[Named Weapon Locations]

Gwisk Glas is dropped by a Vithrack you kill for the 3rd of 4th set of Stronghold Bounties

[Well I beat the audra dragon....]

Finally killing her is soo satisfying. I'd be sad if she got easier.

[Named Weapon Locations]

Great Swords

The Hours of St. Rumbalt - Armory Shop in Dyrford village

 

Swords

Sheathed in Autumn - Quest `Hunter, Brother` in Hearthsong, starts with Ridai in the Passage of the six. Be honest to get the sword.

 

Hunting Bows

Lenas Êr - Quest `Hunter, Brother` in Hearthsong, starts with Ridai in the Passage of the six. Be deceptive to get the bow.

[Adra Dragon [Spoiler Warning]]

Summons can also be useful to tank for a while. And returning lightning. If it hits once, her Reflex gets debuffed so hard, it becomes easy to pile on more stuff.

[Graze gotta go, no?]

Lets just say I don't have a high opinion of MMORPGs. I played 3 of them (DDO, SWTOR, Neverwinter) and they didn't shine well in this.

And constant damage, getting rid of RNG is staple of all those MMORPG

 

So x is bad, x does y, hence y is bad. This argument is ... bad.

 

 

So since peoples here tend to argue that grazes are redundant and that there's no benefit to them (except making things less random), I drew a picture http://i.imgur.com/VrNMCXe.png

The point being, converting half of the grazes to hits and half to misses results in similar overall damage (ignoring DT). However the benefit of increasing accuracy by 1 point decreases a lot quicker than with grazes. Granted this only makes a difference for pretty low accuracy.

Also, mechanically the bg2 system is pretty bad.

 

Aaalso, taking DT into account having grazes should make might more valuable unless the damage is far beyond the threshold. And I personally like having interactions between things.

[Graze gotta go, no?]

 

Hit, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, Hit, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, Hit, miss, miss, Crit ...

Misses are sometimes frustrating. Attrition is always boring.

 

Take your pick.

 

 

Soo, of those 12 missses, only a few are frustrating, some of them are 'meh' and few are 'hey this is pretty damn cool'. No seriously, how does that make any sense.

 

And some please explain how grazes lead to attriton, to me

 

 

You're more likely to do SOME damage with every attack, even if it's not very much.  This makes outcomes more predictable, and less random.

 

Also, I'm confused by the idea that a graze mechanic leads to more "attrition," where attrition is defined as wearing someone/something down slowly over time.  The only way battles would feature more attrition is if 1) everyone involved has more eHP, or 2) everyone involved has lower dps.  1) is related to defensive stats, not graze, and (2) doesn't apply here either, because unless I'm mistaken, adding in graze actually increases dps.  At least, it does if rather than a 25% hit/75% miss chance (Thac0 15), you have 25% hit/25% graze/50% miss (roll of 15+ hits, 10-14 grazes).  Even if graze does actually lower dps currently, it would be very easy to change this by increasing the size of either the hit or graze chance.  For instance, 25% miss, 50% graze, 25% hit, or whatever, should lead to higher dps than 75% miss, 25% hit.  It might just SEEM like combat takes longer/has more attrition because you have lots of little hits, when your actual dps is equivalent or even higher.

 

makes perfect sense.

 

Replacing grazes with misses makes combat even longer. Instead of some damage you deal no damage.

Replacing grazes with another similarly balanced system, will by definition, result in the same lengths of battles.

Grazes don't make combat longer in and of themselves. "Combat takes too long" (which I assume is what people mean by 'attrition', honestly I don't know) is a largely independent problem and can also be solved by reducing enemies' HP.

 

So, yeah, I don't get the argument.

[Graze gotta go, no?]

I really don't understand the problem. It seems like a sound mechanic to me. Disregarding DT it makes damage increase through accuracy slope a lot nicer than with just having hits and misses.

 

Regarding the arguments put forward

 

 

 

I personally dislike the entire graze/DT idea. It is a terrible invention that forces constant attrition instead of being able to evade it via good gameplay. Just another way may be to feel make the encounters 'longer' I guess. 

 

I really don't get this one. Having misses instead of grazes based on deflection an accuracy makes for gameplay more reliant on skill? Assuming things were balanced nicely, I also don't get how encounters feel longer because of grazes. Instead of two grazed attacks you may have a hit and a miss (and more dt) in another system...

 

 

 

It's just one big annoyance and it bereaves the game of all combat clarity and joy over a real hit or even a crit

 

I get exited over crits. I mean they deal like 30 damage when grazes deal 0.7

 

 

 

Finally, the darn thing spams our beloved combat log.

 

And misses wouldn't?

[How is wildstrike supposed to work?]

I think the descriptions are somewhat vague, from what I gather it's probably one of the following:

 

1) Increases all damage of the picked type

 

that's what the description on the character creation seems to imply:

"Druids select a damage type that is added to any attack they use that inflicts damage of one of those types to a target"

 

2) adds damage of the selected type to the next auto attack (after a spell cast?)

 

when creating a druid and hovering the icons the tooltip reads:

"The druid's knowledge of the [damage type] allow him or her to inflict additional [damage type] to the next attack"

 

3) adds damage of the selected type to all auto attacks

 

On the in game character sheet under active effects the effect is described as:

"5% Damage as [damage type]"

 

 

I can't find very compelling evidence for either by looking at the combat logs.

[[v278] Items with Spellbind cause abilities to mess up]

[Description of the issue]

I had a druid who carried two items that grant you spells - the guildmaster staff and some cloak that grants minoletta's missiles. Loading a Savegames with those items equipped caused the druid to have multiple icons for both the healing and the missile spells, he suddenly had some rogue abilities as level 2 spells. That savegame was too big to upload, so the attached file only demonstrates that the healing ability for the guildmaster staff multiplied.

 

[DETAILED list of steps to reproduce the issue AND what to look for]

Example:

1) Load attached savegame

2) Select the PC "pala"

3) See three icons for "Restore Minor Stamina"

 

[Expected behaviour]

Example: The icon should only appear once

 

[Other remarks / Comments]

Example: I swear, on my druid things were a lot more messed up!^^

 

[Files]

quicksave.zip