>>3207400
You can probably rest much more than you think. I believe it takes like 4-5 rests to cross into the first level of corruption penalties if you have someone with good Lore (Religion). Almost every dungeon has 2 separate corruption clearing points. You can seriously rest before every single significant fight that isn't just like one wandering loser on patrol. It's stupid and boring to do so but you can. The only consequence of going too slow in terms of day count in the entire game after chapter 1 is Galfrey complaining a little and not giving you a ring of protection you'll probably never equip because your shield of faith is better.

whats /vrpg/ opinion on tabletop tweaks mod?
https://github.com/Vek17/TabletopTweaks-Base

>>3207418
I've never used it, learning all the autistic little rules and exceptions of the game was enough of a burden without adding a layer of modder autism on top

>>3207400
>aimed for some achievement on his first run
Kill yourself but, like, unironically. Holy fuck.

Chapter 1, rely more on scrolls and potions than your casters. As soon as you get your mythic abilities, go for the abundant caster line, and you'll find yourself having more than enough spells.
Use the fish food that makes it take longer to get fatigued and use the paladin grace that lets lay on hands remove fatigue (and exhaustion later).
Demon mythic abilities, unfortunately, are just something you use for boss fights. I think they could have safely doubled the uses. Angel and Lich are just so strong at all times. When you do get to pop your Demon Rage though, it can do some very broken things.

>>3207432
This food tip was really useful anon, I didn't bother checking at first but I guess one can get plenty of good effects cooking pathslop.
>angel and lich
I have been thinking about doing an angel run for a future unfair run since the mythic path seems unbalanced on lower difficulties with some of its powers active 24/7.
>>3207412
Galfrey sounds like an ass, my character is planning to betray her if a choice arises. I've actually been going quite fast the campaign though, managed to clear everything in chapter one before tavern defense.
>>3207423
>t. beat the game at story difficulty

>>3207448
you outrun the difficulty on unfair part way through chapter 3 and it stops being a major undertaking on every single fight. The exception is angel and lich with spellbook merge classes, which both already outrun the difficulty when they get their third mythic level near the end of chapter 2

Higher difficulties will always still have some cases where the enemies just roll high and CC your whole party turn 1 though.

>>3207400
This gets much better later on, IMHO.
But some playstyles and party compositions can fight on longer with less spells used. Like if you have multiple pets with crane style/wing/ripotse feats and fighters ride on those

I think a fair adjustment would be to add "double demon rage per day" to the endless rage mythic. Demon Rage at all times might very well be too powerful. Maybe not, though, it scales so late in the game.

>>3207516
>too powerful
It's not

>>3207418
Based. Fuck owlkek's homebrew

>>3207400
>sake of rp chaotic character will go demon
Why not Trickster at that point?

>>3207704
Maybe maybe not. Compared to core features of other paths? Yes, absolutely. Compared to spellbook merge? No.

>>3207714
Different RP. Demon has multiple paths, too. Demon Lord, minion of Nocticula, etc.

>>3207714
I'm interested to see what twists and plot devices the game has in store for the bizarre scenario of the crusader commander turning into a demon, plus I kinda wanted to do an evil playthrough after being a good guy in a previous game. From what I've read, Demon Path had the most evil content while not needing to murder all your companions so I went with it. Admittedly, Trickster could really boost my Eldrich Archer, but I'm going for more rp this time.

>>3207400
spellcasters are trap choices. just get a kineticist if you want to blast from range all day and night. wrath has some cool endurance sections where the non-magical/limited resource classes shine.

>>3207418
fixes a lot of stuff that hasn't been broken for over a year, it's kind of a mess due to the insane feature bloat and continuing updates to the actual game.

>>3207756
>>3207949
ah, didn't know you were going for specifically an evil character since you only mentioned chaotic. Yeah if your PC is chaotic evil then demon is obv the path to go.

>>3208087
Kineticist is just gay. Why would I bother playing as a not-mage who can only use choice elements when I can play a Wizard or a Sorcerer or a Witch or a Cleric or a Druid or even a Shaman when those full casters have so many fun spells to choose from? If I don't want to rest and just want to do hit shit for big damage I'll play a Fighter at that point.

>>3207400
The pacing in Wrath is so bizarre to me. Act 1 is on a stringent time limit (and Act 2 as well, sort of) and then by Act 3 all of that is dropped and you can meander for a while. The whole thing Kingmaker had of "complete this within x time or it's game over" was retarded but it at least had better pacing than Wrath and you knew that everything was timed. You also weren't being bombarded by council meetings every five seconds and they were spread out more. In Wrath as soon as Act 3 starts the game gives you 18 gorillion quests to do and the moment you try to do any of them it screeches at you to get your ass back to Drezen and address five different meetings, and then when you leave it nags at you again to go back to Drezen and do even more meetings. Somehow they managed to make being Knight Commander a more stressful job than running an entire barony or even a kingdom.

>>3208138
Act is all that keeps this from being possibly my all time favorite. It is too bloated.

>>3208140
*Act 3

Brothers, how do you actually beat hostile on hard+? I've made a Sylvan trickster with slumber but this fucking hex is a joke when everything decides to roll a 16 against my 14 DC. Anyway, hosilla also kills seelah in one hit when she decides to roll 15, or targets another party member and fears everyone when she kills them. How do?
I'm even fighting her with both Wendu and lann

Also I have no idea how to beat the medium earth elementals or the huge water elementàls as those *also* kill me in one or 2 hits.

Seems like this game is exceedingly gay on higher difficulties

>>3208236
I play the first act on core, then I switch to hard in act 2.

>>3208239
Core was pretty doable, yes.But man.. theres achievements for going hard+ the whole game.
I've been reading a bit and it demands all kinds of cheese as well as doing the exp share trick so you reach level 3 beforehand. Why is owlcat such a fucking mess at balancing their game? No testers whatsoever?

>>3208236
On hard you can more or less get away with Turn based if you're very good but if you want to decrease your suffering by any significant amount you literally have to switch between RTWP and TB at will, before fights, in the middle of the fights, and whenever else you need to. e.g. to beat swarms of rats and other things, enemies like the elementals and any other enemy who cannot range attack you or run as fast as you, you take off your armor and kite them with bows in RTWP mode by never letting them reach melee range. You back peddle all the way through the map if you have to and find some sort of dungeon architecture to run circles around.

For Hosilla you just stack debuffs like intimidate, evil eye, ray of sickening, while holding your CC in RTWP mode and as soon as you've landed as many as you can you pop that character's CC action and try to drop her, if it doesn't work you just reload. And reload. And then reload, reload, reload, and reload until it works. Once the start of the fight isn't dogshit that's when you actually play it by switching to turn based to capitalize on your incapacitation. IIRC there is one single scroll of grease available either in the shield maze or before it that you can possibly use if you don't have a CC ability available by some other means. Alternatively you can take Wenduag and give her a Rowdy level so that you can use Vital Strike and simply reload until you get a critical hit that nukes her in the first round of combat.

Hosilla is widely considered to be one of the worst parts of an Ironman run because of how narrow your options actually are for dealing with her. Prebuffing and checking her with a tank just doesn't work on unfair and isn't reliable on hard.

>>3208261
Why would you play this game ironman? You can play Baldur's Gate ironman because you can completely remove RNG from the equation in that game. In addition, 2e doesn't have critical misses for rolls other than to-hit. You can't critically miss a saving throw. You can't do that here. What do you do when the game decides that you rolled a 1 on your stealth check and you start a battle in the middle of level draining demons with no buffs?

>>3207400
im at act1 but what's the most common enemy type (besides demons)?

>>3208310
git gud

>>3208314
Demons are like 60/70% of the enemies, the remaining are mostly undead or cultists I think. It's the reason Demonslayer exist and it's considered a good class too

>>3208236
Have a pet boar or leopard and make it tank (mage armor, shield of faith, barkskin, all that shit on it). Camel uses protective luck hex on it every turn. Hosilla wasn't a big deal even on unfair, you will see a lot of worse shit soon.

I copied some build from neoseeker and I have a dog which seems useless, cant mount it and it does no damage, should i be using it purely as a trip bot or am i missing something?

>>3208426
Cast reduce person yourself or animal growth on it (though it will get bigger later) for mount. Not worth it for a couple minutes, though.
Damage scaling gets good later on when you can cast magic fang, acid maw and shit like Mark of Justice. Plus, equipment you get (amulets, belts etc). Boosting Strength score helps with AB and damage.

Pets tend to have frontloaed ac, so if you cast a few buffs (like mage armor), it's good bait. And tripping is almost good enough reason on it's own, really. Boosting stats and giving it trip related feats will make it very conssitent

>>3208421
no...........
Imma try kiting her and if that fails it's respec time
Stupid sexy demon worshipper needs correction!

>>3208236
Take the elemental to one of the big rooms, position your party on the corner with bows and keep running in circles as it follows you and your companions flank it every turn

>>3208426
Neoseeker builds are far too many patches behind desu, you have a better chance with youtubers' as they are also more didactic

>>3207418
Best mod. any mod that fixes armor is great imo. It also fixes Arue and Regill class to make them viable even in Hard or unfair.

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Why does Owlcat like bloating every creature stats from the tabletop?
>>3208314
After act 2 it's mostly demons and some monstrous humanoids with very few humans here and there. this is the demon specific AP after all.

>>3208516
Because they want to compensate for the fact that they give you a 6 man party, more magical items on a rapid pace, characters not based on random dice rolls or 15 point boy, a non-human dm who could use tactics, essentially only flat terrain for most encounters and no use of non-strictly combat skills for you nor your enemies (so no dragons that fly, burrowing enemies etc)

>>3208520
Even than giving bloating stats and ac somehow doesn't make the game difficult. They should have instead given the demons more powers and abilities to fuck your squad up instead of giving a random Glabrezu more hit die then he is suppose to have and some extra Nat armor out of nowhere. I hope they atleast make the next Pathfinder game a tad bit tactical next time

>>3208527
Wrath has given more prebuffing and abilites/spells to enemies compared to kingmaker and more varied enemy compositions, but it it's still not that tactical especially when you go past act 4

>>3208426
Your pet needs buffs to function at full potential just like other party members. An easy example is the fact that you can cast Magic Armor on them for a free +4 AC and get deflection bonus from Shield of Faith/Protection From Evil. 3 Ranks of Mobility will give you extra AC from Defensive stance and increasing their Int to 3 at level 4 lets you pick Improved Unarmed Combat as a feat, and therefor you can also get Crane Stance, Crane Wing and etc. Bark Skin and other sources of Natural Armor will all stack up as long as they're different types. In general only Dodge bonuses and sometimes Circumstance bonuses stack from multiple sources, while other types take only the highest source of that type of bonus, i.e. Enhancement, Deflection, Competence, Sacred and etc.

The best use for pets is to tank, either by mounting a caster MC or taking the frontline with Seelah. Their AC is still not quite as high as a multiclassed or min/maxed Vivisectionist/Sword Saint or Scaled Fist/Oracle, but you make certain sacrifices in spell/feat progression and desirable capstones by taking those builds on anything other than Legend.

>>3208520
Yeah, the complete lack of AI is the problem they are compensating for. It's just attack closest target.

>>3208520
>>3208527
Another good reason is that players in Pen and Paper games are usually not given full information on statistics and abilities for enemies, even if you make your lore checks its not like your DM hands you the enemy's sheets. It's also very rare for a player to get to control and synergize an entire party rather than having to interact with other personalities and make something work.

>>3208138
IIRC there is no actual time limit, missing either the tavern defense does not force a game over state.
>>3208236
Either reload until the RNG favors you or abuse the shrouded step+TB bug.

>>3208516
They're shit game designers is why.

Why do people pick difficulties labeled "hard" and "unfair" and then complain that the monsters are too hard or unfair? Serious question.

>>3207400
what are some must have mods? i have toybox and respec mod rn, should i get tabletop tweaks?

>>3208665

bubbles buffs

>>3208667
This mod works so well it feels like it is part of the base game. And it should be.

>>3208668
for me game is literally unplayable without it

>>3208665
Tabeltop tweaks base and rewokr, dark codex, expanded content and various other stuff. download the modfinder to download and browse various mods easily

>>3208713
>>3208686
>>3208668
>>3208667
>>3208665
Just play a better game lmao

>>3208714
such as?

>>3208716
Almost any other CRPG, Owlcat games are some of the worst in the business.

>>3208720
>bg3: hold my beer

>>3208714
i just finished bg3 desu, honestly i cbf reading which is my main gripe with the game(but i still keep up w/ the story) so i just press 1-2-3-4 and then tap spacebar rapidly like i was playing osrs.

>tfw i discovered u can learn some feats from reading books
imagine my shock.. good thing i saved all the books.. btw what's all the severed heads for? they are kinda sus desu, they take 15lbs each are they just whatever? the mod says its [trash] but im still hoarding them

>>3208754
The heads are related to one of your companions who has a peculiar condition

>>3208758
must be carmellia or daeren's cause both are kinda sus desu

>>3208686
skill issue

>>3208134
Unlimited big ranged touch attacks trivialise most of the game. It feels awful trying to play with prepared spellbook classes after using a high level kineticist.

>>3208310
>What do you do when the game decides that you rolled a 1 on your stealth check and you start a battle in the middle of level draining demons with no buffs?

Don't try doing that if playing iron man hth

>>3208622
By time limit I mean that the quests are designed and progress within a certain span of time and the game recognizes it. For Act 1 if you put off assaulting the Gray Garrison for too long then there's a battle where the demons assault the Defender's Heart, and the whole Act has a sense of immediacy to it, same sense with Act 2.

>>3208550
Kingmaker's ai was unironically better (especially in turn-based). Enemies would actually disengage from tanks to target weaker enemies sometimes.

>>3208664
Dunning Kruger effect. You have brainlets who overestimate their own capabilities because they care too much about looking good rather than being good, and then get ball blasted after biting off more than they can chew.

>>3208821
To each their own. I tried out Kineticist for a bit and found it too limiting, especially compared to how Wizards can copy as many spells to their book as they want and then swap them out each rest.

>>3208829
Been noticing this. In Wrath every enemy seems to instantly target my whichever party member has the highest AC, while in Kingmaker they purposefully go for whichever has the lowest AC (especially archers)

>>3208826
I mean for your stealth check to avoid a random encounter.

>>3208839
There's definitely some bullshit random encounters in Wrath. KM was easy-going unless you wandered into a higher level area (like doing the tieflings quest as soon as it was available) and maybe a couple of the Troll Trouble encounters.

>>3208754
>btw what's all the severed heads for?
Daeran. complete his quest

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>can no longer combine Alchemist and arcane bomber to get 40d6 empowered bombs
fucking gay. why does Owlckek keep nerfing classes and combos so much?

>>3208878
It is annoying because they keep nerfing niche builds.

>>3208878
When did they break that, I think it was supposed to work that way from P&P rather than it being accidental owlbrew

>>3208899
No it's 100% Owlbrew. I don't know what possess them to nerf their own cool shit like elemental barrage, Zippy magic kinetic blast and trickster clown metamagic that allows you to turn a 9th lvl spell into a 1st or a cantrip

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Atleast i got some very good spell DC and tons of spell slots thanks to Cognotgen and grand intellect. I can also give myself and everyone +8 enhancment bonus to ability scores thanks to Idealize, be good at all skill checks and thtow 61 DC dispell bombs which i am pretty sure scales with your character lvls. all in all Grenadier+Arcane bomber is still a good combo even tho it's nerfed and lost its main appeal

>>3208912
What mythic did you start from? Going arcane bomber first and lich-ing is probably way better than trickster if your damage bombs will never be competitive with lich nukes

but then you'd have corrupt magic

>>3208664
Because there's achievements for, because I've already gotten past that part on core, which was pretty doable
The game just suffers from a total lack of testing to release those difficulties as they are. Enemies are simply buffed way too much and you have few possibilities to counter them at that point

>>3208916
Trickster for the crit range bombs. but you are right, i thank i should try Arcane bomber Lich+grenadier to get merged spellbook and tons of bombs.

I feel like every companion can be turned into something very strong except Arueshalae. Saddled with 8 levels of a terrible class with 0 (zero) useful perks. You couldn't make a worse ranger if you tried.

>>3208929
>21 dex
>hunter's bond
>instant enemy
>not a single feat wasted
No she's fine enough, unless you're an unfair autist

>>3208929
Nah she's fine on core. only problem she has is low str but that can be solved with a belt or bull strength.

>>3208929
She could be a flame warden or stormwalker. And sharing the type bonuses is nice. I just wish she had like 16 str from the get go

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What class should i combine with my legend monk for maximum damage? Was thinking demonslayer but Arue has favored enemy outsider and can give everyone +10 to attack and damage so that's seems redundant. also give some good male monk portrait

>>3208836
IME on unfair they always target the lowest HP character (if they don't have an AoE ready, which they always use if they do), so basically if you put last stand on ember and nenio you get 3-4 free turns of "tanking". They have to be physically blocked by summons to attack them, otherwise they're usually ignored.

>>3208937
Fighter with weapon training is an obvious choice. Mutt warrior with mutagen especially. Maybe two handed warrior if you go with quarterstaff specialist.
Slayer bonuses also apply


I assume you do not plan sohei or sensei which opens different possibilities.

>>3208946
*this is excepting the usual trash fight situation where you get to attack first, where they can be easily manipulated to aggro only on a tank. But 9/10 of the worst fights come out of a dialog where it doesn't work that way

Why does everyone build merged book angel characters as melee fighters when 99/100 times your best use of a turn is bolt/storm of justice and a quickened bolt/storm of justice. You will never swing a weapon in a difficult fight and it's a waste to put a good weapon like gravesinger on you instead of someone that might melee as a first option.

>>3208961
>Why does everyone build merged book angel characters as melee fighters
Literally who does that

>>3208949
Fighter seems like a good option. was trying to find another class that increases my fist size category but i guess getting extra damage and more feats is better

>>3208961
>>3208962
Because there's no downside other than that weapon being given to someone else.

>>3208968
you'd have more and better casts fully pumping wisdom and ignoring all melee feats and mythics, like taking sorcerous reflex and favorite metamagic bolstered/empowered over melee mythics, expanded arsenal to get the knockdown to actually work, bringing court poet over skald, etc.

but even unfairspergs build them as divine gish type characters even though it's pointless

>>3208961
Because i want to larp as a holy warrior without playing as a paladin.

>>3208972
*and also you can take them off their pet and polymorph it to make it worth half a martial, since x of justice spells have massive range you don't need mobility

>>3208978
My second run I solo’d as a paladin+oracle gestalt character, that was pretty fun. I got bored in act 4 and quit

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>>3208961
I could not explain it to you even if I wanted to.

>>3209000
This would be a much better idea for angellegends than actual angels, you can't get greater abundant or any other feats to let you spam more justice and you can pump BAB into outer space

>>3208992
Been thinking of doing something similar. give myself a oracle spellbook and merge while still playing as a paladin. That way i have angel spells, CHA sepll scaling and saving throws and smite evil for the ultimate destroyer of evil playthrough.

>>3208821
Its very trivial to give a divine caster a bow or melee weapon and have them be good at it by combining buffs and their innate 3/4 BAB. Nothing a kineticist does can downsell a pure arcane character's ability to just handwave an entire encounter with instant death. Regardless of what type of caster you make, all the spell schools combine both tactical and offensive options unless you make an abjuration specialist, and even then dispel is absolutely indispensable to your party on core and above.

Kineticist's usefulness comes from their ability to do Ranged/AoE combat maneuvers, which is not entirely the best trade for the entire set of buffing spells. You should consider them as Archers who do less damage but can CM from a range. It's not worth it to make the MC into one and it's a very brief time when they'll outshine something more obvious like a sword saint or a skald as a mercenary.

Valerie as a kineticist in kingmaker is absolutely bananas though, just trip everything in the game.

>>3208937
The answer is always deliverer

>>3209043
The combat maneuvers shit of kineticists is not actually that important unless you're doing the kalavakus demon exploit, it's just that they keep getting a shitload of nearly worthless wild talents after they've cherrypicked the good stuff so you might as well make a trip build. It's mostly that a composite blast deadly earth is a stupidly powerful persistent nuke (and so is cloud, but it comes after DE). They can also do a ton of damage to touch AC with an energy type blade and a full attack, but that takes tons of feat/mythic support and Bismuth. Most people are running all the shit to make melee characters useable on high difficulty like mark/community domain/madness domain/etc, but an energy blade kineticist can just hit those enemies straight up.

>>3209043
>You should consider them as Archers who do less damage
What the fuck am I reading

>>3209091
You're probably right about the persistent composites I legit forgot about those. But energy blade ain't as good as just being able to toggle maximized dex ignoring touch attacks as a magus sub-class, especially not when magus actually has access to full strength mirror image and the like to avoid getting splattered on the front line.

>>3207400
Use toy box and the mod that still allows achievements when using mods. Think toy box can do that as well.

>>3209043
>Kineticist's usefulness comes from their ability to do Ranged/AoE combat maneuvers

lmao this is someone who hasn't played the game but read a load of dipshit build guides from that one dude who also didn't play the game

>>3208906
>trickster clown metamagic that allows you to turn a 9th lvl spell into a 1st or a cantrip
Yeah, that wasn't even all that overpowered on trickster because it doesn't get many bonuses to spellcasting anyway.

>>3209154
Yeah dude its totally cool to blast kamehamehas and then fucking die faster than a lmao twf rogue without dips

>>3209258
Just don't get hit

>>3209043
>Kineticist's usefulness comes from their ability to do Ranged/AoE combat maneuvers,
Nigga are you high? Archers good at dps and trash mob cleaning while a Kineticist is for one-shot damage potential.

Archers are the midgame trash clearing master. As soon as you get cleaving shots, you mow down all of act 3. They fall off a bit late game because you can't buff their attack rating as high as a melee though.

>>3209272
I think they're shit the whole game. Bad crit range, split attribute dependency, prone enemy penalty, precise shot feat tax, don't benefit from being in a martial party with a skald, and no crusader's edge. Kineticists are mediocre until level 13 when they become gods, archers are always bad.

>>3209278
Just use bane or vital strike and do big damage for the entire game. Both will split on cleaving shot to clear groups or hit bosses without checking AC by popping their adds. Crusader edge isn't the only source of bane, it even comes later than other sources.

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I had to remake my save after losing data. Rushed through as fast as I could with Toy Box and I'm at Lann's showdown with Savamelehk, but it turns out I forgot to talk to Sull in Act 3 and get Lann to agree to be chief. Anybody happen to know which flag to set in Toy Box to change that? I've been trying but I can't seem to figure it out.

>>3209317
LannLovesMongrels

>>3209320
Did that + LannTheNewChief and it worked. Thanks.

Are any companion full spec mods working in the current version of the game without game breaking bugs?

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>>3209317
Lann is such a dumb bitch

>>3209347
he's a feminine man
somehow more feminine than the literal faggot daeran

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>>3209347
No, Lann is based.

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>>3209150
I'm playing on console so sadly even custom portraits are a no-no.

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>>3209347
Nah guy is cool.

>>3209826
Yeah, I liked Lann, I think he bothers Chaotistics though.

>>3209826
>>3209837
I find him a little annoying despite not being an evil companion liker. I feel like I always know exactly what he's going to say and it's always lame and unfunny and bitchy and his PQ resolution is just terrible. If Wenduag wasn't stone cold retarded evil I wouldn't have any desire to pick him.

>>3209848
I'm not a fan of his use of snark as an emotional shield either, so, it might be that everyone else is so bad that it makes him seem better, but I also don't get completely put off of a character because they have a quirk or two that I don't like. Lann's outlook is one of the more agreeable ones in the game.

>>3209855
Yeah I just think of him as a RL person, often annoying but hey he doesn't put babies on spikes. Seelah and Sosiel have the same problem, they tend to make good companions realistically annoying and boring and evil companions into cartoons. Whereas I love the Hand of the Inheritor for being cartoon good. I guess Arue and Ember are cartoon good too.

Another question to those who played on ironman. How would you do the end of act 1 fight? You just start from the beginning of the game until the vrocks don't instantly daze your whole party?
This game just seems like a terrible choice to play Ironman on. Way too much RNG.

>>3209911
They back up their saves, no one actually plays ironman legit

>>3209911
You aren't supposed to play iron man on anything above normal tbqhwy

>>3209917
Same deal as EU4, got it.

>>3209911
>>3209917
>>3209950
You can reload, you just can't die and only get one save. It's possible on core because people have done it. For the wardstone fight you just need to realize that all your CC spells have a 67 DC so you can just drop everything with grease/slumber in turn based mode.

If I had to pick a class for it rn it's Sword Saint no question. Having perfect initiative is really powerful.

>>3209911
i can't imagine why anyone would want to play a crpg ironman unless they are doing it to entertain people, like that bg1/2 autist.

>>3209848
Wenduag's position makes sense if you romance her. In her entire village she's the only one who had to grow up, so all you have to do is treat her like a needy teenager because she literally is one.

>>3210004
BG1/2 RNG can't screw you. Every situation with an RNG element can be 100% negated.
Pathfinder is not like that.

>>3209848
>>3209855
His sarcasm was off putting at first but after speaking to him in the Defender's Heart and getting to know him better it's entirely understandable considering how difficult his life has been. Lann is a little awkward and he's not perfect but I like the fact that he's honorable and he chooses to abide by his better nature despite his circumstances, and he values his community and his heritage as being a descendent of crusaders. At out of all of the companions he has the most solid reason to fight with you in the Crusade.

>>3210032
What rng element of pathfidner cannot be mitigated the way BGs can?

>>3210067
>fail stealth roll
>random encounter of extremely high level demons
>you are completely unbuffed
>all roll high on initiative and target MC

I'm find with being corrected here if I'm missing something. I haven't actually tried ironman. I have been paying attention to how encounters that I die to go though in case I do decide to try. I have beaten BG1 and 2 ironman.

>>3210032
I mean, it's not like it'd be fun either way in a game where you can resurrect people. Ironman is for roguelikes and ARPGs.

>>3210078
Also I'd add that the DCs for avoiding random encounters are extremely high.

>>3210081
It started from me not liking how savescumming negates a huge portion of game mechanics. Also Baldur's Gate 1 is a very short game if you know what you're doing. I only bothered to beat BG 2 once that way. But BG 1 is always fun to replay ironman.

>>3210000
I am fully aware of 95% grease lockdown in that fight but you HAVE to have someone with a paralysis or sleep spell scroll roll higher initiative than the vrock or you lose, and if it rolls 20 on the save you lose. If you alt-F4 when that happens to reload instead of watching a babau roll up and kill your MC and delete your save, that's save scumming.

>>3210078
last stand pretty much negates that kind of shit after the first mythic

>>3210134
Yeah, I guess that's definitely the way to go as the first mythic on the MC and on any key damage dealers you need to win a fight.

Is there some kind of trick to making Woljif come back in chapter 3? I'm replaying as angel and I remembered him coming back basically the moment chapter 3 started last run, but I've done everything before ivory labyrinth and never seen him. He's useless but his merchant inventory isn't

>>3210203
Go south from the lost chapel then west
>He's useless
Skill issue

>>3210126
???
It's specifically designed that way dude. You're supposed to know what saves you need to make and slap the pause button and just flick load game when the battle is scrubbed. Your chances of even beating Hosilla without doing that are pretty slim!

>>3210203
>muh useless
Woljif has some of the highest damage out of any companion in the game, wdym?

>>3210206
Even if you get him Kukris and swap him to Slayer at level 12 he's kind of shit. His build is legitimately bad for either Rays or TWF

>>3210213
>good damage but shit attack rolls
He's worse than any SS or Vivi mercenary and even if you wait the gorillion years it takes for him to get something like AT sneak attack chain lightnings he's not really doing any better than Ember or Nenio for screenwipes, and they're both much more useful much sooner than he is.

without retrains he's better than Arue, I guess.

>>3210222
>He's worse than any SS or Vivi mercenary
Wow, like every companion?

>>3210213
another 3/4 BAB that you have to pump 5000 AB into to do damage, I SLEEP
Or you can make him a dimension slash riding magus but he's so feat starved and behind in levels by the time he comes online your MC is probably already a rolling apocalypse

>>3210203
Use toybox to teleport to the map that the first part of his rejoin sequence is on, it's called "Woljif_Q2_CultistsRunaway" in search and pick

>>3210214
Make him a vivi for majority levels , which lets him juice and get better party support with sharing personal buffs and tank even better (he does have access to archmage armor).M ake him ELdritch Knight. Fixes the bab for better offense and can use rays a bit better. Ignore party support and spellcasting and go Sword Saint for the best tanking and defense. Dex sword saints sill good. The gap till you get him back helps him avoid awkward levels from multiclassing pretty well.

I generally go vivi for party utility

>>3210308
I think I'm gonna go ES 12 Slayer 8 and just not fucking use him most of the time.

>>3210214
he's already wasted three levels in a shit class getting dex to damage for daggers right

making him a vivi makes him a barely acceptable shitter that gets an affirmative action party slot for his personal quests like greybor and arue. There's just really limited scope for martials and quasi-martials in this game because AC is even more out of control than kingmaker

>>3210357
Aside from the fact that the AB you can stack party wide is retarded even with default companions , going for Magus levels right away meanss he is pretty much set-up when he returns in act 3

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Bloodbros... finally, after two years

>>3210371
can't wait to see what random owlbrew gets nerfed into the ground

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What do we think about these pay to win items? I used to trash them all but what are your thoughts?

>>3210267
Thanks. I think the problem was that I forgot to talk to him in the tavern after doing his Kenabres questline, which left his quest technically failed which I guess is a requirement to find him after he runs. I was able to recruit him again after teleporting to that map though, and then I completed the failed quest with toybox which made him open up his merchant inventory.

>>3210210
I haven't died to Hosilla since early access. She buffs herself turn 1 so you always get a chance to act. Tank in her face, hex to make her roll twice on attack rolls, spread out just in case and kill her asap.

>>3210579
Lawtists are always such fucking liars

>>3210595
The trouble with lawtism is always the misguided belief that the law is right and just. In reality, laws exist to maintain order and social cohesion. Just because precautions exist to ensure the right and just outcome occurs doesn't mean that happens. Very often these systems are corrupted and warped to fit certain individuals' needs. Law is nothing more than a construct of man and his beliefs in the end. It too is short-lived and misguided.

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>>3208961
I don't know what you're talking about, I built mine as a bow using cleric with erastil mod to make wisdom affect archery. The bow adds dps in between casting rounds or when out of spells esp. if I'm distracted doing other things.

It also fits the angelic theme better IMO, but I'm used to being the RPG legend around here with the coolest characters no matter what I choose to play or build, so there's that.

>>3210596
In DnD it's literally a cosmic force holding the intrinsic structure of all planes together.
In real life human created order is the only thing opposing the cold void of entropic destruction. I suggest you get on the right team and go down swinging instead of embracing nihilism as you have.
>warped systems for certain individuals
You talk like a loser and losers are literally entropic, death, evil. Those individuals are winners, which could be you, were you not a loser on Team Nihilist.

If I never do this act 3 investigation crusade card called "treachery" (I'm pretty sure it's about investigating one of camellia's murders) will I never see that scene where Anevia catches her? What happens if I postpone it until like chapter 5?

>>3210596
>The trouble with lawtism is always the misguided belief that the law is right and just.
The problem with lawtism is a fundamental misunderstanding or rather, a lack of understanding, as to what gives law any source of legitimacy and reason to adhere to it beyond a temperament for structure. Law derives its legitimacy from divinity. Go back to ancient Babylon and look at Hammurabi's code and what does he site as the source and reason for adhering to this set of decrees? The gods. Go back to ancient Egypt and what does Pharaoh use as justification for his rule and ability to enact laws? That he's a god and a descendent of certain gods. When you have a society that demands stringent adherence to structure but cannot cite any reason for obeying this structure outside of itself then it ends up becoming dystopian and circular, because at that point rules exist because they exist and people make them and people are in charge because they are the ones in charge and any concepts of right and wrong become arbitrary. Law is not an end in itself, and adherence to rules and regulations at the expense of spirit ends up removing the element that gives law legitimacy and power to begin with.

>>3210472
They are shit aside from the dashing cavalier gloves which are somewhat useful in early lvls.

>>3210601
If you believe in the law and order imposed by secular governments that do not believe in anything higher than themselves and actively subvert justice to protect their own interests, then you are actively siding with cosmic malevolence on a grand scale.
>In real life human created order is the only thing opposing the cold void of entropic destruction
Your fundamental understandings of reality is false, and you have been fed faulty epistemology for the sake of control and subverting your interests towards supporting wickedness.

>>3210633
You can't do it in act 5 and you never find out she is a murderer.

>>3210633
You fail her quest obviously.

You can rationalize during the quest that she's also saved lives even if she kills people so you just give her a stern warning to only kill people she's allowed to and she cools it off for a while and she stays a companion leading to the next part regardless of whether you're good or evil.

>>3210657
I've got a shaman MC so I'm hoping there's some kind of callout, either way I'm just gonna split her head

>>3210666
stay mad incel

>>3210679
>You can rationalize during the quest that she's also saved lives even if she kills people
stay mentally ill

Man I imagined a brown fur transmuter mercenary would be awesome but their tiny number of spell type slots is insanely crippling after the early game. Especially with a brown fur where the main gimmick is buffing allies, but that leaves you with absolutely nothing for combat. Apparently in P&P they can swap a spell slot out in the field with a 1 arcane point exploit which would improve the class massively. It almost seems like an oversight that they get nothing from those spontaneous caster items like red salamander.

>>3210704
Anon you dont take your brown fur into combat his job is to cook meals and turn you into fire dragons made of ice with raptor legs

>>3210657
I love keeping her alive only to make her seethe uncontrallably and than attack me in her mansion quest.

>>3210725
I guess, I thought he was actually pretty damn useful early on for potent magic conjurations

>totally unrepentant and indiscrete torture murderer
>can't subdue her any way other than killing
you're just not supposed to have camellia outside cartoonishly evil playthroughs, sorry.

>>3210749
As is any pure arcane character

>>3207400
is it viable to completely forgo spellcasting classes and just pump intelligence or charisma when i go full lich? i was planning to be a cavalier as a martial class for a change but it seems like i'll be missing out if i do

>>3210862
>non-arcane lich
Unless you're playing monk, I legitimately see no reason to go Lich.

>>3210862
It wouldn't be as strong as a merged spellbook lich but it's perfectly viable.
There are some nice martial-appropriate mythic powers and lich spellbook is great even if you're not getting it early. The spellbook would be especially valuable if you don't want to bring Nenio or Woljif along since it gives you access to haste and the essential arcane defensive buffs.

>>3207400
Can someone explain Advanced Warrior Training? How come I can't pick it every odd level up using my feats? Am I only allowed one choice? I'm using the TTT mod if it matters

>>3210895
you will never be on a real table top

>>3210897
Advanced Weapon Training* and I found out why.. I can only pick one every 5 fighter level, nvm.

>>3210862
Any class with pounce or monk with pumeling style loves lich cause you can combine mythic charge plus his lich power to stack it for great effs.
Lich has pretty good buffs for any martial too. Cavalier can work to make his one shot charge ridiculous as well.
Tank builds would also work.
Alchemist lich in theory has some benefits, but nothing amazing honestly.

One ran I did in Midnight isles was Full Cleric/Full lich and it was pretty good, but that is because the class and the mythic are busted, not so much because of synergy

>>3210763
more than usual because it could +6 int itself and add +2 DC with potent magic

>>3210862
IIRC Lich has basically the only mythic that has an intentional synergy with kineticist (demon has a completely broken bug synergy)
Although when you go bone you lose your constitution score, don't know how that works in practice. There's a charisma kineticist but all the kineticist subclasses are pretty shit

>>3210862
Assuming you plan on using the lich spellbook; yes, unmerged lich has access to powerful spells that help a martial character.

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sigh... I wish we could visit camellia's room and steal her panties

>>3211076
um, why?

>>3210862
You might as well go for a different mythic path at that point. Also why would you want to be a being that's become undead through powerful magic if you're playing a martial character?

>>3211260
everybody loves glowing red eye death knights

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>>3211263
Liches aren't knights tho, they're wizards who've obtained pseudo immortality.

>>3211258
having a girl's panties is a sign that you like her and consider her part of your harem

>>3211288
does camellia even wear underwear though?

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>>3211357
sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>>3211076
>>3211357
>>3211356
The real question is, would she torture you to death if she caught you stealing her underwear?

>>3210371
Looks like i can finally play as a Tremere now. Also Vampire mythic path when? They are cooler than Lichcels

>>3211536
Play dhampir lich
All yourself with the vampire dude
Kill zach and stay at mr 8

>>3211478
it will be our little secret :)

Armor check penalty
is this a thing to actually care about? Doesn't seem to be worth it to invest on fighter levels if your dex is already capped right?

>>3211609
like, will having -20 athletics and -20 mobility actually hurt me other than failing skill checks?

>>3211609
>>3211611
No, that's the extent of what armor check penalty does.

>>3211611
>>3211609
It can become irritating later in the game if your PC is a fighter or similar armored class and has the highest athletics and mobility in which you need to pass higher and higher skill checks, as it necessitates save scumming to don and doff your armor.

I just started Inevitable excess and im having a hard time bros. I breezed through the main game but this is pretty hard. A lot of enemies seem to have really high AC and concealment that true seeing and see invisibilty cant fix. My high damage spells seem to do almost nothing too (besides storm of justice that is still OP)

>>3211609
There are CC spells that can use athletics or mobility to check on difficult terrain or escaping pits though. Fighter's main gimmick is raising the armor cap so you can stat Str/Dex/Con, they boost their basic stats and carry buffs. You need that AC check because you end up boosting both str and dex by enhancements.

>>3211658
echolocation or some other form of "blindsight" penetrates most concealment that true sight doesn't (exception is aspect of areshkagal, which notably Areelu has). Also makes you immune to gaze attacks

echolocation is a personal transmutation spell so the only way to spread it around to everyone is alchemists, brown fur transmuters, and scrolls

Hey, I'm doing angel path and I was doing the angel quest in act 4. At one point I ambush the echo of deskari in his evil house. I put a deadly earth under him and nailed him with a couple of bolts of justice and he dies and I get 250K XP. Then I step into the room he was in and it triggers a weird cutscene like he's still alive and I kill some weeny golem.

Was I not supposed to kill echo there, is he supposed to run off? The 250K xp was so insanely out of line with other rewards I am afraid I messed it up.

>>3207400
Doing an Aeon run and just convicted Fye and wondering if I got something wrong. Why is your only option to punish him Imprisonment when Law of Drezen states the punishment for fraud is Banishment?

I played kingmaker completly blind and unmodded on normal, it was a lot of fun but the last half of the game was a cakewalk. Playing wotr now, this time I decided to look up what each class do and use the respec mod to choose the starting class of each companion, so it's basically like playing with 5 merc while keeping companion interraction. I turned ember into a fur brown transmuter and made a team with 3 pets, the goal is to turn the pet into dragons when I can. My mc is an oracle that became angel for rp.

Because I've looked stuff up online and use mod I decided to increase the difficulty and play on core. But I'm mid chapter 3 and the game is getting super easy, is controlling the class of all party member unfair only ? Or are fur brown transmuter / angel too strong and it would be fine with others class ?

>>3211987
core isn't difficult, except when it throws bullshit at you unexpectedly. most fights are a cakewalk if you have a clue what you're doing.

respeccing companions is definitely cheating though, especially if you're adding loads of pet cheese.

>>3211987
Does the respec mod work properly now?
Last I played some companions just couldn't be fully respecced and de-leveling had visual and feat remnants

>>3211987
oracle angel pretty much tears the game a new asshole even on unfair with no mercs. As soon as you spellbook merge in act 2

brown fur transmuter isn't that amazing, polymorphed dragon pets aren't better than polymorphed smilodon pets (which you can do with greater polymorph which doesn't need a BFT).

>>3212040
I think the key spell is fire body not dragon form

>>3211996
Yes it's working great.

>>3211991
Respecing a companion is the same than hiring a merc right ? Or the have better stat / bonus a merc would't have ?

>>3211996
Yeah didn't expect angel to be that strong, I can't believe the game is letting me cast each angel spell 9 times a day per tier. I read about spellbook merge but I though mythic spell would use a different recource to cast. It's a fun power fantaisy tho, it annoy me when every npc can't stop sucking the player character dick (hello bg3 and FF14) but it's deserved for once.

>>3211987
>respeccing companions
*barf*

What are the ways to wield two full size weapons without a -2 penalty? Just fighter effortless dual wielding?

>>3212154
yes
and double weapons i guess

>>3212193
there are really good speed estocs and rapiers that would be killer offhand weapons if effortless wasn't so hard to get

what's a character that can afford to blow enough feats and fighter levels to effortless dual wield estocs without just being a pure martial

Has anyone used any save cleaner mods and do they actually work? Ever since I entered act 4 the game as been taking longer and longer to save. When I started the game I could quicksave in like 2 seconds but now its taking 15-20 seconds. Something must be wrong. Ive had to turn off autosaves just so I dont have to constantly wait for the game to save

>>3212259
It helps a bit for Kingmaker. Wrath does its own cleanup. It still gets kind of bad, but by the time it gets unreasonable, the game is nearly over.

>>3212040
>oracle angel pretty much tears the game a new asshole
yeah
>drop 300 AoE damage with no save/hit roll that can save enemies from the damage
>do it again with a quicken wand because why not
>if something is still standing companions can clean the rest
>if
It's silly, I might as well skip the fights with toybox to save time

>>3212351
oracles and clerics also already have the rod of mysticism so you have 6 shots of maximized bolt the instant you get mythic 3, two of which will wipe any boss until act 5

Doing a third run and I wanted to try The Last Sarkorians to add something new, but I still don't know how the DLC it's supposed to work. Ulbrig should just appear in the camp in chapter 2 right?
Somehow I suspect there's something wrong with the installation, there's any way to know if the DLC is actually installed (like the icons in main menu from Pillars)? The files are there but the new guy just doesn't appear. Sorry for dumb question.

>>3212417
He can join as early as act 1, go to the library where the storyteller is
He can also join you in every other act other than act 4 but I'm not sure how it works, I think he just sort of appears one day and asks to join the party
>The files are there but the new guy just doesn't appear
If you can pick shifter when leveling up or respecing then it's working

>>3211987
>respect mod for companions
>why does changing the game to be significantly easier than the devs intended make the game piss easy?
You tell me, retard.

>>3212569
>>why does changing the game to be significantly easier than the devs intended make the game piss easy?
Imagine saying this when some of the best companions in the game come early on at level 1, or worse still, when you can hire mercs that are fully customizable and objectively better than all your companions

>>3212417
You meet Ulbrig in Act 1 in Kenebras at the library. He'll be petrified into a Griffon statue and will fly off. After going to the Defender's Heart you'll meet him in full where you officially becomes a companion. His companion story starts in Act 2 where you have to go to a ruined village and from that point just keep doing his quests to get the rest of the dlc.

>>3212351
I just got to chapter 3 and honestly this sucks more than legend just being able to autobattle the entire rest of the game

everything else that's left is a bunch of easy chores and clunky crusade management stuff

I should have rolled azata, at least azata gets an extra superboss

>>3212629
I like your posse of people/angels that could have all easily been party members (kind of like the undead companions for lich, except they get little mini-plots) that join in during chapter 4

>>3212045
For crit immunity I guess? If you want to possibly be able to nopause and watch your party autoattack mobs I guess that's helpful so you lean on last stand slightly less, but if you are gonna fight with the most basic human tactics it doesn't matter

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>>3212734
Based old man especially, Yariel too
This game can be pretty gay until you have the required myriad of buffs to compensate
Like dretches are the devil until you realize communal resist poison neuters them
AC is stupid high too and how heavy armor characters really can't compete is gay. Hope they make more Pathfinder games but it's hard to see them ramping it up past this one

>>3208878
>40d6 bombs
how? pretty sure you could only increase it to 10d6 as a alchemist and get it too 20d6 bombs. Best thing about that combo is the fact that dispel bomb scales with your character lvl so you can pretty much dispell anything and even empower your bombs by sacrificing a sprll. Shame there is no grenadier equipment in this game like in Kingmaker

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>>3212369
>rod of mysticism
thanks for reminding me, I completely overlooked it

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>>3212784
Yeah, grandpa was cool

>>3212784
Law choices in this game seem so consistently retarded that I don't know if I can handle Aeon.
I think if every single "Lawful" dialog label in the game was replaced with "Lawful Evil" it would only seem wrong like 1/10th of the time or less.

>>3213103
spotted the chaos/neutral fag

>>3213103
The system was dumbed down from kingmaker. In kingmaker, you had [lawful good] and [chaotic neutral] tagged options. In WotR they’re all simplified to, effectively, be [lawful neutral] [neutral good] etc, “pure” choices.

They also made the grid a circle instead of a square, with each pure choice moving you straight up/down/left/right, so a paladin can fall by petting too many puppies and shifting his alignment to neutral good.

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>>3213325
People changed alignment in Kingmaker too, that is why they introduced Scroll of Atonement in 1.1 patch. Cause if LG option is not there, many people could not even juggle the good and lawful responses.

Of they were weak and could not embrace Lawful Goodness

>>3213329
I exclusively played paladins in kingmaker and wotr and I can’t imagine fucking up enough to shift alignment, but it’s kinda funny in theory.

Now, romancing Camellia, I definitely burned a couple scrolls of atonement.

>>3213339
Picking "good" options in Kingmaker shifts you to Neutral Good.

>>3213339
I had to assiduously pick most every non-retarded lawful option in WotR (and skip some "good" responses when lawful was unpickable) just to have some breathing room in the lawful good zone.
>>3213315
On the contrary, I really liked my lawful neutral run in Kingmaker since you could actually stay lawful with reasonable LG, LN, and LE options. In WotR you can eat a baby (E), demand a baby be executed for treason (L), hug the baby (G), hug the baby plus a joke answer (C), or also hug the baby (no alignment shift).

>>3212421
>>3212575
Too late for Act1, but still he doesn't appear in the camp... I'm afraid something's wrong with the installation because I don't see any shifter class either.

>>3213385
If you missed him in Act 1 I think you're fucked, and if there's no Shifter class in char creation then you probably didn't install the DLC properly. You should do a new save with that DLC also.

>>3213419
>If you missed him in Act 1 I think you're fucked
No retard see >>3212421
He can join you later, as did the twins.

>>3213372
>>3213103
Wrath really gutted the alignment system and the Lawful options feel fucking retarded, and some of the Chaos options are borderline evil. In Kingmaker a lot of the pure chaotic options were genuinely just strange and unusual but didn't involve torture (ex abolishing import taxes is a chaotic neutral action, in Season of Bloom bringing all the suspects into one room and having them argue with each other to expose themselves instead of conducting a lengthy investigation is chaotic neutral). They really should've just stuck with Kingmaker's alignment system instead of this dumbed down nonsense.

>>3213435
Kingmaker had the issue where there were plenty of instances you had like 3 Alignment options out of the 8 combos (not counting TN) that could not represent you arguably and it's impossible to keep all options avaialble throughout the game.

Wrath;s problem is that some of the alignment options are written more with the mythics in mind, so many options feel extreme. Like the kind of evil a demon would be, not a selfish human

>>3213441
>Kingmaker had the issue where there were plenty of instances you had like 3 Alignment options out of the 8 combos (not counting TN) that could not represent you arguably
Never really found that to be an issue personally. It was rare that I ever came across alignment options that weren't accurate to how my Baron would behave in that scenario.

>>3213441
In Wrath you're just supposed to pick the no-alignment option whenever you don't like the options available.
>Just doing my job Ma'am.
Its not a perfect solution but it's serviceable, writing is hard!

>>3213435
Both games are fucking terrible about alignment. Evil is always kill or outright doing dumb shit.

Like wow, this evil person is at your mercy
[Evil] Kill
When instead you could let him live and he'd keep doing evil things which could give you an advantage.

Or wow, you saved this merchant from a couple bandits
[Evil] Kill
When instead he could give you a reward or you could leverage (force) better prices by letting him live

stupid shit like that, it's just outright retarded choices. If someone were this shortsighted he wouldn't get far in life.

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>>3213614
>be me
>lawful good paladin chad
>necromancer gleefully feigns surrender
>necromancer taunts faggot Sosiel hah by the rules of your order you’re not allowed to harm me now, I’ve outwitted you and I’ll be back to doing evil in no time
>faggot Sosiel is fuming
>[LAWFUL] lol no, as knight-commander of the crusades I hereby sentence you to death and shall carry out the sentence myself immediately
>mfw

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>>3213614
Not always, but it's pretty common I guess

>>3213661
yes some are nicely done but the vast majority is just outright killing

>>3213666
I haven't actually kept a tally, I guess the 'I do not lik you' meme pick appears often for the sake of initiating battle, but in my Wotr Lich run, evil was not just that

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>>3213656
Sosiel's not even horrified or anything, it wasn't a matter of "this guy shouldn't be killed" just that he shouldn't kill him in a rage

>>3213614
it might be a critique on crpgs in general

more than a few times the option to just say
>(Evil) I don't like you, die!
is placed with no actual motive for doing it other than murderhoboing everything for some kind of grim reaper genocide run

>>3213849
the main problem with the game letting you [Evil] kill people at random the first time you meet is that your goody companions don't immediately freak out and leave. Like Ember fires a scorching ray at some refugee exploding him into chunks of meat

>>3213614
I loved how in Kingmaker if you play as an evil character as soon as you get to Oleg's you can immediately demand taxes and tribute from them. Say hello to your future baron lmao.
>all evil options equate to [evil] kill
You didn't play very far then or played a good/neutral character who didn't bother doing evil decisions. On my chaotic evil half-orc barbarian character I spread Lamashtu worship everywhere and accepted the blessing and as soon as I got to Vordekai I sold all of the souls on the black market and then spared him and built him a tower. Also nigger do you expect blatant murder to be neutral or something? What if a player wants to unabashedly commit the murder of an innocent? Should their choices not have an affect on their alignment? I bet you've never played a character who shifts alignments in these games you mongoloid.

>>3213839
Iirc (been a few years) but the necromancer was exploiting the rules of Sosiels order of clerics, as he surrendered and gave up all of his possessions, which put him at their mercy, and so they were required to take him in and aid him, and were not allowed to harm him. The necromancer was also taunting Sosiel because he had done the same gimmick to the church you’re fighting him in, they took him in as a refugee and he repaid their kindness by murdering them and raising them as undead. Sosiel is upset because “ooh that wicked rascal! I want to kill him after what he’s done but he’s got me in a loophole, I’m not allowed to harm him”

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>>3213866
Based Ember

>>3213631
The absolute state of stat autists..

>>3213936
game bugged

wenduag > lann

>>3213930
What are you even saying anon, are you mad? Or just pissed?
Choices where the evil option amount to anything other than kill are few and far between. My character is evil and he wants the evil option to provide him an advantage instead of an outright detriment. Like I will let you live but give me your underage daughter to plap and get pregnant

>>3214151
>There should be affirmative action for evil people :(
>I feel like I'm being oppressed why won't anyone include me :''(
It's almost like people hate having you around and don't want to please you. Why would you think that anyone capable of cooperating with others to the extent of making something as complex as a videogame would sympathize with you?

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>>3214151
>Like I will let you live but give me your underage daughter to plap and get pregnant
Based CE chad but you should also try and blackmail her mom to become your slut too.

>>3214151
>>3214203
that's lawful evil, ackshully

>>3213931
Played this mission recently and that's pretty much what happen, Sosiel thank you if you pick the lawfull option and have the guy executed. Only reason he doesn't do it himself is because he would lose his cleric power.>>3213932

>>3207400
What equipment bonuses or properties carry over when I Wild Shape/Polymorph?

I just got a Mask of Rapid Bites and I don't know if this carries over while I'm wildshaped or if it's only meant to be used while i'm in human form? Can any experts weigh in pls.

>>3214412
weapons and your chest gear disappear into the polymorph dimension until you unpolymorph. Everything else should still work

>>3209362
Camellia, that remark is uncouth for a proper lady.

While I used it extensively in Kingmaker, this is my first time using fascinate in Wrath. I have been sleeping on this ability. It is reliably hitting things on hard difficulty. Very strong.

>>3214536
Will saves tend to be the weaker ones for a good chunk of enemies, so even non full spellcasters can do work when targetting the weaker ones

Kingmaker question, what class do I go to make Crossbow work I was thinking a mix of fighter and slayer.

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>>3214573
You don't. But Slayer 16/freebooter 4 so you can give a buff then plink away for damage would be an option

>>3214573
Ranger, just copy Ekun's build but crossbow instead of bow and dump strength because it doesn't affect bow damage.
Later on it will really seem inferior to bows because there are a ton of monty haul ways to boost your strength into the stratosphere as the game goes on and composite bows get a damage bonus from strength and crossbows get nothing.

>>3214594
*doesn't affect crossbow damage I mean

>>3214594
I think crossbows don't get to use rapid shot either. They're not really meant to be the main form of attack, they're for classes like bards that want something cheap to do on the side in trash fights.

>>3214592
>>3214594
>>3214611
I know they're bad but I wanted to make a dwarf character for the dungeon dlc based off the dwarf heavy armor crossbow lady portrait.

>>3207423
You aren't a gamer. You're just a little bitch.

I thought all the people complaining about random difficulty spikes and shit were just shitters complaining about stuff. But now in Blackwater... no fucking way this is intended, I will shamelessly lower difficulty for this, I just took an hour to kill the first group of greater kavalakus marauders and having to cheese the shit out of it, move forward and its an identical group. Yeah no fuck this.

>>3214573
Inquisitor for Bane+Judgement+Divine Favor/Power. You can take only 16 levels if you would like to dip something that gives you lead arrows. Something like a Tactical Leader 16/Freebooter 4. Pick community domain, obviously. Rapid shots is basically a feat tax to get at many shots and improved snap shots, but bane will activate on both arrows from many shots, unlike sneak attack dice. You won't do as much damage as a Vivisectionist or Slayer landing their sneak attacks but your team support is solid and your attack roll is (probably) better. You can save feats on your teammates by applying Outflank+Shake it Off+Seize the Moment with the tactical leader's special ability.

>>3214724
Blackwater was a backer designed dungeon. It's why it's so terribly designed.

>>3214724
I think the enemies I hate the most are the ghosts. I'm a fucking angoracle and it still makes me wish I had a dirge bard just to shut this shit down with shatter defenses instead of having to burn through spell slots every time one shows up, basically demanding that I rest or reorganize my party every damn time.

>>3214731
Huh? Just 24 hour death ward your party

>>3214724
Yeah those are a super weird difficulty spike

>have no issues with most mobs until then
>enter blackwater
>suddenly even fully buffed I can only hit if I roll nat 20s
>they have regen anyway
>the one way to beat it that used to be casting greater invis was for some reason patched out
>theres really no indication this dungeon is supposed to be hard, but still locks you in at whatever level you are
Lots of bullshit

>>3214728
It's not designed by the backer, he just wanted a cyberdemon theme dungeon. The only encounter backers demanded specific gameplay elements is the forced turn based grid battle for teh fallout themed quest by the Codex.

>>3214724
Blackwater just needs you to do MR4 and be at least lv 12-13. The problem is that teh game ltes you go at lv 10-11 with MR3

>>3214738
>The problem is that teh game ltes you go at lv 10-11 with MR3
Nah. It's not that hard and you can always 360 and walk away. Save often is a loading screen tip.

>>3214753
Some people are silly enough to not cover every skill or have nenio to easily pass Use Magic Device. And people who can build a proper team to ace it at lv 11 would not complain about it

>>3214733
It is still annoying when these fuckers have like 40 or 50 AC and immunity to every debuff I want to use because I didn't bring Sosiel today. It's not the regular ghosts but these shits who are level 17 clerics on top of that.

Last time I was fighting one it literally bugged the fight and damage stopped lowering it's HP because it took so fucking long.

I got power creep on now though, it should be trivial to clear these with sun mark and legendary props tipping the math to my favor

>>3214753
> It's not that hard
Its like 2x harder than even any boss until then lmao. Sure you CAN beat it if you know what you expect and with enough time, but its still a bullshit difficulty spike a bit out of place with everything until then and for a good bit after depending at which level you go

>>3214768
What the fuck? Where are you encountering these things?

Just leave and come back later. Your brains are rotted from too many shit games with level scaling.

>>3214769
>optional content is hard
Good.

>>3214770
First one is the ancient sarkorian ghost that needs to be defeated in chapter 2 for sadistic game design

Next is at Wintersun where they spawn if you take the brazen whip. These ones used to give thousands of exp each but now they give nothing until the end of the sequence and there's 7 of them lurking around the map after you take the thing.

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is there any trick to using this retard or is it on par for the course that it will mindlessly stun everyone, your allies included?

>>3214792
oh
just don't take the whip and bumrush the ghost

>>3214796
Good summons are garbage. At best they waste a turn buffing themselves, at worst they spam stuns on you. If you summon it directly on top of an enemy, it will melee it. It still sucks, but can function as a meat shield.

>>3214796
>is there any trick to using this retard
How do you manage to fuck up using the Tankard? How is that even possible? How low is your iq score that managed to fuck up one of the easiest cheese items in the game? Are you legitimately retarded?

>>3214724
The trick to dealing with Blackwater is make sure your party has blasters equipped with at least 6th level spells (so around level 12-13, and make sure you have Nenio or Ember or preferably both) and then just spam those on the augmented demons and abuse summons to draw their attention, then rest spam and repeat the process all over again. Tedious but doable and should take 20 minutes at most for encounters.

>>3214151
>Choices where the evil option amount to anything other than kill are few and far between.
You did not play the game, then, especially since the first evil option you can even preform involves stealing money from Brevoy soldiers salaries and then claiming to Jamandi that you need it more than they do.
>My character is evil and he wants the evil option to provide him an advantage instead of an outright detriment
Define what you mean by advantages and detriments. The example I listed above, which is the first evil option you can preform in the game, is a direct advantage to your total income, and then quickly after extorting Oleg is only available to evil aligned characters. Also if we're using finishing off a bandit as an example of a detriment, how the hell is sparing your enemies only for them to be a pain in your ass later not detrimental? A lot of the good aligned options are stupidly merciful, sparing outright enemies only for them to either get away forever or show up later and stab you in the back. Rarely do you ever spare someone with the advantage of them becoming a merchant later or giving you something that's immediately beneficial to you and you alone. It's almost like you never touched the game.

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Where do I find some kind of incorporeal weapon to deal with this garbage?
Also are rogues one of the most useless classes in the game combatwise? Like half of the game is immune to precision damage

>>3214844
>Choices where the evil option amount to anything other than kill are few and far between.

>>3214888
Nigger pick blind fight and stop acting like a retard.
>are r-rogues useless?
Holy shit learn how to play the game instead of falling asleep at the keyboard.

>>3214914
blind fight doesn't help me with incorporeal. Perchance

>>3214917
Did you pick up Finnean? Any ability that adds ghost touch should help.

>>3214918
Well yeah, but there are like 6 shadows and only 1 character with finnean
I guess I need to spec some damage dealing spells, right now it's all status and buffs

>>3214888
Finnean is ghost touch. Camelia has ghost touch as one of her self buffs.

>>3214921
>>3214918
But I'm asking are there any level 3-4 spells that give you ghost touch or something?

>>3214920
Yeah. Turn Nenio into a blaster and remove most of her support spells. Camellia has ghost touch abilities and Ulbrig tears everything to shreds so idk, you might just be building your companions wrong.

>>3214922
Camellia learns ghost touch from the get go on her weapons.

>>3214888
>Also are rogues one of the most useless classes in the game
If you know what you're doing they're broken and can deal absurd damage, I never rogue PC's in Wrath because Woljif is found so early and he mogs everything and there are so many archer companions so I never feel like I'm missing out by not playing a melee rogue or rogue archer.

>>3214926
Rogues are just worse slayers and vivisectionists

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>>3214925
Camellia is a useless slut, okay? Her damage is fucking horrible, only attacks once a turn. At least she can proc critical hits for AOOs with outflank and I managed to make her a godly tank but my god I'm only keeping her for being wife material and her funny banters

If i had to depend on her to killing these level 8 shadows with 77 hp we'd all be dead from zero strength before she managed to blowjob one of them

>>3214927
Rogues have a much higher selection of skills than Slayers or Vivisectionists, especially for Eldritch Scoundrels though that's even more reason to just use Woljif instead of making the PC a rogue.

>>3214931
>Her damage is fucking horrible
This holy shit aaaaa this bitch is so fucking terrible even crossbow daeran shits out more damage

>>3214931
>Camellia is a useless slut
You didn't build her properly.
>Her damage is fucking horrible,
Refer to the above.
>I'm only keeping her for being wife material
You have shitty taste in waifus if you simp that easily for serial killers, though that's not a surprise considering your pic related.
>If i had to depend on her to killing these level 8 shadows with 77 hp we'd all be dead
You should figure out how to become better at video games.

>>3214933
maybe. but i think it is more worth to just not have rouges in your party. even woljif can be made into decent tank using duelist/ magus hybrid (for int to ac passives that stack)

>>3214933
Ultimately irrelevant, slayer and vivi are rogue+

>>3214931
>>3214934
She's doing pretty good with elven curve blade and mythic weapon finesse on my game

>>3214939
don't really know why you would need tanks in this game when summons are so easy to abuse and Ulbrig instant grapples anything in Griffon form, and any ranged companions just cleans house with trash mobs.

>>3214933
>Rogues have a much higher selection of skills than Slayers or Vivisectionists

I find vivisectionists distasteful and I never use one, but the last time I played wotr I used a pure slayer (deliverer) and they were perfectly adequate for my dex skillmonkey needs.

Honestly I think the problem isn’t that rogues are bad, I think it’s that classes like slayer and vivisectionist are ridiculous and too good.

>>3214942
Slayers crumble like tooth picks, though, they don't have the mobility of Rogues.

>>3214938
I built her properly for my objectives, buffing, tanking and critical hits for aoos on my rogue and the gryphon
You just can't expect her to kill 4 highly leveled shadows before they rape my mages and everyone else with strength drain. I just need more ghost touched shit or load up on ember and attack spells

By the way, are the other totem thingies good on her? For example, nature has one ability that makes an enemy blind but I'm not sure if it needs to pass a DC or if it 'just works', because her dcs are also horrible
For example, light of the angels says it has a DC 11 but it affects everything regardless

>>3214944
but what about her trademark buckler?

>>3214953
>I built her properly for my objectives, buffing, tanking and critical hits for aoos
If I want a buff bot I just use Sosiel.
>raped with strength drain
You don't have any companions with Death Ward? Also keep in mind if you're keeping Camellia for romance purposes, she doesn't need to be in your party at all for that. Wrath is not like Kingmaker in that romance dialogues don't trigger from camp, so you can shelve her if you don't want a Shaman in your group.

>>3214956
What about it?

>>3214963
Can she use it with an elven curve blade?

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>>3214958
Well her damage is not terrible but she's not a freaking eviscerator with one attack per round and the same bab as my rogue who attacks twice
I only put death ward on cammelia since she's the tank but enemies don't seem to respect your front liner at all in turn based

Yes I know but I keep camellia and daeran because they have awesome comments

>>3214966
No? Why would you need to?

>>3214973
Just put death ward on whoever they're most likely to gang up on and then send that person ahead of the group, then eviscerate them with Scorching Ray or some similar spell that fires multiple shots and then have your archers clean up the rest. Should be real easy.

>>3214977
Bro you can't just not use the weapons and combat style your companions start with
Camellia is a noble lady of the court and as such the rapier and the buckler are her weapons of choice
do you even roleplay?

>>3214981
>Bro you can't just not use the weapons and combat style your companions start with
Well clearly not with that attitude.
>Camellia is a noble lady of the court and as such the rapier and the buckler are her weapons of choice
And overtime, due to traveling with the Knight Commander, she has grown a fondness for the elegancy and sublime, gory slicing of bodies that can be preformed with the Elven Curve blade, as opposed to the quick and decisive jabbing attributed to limited rapiers, and so in my playthrough she has decided to swap weaponry.
>do you even roleplay?
Do you? Explaining the changes that occur within play is a prime aspect of roleplaying. I bet you don't even play characters that change alignments.

>>3214981
Camellia is a half elf, its a noble weapon for her.

>>3214984
>I bet you don't even play characters that change alignments.

Imagine not autistically playing exclusively lawful good characters

>>3214988
broaden your variety of characters and playstyles, friend. Tis a roleplaying game after all.

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>>3214984
>changing alignments
that is strictly forbidden.

you did not beat the game or use camellia

And theoretically she couldn't perform the dances needed to use the elven curve blade effectively with the attire she wears

>>3214984
I actually gave Daeran the rapiers since he also gets rapier proficiency from his background. Both of them have ever ready and lunge and work quite well from behind my wolf and Seelah to proc the blender on stuff. Their self buffs let them have huge range to come online sooner than snap archers too.

>>3214990
Used to, the horizons narrowed as I got older

>>3214988
Imagine not being Neutral Good and doing the right thing in every situation.