Would be awesome if it had two mutators for -dmg and pierce/splash (through corpse explosion maybe).
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NoblesseOblige
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Respec is done by paying an NPC to reclaim points you've invested into skills. Note that this is only for skills, not point used to raise a mastery, which are permanent.
As for attribute points, I personally never invest any of them until late game unless I find a build making piece of gear that needs them. Then I generally gauge my build to determine where I need points. Nine times out of ten that will be in physique as damage and mana are usually fine, and more HP always helps.
And yeah, there's noway to change how your character looks outside gear/gender. They probably figure you won't see it most the time so why bother, but I also would like a little more choice. Someone will probably make a mod of it someday.
Pierce or making the beam fork/explode into an AoE (with lesser damage than initial hit) would make it much more neat.
Consider putting Arcane Bomb proc from Widow on Aether Ray. It can help.
Robofish
Member
I will definitely consider that.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
The game started crashing for a lot of people with the official release build, hopefully "Fixed a crash which could occur when loading game resources" fixes that.
drotahorror
Member
Didn't know they added controller support. I played for dozens of hours in december and made a thread on the steam community forums and was laughed at for suggesting a controller. It's mainly because of wrist issues that I get from playing ARPG's. Maybe I'll reinstall, the pain wasn't worth it to play.
Karak
Member
You should. And dude its Steam Forums. Its like the one place where stupid is asked to collect and discuss things.
So, I just said fuck it and got all the points I could get back and put everything into the Demolishionist mastery. I've maxed it out and got the splinter skill and the one that upgrades the grenados. I only have one active skill beside my default attack but those to actually pack a decent punch now.
Thanks. I might be a little more stingy with those character attribute points going forward.
It's locked up on my like 3 times, with the latest patch it only locked up on quitting, so that's an improvement I guess.
Cracklox
Member
Just got through a Normal run last night. I guess the real game begins now in Elite. Very cool little game!
Finished at 45 with a Witch Hunter. Basically just running the 2 pets from Occultist with a few buffs, and the rest in Nightblade. Like others above, I've spread points a little too thinly though so need to do a respec, I just couldn't work out how. Per above there's an NPC I guess, which I'll hit up later.
Witchhunters a fun way to do things but not sure how viable it'll be on the hardest difficulty. From what I hear you really need to have an Arcanist or Soldier in your build to not get destroyed. Also I'm not sure I'm going to have enough points to do everything I want. By my maths you have 255 skill points to spend, with 100 more or less required to max the 2 classes. That leaves 155 points for skills, which seems like a lot as you should be able to max around 10-12 skills with that. Only problem is across 2 classes with active, passive, and buffs to your actives there's a lot to go around. I haven't sat down for full min-max calculations, but I'm pretty certain I'll need to drop a few things once I get to 85.
Anyway, fun, addictive game that I can see myself playing for a while. Got to get to 85 first and still need to have a look at Demo and Shamans mostly, though I'm not sure how well they'll work together. Was thinking Demo/Arcanist for my next run. THEN there's also hardcore (which scares me - I died a fair bit on my first run)
Also, I'm excited to see what Crate have planned going forward with future updates and content
Finished at 45 with a Witch Hunter. Basically just running the 2 pets from Occultist with a few buffs, and the rest in Nightblade. Like others above, I've spread points a little too thinly though so need to do a respec, I just couldn't work out how. Per above there's an NPC I guess, which I'll hit up later.
Witchhunters a fun way to do things but not sure how viable it'll be on the hardest difficulty. From what I hear you really need to have an Arcanist or Soldier in your build to not get destroyed. Also I'm not sure I'm going to have enough points to do everything I want. By my maths you have 255 skill points to spend, with 100 more or less required to max the 2 classes. That leaves 155 points for skills, which seems like a lot as you should be able to max around 10-12 skills with that. Only problem is across 2 classes with active, passive, and buffs to your actives there's a lot to go around. I haven't sat down for full min-max calculations, but I'm pretty certain I'll need to drop a few things once I get to 85.
Anyway, fun, addictive game that I can see myself playing for a while. Got to get to 85 first and still need to have a look at Demo and Shamans mostly, though I'm not sure how well they'll work together. Was thinking Demo/Arcanist for my next run. THEN there's also hardcore (which scares me - I died a fair bit on my first run)
Also, I'm excited to see what Crate have planned going forward with future updates and content
Stevey
Member
Going from what people are posting here, I seem to be taking my sweet time with my normal run.
Only at Homestead, just hit level 35, been playing for 24 or so hours.
Just unlocked the way north out of Homestead, actually died a few times, feel like I need to grind a bit as most of the enemies are level 39.
Only at Homestead, just hit level 35, been playing for 24 or so hours.
Just unlocked the way north out of Homestead, actually died a few times, feel like I need to grind a bit as most of the enemies are level 39.
Outdoor Miner
Member
This game is amazing. I love how cheap it is to respec, encouraging experimentation and allowing you to adjust to any new gear drops.
Having done Act 1 on both Normal and Veteran, I can say I definitely prefer Vet for the increased difficulty, mob density, and droprate on good gear!
Having done Act 1 on both Normal and Veteran, I can say I definitely prefer Vet for the increased difficulty, mob density, and droprate on good gear!
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Been playing the game a long time so I have quite the assortment of gear to help make the early and mid game negligible. So I think I'm going to start a new build and only use gear found on that character until the end-game. Thinking about doing Druid (arcanist/shaman) since I haven't done much with that yet.
Robofish
Member
NoblesseOblige
Banned
While i like you can fully rotate the camera i never use it.
I get lost
Same here. And when I accidentally hit the rotate camera keys I freak out and reset.
Really enjoying this, the classes are doing my head in though, such variety, dayum. Also, what's with the 0 buzz surrounding this game? 3 years in early access really killed it or what?
Bought it in 2010 myself but decided to wait for the final release, glad I waited
edit: It's playing pretty smooth with the gamepad btw, 360/xbone controller or the steam controller both work fine.
Bought it in 2010 myself but decided to wait for the final release, glad I waited
edit: It's playing pretty smooth with the gamepad btw, 360/xbone controller or the steam controller both work fine.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Really enjoying this, the classes are doing my head in though, such variety, dayum. Also, what's with the 0 buzz surrounding this game? 3 years in early access really killed it or what?
Bought it in 2010 myself but decided to wait for the final release, glad I waited
Long development time and it released after Diablo 3 and Path of Exile which satiated a lot of people for these style of games. Plus the game feels like it's already been out for over a year because its early access builds were really well done.
Yeah, Path of Exile especially. It filled the niche where you might have a bit of jank but at the same time get incredible character build depth
Though personally, I did not like how micromanagey Path of Exile got with the skill socketing. If you built the perfect skill combo once with your sockets, then you potentially skipped a lot of statwise superior gear after that because you simply must have the similar socket setup on your next piece of equipment
Angelus Errare
Banned
Time to dive back in.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I couldn't get into Path of Exile's endgame. The currency shenanigans are nonsense to me, and the game becomes a 'throw quarters into a slot machine' simulator. Grimdawn does have a crafting lotto in it, but I can still acquire gear without needing that 5/6-linked nonsense to make my characters excel.
Also, generally skills as loot. Was not a massive fan of that, especially in the early game
mysocksarepink
Banned
Need some help. In the arkovian undercity I had a quest to defeat 3 ghost bosses and meet up with Kalderos outside the steps of torment. Where is that? I finished the dungeon and killed a level 29 boss but the gate at the end bugged and wouldn't open.
What do I do 😔
What do I do 😔
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Are you talking about the quest 'Old Scars'? The three ghost bosses will be on the first 2 levels of the Undercity (1 on level 1, 2 on level 2). Afterwards you talk to the NPC outside the Steps of Torment, in the south-eastern part of Broken Hills.
mysocksarepink
Banned
exactly that
so this happened: http://imgur.com/KICFcJO
I beat a level 29 there and couldnt pass through the gate, there seems to be an exit beyond it. I back tracked through the under city and went back through a different exit into the broken hills. am I good or am i missing something beyond that gate? :<
NoblesseOblige
Banned
If I'm recalling correctly I think that path just exits out onto the first floor of the undercity so you can get out more quickly. It sounds like it glitched out and the boss didn't trigger it to open. You can reload the game and run through it again if you're concerned, but I think you should be okay.
mysocksarepink
Banned
Yup. I just had to backtrack. Thanks. I think it had something to do with cheesing the boss by pulling him to the front gate and fighting him from behind it. Whoops.
I think it's another case of people actually playing the game instead of talking about it. The official forums are pretty active and the Steamspy stats look pretty good:Really enjoying this, the classes are doing my head in though, such variety, dayum. Also, what's with the 0 buzz surrounding this game? 3 years in early access really killed it or what?
Bought it in 2010 myself but decided to wait for the final release, glad I waited
edit: It's playing pretty smooth with the gamepad btw, 360/xbone controller or the steam controller both work fine.
The level 35 faction gear is actually pretty good, I'm surprised
Also, only recently I noticed that there's both standard armor and heavy armor. Ever since realizing that I've let my Physique stat drop a bit because I was previously constantly trying to keep up with current heavy armor requirements. My character is not really meant to tank. Mostly just hit&run with massive amounts of poison.
Also, only recently I noticed that there's both standard armor and heavy armor. Ever since realizing that I've let my Physique stat drop a bit because I was previously constantly trying to keep up with current heavy armor requirements. My character is not really meant to tank. Mostly just hit&run with massive amounts of poison.
Here ya go
ChoklitCow
Member
Picked this up last night. Forgot what it's like to not be spoon fed how to play a game.
Enjoying myself so far. Think I ended up like level 18 or something. Should probably be reading into the end-game systems, crafting, etc. to figure out what I'm doing, but so far slaying monsters and finding blues has been fun.
Enjoying myself so far. Think I ended up like level 18 or something. Should probably be reading into the end-game systems, crafting, etc. to figure out what I'm doing, but so far slaying monsters and finding blues has been fun.
Were you as paralyzed as I was when you first really saw the Devotion system?
After some time of not putting my single worthless first point into anything, I took a quick look at all the highest tier constellations (require 20+ devotion) at the edges of the picture, and went "aight, gonna work on getting that one"
You're good, you'd just get back to the first floor near the exit. I just did that quest today.
I really really like this game. It's been a long time since a game managed to get me to invest that many hours into it.
After playing Path of Exile a long time the devotion menu is not so bad
you can play offline, singleplayer. That is what I do.
No seasons and no online requirement that I'm aware of. I've been playing solo so far.
Aah, but with the Devotion system, you don't move along a board one dot at a time, making certain progress with each one. Some constellations give a lot of bonus devotion but somewhat lacking power, others vice versa, some give different types of devotion from what their requirements are, etc.After playing Path of Exile a long time the devotion menu is not so bad
It is lot more fluid in its structure, which make visualizing your progress and plans harder
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Devotion tip in case people are like me and didn't realize this for awhile. Upon finishing a constellation which gives you affinity, you may reclaim points in previous stars/constellations (so long as it doesn't drop you below the requirement)...
So for an example. Say you bought the star that gives 1 point into chaos, and then bought all of the Jackal constellation. You end up with 4 chaos, allowing you to reclaim that initial 1 point to be redistributed while lowering your chaos affinity by 1.
So for an example. Say you bought the star that gives 1 point into chaos, and then bought all of the Jackal constellation. You end up with 4 chaos, allowing you to reclaim that initial 1 point to be redistributed while lowering your chaos affinity by 1.
So does anyone know if Cadence (Soldier skill) works with the passive Nightblade and Soldier "chance to proc off a regular attack" skills like Belgothian's Shears? I am sort of tailoring my build towards this but I can't tell if they are stacking or not.
EDIT: It doesn't stack on the third hit of cadence according to the internet. Too bad.
EDIT: It doesn't stack on the third hit of cadence according to the internet. Too bad.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Started at Veteran mode. Wish there was a higher difficulty mode than that because it's still a little too easy when I stacked around 90% lightning damage and pumped Storm Totem to 17/16, cruised through everything so far.
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Deleted member 325805
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Now that they've added voice work for the main story it feels so weird when an NPC doesn't speak, it's a shame full voice acting wasn't within their budget.