Ashen Rohk

It's on my entire party!

I have a feeling I'm getting to the end of the main narratice by heading to Ashen Maw so I'm putting it off for as long as possible. I tend to agree that there's not a whole lot of substance to the main plot that I've felt aside from our reason to push ahead. The factions and side quests are what flesh out the world and you get the feeling that while Eothas stomping all over is a big danger, these people were already trying to survive, profit and generally **** each other over long before Eothas appeared. I'm glad the sidequests are there, as the main story is a little lacking atm for me in terms of depth, as much as I'm loving the game. Also, shouldn't this be in Spoilers?

The achievement seems to ping on how many sidekicks you've recruited, rather than picking up all of the ones currently available. For example, Rekke is still floating about somewhere yet to be recruited and I've just picked up Mirke, Konstanten, Fassima and Ydwin (maybe), so the formual is currently ALL SIDEKICKS IN GAME - 1 = ACHIEVEMENT.

Gotta agree with post no.2 in the thread. Eder's the same old awesome dude, his undercurrent of tragic past forming the crux of his main personal quest. How do I know it's the same old Eder? Because he get's a pro animal reputation buff in the Watershaper Guild quest in the final room. Aloth's turned into that guy who comes along on a road trip and sucks all the fun out, as has Pallegina. But maybe she was always like that...

Isn't Turning Wheel for melee attacks only? You're right, I was thinking more for the +10 Int bonus for stacking Wounds, which only needs Duality. It should be but I'm putting out fire damage with Frostseeker. The handsome chap on the left is my monk dishing out those sweet burns.

Can confirm, side with Bardatto and allow the heist to carry out, then raid the vault afterwards nets you both weapons.

Arguably the game's best weapon - what builds are you running for that sweet icy death? I'm currently running it on my Helwalker Ranged Monk build, I think it's the Flagellant one on the forums and my god it makes me happy. Probably not as optimised as the dual scepters but who gives a damn? How are you freezing your enemies to death?

It seems fairly ominous, but interested to see folks' experience of the super bad ending with everyone dead and pissed off with you?

I'm leaning towards yes because I really need some blunt damage in my party

Monk single all the way + nature godlike + Frostseeker = GODDAMN

Hi dudes, So that Garari Cuirass that Ernezzo has...obviously I'm murdering her because Spindle Man is awesome but I wouldn't mind that ridiculously good cuirass. Armour 10 and 20% recovery, sign me up. Is there any way to acquire it after Ernezzo is dead? Apparently it's unique and isn't on her corpse.

It's obviously hiding under your capslock key. OH THANKS I PRESSED IT AND IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TO TYPE NOW

I think it works the same way Skyrim et al does, that the world is constantly streamed from the drive it's installed on, rather than each area being loaded separtely. The loading screens are a bit annoying but my god is it better than the first game.

<- Witcher 3 was my first of the series, easy enough to pick up and enough to make you want to revisit the others. I enjoyed HoS with Shahn, even though I'd never met her before, Iorveth was cool too without being the villain from TW2.

Wake up you, wake up! Come on! We've got to get out of here! The pain is only passing, you should survive the process.

Same. So much of the voice acting in BG and (especially) BG2 is stuck in my head (in a good way). If "Ah, the child of bhaal has awoken" doesn't immediately start a sequence of lines in your head in Irenicus's voice then you didn't play BG2 enough (or I played it too much perhaps). GET OUT OF MY HEAD, CHARLES

BG and BG2 had them when travelling between maps. In BG2 there were a couple that led to actual content (slavers and harpers iirc) but the rest were just pointless distractions. EDIT: a reminder: "you have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself". Literally just about to post this - I can still hear it in my head.

Oh man, I forgot about all that! Despite it's flaws I still think getting a crap release window played a party, you only have to look at other publishers eyeing up the CoD/Battlefield window or the inevitable WoW expansion, although the latter might not be as prevalent these days? Edit: FWIW, I too thought TToN was a colossal let down.

It'll certainly do better than Torment, which got absolutely crushed between Horizon: Zero Dawn and ME: Andromeda. Regardless of quality of the latter still both AAA titles that sold insanely well and Torment got lost in it. Relatively clear release slate for Deadfire to take the limelight too. Edit: ME3 was great, stop focusing on the last 5 minutes.

Don't mind either way!

I assume you're referring to console commands? I keep Xoti as a priest because for all the new flaws of the priest class in Deadfire they're still pretty good to have.

The volume of content isn't the issue, it's making sure that beta testers can test all the mechanics available and see if they fall down or stand up when played away from OBS test environment. The Dyrford area in PoE1 was a perfect size to test mechanics, as was the area we were given in the Deadfire beta. Everything could be tested that needed to be, by this logic they might as well chuck us the entire game in beta "just to make sure it all works". I remember the IWD1 demo gave you a full third of the game, which was mental. But it was a demo, not a beta.

Monk is beautifully broken, just like back in the good old IE days. <3

I'm cheesing this on a Nature Godlike for that sweet power level bonus. Running this on normal, and it's a joke.

I'm going to try and both buy and steal ships. If you side with Zamar early on he'll give you a discount at the shipwright's.