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Post by RobEG on Nov 26, 2023 12:47:35 GMT
I’m at the gauntlet of Shar and have just killed that thing down there for Raphael . Normally I wouldn’t help him but I feel I owed one to Astorian after making him drink that dodgy blood at moonrise . I’ve changed the way I’ve been using him a bit based on advice in here. So rather than a mobile dual melee he hangs back in the shadows with his bow scoring critical hits. So far so good. |
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Post by Chopsen on Nov 26, 2023 13:42:23 GMT
Thinking of starting a 2nd play-through. Karlach or Dark Urge, you think?
(I somehow totally avoided Karlach 1st time round)
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Post by Mark1412 on Nov 26, 2023 20:00:29 GMT
What the fuck is the battle in the House of Grief? . Feel like I've gone back to being level 1. |
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Post by askew on Nov 26, 2023 22:13:59 GMT
The invisible things and the annoying brat?
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Post by Tomo on Nov 26, 2023 23:59:50 GMT
I finally finished Act 1 \o/
After 77 hours /o\
Dis fucken game
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 27, 2023 5:36:51 GMT
Thinking of starting a 2nd play-through. Karlach or Dark Urge, you think?
(I somehow totally avoided Karlach 1st time round)
If you're going to commit to an evil thing, Karlach will not be on board (though there's a few fun ways to preemptively deal with her before she gets fed up with your bullshit) But if the urge tempts you, you can still do that without committing to evil. A lot of the Durge prompts can be resisted, though there are still a couple of "what the FUCK did I just do" surprises in store. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 27, 2023 11:15:22 GMT
I accidently killed a lot of people. I feel bad, but have no idea why or how it happened. Shrug.
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 27, 2023 11:17:07 GMT
What the fuck is the battle in the House of Grief? . Feel like I've gone back to being level 1. Just started this area. Having just spent about 3 hours clearing another hard of nails area. YAY! |
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Post by Gruf on Nov 27, 2023 11:25:19 GMT
I accidently killed a lot of people. I feel bad, but have no idea why or how it happened. Shrug. Sometimes things just escalate quickly  |
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 27, 2023 13:50:42 GMT
Finally did Halsins questline OK. First attempt at defending the portal was a bit mad but you realise it's not about having to kill them all but to repel them. Really satisfying moment of Gales thunderwave pushing quite a few of the bastards into the lake. So now Halsins a party member and I can see why people play Druid now, looks fun.
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 28, 2023 10:25:20 GMT
So yeah the House of Grief fight is tough. Massive gank squad vibes. They'll get murdered one way or another though.
I was chatting to a colleague about this game and he completed it in under 50 hours. I was very disappointed in him. I don't even know how that's possible.
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Post by zephro on Nov 28, 2023 18:54:10 GMT
Finally did Halsins questline OK. First attempt at defending the portal was a bit mad but you realise it's not about having to kill them all but to repel them. Really satisfying moment of Gales thunderwave pushing quite a few of the bastards into the lake. So now Halsins a party member and I can see why people play Druid now, looks fun. I mostly leant into the shadowy pricks being vulnerable to radiant damage. So just had Shadowheart cast Spirit Guardians and stand at the top of the steps. Most the pricks just ran into it. |
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Post by RobEG on Nov 28, 2023 23:11:48 GMT
Did anyone have an issue with the pedestal of reckoning? I’ve two gems in there and 3 in my inventory. I try to interact and I just get the same dialogue and the only option is ‘leave’. Elevator not working.
Sounds like a bug, and seems to be some solutions suggested online but wondered if anyone here had found anything that worked.
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 28, 2023 23:14:53 GMT
Finally did Halsins questline OK. First attempt at defending the portal was a bit mad but you realise it's not about having to kill them all but to repel them. Really satisfying moment of Gales thunderwave pushing quite a few of the bastards into the lake. So now Halsins a party member and I can see why people play Druid now, looks fun. I mostly leant into the shadowy pricks being vulnerable to radiant damage. So just had Shadowheart cast Spirit Guardians and stand at the top of the steps. Most the pricks just ran into it. The big turnaround was Shadowheart casting Turn Undead. Most of the fuckers just ran away |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 29, 2023 9:28:04 GMT
Yeah, she can handle most of it on her own. All you really need is someone else to take care of the ranged attackers, and the portal will be fine.
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Post by alastair on Nov 29, 2023 12:09:50 GMT
I am at the point of trying to take out Gortash without setting off traps...
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Post by brokenkey on Nov 29, 2023 12:57:00 GMT
Yeah, she can handle most of it on her own. All you really need is someone else to take care of the ranged attackers, and the portal will be fine. Cast darkness over the portal, the ranged guys can no longer see it to shoot it. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 29, 2023 14:31:34 GMT
Well they didn't survive long enough to shoot it anyway.  |
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 29, 2023 15:59:07 GMT
Fucking fuckos in the house of grief. I've got the strat down but they are real fucks.
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Post by richyroo on Nov 29, 2023 16:19:04 GMT
Finally did Halsins questline OK. First attempt at defending the portal was a bit mad but you realise it's not about having to kill them all but to repel them. Really satisfying moment of Gales thunderwave pushing quite a few of the bastards into the lake. So now Halsins a party member and I can see why people play Druid now, looks fun.
Now that Halsin is a party member, I do admit I like having him in the party.
The defend the portal questline though I just used Wall of Fire. It made that whole section quite easy to be honest.
Positioning in this game plays such a big part. There was a moment at the end of Act 2 where everyone was cramming through a small door and entrance way and it was a cluster fuck. Area of effect spells were really playing havoc on my party and allies.
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 29, 2023 17:02:23 GMT
Yes. Choke points + AOE spells are hugely OP.
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Post by zephro on Nov 29, 2023 18:59:39 GMT
As they ought to be. Yknow Thermopylae and all that
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 29, 2023 23:58:36 GMT
House of Grief is done. Once you figure out how to control the room it’s not so bad. That quest though, sheesh.
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MolarAm🔵
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 30, 2023 0:45:12 GMT
I just realised that an NPC I, uh, accidentally killed, would have given me a powerful item perfect for my class.  |
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Post by Chopsen on Nov 30, 2023 0:52:02 GMT
House of Grief is done. Once you figure out how to control the room it’s not so bad. That quest though, sheesh.
I found it easier than Moonrise Towers actually, which I *really* struggled with. But I think Moonrise Towers is also probably the point I started learning the importance positioning and using your environment and hit a steep learning curve all of a sudden.
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Post by Gruf on Nov 30, 2023 9:04:38 GMT
Or for Moonrise be a coward and go in through the back door |
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Post by zephro on Nov 30, 2023 18:36:22 GMT
Holy shit: Patch 5Is that even a patch anymore? |
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 30, 2023 18:43:55 GMT
Holy fuck sticks! I was quite looking forward to finishing up but I guess not.
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Post by zephro on Nov 30, 2023 19:20:09 GMT
I kind of want to re-load all my previous "final saves" and see the epilogue for each character I made.
There's also a major performance improvement in there. Which hopefully stops it from chewing up my CPU in a confusing way. Apparently it was permanently checking all NPC AI against all possible crimes you possibly committed at any time. Which goes some way to explain why if I stood still in an empty basement it was still running at 80% CPU for no fucking reason.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 30, 2023 20:04:46 GMT
Being able to rearrange the inventory of everyone while in camp without having to add them to the party is such a fantastic QOL improvement.
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