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Elerond

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  1. There is whole section of pale elves in Twin Elms that will tell quite lot of their culture and philosophies if you go and ask. Especially if you do all quest there peacefully.
  2. In Finland it was male only parliament and male president that decided to add compulsory military service for male citizens of Finland in our constitution and every single parliament after that one has been male dominated in numbers that would allow them to change our constitution, but only propositions to change that law has come from our feminist politicians that drive through law that allowed women to do voluntary military service and currently their efforts to make military service compulsory for women too has been blocked by male majority in our parliament. But still every time males remember rise it as an issue which men had to suffer and women don't when topic of gender equality comes up. Same goes for other things like child custody cases, although in Finland studies about subject show that men win majority of cases that go in court, even though public belief about subject suggests opposite result. Somehow, I find all that very hard to believe. Obviously, politicans are jerks without any sense of reality. And we both know that. But I find it hard to believe that finland is absolutely the opposite of germany in that regard with just a few hundred miles distance from each other. I can't say how things are in Germany, but in Finland we have compulsory armed service because of fact that majority of men want such thing to exists and women don't have compulsory armed service for same reason. Of course there are men that feel that they are oppressed by such constitutional duty and that it is unfair that women don't have similar duty, but even if count them to be oppressed it is because of men population of Finland. Of course there is reasons why compulsory military service is popular in Finland, like for example the fact that we have about 1340 km worth of border line with Russian which is country that we have had very erratic relationship in past thousand years, which has heavy influence in our culture, traditions and political thinking. And those influences aren't easily swept under carpet in couple decades of somewhat peaceful go existence. So it isn't just politicians being politicians, as usually in polls it show that elected members of Parliament show more willingness to seek ending compulsory military service and moving in fully paid army or selected (about 50-70% support current system depending on poll and year) than regular citizens (about 60-75% support current system depending on poll and year). And I would guess that this year we will see highest approval rate for current system in long time, because of Russia's actions in recent times especially increased political nagging towards Finland, increased military activity near our borders and repeated incidents in our airspace by Russia's military aircrafts.
  3. Inquisition couldn't possibly be that bad. In my opinion Inquisition is best game in DA series, and all the DA games are good games even though I don't think that any of them is that great as RPG, but they have other elements that I enjoyed.
  4. Exceptional spear with coordinating (+4 acc and 1.25x damage when attacking same target with ally) and marking (+10 acc for allies that attacks same target) enchantments (these can change depending on your choices)
  5. I don't see problem with how game handles this. If you want to be mister/missus good doer and don't get one artifact because of it is reasonable, especially as that means that you don't need to go through 'though' fight and that artifact in question is not game changer. There is lots of other things where cruel, aggressive and character with favoring other dispositions are out of luck if they just want to RP that disposition but want best rewards.
  6. I would say Arbalest or Hunting Bow are my choices for ranged rogue, because Arbalest can cause prone, which takes them out of fight and gives sneak attack bonus for the damage and hunting bow has highest rate of fire, which works excellently with damage bonuses from sneak attack and might, even though high pierce DR enemies maybe harder to deal than with firearms.
  7. Answer to OPs question is yes she has interaction, but not with the priests. You should remember that how people relate on godlikes depend much on culture which they are from and that priest of god don't necessary think highly about godlikes that are associated with their god or they even can ignore them fully. I would point out that Dragons are creatures of Hylean and said priests don't seem to have qualms to sent you to kill one. From what i got from game most of the people at least in Dyrwood don't seem to hold any particular opinions about godlikes at all, so from that point it don't seem strange that those priests follow that line of behavior too.
  8. At least in current patch Lash damage is reduced by DR of that type. For example when you do 31.8 damage with slash weapon with corrode lash against armor that has slash DR 21 and corrode DR 11, damage that you weapon does is 10.8 slash + 5.2 corrode total 16 points. And as you can see 5.2 is not 25% of 10.8 or 31.8 but it is such from 20.8 (31.8-11). So at least in my testing of my party's weapons against my party members it seem to work as you would think that it works. EDIT: Lash damage don't seem to have minimum damage, so if somebody hits your 21 corrode and pierce resistance armor with 13 points of damage they will only do 2.6 points of pierce damage and no additional damage from lash.
  9. That's one way of saying the best RPGs ever made are ****. I hit level cap in Act II in my first play through which was before I cleared final levels of Od Nua and all the quest and task that you can do in Act I and II. Then you had a party of <6. More XP (because you simply get more) and less sharing. I had full 6 member party full time after I reached Od Nua and hired Kana as 6th member (addition to my MC, Aloth, Edér, Durance and hired adventurer) of my party in act I, so that don't explain it. Maybe you didn't look all the task and quests that you can find by talking people and finding secret passages etc. like I did.
  10. I hit level cap in Act II in my first play through which was before I cleared final levels of Od Nua and all the quest and task that you can do in Act I and II.
  11. There are 11 or 12 bounty missions, in 3 sets. The first two sets the warden gave the PC had four bounties each in them. And IIRC, the final set may have had only 3 (though I'm not 100% certain about that). I think 11 is probably correct number as last patch of bounties less numerous as other ones.
  12. If you do nearly everything in the game I think you would at least be in level 16 or 17 if there wasn't level cap, but I think even that is maybe bit too low estimate. But anyway there is quite lot XP sources in the game, which will make achieving level cap quite common if you have even little bit completionist in you. But I am not sure if it is actually problem, although over leveling will make most of the fights in the main quest quite easy, but I would say that mainly due of no level scaling during the game and amount of side content towering over critical path. There is more than 4 bounty missions in the game. Leveling up by bounty missions depend much on which level you are when you do them.
  13. There is convenient flood going that blocks route to Twin Elms and that flood ends as conveniently in start of Act III like Tartantyco said, which will allow you to go Twin Elms.
  14. Obviously it is not "just fine"! Anytime that actual Players come to the boards to vent frustration at a particularly controversal mechanic means that it is not just fine for them! I knew back then it was going to get some riled up because it just doesn't work - wanna rest? Jump through hoops. Waste RL time. You really mean it is "just fine" for you. I remember you from before *slow nod* Having a simple "Unlimited rest" check in the main HUD would have solved a lot of problems and issues here. That is true every time someone has problem with some game mechanic and wants developers change it to their liking, meaning that they are free to express their dislike towards those particular features, but also people that like or are fine as feature currently stand are free to express their opinions and then developers can choose what they do by using all the feedback instead of singular opinion from singular player.
  15. Actually it was 10 months or so. But still if they actually got paid something during that 10 months that 50k isn't enough. I would say that every gaming company probably dreams that they could do products like Angry Birds and Clash of Clans which are done by very small team in short period of time and bring billions of Euros for the company in next several years when they seek buyer for their company, but as that isn't actually future that I want meaning both how companies work which kind games they produce, I decided to put money that I have earned by doing "traditional" programming to support quite lot of games studios in Kickstarter so that they can do games that they are passionate to do and that belong in genres that seemed somewhat died from your typical game producing channels as they were too expensive be pure indie and they were seen by market not to be worth of effort in seeking new cash magnet.
  16. In Finland it was male only parliament and male president that decided to add compulsory military service for male citizens of Finland in our constitution and every single parliament after that one has been male dominated in numbers that would allow them to change our constitution, but only propositions to change that law has come from our feminist politicians that drive through law that allowed women to do voluntary military service and currently their efforts to make military service compulsory for women too has been blocked by male majority in our parliament. But still every time males remember rise it as an issue which men had to suffer and women don't when topic of gender equality comes up. Same goes for other things like child custody cases, although in Finland studies about subject show that men win majority of cases that go in court, even though public belief about subject suggests opposite result.
  17. Oh, cmon! The word FORCED is more appropriate here. Who forced them to do anything and what gave them such force over what Obsidian or backer in question has to do what they demand/ask. It was more that they loudly expressed their opinion about thing in the game and then Obsidian and backer in question decided to edit content in the game. Obsidian has done such edits for the game many times during it development, where those changes also forced over them by backers who demanded/asked them?
  18. Hehe..nice argument, except that I'm not the one demanding censorship here.. And, I'm just expressing, after them, my opinion, stating that I am a little disappointed, nothing more. If you think I shouldn't do this please go ahead, I don't want to censor you.. You just ask/demand that Obsidian put content in their game that they or original creator of content don't any more want to have in the game. Which means that you aren't very supportive for rights of freedom of expression which allow creator(s) to edit their work if they feel to do so.
  19. Blizzard. You just can't connect on their server for week after they release the game and even if you can connect by some miracle there will be login issue that throws you back in line and start again connecting with the server. And after week you will find out that there is some issue in how some quest or ability is handled and there will be fix that will cancel most of your effort that you have been able to put in the game :|
  20. It's nice to see that moral/ethic justice warriors are expressing their demands in nearly every single topic that gives even lightest excuse that Obsidian should be forced to put content in their game that they don't want to have there because they are so against censorship. And it's not censorship to demand content that artist don't want in their products but only ensuring that artist don't forgot add official message from ruling party in their products that is as far censorship as something can be. For the topic itself, I was hoping bit better initial sales but number from Steamspy seem solid enough to ensure that PoE's tale will continue in future.
  21. top tier: All the classes with right build lower tiers: All the classes with non optimized builds and roles. There is some variance which classes work best with some other classes, but at end you can build every class to feel that they are OP in what they do. In solo runs some of the classes seem to just work better than others as they are easier to build be self reliant.
  22. As long as chanter can't chant outside combat and summon unlimited number if creatures to kill everything from map without me needing to risk my party I will say that any other class should not have ability pre-buff because otherwise it will kill my immersion with the game
  23. There are romance plot lines in the game There is cheap sex in the game which only point is to give player bonuses There are several gay romance plot lines in the game which on includes female pc. There is tragic romantic tale that includes three people and has severe Shakespearian feeling in it. There is so sexual character in game that even most pan sexuals can't be so open minded. There is two spirited companion with both male and female soul and another companion that restlessly pursues that companion female aspect. And any of these content is not backer made. Only thing that is missing is PC to be able to romance some of the companions. But I has to say that I am quite pleased of amount of romantic content that we got
  24. You probably could get House Doemenel sponsor you and if not you should get Lady Webb to sent you in her name.
  25. Events in keep are random Hit rolls are random Some of loot is random
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