Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Fizzil
Aug 24, 2005

There are five fucks at the edge of a cliff...



Hey guys, how do i get in the Blighted Manse?

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Homo Depot
Jun 27, 2007

Studs on sale!
For the grimoire I think just head towards the encampent from gran soren and some bandits are attacking some dude you can save. Then you get a hint to head towards their hideout which is off towards the southwest area(really can't miss it) Maybe making it as your priority quest will show you where to go.

Myriad
Apr 26, 2010

LibbyM posted:

I think it happens after you complete the audience with the duke quest. I just guess that because that quest deactivates a bunch of side quests and sets the story forward basically.
She has a shop for me and I haven't gone to see the duke yet

gibbed
Apr 10, 2006

Homo Depot posted:

For the grimoire I think just head towards the encampent from gran soren and some bandits are attacking some dude you can save. Then you get a hint to head towards their hideout which is off towards the southwest area(really can't miss it) Maybe making it as your priority quest will show you where to go.
It shows several icons, which move around depending on where you are. :v:

Overbite
Jan 24, 2004


I'm a vtuber expert
I accidentally killed the Innkeeper in Gran Soren and now I'm in jail. Will he come back?

Mercedes
Mar 7, 2006

"So you Jesus?"

"And you black?"

"Nigga prove it!"

And so Black Jesus turned water into a bucket of chicken. And He saw that it was good.




Where pray tell is the Black Cat? I wanna forge items and give them to pawns who are super chatty

Schubalts
Nov 26, 2007

People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.
It's in an alley in the residential district. There's a sign out front.

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009
Has anyone found a portcrystal other than the one at the site of the Griffon hunting quest?

flymonkey
Feb 7, 2012

Overbite posted:

I accidentally killed the Innkeeper in Gran Soren and now I'm in jail. Will he come back?
I heard that NPCs respawn in 7 days.

My pawn keeps getting no gifts, three star rankings, and no comments...not sure if it's because people are rushing through ratings, or if my pawn is actually that mediocre :(

turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Okay, so Witch Hunt quest spoilers right here. I have a question.

Selene says she wants to go live in my house, which I guess is okay since I never use it anyways. Then an item box pops up. What am I supposed to do with that?

Lotish posted:

Right now my healer is Lil B (not at whom to check which goon he belongs to) and he's working out pretty well. He seems to be very concerned with keeping our health topped off, which is a boon on escorts where the ward keeps getting between me and the saurians (looking at you, Adaro! :catstare:)

I have never had trouble on an escort quest because of him, it's great. Does nothing besides buff and heal, thanks Mendicant!

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Giggily posted:

Okay, so Witch Hunt quest spoilers right here. I have a question.

Selene says she wants to go live in my house, which I guess is okay since I never use it anyways. Then an item box pops up. What am I supposed to do with that?

If you have certain herbs, you can make some special ale with her help. It's just kind of weird because you might not have done the Notice Board quest that introduces this concept to you, so you might be convinced you have to give her something.

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

I think I made the wrong choice for getting more quests every single time except with the inquest. :smith:

Does anyone know how to move those dormant golems in the witchwood? Or the spaces behind the walls in the quarry?

Teeter
Jul 21, 2005

Hey guys! I'm having a good time, what about you?

Major post-game spoilers here:

My main pawn, who was my healer, mysteriously disappeared during the Beholder fight. I've done a few more chambers since then but I think I've reached the breaking point. I have few curatives remaining, no cure for petrification, no mage for heals nor status repair, and it's just plain impossible for the three of us to keep going. I haven't used a wakestone in combat yet because I wasn't sure if it would just bring me back (only to inevitably die again) or something story related that would autosave and have me regret later. Am I screwed, or is it time to kill myself with that fancy dagger that appeared in my inventory?

Fizzil
Aug 24, 2005

There are five fucks at the edge of a cliff...



Teeter posted:

Major post-game spoilers here:

My main pawn, who was my healer, mysteriously disappeared during the Beholder fight. I've done a few more chambers since then but I think I've reached the breaking point. I have few curatives remaining, no cure for petrification, no mage for heals nor status repair, and it's just plain impossible for the three of us to keep going. I haven't used a wakestone in combat yet because I wasn't sure if it would just bring me back (only to inevitably die again) or something story related that would autosave and have me regret later. Am I screwed, or is it time to kill myself with that fancy dagger that appeared in my inventory?

You can go back to town easily, just drop in the hole and it'll drop you in the sky again, can't describe the effect cause my english is bad, hold onto the first ledge where quince i think her name was gave you the quest, then walk over to the door to exit into the pawn guild, the inn-keeper is there, the blacksmith and shop are still running, and the forger/black cat owner is in what remains of the tavern

Teeter
Jul 21, 2005

Hey guys! I'm having a good time, what about you?

Fizzil posted:

You can go back to town easily, just drop in the hole and it'll drop you in the sky again, can't describe the effect cause my english is bad, hold onto the first ledge where quince i think her name was gave you the quest, then walk over to the door to exit into the pawn guild, the inn-keeper is there, the blacksmith and shop are still running, and the forger/black cat owner is in what remains of the tavern

Thanks, that'll solve it. I suppose I should have remembered it from the first cutscene that the everfall loops back around with the sky, it just didn't dawn on me that it would be used as a gameplay mechanic. I almost gave up; it was starting to become impossible to get through everything with no items and an incomplete party

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Any tips on taking down a golem as a mage? My main pawn and I are level 30 and I've been fighting this one golem for 15 minutes. We have the damage because when my pawn does, finally, manage to hit it's weak spot it takes a chunk of it away, but my spells don't seem to do squat.

Are my spells even doing anything? I can't really tell.

Edit: Without using the insta-kill spell. I won't always have it equipped and I want to learn how to beat it normally.

Jimbot fucked around with this message at 02:25 on May 26, 2012

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

---
The Wyrmking's ring takes almost 100,000 gold to counterfeit :dance: I hope it's awesome for magick archers, otherwise I just paid a lot to give somebody else's pawn a fancy-rear end gift.

e: Also, Magick Archer picks up a lot around rank 5, but I'm still effectively a support character for my Warrior pawn.

Count Uvula fucked around with this message at 02:32 on May 26, 2012

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

At the end of everything, hold onto anything



Fun Shoe

flymonkey posted:

I heard that NPCs respawn in 7 days.

My pawn keeps getting no gifts, three star rankings, and no comments...not sure if it's because people are rushing through ratings, or if my pawn is actually that mediocre :(

Same here for the most part, except I've managed 4 star rankings...

Fizzil
Aug 24, 2005

There are five fucks at the edge of a cliff...



Jimbot posted:

Any tips on taking down a golem as a mage? My main pawn and I are level 30 and I've been fighting this one golem for 15 minutes. We have the damage because when my pawn does, finally, manage to hit it's weak spot it takes a chunk of it away, but my spells don't seem to do squat.

Are my spells even doing anything? I can't really tell.

Edit: Without using the insta-kill spell. I won't always have it equipped and I want to learn how to beat it normally.

Are you hitting the glowy spots? I guess for casters like you the most troubling part would be the foot/sole of the golem, i read somewhere that you should get close enough and smash your strong attack button, because pawns are too dumb to damage that bit.

Shadow Ninja 64
May 21, 2007

"I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."


Man, I had my heart set on turning my Strider into a Magick Archer once I raised his Vocation level all the way up. Then I found an enchanted sword that claims to "always be on fire" and that provides awesome stats. Now I'm torn between my dreams of shooting magic homing crazy stuff or becoming a Mystic Knight and murdering things with fire (even more than usual).

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Fizzil posted:

Are you hitting the glowy spots? I guess for casters like you the most troubling part would be the foot/sole of the golem, i read somewhere that you should get close enough and smash your strong attack button, because pawns are too dumb to damage that bit.

Yeah. I'm far away so the feedback isn't that great. Maybe I wasn't strong enough or something because I kept hitting a big one on its back and it didn't seem to do nothing.

Do golems have crazy high magic resistances? I know they do have high resistance to everything except blunt weaponry.

VDay
Jul 2, 2003

I'm Pacman Jones!
Haha, that ending sure is something. Note though: If you're like me and play the game with music turned off so you can play your own music while you run around, turn it back on before the final fights otherwise you get to watch the ending cinematics with 0 sound.

Girafro
Jan 5, 2012

I will do schticky to your body

Gestalt Intellect posted:

How viable is it to always rent your healers? After finally ordering this I was going to roll one of the four Strider vocations myself and have my main pawn be a Fighter/general tank, but then I realized that I would always have to get healing mages from other people. Is it easy enough to search for the skills you need that I could rely on getting the ones I'm missing from others, or is that sort of luck-based? I've seen search criteria in videos for vocations but not skills.

I'm playing a Ranger (started as Strider) and my MP is a Warrior and I've had no problems renting out healers/mages. Fighters make for wicked tanks and if you can teach your own pawn how to handle things they're even better, I find, since I tend to rent out a second fighter type as well. There are millions of mage pawns online anyhow, whenever I enter the rift there are probably 2 to 3 mages for every other character that wanders in.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
I just love the goblins that have a shield lashed to their front and back. They get an A for effort.

Schubalts
Nov 26, 2007

People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.
So the silk lingerie is a thong. I guess that's extra incentive to put it on your male pawns.

Shardok
Jan 12, 2009

Jimbot posted:

Yeah. I'm far away so the feedback isn't that great. Maybe I wasn't strong enough or something because I kept hitting a big one on its back and it didn't seem to do nothing.

Do golems have crazy high magic resistances? I know they do have high resistance to everything except blunt weaponry.

From the guide. This is the percent of damage they take from it.

Blunt: 100%
Pierce: 60%
Every Element: 0%


Also, probably already said, but there was an update that finally gave us our first Special Pawns. No idea what they are yet, haven't checked.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



The end of this game is loving crazy and worth every penny I spent on it. Why couldn't the whole plot be like that? The entire post game was just cool and the dragon fight was amazing.

One issue, though. They couldn't get all the pawn voice actors to say "Master!" twice? Really?

Manatee Cannon fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 26, 2012

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009

Shardok posted:

Also, probably already said, but there was an update that finally gave us our first Special Pawns. No idea what they are yet, haven't checked.

Just checked, and they just seem like regular pawns except all associated with a dev account. I don't get it.

Kaldaris
Aug 10, 2008

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Awesome possum!
Twelve hours into this game, and I still can't put it down. :stare:

Striders are just the best thing. Climb, shoot, and stab things all day.

Also- Anyone that's tried magic archer, is it comparable to strider? :raise:

Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

College Slice
What I gathered from the description in the Rift was that special pawns are just official pawns or something. I don't quite see the point of that, the game's supposedly loaded with official pawns as it is.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

---

Kaldaris posted:

Striders are just the best thing. Climb, shoot, and stab things all day.

Also- Anyone that's tried magic archer, is it comparable to strider? :raise:

Most Magic Archer skill needs to be charged like magic, including melee knife ones. Pretty different experience.

Kaldaris
Aug 10, 2008

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Awesome possum!

Count Uvula posted:

Most Magic Archer skill needs to be charged like magic, including melee knife ones. Pretty different experience.

The ... Melee needs to be charged? How exactly does that not get you hosed in melee?

Teslavi
May 28, 2006
Ridiculous.
Well, Scension is really the only melee attack skill Magick Archers have that has a cast time, and as a result of that it's very awkward to use. Sunburst is instant and amazing. Backfire also has a cast time, but it's a fairly long lasting enchantment, so you just retreat a bit, fire it off, then go run like crazy and start clinging to everything to set them on fire.

Emong
May 31, 2011

perpair to be annihilated


So, am I the only one that got creeped the gently caress out by the catacomb? Because hearing the zombies talking freaked me out a bit.

Shalinor
Jun 10, 2002

Can I buy you a rootbeer?

Teslavi posted:

Well, Scension is really the only melee attack skill Magick Archers have that has a cast time, and as a result of that it's very awkward to use. Sunburst is instant and amazing. Backfire also has a cast time, but it's a fairly long lasting enchantment, so you just retreat a bit, fire it off, then go run like crazy and start clinging to everything to set them on fire.
Scension also really isn't worth dealing with. Doesn't even kill weak goblins, all it really does is fling light enemies for distance - and a Magick archer has better ways of doing that.

There's also a quicker casting sigil ability that kind of leaves a trap for enemies. They touch it, they get locked down. Unfortunately, Magick archers are all about stick and move, so you almost never get to put the trap where an enemy will end up being. Even with a pawn tank, the battle moves around too much for it to be useful very often.

Systems_Id
Feb 16, 2005

LEFT CHEEK! LEFT CHEEK! LEFT CHEEK!
The quests in this game are loving horrible. I wish this was just a straight up dungeon crawler.

Nyancromancer
Dec 31, 2008

So is there a lack of mage pawns in the game? Mine keeps coming back with 4-5 star ratings in helpfulness and none in anything else.

Kaldaris
Aug 10, 2008

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Awesome possum!

Shalinor posted:

Scension also really isn't worth dealing with. Doesn't even kill weak goblins, all it really does is fling light enemies for distance - and a Magick archer has better ways of doing that.

There's also a quicker casting sigil ability that kind of leaves a trap for enemies. They touch it, they get locked down. Unfortunately, Magick archers are all about stick and move, so you almost never get to put the trap where an enemy will end up being. Even with a pawn tank, the battle moves around too much for it to be useful very often.

That's sort of sad, everything I'm hearing is pointing towards Strider just still being better all around.

Though to be honest, the only thing I'd really want is that super nifty flare arrow the Magick Archers get.

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Systems_Id posted:

The quests in this game are loving horrible. I wish this was just a straight up dungeon crawler.

I hear that. Searching around town for NPCs that might not even be there, just because... that's maddening. And if I see another kill N amount of things as a quest, it's gonna drive me nuts. I love this game a whole lot, it eats up my time like a monster, but it's just so joyless when it comes to non story quests or non dungeon quests.


And since I never got an adequate answer, in the "Honor Among Thieves" quest, where you have the option to murder ten people or just get one guy to own up...

I caught that one guy stealing in Cassardis. Now he appears as the quest marker, but I can't do anything with him. I can't grapple him, I can't talk to him- he appears in town when I enter, and runs off and disappears when I approach. What am I supposed to do?


Edit: Also, I like that his definition of individuality involves doing whatever he says. That's solid, bandit leader.

FisheyStix fucked around with this message at 04:03 on May 26, 2012

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Shalinor
Jun 10, 2002

Can I buy you a rootbeer?

Kaldaris posted:

That's sort of sad, everything I'm hearing is pointing towards Strider just still being better all around.

Though to be honest, the only thing I'd really want is that super nifty flare arrow the Magick Archers get.
Strider isn't all around better, Magick archer just has some lame abilities. So does Strider.

The 6-fold shot? Homing missiles? Those are fantastic, and I can take on an entire group of mid level enemies on my own if the rest of my group can just keep them busy. There are some other abilities that aren't bad, too. I can also SET MYSELF ON FIRE.

  • Locked thread