Ælfwine

Why is it that when you hover over an enemy you it doesn't tell you what the ability is they are attempting to use or what it does? All it shows you is an icon, meaning you have to look it up somewhere outside the game to know what it is.

Did anyone else notice that in the new DLC Ydwin dialog, even banter, is no longer voiced? It went from no-voice, to voice in the first DLCs, and now back to no voice.

Well, I think I'll reload as I don't want Xoti permadead. I'll have to look up the icon for Disintegrate so that I know when it's about to be cast and can thump me some vithrack.

I've been fighting vithracks at the Forgotten Sanctum and a couple of times my characters have been killed dead and removed from the party. I wasn't sure what was doing it since they didn't have any injuries. But this last time I see that a Vithrack Luminary cast Disintegration on Xoti. It didn't say it killed or knocked out Xot, it said it destroyed Xoti. How does happen? Was there no way to stop it? This was only a graze, mind you, a flesh wound, if you will. He even had a -1 penetration on the attack!

I've noticed, and this only seems to be after the last patch, that trying to empower an ability doesn't always work. I click Empower, click the ability, click a target (if necessary), and I still have the Empower capability. Is there something I'm overlooking that makes Empower work more than once an encounter? Edit: In doing some further testing, it looks like it's only Fassina that I'm experiencing this with in the Forgotten Sanctum. Is she exempt from the limitation, or maybe it's just not working at all for her?

Get over yourself. There was no struggle to find a topic. Exaggerate much?

Actually, I've left the game at Veteran, but I've disabled level scaling. Even though the DLCs may be aimed at higher level players turning off scaling actually made it much more comparable to the base game difficulty-wise. The fights can still be unpredictable, but they're not completely overwhelming and time-consuming.

It's not that I don't enjoy the game: I do. It just seems to me that the DLC really ramped the difficulty from the base game without changing your in-game difficulty setting. And since I'm already level 20 I was just eliciting opinions on whether they were entertaining enough once you're max level to play through them.

Is there any point in playing the DLC if you've already reached level 20 before starting them? Does the story benefit enough to warrant the extra time and, for me, frustration? I've completed Beast of Winter at level 20, but between the fights there and in Seeker, Slayer, Survivor, I'm inclined to just go meet Eothas and be done with this game.

But what about the current battle? Can I lower the difficulty on that?

Can you not do this in the current area? I have found Seeker, Slayer, Survivor to be completely unenjoyable at Veteran level, enough so that I might just not continue the game. However, when I try to set it to Classic it tells me that 'Difficulty changes will take effect on any map you have not yet visited.' I've already completed the first Rite challenge and found that I'm no longer having fun with the game. Can't I switch difficulty now? I'm looking for a more casual experience. I don't wish to have to slow down combat, micromanage each character, and spend an hour getting through part of the fight only to get destroyed later on. That's not recreation to me.

Does each weapon count toward your penetration total? If I have two weapons who have modals that increase penetration are they both applied? I'm just now sure how this actually works.

No lie the only scar my mother has is on her face, right above her lip from a cat... The being cute thing is just a ploy to take down bigger targets. I have scars all over my arms from this cat. My ex-girlfriend convinced me that cats love to take baths and then handed the cat to me to put her in the tub. That was my first set of scars from the cat....

See you in the emergency room.

Every time someone says 'ekera' or 'ac' take a shot. I was drunk after one conversation.

This is a close-up of Delilah, the Scarmaker....

I don't know if this is the result of the latest patch or because of DLC, but as I work through Beast of Winter I've been able to disarm undetected traps. As long as I can see them on the ground I can interact with them. I'm not sure that this is working as intended.

I refuse to get on any ship without my maltipoo, Sophie.

In English the word 'toilet' is also used as a noun referring to the act of cleaning, shaving, makeup, etc. as in 'woke up, got out of bed, did my toilet.' It's not just the towel itself, but the overall suite of activities.

I interpreted them differently. I thought they had something to do with the enemy's awareness of you. I still don't know what the blue shield with an eye icon is.

I haven't finished the game yet, but I chose the Huana since I'm not in favor of the whole 'colonization and eradication of the natives' thing. I tolerated the queen's pushiness since I feel her cause is the most just.

I've just started Act 3 and I don't want to erroneously end the game before doing the DLC. Is there a warning about a point of no return like there was in the first game?

It doesn't get any better once you get up on the ice ledge. Holy crap! These enemies are just devastating.

FINALLY! It took Aloth and his book of tricks, but I was able to move on! Thanks for the advice, guys. This was very frustrating.

I'll give Concelhaut's spell a try. I only have 2 level 7 spells, so I don't know how effective it will be. I didn't have much luck with the Thrust of Tattered Veils, though. The Messenger can get their spells off before my person can finish casting it from the scroll.