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Mar 23, 2015 04:16
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The Lone Badger posted:What tools does a tank have for managing aggro / making fools attack them? Engagement. If I get up in your face, you can't try to move past without me getting a free hit off.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:17
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Smiling Knight posted:Engagement. If I get up in your face, you can't try to move past without me getting a free hit off. But since they're a tank, won't that be a single puny hit? Well worth taking?
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Mar 23, 2015 04:18
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The Lone Badger posted:What tools does a tank have for managing aggro / making fools attack them? Walking up to the enemy. The AI will pretty much attack the first thing it sees. Forever.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:21
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The Lone Badger posted:What tools does a tank have for managing aggro / making fools attack them? I tend to charge him in solo ahead of time with the fighter. I probably should take Hold the Line to lock an extra baddie in engagement. Also try to use chokepoints. Then BB Priest shoots with the quest-reward gun, BB mage fires spells, and custom chanter uses spears from behind. I'm pretty sure I'm not using BB rogue ideally. I tend to have him shoot from the back a lot too. Probably far, far, far from optimal, but I seem to be doing okay.  Also, the 2nd level priest spell consecrated ground is crazy good. +12 endurance a second for nearly 30 seconds in a fairly big circle. BB priest can just plant behind the front guys, shoot her gun and keep everyone topped off. I had one battle in the temple where my custom chanter ended up going from max health/endurance to nearly 0 health because consecrated ground was keeping her healed up when she was in an exposed spot getting whaled on.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:24
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Fintilgin posted:Counterpoint: Paladin Tank But then a barbarian with Brute Force (target fortitude if it's lower than deflection) shows up and you get pummeled into the ground.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:25
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Fintilgin posted:I tend to charge him in solo ahead of time with the fighter. I probably should take Hold the Line to lock an extra baddie in engagement. Also try to use chokepoints. Then BB Priest shoots with the quest-reward gun, BB mage fires spells, and custom chanter uses spears from behind. I'm pretty sure I'm not using BB rogue ideally. I tend to have him shoot from the back a lot too. Yeah you have to watch that with consecrated ground. Normally I'll also drop the first-level priest spell that boosts damage resistance.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:26
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rope kid posted:Yeah it wasn't designed to completely get rid of attacks that miss, but to ameliorate D&D's trend toward 1/round attacks that have an overwhelming chance of missing at at low levels. Hey Ropekid, I know you've gone into some examples of good names for Aedyr/Vailian Republics/Glanfathan characters, but what about a Coastal Aumaua from Rauatai? I believe that's where the Coastal Aumaua predominantly congregate anyway.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:27
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How do you guys manage camping supplies? It seems like you run out pretty fast.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:27
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StashAugustine posted:How do you guys manage camping supplies? It seems like you run out pretty fast. Don't take damage Seriously that's the answer. Use CC abilities heavily and make sure you have active damage resistance and deflection buffs. The chanter's enemy offense debuffs help too. That's where understanding the stacking rules helps a lot. You can't stack three separate DR buffs, but you can stack a Deflection buff, a DR buff, and an enemy Accuracy debuff all at once just fine, and you do enough of that kind of thing you can waltz through successive encounters in relative safety. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 04:29
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hey Ropekid, I know you've gone into some examples of good names for Aedyr/Vailian Republics/Glanfathan characters, but what about a Coastal Aumaua from Rauatai? I believe that's where the Coastal Aumaua predominantly congregate anyway.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:31
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah you have to watch that with consecrated ground. Normally I'll also drop the first-level priest spell that boosts damage resistance. StashAugustine posted:How do you guys manage camping supplies? It seems like you run out pretty fast.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:33
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hey Ropekid, I know you've gone into some examples of good names for Aedyr/Vailian Republics/Glanfathan characters, but what about a Coastal Aumaua from Rauatai? I believe that's where the Coastal Aumaua predominantly congregate anyway.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:39
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rope kid posted:Rauatai names are loosely based on Maori.  Culturally I'm going Living Lands but I figure Living Lands most likely doesn't have a distinct linguistic flavor given it's a sparsely populated colonial zone, so Rauatai seemed the best place to start for a Coastal Aumaua in the Living Lands. I'm loving all the lore for this game so far. The touch about Godlike being legally considered genderless in the Vailian Republics because they can't produce children amused the hell out of me. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 04:44
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rope kid posted:Rauatai names are loosely based on Maori. Awesome!
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Mar 23, 2015 04:48
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Captain Oblivious posted:I'm loving all the lore for this game so far. The touch about Godlike being legally considered genderless in the Vailian Republics because they can't produce marriage amused the hell out of me.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:49
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The Lone Badger posted:But since they're a tank, won't that be a single puny hit? Well worth taking?
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Mar 23, 2015 05:02
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CommissarMega posted:I'm definitely rolling a Goldpact Paladin with arquebus and two-handed sword for maximum Landsknecht, and I'll be playing Unser Liebe Fraue the whole goddamn time More music: Wir Zogen In Das Feld Die Landsknechte Kommen (mandatory of course) Joerg von Frundsberg, fuerht uns an
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Mar 23, 2015 05:09
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Where do barbarians come from lore wise? I don't really know much about the lore and seeing guns and stuff had me thinking that societies were a bit more technologically advanced than you would think of as "barbaric."
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Mar 23, 2015 05:15
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Can someone break down all of the cultures into "Not-XXX (but XXX)"? Can someone link me to rope kid providing some example names? I think that would help a lot.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:22
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Firstborn posted:Can someone break down all of the cultures into "Not-XXX (but XXX)"? This page is basically a copy/paste of stuff Ropekid posted a while back. http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Personal_Names The wiki mostly just collates stuff he's said on different forums. It has some good stuff on the world cultures so I definitely recommend poking around.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:28
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Drifter posted:Please please PLEASE guys please use spoiler tags liberally for the next few weeks.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:29
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Bogarts posted:Where do barbarians come from lore wise? I don't really know much about the lore and seeing guns and stuff had me thinking that societies were a bit more technologically advanced than you would think of as "barbaric." My take is: You probably are taking the class name too literally. Barbarian is a fighting style, not a cultural background or what have you.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:30
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rope kid posted:Rauatai names are loosely based on Maori. Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauotamateapōkaiwhenuakitanatahu the Kind Wayfarer, let's do this. 
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Mar 23, 2015 05:32
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Bogarts posted:Where do barbarians come from lore wise? I don't really know much about the lore and seeing guns and stuff had me thinking that societies were a bit more technologically advanced than you would think of as "barbaric." http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Barbarian
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Mar 23, 2015 05:34
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Can you play a barbarian as a suave swanky vailian who just gets these headaches?
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Mar 23, 2015 05:37
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rope kid, what is knighthood like in this world? My Paladin can't not be named Sir/Ser. Thanks for the wiki, answered that question perfectly.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:39
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Captain Oblivious posted:
Ooh they're infertile? So if a godlike was born to like, high society parents with no other children they'd hate it because their bloodline will end with you probably. I've been wondering what sort of backstory my PC might have and "kicked out by my well-to-do parents with nothing but the clothes on my back because they resent me for never being able to give them a grandchild" seems compelling enough.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:40
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2house2fly posted:Ooh they're infertile? So if a godlike was born to like, high society parents with no other children they'd hate it because their bloodline will end with you probably. I've been wondering what sort of backstory my PC might have and "kicked out by my well-to-do parents with nothing but the clothes on my back because they resent me for never being able to give them a grandchild" seems compelling enough. Godlike cannot reproduce and because of this they often times have trouble with the concept of marriage because, well, most societies view marriage as a construct designed to facilitate and safeguard reproduction and little else. The Vailan Republics legally consider Godlikes sexless regardless of what they look like and this means that legal constructs that specifically name a gender can cause problems for them. Paraphrased from the wiki.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:43
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The Lone Badger posted:Can you play a barbarian as a suave swanky vailian who just gets these headaches? As far as I can tell that should work. Pick Vailian / aristocrat background then whuurps that class doesn't fit
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Mar 23, 2015 05:44
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Rookersh posted:Human.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:46
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What kind of gender options will be available
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Mar 23, 2015 05:57
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:What kind of gender options will be available
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Mar 23, 2015 06:02
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Rookersh posted:Human. Would be doing this if the game didn't have the shark-teeth people with bigger Might bonus  guy on the left sold me to that race frajaq fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 06:04
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:What kind of gender options will be available Due to lazy, unprofessional game development, there'll sadly be 11 classes, 6 races and only two gender options. You're stuck choosing between m/f buddy, because who likes giving people an actually realistic third/fourth/fifth/sixth gender choice. Plus even then it's just a cosmetic difference because lol Absurdian Godlike is still assigned a gender during character creation I'm pretty sure, need to choose what type of armour models they wear n stuff, it's not a real third option. Urthor fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 06:07
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You can assign a female portrait and voice even if you pick male and vice versa so that's something.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:20
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frajaq posted:Would be doing this if the game didn't have the shark-teeth people with bigger Might bonus The dude on the right seriously looks like a recolored IWD2 portrait. I'm too lazy to find it, but if you messed around with that game I think you know the one.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:22
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Urthor posted:Due to lazy, unprofessional game development, there'll sadly be 11 classes, 6 races and only two gender options. You're stuck choosing between m/f buddy, because who likes giving people an actually realistic third/fourth/fifth/sixth gender choice. Disappointing lack of any playable race at all that reproduces either abiogenetically or parthenogenetically.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:22
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Firstborn posted:The dude on the right seriously looks like a recolored IWD2 portrait. I'm too lazy to find it, but if you messed around with that game I think you know the one. There's a portrait it kind of resembles, similar hair and beard with a cloak, but the pose and angle of the face is very different.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:27
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Disappointing lack of any playable race at all that reproduces either abiogenetically or parthenogenetically. If this had been a stretch goal you know Obsidian would be set for life
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