PrimeJunta

I'm pretty sure the loading time thing is a bug, as I'm not experiencing it.

They only reload when you're not moving. After the fight, switch to the gun and wait a few seconds, watch the animation complete, done.

Not if you wander in solo with a squishy character.

Everything's uncertain, but IMO the odds are that another Obsidian KS would blow P:E's numbers out of the water. Most P:E backers would back, and many of the ones who bought it post-release would too.

I'm enjoying it a great deal more than BG and much, much more than BG2 on my first playthroughs. I'd rate P:E a solid 9, BG1 a 6 or 7, and BG2 as a raging bipolar, about 1 on my first attempt to play through it, 9 or 10 on my umpteenth once I figured out how the damn thing works. Your opinion is legit of course, and any hate campaign you've suffered for it is unacceptable.

To be fair there are some sucker-punches there.

Also: manual, collector's book, strategy guide, campaign almanac, in-game descriptions. A few lacunae aside, I don't think complaining about lack of information, or the lack of availability thereof, is warranted.

Fie, then! I will challenge one of those fops to a duel post-haste. All the world shall bow before my fashion sense!

Translation: Whaa this game is too hard.

I used to think that but have had to reconsider. I'm using Itumaaq more or less the same way I use a rogue: only attack targets which are already engaged. Apart from the buffs it gives the ranger attacks, it confers Flanked which is highly useful. I've also used it to pull enemies with everybody else in ambush with ranged weapons, and as a "suicide bomber" against a high-value target, since having it go down carries no strategic cost. I used to hate the ranger in the BB but rather to my surprise am digging it so much now I'm thinking of rolling one.

I disagree about druid's shapeshift. I think of it as an extra weapon slot. Give the druid a couple of guns and Fast Switch, and when he's used them all or gets mobbed, shapeshift and manfight them off.

Dexterity makes a big difference, as does wearing no armor. There are basically two ways around the slow reload time: Island Aumaua + fast switching + extra weapon slot, gives you up to four guns, boom boom boom boom fight is over. Or pick the Gunner talent, and have Kana Rua chant the "quickly nocked their arrows" chant for fast reload. Currently blunderbusses are probably the best firearms but pistols and arquebuses aren't half bad either. The latter is eclipsed by the arbalest though. I predict a patch will change this relationship.

Yeah, one bad talent and he's ruined. RUINED! :eyeroll:

In other news, Generalissimo Franco is still dead.

I saw a similar one with Slicken in BB480. The oil just kept pouring from the sky. Must've made whoever owned that patch of land very rich. Instant bottomless oil well!

Rogue, with cipher a close number 2. I just like they way they play.

As an aside they do complain a lot. I think that they yell "Gotta try something else!" if they score a Graze which gets soaked into DR, which happens sometimes even if you're doing everything right.

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There are two reasons you're going to get "weapon ineffective." One, the beast's DR is so high damage isn't getting through. Two, the beast's Deflection is so high you're not scoring any hits. If it's the former, use weapons or talents that do DR bypass (Penetrating Shot, Vulnerable Attack, stiletto, mace, estoc), or spells that reduce enemy DR. If it's the latter, use spells and abilities that debuff enemy Deflection (Reveal Vulnerabilities, Curse of Blackened Sight etc) or buff your Accuracy (Holy Radiance, paladin auras etc). The latter will help with the former also as you'll score fewer Grazes and more Hits and Crits, which means more damage, which means more of it will beat the DR.

Incorporeal undead teleport, which breaks engagement.

Try making an interrupter. Rogue or barb works well as a basis.

Wizards are good. Some of the spells need some tuning (Slicken is howling to be nerfed, Fireball needs a boost), but the spell selection is very good overall. It requires some thought to use intelligently though -- spamming Fireball on high-Reflex enemies won't do much. How Do I Wizard 101 (1) Figure out what your enemy's weakest defense is. (2) Pick a spell that attacks that defense. -> Is the spell a damage-dealer? Y--> Problem solved N--> It's a debuff: attack the debuffed defense with another spell or another character. --> Problem solved. I find myself using only Arcane Assault and auto-attack for the filler encounters, one or two spells for the somewhat harder ones, and everything I've got in the boss battles. It's fun. (ATM druids are even more fun though. Wizard spell power should be bumped a bit to match the druid's IMO.)

There are plenty of funny but useless items like that in the game. There's even one in the opening area. I think they're backer-created items.

Durance is is seriously good. You can skew him two ways: dedicated pure support, or gunner with massive support abilities. Gunner: pick Inspired Flame and Weapon Focus: Soldier, then give him Kana's arquebus. Now he has the ACC of a fighter of the same level. Then build on that with Penetrating Shot and Fast Reload. Have the loon wear no armor and hang back. Use Inspiring Radiance every time, spells strategically -- the priest buffs are seriously good. Pure support: pick Interdiction and the talents that boost it and Holy Radiance. Only when out of those, Inspired Flame and the gunner abilities. The other weapon from Inspired Flame -- the sword -- isn't that interesting as a basis to build on because he has terrible DEFL and health. A single one-handed weapon isn't great for a damager without the rogue's damage-boosting abilities, and the terrible defenses mean he won't be any good as a tank. The real beef is in the spells though. Read through the descriptions and experiment with them. They are very, very good: if you're in a fight you feel you can't win, the odds are Durance has something that'll solve it.

@Grand_Commander Peasant and Ruffian are rubbish in no way at all. Stilettos are arguably the best dual-wield weapons in the game (DR bypass, very fast), blunderbusses are the best firearms against soft targets and pistols very good against armored targets. The hunting bow is the best fast ranged weapon in the game (faster than the war bow, with Penetrating Shot it's acceptable against armor), quarterstaff combines reach and bludgeoning which is highly useful (plus there are some pretty cool easy-to-access staves in the game).