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I don't think I've fought them. Are they in WM II? Not finished WM II yet. Done three of its four bounties, the mines (and thus radiant spore), but not went to the fort yet. Is kind of disappointing to me that there's no actual "growth" left for me in all of WM II. Was max level long before the end of WM I, let alone before the end of WM II. Probably gotten enough exp by now to be level 18-19 if there wasn't a cap at 16. K, these low tide monks/fighters/etc. are indeed tough as balls.

Brynlod personally gave me fits, seemed harder than Adra, Alpine, or Concelhaut. Finally had to aggro the fight and tail it and make them follow me to where that hole in the ground that leads to the area under Dyrford, they clumped up near that "bridge" and then got rekt by AOE spells. Even then I only won because the illusionsists didn't actually follow me, they stayed in the starting spot so I was able to to fight half the group and then went back and killed the other half.

*cough* ...because if you try to play the game in a way that seems to make narrative sense, rather than exploiting the weaknesses of the system, you will play a very nasty war of attrition with ability-spamming endless waves of AI that you will eventually lose? You know, just a suggestion. Narrative sense? Like using premade story-NPC's rather than min-maxed adventurers? Yeah, that's not hard either, I'm facerolling potd with a wizard PC, Aloth, Eder, Sagani, Durance, and Kana.

Hmm, not played Chanter much (as in, only Kana), but 'd have figured they'd have relatively slow clear speed simply due to the need to basically sit there doing nothing (literally, but nothing spectacular) till they could cast invocations, which would likely take longer than six of something else would take to finish the entire fight. I suppose even autoattacking would be pretty effective though if you also had every buff/debuff up imaginable at the same time.

I see no fanboys. The only people acting in a manner similar to that of a fanboy is actually you and kracken actually. Not that you're blindly defending the game, you're just blindly bashing people and/or the game instead. No one in this thread claimed the game was without flaws. Not one person. No one claimed it couldn't be balanced better either. Virtually every game could be balanced better, developers don't decide their games are perfect, they decide they're good enough. If they aimed for perfection games would never be released as there'd always be "just one more" thing they wanted to add before release. That aside, your party requiring spellcasters to tackle the hardest end-game content (not all spellcasters, just some) is not a sign of imbalance, build diversity is a thing, and has been, in games, for decades. If anything I'd deem a game imbalanced if six fighters did faceroll everything, similarly if six wizards was the best party, I'd consider that an issue. Neither of those are the case, the best party is typically a balanced and diverse party - which is the goal of every developer striving to create a balanced game which contains character classes. Additionally; comments like: "To OP, no point in criticising anything about this game on this forum, its teeming with fanboys and 5 year olds..." are ridiculous. The only childish comment in the thread is the comment above, the one making asinine assumptions about people simply on the basis of them having opinions that differ from your own. It's a strawman, and an obvious one.

Since when is casting spells "cheesing"? would it be possible to kill him with a party without any spellcaster and no scrolls? (see game balance) That's not the symbol of balance. You seem to be upset that all the classes don't function identically, and that they each actually have roles and purposes. ie. With your logic a MMORPG would be imbalanced if a party required some form of crowd control, or a healer to survive a high level raid, or if a party full of healers couldn't do the required dps to kill something that regenerated its life, etc. Requiring a balanced party to beat optional end-game content is not a sign of poor balance.

Level 3 is ogres right? Or is that 4? The one with Xaurips had two rough fights from what I remember as well, the room with the pit, and the room with the broken sword pieces. The sword piece room being the worse of the two in my experience despite having fewer enemies IIRC.

If they choose to appease that particular god, they may not realize there's a dialogue choice that avoids the fight, and while you don't have to appease Hylea, you do have to appease a god. It just seems odd to me that Sky Dragon is related to the god appeasement quest line at all when the other god appeasement fights are all wayyyy easier. IMO, if you can kill sky dragon then the final boss is going to be a joke for you afterwards. Only timethat wouldn't be true is if sky dragon was NOT scaled, an then you DID scale Act IV.

He's not "that" bad. He's definitely the baddest thing in Act 1 though. On my solo POTD playthrough I finished recently I wanted to rage trying it, as I'd talk to him, and as soon as the dialogue ended I died. Finally said screw this, walked partway up the steps, blasted a fireball at one of the paladins, then pulled most of the enemies into the room before the throne room that has the fountain it, managed to do the fight wayyyyy more easily that way. I don't think he was even possible to do though legit with 1 character. Legit meaning actually partaking in the dialogue and not blasting them in the face with a fireball to make them go aggro before ever talking to them.

So it was too easy, or too hard? i just got to the sky dragon this afternoon. (lv 11) Up until that it was too easy. Probably burial isle is a boring cake walk again. The Sky Dragon is much easier than other dragons, and in fact just not a very challenging enemy in terms of its stats, abilities, etc., especially if you're 11. Many players report the sky dragon as being a cakewalk. That doesn't mean the Sky Dragon is easy for everyone, though. It just means your party / playing style was well geared for blasting past average mobs, but you didn't have good ways for dealing with high defense single units with a couple of special tricks up their sleeves. Most of the time it's got way more to do with your tactics and builds. I've had characters who sat there in front of the Sky Dragon solo not really bothered, and whole parties who had much more trouble. My solo wizard had a lot of trouble with Sky Dragon, even at level 16. Prone/stun just hurts a ton when soloing, but I'm not going to bash a games balance because it's hard when I play with 1 character rather than a full party. Especially not since I was fighting it solo on POTD.

Sky Dragon is the only boss that kind of irks me. Not because I think it's harder than Alpine, or Adra, or the archmages or anything like that. It bugs me that it is part of a pseudo-mandatory main quest. Technically it's not 100% mandatory, but it's one of 4 solutions to a 100% mandatory quest, and by FAR the hardest of those 4 options.

"I have Level 3 Cipher, Priest, Wizard and Chanter and have looked at various Youtube tutorials, but still feel nothing but frustration with this combat!" Cipher? None avalable at that stage, so I assume that must be your character, and you skipped picking up Eder, who would be a HUGE help. You have 4 casters, Eder is a fighter, far tankier than any of the characters you are using. One Story time, Easy, or Normal though, it still shouldn't be that hard with 4 casters, I am playing a solo game atm (my first playthrough period as well) as a wizard, te only fight that gave me a ton of trouble in the earlygame was

Earliest save before the bug is rather old, been trying to kill the ogres in Stalwart to see if doing so advances the quest in any way, but struggling to kill them with a level 8 wizard (solo run). I'm unable to upload either file because the savegame is 2,405 KB and the output file is 3,064 KB. Forum is limiting my uploads to a maximum size of 507 KB.

Hmm, that nearly fixed the issue, but not quite. I now have a quest named Durgan's Battery. The quest however is telling me to talk to my steward, and doing so seems to have no further affect on the quest state.

Verifying now, I suspect that actually will fix the issue. Had forgotten till you responded regarding cache, but I don't think I have actually fully restarted the game since purchasing White March. Purchased expansion on steam while playing game, I think I hit the main menu a few times since and saw that the expansions were recognized as being installed, but quite likely some files were never edited due to having been in use when the expansions installation likely tried to alter them.

I've seen some people post that they couldn't speak to the Steward. I can. I can also access Stalwart from the map, but I never got an actual quest for White March and everytime I enter any area other than Stalwart it tells me "The Steward of Caed Nua has received a letter for you." I've exhausted all options when speaking to the steward, I never receive a letter or a quest. She did tell me about Stalward and Concelhaut, but no quest was activated when she did so.