On 11/13/2024 at 9:22 AM, Gfted1 said:

he wanted to retire to Idaho so maybe hes realized that dream?

Well, I hope he returns here, as I would love to get his thoughts on retiring to that part of the country as I am hoping to retire to Wyoming about two and a half years from now. If any of you live in WY or know it well, would love to PM you about living there.

Ill get to retire in just 13 more years.  I dont want to move South and live amongst the rednecks, and I dont want to live in a place that has snow...so I guess its Mexico for me.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1184370/view/6564653885911203913

Looks like it's going to bring a spellbook (merge?) and have a few abilities that focus on breath, I'm guessing it's variable depending on which path taken. No idea if it will be Shifter compatible, imo would be pretty glaring that the mythic path built around shape-shifting doesn't work well with the class built around it.

"Improvement and Rebalance"

The Logan Paul of vidya gaems

So the patch is out and I've checked out Gold Dragon

1. Gold Dragon form now works with Shifter's Fury so you can now get multiple attacks. It does not seem to work with Wildshape specific feats though. Given some of the spell synergy (ie +3 attacks for a minute - Gold Dragon form only), I imagine a Gold Dragon Shifter would actually want to run as a Fiendflesh to take advantage of aspects.

2. The breath stuff is a selectable special ability every mythic rank, with an extra at 10. There's 10 options, 6 standard, and 2 each for regular and corrupted. They seem pretty good but with the breath being a standard action you may have better **** to do that blast it. If my reading is right it can be really strong, with a corrupted dragon hitting for 35 d8 +35 d8 on living enemies with a relatively big dc. 

3. A third level 10 spellbook has hit the game. It's ok, there's no unique spells outside of 8,9, and 10 and it's direct damage, summons, and some personal buffs. Notably, you can keep merged spells from your previous path if you merged.

Got kind of bored with Friendship Is Magic playthrough and made a lich... it's so hilariously OP that I'm considering to increase the difficulty. I killed the gold dragon at level 10. But Repurpose alone is enough to solo the game. I ran around Wintersun with a dragon, a bunch of smilodons, giant trees and two meatball demons.

I could swear that sometimes the game rigs the dice rolls. I've been through battles making dozens of attacks and never getting higher than an 11. It's weird and very improbable.

On 2/8/2025 at 5:47 AM, rjshae said:

It's weird and very improbable.

That would be true, but computers cannot really generate truly random numbers, as such there's always a mathematical function involved - and there are better or worse ones at generating numbers. If whatever Owlcat used is pretty bad - and it would seem to be, going by my experience as well - it is neither weird nor improbable. You'd need specialized hardware for truly random numbers.

I took down Mephistopheles (who's actually kind of pathetic compared to HotU) at the start of Act 5 and gained two levels at once. Then a couple of random locations later I'm completely maxed out without even going to main story dungeons. Nothing to play for anymore. I want my xp.

Edited February 11, 20251 yr by HoonDing

Finished AZata run, was overall very meh. Majority of azata spells were redundant with my bard stuff

Now lich run is starting to get meh as well, then again the entire Act 5 is a waste of time

 

Not to mention apparently Tar Baphon himself freed himself not long after closing of Worldwound and shot literal nukes from his hand, the game's lich is really lame in comparison.

Doing another play-through, this time with an aasimar crusader cleric. At this point I'm a little bummed that I never got to have Woljif rejoin the party. I thought I did everything right, but he never showed up.

I took the Legend route of giving up the Angel levels, so I'm at cleric 20/ranger demon hunter 16. The character now does a cr*p-tonne of damage even to heavy-duty demons, almost rivalling and sometimes surpassing Lann. Hopefully I can complete the end game without having the Angel levels.

I love the Fortress of the Faithful spell, which I apparently got when I was treading the Angel path, then didn't get taken away when I switched to Legend. Hmm... a bug perhaps? With that spell active my party often barely gets a scratch, and it lasts for hours too. Another favorite is Storm of Justice, which often does heavy damage to multiple buffed out demons.

Just raising this thread from the annals of history. As mentioned in the what are you playing now thread, I picked up this game again and will probably need more than once to go search for info in this thread.

Before I invest too much time, anyone got good suggestions for a starting class to turn into a lich? First game started out as a sorcerer, but I think I would prefer something where it makes more sense to boost intelligence rather than charisma. Maybe playing the Dhampir (sp?) race too for maximum undeadness

Sage sorcerer, I think, uses intelligence. There's always wizard but I don't like juggling spell slots but maybe cruoromancer would be the most thematically appropriate with a Dhampir.

Edited March 2Mar 2 by ShadySands

If you're using mods, I'd reccomend the Arcanist. It can raise DC and caster level on demand which is pretty great for a caster, but you need a mod that adds Quick Study for it to be where it needs to be.

There's also Ley Line Guardian Witch as an alternative to the Sage Sorc, imo it's got a better early game with hexes and by the time you start spellbook merge stuff you're just ****ing everything up with busted Lich spells and not needing the better sorcerer spell list.

On 2/26/2025 at 5:25 AM, rjshae said:

Doing another play-through, this time with an aasimar crusader cleric. At this point I'm a little bummed that I never got to have Woljif rejoin the party. I thought I did everything right, but he never showed up.

I took the Legend route of giving up the Angel levels, so I'm at cleric 20/ranger demon hunter 16. The character now does a cr*p-tonne of damage even to heavy-duty demons, almost rivalling and sometimes surpassing Lann. Hopefully I can complete the end game without having the Angel levels.

I love the Fortress of the Faithful spell, which I apparently got when I was treading the Angel path, then didn't get taken away when I switched to Legend. Hmm... a bug perhaps? With that spell active my party often barely gets a scratch, and it lasts for hours too. Another favorite is Storm of Justice, which often does heavy damage to multiple buffed out demons.

That also happened to me, Woljif left my party and I never found him again

Its a known bug that some people experience

Decided to launch the game again on a whim, noting that I had a save that was still in the tutorial dungeon from years back. Made a little bit of progress, tried out the turn-based combat, then quit because I got annoyed that the entire party only got one chance to make an skill check (that is, it only checks once against the highest skill modifier in the party).

Someday I may look for a mod to try to resolve that little bugbear.