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Spears are two-handed and do benefit from the two-handed skill. Also, they are awesome. The biggest downside to spears is that you can't train to expert level until Seahaven. Where do you get the relic spear? It's reported now that it only mostly works. Specifically, the Master bonus of 2H does not work. That is, you don't get the bonus 0.1% crit chance per point of Destiny. That sucks. Hopefully they patch it before I hit master (I'm expert now) with my Marauder. Edit: There is a way to fix this bug by simply editing a file. If Limbic doesn't fix this by the time I get master Two-Handed (and I plan to), then I'll fix it myself.

Went up another level and scooped up spear grandmaster for my Marauder, then headed to the Supreme Temple of Meow. So far it's been Elite Shadow Panthers (piece of cake), Elite Rakshasa (relatively easy), and Elite Manticores (slightly dangerous). Nothing really hard so far, the Manticores can do massive damage if the critical on their special attack, but other than that, nothing to really worry about. Not at level 22, anyway. I'm not that deep into it yet, though, so it may well get much harder.

Woot! Got my Hunter upgraded to Marauder. The harpoon ability is what I was mostly eyeing, but dang, the snare ability does pretty crazy damage. It's going to be great against advancing melee enemies.

The pro-Michael Bay argument, in a nutshell.

Spears are two-handed and do benefit from the two-handed skill. Also, they are awesome. The biggest downside to spears is that you can't train to expert level until Seahaven. Where do you get the relic spear?

Yes. They have days corresponding to each of the Dragon Gods.

Hopefully they give me something good, and not just a 5 dollar gift certificate to Seahaven Steakhouse.

Obligatory: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1198892/guarding_sugar/ Also, a reminder that, as hard as it is to believe today, once upon a time, eons ago, The Simpsons was a funny show.

Oops. Shows how much I know about Drakensang Online, which is to say, almost nothing.

It really kind of is. Just in the last 5 years or so: Drakensang, Drakensang: River of Time, Drakensang Online (Browser MMO), Chains of Satinav (PnC), Memoria (PnC), Demonicon, and Blackguards.

Agreed. I'm all for being able to drink a potion before the enemies are upon you, or if you manage to somehow put a good bit of distance between yourself and them. Being able to drink potions while engaged in melee should be either impossible, or come with a steep price (attack of opportunity-a-palooza). As an aside, they need to de-god mode-ify Quen in Twitcher 3. That sign was insanely overpowered in TW2.

Please document your findings thoroughly and report back to us. A video of the experiments would be much appreciated.

I am completely out of the loop when it comes to Wasteland, but what exactly is wrong here? Grid-based inventory? I'm assuming he's referring to the dialogue. Personally I'm fine with the UI. Hopefully you can change the vertical height of the dialogue window. It would be cool if you could change font size also, but that's probably asking too much, especially since its styalized rather than transparent.

I though The Witcher 2 took it maybe a bit too far with not allowing you to drink potions at all during combat, although, from a realism standpoint, would you really be reaching for a flask or vial, even one conveniently strapped to your belt (just waiting to get shattered), while a pack of wolves is jumping at you or some guys are trying to spill your bowels with swords? Anyway, I like that approach better than the absolutely ridiculous Elder Scrolls approach: 3 draugr are relentlessly attacking out intrepid hero. Suddenly, they freeze mid-swing. The hero calmly sets down his weapon and removes his invisible backpack. He sets the pack on the ground and opens it up. After rummaging through the pack he produces 5 flasks, a roasted piece of chicken, a mug of beer, a pepper mill, some cutlery, and a blanket. The hero calmly sets the blanket on the ground, mere inches away from a frozen in time axe, then neatly arranges the food and potions atop it and sits down. 15 minutes later, after finishing his feast, the hero tosses the chicken bones and empty flasks away, packs up the blanket and cutlery, puts the invisible backpack back on, grabs his weapon, then magically the draugr unfreeze and the battle continues. Ideally, you should be able to drink potions during battle, but it should be fairly time consuming and you either can't move while you're performing this action, or your movement rate is severely decreased (try drinking something while running full speed, it doesn't work too well).

Now that I'm somewhere in Act 3, I have to say that Warrior difficulty is not so hard any more. It's not easy, mind you, and it will still punish me if I slack and try to sleepwalk through a battle (with the exception of when I run into some low level beasties I'd missed before that I can crush with one arm tied behind my back), but for the most part, I'm not having too much trouble dispatching waves of baddies. One more level up and I'll grandmaster spear and possibly Earth Magic on my Hunter and Shaman, respectively. More than anything, I want the Ylath blessing so that I can do the Marauder promotion quest and start harpooning fools like Scorpion. Once I do that, I'll go see what this Meow dungeon is all about. As an aside, do you get anything for visiting all the different elemental shrines on the appropriate day and praying to the dragon gods? I think I've done 3 so far.

Maybe because developers and publishers have caught on to the fact that the D&D name isn't as glamorous as it used to be and that establishing their own IP is a potentially far more lucrative endeavor.

So, on my way through Skull Rock to get the air shard for the blessing of Ylath, I found out I needed to get the blessing of Shalassa first. So I hunted down the water shard, whooped up the air lord and now I'm going back to Skull Rock. I'm almost 60 hours in and I still early (I think) into act 3. Edit: Got the air shard. Back to the forge I go... tomorrow.

I like ski jumping, alpine skiing, bobsled, luge, and, oddly enough, curling.

Last night during the Supabaw I started off with a bloody mary with tons of horseradish in it. Then I switched to beer: Fosters in a giant can.

Help me, Internet-Stream Kenobi, you're my only hope.

Yeah. There is a group of Rakshasa called the Cult of Meow, or something.

It's true. The NBC (It's still NBC, right?) coverage is awful. Here are the top 5 and the Americans, and now a 25 minute long overdramatized bio of one of the American athletes. How about instead of the overdramatized bio you show me the whole event instead?

Is there a relic spear?

I actually wound up trial and erroring that puzzle (because I didn't happen to have learned the detection spell). With the load times being what they are, you can imagine it took some time and a whole bunch save scumming (I'm not proud of myself ). My party is level 20, creeping up on level 21. I'm going through Skull Rock to get the air shard so that I can do the Marauder promotion quest, though I need to make a quick hike back to The Crag (or Karthal, whichever is closer) to fix up my armor. I like how my strategy has adapted as my party has grown stronger and I've encountered different enemies. Earth Magic is my Shaman's bread and butter with Poison Spray, Acid Splash, Poison Cloud, and Regeneration. Between Acid Splash and either Shatter or Sundering, I can obliterate my enemies' armor. Poison Spray is one of the first things I cast and the damage really adds up over time. Sometimes when I get ambused and surrounded, I'll Poison Spray, then drop a Poison Cloud on the enemies behind me from time to time, just so they have something to choke on while I dispatch the enemies in front of me. Then when I get around to them they're pretty well softened up. Regeneration is a life saver (literally). I've also found myself using Purge a lot more often. I'm more frequently encountering enemies casting Regeneration on themselves, which I quickly remove from them. Elite Earth Elementals, in particular, can be difficult to whittle down if you don't keep Purging them. Has anyone attempted that Meow Dungeon you can "buy" with the points you accumulate in UPlay? I "bought" the dungeon, and I found the character that you use to access it, but I have no clue what level I should be when attempting it.

Well, that was one helluva blowout. I wanted the C-Hox to win, but I kind of wanted a decent game. Oh well, epic scale beatdown will have to do. C-Hox just demolished the Donks in every single way imaginable