Yeah that was a kick in the balls for me considering the trouble I had before hand. Thankfully I had enough CC and DPS to burst them down to make the damage bearable.
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Yeah that was a kick in the balls for me considering the trouble I had before hand. Thankfully I had enough CC and DPS to burst them down to make the damage bearable.
I thought I'd done this, but I was overlooking it. I don't think you can seel these quest items... triple check ALL your inventories, or have each character try to activate the gate.
It was dropped
by Evelyn
Can anyone confirm for sure by testing now, please?
Fuz
Banned
MurkyZebra2417
Member
You should be fine, though your doctor may advise against it. =P
SaberVulcan
Member
So I played this game for the majority of my 3-day weekend... and I dont know what it is but I seem to have a serious problem fighting anything higher level than me, and I feel like I am running out of options on where to quest. I don't know if I am doing combat wrong or something, but at level 5 right now, if I fight a group of level 6s I almost always have 1-2 party deaths per fight.
For what its worth, I currently have a party consisting of 2x 2H warriors, a ranger/mage hybrid, and mage. I also tried swapping out one of the warriors with a Shadowblade, but that went even worse.
So uh, is that normal? Im just trying to complete quests in my journal and most of them I cannot even attempt due to the level gap (5 vs 7+ is basically unwinnable).
For what its worth, I currently have a party consisting of 2x 2H warriors, a ranger/mage hybrid, and mage. I also tried swapping out one of the warriors with a Shadowblade, but that went even worse.
So uh, is that normal? Im just trying to complete quests in my journal and most of them I cannot even attempt due to the level gap (5 vs 7+ is basically unwinnable).
Very happy about the way the armor is in this game, even the weapon looks badass with water and fire effects...
That impaler, I used it for a long time.
I beat that boss last night and I'm pretty sure I didn't see that amulet anywhere. I even talked to the guy in the middle of the room after the fight.
I'll double-check my game tonight but I'm a little concerned now. There are quite a few complaints online of the amulet not dropping when it should.
41 hours and counting of only coop for me.
I'm about 20 hours in and I often feel the same way. In fact, I asked the same kind of question earlier in this thread. In the end, If I'm hitting a fight that's too hard, I simply went and explored another piece of the map for mobs that were more my level. I've been able to progress one way or the other, and I haven't hit a complete wall yet where there's simply nothing I can do. I thought I got close once, but it really came down to exploring other tactics in the battle which allowed me to get past it.
Use and abuse the elemental arrows, that's the best thing about rangers.
How are you doing as far as elemental arrows? That's the name of the game for the Ranger build.
Fuz
Banned
LurkerPrime
Member
If it falls from first place I know who to blame.
e.e
Just focus on making two characters you like first and foremost, the game will give you enough space to figure out the rest.
And I've read quite a few "doh, it was in my inventory all along" posts too.
Have you tried clicking on the pedestal with all four characters? If you have and you're sure it's not lying back at the fight area, then we need to first confirm if you can sell it, and check that avenue, then if nothing else contact support.
There's a program you can download that creates a report for them. Google it, I can link later if you can't find it.
I'll be home in an hour and I still have it, will try to sell and get back to you.
Agree.
It's awfull to see ennemies ignoring my warrior, lol.
Fortunally, it's not happening all the time and still my tank helped me a lot mostly at the begining of the game when my team was squishy.
Now, at lvl 14. I'm tempted to unlock the 2H skill~
I can understand.
My first character as a ranger and strangely even with elemental arrows she not doing great damage even if I putted all in DEX.
Then in my second playtrough I changed my main character and hired a ranger... he is RAMBO!
I don't know why such there is such difference but he is doing great damages compare to my old ranger.
Thanks for that. I'm not sure if I have a problem yet, though. I decided to mop up the orcs in the west right after that boss and it turned out to be a bigger job than anticipated so I haven't been to the church.
I won't be able to test until I get home from work later today.
I'm positively in love with it !
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Can we all agree that the
initiation button puzzle is the dumbest thing ever?
SaberVulcan
Member
Tempting to reroll after reading this. My female character doesnt seem very good, Ranger/Wizard hybrid kinda thing. I put in like 20+ hours already though, seems poopy to just reroll. Hrmmm...
Is there any wiki out there for the character classes yet? I assume so, didnt see any in OT though.
Yes!
2H is pretty amazing. I only have one melee character on my team - Madora - and she is by far the biggest damage-dealer. She just obliterates things. Which is also, incidentally, why people who say that magic is overpowered compared to melee are very much mistaken.
She hits like a truck with her basic attack, and some of the Man-at-Arms skills are also pretty crazy, like Battering Ram and Flurry. Magic is obviously super useful due to its great crowd control abilities, but for pure damage your 2H warrior is king. They can also soak up a lot of damage if you spec them right.
And yes I agree with the general point that the way aggro works in the game could be better. I think it's tuned too much to pets taking aggro - spider pet is ridiculously invaluable because of this - as opposed to your actual tank character. Enemies are a lot more focused on pets than they probably should be.
Yeah, that was... Not very good. I had somewhat an idea of what to do with the "click" text, but it should have had one more hint for me, at least.
Holy shit,
have a feeling this will take me some time. I'm guessing there would be a way to cheese it, but I really don't want to resort to that.
Braccus Rex just completely wrecks me, he doesn't even need the other 3 mini-bosses, that carpet bomb he starts off with does most of the work,
LurkerPrime
Member
That's the thing, there are no classes. You can build your character however you want, and there are enough henchmen (and a few companions) that can fill in whatever hole you see your party having. If you don't like your current character's build or it just isn't working out, start putting points in a different direction, 'cuz y'never know.
If you're deeply unhappy with your main characters' builds, there will be an opportunity to respec them later in the game. There are caveats, though be assured you won't lose anything except the abilities learned (judging from what I've read).
Just remember, enemies are not level-scaled and you can always retreat, so you will never box yourself into an unwinnable situation.
Yeah,
I'm currently in the exact same situation. I'm currently in deep meditation to figure out what I can do to prevent that fireball stuff from annihilating me, because a good volley will take out at least one character right now. Gotta give Larian credit though, I wasn't expecting Braccus to summon his commanders like that... "Oh, some underlings. This fight might be over too quickly..."
I like how enemies, especially undead ones, mostly kill themselves by killing my fire elemental in melee.
Oh, it's not that I am unhappy with the characters I roll, I just think I might be addicted to it.
2h melees are the most broken things in the game imo. I 2-4k aoe crit everything in one turn to death, and one shot bosses. It's not even funny how much damage my melee does with a bit of buffs. Blacksmtihing and Crafting is very crucial to him tho.
I think belts and gloves can come with +bs / +crafting. So look out and KEEP those. Equip them if you want to craft/bs something and then put on your normal gear. This way you only need to skill to level 3.
I mainly use my archer and mage for support, control, a bit dps and cc. They both also incredible tanky with constitution I have on all rings and necklaces and a few other stuff, so I don't need to re-position often. I rather just kill the targets or port them into range of my melee. Charm is also incredible useful from the archer. Most of the time, I don't even bother with summons anymore.
Cheese is yellow, it's also quite greasy.
Put it in a sandbox and it camouflages well.
Tip:
his summons are much easier to kill. Work on them first if you really want to taken then all on at once.
LurkerPrime
Member
Lol.
But that's why they give you two! They knew.
I've seen skeletons heal other skeletons, damaging them in the process. Zombie trait, I guess...
Hang in there, skeleton.
human onion
Banned
Just picked up the game, this is some of the most praise I've ever heard for a new game. I adore Baldur's Gate, Planescape, and Icewind dale, so this should be a fresh take.
LurkerPrime
Member
You might just be joining the choir soon.
That's the greatest takeaway I had from that game.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
So would
be considered the second act and
the third act?
hiberheim
the rest if luculla forest
Probably, yeah. I did
Hiberheim
csquared587
Member
Im not sure if my coop buddy and I have ever had as many laughs together during gameplay as we do in this game. So many great coop opportunities to screw the other person over haha. Amazing game so far.
Yes, my mindset was initially walking into there was "this won't be too bad, its just him, haven't struggled in a few levels now"...oh how naive. I hadn't even faced the
Baron
black cove
Cheese is yellow, it's also quite greasy.
Put it in a sandbox and it camouflages well.
Tip:his summons are much easier to kill. Work on them first if you really want to taken then all on at once.
Thanks for the tip, will have to definitely change things up...thinking
spacing the group out by keeping them unlinked might help too
Jugendstil
Member
Welp, according to Steam I've played this for 24 hours in the past week. Considering how limited my gaming time usually is, that's insane. It's a testament to how fun the game is. I am wrapping up the first section now, I just have the big bad left to fight. Judging from what I've read about that fight, I know it will be intense. I love how thoughtful the battle system is, there's almost a puzzle-like element to battles, except there are multiple ways to solve most of them. My characters are about to hit level 9 and can steamroll most normal mobs in the first area, but I still have to pay close attention during fights - it's easy for the tide to turn if I'm too much on autopilot.
I'm having the same issue that others have mentioned with my Ranger main - she doesn't hit very hard and while she isn't completely useless, she's definitely not as invaluable as the other three characters. I think I'm going to start moving her down the Scoundrel tree with the Glass Cannon talent - I've heard rogues with Glass Cannon and back stab can become really powerful.
I'm having the same issue that others have mentioned with my Ranger main - she doesn't hit very hard and while she isn't completely useless, she's definitely not as invaluable as the other three characters. I think I'm going to start moving her down the Scoundrel tree with the Glass Cannon talent - I've heard rogues with Glass Cannon and back stab can become really powerful.
I read somewhere that the game presents you with the opportunity to respec during the later acts. Is that true?
Would love to turn Jahan into a pure DPS/Glass Cannon and move on all the healing stuff to my knight and make him a paladin of some sort
Would love to turn Jahan into a pure DPS/Glass Cannon and move on all the healing stuff to my knight and make him a paladin of some sort
I've heard this is true. You also lose all learned skills which I assume could be a problem for the few skills that cannot be purchased from a vendor (ie. Barrage).
No you wouldn't. They take up a valuable equipment slot (leg armor) and do sweet FA.
Yes, but only for your two main characters.
Right? I think I heard them talk once.
Depending on what you consider cheese and what is acceptable sandbox playstyle to you, there's also the option
of using containers to close off the door and funnel through enemies as you're ready.
Or simply backing off and using the doorway as your choke point.
I got ahead of myself at one point, a fight with 4 level 14 enemies while I was 10. I got all stubborn about fighting, but 90% of the time I couldn't even hit them even with stacked hit percentage buffs.
So I built vase cages around 3/4 and pulled the first away, then took them one by one.
Cheesy? Maybe. Still felt good to beat them when I shouldn't have been able to.