spells suck? meteor is possibly the most broken thing in the game, especially once you get gear that increases your elemental damage and your spell damage, and gear that give +2 to sorcery abilities are just awesome.
i two-shotted the house of valor boss with a level 7 inferno. i love my character, blinking around and nuking everything to death.
edit: more tips for sorcerers
1. once you get the upgrade for the faer gorta that lets it life leech and give health back to you, there is no reason not to use it. at level 5 the proc rate is 70(!)% percent, basically every time your skeleton hits something you get like 10% of your health back.
2. always go for gear with increases to either spell damage, elemental damage (ideally the best as it affects both your spells AND your elementally charged weapons), crit rate (preferably magic crit rate) and of course, +sorcery ability gear.
3. the shield of protection upgrades are vital if you use either tempest with its ridiculously long charge time or winter storm (channeling), as the orbs hit any enemy trying to get near and stunning/interrupting you.
I finished the game on level 18 I think (finesse) by the time I got to Alabastra I was so bored that I just ran through whole location. Game is waaaay to easy and the final boss is a joke (I didnt even use one potion on him).
It's fun for 5-10h, but then it gets too repetitive (unless u want to switch tech trees every 3h)
On February 12 2012 17:45 Shikyo wrote: Aight after trying out maxed skilltrees of every class I still think bows are by far the best. None of the other weapons comes even close, and the mage spells all seem to suck as well.
So back to spamming bow >_>
dude this is not SC2 you dont have to play what is best. Play the style that is most fun for you
Most fun to me is not having to reload 20 times every bossfight .-. For instance I have no idea how dagger users are supposed to finish House of Ballads at like lvl 15
Seriously, it was ALMOST impossible!! I just finished House of Ballads at level 12/13, something around those lines, with faeblades + chakrams. Not only that the last bosses are damn strong, I had like 4 potions going into the castle, and I had to reload like 30 times total I guess. But still, I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but because of situations like that I don't have the feeling at all that the game might be too easy. I get my ass kicked all the time!
By the way one thing about the game that really bothers me is that the world is absolutely TINY in comparison to morrowind or even skyrim, and there's not really any non-quest related dungeons that you can explore etc.
Last boss was just too easy. I died once due to rolling on top of enemy and got combohitted by boss meteors and different hits from smaller mobs. Thought that 'maybe I should prepare for this'. Went to shop, bought 20greater healing potions and all possible buffs you can get for poison dagger + bow bleed spec. BTW you can skip the WHOLE fight with using potion of fate (used 1 pot at last part myself). You can't die if you use few pots. Ok so game is very imbalanced in perspective of potions, I'm one of those gamers who turn the difficulty hardest possible, then find anyway possible to beat the game without cheating or pure glitches.
Even without pots it's just very facepalm fight. I think I was about 29-30level, which should be LOW LEVEL for that boss figt since I didn't do any quests in 3rd continent.
OH BTW, I saw MAJOR difficulty increase at about 14-18levels. Trolls would like almost onehit you, mobs would be crazy with spells etc, etc. Then quickly after I just had too large healthpool for even to care about hits too much (fitnesse).
I also would liek to see more mobs. there's just like 8 models for mobs I feel. It would've been nice to see mobs really change for every continent. And what's up for passing days without night? It started bothering me after like 18hr played.
TL;DR -Too easy, especially bosses and ESPECIALLY last boss. -Too few models for different continents imo.
On February 12 2012 17:45 Shikyo wrote: Aight after trying out maxed skilltrees of every class I still think bows are by far the best. None of the other weapons comes even close, and the mage spells all seem to suck as well.
So back to spamming bow >_>
dude this is not SC2 you dont have to play what is best. Play the style that is most fun for you
Most fun to me is not having to reload 20 times every bossfight .-. For instance I have no idea how dagger users are supposed to finish House of Ballads at like lvl 15
Seriously, it was ALMOST impossible!! I just finished House of Ballads at level 12/13, something around those lines, with faeblades + chakrams. Not only that the last bosses are damn strong, I had like 4 potions going into the castle, and I had to reload like 30 times total I guess. But still, I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but because of situations like that I don't have the feeling at all that the game might be too easy. I get my ass kicked all the time!
the woman boss is gonna kill ya with bunch of random forestmobs and they are craz as hell? Dude, use good fate meter, mana rege potion, smokebomb and spam shadowflare-roll-shadowflare-roll. Deveoloped that tactic because I was out of healthpotions.
On February 12 2012 20:29 zeehar wrote: 1. once you get the upgrade for the faer gorta that lets it life leech and give health back to you, there is no reason not to use it. at level 5 the proc rate is 70(!)% percent, basically every time your skeleton hits something you get like 10% of your health back. .
Cool stuff, I didn't know about that. I've totally skipped that guy after frist point, because I can't figure out how he works, sometimes he attack just as I cast first spell, but most of the times I can be ganked by 4 guys and he just runs around with me passively, wtf ???
On February 12 2012 21:11 DrGreen wrote: I finished the game on level 18 I think (finesse) by the time I got to Alabastra I was so bored that I just ran through whole location. Game is waaaay to easy and the final boss is a joke (I didnt even use one potion on him).
It's fun for 5-10h, but then it gets too repetitive (unless u want to switch tech trees every 3h)
loled what ? you finish the game on hard at 18 lv ? then you dont even make 1/5 quests there or even 1/6 I have 32 lv and im now in alabastra still have like 2-3 h to game end. And i run forward to , and miss a lot of quests..
I think I'm starting to see a trend where people that stick to one skill tree (ability tree) tend to find the game too easy because of how the skills progress (point # requirements) so you end up unlocking the more powerful skills earlier. I'm playing my finesse/sorcery at hard and I find some of the boss battles are actually challenging, up to the point where I have to use effect potions.
The house of ballads final was insane. I think I had to pop majority of my damage redux and health pots just to live through the mob stun (using Chakram/Faeblade)
Seriously, it was ALMOST impossible!! I just finished House of Ballads at level 12/13, something around those lines, with faeblades + chakrams. Not only that the last bosses are damn strong, I had like 4 potions going into the castle, and I had to reload like 30 times total I guess. But still, I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but because of situations like that I don't have the feeling at all that the game might be too easy. I get my ass kicked all the time!
Yeah, if every fight was that challenging the game would be that much better. I used like every potion I looted in my 18 levels.
Stacking +% damage vs lightly wounded is pretty good.
On February 12 2012 22:54 HuggyBear wrote: I think I'm starting to see a trend where people that stick to one skill tree (ability tree) tend to find the game too easy because of how the skills progress (point # requirements) so you end up unlocking the more powerful skills earlier. I'm playing my finesse/sorcery at hard and I find some of the boss battles are actually challenging, up to the point where I have to use effect potions.
The house of ballads final was insane. I think I had to pop majority of my damage redux and health pots just to live through the mob stun (using Chakram/Faeblade)
House of ballads fight is by far the hardest fight in the game, and I mean worlds harder than any other fight. I played through as jack-of-all-trades, even points in might/finesse/sorcery, and aside from that fight everything else was pretty simple.
i wonder how my sorc is going to turn out with about 40 points in might.
i think they need to tune the damage bonus when in fateshift mode down a bit, what i did was save fateshifts for the bosses/minibosses/large mobs to maximise xp gain. what ended up happening is that i blink in, fateshift, do the chakram spin attack, then do a tempest/meteor. boom. everything dead except the boss who is now at like 20% hp...
they just need to remove health regen on hard difficulty. The difference between 0 health regen and 1 health regen alone is a whole different experience.
And leech is just broken and when it procs, it fills me up to 100% all the time.
Just finish game at 33 lv on hard ,with blik rogue ( sorc/ fitness) . Game is very good but to easy Now im waiting for some big DLC to play one more time , this time iwth mage char ;d
On February 13 2012 02:58 Candadar wrote: So is it viable to go Finesse/Sorcery without using a Staff? I kind of want to use a lot of magic, but I dont want to use a stave =/
for fitness / sorc daggers are the best , just learn use poison blink ( you get it from destiny if you play fitness /sorc , he replace dodge ). But if you wanna use a lot of magic , why not pure sorc ? fitness is for mele dmg not magic
@up Its just simple jewelcrafting... in like every city or town you have place for that , just look at map it will be marked.
Why they dont make this game MMO rpg ... oh shame .. will be so good , something like vindicus but much better
On February 13 2012 02:58 Candadar wrote: So is it viable to go Finesse/Sorcery without using a Staff? I kind of want to use a lot of magic, but I dont want to use a stave =/
for fitness / sorc daggers are the best , just learn use poison blink ( you get it from destiny if you play fitness /sorc , he replace dodge ). But if you wanna use a lot of magic , why not pure sorc ? fitness is for mele dmg not magic
@up Its just simple jewelcrafting... in like every city or town you have place for that , just look at map it will be marked.
Why they dont make this game MMO rpg ... oh shame .. will be so good , something like vindicus but much better
It was initially supposed to be an MMO, but they changed their minds. Now it's simply a precursor for an MMO they're making in the future, and they're testing out the engine and shit
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