Slapstick87

Banshees, Spirits, Shades, etc. should become easier with Brute Force ability (Attacks target Fortitude instead of Deflection if Fortitude is lower) since they have high Deflection and low Fortitude. Happy to oblige! Couldn't figure out how to post screenshots on this forum, so here's the dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0bf7b4xp7p253d0/AAB0bgayqQCznVzWPwKo7YPMa?dl=0 Still lvl 5, nothing holdin' me back yet, allthough that drake at lvl 5 in the dungeon did down one of my barbs.

Well there are a few issues, but I'm going with a theme here It was never meant to be optimized, but it sure feels like it is at times. Pathing: The AI has rather poor pathing. Often they won't be able to find their way to an enemy, let alone their target Lack of auto-targeting: When my dwarven moongod berserkers are unable to get to their target, they will instead just stand there, right next to an enemy, rather than attack whatever is closest. Sometimes they just delete the attack order and idle. Next target: When something dies, they often fail to continue their killing spree on their own and have to be manually assigned - all of this is quite manageable with some manual attention. I do have two of them wielding pikes, and it's honestly not so much of an issue as I thought. The funny thing now is that rather than abusing chokeholds, doorways and narrow spaces, I have to lure the enemies into open rooms and fields where I can sufficiently swarm them. It's fun turning the game entire upside down and using the enemy "strong suit" against them. Making a proper meatgrinder outside a doorway with all my berserkers in a half-circle is half the fun!

So I've been having tons of fun playing almost non-stop with a Cipher as my main and only story companions on hard for a while now. And it's been exactly that, hard! (God I hate shades so much!) Also, combat is slow with lots of pausing to cast spells and abilities. So just for the fun of it, I started an all-barbarian moongoddwarf party - you know, for roleplaying reasons (still playing on Hard) The idea was this: I get killed whenever I happen to get my dps swarmed or I somehow lose positioning. What if that tactic works if it's MY tactic as well? Can I create a sufficiently "perfect storm" group and just out-dps the enemies? If I kill them before they kill me, shouldn't it work? Aaaand it does! Remarkably well in fact. Granted I've only just hit level 5 and I'm well aware this might change when I start encountering tougher monsters which will crit my pitiful defenses more, but so far it's been a blast! So I made them all exactly the same: Mgt - 19 (yay damage!) Con - 3 (who am I kidding, I'm not going to last long, might as well hit hard) Dex - 19 (yay damage!) Per - 14 (yay interrupt and a tiny bit of deflection for what it's worth!) Int - 15 (yay rage!) Res - 8 (well I don't want to get interrupted aaaall the time!) Talents so far in this order: Frenzy, Barbaric Blow, Greater Frenzy, One Stands Alone I actually thought it wouldn't work all that well, but the raw damage this group output simply turns everything into bloodspatter in seconds. Nothing so far has been able to even touch me! All of my group wears very light armors (Hides and Leather) and wields damage-heavy weapons. No shields or hatchets or anything like that. And it's amazing. I massacred a certain early fortress at level 3! I just pointed my dwarven army of pikes and greatswords towards the guards, and watched them all go "sploosh". I laugh in the face of shades and ghosts. Trolls tremble before my onslaught, and even the Animata at the docks became a heap of scrap as my group (aka The Blenders) smashed through them! I just started at the endless dungeon (or whatever it's called - not at home atm), and I'm curious to see how far I can get before being turned back. I'm not playing Ironman mode, but I might as well had because I haven't died once! Not even come close (which is more or less exactly the opposite of my "real" party). It might not last forever, but right now it's a world of fun! I just wanted to share this as I'm having too much fun with this game at the moment :D