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Pocket Billiards posted:Level 10 fighting the Skydragon and it makes me feel like I'm completely useless at this game. Only things I've been challenged by so far leading up to this were the Raedric fight at level 5/6 without cheesing it with doorways or anything like that and the Adra Animat on level 7 of Caed Nua which I think I came to at too low a level. Are you having someone else with a remove fear scroll do the initial cast while Durance gives major buffs and someone with high str uses a moonwell scroll while everyone else spams summon items to distract the dragon? I find that helps a lot also you can do some pre fight buffing with food. Keep up the paralyzing with scrolls, thats a solid strat on this thing.
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Can we please put "use Hiravias" in the OP?
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There's a helmet you can get that makes dragon breath not hurt so much.
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Basic Chunnel posted:If you haven't killed the game yet you might be able to retrieve the last save from the game's guts. I did it during the early days of the game. Ah, poo poo. Thanks for the info - I guess I'll know for next time, but I already exited the game.
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Litany Unheard posted:Iselmyr is a way cooler person than Aloth, anyways. He should try to be more like her. Give no fucks, tell that farmer to go gently caress his sister, hell yeah Pillars 2 would've breached the $10 million mark if Iselmyr was a romance option 
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CommissarMega posted:Pillars 2 would've breached the $10 million mark if Iselmyr was a romance option One weird trick for milking your lonely gamer audience. Avellone hates it!!
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Mar 7, 2017 06:45
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I know I'm itching for her kindling touch...
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The Western dating sim genre is an untapped gold mine that Bioware's just barely hit their pick against, and it's frankly kind of surprising no one else seems to be picking up on it.
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Vermain posted:The Western dating sim genre is an untapped gold mine that Bioware's just barely hit their pick against, and it's frankly kind of surprising no one else seems to be picking up on it. Basic Chunnel fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Basic Chunnel posted:publishers don't know how to market to those demographics. More to the point, the publishers' established userbases don't want them to chase those demographics. This is both true and stupid
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I beat this loving Sky Dragon finally. It took a long time to whittle him down with everyone geared up for pierce/slash damage and constant buffing/debuffing. My paralysis attacks wouldn't reliably work, between trap, scroll and spell. Between those two things I'm not sure if I just completely misunderstand the stat system or I was a little underlevelled at level 10. Don't really have any trouble in general combat though.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I beat this loving Sky Dragon finally. His deflection/saves are pretty high. Did you boost your accuracy before trying to cast paralyze? A great spell to cast is Devotions of the faithful. It buffs your parties accuracy by +20 which is huge (helps you land hits & spells better). Other spells/potions like Eldritch Aim can be helpful as well. The Sky Dragon has over 100 in each defense iirc so you need to boost your accuracy pretty high to land spells and hits on him. One thing I think not many people realize unless they've taken a closer look is accuracy isn't just for hitting monsters. It's also for landing spells. But accuracy targets the relevant spell defense, not deflection. So you want not only your melee but also your casters to have high accuracy when they're trying to land their big poo poo. This is why people talk about Rangers and Fighters being awesome for scroll use because those classes have high accuracy to begin with, meaning if you give them a spell they can land it pretty reliably. I just beat the Fampyrs in Russetwood at level 7 last night with my Priest of Skaen  . Felt pretty satisfying to beat them without prayer against treachery available. Helps that my Priest absolutely melts the everloving gently caress out of things with the Bartender Ring. Look forward to giving Galvino's the middle finger with my giant holy radiance nukes.
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Started a new game with muscle wizard; Am finding 'hard' difficulty to be super easy so far. Last time I played this game with a Cipher on the same difficulty (around release), I found the first 6 levels to be really rough. I had to use every ability in my arsenal to make it through most fights iirc. Might just be easier this time around because I know what I'm doing. Or maybe the game got patched to be easier in the earlier stages. I'm not sure. Do people generally find hard to be too easy and play PotD instead? Thinking of restarting.
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Amish Ninja posted:Started a new game with muscle wizard; Am finding 'hard' difficulty to be super easy so far. Last time I played this game with a Cipher on the same difficulty (around release), I found the first 6 levels to be really rough. I had to use every ability in my arsenal to make it through most fights iirc. Might just be easier this time around because I know what I'm doing. Or maybe the game got patched to be easier in the earlier stages. I'm not sure. Do people generally find hard to be too easy and play PotD instead? Thinking of restarting. Once you know the mechanics and how they interact Hard isn't really all that difficult anymore. You'd probably run into a little trouble if you hit the Temple or Caed Nua early, but otherwise  I'm doing my current playthrough on PotD after completing the game on Hard and having a blast.
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Do the WM companions have much to say if you take them back to the base game?
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CFox posted:Do the WM companions have much to say if you take them back to the base game? They have some banters. Not sure off the top of my head how much they interact with base game quests. Amish Ninja posted:Started a new game with muscle wizard; Am finding 'hard' difficulty to be super easy so far. Last time I played this game with a Cipher on the same difficulty (around release), I found the first 6 levels to be really rough. I had to use every ability in my arsenal to make it through most fights iirc. Might just be easier this time around because I know what I'm doing. Or maybe the game got patched to be easier in the earlier stages. I'm not sure. Do people generally find hard to be too easy and play PotD instead? Thinking of restarting. If you know basic strategies for getting through the regular game you should be okay on potd. Some fights will be pretty hard, but nothing too unreasonable. It helps to know the mechanics of the game if you're playing on potd but even if you're not an expert you should still be ok.
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Vermain posted:The Western dating sim genre is an untapped gold mine that Bioware's just barely hit their pick against, and it's frankly kind of surprising no one else seems to be picking up on it. Overwatch is one of the most successful games of all time, isn't it?
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Ginette Reno posted:Did you boost your accuracy before trying to cast paralyze? A great spell to cast is Devotions of the faithful. It buffs your parties accuracy by +20 which is huge (helps you land hits & spells better). Does anyone know how/whether accuracy-enhancing buffs stack? For example, if I cast "Devotions of the Faithful" and a Scroll of Valor, will I receive a combined +35 accuracy? I've seen other status effects and buffs that don't stack, and so I'm always hesitant to waste spells on duplicate stats when I've already got an active one going.
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They shouldn't. Active effects shouldn't stack. I'm saying "shouldn't" because the code governing that is not always on top of things.
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Ginette Reno posted:They have some banters. Not sure off the top of my head how much they interact with base game quests. The only real difference between hard and potd is you need to understand how debuffs and immunity spells work. Also helps if you know where to buy the shod-in-faith boots.
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rope kid posted:They shouldn't. Active effects shouldn't stack. I'm saying "shouldn't" because the code governing that is not always on top of things. Jadus posted:Does anyone know how/whether accuracy-enhancing buffs stack? For example, if I cast "Devotions of the Faithful" and a Scroll of Valor, will I receive a combined +35 accuracy? I've seen other status effects and buffs that don't stack, and so I'm always hesitant to waste spells on duplicate stats when I've already got an active one going. Bonuses to Ranged/Melee Accuracy (e.g. Devotions for the Faithful) will stack with General Accuracy Bonuses (e.g. Eldritch Aim, Blessing, Zealous Focus). It's part of the reason Devotions for the Faithful is one of the best spells in the game. If I recall correctly, scroll of valors info is wrong and it will actually increased ranged/melee accuracy. Holy Radiance from a priest with the talent will also provide an extra +10 Accuracy that stacks with everything.
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Let us savor this moment. Cowboy hats are in. They'll probably be out tomorrow, but they're in right now: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/839187923937304576
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Dual wield pistols + cowboy hats
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Serafen is going to be a pirate cowboy, and it's going to be awesome.
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Scorchy posted:Dual wield pistols + cowboy hats Dual wield cowboy hats. Put a cowboy hat on my cowboy hat. ...oh god give me hats for the pets. I want that baby lagufaeth rocking a tiny cowboy hat.
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Also, big head mode better still be a thing. Massive cowboy hats.
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Mar 7, 2017 20:14
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We need the black wide brim hats like the dude wears in good bad and ugly
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Scorchy posted:Dual wield pistols What good does this even do you? Other than opening with slightly more damage. It's still fire pistol/reload/fire pistol/reload. Why not just use the best of the two pistols?
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Fintilgin posted:What good does this even do you? Other than opening with slightly more damage. It looks cool
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Because it's really cool? But I take your point. A wizard dual wielding implements is where the real power plays'll be.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Let us savor this moment. Cowboy hats are in. They'll probably be out tomorrow, but they're in right now: Well there goes my hat slot
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Fintilgin posted:What good does this even do you? Other than opening with slightly more damage.
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Ravenfood posted:They could set it so that it's fire, fire, reload, reload for spikier damage (though I feel like everyone will just switch to melee after the two shots). Very realistic.
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four weapon sets, eight pistols
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hangedman1984 posted:This is both true and stupid eventually all publsihers, developers, coders, writers & artists growing up in our modern anime-soaked world will never not have experienced anime & fallen in love with an anime boyfriend/girlfriend. then the singulairty happens
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Fintilgin posted:What good does this even do you? Other than opening with slightly more damage. I never reload my pistols until the end of combat anyway.
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Ravenfood posted:They could set it so that it's fire, fire, reload, reload for spikier damage (though I feel like everyone will just switch to melee after the two shots).
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AriadneThread posted:four weapon sets, eight pistols This wasn't an unheard of tactic for muzzle loading pistols
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I think I'd be more onboard with the fire gun/switch weapons strategy if it was easily coded into the party AI. Like it would be super fun to have everyone shoot and then swap weapons, but it's a lot of clicking at the start of every combat. Plus, I find if I give characters ranged in one slot and melee in another they switch and stick with the weapon I don't want them using regularly. Like, no Eder, don't hang back and keep shooting a bow, advance into combat please. Actually, I've noticed that my characters seem to be dropping their AI mode semi-regularly. I set them to aggressive or whatever, and later on I'll find them standing around with ... over their head because they've switched back to passive. No pattern to what causes it that I see, but annoying. 
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rope kid posted:The modal ability for proficiency in pistol is to flip it over and use it as a club. That. Is. Great.
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