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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Yeah, I figured that panicked running is for TB. I noticed I stick to TB more and more as of recent, mostly because my new parties are mostly critter heavy and it's literally impossible to manage them in real time without serious pathfinding (ha!) troubles, counts tenfold for closed spaces with narrow entrances. What's with characters' issues with doors in this game anyway? Sometimes they behave like they ain't seeing the open door when they're point blank starin' at it. Also, melee guys and critters chasing after the panickers should all have Shatter Defenses, no? Magic Fang, thing that is used to buff critters? On one hand, would have never figured to try it on myself. On other, it is a barbarian...Also, I'm not opposed to Trickster since it looks more like Deadpool against Azata's My Little Pony and actually was my first pick for Mythic. Plus I've read it allows to keep some of your Trickster stuff when you go Legend and I will certainly want to go Legend with one of builds. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
I never considered intimidation because I have no idea how 90% of stuff in Pathfinder works, but, a) no saves, b) picture of hoofed monstrosities running scared from Sosiel of all people is too hilarious, so I want to try, plz do share how to make scary Sosiel. I'm staring at the feat list like right now and have no clue where to even start. Dazzling display, intimidating prowess, what else, how does he start, what does Thug do, what can cause Shaken, etc? -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
That sounds like a lot of fun, but mayhap a tad complicated for a Pathfinder ignoramus such as yours truly. Like, in all the hundreds of hours I spent in Kingmaker I used rods maybe twice because I had no idea how to utilize them properly. So I was thinking maybe a classical look of smelly, drooly, oily barbarian or if going less cliche and more Pathfindery, some sort of slayer? You can sneak attack with a two hander in Pathfinder, right? Camelia can intimidate, she even has a shaman trait "Intimidating display" you can take at level 2. I have to say I'm not, well, exactly warming up to her because she's still horrible deranged psychopath, more like finding perverse fun in keeping her around. Now Wendy, that's the whole 'nother can of brainworms. I have the "everyone contributes to conversation" option turned on in Toybox so I'm hearing a lot of her lines and OMG they are so horrible, like she literally grovels before the MC all the time while urging him to murder everything for no reason, I don't see how even Rageboy McEdgelord demon would want to take her over Lann. In certain other universe she'd make a perfect cultist of Skaen. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Well my sorcerer is level 6 and, while no longer useless because of selective greases and webs, also nothing to write home about. I'm going lichways with him, want to see what's this "merged spellbooks" thing is all about. Oh, and speaking of lich, does it have much need for a cleric or an oracle later in the game? Because -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
I am dragging the kineticist though low level blues and this guy is so much more useful than the sorcerer that I had to check if I didn't accidentally drop the difficulty or enable some toybox cheat. He almost always hits, constantly crits from stealth and doesn't disintegrate anytime someone blows a raspberry at his direction. He even inspires others to do better because I'm sure Lann misses less with him than he did in that party of the useless sorcerer. Makes me want to roll a martial character just to feel useful; hey, maybe I will, since the game keeps giving me two handers and they are all vendor trash because nobody in the party uses them. -
Surströmming is made from herring, not sardines. Also, Surströmming von Herring is a decent villain name. And surströmming itself would make an excellent villain.
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Ah yes, forgot good old friend the Glitterdust, it also gets a constant workout. Good to know it does not go obsolete. As for spells in general, I'm already conditioned to skip past anything that doesn't have a "no save" or "save partial" in its description, and whoever designed spells that you have to roll both to overcome resistance and to damage must be a masochist designed for other masochists. (Is there any spell where you have to roll to overcome resistance AND to hit AND to damage? If yes, then if whoever came up with this concept met the person who designed puzzles for Owlcat and got to discussing game design, Cthulhu itself would rise from the depths and end the world to prevent the possibility of a calamity ). I have an idea of Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor mixed with Slayer Deliverer for some future martial run, just haven't figured how many levels of each. Maybe I'll even toss in that monk level for once, since we're going to be Lawful goody goody anyway. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
I would agree, yes, low resources aren't terribly fun anywhere. Ember's Slumber (great band name, as an aside) is the most consistently useful thing at low levels, and she gets also useful Evil Eye. I wonder if she keeps being as irreplaceable later in the game...well, other than for aforementioned Cackle exploit. Grease itself is a good spell, but selective Grease is honest god tier spell. Err...unless all enemies in late chapters are flying f†cks, of course. (Which is unrealistic, but I wouldn't put it past Trollcat. ) -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
I don't play POTD, but the digsite is doable on upsaled veteran, also it makes you go creative and utilize those low level spells you normally pay no attention to. It also goes all way back to PoE1, as I have fond memories of defeating the kraken with whatever I could scramble out of ingredients in my pockets because I was out of rests and could not sneak back to replenish stuff. Wrathfinder's problem is that, other than buffs and occasional good spell like Grease, low level abilities are completely useless. And I'm talking Normal/Core here. As for Toybox, it's no problem, I'll wait. First for Owlcat fixing what the patch broke, then the patch of the patch, then whatever patch fixes broke again, then after another iteration or two, Toybox itself. Maybe they'll fix Toybox's bugs too, cause while I can do with never talking to Nenio, belt items vanishing is a no go. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Yep, just before it and I took...something else, I think. Oh well, between my brand new menagerie of pets and sorcerer's selective greases and entangles I think the party can carry this load through the garrison. Aeon looks very interesting conceptually, has very pretty design and his theme is probably my favorite piece of the soundtrack so I'm tempted too, even if picking lawful options makes you look like particularly petty banana republic dictator. I wonder if I can just toybox-lock the alignment and stick with less covert evil dialog options. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Oh well. I'll wait for Trickster fix patch and meanwhile run my other parties through those boring, boring, horrible, unfun, did I mention boring, low levels. Speaking of them, am I doing something wrong with Camellia or is her consistently doing 0-1 damage just a low level thing? I was using Woljif and his sneak attacks before, decided to give her a chance and she's dead weight. I'm keeping her a Shaman with that faceiceplant thing and a rapier which appears to be as deadly as a mosquito bite, both with her default cold iron one and Finnegan. Seelah in defensive stance does, like, 20 times more damage than her. Also, I somehow managed to clock in 97 hrs in the game even if I play more RTWP than TB, have crusades on auto-win mod and I only have one party at the start of Chapter 3, one starting Chapter 2, one doing the end dungeon before Chapter 2 and two more just out of tutorial dungeon. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
bugarup replied to Zoraptor's topic in Way Off-Topic
I just started watching this too. I usually prefer my comedies blacker, but the cast is so likeable (especially the kid and Asta and Darcy) that now I don't want bad things happening to them. So far it's funny and very watchable. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
I planned for holy and force bombs indeed. Crit range comes from a Trickster feat, and sneak dice from underground chemist, but why 4 levels and when should I take them? All in batch or should I scatter them a bit? I'm afraid I won't be able to do Angel, also Azata because I'm more of a roleplayer than powergamer and in this case cheese gets bit different meaning. "I came to save the world and ya'll, puny mortals, also to moralize at everyone within earshot! Behold my shiny halo and utter absence of sense of humor! " "Tra la laaaaa~, I'm so twee I piss rainbows and sh†t cookies! Teehee! " Yeah, how about f†ck no. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Dusted off save files since Owlcat's community liaison on reddit keeps dropping giddy hints at big new shiny patch. Decided to postpone Bomber/Trickster until second playthrough when I'll have better grasp of the game because right now, no matter how hard I squint I cannot see any synergies between those two. Will be going with a sorcerer Lich instead, since it's more intuitive, plus if I spec him into summoning/conjuring I'll be less annoyed about spells constantly failing to hit. Almost had forgotten how irritating that broken plaza is and how unfun is the game at low level. -
Pathfinder has the same problem for me as every Bethesda open world RPG - the setting fells like a theme park, not a coherent world, also if dictionary entry for word "derivative" needs an illustration, they should look no further than Pathfinder. I find Obsidian's settings both more original and more believable, with a little side effect of it being hard to be mean to characters there, whereas Pathfinder's world and characters make me want to go full Nerat on them.
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Watched "Mamma Mia!" yesterday (not quite on my own full will but eh). If Larian of Divinity games fame started doing movies, this would be it. Cringed in every second scene and wanted to strangle every character. Yikes.
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Not sure if this belongs here or in Funny
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 3
bugarup replied to ShadySands's topic in Computer and Console
Very nice art, Agiel. My sewing kit consists of one black and one white spool that are kept wherever cats cannot reach them. I keep nails, screws, clippies and other random doodads in my royal dansk cookie tin so that dragon would probably be even more disappointed. (Also from everything I saw so far it seems that I should avoid playing Azata lest I want diabeetus or at very least, teeth plaque. ) -
In NWN2 I only ever started paying attention when big red dragon completely wiped the floor with my party, I dropped difficulty to easy and she wiped the floor as easily again. So I searched for help and - "wow, there's a whole system under it? Cool!" And there was a lot of stuff on Internet useful for a newbie - how things work in general, builds and stuff - that was based on the game itself, not general PnP rules. Makes me wonder why there's no such thing yet for Pathfinder after two supposedly popular games.
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I loved him in "The 51st state"
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What are you Playing Now? No really, tell us more...
bugarup replied to Wormerine's topic in Computer and Console
I say it is a reasonable price, although as someone who has it on CD and on Gamersgate and GOG I might be a little biased. It did not run smoothly on Windows 10 for me, there was some weird graphical glitch, but I remember googling some workaround that worked. -
They did veto movies from distribution in the past, like "Dogma" and I have a sneaking suspicion they still practice that, can't be arsed to sniff for sources though. Cannot comment on superhero schlock as I don't care for it unless Taika Waititi or Deadpool is involved, but didn't they switch SW directors after "The Last Jedi" turned controversial for more "traditional" (but also stupider) next installation whatsitsname? Also, didn't they fire some director over 10 years old edgy messages and Mandalorian's actress over some dumb tweet? Their being allergic to any kind of IRL controversy is IMO as worse than product sanitizing.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
bugarup replied to Zoraptor's topic in Way Off-Topic
Yeah, maybe not that terrible and there is a handful of other outliers, but that only emphasizes tw†tness of the majority. -
And he is all blue! (aka "And you thought Scooter was cheesy")
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
bugarup replied to Zoraptor's topic in Way Off-Topic
Oh, it will suck. And I bet my hat it'll gloss over how all Silmarillion's elves were arrogant, insufferable, condescending supremacists.