LordofBones
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I have it on good authority that the Forgotten Sanctum DLC is going to have an insane set of robes. Don't want to spoil too much, but expect a full robe set of wand, off-hand, head, and robe. I think you will all be pleased.
It's not really the lack of unique robes.
It's that, well, the basic robe model - the button-up chest and the open gap skirt - brings to mind a vicar or a Catholic monk, rather than a sorcerer. I mean, I can understand Humility and Effigy's Husk, but why does Mezzango, of all people, look like a proselytizing missionary instead of an ancient vampire wizard? The Mataru robes, for instance, look mystical, ornate and exotic, while even Superb robes look like the player's off to spread the word of Berath to the natives, holy book in one hand and plans for a monastery in the other.
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God, I hope there are nice robes in BoW. The Huana have such great looking robes; slap full sleeves on one and that's a ready-made wizard's robe right there.
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Pity robes look terrible. Huana aristocrats look more wizardly than Arkemyr, of all people.
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Too many sabers, not enough everything else.
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>New weapon
>Is another sword
>Dies inside.
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Yep, i'm all for the realistic looking armour.
Don't know why it's considered boring? Can't do with the WoW looking plastic cosplay outfits or whatever.
The Huana aristocracy's clothes blow robe armors out of the water. It becomes particularly egregious when you compare Arkemyr, a legendary archmage with an opulent mansion-fortress, to any two-bit Huana nobleman. Arkemyr's robe is plain and tan, making him look like a catholic monk, while the Huana clothes are actual robes with bright colours and bejeweled mantles.
It becomes much, much worse with the unique robe armors. The open slit on the robe mesh's skirt looks weird especially when seen from the side, and the Skaen robe looks like someone stitched human skins together while Humility is literally a tattered, dirty old robe.
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Where are my robes Obsidian.
Why does Arkemyr look like a monk Obsidian.
Why does Huana clothing look so much nicer than my robes Obsidian.
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I think the OP has a point, it's just taken to an unhealthy extreme and isn't coming across well. Writing of female characters and minorities in video games can easily fall into lazy stereotypes and Obsidian has definitely been guilty of this. Tekehu by himself isn't a problem, but when you have a cast of seven companions with five of them being bisexual and most of them coming onto you strongly... that's a problem.
Yeah, that's a severe problem with romance pacing.
Five minutes of Maia in my party and she's already asking if I'm banging anyone.
There are times when I wonder if my watcher has Aloth, Eder and Pally rotating shifts outside his door to keep the horndogs away.
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That's a good point. You're right.
I just wish there was more variety in robe styles than a one-piece gown with buttons.
Pretty much, this.
My character looks like Rasputin, and it wasn't even deliberate.
I'm hoping for more scholarly, Renaissance-ish robes. Every robe in the game looks like it was made in a medieval monastery.
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Alright, after talking with some peeps on the team, I see new robes in your future.
More 'mage' robes than monk robes, hopefully?
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It would be easier to list the spells only available through grimoires.
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Is not even problem with models themselves (although robes are fugly). It's the problem how you design items. You have unique cloth models, unique armor models, but people who designed items simply were not using all of them.
Pretty much.
The base robe model - everything below the waist, actually - is pretty, well, bland. The rope belt and open robe skirt just look awkward. Sashes and belts would help break up the monotony, not to mention having actual robe skirts.
It's rather odd, considering that the Huana nobility all have bejeweled mantles and decorated robes. Why should a legendary robe worn by Arkemyr/Concelhaut/Kalakoth/Ninagauth/<insert archmage here> that costs several hundred times more than noble clothing look objectively worse?
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Ahh I'm really sorry about the robe situation. I don't disagree. Bobby requested fancier robes a long time ago and they were always meant to go in, but were always prioritized below other things. I'll check with the DLC team if it is possible for us to get something new in.
Thanks, Dimitri. I know it sounds petty, but the robe thing has been bothering me for some time. Part of it is because gear progression also comes with appearance progression; in Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, NWN1 (with HotU) and NWN 2, there was a visible form of progression as your character equipped better robes. In the IE games, you went from a simple robe, to a caped robe, to a hooded and cloaked robe with amulets, etc; in NWN 1, there were a number of robe models; in NWN 2, the archmage robes all had one of the most beautiful robe models I've had the pleasure of seeing.
Deadfire's three robe models are okay, but not the kind of robes I'd imagine archmages - including the watcher - would wear. The Huana robes (with full sleeves or the existing exceptional/superb robe sleeves) are more of what I'd imagine powerful wizards wearing.
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Effigy's Husk is hideous.
Well, you're wearing a skinned human turned into an avatar of the god of schemes and vengeance. I'd be surprised if this was something made for a fashion show. Though... "Flayed Human Collection 2829" does have a pleasant ring to it (at least, until I have my coffee).
I'll have to check the files, but it seems the lack of robe variety is due to a bug in assigning models, since there's plenty of variety in icons and they usually correspond with what we get. USually.
Humility's icon is a white tattered robe, the robe itself is black. Effigy's Husk's icon matches the robe. Spider Silk Robe's icon is a black-and-gold variant of the standard exceptional/superb/legendary robe icon.
And then there's the Watershaper's robe, which is a kilt.
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I do agree with this, mages look incredibly underwhelming in this game because of it. I hope to the gods that Obsidian will make some unique looking robes for the last DLC so all the archmages don't just look like color swapped copies of each other.
God, I hope so. Obsidian made absolutely beautiful robes in NWN2 - the robe of the archmagi comes to mind - but all of Deadfire's robes look like they were made for monks, down to the rope belts. Why don't legendary robes look suitable for archbishops, if they were going for a clerical look? Why does Arkemyr's fine robe look like a generic fine robe? Why does Arkemyr himself look like he's just stepped out of a medieval monastery?
An insane diversity of clothing, any they couldn't splice something together for cloth wearers? That Huana lady - the one who starts the Arkemyr quest - outside the Palace looks better than my wizard in a superb robe. Hell, superb and exceptional robes look exactly the same.
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There's a lot of unique clothes and armor in the game but they're not used to make unique equipment. Why? Because gotta add more swords and sabres.
Yeah, that's bizarre.
Hell, there's only one unique wand in the game.
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I haven't acquired a legendary robe or the one off the splintered reef, but so far robe models are incredibly underwhelming. I'm not expecting giant pauldrons and Maleficent-style hems, but some variety in robe models would be nice, seeing as how Humility looks like a generic black robe and Effigy's Husk is hideous. Arkemyr, of all people, should definitely not look like a monk.
The Huana all have nice robes, so it's baffling that robe armors all look so humdrum. The bejeweled mantles and full-body robes of the Huana aristocracy look so much nicer than the actual robe armors, and it's particularly baffling because all other armors got some love as far as unique looks go. Slap full-length sleeves on the Huana robes and I'd go for that over the existing robe armors.
I mean, I don't mind the regular robes looking like a monk's cassock, but I'd figure that unique robes would actually have unique models, not just retextures (Humility looks exactly like a tattered robe, Effigy's Husk is a retextured Fine Robe).
Robe wearers deserve some love too.
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Where are the +2 evocation gloves, other than the Berath's Blessing's merchant?
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Aramintai, I imagine having a female perspective shoved into your head when you're a guy probably doesn't exactly make the IDEA of sexual relationships all that appealing.
As to DA:O, I liked the fact that they weren't "player-sexual" but rather had their own preferences. This is just like the real world, people have their specific preferences. It's not about being "hung up about gender". It's about what they like.
Though in regards to Xoti, she seemed more interested in Eder than my character. She didn't even look at me.
In my case, after Eder rebuffed Xoti, she immediately turned her sights on me without any prompting at all. Then there's Tekehu, who tries to proposition you within seconds of meeting him.
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A THE endgame weapon for the PC. I don't mean end game weapons shouldn't exist, I mean there shouldn't be something like The Silver Sword of Gith that's clearly supposed to be the PC's best weapon.
Which becomes hilarious when you're a wizard with 8 Str who's looted the Staff of the Magi off Koraboros.
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I'm really hoping that PoE2 will have better looking robes than the monk habits we had in PoE1. I don't mind the habits, but high-level mages should have more ornate or expensive-looking robes, like the (Black/Grey/White) Robes of the Archmagi in NWN 2/BG 2.
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Principi is from the Adra Dragon's hoard.
Pretty Pretty's Rib is a drop from one of the last bounty quests.
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I find that the Overseeing special quality is very good for casters, are there any items that provide it other than Aloth's armor?
Pathfinder Kingmaker is bigger then Deadfire
in Computer and Console
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The 1.1 beta patch has a few goodies for casters. Grease has been added to the sorc/wizard spell list, and evocation now has a 9th level spell; not the fan-favorite meteor swarm but mass icy prison.