You may want to skip Restring Crossbow since she won't be attacking very often. You can give extra damage to your bounty hunter with the Occultist instead.
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Crasical posted:"Now, like me, YOU ARE A PART OF THIS PLACE." ive been assuming the ancestor is dead, a ghost, your dad, and the final boss for over a year now, in that order.
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The Ancestor's Letter / Voice is a forgery / ventriloquism by Reynauld so he can steal your family's stuff.
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if i rename solo to dirge and give it a mark effect, would that be too ridiculous? im trying to salvage this dead gay class
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I played one binge of this some time after EA release to assure myself my backing had been well placed, and boy had it. Can't wait to play the release version, let's see if I can top party wiping in the tutorial dungeon 
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Doctor Schnabel posted:if i rename solo to dirge and give it a mark effect, would that be too ridiculous? im trying to salvage this dead gay class Marks are not generally that strong, jesters are awful, and setting up marks for teammates seems to fit the jester's supposed role. I'd say go for it. (I may have to steal this idea if I ever get into modding DD, too.)
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the jester is fine in the sense that SOMEBODY has to do the most abysmal damage while not also having heals.
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the basic concept of jester was 'sub par fighter in exchange for extremely good camp guy' but he's not super great at camp either. maybe he should give extra respite points or something.
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So... when should I upgrade my dudes and their gear? I think I got all the way to medium dungeons on the shittiest gear and am not sure if I want to upgrade now in fear of them dying and losing all that cool poo poo.
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Doctor Schnabel posted:so, uh, midnight tonight or tomorrow afternoon? The question on everyone's mind I haven't really played since the first month of Early Access. So, what about these corpses, huh? More seriously someone explain to me how to play man at arms, houndmaster, and arbalest
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The question on everyone's mind Houndmaster is awesome for marking and bleeding everyone. Don't take him to the Ruins. Arbalest is... uh. She's good at shooting the rear enemies? I like to take her along as a healer sometimes. EDIT: Waiting so patiently for the past week for this, and two-and-a-half more weeks until XCOM 2. This is a good start to the year. Olive Branch fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Arbalest is good at sniping frail stress-dealers out of the back row, and synergizes well with a front-row hellion at that. She combines well with Occultists and Houndmasters, especially if you use Unspeakable Commune on the Occultist to ensure he goes first and marks whoever you want dead. Those three together make a solid marking party which doesn't have to rely entirely on the occultist's unreliable healing, and every single party member is capable of attacking the front and back rows. The front party member can be a Hellion for maximum target flexibility, a Crusader if heading to the ruins, a Bounty Hunter if you want even more mark-exploiting potential, or a Man-at-Arms if you want to play more defensively. This team has no blight/bleed potential, and relies on marks and houndmaster whistles to get the damage needed to overcome heavy protection enemies.
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katkillad2 posted:I can't believe I finally get to play this game tomorrow. The wait has been so long Still disappointed that the Merchant class won't be coming out tomorrow 
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Olive Branch posted:Houndmaster is awesome for marking and bleeding everyone. Don't take him to the Ruins. Oh lord, I forgot about XCOM 2. I wonder if my compy will be able to handle it. This does look like it will be a good way to wait out the gap till the second Pillars of Eternity expansion comes out.
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after 80 weeks in-game finally came across The Collector in a short Cove run. Maybe it was just because it was a Level 1 team but he was far easier than I imagined, nothing like how the Shambler is a complete and utter horror to fight. Pretty spooky "Show Collection" flasher move though, lol.
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Jesters are kind of fun up until they aren't which happens real quick. Arbalest can clear Wilbur's mark during the Swine King fight.
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Man at arms also has crazy good camp skills. Like +20% dmg, 10 acc, 3% crit to another person for 3 time, where it would be around 5 time for anyone else. His stun and basic attack reach out to rank 3 and can attack from position 3, which makes him really flexible. Guard is great in some situations, and while his buffs are good I don't really use them much. There are some setups to stick him in rank4 and combo guarding+buffs and stuff but I haven't messed with that personally. Usually slapped into position 1 or 2, depending on your other guy. Houndmaster is basically what the jester wishes he could be. He has a guard (+dodge for himself instead of +prot like MaA), self-heal, stress heal, attack that hits any ranks, a stun, and his marking skill has the only -prot% debuff available. He fits into a ton of setups, but having so many good options can be confusing to figure out what your best choice at any given time is. Usually stick him in spot 2 or 3, depending on if you want access to his stun (spot 2) or stress heal (spot 3). Arbalest is maybe my favorite rank 4 option. She has the health of a front liner, and really great scaling on her sniper shot. Think of her kind of like a bounty hunter, but her utility helps your team instead of hindering the other team. Stuff like stun/mark clearing, a medium heal. She works great with the occultist, since he usually goes first you can mark->sniper, she can give a guaranteed heal to pull someone off death's door that he lacks. Being able to apply good damage without mark to their back is also nice. All 3 are in a great spot currently, both from active skills and from camp skills. After using them for a bit it gets hard to use some of the older heroes, who start to feel like they need another balance pass. Like bounty hunter's self buff is +25% damage to size 2 enemies, and arbalest's self buff is like 20% dmg, 10 acc all the time. I think bounty's camp buff takes more camp time as well.
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Apparently it's coming out at 10PM PST tomorrow, according to this steam thread. In related news, it's also coming out at 10AM PST tomorrow, according to this tweet. Soup du Journey fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Doctor Schnabel posted:Apparently it's coming out at 10PM PST tomorrow, according to this steam thread. Oh Steam Forums.
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MinibarMatchman posted:after 80 weeks in-game finally came across The Collector in a short Cove run. Maybe it was just because it was a Level 1 team but he was far easier than I imagined, nothing like how the Shambler is a complete and utter horror to fight. Pretty spooky "Show Collection" flasher move though, lol. I've fought him several times at champ level and haven't found him to be too much of a problem. Depending on party comp I stun or focus down his vestal or MAA summons, ignore the highwaymen and otherwise just burn him down asap. The highwaymen do hit pretty hard so I usually come out of the fight down a few HP but I've yet to retreat or lose anyone to him. The shambler is definitely way harder and I've had to retreat from it a number of times. I did find that Jester-Graverobber-Abomination-Hellion completely curbstomps him though, at least in apprentice level. Jester spams the party buff that boosts speed, Abom transforms and one-shots both summons at once every round with Rake, GR spams Thrown Dagger at the Shambler, debuffing its bleed resist, Hellion spams If It Bleeds. I barely took any damage at all and scored a sweet ancestor trinket that gives 25% virtue chance.
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widespread posted:Oh Steam Forums. Man it better not be 10PM PST, what the hell kind of poo poo is that, that's the 19th for like what, two time zones? Bad enough I won't wake up to the full experience tomorrow and will have to wait until shortly after lunch...
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:Man it better not be 10PM PST, what the hell kind of poo poo is that, that's the 19th for like what, two time zones? Bad enough I won't wake up to the full experience tomorrow and will have to wait until shortly after lunch... The steam forum post has been edited and now says 10 AM PST, so crisis averted?
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whynot change it to 10pm PST on Jan 18 and make everyone happiest
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IMO someone should make a new thread once this is released tomorrow since I'm sure a lot of people are unaware its finally coming out. I won't be able to go into the Darkest Dungeon though since I still have a bunch of tier 3 bosses left  EDIT: My Vestal has become faithless. How does that work 
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endolithic posted:The steam forum post has been edited and now says 10 AM PST, so crisis averted? Steam Forum still sucks, though. But on the bright side, I feel a bit more adjusted to this game. Far less afflicted people in this run.
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widespread posted:Steam Forum still sucks, though. Well it's not like I read anything past the original post. That way lies madness. 
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Internet Kraken posted:EDIT: My Vestal has become faithless. Class change to Heretic.
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... odd. I was all set to take on the Tier 1 Brigand, but for some reason, the game took Reynauld away. Not sure if it's a glitch/bug or what.
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widespread posted:... odd. I was all set to take on the Tier 1 Brigand, but for some reason, the game took Reynauld away. Not sure if it's a glitch/bug or what. Was he de-stressing in the abbey or tavern? Sometimes they go on a drunken bender / vision quest / prayer retreat / gambling frenzy / whatever and they don't come home until the next week. Check the newsfeed.
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Mzbundifund posted:Was he de-stressing in the abbey or tavern? Sometimes they go on a drunken bender / vision quest / prayer retreat / gambling frenzy / whatever and they don't come home until the next week. Check the newsfeed. No. In fact, it was the exact same team I took for the Tier 1 Hag, which was literally the quest before that. The screen did give me some weird code text, though. Didn't screengrab it. I'll see if I can have it replicated. EDIT: A screen like this.  Also RIP Tier 1 Hag Killers. Died to the Brigand, whose Matchman I couldn't hit in time. widespread fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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widespread posted:No. In fact, it was the exact same team I took for the Tier 1 Hag, which was literally the quest before that. The screen did give me some weird code text, though. Didn't screengrab it. I'll see if I can have it replicated.
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Internet Kraken posted:EDIT: My Vestal has become faithless. Easily. She still has the power, but it's not 'faith in a higher power' anymore. The struggle has broken her faith, but not her strength. Expect lots more 'Suffer as I have!' from her from here on.
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Bloodly posted:Easily. She still has the power, but it's not 'faith in a higher power' anymore. The struggle has broken her faith, but not her strength. Expect lots more 'Suffer as I have!' from her from here on. It would be cool if faithless let religious heroes join a party with the abomination. It's sorta OP but I love little details like that from traits.
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Demiurge4 posted:It would be cool if faithless let religious heroes join a party with the abomination. It's sorta OP but I love little details like that from traits. Same for God Fearing and excluding. I would like more things to mod the heroes personalities.
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Any resources for suggested class compositions for each area, general ideas for what items / quantity to bring to what dungeon
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