Is it me or this game's combat is too hard?
>>741509010It's you
>>741509010It's you.
>>741509010shit game for people who love Dungeons and dragons.
>>741509010this game has no combat you baiting nigger.
>>741509010It's you.You're running a mage build and squandering all spells and then are stuck with the sucky cantrips aren't you?
>>741509010It's you. Beat it on Tactician and then Honor mode on my first try. Although, I had been playing D&D 5e for 8 years at that point. But still, the lower difficulties should absolutely not be a challenge.
I dont think its hard i just think my characters do less and take more damage relative to how much I expect them to vs things like rats and shit.
>>741509010It's literally baby's first crpg, dumb Istik
>>741509010use water and lightning spells and make them prone so you can smack'em!!
>>741509964See, game is made for people who love D&D. Those of us who don't care about shitty D&D don't care to roll dice and be forced to have a party. I wanted to play the game solo and not deal with the cringe fucking dialogue but its not possible.
>>741509010I found it moderately difficult.A few of the bosses gave me some trouble like Nere and the Siege of Halsin. Gerringothe Thorm was a really annoying puzzle boss that I had to look up online how to beat (stash all your gold somewhere. She hits harder the more gold you carry so if you have a lot you are done). If this was a true DnD campaign with permadeath, it would definitively suck.A huge problem is that you can long rest after every fight with no real penalty, fully restoring all health and spells which trivialises most of the game. But I didn't do that personally because that's lame.
>>741510176>Those of us who don't care about shitty D&D don't care to roll diceLiterally every single turn based game ever uses rng to determine hits, damage, etc. They don't call them dice, but its the fucking same concept.> I wanted to play the game solo and not deal with the cringe fucking dialogue but its not possible.It literally is possible, Withers lets you recruits hireling who won't intervene in dialogue precisely in case you don't care for the companionsBut If you want to play solo, then the game is just indeed not for you, if you want an action third person game go play those.
>>741510176Just murderhobo all companions and play solo then.If you shove a companion down a cliff, they won't even fight back,
>>741510284bro I literally could not get past one of the dungeons cause it had like 10 fucking enemies just attacking me at once, its not possible to beat the game solo. Also last I checked final fantasy games don't make you roll a 1 and make you miss, so you can fuck right off with that.
>>741510327yea i tried, not possible.
>never played dnd before>get bg3 on sale, time for magic and shit>get to cast 1 (one) spell per rest>find out i didn't buy a fantasy game>it's a goddamn management sim>refund
>>741510176>but its not possible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Zgx2k_TjQ?
It's 5e DnD as a video game.You need a party. 5e protagonists are not one man armies until LV 15 or so.
>>741509010It's not really that hard, but it's an adjustment if you're not used to tactical turn-based games.Things will click as you play further if you're still adjusting.
>>741509010Maybe at low levels when you're still trying to figure out how often the game wants you to long rest. Once you find your footing and level up with some proper equipment you'll steam roll every encounter where the requirements are just to kill everything.
>>741510740so basically you play the game by not playing the game, thats fucking stupid. Games are meant to be played not fucking skipped. If I have to skip half the fucking game to enjoy it then its not worth playing. Retard.
>>741510795yea exactly why i won't play it lmao
>>741510527>Also last I checked final fantasy games don't make you roll a 1 and make you missThat's just a minimum chance to missIt could say "95% to hit" and its the exact same thing, in fact the game does it for you. You are just mad at the concept of rng.>bro I literally could not get past one of the dungeons cause it had like 10 fucking enemies just attacking me at onceReach withers using companions, so you can recruit the mercenaries which have no dialogue>its not possibleIts possible but not intended, you bought a game balanced for a party of 4Lower the difficulty if you are going to bring 1/4 of the firepower.
>>741510915>it's not le possible to play solo>*gets proven wrong*>AAAIIIEEEE b-but it skips content!!
>storm sorc MC>healer shadowheart with whispering promise>swords bard 10 wizard 1 fighter 1 astarion>eldritch knight jack of all trades laezelHere you goThe game will collapse like a brick house
Remember it's literally based on how D&D works
>>741510809I can't really progress past using the high ground on ranged attackers, keeping mages out of melee range and using explosive barrels for tough fights. Melee fighters just seem like damage bots.Idk if you are supposed to kite them out of the arena or something.Like the siege with Halsins portal, how do you even win this without setting off explosives to kill off all the low HP enemies?But to be fair, I am not good at fire emblem either.
>>741510674>>741510969damn a lot of low iq br*wn posters today wth
>buy turn based game with rng where you control a party, marketed as a turn based game with rng where you control a party>"wtf it has rng and you control a party!"Are /v/ posters for real
>>741509010It's you, but there are far too many choke points where in the first time you go in, you die because you don't know the triggers
>>741509010BG3 weirdly makes me sad because I don't expect Larian's next game Divinity to be as enjoyable.I really like the world in BG, but I find Divinity's world so absolutely dull. I'm sure the gameplay will be fun but I can't imagine them making me give a shit about Rivellon without something drastic being changed.
>>741510674those games are "fun" only with cheats/mods, imagine using a ability and then you need to fucking take a nap to use it again while waiting 5 min for 10 monsters to have their turn, fags who made dnd are retarded >muh balancemiss with that bullshit nerds, we are plaing a video game, not a shitty tabletop with a GM
>>741510998it proves nothing, obviously people can play games solo with retarded shit like that, fuck outta here with your retarded bullshit.
>>741511027I find it really cool as a unique and novel combat system and the ingame dice rolls and weapon damage being depicted in dice rather than "4 - 24 damage" are very flavourfull.
>>741510527There are runs you can look up of people beating it solo. It IS a challenge run, but definitely possible. But if you intentionally ignore a game's core mechanics (like having a party in this case), you can't get mad you aren't able to beat it. It's like getting mad that you can't beat Mario without jumping.>last I checked final fantasy games don't make you roll a 1 and make you miss, so you can fuck right off with that.Lmao, pic related. Anyways, you can heavily manipulate RNG in this game, to the point that you can make it incredibly unlikely that a 1 will ever stick (halfling, inspiration, etc). There are also a bunch of abilities like Sleep or Magic Missile that ignore accuracy and always deal damage. But even then being scared of nat 1s is low IQ behavior. What's better, having a 100% chance to deal 1 damage, or a 95% chance to deal 1 million damage?
I think one criticism i never see towards the game is the amount of buffing you have to do in the endgame per every restAid, heroes feast, daylight, mage armor, longstrider (communal), resummon all shit you have, with this interface this is a fucking nightmare, almost as bad as vanilla wotr but unlike wotr there is no bubble buffs mod.
>>741511161It's made for people who can imagine a spinning apple, you wouldn't get it.
>>741509713Do people who like pic related really love dungeons and dragons
>>741511221Forgot pic
>>741511221>you're low IQ if you don't enjoy D&DYWNBAW
I wondre if next run I should play Balanced or stop bneing a coward and play Tactician.Tactician scares me because I am not that good at turn based games.
>>741511027>Remember it's literally based on how D&D worksAlmost. There's a lot of house ruling to make the game more fun(no limit on magic items or attuning, no limits on martial characters jumping, more active wizard spell swapping, reworked Inspiration, etc)I find their house rules more fun that base rules 5e D&D.
>>741511276I only do mage armor and its fineIn wotr you NEED 200 buffs to even attempt a core+ run, and its not 5 buffs like you said, its like 30
>>741511313D&D is babby's first TT
>>741509010I dropped the game because the RNG hated me. 70% accuracy is closer to 25% accuracy. I’ve missed short range high accuracy moves when my character was one tile away from the opponent. And battles can last over half an hour in this game. So one bad roll fucks you immensely.
>>741511289yes, faggots.
>>741511289>Do people who like pic related really love dungeons and dragonsNo because it is not lore accurate to Beholders basically killing everything on sight out of paranoia and insanity.
>>741509010It's you. Assuming you're spamming Igmiss, try checking the description of the cantrip. More specifically, what attribute it scales off.
>>741511313>you're low IQ if you don't enjoy D&DNo, you're low IQ if you make these arguments. You can just say DnD doesn't appeal to you, instead you make retarded and wrong statements, that's what makes you retarded.
>>741511027and thats not a good thing
>>741511339On honor you absolutely fucking need to buff since one mistake can end the run. And applying those 30 buffs in wotr is easier than selecting all shit in the small area longstrider gives you and waiting until selector wakes up
>>741511429go dialate faggot.
>>741509010The game is bad because there is an optional gay sex scene with a druid polymorphed into a bear.
>>741511392>No Class or Race Restrictions: Unlike older editions where Paladins had to be Lawful Good or Druids had to be Neutral, 5e removes hard alignment requirements. You can play any class or race with any alignment.5e says Beholders can be aligned Good so no paranoia or insanity, though that one specifically looks like he's just into cuckoldry
>>741511514>No Class or Race Restrictions: Unlike older editions where Paladins had to be Lawful Good or Druids had to be Neutral, 5e removes hard alignment requirements. You can play any class or race with any alignment.This is for humans only.
>>741511514>5e says Beholders can be aligned Good?https://5e.tools/bestiary/beholder-mm.html>Large Aberration, Lawful Evil
>>741511568>You can play any class or race with any alignment.>any class or race>or race>race
>>741509846>squandering spellsThe game has so many consumables you barely need to ever dip into the spell slots. You never even have to spend a dime on anything in the whole game because stealing is so easy. Just steal all the potions and scrolls and enjoy being o.p for the entire game.
me and bae'zael
>>741511514No it doesn't. It specifically lists them as Lawful Evil.You're a tourist.
>>741511616>any class or race>or race>raceHuman races only.You still cannot play as a Beholder or Dragon or Chimera in the vanilla game.
>>741511702DnD doesn't have human races, black people are the same race as white people in DnD. Humanoid != human
Top 10 best Baldurs Gate 3 characters:1. Scratch the Dog2. Us the Brain3. Squire the Dog4. Flesh5. Adamantine Golem6. Malus Thorm7. His Majesty8. Lump the Enlightened9. Owlbear Cub10. The suspicious Ox
>>741511973>9. Owlbear Cubmost overrated piece of shit
>>741509713Modern woke dnd, where it's all about homosexuality and multiculturalism.
>>741511460>On honor you absolutely fucking need to buff since one mistake can end the runYou are specifically choosing the challenge max difficulty run?It would be shit if you DIDN'T have to prepare at max difficulty ironman modeIn wotr you need it at anything above normal.
>>741511702There's no rule against playing as one in your homebrew though
>>741511973Grub is best cat
>>741511973I'm a washing my pits guy myselfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVu30c3by8
>>741509010it's youI'm literally playing with ancient mega pack in the hard mode in tactician where enemies have a shitload of initiative,a lot of cheeses are culled, enemies have a gorillion action points and actions with trillions of proficiency boni out of the fucking ass and I'm still tripping on new ways to beat a fight effortlessly because the game is designed in such a way that once you figure how it works it's all over.and by figure I mean read the fucking 5e player manual.
>>741512092don't give a shit about all that. i give a shit how they're going all in an AI shit.ai is the complete opposite of creativity
>>741509010it's hard for those with no prior experience with dnd style mechanics.also use lae'zel and karlach for all mid-late game rotations, they're tanks
>>741509010It's hard until you understand the mechanics.
>>741509010No? It's piss easy.
>>741512095>In wotr you need it at anything above normal.No you don't lmao, everything below unfair is a kid's playground.
can someone explain why 75% of the time I roll <7 on attack rolls while the enemies roll >13 75% of the time. i have at least +5 on attack and still miss even AC13 mobs most of the time, but same mobs easily hit my team who all are over AC16. you can't tell me that i'm just that unlucky.
>>741512825Are you afflicted by the curse that reduces dice luck?
>>741512825Open game settings, check if you have "karmic dice" enabledIf you do, disable it.
>>741512910>>741512964no i have no curses or diseases or anything that affects rolls negatively, and karmic dice is off.
>>741509010>5E combat is too hard for himI am afraid you might be terminally retarded
My problem with the game is that it doesn't tell me what determines the hit %. Like it tells me that I have a 50% to succeed but it doesn't explain why it's not 60 or 40 or anything else.
>>741513039That's a fair criticism.I think BG3 hides way too much behind the hood for fear of it overwhelming a newcomer.
>>741513008I have heared if you killed that one cat the game would go in a state where you can't roll over half the maximum dice value, like on a d20 you can only roll 1-10, d6 would become 1-3 and so on.So if you did that you may be fucked.
>>741513008You're just unlucky
>>741510674>"Where is my mana brooo I need to spam spells frrrr"Once you get it you quickly realise that DnD based combat systems are just better and more in-depth
>>741513039The UI lies to you. It's the kind of game where the moment you try and do something the devs don't want you can feel it punish you.
>>741513039In melee:1d20 + your hit modifier, which is usually strength + proficiency bonus, is rolled against the enemies AR. If you roll higher than the enemies AR, you land a hit. 1 always misses and 20 always hits and does double damage.It's very simple compared to normal RPGs.
>>741510674Yeah it's a horrible system, mana is the way to go, it's why dragon age is the best.
>>741513039it tells you the rolls after the fact in the combat log, but yeah being able to toggle off percent to hit to see the required attack roll to hit would be ideal.
>>741513039the log is so bad.>can only see rolls by hovering in that shitty roll screen (but you can see the rolls if a pop up appears)>that window is crappy, doesn't show initiative rolls and doesn't show some dialogs for some fucked up reason>2026 and still shows athletics check as DC 0>>741513167It lies but the game lets you get away with a lot of shit that the devs didn't intend to.
>>741510176Every single other turn based game doesn't take 10 minutes to finish a single round of combat and have you miss 4 times in a row on 70% chance to hit
I may play BG1 or 2 after I finish 3. Which one would you recommend? Which one has the best writing?
>>741513039hover over your attack in the log and it shows you the math
>>7415133072 is a direct sequel to 1 so you should play both. 2 has the better writing though, BG1 companions don't really have much to em. Just do yourself a favor and download the mod that deletes the new NPCs from beamdog because they clash with the classic NPCs in style and tone.
>>741513307BG2 has better writing, BG1 was still sort of following earlier CRPGs where it was mostly about the main character and an overall adventure (party members are mostly tropes).BG2 happened after Final Fantasy 7 and they made more effort to give story to your companions and added possible romances for the first time in a CRPG.
>>741513203Great that I can find that infromation on 4chan but why can't the game tell me this CRUCIAL information?
>>741513306>he's taking 10 minutes to take a turnskill-let and a luck-let. a deadly combo
>>741512825It's called cognitive bias.Well that and it's obviously much worse if the guy with 4 niggas has bad luck compared to the guy (the DM) with 5000 niggas.Nevertheless, if you play it for a while then you'll definitely see boss enemies getting absolutely fucked by bad rolls too.
>>741513570You need to read the 5e rulebooks.
>>741513096And you can find Mew under the Zentharim cart
>>741513570probably didn't want to overwhelm non DND players with the actual rules so they use percentages instead, but this is also basic stuff.
>>741513307Start with 1It's simplistic, hardly as good as 2, but it's enjoyable anyways
>>741513664Really? I must have missed that part.I will look on my next run.
>>741513570Keep it simple.If it's a weapon attack, you want to have a high Strength modifier to hit better with melee weapons and a high Dexterity modifier for ranged weapons.Exception being weapons that have "Weapon Finesse" as a property which will allow you to use Dexterity instead of Strength for a melee weapon attack.For spells, you want to have your primary spellcasting Ability Score as high as possible (Intelligence for Wizards, Wisdom for Clerics and Druids, Charisma for Bards Sorcerers and Warlocks). Spell description will say if the spell is a spell attack or targets a Saving Throw of a target. If it's a spell attack, it targets their Armor Class. If it's a saving throw, there are three different saving throws it might target and some might be better or worse than others (Fortitude, Reflex, Will). One spell has a hard time hitting, but one that targets a different saving throw might be easier.
>>741511159Rivellon is interesting enough but yeah, of course D&D is going to have significantly more lore behind it
>>741511159I don't mind divinity's world, but I do very much dislike the ruleset. AP, cooldowns on actions and movement costing AP just feels bad. Movement, actions and bonus actions being distinct resources just feels so much better to play with. I really hope the next divinity game plays more like BG3
>>741510674>>741513224I hate you so much, Vancian magic is the coolest system that makes magic actually feel magical, each spell is a ritual that takes a long time, preparing spells is conducting the ritual and stopping just before the last word/gesture, spells are limited because of time and memory.If anything 5e makes it way too easy and generic, you are not supposed to have agnostic spells slots that you can swap out willy nilly, instead of you should have specfic spells prepared every morning.
>>741515056I think it sounds incredibly arbitrary.
>>741509010Game has integrated mod support on any platform so you have no excuseIf custom easiest is still too hard just get a cheat mod
Get the teleportation skill and the combat becomes a joke
>>741512092if your dnd campaign has homosexuality and multiculturalism that sounds like a problem with your dm or group.
>>741516315It's infused into the rules, the art, the design etc. Obviously you can still ignore it if you want to but the hobby is full of these kinds of people, good for you if you have a group that wants nothing to do with it.
>>741509010>buy on sale>game is just dragon age origins with gay ass europeans doing the voice work>uninstall and never think about the game againgraphics were pretty at least
>>741516315That guy has zero interest in playing D&D, he just wants to whine about the culture war.
>>741516315I had one dude at my table who was gay (very likely) and constantly made jokes baout fucking monsters.Once he fucked the back half of a dracohydra while I cut off and ate the entire front half. I had to use two of my three points from the lucky trait to not die from eating half of a dracohydra.
>>741509010Unless you play like a total faggot it can be pretty hard. Either way it's mostly just unfair, in that the RNG cheats worse than X-COM; any hit chance under 80% is functionally 0%. It just adds to the slog that is turn-based combat.
>>741512825Story of my life. I think we're just unlucky.
>>741509010Early game dnd combat is so dogshit>get critted 3 times in a row by a hyena archer despite having 21 AC and get downed on turn 1Shit was almost exactly the same when I played tabletop for the first time almost getting merced by a swarm of spiders Reminds me of Darkest Dungeon pure aids,It gets way better past level 5
>>741509010They should have made it so you can capture a gnoll, from the Risen Road or the Moonrise Towers, as the camp slave who has to wash the dishes, maintain the weapons and clean the clothes and you also can get a big sex scene where all companions and the player are taking turns mercilessly using him.Maybe have a torture scene with him at the Shattered Sanctum or House of Healing too.
>>741510674just play warlock and eldritchblastmaxx if you want to be a spell slinging cocksucker
>>741512163I have to ask, if anyone is playing with this mod: does this shit's hard mode tamper with dice rolls or something? I always get chain crit to death whenever I'm playing this thing for hours long, but I've just set up an invincible build that gets always hit with advantage in exchange of high hits and... I've yet to see a strong enemy crit me.It seems so goddamn convenient considering that the random item shit this mod give just made it so I punch back with high damage whenever I'm crit and the enemy is suddenly missing ac 12 with advantage with like +8 proficiency.Fuck it I'll go check with the spider matriarch that bitch always spam crits like a motherfucker, normal or modded game.
>>741512163You're a lying faggot.
>>741515876Of course, all magic systems are arbitrary, but all the mechanics are well supported by the fluff and they provide a more interesting resource management puzzle than mana points and I think the essence of playing a Wizard is interacting with the world in this way, the more knowledge you have of the system, the spells available, the challenge you are about to face, the better prepared you are, the more easily you can succeed, it's the core essence of the Wizard power fantasy, mind over matter, brains over brawn.
>>741517179I love seeing people filtered by dnd, it proves its depth.
>>741520514I didn't get filtered I beat bg3 and I got to be a level 6 path of the zealot barbarian on our tabletop sesh before things fell apart because of real life circumstances outside of the gameearly game dnd combat is horrible I have yet to meet a single person who disagrees with this
>>741520514low level D&D is terrible anon. this is true for all D&D CRPGs
>>741520724>>741520856I think it's fun, setting up everyone for an ambush, using terrain to hit and run, after a certain level battles are just an endurance race and you have no fear of dying.
>>741520514Low level 5e is universally panned specifically because it has no depth.
>>741511276The only daily buffs I used even for honor mode were longstrider and strength elixers. Most mid-combat buffs like bless and even haste stopped mattering towards the end of act 1. The endgame of my honor mode playthrough was basically just my high initiative mc bumbling into combat and soloing the boss turn 1 or wiping out 90% of the enemies and leaving the rest crippled with command. The only fight I was remotely worried about screwing up was the 1v1 against Oren, and she died without getting a turn anyway.
me and my girlies
>>741511276>longstrideryeah, bro +3m of movement is the difference between life and death at high levels, you are not a coping owlfag
>>741509010Just play a monk. You will be capable of soloing mobs by level 5.
The problem with DnD is the current spell system doesn't make any sense for anyone that isn't a wizard.
>>741524478I think the classic wizard/sorcerer/warlock distinction is essentially lameFor starters, anyone can be a wizard, as the wizard class being simply learned in magic implies. But also, a sorcerer who studies magic will actually get WORSE at it as he will waste levels in wizard, compared to a retard that just spams his "talent"And then warlocks are just pathetic, because when anyone can be a wizard, being a warlock means you are simply too stupid for normal magic.I think a good setting merges wizard and sorcerer: you both need to be born with the spark and have the intelligence to wield it.Then suddenly warlocks also make sense, as people who do have the theory locked down but do not have the innate access to it, so they rely on external sources of magic.And of course since not simply anyone can just learn magic, magic feels rarer and realer.
>>741524142Longstrider is one of the best buffs all across the game, movement is literally one of the most important stats in all endgame fights and the one the hardest to improve
>>741524737just drink a strength elixir and jump bro that goes like 10 times farther than movement ever will
>>741513163No, no I do not, and unlike you I have played spellcasters on tabletop. Shadowrun was by far the best system I've played for magic.
>>741524802Yeah lemme just ditch a better elixir and waste a bonus action dipshit.
>>741511619>You never even have to spend a dime on anything in the whole game because stealing is so easy.why is every game like this, from elder scrolls to bg EVERY GAME IS TEH FUCKING SAME
any basic build will carry you through the game unless you play on tryhard mode which just requires more min maxing
>>741511619>>741525292if you didn't play Honor mode, you didn't finish the game
>>741511514>>741511392pretty sure that's supposed to be Large Luigi
Love these undead nurse bitches but I could not resurrect them as my personal zombies, shame really
>>741515056Vancian magic fucking sucks and D&D didn't even do it right.
>>741511276Nigger when the hell are you using daylight other than a single bossfight?
Why is it called "vancian"?
>>741525713Can't you do it with that fallen paladin spell? There are always mods if you want to go that way, there's a mod that let's you capture any dead enemy.
>>741525783Because it's derived from Jack Vance's Dying Earth's magic system.
>>741509010BG3 is pretty easy by CRPG standards. There is only a few encounters one may actually lose once or twice if one takes the most direct approach, is under leveled or avoid using consumables.
>>741525843Neat, I'm guessing it's a necromancy mod? I did wanna look around for some good ones
>>741525930No, just oathbreaker paladin. It has one single perk where you get to yoink an undead.
>>741525903Neat, thanks.
>>741509010Does this game run on the Deck well now? I tried it a year back and it was pretty shaky, but I heard they patched it.
>>741525004>a better elixir than strengthVigilance? Strength elixirs are pretty top tier. Bloodlust occasionally comes in handy, but most of what I ever used were either vigilance or strength.
>>741520856In video games I agree with you but when you play tabletop almost every single player universally agrees that low level D&D is the best
>>741526276There’s a limit to that, nobody likes level 1. Level 3 starts are pretty universally common now, apparently, since that’s when your subclass comes in.
>>741526276No I don't. Low-mid level D&D is the best, from about 4 to 9.
>>741526392with queer critical role watchers maybe
>>741526462And not in 5E, because 5E is shit.
>>741525773It's tied to one of the best damage riders in the game
>>741526580So is fucking Light, and that one’s free.
>>741526252Vigilance is garbage, strength is underwhelming, bloodlust clears them all for damage output and it's not even close.Only Battlemage's Power comes close
>>741526648The difference is light radius is huge.
>>741526687>vigilance is garbageConsidering that going first as a group is the most powerful buff in the game, you’re retarded.>>741526746You cast light on the guy that wants to be illuminated. There’s only one ring unless you’re using trickster cleric dupe bullshit.
>>741526824>Considering that going first as a group is the most powerful buff in the gameYou can easily achieve this with alert + non shit dexterity without wasting a precious elixir slot. Vigilance is shit.
>>741510674The dumbest shit is how heavier armor makes you better at dodging. Great, I got an epic giant armor set and I became a ninja who never actually needs the armor.The game should've just made those dodge animations into "tanking hits" animations, fuck the gay ass rules. It would've been mechanically the same thing but cooler.
>>741526535No retard, this was true in 3.5 too.
>>741526916Yeah, just trade off one of your feats instead. Getting a single extra swing from Bloodlust (in fights that allow it, on honor mode) is really nice and all but I think I’d rather max out my ASI and major damage riders rather than waste it on Alert, which is a great feat if you have the slot open but otherwise takes a backseat to flat +10 damage for 9 attacks.
>>741527024It's really funny how it took nearly 20 patches for heavy armor to be better than pajama tanking in WotR and that's only because archmage armor incorrectly applies its bonus even if you're not getting the effects of mage armor due to wearing armor. I swear it's like CRPGs are afraid of making heavy armor cool.
>>741527164>Yeah, just trade off one of your feats insteadNo feat replicates Bloodlust, it's literally an extra action every turn.Anyone taking ASI in BG3 is a massive moron completely missing out on what itemization gives you.
>>741512115xD so quirky!I hate this fucking modern gay shit, give me Tolkien writing instead.
>>741527259casters have shit for feats in base BG3 though
>>741511973Mol my wife
>>741527321"Washing my pits" is precisely the kind of random song Tolkien would put in the Hobbit to show how carefree the Hobbits are
>>741527329Dual Wielder and Alert are locked slots for caster and Resilient is also highly desirable unless you want to micro transmuter stones which is ass aids.
>>741527259ASI gives you the world with the exception of Strength classes that can dose elixirs every long rest. Getting an extra action a turn is just not as impressive if your mainstat is stuck at 16. Sure, it’s a lot more useful in the damage rider funhouse difficulties, but on honor it’s secondary.
>>741527537Or, get this, dual wielder and ASIx2. 20 mainstat is just required unless you’re utilizing the helmet and gloves of +10 spell DC to prebuff every fight on crates. On casters the extra action makes way more sense, but you’re already speed potion terazul triplecasting at that point, quadcasting as sorc.
>>741527618Those 5% literally won't make a difference for you compared to itemization giving you free advantages or bonus stacks like candies. I cannot think of a single build that should take any ASI.
>>741527537How much better is resilient over war caster? backhand shocking grasps are fun with create water.Alert is super busted, unironically breaks the game with tavern brawler. Dual Wielder seems only worthwhile for act 3, but it alone is better than ASI the second you find another DC increase weapon so yeah.I don't even consider transmuter a thing because BG3 polymorph self is insulting and there's no tenser's transformation, petrify is garbage and attribute increase is omega cancer in 5e. abjuration/evocation/divination or bust.
>>741527420Well, you're not wrong actually.But in general the world feels unpleasantly modern and the characters talk like they're in social media or from an anime.
>>741527758Warlock. Wizard. Any second caster you have that can’t also use the arcane bullshit items. Any dex class that wants more than 18. Any tabern brawler strength class that you don’t want to dose with strength elixir every rest.
>>741527779>How much better is resilient over war caster? backhand shocking grasps are fun with create water.It's mathematically better above level 9, plus it offers a half ASI that can actually be useful if you were smart with starting stats.>Dual Wielder seems only worthwhile for act 3You get your first +DC staff in the Underdark and can immediately combine it with spellsparkler or the ice staff for a fantastic effect.
>>741527745>20 mainstat is just required unless you’re utilizing the helmet and gloves of +10 spell DC to prebuff every fight on cratesIf you're shit at the game, maybe.There are so many ways to overbuff yourself and dump enemy saves this is literally never an issue.
>>741527910>Any second caster you have that can’t also use the arcane bullshit itemsSounds like a bad caster to me, since there are at least 4 separate ways to reliably build acuity mid fight.Hell in most situations you literally don't need acuity to begin with because you can debuff enemies so hard they become drooling idiots. Or use busted shit like upcasted Blindness on a single enemy.
>>741527995>You get your first +DC staff in the Underdarkand only one for the next 20 hours. seems overkill when you can just ASI the bonus and grab a crit immune shield. things really open up when you reach last light but the second you have more than one caster in a party item starvation ruins DW for early game to me. unless there's another weapon that isn't caster oriented that helps a lot? maybe knife of the undermountain king or something.Shit Spellsparkler alone is quite the ball buster with magic missile or warlock blasts. love that thing so much.why the hell am I min maxxing casters it's not like D&D full casters even need to care about 5e feats anyway besides alert. they're fucking full casters on D&D, the game is over the second they get lvl 3 spells and don't even get me started with the free spell slot premium they get by picking caster classes on level up.
>>741528067With multiple turns. If you take more than one, two turns at max to kill any encounter, you’ve fucked up somewhere.>>741528279See above. You want your first moves to end the fight. Who the fuck actually takes Resilient or War Caster? Your caster(s) should never even be hit.
>>741528496there's a lot of indians so i guess eating cow shit is objectively good
>>741509010just go wizard with wall of fire. id play it but the pirated copy crashes randomly and im not paying for it
>drink haste potion>winit's just you5e's dogshit camping mechanic makes it so you can get to any fight with nearly full health
>>741510129>gifholy millenial writing
>>741509010The combat is easy. But you have to pay attention to learn the rules and what you can and can't do.Which, I'll give you, is hard when everything in the game makes you want not to pay attention, when it's so fucking gay
>>741528594hunger of hadar > spike growth > cloudkill > trash > wall of fire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> web >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> greaseSSSSSSSSSSSSSS+ tier: Sleet storm
>>741528718it's ok you love millennial cock so much but that was tmi
>>741511276Literally none of that is necessary unless you want to be a massive pussy in honor mode or something. Environmental gimmicks are way stronger mechanically. It is no where near as bad as even normal difficulty Wotr
CC is your friend. Your main goal in every battle is to prevent the enemy from acting or take out as many enemies as possible to prevent them from performing an action.Tasha's hideous laughter is a great spell to take an enemy out of battle for a couple of rounds. It's gotten me through a lot of tough battles. I use it on the strongest enemies. Disarm is also a great ability to have because you can disarm a powerful melee enemy and steal their weapon. It severely limits their attack options. You can also steal awesome weapons from some of the most powerful enemies. Use anything to disable or disarm the enemy party so they are able to use less actions against you, while you use the most actions against them.
>>741509010Your issue is having lower than 80% hit rate
>>741527024Your armor rating is actually your chance of avoiding flesh wounds, heavy armor proficient means you know how to use your armor to deflect attack away to avoid injuries.That's why Dexterity also improves your armor class (assuming the bonus isn't capped by your armor class), since it helps you be fast enough to dodge or deflect attacks.AGAIN, most armors in DnD helps you to avoid taking flesh wounds in the first place, you need damage mitigation to reduce the effects of those attacks that inflicts flesh wounds.
>>741511276Except 5E greatly reduces the number of buffs you could have thanks to the concentration mechanics, which could actually cancel your buffs if you fail the concentration checks.
>>741529429Yeah but in the game it's just gay dodging.
>>741528496we love bg3 though, we just hate some parts of it
>>741527024Actually that's not technically what's happening, AC is your "avoid taking physical damage" stat, the fact that it's represented as only a dodging animation is just lazy as shit on Larian's part. From a tabletop perspective, if your AC is coming from DEX then you're dodging attacks, if it's coming from heavy armor then attacks are mostly bouncing off your armor.
>>741510129she's talking about her boobs
>>741527024>this is the intelligence of the average dnd/Baldur's Gate hater
>>741511331There are limits on characters jumping though, the only class that can jump as much as it wants within their movement speed limit is monk, iirc
>>741512208For me, Battlemaster Lae'zel doesn't really come online until late game with the super Extra attacks action surge combo and Silver Sword and finally enough strength to overcome the -5 penalty toggleable passive.While Karlach is basically a glorified ranged unit as a Berserker thrower (making use of Thief bonus action abuse) that basically snipes down all the stragglers with insanely accurate attacks thanks to Tavern Brawler.
>>741511331>thief not being useless>martials being fun
>>741529834Fighter is just the best class in the game right next to swords bard. Booming Blade turned eldrich knight from a fun and flavorful option into the most oppressive damage dealer in the entire game with 4 smites a turn+4-5 extra attacks.
>>741529834I remember that the disarm maneuver help win a lot of encounters
>>741529801What part was wrong, retard? All these nerds are responding to me like "achually you're deflecting dmg" and shit, but I'm literally just talking about the dumb hopping and dodging animations. Like I said, I KNOW that mechanically it makes no difference.It just seems stupid that heavier armor makes you visually nimbler. I want to see the armor get hit.
>>741529967Disarming the named characters and taking their weapons is so satisfying.
>>741529945I think Sword Bard is better as bow/crossbow Bard (particularly if you Titanstring Bow for most of the game dipped in free fire bonus damage from candles <You could literally drop a candle in the middle of a fight, light it up all for free, then dip your bow for bonus action [or pre-fight setups]>), especially with the equipment that lets you cast those crowd control spells as bonus actions.
>>741530234look up how people actually fight with melee weapon, shields and amor, armor doesn't make you a walking tank, the main objective is to deflect and redirect the force of the blow, if you were to straight up tank the hits you'd get a lot of the energy of the impact transfered into your body
>>741530409Oh, obviously. Swords bard is an insane archer but a mediocre melee class. The game house ruling that your ranged flourish can be used on the same target while also giving over arcane acuity and the band of the mystic trickster means that swords bards are full CC casters that are impossible to save against, that also get 4-8-14 attacks a turn. Just utter insanity.
>>741530479Yeah I get that, but in the game it's always just a dodge. Heavier armor makes you nimbler.
>>741529894can you elaborate on the thief part?I haven't played BG3 and I hate how in 1 and 2 you have to either dual class or multiclass the thieves because a pure one is just HLA trap simulator
>>741527375wow she kisses too many in brazilian carnaval
>>741531175you an extra bonus action, in a turn based game it's really strong
>>741509010It can be, it's a game that expects you to cheese it and balances accordingly. There are some spots that can be brutal if you didn't prep or change your party comp specifically for it.
>it's an undead fight with ghasts stunlocking you
>>741531935skill issue
>>741509010There are a few early game encounters that you can easily stumble into and wipe. Level 1-3 is the hardest the game ever gets. The Gnolls are a bitch if you're level 2-3, same with the fake Paladin. I also got fucked by those skellies you fight before Withers because I rolled a 20 on the locked door you find on the beach my first run. They are not nice if you're a level 1 group. Not at all.
>>741531935>Its another fight where 'humanoids' aren't actually humanoids.>Undead aren't humanoids, but Astarion the vampire is affected by spells targeting humanoid.>You would think dragonborn wouldn't be considered humanoid by dnd logic, but the rules says otherwiseDnD should really just call them playable races.
>>741513163>>741515056The issue is really that it makes you take a break at a certain point, but then the game almost never punishes you for camping wherever you want unless its the first couple nights and you don't have a lot of food. So the economy doesn't create tension and having a set number of casts per 'day' is basically being told that you must watch a few mandatory cutscenes to then keep playing with little justification. Like if I don't take a lot of damage, but I do use all my battlemaster tokens or smite tokens, then I have to rest all the same instead of just being able to passively recharge mana between encounters.
games incredibly easily unless you make some fucking retarded multiclass like barb/paladin people harp on and on about this game having a billion "builds" but almost invariably the best solution to any problem is "do as much damage as possible" and there are maybe 3 sets of items with ideal/perfect synergy like acuity/radiant orb/titan string bullshit and every other item that exists is completely useless at worst or situationally useful almost never at best
>>741528496>stack a million conditions/damage riders: the gameWow!
>>741515056>patrician tastes>The magic system used by the original Dungeons & Dragons (1974) drew inspiration from the Dying Earth novels by Jack Vance, for whom the Vancian magic system is named. In those books, wizards need to memorize a spell to use it, which wipes itself from the caster's mind after it was cast. This is really interesting. But I don't really get it. If you can cast the spell again after sleeping / resting for awhile, does that mean the spell somehow comes back into your memory or something?
>>741510674True. It's even more egregious in Pathfinder in my opinion.
>>741533087You restudy. You keep it all in your funny book.
>>741533523Ah, that makes sense. During short/long rest you're literally loading your brain back up with spells and shit by studying. That honestly doesn't sound so restful
>>741534096this is why the numbre of spells is so limited, specially high level ones, otherwise everyone would have dozens of wishes everyday
>>741509846Should I do sorcerer, bard, or berserker? I wanted to do gnome paladin to be a zogbot in dialogue, but I got to auntie Ethel’s cabin and I realize I hate being immobile and basically using nothing but smite. I have so many “holy” abilities but I can’t ever use any of them cuz they either all are concentration that breaks in one hit or if I do use them I can never use my smite cuz I’m out of spell points.
>>741534613Bard for being a full caster+full fighter, sorcerer if you want to shit too many goddamned spells, berzerker if you want your party face aspect being screaming and your gameplay being pretty rote.
>>741509010you're retarded
>>741534710Based. Bard it is. Thanks, anon.
>>741510129Fuck Shadowheart.
>>741532327I fucking hate how randomly enchantment spells work or do not workOne of the cooler schools, but you cannot main it because it randomly won't work on some enemies.
>>741534920Bard is cool, it's the protagonist class.
>>741509010>stupid robot thing at the forge was supposed to be lured into the power hammer to crush it>instead, just keep hitting it for a dozen turnsand tactician was supposed to be hard.
>>741509010>no option to be a full-on necromancerDog shit game.Same for all games with magic systems that don't allow it.
>>741509010This game became infinitely better once I downloaded the mods to make your party size and carry weight infinite. I only lost interest and stopped playing in act 2 instead of act 1. It basically doubled my enjoyment. I'd probably play more but I downloaded an item mod that randomized items without making sure ones you needed stayed in the right place so I got irritated and quit. I might pick it back up someday. Act 2 is just so shitty.
>>741537864Necromancer is a very good wizard subclass and you can absolutely main itOf course you cannot build a full army of the dead and sweep the game, that's just how it is unless you are playing Wotr Lich or something
>>741509010I hate how so many builds are utterly dependent on certain named items.
>>741528718>gif >millenial writing Anon enjoys being wrong.
>>741538850>you get cool meanignful loot that integrates into builds>this is supposed to be bad
>>741515056vanican magic is a cool system that only really works in a tabletop setting. in videoggames it's way too easy to game, and hard to restrict players from abusing the rest systems. I actually quite like how Pillars 2 handled it, by just refreshing all your shit after every fight because they know you'd just rest anyway, so it removes the busywork of resting so you can chain fights that are designed around the idea that you're fully stocked every fight.
>>741539093it doesn't integrate into builds thoughever it centralizes the build around itself
>>741538850I dunno I like it, means itemization is very important. though it also means some really fun stuff is locked towards the end, like the ring that lets you bonus action cast illusion spells and such. but that ring is giga busted so I can kind of understand why it's gated off till act 3.
>>741539269BG3 shows how it can be done, first you need limited resources to long rest, it means that you can't rest every single fight, assuming you are playing honor mode, second there are areas where you can't go back out, just like a DM wouldn't let you rest for an entire year during a time sensitive dungeon (looking at you Chateau Irenicus), you only get the resources you have at hand for that long rest.
>>741538850You hate more build variety?
>>741540065I dunno, BG3 gets it almost right but then chickens out by making every vendor sell backpacks to eat. I've never ran out of supplies even on tactician/honor mode. and even as you say in the locked in areas they have the rest wiggly things, like in the dungeon under moonrise, or right before the final boss. Needed more time sensitive quests/sections, only one I can really think of off the top of my head is that if you long rest too many times in the grymforge Nere will die from the poison gas, and the dwarves will kill all the gnomes.
>>741540213how is that variety
>>741540680>are differen't builds variety?Yes. Dumb faggotnigger.
>>741540829who are you quoting
>Another Chinese Gate 3 self-bumped Tencent spam threadIt's too obvious a shill thread when nobody gives a fuck about the game and never makes threads outside from this schizo OP chinese game marketer.
>>741530234NTA but Pathfinder WotR does actually have animations where an enemy will hit you, make a clink sound and do 0 damage if they miss from time to time.
>>741537864Download that necromancer warlock mod, anon. It seems pretty in depth, think the guy made dialogue options and side quests and items and shit for it.
>>741532835>>741532942My first playthrough was Fighter 6/Warlock 4/Sorc 1/Rogue 1 on Tactician. Game's really not that hard in my opinion, and you can respec if you really want or need to, plus people aren't typically going to be hyper-scrutinizing the game from a meta lense the first time playing, this shit is meaningless
>>741526008control undead, oathbreaker gets it at level 3
True, make it so if the enemy misses you on 10+Dex is a dodge and on 10+Dex+armor it's tanking a hit.
People who struggle with these games never understand that you're suppose to cast buffs/debuffs constantly.
>>741511013Nice labin
>>741511289Sure DND can be whatever you want but usually faggot world with 0 racial rules or tensions is usually the most boring thing you can experience.
>>741511289>that dragon in the background getting ready to swoop down and roast everyone alivethank the gods
>>741511289imagine a hell invasion slaughtering everyone there
>>741511289>that beholder when the nightmares hit
I've yet to meet anyone who has used rogue class or stealth mechanics in any meaningful way.
>>741543928the fags that make these are more obsessed with the dicks than the girls themselves seeing as how much of a focus is put on it..Absolute shit and faggot taste
>>741544031funnily enough stealth archery is pretty strong in the game. my friend played an arcane archer in our honor mode run and he always opened fights with sneaking into a good vantage point and blowing someone up with a sneak attack. shit gets even better if you run gloomstalker/assassin
>>741509010That's D&DEither you know how to play and combat is trivial, or you don't and the game is stupidly hard. Moreso than nearly anything else, D&D is a game of recognizing the awful trap options that exist to trick and deceive you.And, I guess, beating the idea of a party tank out of people's skulls, enemies WILL just go around the big armored guy
>>741509010Im playing hardest difficulty havent died once i just beat act 2You are retarded
I am not a homophobe, but the devs are very autistic when it comes to writing romance. Its cringeworthy. I tried romancing Gale and Lae'zel in each playthrough and backed away after witnessing some of most cringiest dialogue I have seen. Then there is the problem of "pushing" romance on the player. Many companions do this like The Emperor and Halsin. If you try to be just a little "friendly" with any companion, the next dialogue would be about having sex. If you can ignore the degeneracy and focus on the game... its not actually that bad as /v/ thinks it is. I enjoyed the entire house of hope mission, it was perfection. 10/10. The Raphael fight redeemed the entirety of act 3. Also I loved the soundtrack (Song of Balduran, Raphael's Final Act, Lost Light Ambience ost).But all of this still does not justify buying the game. So kind reader and those who haven't played this game, you should pirate it first.
>>741527321Anon, replay BG1. Right in the first map once outside of Candlekeep is a "oh so randum" quirky noble if you explore the map.This isn't modern humor. You just forgot about it.
>>741510176>play the DnD game>>wtf i dont care about DnD ugh shitty game
>>741544971>literally never interact with the emperor outside of required scenes>never compliment him or ask him about his life>never do anything except answer his questions and then move on>appears to me shirtless in a mind meld trying to rape me>still wants to act like the good guy afterwards>later discover he is supposed to be the protag earlier in the series despite being a parasitic rapistwhat the fuck is going on with the writers lives i wonder
>>741509010I wouldn't say it's difficult, but it's disappointing. Your best defense is either killing everything before they can make a move, CC or cheese, there's no inbetween. Letting the enemy attack or get a single turn could mean defeat.
>>741546073They are all millenials. It was millenials who made this game. Millenials who were raised on the most degnerate, cancerous and politically sanitized culture.
>>741546416Maybe I don't play enough tactical turn-based games, but what's an example of games where that isn't the case?
>>741546481nta and highly controversial answer incoming but final fantasy 13 has a decent back and forth in my memory and you have to paradigm switch a decent amount, you cant just try and full DPS shit in most cases (unless you're farming low levels but thats gay)
>>741545057I've never played that. I was comparing the writing to classic fantasy like LOTR, not to a 1998 videogame which may or may not have a similar tone.Obviously BG3 is very popular, and that's probably in part because of the kind of generic inoffensive modern internet vibe where most people talk like they're from the 21st century, everyone is open to sex with you, and where nothing really feels medieval, but I just disliked that aspect almost from the start. I think I had just finished rereading The Silmarillion and I wanted something similarly epic and elevated in tone but it was impossible to roleplay that in the game. My fearless stoic chad elf was making goofy faces all the time and participating in soap opera shenanigans.Despite the fantasy aspect, tonally they're complete opposites. Not saying it's inherently bad, just not what I prefer.
>>741546481Fire EmblemFF Tactics
>>741548623>Your best defense is either killing everything before they can make a move, CC or cheese, there's no inbetween.>FF Tacticscan't speak for Fire Emblem since haven't played it, but that is 100% how FF Tactics works, it's not an exception
Divinity Original Sin 1&2 is better.
>>741546416There is no part of any game where an enemy getting a single attack would mean a wipe. Not even on Honor. They could crit on everything and it's fine. Even the kings of oneshot, Sarevok and Orin, need a turn before they start killing everybody.
>>741549151DOS1 and 2 have shitty itemization and 2's shield system sucked balls.But if you changed those two aspects, they'd 100% be better.
>>741509010>Duergar>5 levels in barbarian>2 in fighterCongrats you can now win every fight just by throwing spears at things, including the returning pike you can get within 5 minutes.You can also skip every fight through infinite invisibility. Friendly reminder you can reset vendors indefinitely via deleveling and releveling meaning you can get unlimited smokepowder bombs in act one. Just throw those instead.Do like 20 damage per attack every attack, and do 6 or 8 attacks per turn.There are a lot of cheesable strats in the game that basically break it and make it ridiculously easy.Don't get me started on phalar aluve and boots of stormy clamor.
>>741548768Absolutely not? Nothing in FF tactics requires killing everything, CC, or cheese. You can beat the whole game with just monks if you want, or hell the game is over the moment you get Orlandu who mostly just hits thing really hard with his overpowered equipment. it's not a hard game. Unless you consider using anything powerful "cheese" or stunning a single enemy or two "CC" the same way locking a room of enemies down in BG3 would be considered "CC", in which case we are entering faggot territories of discussion, but i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that's not the case. Generally speaking you do not need to abuse anything to beat the game comfortably.
>>741550097Killing everything before they can move*
>>741513307Don't forget to set the FPS limit to 60 in the config file, no need to thank me. Also, start with 1 - but be wary, it's a slog. 2 is where the fun starts.
>>741527024Heavy armor is shit and underpowered in these games.Some shitter with high dexterity or a mage with some shitty spell will get higher AV than a knight in full plate.Plate should make you near impervious to light bladed weapons, like Goblins or Redcaps or humanoid dagger or rapier users and severely reduce damage of everything else except mind, electric and fire damage.The games in general favour mages and gimmicks over martial fighting but plate armor takes the cake for being nerfed from real life into dead weight.
>>741534613bard if you want to be the team mom placing buffs and stuff, sorc if you want to instantly end fights with metamagic fireballs, berserker take tavern brawler and launch stuff/dudes and you're set.
>>741550278Heavy armor is explicitly the shit you wear when you want your dexterity to not fucking matter but still want AC. Everyone else is getting that high from huge dex+good armor+spells maybe.
>>741549158That was far from my experience.
>>741550428And that fucking shit is retarded.Heavy armor should actually protect you from attacks, including most spells except mind, electric and fire.Some fuck with an axe shouldn't be able to hit a huge steelclad warrior for the same damage as the skinnyfat naked mage.
>>741550851Many heavy armors in BG3 are the only source of damage resist on the player's side in the game.
>>741509010I can count the crpgs I played on one hand and still could play it on tactician lol, get good
>>741509010Do we know canonically if the player is male who tops during the bear scene?
>>741550956Only if you waste one feat.For -3 damage per hit.In a game where you get 80+ HP.And all late game enemies pierce this defense because it only applies to mundane weapons and weak animals.
>>741509010It's sort of a knowledge check. You can trivialize combat even on honor mode if you really want to.
>>741551130No, intrinsically on the armors themselves. Adamantite gives it, the endgame heavy armor gives it, Kethric's armor gives it, moist of the act 2 and on heavy armor has intrinsic DR
>>741551470And they're still useless
>>741551949Alright, I guess I just didn't play an honor run where I slapped a fighter in heavy armor, dumped dex, and used the stat savings to be unkillable while dealing 400 damage a turn.
>>741551949Fighters are still great in Honor mode and therefore so are those armors, wtf are you on?
>>741552038NTA, but I have been looking for a good "unkillable tank" setup. What did you do to make your Fighter [title card]? I'm interested.
>>741552038You cannot dump dex to pump strength.Max strength when distributing stats is 15. Add the +2 for 17. You can easily get 17 str 15 dex 16 con, but you cannot make it 20 strength, 8 dex, 20 con without using mods (cheating).
>>741552593>unkillable tankBear totem barbarian gets resistance to every damage type except mind damage and a crapton of HP.If you want a pure tank, start with 17 endurance for even more HP.
>>741552593NTA but Ring of Protection, Cloak of Protection and Evasive Shoes all jack up your AC a ton and you can get all three by practically the beginning of Act 2, after that just wear the best plate armor you can get your hands on (unless you're a DEX fighter of some sort, then get the yuan-ti scalemail, which is from the same vendors in Last Light Inn ar rhe beginning of Act 2 that sell the cloak and shoes)
>>741552593Heavy armor is bad in act 1 until you get the adamantine. You'll have to rely on blade ward heals from a cleric or something to give you survivability if you never want to respec.>>741552641You still want good wis saves, and capping out to 20 strength is only the first step on the road to ~26 natural strength. I used it to have both strong wis and decent int for an eldrich fighter.
I'd say BG3 is pretty easy on normal difficulty settings but hard on the higher difficulty settings like honour mode.Didn't find any of the fights particularly hard, only had to redo a couple of the harder encounters a couple of time but for the most part I was able to beat most of the encounters without dying.Hardest encounters for me were the harpies at the grove and unironically the brains at the beach at the start of the game when you find Shadowheart.
>>741553010>strong wis and decent intSo you are a munchkin mongrel, not a true fighter.
>>741552687>except mind damage and a crapton of HP.Oh well! I'm sure this won't be important! What are the odds we'll be facing off against psychic damage dealing boss type monsters, anyway?
>>741553251>dumping wis as literally any classDON'T WORRY GUYS, I'LL SAVE US [Hold Person]
>90% chance to hit>attack>miss>extra attack>miss>action surge>missamazing game. what the fuck is the point of the fucking hit chance percentage when you still have to roll a dice for it to actually work?
>>741553526>what's the point of a hit percentage when you can failWhat the fuck does a "Percentage" mean to you?
>>741553526more like what's the point of strategizing if RNG determines whether anything even connects or not
>>741553526>what the fuck is the point of the fucking hit chance percentage when you still have to roll a dice for it to actually work?Are you retarded? The dice is the rng calculation that the percentage comes fromIf it didn't require dice there would be no %
>>741542836>hell invasionMore like an intervention from heaven.
>>741553526You killed the one cat and got the hidden karmic debuff that halves all your rolls didn't you?
>>741553526
>>741553264Pretty low actually, despite the theme of the game, you rarely actually fight any mind flayers. 80% of it is taken up by the Absolute plot, with the initial 5% having the brains for you to fight, and then the last 15% having actual mind flayers but by then you're a gigantic ball of health and AC anyway.
>>741510284>Literally every single turn based game ever uses rng to determine hits, damage, etc. They don't call them dice, but its the fucking same concept.the difference is how low the floor is in a dice system, because everything can always be a onein most games the random range is like 80/120 and can be disregarded
>>741553914Then attack with advantage and turn the 1/20 into a 1/400.
>>741509010Just make things wet and zap them. Or play a fighter and hit a gorillion times per turn. Or if you really want to play on easy mode play sword bard and dip into fighter for action surge. Even on honor mode the game is pretty easy.DOS2, their previous game, was much harder on tactician. Unless you did lone wolf lol, that shit is busted.
>>741544031>>741544135My first playthrough I made my main character a jack of all trades / master of all skill checks and went with a stealth dual wielding half elf archer and it was pretty fun. Lots of mobility, stealth, tons of on hit effects and two handbow guns made taking out small mobs super easy.
>>741509010its so piss easy its almost impossible to fail, people do Honor mode no reload runs on ur 2nd or 3rd playthrough
>>741554234I generally assume anyone that's unable to spell basic words correctly, because retards can't be trusted. Opinion worthless.
>>741554353i assume anyone who finds bg3 combat hard is mentally retarded and should be ignored
>>741554353The irony of saying that and writing an messy and grammatically incorrect post.
>>741513570it does, but you need to read everything.the explicit tutorials suck.
>>741554353I do not now what this sentence is supposed to mean or even if it's supposed to shit in OP or >>741554234.What do you generally assume of "anyone that's unable to spell basic words correctly"?
>>741553847Wait where is this? I want to kill that cat
>>741509010It's you>>741509664fpbp>>741509694spbp>>741509846fpbp/thread
>>741554353assume what?
>>741554698I don't remember which specific cat it was.But if you kill all of them you will definitively get it.
>>741554991Isn't it the hag that debufs the karmic dice?
>>741540065the fuck? BG3 handles it awfully. You get swamped by good items and with how many rest events there are it seems they unironically expect you to spam them after every single encounter.
>>741540065I'm playing honor mode right now and the game still shits food down your throat wherever you go. It also does not help that you can hoard food (that never spoils) in your infinite capacity camp storage chest. Food isn't separated by need either, you can just drink 40 supply units worth of alcohol every night and you'll count as having "eaten" a full meal. If they at least forced you to carry the food, it would go a long way toeard managing resources (meats for example tend to have high supply values but are also much heavier on average than other foods), food/drink separation would be better, food spoilage could probably get annoying if mishandled.
>>741511330Tactician isn't massively harder than Balanced once you get past the first few early game battles. Its worth it.
