Raven Darkholme

That's the beauty of my setup it eats mobs and dragons.

I've done a full vanilla PotD run with pala, fighter, cipher, the fighter wasn't that good. The ideal 3 char party is what I'm running thru WM2 right now Pala, Chanter + Cipher. On Level 15 this party is pretty much unstoppable cause mindweb + DR chant.

No.^^

So guys I decided to make a testrun today with the chanter. Got level 4 - bear, Raedric, Aufra still open and decided to have a look at Caed Nua. I have to say this is not for me. Too tedious. Also very difficult, but what mainly makes it not for me is the tediousness. Big respect to y'all who are continuing this and BIG thumps up for Reent for being op very soon. :D

wait wait wait - i think i missed something here :D We shall walk naked - no cloth is good enough for us - no weapon shiny enough - nothing shall taint our holy body! No drugs no food! NO CLOAK! All hail the Nudist! How did you read that the second after I posted I edited my post.^^

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If you mean the Retaliation cloak and consider that one cheat you will go crazy once you find a certain other cloak.^^ Fighters don't tank everything but they heal very fast especially if you use all available synergies so they can survive most stuff paladins can.

I feel no respec will be the main reason for failing.^^ I don't mind the challenge but I somehow overlooked at first that you forbid respeccs and planned my whole build around respecs.^^

Yes you do need to know how your skills work in a game like this. If your gf hardly plays any video games I don't think she is a good comparison to other players who play a CRPG. Normally those kind of players play something more casual if they ever play a game. If your party needed to be level 16 that's not a real concern, since the Alpine Dragon is one of the toughest single enemies in the game. It is however significantly easier on hard, believe me or don't it has -15 on both accuracy and defenses which is an immensely huge deal.

For people who usually play PotD the difference is huge. If i were to put number on the difficulty settings: Story 10 Easy 100 Normal 115 Hard 130 POTD 160 As said alpine dragon is the same on easy, normal, hard which makes those difficulty settings much closer to eachother than one thinks. Storytime is incredibly easy. The difference between easy and storytime is bigger than between easy and POTD!! I never understood why you would need storytime since there is easy already. Let's be real even on hard the Alpine Dragon is not that bad. And on easy especially the Adra dragon becomes a cake walk because less (no?) Adragans.

No respec definitely makes this a lot harder. Without respec WM2 will probably be impossible.^^

Immolation is always worth it.

Not all classes need to abuse massive cheese. Paladin for example pretty much tanks everything I would not consider that cheese. Strongholdwise you can't really get the quest items since you would have to take a companion for that. I always build my botanic garden and the other thing where you get creture parts in your treasury first and after that I focus on prestige so Azurro appears. If your security is very high you can autoresolve conflicts I personally just go there and kill the invaders, you also have hirelings who help you, but they are not very effective and die against everything starting from mercenaries. (Even thughs give them a hard time and don't get me started on banshees and drakes. :D)

One last question before I start my run: Is respeccing allowed? Also do you mind if I only TCS the main game and use my test character to finish WM 1+2?

Cipher is a lot of fun solo. I cry everytime I can't use an ability but still one of the most viable solo classes. As to on crit prone effects: The crit triggers a 2nd attack which can be deflected but it targets a different defense I believe for prone it's fortitude. There also might be an accuraccy bonus on that effect I'm not sure. For people who usually play PotD the difference is huge.

On easy you can pretty much pick any class. I'd probably go with chanter if you don't like micro.

cheater :D

The game makes several autosaves now, surely you will have one?

It's hidden in a wall of text - so not hard to miss thx^^

Ah, the first post wasn't clear about having to beat WM.

I wonder if I should TCS and record it. You guys don't do completionist right, just beat the game?

Dude getting Level 9 in Act 2 is super easy. Can I still join in with chanter? Other classes are too hard for me. :D

Why does everybody say chanters are hard till level 9? They get their most op skill at 9, but they are still as strong if not stronger than a paladin till then. I pretty much never used a solo chanter cause it feels like cheating.

Chanter.

You have to go for the cruel dialogue.