Milo v3 |
My first battle was easy difficulty, a Chain Mauler from the NPC Codex. With a great stealth check I was able to get the drop on them. Sniping, and the resultant intimidate check, caused the rogue to run away in fear with his first action (and taking a haste potion), and then paralysing it with hold person I was able to simply walk up to it, quick draw my gold-plated swordcane and kill the chain mauler with a TWF full attack.
Attack with mystic bolt got 19 damage, not much but the fear was a great rider effect, and the full attack did 102 damage. Admittedly, one of the hits with the mystic bolt in the full attack was a critical. Although quick, it was fun to see an enemy described as "The chain mauler is a vicious sadist whose weapon allows her the bloodiest satisfaction.", run away in terror.
My second battles was epic difficultly; my vigilante being attacked in my social identity by a shinigami... Surprisingly the scry protection actually came into play since he wasn't aware of me changing between identities. The only time I had the tiniest chance against the shinigami was when he rolled a 1 against Charm Monster... but his SR saved him. I did survive a few attacks with my living shadow ability and launching some mystic bolts, but most of the fight I was just using stealth to hide and try to use illusions and enchantment spells on him (since that was my character's thing and the vigilante did not know the creature that attacked him had trueseeing), and using my gold elemental as a decoy. But in the end, the large number of saves my character had to make caused him die rather blatantly. I would've teleported away if it wasn't for the fact it was a playtest because it was very quick to notice my character had no chance. From this I'm noticing I probably made a very very bad decision making a illusion/stealth based character at high levels, since true-seeing is going to be common.
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Milo v3 |
Has it been clarified that you can use all of your spells in the social persona? Cuz by a blind reading of the rules, you only get Arcane Training I when you're in the social persona, which means you can only use 1st and 0-level spells.
I was fortunately able to escape behind cover using a combination of bluff, stealth, and a gold elemental I had bound, allowing me to use quick change so I was only in social identity for the very start of the combat.
Trekkie90909 |
I think you could get away with stealth still; you just need to focus on obstructing line of sight (and flying for tremorsense, and that one feat which negates blind sight/sense). Illusion definitely stops working around lvl 10. Neat little description. Out of curiousity what were your Talent selections/feats/stats like?
Milo v3 |
I think you could get away with stealth still; you just need to focus on obstructing line of sight (and flying for tremorsense, and that one feat which negates blind sight/sense). Illusion definitely stops working around lvl 10. Neat little description. Out of curiousity what were your Talent selections/feats/stats like?
Fortunately, at the very least I have living shadow while will grant me concealment even if the enemies have darkvision.
As for selections. here's the character.
Vrog Skyreaver |
One thing I'll add (interesting fight choices, btw) is that true seeing doesn't see through stealth (it will get by the illusions though). I don't know the stats on a shinigami, but if you were stealth focused, you probably had a decent chance of sniping it (using the sniping option from the stealth skill) once you managed to get away and change your personality.
Milo v3 |
One thing I'll add (interesting fight choices, btw) is that true seeing doesn't see through stealth (it will get by the illusions though). I don't know the stats on a shinigami, but if you were stealth focused, you probably had a decent chance of sniping it (using the sniping option from the stealth skill) once you managed to get away and change your personality.
The issue with sniping was that my ranged attack is affected by SR, and the shinigami's perception score is high enough they'd likely eventually find me, and the fact shinigami constantly has detect chaos and my guy is chaotic.
Milo v3 |
Well, we are part way through the vampire encounter and put it on pause so people could get to sleep.... lets just say losing initiative to spellcasting vampires in a building is very very bad. Doesn't help that they have energy resistance against my mystic bolt, and they are immune to nearly all my spells. I did buy myself time with mirror image but in the end after killing one, I had to use living shadow to just to get out of the barrage of vampire spells and attacks. From which I immediately super stealthed and sniped the vampires with mystic bolt full attacks until the only ones remaining were under the effects of greater invisibility, forcing both sides to wait a few minutes undetectable to each other.