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Cynic Jester posted:I'd recommend a second level of Sorcerer over the Paladin level. It nets you one more level of casting, which is super handy and way more interesting later on. I'd also recommend Eldritch Knight for the last levels. Eldritch Knight to 7 and stopping Dragon Disciple at 8 would also be a good idea. The last two levels of Dragon Disciple are super bad. You lose out on the 4th attack per round and a level of spellcasting progression and gain wings. In a game without flying. Yay. Plus if you're Aasimar, you can get wings from feats I think. If you grab the level of Sorcerer and stop Disciple at 8, you get to cast 7th level instead of stopping at 6th, and you get access to higher level spells 2 levels earlier in the mid game, plus increasing the duration of buffs so you don't have to recast them as often, in a game that really disincentives resting.  Also wings are cool. I could become some kind of four winged freak.
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My dumbass bard-barian is the best and the coolest and no one can take that away from me
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Oct 4, 2018 22:40
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corn in the bible posted:My dumbass bard-barian is the best and the coolest and no one can take that away from me There's a 3.5 prestige class out there for bardarians that is all about shouting, which just makes sense to me.
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Oct 4, 2018 22:44
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Their music is all the rage these days.
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Oct 4, 2018 22:47
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The wild and wooly bigass number munchkin oeuvre of pathfinder really gives me the bends as applied to bandits and trolls It's not a complaint about the game it's just weird seeing ac and bab numbers my head associates with fighting demigods and liches while killing some morons in leather jerkins who live in a cave
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Cynic Jester posted:I'd recommend a second level of Sorcerer over the Paladin level. It nets you one more level of casting, which is super handy and way more interesting later on. I'd also recommend Eldritch Knight for the last levels. Eldritch Knight to 7 and stopping Dragon Disciple at 8 would also be a good idea. The last two levels of Dragon Disciple are super bad. You lose out on the 4th attack per round and a level of spellcasting progression and gain wings. In a game without flying. Yay. Plus if you're Aasimar, you can get wings from feats I think. If you grab the level of Sorcerer and stop Disciple at 8, you get to cast 7th level instead of stopping at 6th, and you get access to higher level spells 2 levels earlier in the mid game, plus increasing the duration of buffs so you don't have to recast them as often, in a game that really disincentives resting. Dragonangel Ball Z does sound like a pretty fun build, though I kind of want to cut the paladin out entirely
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Oct 4, 2018 22:52
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Randbrick posted:The wild and wooly bigass number munchkin oeuvre of pathfinder really gives me the bends as applied to bandits and trolls
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Randbrick posted:The wild and wooly bigass number munchkin oeuvre of pathfinder really gives me the bends as applied to bandits and trolls Have you met the named Will o the Wisp yet? You'll enjoy it. Level 2 area. +12 dex modifier. Weapon Finesse. Casts shield to stop magic missiles. If it wasn't for it doing a damage type that you can easily resist, I'd have tossed my monitor out the window waiting for 20s and slowly chipping it down with bombs.
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Blockhouse posted:Dragonangel Ball Z does sound like a pretty fun build, though I kind of want to cut the paladin out entirely The issue is that Paladin is totally busted on any character with lots of Charisma. The build loses a lot of defensive power if you drop it. Plus being angel hitler with a literal halo never gets old.
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Oct 4, 2018 22:58
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That movement speed mod is a loving lifechanger, makes everything better
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Oct 4, 2018 23:24
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Say what you will about how buggy and stable this game is, but atleast it didn't freeze during the opening cutscene, like Assassin's Creed Odyssey just did for me. e: Movement speed mod does sound like something I should check out when I return to the game, hopefully it'll be v1.1 by then.
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Oct 4, 2018 23:25
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Had to stop playing when I ran into my fifth or so quest I could not finish or start properly. Waiting to see what coming patches brings, while playing around with new classes and combos.
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JamMasterJim posted:Wouldn't it be easier to just start Neutral Good? It works for both. Oh motherfucker. I assumed it was only the Lawful/True/Chaotic Neutral that worked. Well yeah then, it Robin Hood time. Time to make cults and friends, and cult friends.
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Rookersh posted:Oh motherfucker. I assumed it was only the Lawful/True/Chaotic Neutral that worked. I made friends with a cult, even though they specialize in freak babies, they gave me beast eyes instead.
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Hey here's a workaround for those of you crashing out in 1.04 while going through a portal in chapter 4: if you wait at the loading screen for 20-30 minutes it will eventually load in!
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Well, I seem to have just spent one and a half hours learning what the difficulty options do and making my character.  Eventually I'll figure out what Spell Focus I want my Sorcerer to have.
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Oct 5, 2018 02:37
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corn in the bible posted:
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I definitely miss engagement from PoE in this. Edder having a bit of stickiness was nice.
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Gorelab posted:I definitely miss engagement from PoE in this. Edder having a bit of stickiness was nice. There are so many things I miss from Pillars in this game. Speeding up movement, the use of stealth, the way spells work more often than not. Not missing every other hit and just swinging wildly for ages.
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Oct 5, 2018 03:22
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So what is the current state of the game - what is exactly broken, and how much of an impact does said broken-bits have?
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evilmiera posted:There are so many things I miss from Pillars in this game. Speeding up movement, the use of stealth, the way spells work more often than not. Not missing every other hit and just swinging wildly for ages. Use the movement speed mod it's hella tight Iymarra posted:So what is the current state of the game - what is exactly broken, and how much of an impact does said broken-bits have? it's broke as gently caress until the end of act 3 where it becomes even more broke than gently caress. also, it's game of the year
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corn in the bible posted:Use the movement speed mod it's hella tight This one?
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Iymarra posted:So what is the current state of the game - what is exactly broken, and how much of an impact does said broken-bits have? As the poster above said, it is broken in many ways, but chapter 3 is unplayable in some parts. I'm not exaggerating when I say that either, as I mentioned before there are now about 4-5 quests I just can't finish because they are broken, with several kingdom features glitched out as well. Not to mention the number of bugs involving the throne room, the main map, and many others.
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Events that pop up at the end of the month and expire the next day are the dumbest thing.
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The fix for those end of month events is to try to keep someone in reserve to handle them. This usually means foregoing at least one opportunity. You generally want to address all problems but be selective with opportunities. Re bugs: I think a lot of the bugginess in the game is to do with poorly managed sequencing. This playthrough, I’ve missed out on one advisor because his laboratory spawned an out of sequence map. You’re supposed to visit him 4 times; (1) before an event; (2) after a second, random event; (3) after a third event and (4) after you finish the chapter all these events take place in. However, if the third event happens before your second visit, which can happen easily because you might not trigger the random event until after the third event, the second map spawns after the third one and you never get the 4th map.
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Beefeater1980 posted:The fix for those end of month events is to try to keep someone in reserve to handle them. This usually means foregoing at least one opportunity. You generally want to address all problems but be selective with opportunities. That assumes that you even get a chance to see it because you're not out adventuring. It's just an insanely dumb gotcha.
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Gorelab posted:That assumes that you even get a chance to see it because you're not out adventuring. It's just an insanely dumb gotcha. Absolute truth here.
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Can you not handle those events if you're out adventuring? I noticed the kingdom button disappeared when I strayed from my capital, but I haven't built any more settlements yet. It'd be nice if the regent did some regency. Mordecai fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Mordecai posted:Can you not handle those events if you're out adventuring? I noticed the kingdom button disappeared when I strayed from my capital, but I haven't built any more settlements yet. Visitors to the capitol will only speak with you. You can certainly check to see if people are there using the kingdom button and then head on back, but it's not available when you're far away.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/davidgaider/status/1047945473393274880
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He ain't wrong. But this coming from DA2vid Gaider is hilarious.
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Funso Banjo posted:No one played with resting? Seriously? That's like such a core rule. You had some odd groups. As in the "You're exhausted, GO REST" rather than the general rest rule. evilmiera posted:There are so many things I miss from Pillars in this game. Speeding up movement, the use of stealth, the way spells work more often than not. Not missing every other hit and just swinging wildly for ages. Even on Story you miss so loving much, maybe 40% of all attacks are misses.
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I noticed that when I set the boss fight with Tartuk and the Troll to story mode because I kinda wandered into them without saving, that Tartuk still had 30 AC on story mode which seems a bit silly for a caster.
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Gorelab posted:I noticed that when I set the boss fight with Tartuk and the Troll to story mode because I kinda wandered into them without saving, that Tartuk still had 30 AC on story mode which seems a bit silly for a caster. He has both magic armor AND shield cast. You can dispel it I suppose, or destroy him with area effects that he can't dodge--I just had Octavia blow him away with lightning rays
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corn in the bible posted:He has both magic armor AND shield cast. You can dispel it I suppose, or destroy him with area effects that he can't dodge--I just had Octavia blow him away with lightning rays That's a +4 though, unless it's serious magic armor like serious serious that's still a bit silly. Now I'm fighting a paladin where I can only use Valerie and it's just both of them missing except a natural 20.
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Gorelab posted:That's a +4 though, unless it's serious magic armor like serious serious that's still a bit silly. Now I'm fighting a paladin where I can only use Valerie and it's just both of them missing except a natural 20. You're supposed to lose that duel, because railroaded losses for the sake of plot are fun apparently!
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I'm more curious why this is a fight rather than a book event because it's taking a seriously long time her to die.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:You're supposed to lose that duel, because railroaded losses for the sake of plot are fun apparently! You can win, but it only changes dialogue a bit. It's a bit easier if you give her all the steroids.
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Man they're really rolling out the patches. So much better than what usually happens.  hotfix 1.0.5 posted:Hideous Laughter requires target intelligence to be higher than 2 for you to be able to cast it. This, combined with penalties for Weak Enemies (default setting for enemy difficulty on Easy Mode and Story Mode), lead to the case that some enemies in this weakened state are too dumb to get the jokes. Resolution: fixed, the Hideous Laughter now takes only the base intelligence of the target into account.  
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