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Hi, the composition is fine. Herald is a very good pick for the main character. It's neither difficult to build nor to play yet it is very impactful. Note that calling summons is generally one of the most effective moves in the game. However, it comes with the price of more (micro-) management. If one has no problem with that it's a great thing to do. A Priest would help with party support, most notably accuracy - and as a counter against most afflictions, too. No matter the severity of an affliction: an inspiration to the same attribute (no matter the tier) will remove that affliction. An Priests have plenty of spells with (AoE) inspirations. But a Herald can also take care of this. At later levels a Priest also gets good AoE damage, summons and CC. But it's not mandatory, especially not on sub-PotD difficulties. Also because you have good healing capabilities and support in the party already. Both SC Wizard and Druid get very powerful spells at their highest levels (and also progress to some impactful mid-tier spells faster than a multiclass would) so single class is a good pick for a first playthrough imo. Maia as a Scout is very effective against single, dangerous foes (like casters or rogues or so), especially with an arquebus (watch out for "the Red Hand" - perfect weapon for her). But she will need a backup weapon that does non-pierce damage (bows or implements or a unique pistol that deals raw damage or such) because there are quite a number of enemies who are resistant or even immune to pierce damage (mostly skeletal enemies and fire "elementals" and such). Meeting those without any backup weapon can be a very frustrating experience: in one encounter you snipe everything into bits and in the next you can't do anything. In general it's best to keep a backup weapon in the second weapon slot that does alternative damage (like... if you have a main sword that does pierce or slash damage you might want a backup mace with crush damage) and pick the damage setup that is beat against the enemies armor type. It's good practice: unterpenetration is one of the most severe disadvantages and most frustrating things you might experience in a fight. Since Tekehu might be casting most of the time I'd recommend to use a quarterstaff + the proficiency (+20 to deflection for less damage with the staff). The bonus deflection is very nice to have because Druids have no ability besides Moonwell to boost their deflection much. Higher deflection deters a lot of (ranged) enemies to target that squishy caster specifically. This can be so annoying because the encounter starts and before your caster can do anything he can get shot down by multiple rogues/rangers. This can be a real nuisance in boarding fights. Higher deflection without any fuzz does help here. The modal doesn't stack with active deflection-only buffs (from spells and chants and so on) - but since you won't bring a Priest who would be dishing out those buffs mostly this shouldn't be a problem. There's a nice early unique quarterstaff (the Spine of Thicket Green) in the game that fits nicely with Druids in general and is also useful in some scripted scenes. And if the spells lots are empty you can turn the modal off and attack from the second ranks because of the reach. Taste of the Hunt is a surprisingly good melee "spell" btw. Aloth as a wizard has plenty of defensive self buffs so imo you are more free in the choice of equipment. Check out his phantom spells: phantoms get copies of your equipment. You cannot steer them (they are run by AI) so you cannot use items with abilities you have to trigger yourself, but everything that activates on its own will work with them. This can be fun to play with certain item combinations. Also phantoms will keep summoned weapons and those will not get replaced. So if you summon Concelhaut's Draining Touch (one of the best weapons in the game, but it's usually gone after one hit) and then calla phantom, the phantom will also have the Draining Touch but it will never go away as long as the phantom lives. That way you can have a very good damage dealing summon that can also do good off-tanking (imagine calling the phantom while having the Draining Tough + a good large shield, then switching to your proper weapon set after the phantom is there). Anyway, I don't expect any problems. If you encounter some you can of course ask around here. Somebody will react, even if the forum isn't as crowded anymore.

Yeah, it's bizarre that quantity itself is measured as a positive without any analysis of what that quantity is. If a 100+ hour game feels like a chore half the time then I'd think the length would be a negative. The character sheets are basic, but I think that what makes a game isn't necessarily how complex the mechanics are but what it does with them. There's more than a few encounters in BG3 that make very good uses of the game mechanics to make you play tactically in a way the Owlfinder games just don't....and that's without factoring in how BG3 is 3-dimensional with the ability to fly or jump or push enemies off cliffs that add an absolute ton of options to gameplay. While Owlfinder certainly has more individual combat options than BG3, BG3 still feels like there are more useful options to take than in Owlfinder.

Houston got ravaged by a storm and my parents electricity went out, so I've spent the last 24 hours scrambling to set them up somewhere with electricity to run my dad's oxygen concentrators. So far everything has settled, but I'm damn tired.

My jump stops working and the only way to fix it is to rebind the button to something else, It's not my controller because the "a" button still works but it just will not function when I use it to jump. It fixed itself at some point but it also came back after that.

Went for a run, removed some ticks from the hound, vacuuming, and some MYSTARY gaming ... so far a nice way to slide into a Canadian long weekend

Just created an account to say this has happened twice to me... One of the ant babies I had that disappeared had an inventory full of upgrade stones... RIP Antastasia...

Yeah, if you dive down the short there are a bunch of funny channels.

Only few idiots have always sparked the hate. I am half Hungarian as well with very Hungarian surname, and I live in the area, where there is a lot of hate against immigrants (which are actually almost non-existent here ) And IIRC last time, I have experienced the hate against my “bloodline” was maybe 30-35 years ago. Currently the mostly visible hate against diverse people here, is hate against gypsies and gays. On the other hand, lesbians are the most sought for term at various channels which offer “documentary” entertainment

Ok, so I'm quickly getting overwhelmed by choices and want to get into play. After reading as much as I could here, here's what I think I'm going with for a main party, recognizing I'll be switching folks in and out as needed. This will be my first and only run through (don't usually replay games). I'll be playing on Veteran. 1) MC - Herald (Troubadour/Kind wayfarer) - off tank, summons, and help with heals/ 2) Eder- Swashbuckler - main tank oriented 3) Maia - Scout, DPS 4)Tekehu - SC Druid - AOE and help with heals 5) Aloth - SC Wizard, AOE/control Interested if anything (priest?) is lacking, or if this will work ok? Don't need it to be absolutely optimized, just soemthing that doesn;t have nay obvious holes or lacks some easy synergies.

What should I get if I wanted to go Ryzen. My motherboard just died with a nefarious "disconnect your drives, a system failure may be imminent" message. I have an rx7900xtx and I figure it's too early to swap that out. The cpu could be salvaged, but it's a 12th gen intel core I 5, it was cheap at the time, and it doesn't feel very upgrady to buy a b660 chipset in 2024.

Hi ! I was doing my 100% completition on my new game + and i realize that one of the new milk molar added in new game + was missing... In the Pond lab behind the pc for the password, my gadget is telling me that i'm really close to a molar and by checking online i can see that the molar is simply not there for me. Thanks

Hi ! Platform : windows edition for me and xbox series for the 2 other friends in the game. In a multiplayer game. New Game + 1 cards achievements not unlocking in new game + the last thing was probably feeding the good cake to the fire ants queen to get the baby in new game + Thanks

Still, it is a fun little indy game.

Free on steam for a week. Can recommend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/289130/ENDLESS_Legend/

Hinterlands can be annoying also because enemy mobs spawn close to each other and respawn fast, so you can get overwhelmed fast. Other areas in the game are much more manageable.

Having played the North American beta last month I can confirm that it pulled out all the stops for Wuxia tropes (of course a heaping helping of Qinggong, but also martial arts manuals, Qi cultivation, and references to the Jianghu), of which I heartily approve. I also suspect the inclusion of golden swallows in this trailer are a reference to Cheng Pei Pei's character in <<Come Drink With Me>>.

If you mean the Hinterlands, leaving it right after you have enough "points" (I think, it was the influence the Inquisition had on the key NPCs?) might be the best option. The area looks very lovely (with all those autumn forests and mountains), but aside from few side quests and the high dragon, it is leaning towards environmental storytelling, rather than more explicit narratives. Which is good in Souls-likes, not dialogue-heavy party-RPGs. While I did not dislike it, the large maps with little story impact per square meter were not the strength of the game. But at least I got an immortal horse. Better than Skyrim out of 10.

I have it on my EA account (I bought a number of games when it was still "Origin"). But despite three attempts, I never made it out of what I think of as the introduction area, before losing interest

Fastest lap ever... jump to 4:40 or thereabouts for those insane speeds that pulls the average (average being 136 or so mph as it says in the title) up

The last update on the physical goods was on 21 March 2024. I suppose, it is understandable that physical items are more challenging to deliver, but it has been two years. Still, I probably will get the Masks DLC and Owlcat's next game few months post-release (unless backing them).

So when I tried to enable the crossplay in ps5 it says “Grounded could not be linked to a Microsoft Account at this time.” And I cannot play with my friends that are on Xbox, any solutions?

Dragon Age: Inquisition - GOTY Edition is free on EGS. The EA App is still required, judging by the store page description. At this rate, if EA just released DAII and Inquisition (and the Mass Effect series) on GOG for full price, I would have purchased it just to avoid the damn DRM. Well, I still have the disc images (the games were released when the physical media were more popular) and the installation files, so might as well try to look for the "unofficial patches" online.

New Archetypes in A Dance of Masks DLC: Part 1 Monk — Drunken Master Slayer — Bloodseeker Bard — Chelaxian Diva Skald — Inciter Fighter — Titan Fighter Inquisitor — Living Grimoire

It's actually more apt than I think a lot of people think... the second whistleblower died under mysterious circumstances too