First of all, let me say, I LOVE this game. Best CRPG since Planescape: Torment, as far as I'm concerned. But...
Every now and then there's a moment that... oof.
In one playthrough, I decided I'd make Greybor a little more interesting and add some levels of Cavalier so he could have a smilodon pet.
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Greybor ambushes the party telling me that he's been hired to kill me unless I pay him more money. I love money so I cordially tell him to get bent. Initiative starts.
ROUND ONE: His animal companion full attacks. Him. And kills him.
There is no round two.
*hysterical laughter*
But wait! It gets better!
Later on, I stop by the Drezen tavern for some reasons. At Greybor's table I spot his smilodon, apparently just enjoying a drink in his ill-built edgelord boss's old haunt.
In my new head canon, the smilodon spends the rest of the campaign at that table, picking dwarf out of his teeth and drinking a White Russian.
How about the rest of you? Any hilarious WotR stories?
Nothing no nearly as good as that one xD
At one point while camping, Camellia said something and Nenio responded with:
"Your intellect is lower than the intellect of the average citizen, rich girl. Your knowledge and views are of no interest to the world."
I nearly choked to death on my drink.
So in Kenabres, if you’re a reckless bastard, you can wind up summoning a vrock, who teleports away. Later you can find him near the Inquistor Hulrun and his men. Obviously since I was level 3 and IT WAS A GODDAMN VROCK, I decided to lead him over to the ever-vigilant inquisitor. Surely the guy who set fire to Ember for being an elf and wants to massacre Desnans for, I dunno, defying some “No Dancing” Footloose rule, surely THAT guy would help kill a vrock.
He did not.
Pole-assed motherf~*@er stood there while the vrock ripped my party to pieces.
Grease surprisingly helps against vrocks. At least it did when I played the game a year and something ago.
Grease surprisingly helps against vrocks. At least it did when I played the game a year and something ago.
I think they corrected that so it doesn't do much against winged foes. Or he made the save. Regardless, I reloaded, hit him with the sleep hex, and went to town with coup de grace.
Still feel like the ever-vigilant, "Enemies are everywhere, EVERYWHERE I TELL YOU" inquisitor should have noticed the vrock murdering people right next to him. I guess everyone has their off days...
Grease surprisingly helps against vrocks. At least it did when I played the game a year and something ago.I think they corrected that so it doesn't do much against winged foes. Or he made the save. Regardless, I reloaded, hit him with the sleep hex, and went to town with coup de grace.
Still feel like the ever-vigilant, "Enemies are everywhere, EVERYWHERE I TELL YOU" inquisitor should have noticed the vrock murdering people right next to him. I guess everyone has their off days...
He probably was day dreaming about killing Desna worshippers or burning elf girls who look at him funny.
Might be that I also used the Sleep hex from Ember and not Grease. I did use Grease very successfully against that pesky Water Elemental, though!
I don't think grease works on elementals, either.
It definitely does in the game, that's how I've beaten the Water Elemental optional encounter early in the game multiple times.
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I don't think grease works on elementals, either.
Yep, totally does. Anything that can fall down, grease has a chance to make them fall down. Highly versatile.
Which brings me to my lengthy diatribe about how I came to question whether the crusade was worth saving when the entire troop defending Defender's Heart during the big battle scene charged into an entangle, grease effect area and proceeded to fall down and never get back up.
Like, ok, demon cultists are insane and could be forgiven for being fools. But you guys literally had to just stand your ground and rain arrows down on them as they got entangled and/or fell prone. Come on crusaders! Do better.
*stern disapproving look*
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I don't think grease works on elementals, either.Yep, totally does. Anything that can fall down, grease has a chance to make them fall down. Highly versatile.
Which brings me to my lengthy diatribe about how I came to question whether the crusade was worth saving when the entire troop defending Defender's Heart during the big battle scene charged into an entangle, grease effect area and proceeded to fall down and never get back up.
Like, ok, demon cultists are insane and could be forgiven for being fools. But you guys literally had to just stand your ground and rain arrows down on them as they got entangled and/or fell prone. Come on crusaders! Do better.
*stern disapproving look*
That happened to me the most recent time I played. The funny thing is the previous times I'd been through the defense my Caster's won initiative so in those battles, so the cultists never got into aggro range of the defenders between grease, web, and sickening entanglement. But this time Kenabres's Finest ran right into the quagmire and spent the next three in game minutes making angry faces at the cultists while the archers on the outer battlements were slaughtered by the forces coming up the ladder. In the end, my Bloodrager and a single dwarf who was too slow to run towards the quagmire below had to hold the outer roofs.
I'm glad to say that the dwarf in question stepped up and defeated a straggling cultist who came up the ladder when my bloodrager had to confront the Minotaur. I hope Irabeth made the other idiots watch as she pinned a medal to that Dwarf's chest.
Galfrey's Bard: My Queen! I've prepared a rousing song to inspire our crusaders!
*plays Yakity Sax*
Galfrey: Yes! Sounds great! Teach it to all the trumpeters and let us sally forth on this First Crusade that shall surely be victorious!
*100 years later*
Galfrey: Maybe we need a new song.
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I really need to pick the game up again. Its so much fun.
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I really need to pick the game up again. Its so much fun.
I'm waiting out the last DLC, which drops in a few days, then another patch cycle to iron out the new bugs it introduces, then it's time for that Angel run I've been holding off on. :)
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I really need to pick the game up again. It's so much fun.I'm waiting out the last DLC, which drops in a few days, then another patch cycle to iron out the new bugs it introduces, and then it's time for that Angel run I've been holding off on. :)
One day, I will finish that gold dragon run.
I just went back to it with an Azata bloodrager.
ANGRY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!
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Just got to act 4 with my Dual Cursed Oracle / Angel on Core difficuly. Good to be back after waiting for all the DLC to be released. :)
Part of the reason I find it difficult to progress the story is the crusade bits. It scratches that 'Heroes of Might and Magic' itch just enough that I really enjoy running around and fighting!
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EMBER: Winter sun rises fast and sets soon. But it's a pretty name, so that's probably why they called it that.
I *love* the writing in this game.
Going through an Azata playthrough. I just curb-stomped Mephistopheles and then gave his robe to Ember. That feels good. That feels right.
I'm in act 5 now (act 4 was shorter than I remembered) with my Angel Dual-Cursed Oracle on Core difficulty... and am stomping everything with trivial ease. A combination of my characters Storm of Justice, Nenio casting Weird at DC 44 and Seelah on her hippogryph devasting everything with a two-handedly wielded scimitar (and a lot of buffs from them and Ember and Woljif, who is specced as 4 lvls of Eldritch Scoundrel, 16 Vivisectionist) makes for really good AC, saves and attacks and a lot of bonus damage. And Arueshalae also hits things with her bow. ^^
Really, mounted combat is ridiculously good, in terms of mobility and damage or tanking. Ember was in danger of getting killed all the time, until I put her on Bismuth. No problems since then, anymore.
I blame all of you for me starting a new install of this. But I know what I'm doing after work!
I put Regill on Bismuth. Holy crap I love that little guy. Approximately 17 million attacks per round with his whirring hooked hammer of discipline...
Regill grates on me with his personality, but boy can he bring the hurt.
The only thing which I dislike about Bismuth is that you need to set up his buff routine in BubbleBuffs every time you start a new session. Maybe even every time you rest between days, not sure. But it's a bit annoying.
Then again, without BubbleBuffs I'd need to cast all those 100+ buffs manually, so it's still incredibly easier than before.
I reiterate my love for Regill.
Now THAT'S commitment to your values.
EMBER: You taught me that sometimes I need to be stern.
*does 20d6 holy fire damage to every enemy in the area*
ME: (ʘᗩʘ)
I--I do not recall teaching you that, but it was very effective.
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And I'm done, on Core difficulty. Got Sadistic Game Design, which was a chore and I'm happy to never have to do that again.
Also ascended with all my companions and Areelu. Great ending and they gave Arueshalae and my commander a really good future with the updated slides. :)
I am kinda hankering to do an Unfair run one of those days, but when I tried Areelu on Unfair for a trial run... yeaaah, maybe not. She's pretty tough in that fight. But IF I do it, I'll try to go for an (almost, Nenio can run around on foot, since she's a prepared caster) all-mounted party, because mounted combat is just that good, just in terms of mobility and delivering damage.
I'm now at almost 500 hours I've put into this game and since I started with 275 hours already on the clock, I've put 225 just into this run with almost all the DLC (I skipped Inevitable Excess, since I had done that one on Core already a few years ago and it is a slog to get through). Dang, man, this game sucks you in and doesn't let you go.
Anyway, the next days I'll be going for Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries with all its DLC released, this time with my HOSAS (dual joystick) setup which I've finally managed to get working.
Yeah, I started Unfair mode, and it felt too much like having a job. And not one of those "excited to wake up Monday morning" jobs. One of those "dear God, I hope the train into the city derails during my commute" kind of jobs.
I do like mounted combat. However, it cracks me up that the mounts come along with the characters EVERYWHERE. My council chamber in Drezen did NOT need a full-sized triceratops at the table... looking at you, Regill...
I checked and at some point I did get Sadistic Game Design, no idea how that happened.
Apparently not resting very much, which is the real kicker to getting that achievement. The rest just comes with being a completionist and getting some system mastery.
"And when you're inside the fire, it doesn't have any color at all. Strange."
-Ember
My least favorite companion is Daeran. By far.
It took me many tries and reloads, but I was finally able to defeat the Other in Act 2 by telling D. I knew his dark secret. After I won the fight, I got teleported back to camp and Daeran exploded. It was almost better than beating Deskari.
God I hate that smug bastard.
He's actually one of my favorite characters, because despite his smug arrogant exterior he has a soft core, which can be seen when he's interacting with Ember. Also, he's interesting, which is more than I can say about Sosiel, the Jacob of the party, who is my least favorite character.
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My least favorite companion is Daeran. By far.
It took me many tries and reloads, but I was finally able to defeat the Other in Act 2 by telling D. I knew his dark secret. After I won the fight, I got teleported back to camp and Daeran exploded. It was almost better than beating Deskari.
God I hate that smug bastard.
I want to be loyal to my girl Arue, I do, but damn flirting with Daeran is so much fun. Surely a succubus can get behind a little polyamory, right?
He's actually one of my favorite characters, because despite his smug arrogant exterior he has a soft core, which can be seen when he's interacting with Ember. Also, he's interesting, which is more than I can say about Sosiel, the Jacob of the party, who is my least favorite character.
Which reminds me of another of my favorite camping interactions.
DAERAN: Ember dear, your hair is simply atrocious. Let me have my servants do something about it.
EMBER: My hair is fine. I could blacken your hair with soot!
New favorite camping interaction:
SOSIEL: *complains about how mean Hellknights are*
REGILL: You don't like that we are strong, but you don't train to become stronger than us, because for you it would mean becoming like us. What can I say that? Stay weak.
Goddamn I love that gnome.
There's no listed achievement for "Told Abrogail Thrune II to step off and she did" but I still feel a sense of achievement.
Finished the Devil mythic path with the latest DLC updates to it. Very satisfying. Finally brought some damn order not just to Sarkoris but Mendev as well. And managed to stay free of Chelaxian domination because hey, I'm *way* too powerful to bend the knee to any upstart Thrune.
\m/ \m/
I just gave Sosiel a wild boar companion named...
Sooeysiel.
I'm inordinately pleased with myself.