>>3987265
Isn't the game broken like it can't be completed? Picrel looks nice enough.

>>3987265
>people are going on about anything involving Amalur
No, they don't.

>>3987265
>trying to break Kingdom of Amalur of all games
This is like trying to cheat on a race against a 5 year old. Literally all the character options are broken, just pick whichever ones you think have the most fun animations (it's faeblades and chakrams btw)

>>3987265
Is the dlc worth it? I always skipped the game due to its lousy ratings

>>3987270
they released a patch in 2023 that broke everyone's save file. that's when i dropped it
>>3987272
when i say brokenb i mean broken on hard. chakrams require kiting and dodging and faeblades have no range. healing gem spam means you can literally hammer the attack button until everything is dead
>>3987284
fatesworn is ass. the orginal 2 dlcs are good if you like the base game, and are included with re-reckoning

>>3987301
That's it. It's playable now? I swear, playing first day is just stupid.

>>3987381
nah it wasn't broken on launch, that's the funny thing. it had performance issues in 2020, which are fixed, but they just decided to break everyone's save file in 2023 by adding a new quest to the base game

>>3987386
That's some level of incompetence that was thought impossible. 8 bucks for such an old game. Heck, it's even more expensive than kingdom hearts 3. How long? 10-20h?

>>3987265
I hate when people talk about this game because it makes me want to play it again and I waste 20 hours playing it before realising I don't want to play it. I'm not sure I've ever made it further than half way.

Does it work on the steam deck? Playing it in small handheld doses might actually fix that.

>>3987301
>and faeblades have no range
The final attack in its weapon passive tree has a huge jumping range and stunlock. I don't think any other melee weapon offers anything better.

>>3987381
>I swear, playing first day is just stupid.
Waiting 14 years to play it is a bit extreme.

>>3987392
I finished the game and both dlcs on my deck, works very well. Would probably drop in if I wasn't playing a universalist who can switch playstyles at will and easily max out every skill.

>>3987394
Didn't even know about it until the saves got wiped.

>>3987391
i had 55 hours before they destroyed my savefile

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/79015
>>3987392
i have 120hz 720p on a laptop worse than the steam deck, high textures.
>I'm not sure I've ever made it further than half way.
the game's endgame loot starts appearing at level 16 and can be equipped at level 16 lol
>>3987393
by the time you get that there are a billion more broken things you should be caring about. weapons are for the early game

Oh wait, the remaster is a whole separate ass full priced game. Fuck that. I just have the original version. I thought they just updated the game. I can't be fucked playing it knowing there's a better version.

>>3987400
>I can't be fucked playing it knowing there's a better version.
You already have the better version if you have the original.

>>3987400
is that delisted

>>3987399
>destroyed my savefile
Hate it so much. Incompetent fucks.

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>>3987265
>mfw Kingdoms of Amalur and Dragon's Dogma are somehow the only two action RPGs with good combat

>>3987405
That's ps3 for you.

>>3987407
I don't know. DD1 was reborn with the PC port. Prior to it you were basically choosing between shitty general framerate on 360 vs framerate falling to single digits on PS3 when spells heated up.

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>>3987400
yes, but they released some expansion-size dlc for it

>>3987412
It's bad apparently

Is joat fun? It says it needs 111 or so of 121. What does this mean? If I don't put 111 skills into it, I'm not a joat?

>>3987426
It's fun if you like constant variety and trying different weapon combos. You won't get the high end abilities, but weapons are good enough, and the flame mark or whatever was its name is an incredibly strong spell for the entire game.
You'll unlock progressively higher tiers of this class as you evenly spread skill points between three masteries.

I tried playing this game like 4 separate times, every single time i have a lot of fun at the beginning but i'am bored out of my mind when i reach the first big Fay city ( court of the summer fae, i think?). Is that normal?

Also, the game desperately needed some sort of party-system or AI companions

>>3987449
> i'am bored out of my mind when i reach the first big Fay city ( court of the summer fae, i think?
sounds like you're spending too much time in the early areas and doing every sidequest. the moment you're level 13 you need to stop doing any of the non main/ faction quest stuff in any of the forest areas and beeline to rathir or adessa so you can keep scaling and fight new enemies and get new gear
>Also, the game desperately needed some sort of party-system or AI companions
you frequently get companions in most of the main/ quest faction dungeons. i like how it's done here, reminds me of jade empire

>>3987432
Right. Guess I'll add sweetspot for martial rogue and pump sorc.

>>3987403
Yeah they removed it so people have to buy Re-Retarded.

>>3987270
I have beaten it, its alright the combat is the high note

>>3987301
>when i say brokenb i mean broken on hard
Yes, anon, and I mean the game is fairly easy (though still fun) even on hard. Like notoriously so. Also far blades have gap closers and you can use chakrams without kiting, I know I did. There's zero point in spending your time grinding out the option that kills things in 2 seconds instead of 3 other than for curiosity's sake.

>>3987751
Awesome, will get it next sale. Shame that DD and this are the pinnacle of arpg combat.

>>3987756
ok, maybe i just suck or timing dodge rolls is second nature to you

>>3987265
More like Kingdom of Bankrupt Rhode Island.

>>3987780
Nah, I think you're just missing something/something hasn't clicked for you yet. I did eventually end up optimising towards the end, but that's because I ended up being caught in the smithing+enchanting gameplay loop rather than out of necessity. Or maybe my build (rogue + mage trees) was OP and I didn't realise.

>>3987794
i'm not saying it's elden ring, it's just you have to do more dodging and positioning than i'm used to in rpgs. maybe that to you is easy, but to me easy means i can mash a single button while not looking at the screen and win every fight

>>3987270
It's surprisingly polished for a massive open world game. There're only two notable bugs - the quest chain about a demon in a desert area can only be completed in a certain order, otherwise it breaks. And the final quest in the thieves guild requires you to get through a dialogue as fast as possible, otherwise the game permanently locks you inside a dungeon's room after it ends

>>3987301
>when i say brokenb i mean broken on hard
There's a new even harder difficulty in the remaster, that actually makes combat pretty fun. It makes the game pretty fucking difficult in the beginning, but even at max level enemies can still easily kill you in a few hits.

>>3987804
>pretty fun
>enemies are extra spongy and can also combo you to death
>doesn't even come with an achievement
in the endgame what this means is you can't lose but you can be stunned and every fight takes minutes

>>3987805
You quickly kill everything in the endgame, but everything can still kill you.

>>3987807
>everything can still kill you
not through 10 regenerating gems, elemental resistance and armour. i played on very hard originally, it was ass

>>3987808
Should I play on very hard for the first run

>>3987801
So it has a game breaking bug? Multiple saves it is then. Can the game wipe the hdd?

>>3987829
fuck no. play on hard, then if you find it too annoying/ tedious drop it to normal

>>3987837
Got it

>>3987265
>rushing health regen
Might do this. I love pumping up health regeneration. Especially if there are also berserk bonuses for taking damage.

>>3987422
Yeah, it's THQ original and it shows.
I wouldn't hate on them, but they didn't even fix the few bugs original had in their cashgrab, so fuck them.

>>3988640
every area is insanely cramped and there's too much grass. amalur feels like a real place, fatesworn feels like a wc3 custom map

>>3987392
I did a complete replay of the game a few months back because of the new dlc. Got tired of the game during the last part of the main game, shit just got too repetative and then i actively started hating the game when i started the new dlc, which was pure dogshit.
The pirate dlc is pure kino though, wish it was a whole game based around you stranded on a huge island while slowly building up your kingdom

>>3988885
Amalur in general would benefit from being more linear and focused. Both DLCs are good, and the final areas of the vanilla game work well.

>>3988893
Both original DLCs, I mean. Didn't even touch the new one after everything Nordic released for Titan Quest.

>>3988885
>Got tired of the game during the last part of the main game, shit just got too repetitive
you're supposed to rush through the lower half of klurikon to get to the final mission. i just ran through all of it lol

>>3987405
I liked sacred 1 and 2 you can make some cool builds

>>3987265
The game is easy as piss, only a gigantic failure would care about what the most "broken" strategy is.

>>3988959
>easy as piss, he says, while he dodge rolls around like a lunatic because to him easy is dark souls 2
lol

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>>3988962
What dodge rolling, retard?
You don't need any health regen either, the game is a literal button masher with musou tier enemies

>>3988966
>spamming aoe spells on normal
sorry, i thought you actually played the game?

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>>3988974
It's the hardest difficulty, retard.
You've been making threads for this dogshit action adventure shovelware for a while and I will keep telling you: This dumpster fire is not only bad, it's not even an RPG.

>>3988975
do this while not wearing any equipment and i shall concede your point

>>3988975
I'm gonna be real with all y'all, this game fucking sucks. Shovelware? That's missing the emphasis of the fact that it's literally feces being shoveled. Without that being explicit, there's a risk that readers might misunderstand how absolutely fucking irredeemably awful this game is. Was. Because no one fucking remembers it for a reason, and I don't even know what you garbage are validating and legitimizing it by talking about it now.

>>3989024
llm

>>3989033
Bitch, you think any time anyone uses a word bigger than "fr fr", "it" or "the" they must be an llm, and you're only able to get away with behaving like that while hiding behind your phone. Fucking kill yourself, you illiterate dumbfuck zoomer trash.

>>3989062
The clanker cries out in pain as he strikes you

>>3988975
You finished a longass open world action slop on the highest difficulty by spamming a single button and hated every second of it? This tells more about you than about the game.
At least my character was a universalist and could swap between completely different playstyles on the fly.

>>3989069
>You finished a longass open world action slop on the highest difficulty by spamming a single button
and minmaxing his gear. there's no way a mage can take that little damage from a physical attack and only spend that much mana to cast tempest without gear

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>>3988977
>Take off the only thing that matters in this dogshit button masher to prove my nonexistent point
No wonder you defend this shovelware, only a terminal retard would ever make such a terrible argument.
Of course you "minmax" gear since that's the only thing this dogshit is about and tier 2 gear alone completely breaks the game including the 3rd DLC content as long as you understand basic math and look how affixing works, never mind how simple Gold rarity sets are more than enough too so you don't even need to craft anything, just savescum any chest in the game since this dumpster fire actually procedurally generates chest content dynamically so you can just savescum a single treasure room for a couple of minutes and get gamebreaking gear for free.
>>3989069
What completely different playstyles?
All weapons have ONE combo string with zero fucking properties, all weapon abilities are just fancy ways to get staggers for your infinite combo extends, magic is just fireballs and nukes, fucking GOW1 has a deeper combat system, this dogshit is all about button mashing one button no matter what "style" you choose.
Never mind the complete lack of enemy variety either, I'm sure you brainlets who don't even understand what a fucking RPG is love button mashing through six different colours of helpless threshes and wolves for hundreds of hours with the only difference being how bloated their HP bar is.

>>3989076
>abuses fatesworn
>abuses level scaling and looks it up
>abuses savescumming for loot drops
>abuses gear sets
>savescums a single treasure room for a couple of minutes
>WOW THIS GAME IS SO EASY AND BORING!!!
i will alter my statement that health regen gems are the easiest way to play, health regen gems are the easiest way to play for people who aren't PATHETIC nolifers. of course you dual classed warrior for early game melee btw

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>>3989077
I didn't look up or abuse anything you stupid retard, and yes, this trash is not only bad but extremely easy and boring which is why it bombed horribly and everyone sane agrees that it's buggy, poorly made dogshit.
But of course, you have to be the contrarian out of touch shill on /vrpg/ calling other people "pathetic nolifers" (while playing a literal failed offline MMO for maximum irony) for actually engaging with the poorly designed mechanics of this shitty button masher and pointing them out.

>>3989077
>who aren't PATHETIC nolifers
He sounds like a genuine schizo, I would've dropped the game in a couple of hours if I hated it so much. I am a true pathetic nolifer, so I went out of my way to only use armor that looks nice on my character and let enemies be able to kill me at any point of the game. This way even fate potions become a cool mechanic that allows you to literally change your fate and survive some spellcasting gang bang.

>>3989078
>engaging with the poorly designed mechanics of this shitty button masher
>savescums a single treasure room for a couple of minutes
HAHAAHAHAHA
>>3989082
you're a cool nolifer

>>3989082
>I went out of my way to not interact with the major systems in this game so I could make this completely pointless mechanic somewhat relevant
Even Tier 1 armor can make you functionally invincible with the way the crafting and accessories work in this game, but sure, you totally went out of your way to still admit how this poorly designed dogshit is completely braindead even if you purposedly ignore its main mechanic, what an epic own!

>>3989087
>abuses crafting
>savescums to get gear
>WTF THIS IS SO EASY!!!
you have a weird definition of easy, buddy

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>>3989090
>Faggot who boasts about how "rushing" life regen gear early breaks the game can't stop pearl clutching about the very shit he's using when somebody else brings it up
There's no abuse no matter how much you hypocritically kick and scream about it retard, the game is just poorly designed as you yourself admitted in the very OP, the math is all over the place to the point Tier 2 armor alone completely invalidates everything you can get after that because of how the basic defense calculation works and how easy it is to stack shit, ALL OF WHICH is just interacting with a core mechanic at a surface level, without getting into the actual exploits of other poorly designed shit I mentioned like again, savescumming chests.
Which by the way, you don't even know how that actually works but you took that line and sinker like the gullible idiot you are, chest rewards are scaled with your character level so it's one of the poorest uses of your time especially because again, Tier 2 gear with basic crafting is vastly more powerful and isn't level gated, which you'd immediately point out if you actually had any actual knowledge of the dogshit you're shilling for which is so damn buggy simply browsing your equipment menu fucks up the game.
But sure, do keep accusing other people of "abusing" a core game mechanic when you do the same exact thing in the OP, moron.

>>3989096
the difference is healing gems work as intended, they're just overpowered. what you're doing is exploiting unintended mechanics, unequipping and reequipping shit

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>>3989102
Oh so healing "gems" are an intended (but overpowered) mechanic but stacking defense gems, attack gems or anything that isn't healing gems totally isn't, I wonder why they put that shit in the game if they didn't intend for me to use it.
And I guess you're not intended to have actual functioning menus either since just unequipping shit gives the game a stroke, I guess you're not intended to speak to NPCs either since if the game bugs out while loading any given instance it can completely lock down on top of making NPCs bug out in the weirdest ways possible.
I guess you're not intended to have functioning shaders either since half of the vfx don't fucking work, I guess you're not intended to open chests since at any given point in the game you can cause a gamebreaking bug that makes random chests uninteractable.
You're an even bigger imbecile than the people who agreed to fund this dumpster fire, truly a game by clueless imbeciles for clueless imbeciles.

>>3989109
it's a fantastic game with top talent like ra salvatore and todd mcfarlane behind it, with solid game design from big huge games. schilling was right to bet on this team of talented individuals

>>3989076
We lost the tech to make combat like this or ddda

>>3989234
>top talent like
>people who have absolutely nothing to do with video games
kek

>>3989319
>writers have nothing to do with videogames
>art directors have nothing to do with videogames
lol

>>3987265
>Amalur
No one is playing this shit or care about it.

>>3989381
i am and do

>>3989381
I'm getting it next sale and will play a joat

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all i need to do is get all the cheevos for teeth of naros and i can start a new playthrough as a pure mage (not stacking 5 billion enchantments either)

>>3989234
I'm not sure if you're rage baiting the guy you're replying to or if you honestly believe what you're saying.

>>3989981
i both believe it AND am TROLLING him, zoomzoom

How different is the remaster? I've still got the original.

>>3990078
areas no longer lock to the level you were when you entered them, you get all the dlc and preorder bonuses for free, upscaled textures. that's it

>>3990080
>for free
It's a full price game. Probably more expensive now than original release.

>>3990411
original release is delisted. my point was more about the preorder bonuses

https://steamdb.info/app/1041720/

Game is pure shit. You can just randomly press button and you are gonna break the game in terms of difficulty.
The lone amalur schizo was too retarded to even do that so he probably died constantly in this piss easy game.
in fact, his writing style is exactly like the dq8 retard who died to rabbits at the beginning.

>>3990411
>It's a full price game
That's unheard of

>>3990444
>randomly press button
>painstakingly optimise your gear
huh?

>>3989387
Got it. It's fantastic and so liking it much better than DD. Is amalur western? Why did the studio fuck up? Game's awesome.

>>3990824
it came out 4 months after skyrim towards the end of the generation. also it's not story heavy like most other western rpgs

>>3990824
WoW-style graphics. Empty world that was intended to be an MMO. Painfully uninspired dialogue and setting.
Aside from that yeah it's not bad.

>>3990829
>story heavy
So far the story is fine. Guess I enjoy the absence of power prostitutes and female fuckolds.
>>3990833
It's very ps3/mmoey.
>bland setting
Come now, it's easily 5/10.

>>3990833
>Empty world that was intended to be an MMO
why do people keep fucking saying this, big huge games always designed it as a single player rpg about looting dungeons before schilling and his guys came along and slapped amalur on top of it
>At first, our RPG project was named “Crucible” and was being published by THQ. We were making great progress on it, and THQ was happy enough with the progress that they purchased us outright; and we became an internal THQ studio. Around that time we switched some of the key features of the game and renamed the project “Ascendant.” We were part of the THQ network of studios for a short period of time right up to the point that THQ started running out of money. Our big, juicy, unproven-in-the-genre studio was a prime target for them to try to sell.
>With literally days left on the “close the doors” timer at the studio, THQ sold us to Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios, which has R.A. Salvatore as “creator of worlds.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJpYLusR6A

>>3990833
>muh MMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9gDWUE3Vsw

>>3990824
Are destinies classes? I seem to be able to only pick of a few. Can I change them later?

>>3990837
Nta but it does feel mmoey. Needless to say plenty of games from that time do feel like that.

The game has no stats? Just classes, gear, shrines, cards, skills aso, but no actual stats?

>>3990842
You can respec as much as you want via fateweavers, that includes destinies. And you can switch between all currently unlocked destinies for free at any moment - they unlock as you spend skill points in certain skill trees

>>3990845
that's because of the wow artstyle. it mostly reminds me of the 3d bioware rpgs
>>3990842
you unlock more as you spend points in each of the three ability trees. also spending points in the ability trees gives you more health/ mana

>>3990860
skills are stats and gear grants various bonuses. might is health, finesse is health and mana, magic is mana

>>3990861
Ye, find that out. One way to do it.
>>3990862
Has a wow artstyle alright. Game looks OK.
>mana and hp
Pretty barebones. Guess gear is what makes a build. Reminds me of monster hunter. Characters feel empty without actual stats. Imo.

>>3990866
You have a full list of destinies with prerequisites in the menu, it's hard to miss.

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my nigga cidrin is now retired. the legend of tyrone the pure mage begins today

>>3990953
50h is enough to clear the map?

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>>3990961
at 45 hours there was no point in doing anything left on the map because i'd outscaled those areas. i spent the last 5 hours doing cheevos

>>3990976
Playing on hard and already am basically immortal. Is gold important? Weapons get outclassed very fast. The dlc weapons were useless 25 minutes after finding them.

>>3990979
gold is good for getting early prismere weapons/ gear from rathir that cost like 500k if you don't have any mercantile. it's also good for healing potions if you don't have alchemy

>>3990979
The DLC weapons scale to the level when you first get them, but it's not worth waiting to level 50 - you will likely find something better.

>>3990976
It took me 120 hours for the entire vanilla game + both original DLCs (aside from the optional arena fights and doing the castle quests after you restore it and start ruling) on the hardest difficulty from the remaster, but I didn't bother doing all achievements.

>>3991013
i did betray the warsworn so i couldn't have done all the quests anyway, but i only had a handful left, like 30 or so. 120 hours seems excessive, i could see 65 max and that's with dicking around. timetobeat has 58 hours for main and sides

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/5056

>>3990979
weapon level reqs are not the same as weapon scaling btw, it caps out at level 18 for fatesworn stuff and 17 for fine prismere weapons which are the highest tier in the base game. you start getting that well into the 30s

>>3991016
It also says 106 hours for completionist. I played on the hardest difficulty and fucked around a bit, so it seems legit.

>>3991027
that's being skewed by guys who didn't even get all achievements but are saying completionist anyway. for all cheevos they're going 50-70 hours

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/5056/completions

>>3991027
Game is really too easy. Kinda a bummer.
>>3991013
When do the original dlc start?
>>3990869
Wasn't aware you can change them anytime and didn't expect a class system with a strict progression.
>>3990833
The dialogue falls off a cliff fast, awesome. That's a new one. Why not reduce dialogue about 90 and triple the quality? No wonder they went the greedfall dev route.

>>3991094
>When do the original dlc start?
Whenever you want, I did them after the main story as a postgame.
>Game is really too easy
Switch to the hardest difficulty, it really kicks your ass at the beginning.

>>3991204
Playing on hard rn. Some anon said very hard is a nuisance.
Any idea how to find/farm gear? Am lvl 5 or so and have purple stuff, but can always have better stuff. The way I see it, merchants sell crap. Level scaled gear is scummy. There's also a gheed selling random stuff. He's obviously expensive.

>>3991216
Just keep playing, you will find gear.

>>3991216
later areas sell better gear. gear sets (yellows) are normally given as quest rewards. also purples aren't really rare or strong, they're just unique items. crap like the selkie veil gets outscaled really early on

>>3991251
Ye, had luck with the gheed vendor. He seems bugged, his conversation doesn't work.
>>3991255
Right, doing quests rn. They are multistep. Already skipping conversations entirely, it's too much bland stuff. Not worth the time.

>>3987272
>it's faeblades and chakrams btw
my nigga

pure mage is the most boring garbage i've ever played in my life, you just spam mark of flames from a distance until everything dies
>>3991275
fae lookin' ass

>>3991275
Have faeblades, too. Just realized I didn't even pump the mastery.
>wayfarer
Whatever the last generalist class is called. It enables all weapon masteries (sounds like Dd2), has anyone tried that?
>repetitive
Ngl the game falls off fast. Still like it,... Idk, maybe I just stop doing side quests and start doing main quests.

>>3991297
It's great if you don't care about high tier abilities. It's mostly about being able to use any weapon and max every single skill, and combining low-mid tier abilities.
On the other hand the last upgrade for feyblades grants you a really broken jumping attack, and a universalist gets it near the fucking level cap.

>>3991300
Will make a second run, likely stealth main and maybe two or three fighter skills. I am already a mass monster. Admittedly due to an amulet granting me 120 hp or so. Im having a hard time getting fun faeblades or staffs.

I'm convinced to replay it.
So for the first run: a normal, serious character or a sexy brown elf?

>>3991365
Dark elves have a combo of face and hair that looks like a gigachad.

>>3991365
>So for the first run: a normal, serious character or a sexy brown elf?
is there anything remotely serious about amalur? the answer to that is no, so play your kuroinu ripoff to your heart's content

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>>3991368
Then I shall dark elf.

i forgot how fucking bad blink is. i just died to three ettins stunlocking me 5 times in a row because blink doesn't have fucking i-frames but has the same number of startup and recovery frames as dodge rolling. completely ass ability

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I forgot about how you magically pull a shield out of your ass.

>>3991380
Talisman>shield (it glows)

>>3991367
I think I'm playing dark elf. Can't really say that race does anything significant, besides God selection.

>>3991442
it grants your 4 starting skill points

>>3991448
They aren't that important, really.

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>>3991442
It doesn't seem to matter at all. You can be an elf(ar) and people will still slag off the alfar to your face while you act like you've never heard of them.
I am going to play the whole game with my big elf boobies out. Unless there's some armour that also shows them off.

>>3991464
they're important if you need to hit a specific tier quickly, like for detect hidden or alchemy
>>3991470
i got a line where a character slags off dokkalfar and then goes "present company excluded, of course". might have been agarth in the tomb thing where you get the codex

>>3991470
>act like you've never heard of them
Protag has amnesia or whatever.
>tits
Will do the same with my white ass girl. Playing delf rn.
Game was for quite some time in development. Lore is pretty thin.

>>3991475
Pretty idiotic to tie something like gems to skill usage. Pretty gimped without them. Not leveling blacksmith locks out a lot of fun.
>>3991475
Present company excluded? Didn't thq2 force them to ship out immediately? Then again, I'm u sure if another year would've helped with the quality.
>magic users shooting coloured energy from staffs
Why isn't that the way to go? It's so rarely used. Basically DD and this. Have a feeling Dd2 copied amalur in some aspects.

>>3991491
>Pretty idiotic to tie something like gems to skill usage. Pretty gimped without them. Not leveling blacksmith locks out a lot of fun.
sagecrafting yes, blacksmithing is pretty meh until the late game in general-you don't get flawless stuff until the mid 30s.
>Present company excluded?
it's an english phrase for when someone is a member of the group you're disparaging. i was a dokkalfar so i got exclusive dokkalfar dialogue
>Why isn't that the way to go?
i feel like msot magic staffs in videogames shoot magic at people desu. only dnd doesn't do it

>>3991491
>Present company excluded?
>>3991494
>it's an english phrase
Lol, I know. I failed to greentext. Failed big league.
>dokkalfar
I'm one, too. Delf. I do get the impression that some treat me as human at times.
Am level 10 now and the wayfarer niw shows how slow he gets new new abilities. The next ones unlock in 10 levels. Still haven't progressed the main quest.
>most staffs do it
Maybe so. Might be that these game suck. Only one I can think of is Harry Potter.

>>3991542
i've only ever dual classed in this game-might/ sorcery, might/ finesse and i'm currently on a pure sorcerer at level 11, so i have tier 4 abilities. just one of the drawbacks of tri-classing

>>3987265
Is it fun?

>>3991569
yes, if you know what you're doing

>>3991542
It's not like you need a lot of skills early on
>STR
Harpoon
>INT
Flame mark for aoe, thunder ball for stunning
>DEX
I don't even know, ice mines if you're feeling cute

>>3991700
Enemies need 10-12 hits, bosses instantly die when fate shadow man soul reaver activates. Have harpoon and the charge abilities for blue and yellow. Waiting for grenades and summon. The way I see it, their respective upgrades are the last skills I will unlock.

>>3991713
The weapon mastery bonus from the final destiny is going to free up a lot of points after the respec. The summon won't do anything in combat though, it's mostly useful for healing you on hit with the first upgrade.

>>3991743
You get refunds? That's cute. Then again, respec is nearly free. The remaster has some surprising qol features. Haven't played the original, so idk if it had these, too.
>summon shit
Oh, dang. My idea was to use the summon and the sphere of protection that shoots at enemies, while I faeblade away.

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SORCERY

>>3991839
Why are you black?

>>3991846
i find it amusing. aoe spells suck ass btw, the actually broken things are the fae gorta drawing aggro and damaging abilities being stronger the earlier you get it

>>3991864
>aoe spells suck ass
Mark of flame is very strong for the entire game, and carries you until you unlock the endgame spells.

>>3991871
i have only ever found it good when 10 or so enemies are clumped up and you can kill everything in 4 casts. also the only way pure mage is survivable is if you equip every single health buff you find. all in all, significantly weaker than melee rogue/ warrior with health regen gems

>>3991871
Sorceror has little spell selection, insulting, really. They could've at least give you each element for the offense spells.
>blacksmithing
Found some potions. Need to blacksmith for a quest. I found the blade, will any hilt work? There are plenty.

whatever, i went back to cidrin and got every cheevo except manic pixie dream elf. time for tyrone to romance zapp brannigan

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I absolutely fucking HATE the dispel minigame.

>>3991899
What's it even for? I leveled it and constantly fail it big league. When it explodes I loose like 100 or 150 health and get the items anyway. Does solving it give you xp? The lock picking is maybe the worst lock pick minigame in any game.

>>3991899
>>3991918
as someone who just got the cheevo, it's fine. harder wards will curse you if you fail them if you don't have dispelling at 5(?) or something. lock picking is absurdly easy

>>3991924
I have it at 5 iirc and get cursed constantly. It's like 900 gold and I have 100k at level 10. Idk what to do with the money, likely gambling. Scummy move to limit the stuff you can buy form him. Might chuck potions and make equipment. Haven't found a blacksmith vendor for materials, yet. Just playing my second main mission.

>>3991926
>100k
100k won't buy shit. prismere weapons are like 500k
>Haven't found a blacksmith vendor for materials, yet.
you salvage gear at the forge for materials, the first blacksmith vendor is at klurikon and he only sells like tier 3 components

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done. i will not be touching fatesworn

>>3991931
Ye, will likely skip blacksmithing with this char. Have dispel (useless), 1 alchemy (also useless) and detect and the gem skill (sage?). Have decent gems now, but no slots. Save summed some gambling from the first city and have little money left. Also got the fate disk or whatever. Game is a mess design wise, like DD and Dd2. Curious if there will be a dlc for Dd2.
>what's the perfect arpg like, what does amalur and by extension dd(2) miss?

>>3992080
Alchemy eventually allows you to craft fate potions that allow you to enter fate mode multiple times in a row. It's especially useful against the final boss.

Ever notice how the final attack of a chakram combo leaves you completely unable to dodge or block?

>>3992321
that's every combo. you can roll cancel out of the first chakram attack you do

>>3992323
Maybe a little bit of delay on some. But no weapon leaves you as wide open while the long animation completes.

>>3992324
hammers? staffs? greatswords? even longswords have recovery on the final swing

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>>3987405
>Kingdoms of Amalur and Dragon's Dogma are somehow the only two action RPGs with good combat
Because they were more action games than RPGs in terms of ratios. For some reason RPG devs are content with "eh, it works" when it comes to their combat systems.

>>3992276
Maybe, but I kill anything that moves so I'm having a hard time believing anything can damage me. I am looking for trainers and will buy skills and books.

>>3992321
That's by design. Enemies are obviously rubber banding and it's incredibly boring.
>>3992323
I think enemies wouldn't stand a chance without these. I'm level 13 or so and I'm incredibly strong. Adrenaline, protection sphere, 300hp, big sack of gold (for the ladies)

>>3992327
Really unbelievable how this game is nearing 100m sales. Not that it's bad...

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>mfw there are NO sexy armour sets

>>3992488
once you beat the main questline and reach level 30 you can get alyn shyr's outfit

>>3992492
>at the end of the game
What is even the point. I'll put it on for 5 seconds, go "huh", and then quit the game.

>>3992505
the final main questline area is doable from 22 onwards lol. the final boss scales from 25 and up. i didn't do the dlc and a ton of quests until i beat the game at 26

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>>3992508
Good thing I looked it up before I rushed the main storyline. It's just for Re-Reckoning.

>>3992540
oh you're not playing re-reckoning? why? the original game has fucked up level scaling

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slagatha is only (level) 16 and already has prismere gear

>>3992773
>lv 13 adventurer
How come I have more hp than you? Gear?

>>3992540
Is this a mage cowl?

>>3992778
probably. i mostly chose items with health regen and mana over raw health
>>3992780
finesse gets cowls, mages get caps. that's the alyn shyr armour set

>>3992796
I have two gems that do so and it really goes a long way together with the protection spell and the occasional regen potion.
>set
Is it finesse? I'm pretty sure my sorc cap is similar. Doesn't matter, bikini armor sexino.
>ultimate magic talisman
1200 gold
>backpack
5000000 gold

You can't explain that.

>>3992810
Supply and demand. Magical artifacts are a diamond dozen.

>>3992508
Ye, I think I'll start the dlc soon. Then I will likely beat the game. It gets dull very fast. Painfully generic is real. After a while it really hurts. Shame, could've been an outstanding game. >>3992327
>For some reason RPG devs are content with "eh, it works" when it comes to their combat systems.
I mean, it took infinite wealth to improve jrpg combat. Even e33 relies on parry or whatever, effectively reducing the game to a game of clicking ti the beat or rather visual cue.

>>3992810
>ultimate magic talisman
if you're level 13 you ain't seen anything close to ultimate it's why your eyes glazed over as i showed off a prismere weapon at level 16. also backpacks are like 15k anyway, you can get one in the starting town for that amount
>>3992812
>It gets dull very fast. Painfully generic is real. After a while it really hurts.
idk, i like it. if you're focused on melee damage and have to roll and position and identify which enemy is active which i find pretty engaging. if you're not playing re-reckoning you might also have a warped view of how the level scaling works. also the artstyle is awesome

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>>3992812
>it took infinite wealth to improve jrpg combat.
Really? I never played it so I don't know how.

>>3992814
>engaging
Yeah, the enemies do hit the player often or let you wait a while to exploit opportunities without harm.
>scaling
Always bad. Equipment detoriates very fast and forces you to switch. It's just so unrealistic, the world toughen up within 2 hours and your weapons of mass destruction aren't worth their salt anymore. I'll have fun beat it, but will lilely let some time pass for a second run. Builds are OK, I guess. Still am under the impression that Dd2 stole the wayfarer from amalur.

>>3992815
JAWS OF LIFE

>>3992815
a lot of changes that work wonders together. stuff like active repositioning, environmental interactivity and smackdown which lets you easily take out weak enemies.

>>3992815
There are now reasons to use attack, like combo, proxy and back attack. You can also move the character a little, positioning can have some small effect. Unfortunately the story is the definition of idiots plot and the charismatic main character from lad was flanderized so fast, we should call flanderized now ichibanized. It's beyond ridiculous. Lad and iw are worth a play imo. Clearly iw has an atrociously bad narrative.

>>3992827
>smackdown which lets
'bit overturned. I solo the games, as its too easy otherwise and the other three hit for like 1 damage and the enemies ragdoll after getting 1 damage.

>>3987272
>chakrams
Most fun of any weapon in any game I've ever played.