EPTSo i am asking what are your favorite spells to use? And can you give some tips for wizards because i have two in my party and they are mostly hit or miss compared to my druid and fighters
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Isualin
Germany1903 Posts
So i am asking what are your favorite spells to use? And can you give some tips for wizards because i have two in my party and they are mostly hit or miss compared to my druid and fighters | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On March 28 2015 20:27 Isualin wrote: Wizards feel really weird and i did not like most of the spells for them. I don't understand if a spell will hit the enemy or not while casting. Aiming is especially hard with the cone of fire spell. So i am asking what are your favorite spells to use? And can you give some tips for wizards because i have two in my party and they are mostly hit or miss compared to my druid and fighters Well cone has a red part and green part. Red hits everyone, green only enemies. Like normal attacks spells also have accuracy vs defense and can miss, graze (half damage and duration), hit or crit (+25% damage and I think +50% duration). Druid might seem better because his base accuracy is better so all his spells hit easier. | ||
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Isualin
Germany1903 Posts
On March 28 2015 21:10 -Archangel- wrote: Well cone has a red part and green part. Red hits everyone, green only enemies. Like normal attacks spells also have accuracy vs defense and can miss, graze (half damage and duration), hit or crit (+25% damage and I think +50% duration). Druid might seem better because his base accuracy is better so all his spells hit easier. I should have disabled expert mode earlier  The problem was aoe highlighting was disabled so i had to guess how large the aoe effect was | ||
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jtype
England2167 Posts
My main is a monk, going full unarmed. Does decent damage and tanks really well, it's just that I can never manage to get my two frontliners to hold aggro, so any damage stats sacrificed for tankiness seem quite wasted right now. The only exception to that is when I can pull enemies to a choke, so that they can't physically get past my front line. | ||
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lprk
Poland2249 Posts
On March 28 2015 21:35 jtype wrote: I'm pretty pleased with my party at the moment. Only one created character (other than my main), who is a Ranger. My main is a monk, going full unarmed. Does decent damage and tanks really well, it's just that I can never manage to get my two frontliners to hold aggro, so any damage stats sacrificed for tankiness seem quite wasted right now. The only exception to that is when I can pull enemies to a choke, so that they can't physically get past my front line. You can hold aggro only on one target by default, fighters have ability defender that let them engage 2 more enemies with higher range and bonus deflection at the cost of 20% attack speed. Also there is defenesive talent available to everyone increasing number of engaged targets by 1. | ||
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Pwere
Canada1557 Posts
I'm not sure most fights on hard can be won without abusing the AI somehow. Running away for 2-3 screens until half the mobs give up pursuit is another very strong exploit. As for spells, I pick almost exclusively spells that have no friendly fire. You only need spells for hard fights, and those are usually in the open, where AoE is mostly useless unless you can center it on your tanks. Single target spells and the combustion AoE are really good, but nothing seems to be as useful as the mage free skill anyway (in the first 5 levels, at least). | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
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Jetaap
France4814 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
If your playing on hard you want to get 5-6 in your party ASAP | ||
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MotherOfRunes
Germany2862 Posts
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Random()
Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts
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lprk
Poland2249 Posts
On March 29 2015 01:01 Random() wrote: Difficulty feels a bit odd (playing on hard), the first few encounters were faceroll and then suddenly you get owned (dungeon level 2 in the first town) with zero chance to win. Buy additional toons for your party in inn and you can do other quests from the town before temple, they are imo easier and it's eaily 1-2 levels that makes pretty big difference. | ||
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Immersion_
United Kingdom794 Posts
You don't need to rely on choke points, get your tank in front when opening the encouter and be prepared to use a bit of CC on the ones that get past, fighter's have a good ability to pull foes they lose back to them. | ||
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
On March 28 2015 22:36 Pwere wrote: Abusing doorways seems like the only good way to hold aggro. Between teleporting monsters, ranged attackers and fights with 10+ mobs, there's no other way your 2-3 tanks can protect your squishies. I'm not sure most fights on hard can be won without abusing the AI somehow. Running away for 2-3 screens until half the mobs give up pursuit is another very strong exploit. As for spells, I pick almost exclusively spells that have no friendly fire. You only need spells for hard fights, and those are usually in the open, where AoE is mostly useless unless you can center it on your tanks. Single target spells and the combustion AoE are really good, but nothing seems to be as useful as the mage free skill anyway (in the first 5 levels, at least). I don't abuse doorways on hard so far (even for raedric). Or other abuse. It doesn't look necessary to me. Certainly would make things easier though. | ||
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daemir
Finland8662 Posts
oh and aoe spells of any kind are hardly useless regardles if they FF or not. If your caster has high int, the outer circle of the targeting area does not FF and can cover a lot of enemies at once. I can generally Slicken big enough area without hitting my tanks that all enemies will fall down at the start of the fight. | ||
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On March 29 2015 01:13 Immersion_ wrote: Well they don't level scale areas so places off the beaten path can be randomly very hard (there's another tough early encounter ans Anslogg's compass). Even in the first area after the tutoiral there's a tough encounter if you wander off the path. You don't need to rely on choke points, get your tank in front when opening the encouter and be prepared to use a bit of CC on the ones that get past, fighter's have a good ability to pull foes they lose back to them. That fight at Compass was insane. The only reason I beat it is because + Show Spoiler + the mother spore randomly didn't aggro one of my attempts lol I'm trying to decide if my double priest setup is any good, I found the Cypher to be extremely underwhelming | ||
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lprk
Poland2249 Posts
On March 29 2015 02:08 KillerSOS wrote: That fight at Compass was insane. The only reason I beat it is because + Show Spoiler + the mother spore randomly didn't aggro one of my attempts lol I'm trying to decide if my double priest setup is any good, I found the Cypher to be extremely underwhelming It's actually quite easy. + Show Spoiler + Big ones doesn't move so you can just los them and kill small ones. Whats your level? 1st level cypher spells are quite meh except charm and aoe blind, but higher levels do good damage, are generally party firendly and focus builds quite fast so unlike wizards and druids you aren't limited by rests. Also if you're talking about Grieving Mother, her build is probably worst of any NPCs in the game, and it's very telling considering the best NPC builds are pretty damn bad. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
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daemir
Finland8662 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
Now if I put the robes, the npcs inside still attack me, and if I try to exist the sanctuary, my game crashes everytime. Great... | ||
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